Baldur's Gate 3

This game changed the world as titles like Wing Commander or World of Warcraft did it. The story is thrilling and fantastic. You feel you are part of the game and you evolve the characters and their storyline. The best is the dynamic in the storyline. Every decision you make has consequences and there is always more than one solution to solve situations. I bow to the developpers of this great game. You've done a great job !

Before anyone tries to be smart with me, yes I know the game is in early access. This isn't my first time around the block, so to speak. Game itself runs really well, the character creator is just as good, if not better than DOS2. The CGIs, from what I can see of them, look amazing. And there in lies the rub. Larian must have made them on a NASA computer with the largest TV in existence because they make my computer run like hot garbage. I don't know about all them but the one just as you finish the Nautolid eats up my computer's resources and then basically stalls. I've had to redo that last battle five times. I know I don't have the best computer, but it runs a lot of other high end games fairly well... I'm sure when the game gets out of advanced alpha stage I will add on another three stars, but unless you got a beastly gaming PC, then save your money.

I'v been playing the game in early access for about 100 hours, and now about 35 hours into the full game, i'm having a blast, truly amazing game, so much passion love and dedication of over 6+ years in development and 200+ mill spent to create this game, this is definitely my GOTY so far. On a side now, i'v been reading few latest posted comments (from the time i'm writing this) about people saying all kind of weird stuff like how larian is a woke company adhering to the far radical left and pushing their "propganda" on people with same gender sex and a bear scene, that was taken out of context, Im not gay or lean towards left or right ideaologies, i franly don't give a flying f#ck about any of that, this game is special by it self, and nobody forces anything down anyone's throat. If you are into certain gender, or identify as a cat or w/e float your boat, you can do so, the game just adds the option for you to be whoever you choose to be in a FANTASY setting that is D&D in a video game. So i would say this, if u value your money, hate microtranscations, paywall or whatnot, and enjoy a really good storytelling game that allows you to roleplay and decide to kill, save, romance, ignore, be good or evil and have consequences for your actions that has so many permutations and potentiall outcomes depends on your dialgoue and actions, this is the game for you. Hope this review helps you to decide whether or not you want to buy and play this game, i usaully never write reviews, but this game definitely earned it.

I'm in France, I see a price tagged at 71.40 USD / 60€ for an early access, no visible premium bonuses, that's a shameless decision. not worth the financial effort.

2020 is a dark time for many of us, and thus the news of a Baldur's Gate sequel on the horizon was a desperate glimmer of hope. Having gone hands-on with it, it remains, unfortunately, only a glimmer. The potential is there. The cast of characters plastered on that banner hint at something intriguing and evocative of the original spirit of Baldur's Gate. The aesthetics are 110% on point, down to the cursor being a gauntlet, the spell icons, all of it. The art department did their homework. As did the lore people. It's a phenomenally beautiful game solidly grounded in the mythos not only of Faerun but of the Baldur's Gate franchise in particular. All of that can't plaster over the gameplay. Leaving aside the inevitable bugs and hiccups of an EA title, the fact is this is another DOS game. I haven't played DOS. I'm fine with turn-based games on a tabletop. I'm less fine with it here, or at least being forced into the mode where BG1 and 2 gave me the liberty to choose. Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 succeeded because they opted to simulate the feeling of a tabletop experience, rather than the mechanics. Larian with BG3 seems to be tilting towards simulating the obtuse mechanics at the expense of everything else. Doubtless this will appeal to the same kind of grognards that flog the virtues of a command-line interface while ignoring its failings, those that confuse proficiency with a bad, inefficient, or just plain unpleasant system with high intelligence, rather than limited vision. I may come around to it, eventually. I initially hated BG2 because of Chateau Irenicus. I tried Morrowind when it came out, disliked it, played through Oblivion and Skyrim, before coming back to Morrowind and falling more deeply in love with it than either of the former. But I think as long as turn-based combat remains mandatory rather than another option, that will be a sticking point for a good long time.