Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate III was developed by Larian, and their signature is all over it. The game feels like a mixed bag of Baldur's Gate and Divinity: Original Sin. I personally am really enjoying the game so far. The game being early access does need quite a bit of work, but I feel what is there so far is great. The camera system needs to change. No question about it. In a 3D space, you need the ability to tilt the camera up and down to change viewing angles. This is critical for navigating tight 3d terrain that have lots of objects that will obscure the cameras line of sight! This is not optional. For a next-gen RPG, the current system is clunky and barely serviceable. The visuals are great, but need polishing. For example, rotating the camera to bring an object in the foreground between the camera and the characters in most cases results in a majorly pixelated hot mess of garbage, even though my graphic setting are set on ultra across the board. Some dialogue character animations are janky and jerky. Locking my frame rate to 60fps didn't seem to help it all. Occasionally characters will be speaking, hands waving, head tilting, and no mouth movement. It's...unnatural. The audio in Baldur's Gate III is fantastic. The soundtrack is orchestral, with occasional choir vocals. It is fitting and adds a great deal to the atmosphere and environment, keeping the player engaged in the moment. I would really like to see the OST released as an extra for the final release or even DLC if priced within reason (given the base game is already $60 USD). In-game sound effects are good too as well as the voice acting...top notch! Overall, I would highly recommend the purchase. I understand early access will turn some people off. That's fine. Just keep in mind the game will continue to improve, and I trust Larian Studios will treat this entry in the series with the respect it deserves! Buy it!

5 hours in and I'm on cloud 9 I'm going slow just to enjoy the ride. Thank you Larian!

This is an absolute masterclass. Designed by quite possibly the most passionate and community sensitive development team I have seen for a long long time. Larian have segmented their legacy as one of the greatest and most trustworthy developers of the modern day era. They are more like passionate gamers that know how to code. They listen, communicate and embrace their community in ways I wish other development studios would do. Sadly the corporate machine has crashed through the gaming landscape in recent times driving the soul and gamer driven ethos to near extinction in favour of corporate greed and lining the purse strings of the already wealthy. To me the most important thing Larian have achieved here is not just making an absolutely phenomenal game, but they have restored my faith that maybe the future landscape of gaming is not completely lost. Even if you don't like CRPG's, get behind this group of amazing developers, lead by an amazing leadership team. Show other companies that is ok to make games that don't try to squeeze every single drip of blood from the community in favour of making games driven by passion. Made by gamers for gamers. The way it should be. 10/10 Don't miss it!

Bought the game because I thought GOG's would e cheaper and easier to use than Steam's, big mistake. If you're reading before buying, the game doesnt install correctly, it gets stuck at 92% and you need to look for work-arounds in the forums to get it unstuck, but thats not the only problem. Not only did the game didnt correctly install, but the update is also permanently stuck at 91.3%, the launcher also reports corrupted data, before you respond about renaming "Game.pak.download" or something about !Temp folder, I already did that, and frankly I shouldnt need to do it several days after the game launched, hell I shouldnt need to be looking up for workarounds at all, GOGs premise is precisely that you dont need to do stuff like that in the first place. Its been DAYS since this, one of the biggest game launches of the year came out, a game thats being praised for not having any of the usual b*lls*t companies usually makes us go though and GOG still hasnt managed to get it into a functional state, Its ridiculous that Galaxy is still having these issues so late into the game, more so that they are still showing several days after the game launched, CDProject should be ashamed at the state of its platform.

Baldur's Gate III is great because it lets you yeet goblins and fuck bears. It has ruined many RPGs for me in the same way Fallout New Vegas has ruined the rest of the 3D-ers Fallout games for me.