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.
The Bad
PITA inventory management. Honestly rediculous for a game from a dev this experienced to have such a glaring flaw.
Ability, spell, equipment desciptions: Often wrong, incomplete or misleading.
Bugs: Yes. From character creation through almost any aspect of the game. Camera, UI, spells, conversations, effects.
The game is big so to some extent this is just gonna happen but some of these I'm honestly stumped by like the game literally lieing about your stats most of the time.
Story: I honestly barely care about the story and though it's the reason we're doing what we are, it is very easily forgotten.
5E D&D. It's just meh. They've had to change so much about the base game that you can't make assumptions if you already know the game. Everything from what a spell does to core rules or even classes and core features are up for a re-write.
Personally, I think they actually made 5e better than the core game and a bunch of what they did I have houserulled similarly in my own games, back when I used to play D&D.
I orignally had this in neutral but overall I think they'd have been better off just making their own system for the story rather than adapting D&D to their needs. Yeah, it's BG which is D&D, they were never gonna do anything else. Whatever, still think it woulda been better.
The Good:
It's huge. There's so much to see and explore and experience.
Side Stories: So much fun side stuff.
Co-Op: Not enough games emphasize cooperative gameplay. Though the game doesn't emphasize it anymore than any TTRPG does, it does assume it will happen so supports it.
The core characters are (mostly) really cool and well fleshed out. I'd confidently say that making a
The Neutral
I never actually finished the game, either in co-op or solo play. We just sort of fizzled out in act 2. I only know of 1 friend out of about a dozen that actually made it to act 3 and none that finished it.
That's sort of a thing with games in general though so make of it what you will.
