Baldur's Gate 3

Only managed to find a couple of hours to play about with BG3 so far, only a couple of gameplay gripes I've come across so far that I'll let Larian know about, as in-house testing won't give the same results due to over-familiarity from the devs when working with their own creation from the ground up. This is the point, all of bona fide owners have been made well aware for quite some time that this is the case. We've booked in early for the finished product and helping the devs as, as a stitch in time saves nine. I might submit my gripes and not touch the game for a couple of months. Don't believe these absurd 1 star reviews, as the game is so far very enjoyable, and not as unpolished as they'd have you believe. In fact, they've sort of forced my hand in writing my first review in reaction to them. As the game is only early access, again, I cannot stress enough that this has been made clear for months that the first commercial release would be to an early access build, I can only grant it 4 stars. I wanted to write something critical instead of addressing the absurd issues people have with a commercially available early access game, when BG3 has been touted "on release" as nothing more than early access from its announcement. Did you know that Baldur's Gate 3 is in early access, and that commercial copies were advertised as such as per announcements ages ago?

This game will hopefully pave the way from now on how to create games and how to treat your audience right. Cant put it down and will do many replays

I picked up Baldur's Gate 3 early access from GOG based on their 30 day return policy a week prior to the game being released. I thought that it was a great game and it is. However, the installation issue with the game freezing at 98% started to leave a bad user experience. After miraculously waiting 2 days for installation to finish, the game installted, I can honestly say that the game is fun. After less than 2 weeks of playing the game, the GOG version of the game started to crash unexpectatly and after one too many crashes, the game refused to even launch. I uninstalled the game and tried to reinstall it with the same installation issue that I mentioned above. At this poin, I requested a refund for this game and purchased the game via Steam. The Steam installation took less than 20 minutes and I have not had a single issue. To add injury to insult, the GOG team responded to me by informing me that they were not going to refund me for the game since I had played 98 hours. I guess that the 30 day refund policy is only good on paper and they reserve the right to refuse refunds. I guess that they did not take into account that to date, the GOG version of the game has installation issue. Coupled with random crashes and freezes of the GOG version of Baldur's Gate 3, I am out $80 CAD. If you are thinking of purchasing this game via GOG, I would suggest looking at other options for the game purchase.

Lack of resources? Lies. Lack of passion? Yes. Profit over quality? Yes. The gaming industry is focused more on making money, than making the best product. Larian's accomplishment isn't an anomaly, it's what should be expected...

it is a wonky early access game that currently crashes every 10-15 minutes. What is expected from an early access. Is it worth the money? 60 Bucks for a game that crashes and were you have to play testers? No, not at its current state. Perhaps it will get better. Anyway it is a shame that it is called Baldur's Gate because it has nothing to do with its predecessors apart from the name. The majority of the people reviewing here are just hiped by the name of the game despite it is wonky and buggy.