Baldur's Gate III

Until playing this game, I was not into turned-base combat or single player experiences.

But now I'm addicted and eager to join my friends in a co-op campaign. Loving just how much thought and effort was put into this game! I love the freedom of movement and how many choices you can make, as well as how the choices affect the world.

Let it serve as a lesson to all the studios that have been creating games of lower and lower quality over the past 5 years or so.

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Played a lot of D&D as a kid in the 80's/90's and grew up playing Dungeon Master, OG Diablo, Mars Saga, Wasteland etc and always loved RPGs. Something happened to a lot of PC games since then where it seemed to lose the soul that makes a good game great. I veered away from RGPs on PC as it was typically first person and real time, and while a lot of people enjoy that format I still like the fun that comes with turn based combat and proper dungeon crawling. I spent my adult years playing simulators and strategy games in lieu of the RPG genre, right up until a very good friend told me about Balder's Gate 3. I had a spare evening and decided to purchase the game, a week later I'd sunk 107 hours in to this veritable masterpiece.

The graphics are stunning, the story and gameplay are deep, and the voice acting really adds depth and texture to the game to really draw you in. A lot of games have really cringe voice acting but I was shocked with how good BG3 is on this front. There's some epic moments with some epic cut scenes which blew me away, and there's so much to see and do I think this will be my go to game for months to come; if not years! I've just started Act 2 and I'm already planning my next play through. Congrats to the team and all involved, you knocked this one out the park. I haven't lost myself in a game this much since the Amiga days, due in part to growing up, but this game managed to bring out the kid in me again and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Peace, love and respect from Australia.

I can't get enough. I'm playing on PC, an old Haswell i7, but plenty of ram and a 1080ti GPU, so far running very well. No crashes, no major glitches (an odd one with speech options just giving me "continue" which then result as if something significant was said but that's only happened twice so I'm unsure what's what there).

The characters are well written, the plot is gripping and the world is interesting to explore. I have always been a huge BioWare fangirl, but honestly, Larian have completely blown away my previous faves; they really are the studio for epic CRPGs now. The voice acting is also 10/10.

It's a very well crafted game all around and knowing how Larian were with DOS:II it'll hopefully receive ongoing support and tweaks to make things better.

BG1 and BG2 are some of my favourite games. I wasn't entirely sure if BG3 would live up to the series but having just finished the game I can say that the game definitely delivered. The bar has definitely been raised and people will compare future RPG games (and games in general) to BG3 for years to come.

The game has plenty of content and it will take an average player hundreds of hours to comb through all of the content. Player choice is robust and seem to have meaningful impact to the overall storyline. Combat is robust, dialogue options are fleshed out and the overall world-building was faithful enough to the source material.

For me i wasn't even hyped for this game, i knew it was in early access for years but i wasn't a fan of d&d or crpg's in general so it didn't grab my attention up until they showed the bear scene lol and i saw how cinematic the game looks it reminded me a lot of bioware and dragon age origins which i adore then i remembered that game was the spiritual successor to baldur's gate so i was like what the hell let's see if it's as good, fast-forward to today and my god this game is incredible, it has consumed my life for 55 hours (character creator itself took me 3h) and i've only scratched the surface, it's baby numbers because the game is huge and very detailed, npc's are so well written with each having their own personality and thoughts, a lot of decisions that can have so much impact without you even realizing and on top of all your companions, some of the most layered and interesting that i've seen (a crime that you can only choose 3 out of camp) that makes the game such an immersive and addicting experience that somehow became my game for the year and i didn't think anything could top RE4R and TOTK for me but this game and larian studios deserve all the praise that they can get.

10/10 masterful, enchanting and peak rpg experience.