The game does many things well, but my main problem is that it doesn't feel anything like a baldurs gate game, but rather more like divinity original sin game. It's more like a divinity original sin 3 than baldurs gate 3. I feel the name is misleading.
In conclusion: If you liked the divinity games, you're going to enjoy this. If you came looking for baldurs gate 3, you might not enjoy it. I started playing BG2 again, and I enjoyed it far more than this game, even considering I've played through baldurs gate 2 more than once already.
I dont want to waste words or time on this. Levels restricted, The story didn't live up to the hype, And now I need to sign in to play, It's a death of a thousand papercuts.
When a friend showed me the character creator, that's when I knew I'd love this game.
The whole universe manages to adapt to my imagination.
I love my goofy character and can't wait to play them in my own campaign someday.
Everything from the plotlines, the characters, the voice acting and the environments feels like crossing through to another world.
And it's overall just really funny a lot of the time.
I can't wait for September !
I still have my collectors edition of Baldur's Gate 2 and I love the series. I didn't like this mind flayer/octopus theme and started to play almost 1,5y after the premiere, when the game was given to me as my early Xmas present. And after few hours I have found myself having so much fun trying to figure out how to win a difficult fight, what else I can do or how to make party member like me etc. Soon after I discovered mods and realise that they can fix some minor annoyances with UI, camera or spell balance making the game even better.
Yes, BG 1 and 2 story was more dramatic and elaborated. But BG3 storytelling is about how you want to play your story. You have so much possibilities. Your companions seem less like great heroes and more like real people and you become very fast involved in their story, learn to know and love them. Soundtrack is so beautiful. Every trivial conversations is fully voiced and has realistic body language reactions. There is so much love and work being put into this game and it shows. I have to go now. I have some squirrels to talk to ;)
It has been 22 years... 22 years since Baldur's Gate came into this world and wowed us all - now, we have Larian Studios doing what Bioware did so many years ago - telling compelling stories in wonderous setting and still have the grim-dark feel about it that I loved from the original. I'm happy they have gone away from Real Time combat and instead implemented the way the gameplay is supposed to be - turn-based!
Not a huge fan of the 5e rules, I much more like Pathfinder, but this is what we get - and I can live with it! The graphics are mindblowing, enviroments as well as characters.
Still early access, so there are things that are wonky, and doesn't work as intended, but as of now it is very much playable and very enjoyable!
