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2y ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread

Game Information

Game Title: Baldur's Gate 3

Platforms:

PC (Aug 3, 2023)
PlayStation 5 (Sep 6, 2023)

Trailers:

Developer: Larian Studios

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 95 average - 100% recommended - 26 reviews

Critic Reviews

ACG - Jeremy Penter - Unscored

Attack of the Fanboy - Noah Nelson - Unscored

Checkpoint Gaming - Edie W-K - Unscored

Entertainment Geekly - Luis Alvaro - 5 / 5

GGRecon - Ava Thompson-Powell - Unscored

Game Rant - Shane Robert Moyer - 4.5 / 5

Gamers Heroes - Blaine Smith - 100 / 100

GamesRadar+ - Ali Jones - Unscored

GamingBolt - Ravi Sinha - 10 / 10

GamingTrend - David Flynn, Ron Burke - Unscored

God is a Geek - Mick Fraser - Unscored

Hobby Consolas - Alberto Lloret - Spanish - 96 / 100

IGN - Leana Hafer - Unscored

IGN Spain - Guillermo Proupín - Spanish - 10 / 10

Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - Unscored

Niche Gamer - Brandon Lyttle - 9 / 10

NoobFeed - Jay Claassen - 95 / 100

PCGamesN - Paul Kelly - Unscored

Screen Rant - Cody Gravelle - Unscored

Try Hard Guides - Erik Hodges - 10 / 10

Wccftech - Francesco De Meo - Unscored

We Got This Covered - Ash Martinez - 4.5 / 5

Worth Playing - Chris "Atom" DeAngelus - 9 / 10

ZTGD - Terrence Johnson - 9.5 / 10

eXputer - Huzaifah Durrani - 5 / 5

gameranx - Unscored

35 comments

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!
- Forever GM's unite! (But like, once we get the schedule finalized /s)
  Yeah, this is probably the best D&D game in existence now. It definitely has some pretty fun mechanics and a lot of depth that other D&D vidya games just lack.
  
  Agreed. It's the most direct translation of the actual mechanics and gameplay of D&D to a game ever made and somehow also the most fun.
  Hm, now I want a mod for NWN 2 that makes it actually play like a turn-based game to see if that's fun. 5e is probably still more fun than 3.5, but with all the math automated away it could be close.
  
  I forget, do the pathfinder games use v1 or v2? V1 was basically D&D 3.5 in most ways.
  Either way, if you haven't played it, you should put Pathfinder Kingmaker on deck for after BG3
  
  They're both based on PF 1e. Looking at the wiki page, I didn't realize they were optionally played in turn-based mode.
  Guess I'll have to play em.
  I used to GM PF 1e without opening the rulebook because I had those rules down cold from all the years of playing 3.5 before Pathfinder came out.
- How does scrying work in the game actually? I'm kinda curious and I don't have the game yet :<
  
  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.

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