Baldur's Gate 3

gods

I'm mostly enjoying the game, but it's not all I had hoped for. I have to refer to the web for "what do I do now?" far too often. I'm sure some folks enjoy those moments, but I don't. I had many quests in Act II which failed, for no reason I know of. Without giving any spoilers, I was supposed to rescue several groups when I got to a certain location, but when I got there, they were all dead and the quests were marked as failed. I have no idea why they failed (and not knowing why bothers me more than the failures themselves). There was a certain NPC which, I gather, could have joined me in Act III, but he decided to stay behind. Why? No doubt related to one or more of the failed quests. Another Act II NPC could have joined me, I think, but I have no idea how to keep her alive.

A lot of frustration with random crashes, settings being reset, and just overall really shitty dice rolls. Enemies crit me constantly and I've landed 2 crits in the last 2 hours. One of those crits was the killing blow on the very last enemy in a 6+ enemy fight, so worthless. I fail most skill checks (even using party members that get +2-4 as a bonus) or I'll get 10 on a DC of 10. A bunch of the NPC's are really dumb. Astarion is a twat, Gale needs magic items when I only had one. Laezel I missed somehow and now she's gone until maybe I'll meet up with her again? In BG2 I had magic missile and Minsc. How hard is it to make the game fun? Oh my god the inventory management is painful. You pick up so many items that you just don't know what to do with. Oh great, 2 huge stashes in camp. Because that's not going to be a nightmare and a huge waste of time when I'm 20 hours in and they're full of random jank that I still won't know if it's okay to sell or not.

I like this game a lot. It's nice to play an RPG that makes you want to make a new character just to roleplay the multiple different options available to you within just the first few hours of gameplay.

One of the most interesting games in recent history. It bridged the casual console players with the CRPG crowd. It has a flawed but fun multiplayer. The only considerable issue I see is that after this long there are still plenty of random bugs that although not as severe as when the game was new they are still annoying.