Baldur's Gate 3

This game has an incredible potential, but is constantly marred by puzzling and inexplicable flaws. All the origin characters are incredibly weird: a demon slayer with demonic prosthetics, a renegade noble that became an hero of the Realms after a devilish pact, a vampire, a mage as powerful as Elminster... one of them would be tolerable, but your story gets ALL of them toghether like some kind of circus. And they all start at level 1 anyway, so how does that make sense? I've never seen such a bad character design before. The core pitch (weird power that corrupt) is also straight-up taken from Mask of the Betrayer. There is no continuity with the previous games. BG2 ended with your character dealing with Bhaal's essence somehow, NWN 2 had you absorb Myrkul's remaining essence, yet you have again all the death gods alive. I understand this is a fault of 5th edition, but still it makes the setting absurd and if you add it to the fact that several characters from BG2 were brought back and re-hashed in (despite being 100 years later) the whole story feels annoyingly unoriginal. Save games. Good lord, I don't know why Larians are stuck in 1990 but why is this game lacking the most common autosave options? You spend one hour and half looting a cellar and looking for a vendor, then you abruptly get into a fight and your last savegame was before that all. I don't have much time to play and this gross oversight costs me whole days of progress. But there are also some good things here. Lots of dialogue, several non-standard interactions (even if they all sum up to the same three things: mind reading, speak with animals, speak with dead) and every major quests can be solved in a good or a bad way, occasionally with some extra neutral options too. Your choices do matter and the story, which is pretty long already by itself, lends itself to be replayed for at least a second time. It's a decent game but we're very far from the quality of its predecessors.

The game does many things well, but my main problem is that it doesn't feel anything like a baldurs gate game, but rather more like divinity original sin game. It's more like a divinity original sin 3 than baldurs gate 3. I feel the name is misleading. In conclusion: If you liked the divinity games, you're going to enjoy this. If you came looking for baldurs gate 3, you might not enjoy it. I started playing BG2 again, and I enjoyed it far more than this game, even considering I've played through baldurs gate 2 more than once already.

I dont want to waste words or time on this. Levels restricted, The story didn't live up to the hype, And now I need to sign in to play, It's a death of a thousand papercuts.

When a friend showed me the character creator, that's when I knew I'd love this game. The whole universe manages to adapt to my imagination. I love my goofy character and can't wait to play them in my own campaign someday. Everything from the plotlines, the characters, the voice acting and the environments feels like crossing through to another world. And it's overall just really funny a lot of the time. I can't wait for September !

I still have my collectors edition of Baldur's Gate 2 and I love the series. I didn't like this mind flayer/octopus theme and started to play almost 1,5y after the premiere, when the game was given to me as my early Xmas present. And after few hours I have found myself having so much fun trying to figure out how to win a difficult fight, what else I can do or how to make party member like me etc. Soon after I discovered mods and realise that they can fix some minor annoyances with UI, camera or spell balance making the game even better. Yes, BG 1 and 2 story was more dramatic and elaborated. But BG3 storytelling is about how you want to play your story. You have so much possibilities. Your companions seem less like great heroes and more like real people and you become very fast involved in their story, learn to know and love them. Soundtrack is so beautiful. Every trivial conversations is fully voiced and has realistic body language reactions. There is so much love and work being put into this game and it shows. I have to go now. I have some squirrels to talk to ;)