Baldur's Gate 3

Pretty fun until the end of the second act. You could tell the writers really thought they were clever from that point on, but it comes across as goofy and corny. Very strong B-movie energy, you get bored before the ending because nothing gets taken seriously. Too much sizzle and not enough steak.

Code-wise and playability- the game is very polished and performs well. As a Forgotten Realms/Baldur's Gate game, I have to agree with so many others. I keep playing it and keep hoping that it will start to feel like its predecessors but it doesn't. And my two stars is for more than just the Baldur's Gate issue. Every time I am playing and it comes to a dialogue and my character stands there, crosses their arms, and wobbles back and forth, I just want to yank the plug on my pc and beat my head on the desk. Melodramatic? Sure. Unwarranted? I have tried different races. Different classes. The character just looks like a ... I don't know what they look like but it isn't something brave and adventurous. More like an indignant ... something. The voice acting thus far has been good. The gameplay itself performs really well. Unfortunately, it's too late by far for me to ask for a refund. At this point, I can only hope the storyline engrosses me enough to play through and enjoy it as a fantasy rpg.

I'll be honest with my opinion about this game. This is a really, really good game. The story is interesting, you are really drawn into it very fast and there is something going on all the time. It's one of these games where you really want to know what will happen next and you keep thinking about the game even when you are not playing it. BUT .... it really, really shouldn't be called Baldur's Gate 3. The feeling, the looks, the environment, the characters, the general surroundings and story doesn't feel like we are in the Forgotten Realms, neither does it feel like we are in a successor to the Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 games. I like this game, I really enjoy playing it, I just wish it was not trying to be something that it really isn't.

I really liked, that they offer a lot of role playing options to go forward besides the typical combat. You may can distract or reason with the enemy or maybe there is a back entrance, or maybe you even switch sides. There is so much stuff in there I really like.

Hard to give a midling review among the acclaim, but despite being a fan of both the Baldur's Gate and the Original Sin series, I found the game good but certainly not a classic. The first flaw of this game is that it's "BG3". The game is DOS3 in everything but name and a few fanservice references, be it the with the style, the writing or the mechanics. Also, the original serie was closed and finished, and neither needed nor provided space for a sequel. It means that the link between BG2 and BG3 are tenuous, filled with retcons, some character assassination thrown in, and often invalidating whatever the player could have actually done. All that means that the game would have been actually better by being straight-up a DOS sequel rather than a BG sequel, which seems to have been decided only for the hype (though it seems it was a decision that did pay off...). When it comes to the game as it stands, the writing is good and witty, though often quite a bit too edgy. Characters are nicely done, but often somewhat forgettable and a bit too edgy. The absurdly excessive backgrounds also didn't help, especially with the massive dissonance of them being low-level - one is the (unwilling) best soldier of one of the nine lords of Hell ; another is the literal, bona fide lovers of a straight-up goddess. It makes for pretty contrived stories and seriously hampers the suspension of disbelief. The game does have excellent maps and takes into account your decisions, and react to many of them, so hat off to Larian for this. It's also massive and very ambitious, and manage to not trip too much itself with it. But as with companions, it doesn't mesh very well with itself, with lots of contents that seems crammed into it without really much reason rather than organically coming together, with a main story that... simply isn't very interesting. On the whole, the game is well-done, but somehow soulless and not very immersive. I expected a blast, I ended up with a "meh".