Baldur's Gate 3

This game cast a spell on me! I am absorbed. It works really well. The battles are fun and give you meaningful choices. The characters, voices, the overal presentation is just outstanding. So far I have only praise for this game. I am still in the middle of the journey and I am very much looking forward how the story unfolds.

Its early access, but they've ironed out many of the bugs, it runs very smoothly and its fun as hell... Yes its not real time with pause like the OG BG1 & 2... But this system works very well too and IMO is a buff to casters compared to real time with pause. I am waiting for the full release in a week. I think my first playthrough of Early access was easily 40 hours which is longer than most games and this was just act 1.

I'm 40-something and I have been a DnD geek for a long, long time, since the 2nd edition. I'm also a videogame player since the first PCs appeared, and I played BG, BG2, IWD, and more, when they came out in the late 90s and early 2000. I also played many CRPGS like Pillars of Eternity and Divinity Orginal Sin 1 and 2. When I experienced those last 2 Larian games, I thought to myself that many of those games' mechanics would be great for a DnD game, and I felt a nostalgia for the BG and BG2 games that were so influential for our generation of early gamers. I wished that Larian made a DnD game. So I was very hyped when I knew that they were granted the DnD license and they would make the BG3 game. I thought that the license of that particular game was in the best hands. Now I have played BG3 for about 10 hours. I bought it in early access, a few days before launch. And let me tell you, it's a gorgeous game. I still have lots and lots to see and experience, but from the point I'm in now in the game, I'm confident to say that Larian nailed it. They made the best game they could, respecting the license and the fans. They balanced pretty amazingly the cravings of the old players with the needs of modern ones, I think. Great characters, a great story, great mechanics, and great value. I'm thankful and happy for Larian and their player base. We need more studios like this in an industry that has been falling down into terrible practices. I don't understand, really, the people that complain about BG3 not being a BG game, but a Divinity Original Sin one. I mean, it's Larian, they have a well-thought way of making things, and that way is perfect, in my opinion, for a game like BG3. So yes, the mechanics are awesome for a 5e DnD game. It feels as if you were playing a DnD session with a great master, incredible fellow players, and awesome strategy TTP turn mechanics. So, if you like RPGs, DnD and videogames, this game is a must. It won't disappoint you.

The UI is generally horrendous. There is no way to toggle the highlighting of objects you can interact with on and off, you need to hold the button. Even worse, the highlighting does not highlight most of the objects around you that you can interact with. Instead, you need to hover over everything, tens of spoons, mugs, and all kinds of other inconsequential garbage, in order to find that they exist and that you can click on them, and to try to isolate the useful objects among them. This is even worse when using a gamepad, since you cannot hover over every spot on the entire screen as easily or quickly. In addition to the above, the game randomly switches off both monitors. When this happens, there is no way to turn them back on. The pc needs to be restarted using the reset button. Judging by existing threads on this issue, there are apparently many users who have this issue. There is no actual solution that I could find. There's just the usual advice for reinstalling drivers, "closing chat programs" and similar pointless instructions that have the only effect of further wasting one's time. Finally, the price is extremely high for a game of this caliber, based on what I've seen so far, and when compared to other recent rpgs. Assuming the game actually worked, it should be priced at around 20$.

If you like DnD, RPGs, CRPGs you can say goodbye to the outside world/girlfriend/wife. Larian studios showing other studios that they need to git gud. No always online nonsense, no microtransaction/paywall, no chopped up missing game elements later to be released as dlc, just an amazing epic complete game bar a few bugs here and there which will probably be ironed out eventually. CRPG/RPG doesnt come any better than this, its like im back in the early 2000's when games were grand and interesting, deus ex, baldurs gate 2, fallout 2, icewind dale, neverwinter nights and dragon age origins, all these games which i repeatedly come back to play regularly to this day.