博德之门3

It's a great RPG, with a lot of replayability. The world feels reactive and combat is fun. It's not without fault however. There's a number of bugs still being patched, at least at the time of wrting, but I haven't experienced anything game breaking. And some of the combat challenges are a little iffy. Otherwise, I think this is easily my personaly game of 2023.

I was told the game is Dragon Age Origins (my favourite RPG of all time) but better. That's something I just cannot agree with because of its story and characters. The problem isn't that I just don't care, but I am actively annoyed. Almost everybody is racist, including your companions, and not just kinda racist, or casually racist, but racist in the way that if this was actually following how real people act, the main event of the game would be full on race war. Dragon Age racism looks like utopia next to this one. I have read Drizzt Do'Urden's books years ago, which takes place in the same world and I don't remember that amount of racism, even though overcoming racism was one of the main themes of later books. The story keeps hitting you over your head that you have to hurry to do X and you will die if you won't do X, but it also doesn't let you solve the X because I guess it wants the X to be unsolvable for now and from what I have seen online, it doesn't get solved until the end of the game. At least in games like DA:O, DA:I, ME3, or even Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, the problem X of the story can be reasonably postponed without being told that you die if you stay still for more than a minute, so you don't feel like the story fights against you. Maybe this game gets better. Maybe characters get better. From what I have seen on the internet the Act 3 and endings are considered a hot mess even to the people who like this game, so I'm not sure it would get better for me. Either way, I'm done and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd rather play Dragon Age II than this, because even that game has more story, real characters and relatable conflicts in the first 1 hour than this game has in all the 7 hours I have managed to get through.

I have played the initial games and all the DLCs of the previous ones. On this specific one I waited a lot before i buy it as most people jumped in in the early access. And i can say that the game is just amazing. More than I was expecting for and I am very excited as this game will provide me a lot of hours of playtime with different approach each time.

...and I don't usually like turn based combat but this game is awesome!

Played a few hours. Feeling deflated. Game is utterly beautiful. Character creation is fantastic. Clean interface, highly polished. In-game graphics also stunning. But I quit in frustration with the horrendous camera control. The final straw was when we were fighting and my view somehow zoomed way out and got stuck on another level we hadn't explored yet, watching two higher level monsters duking it out. Could not for the life of me zoom back down to our actual battlefield, somehow seemed to randomly do it after a couple of minutes of flicking around through roofs and ceilings and floors. I have every confidence that Larian will get this right and do the game justice. That's what they do. But I wish I had not bought it yet. On the up side, I won't have to pay for it again (at least, not for the base game). This game has such a deep connection to me as a habitual BG1 and BG2 player: since they both launched they have ALWAYS been installed on my PCs and regularly played. I'm also a seasoned D&D (BECMI-AD&D-5E) player. So I've been waiting a long time for BG3 like so many others. I just should have waited longer. It's not about the money, I'd have ended up spending that anyway, it's about not casting a shadow on the experience I've been waiting so long for. It will be months before I play this again. I'm not going to have my BG3 experience ruined by frustration at bugs. I only have myself to blame I guess, but I can't help thinking: if I was at Larian and I had played this extensively, for many more hours than the 4 or so I've put into it, I would have delayed again rather than let it go to Early Access in this half beautifully polished have rough as guts dichotomy of a release. To end on a positive note: I know I will eventually increase my rating to 5 stars, I have confidence in Larian fixing this and it will be a magnificent game in time. I will wait patiently.