Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread

circularfish, 9 months ago

Awesome game so far and remarkably well-polished due to the early access. My only real gripe is that the camera control is a little fiddly. It may be that I’m just not used to it, but a click and drag to rotate the camera would be chef’s kiss

TheCrimsonSpark, 9 months ago

Press and hold middle mouse to pan camera

dQw4w9WgXcQ, 9 months ago

I don’t really have anyone to play it with. Is it playable solo or with randoms?

JustLookingForDigg, 9 months ago

I’d say it plays best solo. It’s story heavy so you’re going to want to go at your own speed and explore what interests you, which works better solo.

FWIW I got it as well 2-3 of my friends, but we’re all running it solo first before grouping up.

neshura, 9 months ago

Cannot speak for randoms, only the Solo Aspect: You can take control of any additional party members (also works in Multiplayer) so playing alone is technically definitely possible. What I can tell you from my brief experience though is that managing the extra characters is somewhat tedious so I don’t think you’ll get the maximum out of the party solo. Playing with only one character is not really something I’d do, there does not seem to be any mechanic balancing out all of the disadvantages there from what I can tell.

Renacles, 9 months ago

Looks like the top GOTY contender so far.

landsharkkidd, 9 months ago

I find isometric top down games really difficult to enjoy personally.

But man I am enjoying TF out of BG3.

supersonicstork, 9 months ago

I’ve been playing through it with a few of my pf2e group.

Larian did such an amazing job with this, and I am enjoying it, but I find myself wishing this game had the action economy from Div : OS2 or pf2e.

That said, I’m glad to see that they’ve continued the trend of their prior crpgs, and made something approaching the flexibility of a GM behind a screen.

d3Xt3r, 9 months ago

Is thee anyone here who hates turn-based RPGs, tried this game and actually liked it?

sweafa, 9 months ago

yep, here! and its awesome!!!

Clamor_, 9 months ago

Can concur! I absolutely despise turn based combat but I’ve been enjoying this game through and through for 30 hours.

EremesZorn, 9 months ago

I usually despise cRPGs (turn-based, party-based tactical, can’t grind to be OP, decisions matter TOO much) but love JRPGs. But I cannot put this game down. It’s just too well-made and there’s too much flexibility and interactivity not to be intrigued at every turn.

ActualShark, 9 months ago

It’s great!! At first I wasn’t too into it, but I leaned in to my chaotic stupid bard shenanigans and I am having a blast. The dialogue and VAs are fantastic, especially Astarion’s (who doesn’t!?). This is my first cRPg and it’s good introduction to beginners new to the genre. Choices are remembered by characters so be careful. Combat can be confusing at times because I’m dumb and don’t play DnD.

mikey, 9 months ago

I’ve honestly been taken by surprise with this game! I’ve never played a CRPG or D&D before and I thought I wouldn’t like it. I’m hooked! Literally my game of the year (so far).

Rentlar, 9 months ago

Been having good fun with Baldur’s gate 3. Combat is taking me a bit of getting used to but it’s overall pretty nice. The plenty of character cutscenes really are nice. One suggestion for improvement is that I need all of the characters to have the Scottish accent, not just some.

brandacus, 9 months ago

Yesterday I was playing with some buddies in chat. Another buddy that isn't playing with us asked if we were doing the main quest line or side quests. I responded, "There aren't any main or side quests. You just kinda play". At that moment it finally clicked. BG3 is a game where you just enjoy yourself without a conception of what you're doing mattering or not. You put your own weight into your experiences.

entropicdrift, 9 months ago

That’s true of D&D in general. Like yes, technically there’s a main quest, but honestly they all kinda intertwine in a big plot soup.

No wonder there’s 17,000 endings.

neardeaf, 9 months ago

Would I like this game if I love WoW? Vanilla/BC WoW, not modern retail crap

entropicdrift, 9 months ago

It’s D&D.

Do you like D&D? If so, yes. If not, no.

SlowNPC, 9 months ago

It's totally different from wow. Wow is a real-time mmo. BG3 is a turn-based fantasy RPG (think Divinity:Original Sin or Wasteland 3).

entropicdrift, 9 months ago

Copying my previous comment from Sunday:

Played it all day yesterday. It still has some bugs and if you play co-op you should do it in a separate save file because you can’t ever remove your offline friends’ characters from your party, but at a mechanical level, the game is a masterpiece.

It’s D&D 5e translated with extreme loving detail into a video game. Conversation is nearly as engaging as combat and many of the NPCs have massive dialogue trees, all fully voiced. You can switch between using a controller to directly control your character or using the traditional keyboard and mouse controls like the older Baldurs Gate games.

Hells, the character creator is probably worthy of an award by itself

I’m now 38 hours in and my opinions are basically the same, though I will add that I love how fast they’ve been patching it. If Larian ever release DLC or expansions for this game I’d expect them to be the best goddamned expansions I’ve seen in at least the last 10 years.

I’m really hoping it’s reasonably moddable because I’ve little doubt the community would love to mod entire custom campaigns into this engine.

degrix, 9 months ago

This game is everything I wanted Divinity Original Sin 2 to be. I’m so happy that Larian knocked it out of the park with this one.

Celediel, 9 months ago

This game is everything I wanted Divinity Original Sin 2 to be.

This is kinda exactly why I haven’t played it, haha. I’m a grumpy old fart who played the first two, and misses RTwP. I did enjoy D:OS I+II though, so I guess I’ll just shut up, play Pathfinder if I feel like RTwP, and be happy good RPGs are being made.

Fizz, 9 months ago

Eh I didn’t really enjoy it but i haven’t played it.

chloyster, 9 months ago

Thank you for your input :)

Fizz, 9 months ago

I played it after making the comment and it’s pretty good. I’m only an hour in though

Kaberu, 9 months ago

I can finally play D&D instead of always being the default GM! Yay!

It’s a fantastic game and I am having a blast with it. It’d be neat if they found a way to incorporate a little more of the utility stuff (scrying etc.) but I can imagine how difficult that would be. The scope of what you can do in the game is definitely much farther than I thought they’d go!

Sloogs, 9 months ago

How does scrying work in the game actually? I’m kinda curious and I don’t have the game yet :<

Kaberu, 9 months ago

Scrying type spells are not in the game as far as I know. There are a lot of non-combat spells in D&D that are not present, likely because they are based on creative liberties, and difficult to replicate on a computer.