Baldur's Gate 3

I have played many many hours BG1 and BG2 more than 15 years ago and BG3 is a worthy modern successor. Too bad it is still crashing randomly to desktop for no reason. The Larian launcher then wipes my all my settings and resets the tutorials, nope thanks, will never use the launcher ever again. Also I thought Larian would make D&D rules more approachable, but instead the game throws (harhar) everything all at once at you and overwhelms with dicey (harhar) stat mechanics. How do know which spells to choose or feats to learn? It's just so much stuff going on that at some point I just gave up and played on a whim. BUT: besides all that the game is still great, feels far more complete than other 60$ AAA budgeted titles and I hope Larian gets a hold those freakin crashes.

But I liked the game. It's a shame that the developers didn't integrate auto-save through GOG Galaxy. To synchronise your saves, you need to have an account on the developers' website and go to the game settings and enable cross-platform. In this way, your saves can be retrieved directly from the developer's website. I'm having fun playing this game, even though I haven't fully understood all the mechanics. I was able to defeat one boss and saved a pregnant woman, I'm happy because it was hard. I'm glad that the game is also available on GOG

I have played around 16 hours so far. I'm enjoying myself. Yes, there is a lot of bugs and yes you can definitely feel it's early access, but it's still fun. I have however some grievances. First of all the companions are not really likable... especially the 2 female characters are just plain unlikable and I'm beginning to think this was made on purpose... This would be fine and all if we had more companions to choose from. So the feedback is: give us a few more companions (preferably some good-natured for a change and maybe without having any GREAT AND TRAGIC MYSTERY) Environmental AOE damage... now this... this is a reminiscent from DOS 2 and I really don't like it... made me lose interest in DOS2. I mean it just makes any battle a game of "floor is lava". Don't get me wrong I'm not saying this feature is bad but it should be occasional and not all over the place and every low level mob spamming AOE. The feedback is: just please let us have less of a "floor is lava" game. Apart from that (and the bugs which I'm sure will be squashed) I really like the game, but the 2 things I'm afraid might put me off in the long run. So here's me hoping for an awesome adventure! :)

It's so great to get a massive DRM free game with no online purchases and everything included. This Elden Ring, and Witcher 3 should be praised for that. I'm going to compare this to DOS2 and Pathfinder. So far, I prefer the combat in Pathfinder. I have a better sense of control and understanding of battles in that. Pathfinder is harder. DOS2 is easier than BG3. Where this game shines is in exploration, presentation, and dialogue. There is so much verticality and interesting spaces to explore. It blows away Pathfinder or even DOS2 in this regard. And the cinematic conversations are in another universe compares to all other CRPGs.

I have played this quite a bit in early acccess and gotten some way into chapter one in full release. I haven´t really played a lot of larian games before and haven´t played the baldurs gate games. But logged considerable amount of hours into the NWN games. And I can only assume original Baldurs Gate is similar to NWN when it comes to game mechanics and game play. So if you compare this to NWN franchise skill rolls like persuade, intimidate and so on is considerably easy here, almost any character can manage a perform, persuade attempt in a dialogue. In NWN you really need to invest in those skills to be viable to use them. The hybrid combat mode is a good idea, but sadly insanely exploitable and not fully working in my most humble opinion. For example mke your party hide, ungroup your party place them strategically to plan out your ambush. Attack with character A, he/she will get 1-2 free rounds of attacks. Sneak up with character B he/she will be out of combat and can get several free kills/attacks. Rinse and repeat wit Character C and D. Going at it normally as intended makes any fight considerably harder. As for skills and similar all they do is provide a bonus on the dc check, but no limitations on xx skill to use xx item or craft xx item. The game mechanics feel rather rushed and no clear idea what they wanted to make with it. As for the story so far I have no issues with it, I wish the game would have more follower conflicts. For insance please follower A will cause follower C and E to be upset. So far i´m satiesfied with my purchase but not mega excited, I would probably recommend to pick it up on sale.