Baldur's Gate 3 manages to pull off the spontaneity and unpredictable nature of a long-stretching Dungeons and Dragons tabletop game. The story is intriguing with beautifully woven side quests but never feels like it's forcing you in a set moral direction. You can be as lawful good, or chaotically evil as you wish from scene to scene, and the game will be a different experience for each and every player. Character voice acting, motion capture, and a spellbinding soundtrack make the game world feel alive and the storytelling compelling. The only limit to your experience is your imagination and creativity, and while the sheer volume of possible outcomes can lead to bugs and occasional immersion-breaking moments, Larian has ultimately achieved its ambition for a generation-defining RPG.
Larian perfects its own formula for Baldur's Gate's return and delivers the best CRPG around for veteran and newcomers. This is certainly a feat we will be talking about for the next ten years.
Baldur's Gate 3 is Larian Studios' Magnum Opus. It's a must-play masterpiece that sets a new bar in the RPG universe. Even at over a hundred hours, it never fails to surprise and impress with a deep story, hypnotic villains, enticing companions, a world where you can get lost forever and a combat system that rewards creativity. But more than all this, Baldur's Gate 3 is the fruit of the passion and love of an entire team that has dedicated body and soul to capture the magic of video games.
I absolutely love Baldur’s Gate 3; the more progress I make, the more hooked I become. Every moment I’m not playing Baldur’s Gate 3, I wish I was… so let me wrap this up — go play Baldur’s Gate 3! It’s a defining RPG that masterfully blends all that’s brilliant about D&D into an equally convenient and engaging video game best suited for four wide-eyed adventurers.
I could easily keep talking about this game, from the romance scenes that honestly had a lot of heart put into them or about various small encounters that I had just roaming around the map. Baldur’s Gate 3 may not be a one-to-one recreation of a system that many of us know, but that doesn’t hold it back in any form. Instead, the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons is inside the very fiber of Baldur’s Gate 3; it can sometimes be silly and outlandish. However, there is a lot to love here, and there aren’t many words that could really convey how much I love this game and glad that while the battle system may not be what I expected, once I adjusted myself to it, it gave me almost everything else I could want out of a game.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a beacon of all the untapped potential in the CRPG genre. While it may be a bit much for newcomers, it's a gripping experience that no one with even an inkling of interest in the genre should miss.
I’m still conflicted with how I feel about Baldur’s Gate III, and I probably will be for a while. While it carries on the legacy of perhaps one of the most influential CRPGs of all time, I’m not sure if it’s better than the first two games that preceded it. It is a different story by a different team and, while it’s deeply connected to those first two games, it is a promising start to more new adventures set in a familiar world that I’ve always loved.
At a time when big, rich studios carefully groom reviewers to award them overblown and unwarranted positive acclaim to what are dull and unspirited releases, along comes Larian Studios with a simply perfect RPG that blows the standards for what makes a great game out of the gaming waters. This is the best PC game I've played- possibly ever. While the graphics and music are wonderful, it's the depth and breadth of BG3's content, it's tactical tenacity, and the way Larian breathes life into virtually ALL of it's npcs that inspires a sense of wonder, adventure and life into this magnificent achievement. It stands SO TALL, in my estimation, beside everything else there is to offer out there today.
Would've been 10/10, because most of it is a colossal, towering masterpiece and could've been in the running to be "best game of all time".
Sadly the inventory management, which you are forced to attend to frequently, is absolute ****. A poorly tooled and crippling series of janky annoyances that assassinated any joy I obtained from playing the game. I was nearing the end of act two when Patch 3 came out and made it even worse, at which point I put down the controller and gave up.
I love this game. It is easily one of the best gaming experiences that I have had in my two decades of gaming. Particularly, Act 1 and Act 2 were an absolute joy to play through. Unfortunately, Act 3 fails to provide a similar experience to the two previous ones. Immediately upon starting Act 3, I have faced numerous game breaking bugs. The act is plagued by massive FPS drops, dialogue drops, texture loading problems, and broken quests. As much as it pains me to say, this is another game that was released at an unfinished state. Larian created something amazing with this game, but we should not overlook the fact that the game is unfinished. This practice has become far too common among publishers nowadays. They deserve praise for what they have accomplished, but that does not absolve them from deserved criticism for putting out an unfinished game. Due to the length of the game, many critics did not progress enough through the game to experience these major issues before giving it glowing reviews. Hopefully, Larian will fix Act 3 soon.
Some pros and cons for those who don't want to read huge elaborate. Starting with pros - game is really enjoyable when you play with your friends mostly because of roleplaying stuff). Character creation is complex and enjoyable. Every single action counts and shapes your world. When it comes to cons - this game is just a buggy mess from the start to end and I'm not even talking about small bugs (graphics glitches etc.) but about gamebreaking ones like need for duing a quick save load (f8) because of boss reward bug. Camera is working very poorly (especially in closed areas like caves). Fights are boring because AI is taking a lot of time to do it's actions and if there is nothing to do it lags a lot (for example monster cannot strike you but he waits 10-15 seconds and skips turn). Pathing of your team members is really bad, especially when they need to jump a lot. I found myself ungroupping them and moving one by one because of indivitualities lagging behind. Political propaganda was injected into the game and I'm not talking about relations between your character and the others, it's about main story...
SummaryAn ancient evil has returned to Baldur's Gate, intent on devouring it from the inside out. The fate of Faerun lies in your hands. Alone, you may resist. But together, you can overcome. Gather your party and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolute power. Mysteri...