I am new to DnD and Have played the last Baldurs Gate only for a few hours so lore wise I cannot say much. However, what I can say is that you feel everywhere this game is made by passionate folk. The choices and paths you can take are plentiful. Alot of what characters would say or how they'd react in a given moment has been thought of. And I would easily have given it a 5/5, if it wasn't for the lack of polish in acts two and three or some rather questionable design choices: - performance is atrocious in acts two and three even with fairly recent hardware (4080, 64GB RAM) and after 2 patches and 5 hotfixes in. - text, icons, stats etc. is microscopic in size. You basically can not read any info from the user interface or find items in the inventory when playing on your sofa 2m away from the TV. - the inventory management is a crime and has a look and feel of the early 2000s to it. I can "warp" any loot magically to my chest but I cannot auto sell junk, nor does the game tell me which books I have already read. Just two name a few annoyances. - loading takes way too long, even from an nvme drive. I have start up times of several minutes. Reloading savegame could also be faster. - weeks after release there are still several quest related bugs (e.g. Voss not moving) or dialogues that shouldn't be playing at that time (e.g. Shadowheart asking about her parents when they have been already freed)
