Baldur's Gate 3

Give hope to be truly Great after full release, in comments we can see the same sh*t storm like in others games in this genre (ex Pathfinder). This is not self play game like NVN or old BG - don't get me wrong those game was great, i spend countless hours on those games, but (especially NWN) whole gameplay loop was base on point and click on enemies, and if you don't play as mage or cleric there nothing else you can (or have to) do. Those new RPG are quite different, much more tactic, plus there is much more room to make different outcome in dialogue - its great, but it also make people to feel stres sometimes, and games are to relax not to stres out or calculate outcome of every battle. I like this new approach, and i think old BG, P:Torment or IWD and NWN 1&2 also want to use some of technics are use here but there was technical wall, so we was left which just illusion of choices and tactic battle. I jut hope that full game will be as good as this first act we have access right now. PS. I play on Mac, and performance is not good. Its playable on medium, but i set everything on low and change resolution to one of the lowest to be able to achieve stable 60s. New M2 chip. When they present M1 they show BG3 as example of new games capable to take full advantage of those procesor - thats why I mention this. I do not buy Mac to expect great performance in games, but this don't feel right. Hope this will get better on full release.

Words like masterpiece get thrown around a lot, but in this case I'd argue it's no exaggeration. I've been playing video games since the 90's, and a wide variety of them too. I'll admit I'm already partial to Baldur's Gate III, since I've always been especially drawn to story, character and dialogue driven games like the old Bioware and Black Isle classics, and point-and-click adventures like the Monkey Island and Broken Sword series. Baldur's Gate II is probably still my favorite game of all time, so an amazingly well made sequel such as this is no surprise to be an instant hit with me. The writing feels just great in BG III. The story has a clever premise that makes completing the game with almost any kind of protagonist, in terms of morality and personality, a believable choice. Like most, I tend to play the helpful and heroic type of character myself, but if I wanted to be a b*****d, there's nothing in the plot (that I can remember) that would make it an incongruent choice. The language and dialogue is also written extremely fittingly for the story, and keeps the player immersed in the fantasy world. I'd probably not pay any special attention to the in-universeness of it, if it weren't for a few recent examples of the opposite, with very contemporary, non-fitting language taking me out of my immersion (Phantom Liberty, Eternal Strands come to mind). There's a bit more humor and levity in BG III than it's predecessors, but not overbearingly so, and most importantly, it's very well written, so that's another thumbs up from me. I'd go deeper into the outstanding soundtrack and some of the best voice acting work ever done, but after writing all this I'm figuring out there's a 2000 character limit. For friends of immersion and storytelling, I think you'll love this one. Especially significant in the modern environment, where culture has been rapidly taking the backseat to culture industry in most fields. One of the finest examples of video games as an art form.

A glorified visual novel of 100gb+ or a zoomer coomer's fever dream. Seriously, when you see multiple broccoli top and feminist bangs options for hair as well as custom genitalia, beards for females, female voices for men and pointless 3rd option for sex you just know what type of game you're into. And it proves to be exactly the one by continuing with hectic story and oversexualized predictable dialogues, behind which you just see those writers with mentality of an insecure, docile 20y.o.

Tries too hard to resemble dnd yet falls short every time. It's also unfinished.

I give this game the highest score that is within my power to give.