Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread

I'm absolutely loving it. I love that I can pace the game myself thanks to the turn based design, that my actions have consequences, that it's a proper role playing game.

I'm about 30 hours in and it's fantastic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s too bad the review copies were delayed, but I’m glad reviewers are taking their time with it. If this level of positivity continues I feel like BG3 will be a serious GOTY contender

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

But man I am enjoying TF out of BG3.

Looks like the top GOTY contender so far.

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).