Baldur's Gate 3

This is a game that warrants a multiple page essay to review it, but the long and short is that an RPG lives and dies on how interesting its world is, and BG3 doesn't really take itself seriously enough to create a consistent world with politics and ideoligies, nor does it interweave its characters in such a way that their motivations become drivers for the plot or the interactions. So you're really left with a game that's a vessel for giving you dnd 5e combat and it's kinda buggy but mostly works, so it's "fine". Whether you like this game can be determined largely on whether you think that shenanigans you can cause in combat, and the weird creatures you'll meet; will carry your engagement through 80 hours of game. I played with 2 other players and we all agreed that it lacked narrative substance, though were at times impressed with what was on display in terms of mechanical depth. With a lot of very good RPGs behind me, this one did not live up to the comparison. Though I am sure it is a defining game for many younger players, and rightfully so. But to me this is just Divinity Original Sin 2: 2.

Ларианы, моё почтение! Спасибо за ранний доступ на русском! Мега залипательно, несмотря на вылеты, баги. Сделано с любовью: фанатам, олдскулам и прочим староверам, помнящим BG 1 и 2, а также любителям тактики и предыдущих проектов разработчиков - строго рекомендую! Жалобы за ценник не поддержу, купил сам после корсарского демо с торрентов, решайте для себя сами.

Baldur's Gate 3 is more of a dating simulator than an adventure game. You know where all of the development money went when developers are coming to you with their hands out whispering promises of epic adventures when all the core gameplay is either broken or missing but all of the romance and sex has been fully fleshed out. The male vampire dude (I am also male) keeps sending me gay vibes and tries to suck my blood while saying that he "doesn't want to hurt me". He always acts like has the hots for me and my rejection seems to only encourage this behavior. There are two women you will encounter that can join your party; an alien-looking lady without a nose that is always demanding things and telling you how terrible you are. The other chick that is the Forgotten Realms equivalent of Captain Marvel: to be a strong woman you have to be an asshole to men. Neither of these are attractive qualities. There is a another party member I have yet to meet but can be seen in the game literature. It's some guy with the succubus grinding on his leg while suckling at his ear. Everyone I've met so far is either a pansy or an asshole. Men always seem to have the hots for me and the women hate me. From what I've read, the next place I get to visit is the Underdark. I'm really looking forward to my upcoming visit to this matriarchal society where I can anticipate being put down as both a human with pale skin and for being male. This game is pushing full on sex before you even reach level 2 like its candy. I feel violated just by playing this game. And every forced romantic moment reads like the writers reaching into my pants for shits and giggles. I wanted the badass high fantasy adventure with all the foul language and inappropriate social norms and misery that trudging around in full plate in all weather conditions under the intense pressure to survive brings to the table. This isn't Baldur's Gate. It's someone's sick romantic love fantasy SJW manifesto parading as an RPG.

I went into this fairly open minded. I loved Baldur's Gate 1/2, and I loved Divinity OS 1/2. What could go wrong? Ignoring the early-access jenk, because that's to be expected, I will focus on the more fundamental properties of the game that I found unpleasant. DnD 5e rules do not mix with Divinity gameplay. The lowest difficulty of this game is unforgiving. One failed dice roll and you're looking at the 45-second load screen for the 4th time in the past half hour. Some combat encounters feel genuine and enjoyable. Other times, you're thrown into impossible situations, with expended spell slots, and no alternative but to hack your way past 12 enemies with a half dead party and no spell slots. Up comes the load screen of "you weren't supposed to do that." once again. No direction, no hints. Just wandering the map, dying and reloading until you've eliminated all alternative paths but the one the developers intended. Brilliant design.

This is Divinity: Original Sin 3 NOT BG! I mean the graphics and game mechanics are good but as one that played the original game in my youth, this is a major disappointment. no atmosphere as was in BG, the plot is medium. if they named it something else I would probably give 4 stars. Its obvious they used BG just to draw veteran players of the original game. Left after 20 hours of gameplay :(