Baldur's Gate III

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.

This is without a doubt the best RPG to date I have ever played and I have played a wide range of RPGs (and MMORPGs).

Pros, varying storyline like no other, utterly immersive, the maps, sets, areas are unbelievably detailed and intricate, the accuracy to DnD systems, the depth of every single character companion, the character creation system and the (not yet confirmed but highly likely) replayability of 100"s-1000's of hours, split screen CO-OP with 2 controllers is just so fluid.

Cons, you can't disable the turn based combat, I feel this would make it appeal to the action rpg fans, and there aren't enough hours in the day to play it.

I've completed the game going the heroic route. Did every side quest. I adore this game. Honestly, my favorite game of all time, not lying. Negative reviews on here are by trolls that's have low attention spans. If you want fantastic writing, characters arcs performed by amazing voice talent, and enjoy turned based strategy and role playing you will love this game. It's essentially just Dungeons and Dragons. Same rules. However, imagine playing D&D with the best dungeon master ever and beautiful computer graphics illustrating your story. It's also not afraid to get totally absurd, goofy, or just plain freaky deeky if that's your style. It's up to you. You can have sex with a bear. It's pretty rad. Lol. Honestly though, it will probably hit you on an emotional level the more seriously you take it. Finishing the game for me was an extremely emotional experience for me after 250 hours. The denouement was fantastic. I really needed that, and it was great that they put it in there. It's really sad to end the game because you really become friends in a way with your companions. You actually really care about them. Such great writing. Minor bugs are forgivable on the technical side, after all it is a video game. It's also an extremely complex game with so many variables. This is a game for grown ups, not inpatient button smashers. If you're mature and love D&D, it doesn't get any better than this.

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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A technical stable game that is far beyond a videogame. Literally everything is pure art. The story is not one story instead the player has hundreds of different outcomes. Aside that, the storyline itself and dialogues are worth multiple oscars. Same goes for the voice acting, music graphics, physics, love to details and choreography, which no game ever had before at this quality level.

On average you can expect 80-120 hours of gameplay, where an incredibly bounding to your teammates happens.

In over 30 years of playing games, I never had sich an immersive experience like in this masterpiece.