I really enjoyed the gameplay, and obviously it’s a beautiful game which felt mechanically complex and a little over my head, but I would have enjoyed learning it.
I say would have, because I found it absolutely painful to get through due to the voice acting and dialogue writing. Something about it feels so much like that very specific kind of humour used in a lot of pop culture American podcasts (or at least, that’s where I encounter it), where everything deserves some kind of smarmy quip, and any expression of any emotion is dialled up all the way, and there’s little winks in every sentence.
If anybody reading this likes that kind of thing, absolutely no hate towards you at all, but it’s really not for me. I turned the game off mid dialogue multiple times. I ended up playing like 80-100hrs I think because I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn’t get over it sadly.
Prior to the release of BG3 my favorite PC games of all time were BG1 & BG2. Over the years several RPGs came out and almost all of them tried to reference Baldur’s Gate 1/2 in some way. They were spiritual successors or from the team that brought you, or whatever they could say to remind you of BG1/2.
There were a few good ones, lots of bad ones, and ultimately it just seemed like no one was going to make another game of that quality.
On a chance one day a friend and I found Divinity: Original Sin (Definitive Edition). It was one of the best games I had played in a long time. I was excited when the sequel came out, finally someone was making high quality RPGs that I really enjoyed again.
Then it course BG3 was announced. A sequel to my favorite games. And Larian was making it. The studio who currently makes my favorite modern games. It’s a story destined for failure. No game could live up to that level of hype.
But it absolutely did. I spent weeks playing BG3. Completed the game once, having done nearly every side quest I could. Then once I finished I started over again, playing all the other quests I was forced to skip. With the final patch out now (a few months ago) I think I’m ready to dive back in.
So yeah. It is probably the best game ever created. That question becomes difficult when we have to start comparing different types of games, but for the category it’s in, it’s #1.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, thank you for your comment
I played the first act once last year with coop. Restarted and I’m playing it through right now solo.
I tend to agree, at least on a controller it’s kind of clumsy. It feels like the characters really love to auto-walk into traps. There’s also a lot of “haha you picked the wrong dialogue and now you all die” that I find pretty annoying. I also wish there was a better auto-save right before shit that happens out of the blue.
It pushes the limit on how much freedom a game can give the player while still having a focus on being story-driven with an in depth plot and characters.
It’s honestly quite impressive.
I was in the middle of a Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous run when i tried BG3… The huge difference in character choice turned me off of BG3 for a long time.
After a few hundred hours of both games, I still hold firm that WOTR is probably the better of the two.
BG3 is prettier, and it has more polish and pretty lights and voice acting in it, but WOTR is hands down one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played in my opinion.
I’m extremely stoked for Owlcat’s new Warhammer offering because of it. Rogue Trader was meh, but on the Pathfinder side Kingmaker was also meh and WOTR was a world class banger so I’m hoping they pull the same glow-up again.
I would be fine if they have “even-odd curse” for their games, for the reasons you said. Sign me the fuck up for an even better 40k RPG
The marketing for Osiris Reborn got me to pick up WotR again this week after dropping it and I’m really hoping the back end of it has this magic I keep hearing about. I like the main character’s story, but I’m 100 hours in and I still feel like I know very little about my party (and I’m getting growing concern I killed off the most interesting one). The “Monster of the Week” villain format is also bumming me out after Kingmaker had one of my all-time favorite RPG antagonists.
I’m probably about 3 years away from buying it at a steep discount.
It’s fucking awesome, I liked it so much I bought it for my wife too even though she wasn’t interested, I just wanted to support the devs.
Unfortunately duento rampant adhd I’ve never finished it and am back playing satisfactory haha.
10 outta 10 though
Baldur’s Gate (the original) is one of my favorite games of all time. BG3 was a different animal, but overall I loved it and thought it was still very true in spirit to the original, even though the gameplay was different.
The only thing I would have changed is adding more companions, even if it meant less voice acting. And maybe turning down the libido setting a bit. There was a bit of story/lore stuff around the Dark Urge origin that I would have tweaked as well. Pretty minor things overall.
I think it’s the absolute best game of the decade, and one of the best of all time. Probably an overreaction, I know. But there was something special about it.
