Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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One week after the release, how are you enjoying the game? Is it everything you hoped it would be? (lemm.ee)

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It's been one week since ~~you looked at me~~ Baldur's Gate was released. How are you enjoying the game? What are your general thoughts, impressions, and complaints? Has the game lived up to the hype for you?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't stop thinking about it every waking moment. I have put off many household chores just to eke a few more minutes of gameplay out. It's a massive accomplishment of a game with a few bugs, but still an incredible and well deserved achievement for Larian.

I am a little worried because it felt like I had to poke into everything in Act 1 to get enough XP to get to Act 2. Hopefully the outcomes are different enough to make replaying interesting, because I know I want to do several playthroughs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The XP is my worry too. These long CRPGs burn me out because they require almost 100% completion to get to level parity. I'm still loving BG3, but if the later acts are like Act 1 I'm not sure I'll make it. The content is all superb, but it seems like I need to do it ALL in order to progress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The second part there is by far my biggest issue with the game. I don't find the outcomes THAT different.

I've about finished Act 1, so I started a coop playthrough with a friend. Although we've both been intentionally picking different options the whole time, it's still by and large the same process. Go to the same locations, talk to the same people but have them react to you somewhat differently. There's a large number of ways in which the game implies much more can happen than is really possible, and lots of ways you end up getting railroaded back to the same place no matter how much you try to change it up.