Baldur's Gate 3

This game simply isn't fun. Maybe I'm missing something? I'm following the linear early game content, and at level 2 it's already not enjoyable. Turn based combat is useless if half of your attacks miss, do minimal damage, etc. The purpose of a game is to dispatch trash and level up/ learn your class, not engage in mini boss fights against overwhelming odds. I'd get a refund in a second if I could. The only reason for the 2 stars instead of zero is due to OK graphics. I have no idea why this game rates so highly.

First of all. If you enjoy Divinity Original Sin 1&2 you may enjoy this. There are a lot of similarities. There is one thing that completely kills this game for me though. Killing a child in ANY game is something that makes me want to walk away immediately. I don't play games to be innundated with poorly veiled modern day politics in poorly worded dialogue. When you add child murder I stop playing. Weaving current events properly into a game can be a thought provoking and moving experience. That seems to be completely lost in this game. It is brought into the game with the finesse of a sledgehammer through killing a child, and having a druid of all things (has Larian studios read ANY of the Forgotten Realms novels?!? It certainly doesn't look like it) act like some sort of neo-nazi is incredibly immersion breaking. As a 35 year veteran of D&D it is obvious that they have no idea what druids are about. If druids believed the people from Elturel would disrupt the balance of nature they would never have shown themselves and carefully manipulated them through magic and animals to move on. They WOULD NOT invite them in and then have the second in command turn into some sort of nazi all of a sudden. And every druid in the grove would know that the person had a tadpole in their head the SECOND it happened. Sylvanus would never allow this kind of desecration of his most holy groves. You want to create a story in a 40+ year old world? LEARN THE LORE! I realise that this is an early access game, but when you charge $60 you don't get to have as many bugs as this game has. Broken textures and shaders, horrible camera angles, unresponsive UI, crashes, dozens of invisible walls stopping targetting. The fact that you can't click on a spell and then on someone's portrait to cast it on a party member, something that was possible in the original, is just bad. All in all. The story seems lackluster, the mechanics are ok, It's not worth $60 though and I doubt it will...

I can't stop playing this. With bugs and everything, I think it's the most enjoyable and the closest you can get to play DnD 5e on tabletop, which is EXACTLY what I wanted. So let me break this down for you: If you are and old fan of BG's saga and miss the good ol' times, this ain't the game for you. If you are a fan of Divinity Original Sin who thinks BG3 is going to be Baldur's Gate with OS mechanics, or Original Sin 3 in a Forgotten Realms setting, forget it. If you are a fan of both BG and OS and look for the perfect mixture between the two, you are going to be utterly disappointed. This game does not mean to be a succesor of any of that, instead it is creating something new and evolving to new times. Larian has taken the DnD 5e ruleset and has implemented (or is implementing) all that in glorious video game format, with gorgeous visuals, great story line, lots of lore friendly hints, incredible narrative, charmingly deep characters, challenging combat, dice rolls, engaging dialogues, awesome npcs and the most satisfying turn based combat I've experienced in a videogame. And why is all of that? Because it really feels like the tabletop experience! Great job, Larian. Hats off to you guys.

bought it on Steam when it first released. It's been in early access since, two years i think now, and it's still only released act 1, and they on patch 7. and that's hella bad, it's stupid slow, covid was not the blame, they tried and used it later. The game does not adhere to DnD rules well, in fact it's more a barrel-mancer game from Larian's earlier non-DnD games. it's also a shove fest, he who shoves first, wins. It's also DnD if it was set on Brokeback Mountain. and that was what killed it for me, last time I played they patched to include sausages for weapons. It's way too brokeback for my tastes. and I been DMin DnD since the 80s. DnD right now has the wrong people in charge of everything, and it shows.

According to GOG Galaxy, since buying into early access on the 6th of July, I've played this for approximately 115 hours. Over 100 hours in just under 2 weeks. I'm sold.