Baldur's Gate 3

I played a lot of rpg but it's by far the greatest

The amount of social media propaganda surrounding this title is incredible. "Best game ever", or "the truest DnD PC adaptation" or "GOTY" chants ring through the decrepit pits that is the Internet. The game is mechanically very well done, it has at least somewhat interesting story. It is a DOS2 clone - no wonder since it's on the same engine - but that's, surprisingly, not detrimental, since the original material has always been turn-based. So don't listen to the "no BG if no RTWP" crowd - that is not it. The combat itself is actually good. It's professional, polished work. But that is about where the good things end. The story telling itself has horrible pacing - first you are told that everything is super urgent but of course you waddle around the world for ages. It's the similar trope to DOS2, but it was more believable there. Everything littered with useless loot that will clog your inventory, with UI fighting you all the way. Classic Larian, and veterans of DOS1+2 will remember. Dice rolls are everywhere and failure frequently equals instant death, so, you will be save scumming a lot by design. What a wonderful DM Larian is... Lots of liberties taken with the DnD implementation, too. If you want to see truly the truest implementation on PC, go play Solasta. But all of that is forgivable. What isn't, however, is what Larian did to the NPCs and our beloved characters from BG2. It's 2023, so, there are subverted expectations everywhere, everybody's edgy with some super duper dark secret. Because we can't have a classic simple high fantasy. And if you doubted for a second, this game is also extremely woke. Romances are not "LIMITED" by gender or race... so, ever wondered how would Minsc's romance look like in BG2? Well, he's bi... as is everyone else. So BG3 finally did it. The first woke game that is universally acclaimed. This is the endgame, people, and games like BG2 will NEVER return. If you want that experience, you will have to turn to the past.

It really good

Unfortunately I cannot understand the hype. Engaging story - yes Beautiful graphics - yes Interesting combar - yes But even after nearly a year the game is still full of bugs and constantly crashes. Sorry but this is just shoddy work and not much fun

After the great success of DOS I was hoping for a similar game. However, even though it improved in many aspects (e.g. visuals) the overall gameplay feels bad to me. As a PC player I feel things are done with a preference on console players leading to a UX that feels cluttered and overcomplicated. Starting with no clear indication on what does what (in battle, the messy inventory...) it also feels overly complicated organising and managing things. A simple task like organizing your inventory feels so annoying. Especially with that much loot one would assume to get a simple overview on which item is better - but it doesn't. Especially over multiple characters. So you are constantly shifting items back and forth trying to figure out the best combination. Also picking characters feels broken sometimes. I intuitively would click on a character in order to select them. But it interacts. Okay, that is fine, one has to get used simply. But even for the avatars on the left side this is broken at times since it lets you change the order (dragging instead). So you sometimes click on a character just without any effect. If you don't pay attention, you still move around with the previous character leading to catastrophic effects. Same goes for crouching/hiding when only the selected character is doing this... So eventually, many of these small UI issues start becoming annoying sadly since I feel the game could be really great. But fighting agains UI and annoying game mechanics instead of evil monsters, renders the game less fun than it could be. They still seem to improving it so perhaps this gets better one day - even though I doubt it since it would mean, they separate console and PC gaming. - Asked for a refund sadly.