Baldur's Gate 3

Groundbreaking in terms of production quality, strategic diversity, environment reactivity, general attention to detail and tabletop loyalty. The over-arching story is a jumbled mess of cliches cowering behind (sometimes) good dialogue. The characters and races are cringe. The D&D ruleset hasn't improved. Build diversity is meh (partly for lack of good tactic-defining items), multiclass is a low-reward chore, and the per-rest mechanic is ruinous. Still manages to be amazing, despite its flaws.

Dropped. May revisit in the future. Good: Every NPC dialogue is voiced and good grafix. Bad: Every models looks prestine... samey doll like faces. Exploration & combat is tedious. Overwhelming amount of skills at the start, and equipment benefits are vague (Incentivize internet tutorials). Dialogue: Quantity doesnt mean quality... lots of flowery prose. A heavy dependency on dialogue for immersion. If the writing style isnt for you. Immersion is broken.

Whelp. Here we are. The perfect D&D game. It does such a great job of combining tabletop realism, AAA scope, and wonderful writing.

The combat of BG3 is not horribly interesting until you reach act 3 when the encounters play more with gimmicks. A lot of classes tend to overlap on utility to the point spell pools look samey and you're often using the same thing across characters. The plot? It's... mediocre. The companions are a mixed bag in terms of execution. For example, Astarion ends off on a strong note but Gale and Wyll are boring as fuck and half-assed. But it has enough personality and flair to keep me invested

It's no hyperbole, it really is one of the best games ever made. The only thing holding back that final point is that it's still pretty buggy

Very seldom does a game live up to the ideal perfection within a genre. Baldur's Gate 3 does exactly that. The world feels completely alive, the story is incredibly compelling, and the characters are well rounded. Dozens of hours of side quests, exploration, and countless unique encounters leave nothing to be desired. This title truly does live up to every single promise it made during development. One of the greatest games ever made on any platform.

Great Game, but a little slow.

just not my type of game, but probably really great for people who like these kind of games

I bought this on a recommendation and a prayer and was pleasantly surprised, not just because my laptop ran the game without exploding (though it might've come close). A vast world with tons of things to explore. A compelling story with diverse characters. Enjoyable gameplay (if you don't like round based combat this isn't for you, boo boo). What more does one want. (Except for Larian to treat all NPC characters with the same care and develop all of them, not just the 'hot vampire'

This is an incredible game. Memorable characters, meaningful choices, real player freedom incentivizing roleplay. It's not a perfect game. I missed some of the more wildly imaginative writing from DOS2, and the D&D ruleset is not ideal for a video game. Overall, it's a superb piece of work that must have taken an enormous amount of effort but a large team. Bonus content can be found on YouTube in the form of all the D&D sessions the BG3 voice cast have done :)