Baldur's Gate 3

I still have my collectors edition of Baldur's Gate 2 and I love the series. I didn't like this mind flayer/octopus theme and started to play almost 1,5y after the premiere, when the game was given to me as my early Xmas present. And after few hours I have found myself having so much fun trying to figure out how to win a difficult fight, what else I can do or how to make party member like me etc. Soon after I discovered mods and realise that they can fix some minor annoyances with UI, camera or spell balance making the game even better. Yes, BG 1 and 2 story was more dramatic and elaborated. But BG3 storytelling is about how you want to play your story. You have so much possibilities. Your companions seem less like great heroes and more like real people and you become very fast involved in their story, learn to know and love them. Soundtrack is so beautiful. Every trivial conversations is fully voiced and has realistic body language reactions. There is so much love and work being put into this game and it shows. I have to go now. I have some squirrels to talk to ;)

It has been 22 years... 22 years since Baldur's Gate came into this world and wowed us all - now, we have Larian Studios doing what Bioware did so many years ago - telling compelling stories in wonderous setting and still have the grim-dark feel about it that I loved from the original. I'm happy they have gone away from Real Time combat and instead implemented the way the gameplay is supposed to be - turn-based! Not a huge fan of the 5e rules, I much more like Pathfinder, but this is what we get - and I can live with it! The graphics are mindblowing, enviroments as well as characters. Still early access, so there are things that are wonky, and doesn't work as intended, but as of now it is very much playable and very enjoyable!

2.5 hours played. No crashes. Some random texture pops. Runs flawlessly. Fast load screens. Technically speaking, it's as good as I can expect for EA. Little things will get ironed out. The companions need a little more life to them. There's not enough banter (only one so far) or interaction from them during dialogue. Like, they don't even chime in when I'm recruiting a new party member. This is my biggest worry right now. I'll update if this improves. Combat is D&D goodness. Might end up being the best implementation of our favorite tabletop system out there. The verticality in the game really has the opportunity to take combat to new heights. A darker palette and heavier undertones to the music will go a long way to transitioning the D:OS feel to BG. It's entirely "fixable".

Dans l'absolue les règles D&D5 sont biens, mais je ne retrouve pas l'ambiance d'un Baldur's Gate. Les finitions du titre -qui rappelons-le "doit arriver" dans 1 an- , craignent à fond les ballons. Suis-je le seul à trouver vraiment abusé le fait que cet Early Access soit vendu au prix fort de 60€ alors que l'on ne nous propose que 1/3 du jeu final en plus du reste complètement bancal. D'ailleurs je comprendrais ce tarif d'EA si Larian était un petit studio de dev' ayant besoin d'aide financière pour continuer le dev de leur jeu tout en ayant besoin d'un retour des joueurs pour savoir si les mécaniques intégrées "conviendraient" au titre ou si elles sont biens fichues, mais là soyons honnête ce n'est pas le cas, On parle de Baldur's Gate (ce n'est pas la random licence), les types sont tout de même en partenariat avec Wizard of the Coast, Larian n'en n'est plus à son premier coup d'essai, niveau financier ils ne sont pas à plaindre non plus, le projet BG3 doit être giga sécurisé sur tout les points. La seule explication est l'incompétence. C'est trop facile de mettre un macaron "Early Access" ou encore "Jeu en développement" et demander 60 eurodollars pour être excuser de tout ce qui ne va pas. Perso je suis très sceptique sur sa livraison en tant et en heure. Ou alors Larian a une build beaucoup plus avancée, mieux finie et plus garnie, mais dans ce cas qu'ils la sortent sérieusement. Ce titre ressemble beaucoup à un DoS3 plus aboutit en tout point qu'à un Balddur's Gate. Et donc il s'adressera aux fans des DoS plutôt qu'aux vieux grincheux de BG. Je recommande donc aux personnes d'attendre de voir ce que l'avenir va proposer pour ce titre et d'agir en fonction de son résultat final. Ne soyez pas impatients, vraiment.

I paid for this back in 2020 pretty much as soon as I could, played a couple hours and found several aspects unpleasant, but figure I'd just wait until the full release came. Now with more than 40 hours in the "finished" game, I am mostly disappointed. From graphical glitches to weird progression bugs, this game feels remarkably unfinished after nearly three years since it was launched publically. Even aside from that, Larian's weird fixation on massive combat encounters, where you end up waiting minutes at a time between actions while waiting for the NPCs to take their turns and then struggle to parse who's friendly and who's hostile in the clutter. Squad management is needlessly cumbersome, the inventory system is a trainwreck, there's not a "puzzle" I've come across yet that wasn't more infuriating than satisfying, and the maps feel incoherent and needlessly difficult to navigate. Visual design is fine, and story is okay so far, but this is well beneath what I was expecting from Larian.