Baldur's Gate 3

I was and still am a superfan of the classic Infinity Engine cRPGs, particularly Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. Having said that, you need to expect Baldur's Gate 3 to play more like Larian's recent Divinity Original Sin titles and less like the oldschool cRPGs, or recent Owlcat and Obsidian games. If you go into Baldur's Gate 3 with those expectations, I can almost guarantee you'll have a blast. Baldur's Gate 3 perfected Larian's party focused, turn based RPG formula. The combat is amazing and experimenting with different tactics and builds should tell you how compelling and addictive the combat is. I wish the level cap was 13 or 14 instead of 12 because I reached that cap approximately 15 or 20 hours before completing the game. It sort of discourages you from completing the last batch of quests you'll run across. On the other hand, the game quickly became pretty darn easy on Balanced mode once you became very familiar with the combat. I imagine I'll have a blast trying higher difficulty modes as it changes a lot besides enemy health. The visuals are extraordinary but not incredibly demanding on hardware. Even with high-end hardware, I easily surpassed 60 frames per second on 1440p. So all mid-end hardware should easily be able to run this game, especially with DLSS or FSR. Additionally, this game is incredibly stable and didn't crash once during the 117 hours it took me to complete it. The story is great for what is presented. Granted, everything is voiced, even the narration, which is top-notch quality by the way. So you won't experience anything incredibly deep like in Planescape Torment with its endless walls of compelling, unvoiced text. But all the characters are fleshed out very well with complete stories and interesting motives. I was left with strong feelings and impressions of all the main characters. Baldur's Gate 3 is an phenomenal RPG that I'll definitely return to every once in a while. Earns an easy recommended from me.

This is the first time I've paid such a high price for a video game (I usually don't pay more than $25-$35 as a rule) and one of the very few times I've bought a game OFF sale. Yet it was completely worth the cost for me, so I don't regret it. There's so much variety and numerous options on hand for dealing with situations. Characters have many variations to their reactions and demeanor depending on your words and actions and people will remember what you've done, not conveniently forget. Nobody has plot armor so you can kill whoever you want for whatever reason you want as long as you're willing to deal with the consequences (except one character but it makes logical sense that you can't kill them). Some of the precious few other games which compare to this one in terms of similar gameworld depth would be Dragon Age Origins and Planescape Torment.

I've played Baldur's gate 1 and 2 and the expansions (2+the expansion was my favorite game for a long time) and while this game has a different feel to it, it is just as amazing. The story is great, your choices affect future outcomes, you can play it many times and still not see all the content, there's relatively no major bugs as long as you don't use too many mods or try playing saves from a modded older version with a newer modded version (in which case you can encounter some pretty weird bugs), the graphics look amazing while not being too demanding on your computer (I have a ryzen 5600x, a radeon 6600 and 32GB ram and can play just fine at 1440p using fsr (before fsr 2 was added in one of the patches fsr 1 did look pretty bad, but fsr 2 looks fine) while still looking good and having decent fps).... obviously with a faster computer it would look better and run faster but you don't need some crazy expensive gpu/cpu to play it). Now it does have some flaws too and the review wouldn't be complete without mentioning them: - the evil play-through isn't as well done as the good/neutral and you do miss out on many quests (and thus experience, items and characters) + you can't be that evil - act 3 does feel incomplete and unfortunately the developers have decided to leave it that way and not make a dlc which would make it complete and tie up all lose ends, add some content for what happens after and raise the level cap - your level is capped at 12 which is annoying compared to bg2 + tob where you could get to 30+, especially considering you're supposed to be this epic hero fighting for the fate of Faerun. Imo it should go at least to 20. There are a few mods that unlock higher levels, I've only tried one which sets the level cap for all classes combined to 20, while each single class can still only go to lvl 12. It works pretty well and doesn't introduce any major bugs. - your camp clothes are pretty limited until act 3

Crashes every PC. Do not buy this shit

Dragon Age Origins, Star Wars KOTOR, Mass Effect, Skyrim, and Neverwinter Nights walked into a bar. Somehow 8 months later this game appeared in our world. This game lacks any creativity, originally, or anything revolutionary. It is just a generic obsolete turned based 'RPG' with no choices and graphics straight out of 2003. The controls are incredibly clunky leading to non stop fighting the camera, doing things you don't want to like stealing or attack the wrong person or attacking the ground. Not to mention it's a pain to use the camera during combat. Or even talking to your companions when you meant to move forward. The plot is so generic and unroginal you're the chosen one and must save the world from a great evil. The end. Lame. Companions are all generic and boring as well. They're also just knock offs of older Bioware companions like Morrigan, Ash, Miranda, Liara, Jacob, etc. I got to the goblin camp after hours of frustration then gave up. It is one of the most overrated garbage games of all time alongside The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Animal Crossing New Horizons, The Last of Us, DOOM, HALO, and more. If you want a generic clunky top down PS2 point and click obsolete turn based combat game with nothing going for it. Then get the game. Not even worth a GOG Giveaway. Instant regret, want my money back. The normies keep proving that if a game is being mindlessly praised like Baldur's Gate 3. It's truly a bad game that only Sheep will love.