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Gather your party, and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power.
Mysterious abilities are awakening inside you, drawn from a Mind Flayer parasite planted i...
Cross-platform multiplayer with Steam is supported.
Gather your party, and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power.
Mysterious abilities are awakening inside you, drawn from a Mind Flayer parasite planted in your brain. Resist, and turn darkness against itself. Or embrace corruption, and become ultimate evil.
From the creators of Divinity: Original Sin 2 comes a next-generation RPG, set in the world of Dungeons and Dragons.
Choose from a wide selection of D&D races and classes, or play as an origin character with a hand-crafted background. Adventure, loot, battle and romance as you journey through the Forgotten Realms and beyond. Play alone, and select your companions carefully, or as a party of up to four in multiplayer.
Abducted, infected, lost. You are turning into a monster, but as the corruption inside you grows, so does your power. That power may help you to survive, but there will be a price to pay, and more than any ability, the bonds of trust that you build within your party could be your greatest strength. Caught in a conflict between devils, deities, and sinister otherworldly forces, you will determine the fate of the Forgotten Realms together.
Forged with the new Divinity 4.0 engine, Baldur’s Gate 3 gives you unprecedented freedom to explore, experiment, and interact with a world that reacts to your choices. A grand, cinematic narrative brings you closer to your characters than ever before, as you venture through our biggest world yet.
The Forgotten Realms are a vast, detailed and diverse world, and there are secrets to be discovered all around you -- verticality is a vital part of exploration. Sneak, dip, shove, climb, and jump as you journey from the depths of the Underdark to the glittering rooftops of the Upper City. How you survive, and the mark you leave on the world, is up to you.
allows you to combine your forces in combat, and split your party to follow your own quests and agendas. Concoct the perfect plan together… or introduce an element of chaos when your friends least expect it.
offer a hand-crafted experience, each with their own unique traits, agenda, and outlook on the world. Their stories intersect with the entire narrative, and your choices will determine whether those stories end in redemption, salvation, domination, or many other outcomes.
based on the D&D 5e ruleset. Team-based initiative, advantage & disadvantage, and roll modifiers join combat cameras, expanded environmental interactions, and a new fluidity in combat that rewards strategy and foresight.
through your choices, and the roll of the dice. No matter who you play, or what you roll, the world and its inhabitants will react to your story.
allows you to pause the world around you at any time even outside of combat. Whether you see an opportunity for a tactical advantage before combat begins, want to pull off a heist with pin-point precision, or need to escape a fiendish trap. Split your party, prepare ambushes, sneak in the darkness -- create your own luck!
Ideas for a good game are there but are marred by Gygaxian levels of unforgiving encounter design, poor UX (enjoy constantly triggering attacks of opportunity and then attacking into thin air because you accidentally slipped your cursor one pixel to left before clicking) and downright mechanical problems.
I stopped playing when my party clipped through the bottom of an elevator and took nearly lethal fall damage because the game engine bugged out.
People have been early-access-playing this game since 2020 and it honestly still feels like a seriously undercooked late alpha both in terms of basic game mechanics and technical polish, the latter so much so that it at times feels like the game is trying to intentionally prank you with nonsense, like an off-brand-Dragon-Age version of Goat Simulator.
I don't see myself returning to BG3 for quite some time, if at all.
Everyone who knows even just a little bit about gaming knows about BG3 by now. There's not much to add...
Games like this one come by once in a decade and belong in the game pantheon alongside the best of the best.
The player base, the modding scene and the love of Larian for their games will keep this one alive for a long, long time. Maybe it's going to stick around for longer than Skyrim even, although I'm sure with less of a money making scheme and being replubished every few years or so.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a rare jewel and everyone who's into RPGs should give this one a try, even just to experience a part of the story, because admittedly, it has a very long playtime if you aim to complete the campaign.
Feels a bit rushed in Act 3, but overall a great game. I'd probably say I enjoy the combat and mechanics in DOS2 a bit more, but the story, characters and production value are on another level.
Read other "overwhelmingly positive" reviews first if you wish. I list below several visible flaws which I found to be immersion breaking to a great degree when added up, especially considering a game budget of this calibre. That is, if you care about D&D/FR lore... I indeed do since this game carries the BG3 and D&D titles, so please bear that in mind. The same issues below had been pointed out by some other reviewers in the past.
This is based on >150hr starting after patch 8, and having played the preceding games BG1+2+TB.
1. D&D/FR lore was not taken seriously enough in-game, in particular in the written text from books/items. It's a great departure from the preceding games. Modern games may have wonderful graphics/SFX take center stage, but the need to build lore seriously in-game shouldn't have been abandoned. The history and lore presented in-game don't lend weight to the seriousness of the situation in-game (ie. tone and mood of the story), and so Minsc feels like a jest encapsulated in a greater joke instead of the comedic relief as originally intended in the preceding games.
2. With "evil gods are coming!" as a plot driver, the acts of "overwhelming evil" presented in cutscenes were surprisingly few. The impact just wasn't there for me. Outside of combat, the manifestation of this was basically repeating placeholder art representing the aftermath of carnage. Back then during BG1-2 this was understandable due to time or perhaps budget constraints with making more 2D assets and FMVs, but surely not so today. In BG3 it was only in a limited set of conditions where there was a satisfactory realtime display of ill-intent, chaos, and gore (ie. in certain end game scenes, one specific side quest path, one origin path). Perhaps years of playing Biohazard/RE1-8 has dulled my senses but this seems to be a missed opportunity to: A) build suspense throughout the game instead of only in specific path outcomes, and B) to elicit a number of meaningful player responses when combined with point #1 & 3.
3. Evil NPCs and playable races (PR) with evil tendencies are massively visible everywhere in the game (eg. drow, tiefling, duergar); celestials and related PR are almost wholly missing. While demon/devilspawns should be greater in number, the ratio here is still mindboggling. There're only two NPCs in the entire game who can be categorized as celestials related and there're zero as PR. I think it's a missed opportunity to illustrate fear/dread stemming from the rigidity, ruthlessness, and psychopathic mindset of "overwhelming goodness". The preceding games did examine this aspect to a greater extent.
4. Tieflings are supposed to be demon/devilspawn with evil inclinations in FR lore, viewed by most with suspicion and/or loathing. That general vibe never showed up in game. Why would anyone have the idea of saving all those tieflings without using them for an evil end?
5. From Act2 onwards, the number of female NPCs who are tied to quests grew and grew until they all sounded annoyingly the same. Even the end boss ended up this way. The end boss should've sounded overwhelmingly... alien, being what it is. But by the gods did it ever fall farthest from that. Plus: it didn't sound overwhelmingly dominating or commanding either. The notable male NPCs all had good VA & character throughout the game. What happened here??
6. Minor point in comparison to the above: near end game cinematics/SFX and music dropped off in quality as if they teleported in from a lesser game.
Have 80 hours. Took me awhile to understand the rules, spells etc. But was enjoying it. Until I had to go back ten hours in game because of broken questline. Then again when I found another was not working. And now the last straw was Mizora bugged out because of a patch that supposedly fixed her. Now am told be other people and gog "support" to just use cheat engine or other workarounds to try fix it myself(and am not even modded game). Will either accept duke ravenguard is dead , or just ignore Wylls questline. Or more likely just delete the game for space and maybe try again in a few months. Pity as this has put me of trying with another character knowing all my hours will be wasted.
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