Baldur's Gate 3

TLDR: For everyone: Good crpg, AAA game production - animations, voiceovers. Likable and original companions with actual personalities and somewhat meaningfull progress. Questionable UX choices for mouse&keyboard users. For the fans of Divinity original sin (2): Great UI improvement (but still not great), story telling improvements, combat is very simplified. For the experienced DnD players: Story intended for high level, maybe even epic campaing (my guess is level ~10 to ~18 on 3e at minimum) with the high level creatues and saving the world. Played with lvl 1 characters and nerfed adversaries. Companions have the history of the high level characters but start at lvl 1. Plain ruleset oversights - get acess to "true resurrection" scroll, lvl9 spell, on level 1, this item could make half of the endings into happy end and solve some personal quests instantly but no, it is just revivify+heal. Feels like story writen by someone (talented) after reading drizzt books and starting their first DnD campaing as DM from lvl1. For dnd/Faerun lore enthusiasts and DMs. Just don't. Maybe it's just 5e thing but I hate it. Dead three are not dead, low level adversaries stealing from Mephistopheles. Meet gods daughter, immortal, get "commands/messages" directly from gods. Time of troubles consequences are inconsequential. Mindflayer lore mostly ignored. Change the course of gith* races in single decision in single dialogue. (and you still have the true ressurection scroll which could fix everyting) For Baldur's gate 2 fans: Not a Baldur's gate game. Seems like BG2 and ToB did not happened. Meet Minsk & Jaheira as their poor BG1 selves but older. Viconia and Sarevok as their BG1 selves but with artifacts named after them. Main plot device is artifact left by a guy with same power (level 41) as your party at the end of ToB (lvl ~40), but there are no direct remnants, items or references in the game (except maybe one mediocre shield)

this game has nothing to do with baldurs gate 1 and 2. Baldurs gate is not a setting, the forgotten realms is, so why do it when you clearly look down upon the original games?

I started the playthrough of this game 5 times. I keep coming back, always expecting more, trying new class, and race combinations, hoping for a better experience. The game would be okay, and it looks really great, but usually after about 8-10 hours, I always find myself skipping through the dialogue as I find them boring, together with the story... Maybe I am just too old, but I was looking for the next chapter of Baldur's Gate after 1 and 2, but that I did not find. Completely different feeling, story, and atmosphere. And It's not really Divinity 3 either. I just find this a bit lacking in substance. Like a box of chocolates that look amazing, smell amazing, but the taste is a disappointing "meh..". I also have issues with the game on a moral and political level, but I won't get into that here. You can skip most of those things I believe, if not all.

Haven't gotten to the end of the early access story yet, perhaps I never will, that's how depressing it is to play this game. At first glance you get something great in your hand, the graphics are beautiful, the character creation is great, you get to make some impressive looking fantasy creatures, the opening cinematics impress the hell out of you, but then you actually get to control your character and everything falls apart. 1. The controls are janky, you get the move the camera kilometers away from you, allowing you to explore the whole map almost, taking every bit of fun out of exploration. 2. The combat is terrible. There are cases where you get to do nothing for 3-4 consecutive turns besides moving, yet the enemies can run or fly around easily and even get in a hit at the same time. By the time you get your characters close enough to target an enemy with either a melee or ranged attack, you are close to dying. And the worst thing is that your attack might miss after all you have been through. 3. Everything, like exploration, conversation checks, combat, saving throws, are governed by a dice roll, and it is frustrating to see rolling below the target, some of these checks can lead to pretty horrible outcomes and thus you are forced to reload the game every time you fail. 4. And while I only wanted to highlight the issue with the damned dice rolls now I also have to mention the load times. Even on an ultra fast M.2 SSD the loading can take like half a minute. Out of llaying 2 hours of Baldur 3, you are going to spend half an hour checking the loading screens. The whole experience thus far is pretty disappointing. Should the Studio change the combat system to something similar to Dragon Age: Origins, the game could still be saved, but if things are left like this, it will be a shame. The game has potential, the characters and the story is great, but if everything else is not enjoyable, than the rest will not be able to hook you in for hours. Larian pls...

Au moment où je vous parle j'ai 30h de jeux et je ne me suis pas ennuyé une seule fois. Quel jeu extraordinaire.