Baldur's Gate 3 is an amazing CRPG.
However, I do think it is a little over-hyped and doesn't compare to BG2 which is still my favorite in the series. Let's start with my negatives:
- The plot has major pacing issues in Act 3
- Battles can take an eternity and sometimes some enemies just take a lot of time to do anything. I still vastly prefer the old battle system from BG1 and 2 that played more like a RTS sometimes.
- Some romance-related dialogues are very weird. Sometimes the game feels like a love parade or something, literally anyone in your party wants to bang you at some time in the story. It feels completely forced.

The positives, however, outshine the negatives:
- Stunning amount of freedom. In dialogues, in battles, in the overworld.
- Great visuals and amazing cut scenes for a CRPG
- Decent performance on the Steam Deck (Act 3 is a little sloppy)
- Top-notch voice acting
- Engaging plot, especially in Act 1 and 2
- Tons of tactical approaches in battles

LOVED this game as a huge DnD nerd. I feel like this will be the Skyrim of the 20s, massive pop cultural appeal for a fantasy RPG. I feel like the reviewers giving this game 10/10s may not have gotten to some of the Act 3 encounters when reviewing it because I found that there was consistently less care/detail put into those designs compared to the first two Acts. Still, its a modern marvel and a very important piece of gaming history that will inspire many more games to come. I'd love to see a remake on the first two games in this style one day.

I originally wrote a review, praising this game and giving it a 10/10, but in just 30 more hours it waned so far down to about a 7/10, this game is legendary!!! The writing and amount of options are just stunning, everything is so immaculately done! And yet, at the center of it all, there's this rat poison of a battle system, in which starting at the normal difficulty, every fight in the first act felt like it might as well have been the final boss, lowering the difficulty 20 hours in did little to improve the sickly feeling I was getting every fight. At the easiest difficulty, Baldurs Gate forces me to watch my party die and spend turns reviving them multiple times, even at my most prepared, I had to set up cheese strategies to have a chance at winning most fights in the game, and even with those strategies, it'd take me 5-10 tries. Not to mention it seems like no matter what I did, hit % chances were always below 70 for ANYTHING RANGED, including all magic and arrows. It's absolutely infuriating to have a run of bad luck and have to redo an entire fight 30 minutes in. And yet, this game is still amazing!!!! I don't get it, however i do know that i still can't get into most CRPGS, even when probably the best one of all time is staring me in the face.

This game is from the future, I don’t know what else to tell you. Baldur’s Gate 3 was a game that I never heard of I’ll be honest. When it won game of the year I didn’t really care, spider man 2 was good but I knew it was not going to win. Went into this game not knowing about the turn based combat and it did not bother me at all. This is also a game where I can do anything and it is not illegal. The story is amazing, the score is excellent, and the characters are crazy horny. You literally DO IT with everybody you meet pretty much and sums up character development and different feelings. By the end of this game I was sobbing, this game made me feel things so much. One of the best games I ever played that I will always go back to. Masterpiece!

It’s hard to overstate the degree to which this article really crystallised a lot of my thoughts on this game: https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-the-horniest-rpg-ive-ever-played-and-honestly-its-a-bit-much/

BG3 deserves commendation for its commitment to player agency and the kind of work which must have gone into the optionality allowed to the player. But there’s just something about it which rubs me the wrong way. Maybe not every party member should be pansexual and keen to bone you irrespective of your gender identity, character class, ethos, etc. Maybe you shouldn’t be able to defeat this many of the bosses by tricking them into killing themselves by passing a couple of easy charisma checks! Maybe not every toy in the playground should exist mainly to tell me I’m awesome and try to suck my dick! You know?

Nossa finalmente terminei BG3, após quase 1 ano sem jogar ele finalmente acabei, e pra dizer a verdade eu nem sei o que falar desse jogo que já não foi falado ou já mostrado após ele ter ganhado o GOTY. Se puderem joguem ele realmente vale a pena.

Agora sobre minha experiencia, sabe essa não foi minha 1 ou 2 vez que eu joguei esse jogo mas todas as outras vezes eu desisti do jogo por uma razão ou outra, no meu save mais avançado eu parei logo após o inicio da parte 3, pelo simples motivo de ter muita coisa pra fazer que se torna até nauseante continuar a jogar, não que seja algo negativo longe disso mas isso com certeza me fez parar de jogar por um bom tempo.

Eu não vou mentir mas quando o jogo lançou eu baixei pirata e joguei por uns 3 dias e tbm fiz um amigo meu baixar, só que não dava pra jogar online, então nós dois compramos o jogo e começamos a jogar. Porém após um tempo o multiplayer começou a dar problemas com mods e então nos tivemos que parar de jogar, com isso eu comecei a cansar um pouco do jogo e a terceira parte do jogo só piorou meu desanimo até eu parar de jogar completamente esse jogo.

Corta para maio desse ano, depois de séculos sem entrar no jogo e eu decido voltar a jogar e esse junto com meu amigo, pois se não fosse pelo BG3, pois se não fosse pelo BG3 estaríamos num ciclo de jogar COD ou jogar DBD e deixar eu te contar que jogar esses dois jogos por mais de um mês torna qualquer pessoa sã em maluco. E então tentamos voltar a jogar mas de inicio não deu certo, pois por alguma razão todos os arquivos do jogo são restaurados mesmo depois que você deleta ele, o que isso quer dizer? Se você instalar qualquer mod que não te deixe jogar o multiplayer e desinstalar o jogo e baixar ele de novo, o jogo ainda vai continuar com os arquivos do mod te impendido de jogar online. Caso você esteja numa situação parecida a melhor dica que eu te dou é ir manualmente nos arquivos do jogo e apagar todos eles, faz um backup no save e mete bronca, depois você restaura pela steam, se você é do GOG boa sorte.

Agora sobre o jogo em si e minhas experiencias malucas nele, eu vou falar a verdade e falar que eu amo todos os personagens e situações malucas que você entrar nesse jogo, é tão divertido tacar uma magia que deixa as pessoas dançado ou então dar hit kill em bosses com uma build roubada de ranger com o Astarion. A quantidade maluca de coisas que você pode fazer é inacreditável mano. Desde flagrar um cena inapropriada entre uma gigante e um bugbear ou até matar o dumbo, essa liberdade de coisas que o jogo te deixa fazer e até os segredos que esse jogo esconde são incríveis.

Sobre os personagens que a gente conhece eles são os mais diversos, temos vampiros, druidas que viram ursos, um maluco imortal com um hamster, um mago com uma bomba no peito dele e todo o resto do grupo. Eles são todos incríveis e possuem boas sidequest e finais, mesmo sabendo que várias coisas foram rushadas e cortadas da parte 3 sobre alguns membros do grupo, porém todos ainda possuem bons finais, Asterion, Karlach e o Halsin foram os meus personagens favoritos dos jogáveis.

Por fim, eu só quero agradecer ao estúdio e todos os trabalhadores por terem feito esse jogo, também ao meu amigo que finalmente me fez terminar o jogo e por fim para qualquer um que esteja lendo isso até o final, obrigado a todos!

I remember attempting to play Baldur’s Gate II years ago and absolutely hating the experience. I have the sense that I wasn’t the brightest of kids, or if I was just super confused by the obtuse mechanics of the game (according to my kid mind). Years later (and well into my 20s) I saw that Baldur’s Gate III had released and had no idea that the game had been even been in open beta for a bit. I decided to try it and I have to say that i felt just like the little confused kid that couldn’t quite understand what was going on. It’s funny because RPGs are my favorite type of games, but having the game be based on a lot of DND mechanics was kind of off putting for me - until a couple of hours in the game clicked incredibly hard and filled my brain with so much dopamine that I almost passed out. A totally insane experience that made me feel many feelings and reinforce my relationship with my inner child.

Had an amazing experience playing this with my boyfriend although I’m not sure if I would’ve liked this as much if I played it alone, every act has its flaws and the story wasn’t the best, pretty weak villains and so much sassy characters they all felt the same, Karlach is the best because she was kind of in between being really sweet and badass but also not afraid to speak up and disagree with you with something (nicely), how the hell do people like Astarion so much, much less simp for him, he’s like a 5 year old stuck in a man’s body, Shadowheart was pretty sassy too and I see a lot of girls calling her annoying yet then they love Astarion, make that make sense, I’m sure they warm up if you romance them but they weren’t that likeable without that element whilst Karlach was great to be with and had a pretty interesting part to the story, loved running with her through hell in the end 😌 anyways, still lots of great parts and location and it’s definitely a game type that I’m not quite used to, part of me would compare it to Diablo 4 or Skyrim a lot in moments that did things better but I can’t fault the things BG3 did that were new to me but cool, being able to talk to animals, or turn into one (like a dinosaur), change classes whenever (I changed mine 3x), having many many choices and influence in the game etc, although I can’t lie I did really want to side with the sleeping dragon but eventually finding out that we had no choice but to fight him was annoying, same with that vampire (I can’t remember the name of) who we brought Astarion to and YET still had to fight?? Weird.

The game does a very interesting job adapting tabletop rules but I don't think this necessarily means it's a good videogame. It is terrible at explaining it's mechanics and asking me to manage 6 - 8 character's complex builds is too much. Combat feels slow and unrewarding, dice rolls get boring soon (and often force you to quicksave all the time, getting a bad outcome beacause you were unlucky is so frustrating). Different medias have different needs and I don't think this game really undestands that.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was an interesting game, and unlike any other I’ve played before - with that said, it’s still a mixed bag for me. Instead of simply reviewing it, I’d like to list what I liked about the game and what I didn’t like to avoid waffling.
Pros:
• The best part of Baldur’s Gate 3 is easily the combat/character building for me(until a certain point). Battles felt intense and tactical, and every level up felt important and impactful compared to other games where you would level up more commonly. I really enjoyed unlocking more feats, passives, spells etc for my build. The building system has a great complexity to it, but also a much needed accessibility to not drown in the meaning of eighty different status effects.
- Dialogue/writing, Bg3 had a great grasp on its characters and their purposes, with eloquent dialogue and narration. In my opinion, this game is much more successful in the small, situational aspects of the story than the larger scale ones.
- Sound effects
- Act 2 is the most well-trimmed part of the game, having a certain atmosphere and pace to it that Act 1 entirely lacked for me. Act 2 is interesting, it’s threatening to be in that world, and it’s main content (like finding the Nightsong) pays off just as much as it’s side content is fun to find and explore.
- Act 3 was a good break off from the first two acts in it’s more peaceful like exploration of the city and wrapping up a lot of previous storylines. It also had some of the best content, from the Steelwatch Foundry, Temple of Bhaal to the grand finale.
- Speaking of the finale, I thought the fighting and spectacle was great! The system to call in your allies wasn’t really that great though, and you only really need one or two.
Now we get into a list of negatives…
- Graphic fidelity/art direction: In my opinion, the art direction in this game was decent at best. I’ve played countless fantasy games, and a lot of areas in this game are uninspired compared to the magical worlds I’ve seen in others. There’s a sad absence of true environmental storytelling that I’ve come to love in the open-world RPG genre. The cutscenes in the finale of the game had half loaded in houses in the background with poor water textures, having this unfinished look to it as well. That could be an optimization issue with Xbox, but it’s the stronger hardware out of the two consoles so it wouldn’t be that much of an excuse.
- Looting might be my biggest concern with the game! Every RPG has a satisfying system of looting enemies when you beat them, getting that next big piece of gear to add to your build. This had none of that. Looting small enemies to daunting bosses was so underwhelming and really left me walking away from these epic fights disappointed.
- The level 12 cap. Are you serious? And we’ll never even get dlc to go further up in levels? Yeah, if anything really disappointed me was this. Level 12 isn’t even the highest you could get to, we did so many things after that I feel like I would’ve been easily level 15.

Overall, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a really fun game that I had an amazing time playing with my girlfriend cooperatively. It has its flaws, and many of those could be exclusive to my tastes, but it also offers an experience that I haven’t had in gaming before. It was a very memorable journey! To speak on my personal experience with the game, I was a Dragonborn Warlock with Gale and Jaheira as my main companions.
Rating of Acts:
Act 1: 5/10 (only the underdark redeems this part)
Act 2: 8.5/10
Act 3: 8/10
I will also close this out saying it was a bummer to hear we aren’t getting dlc. It makes me more reactive to my personal flaws with the game when I know there won’t be any future higher level cap, bosses, loot, or areas for example.

Spartiacque che fonda un archetipo e punto di non ritorno, di quelli che all'interno di un sottogenere - o di una intera tipologia del videogioco - in altri tempi ne sarebbero usciti a getto costante mentre oggi è un lusso trovarne 1-2 ogni sette o otto anni. La profondità di scrittura dei personaggi, con le loro caratterizzazioni che si sviluppano in modo del tutto coerente, senza una minima sbavatura, a volte esprimendosi con una singola linea di dialogo o un'espressione del volto. Non solo nostri compagni del gruppo ma amici.. perchè quello diventano quando si finisce con l'affezionarcisi. E poi gli altri personaggi non giocanti con i quali scambiamo numerose interazioni; sono dozzine e ognuno ha una sua personalità o caratteristica distintiva. I tiefling li ho salvati tutti perchè a perderne anche solo uno non me lo sarei perdonato. Il senso del viaggio con la sua epica e assoluta credibilità nella gestione delle conseguenze, dove anche quelle apparentemente più improbabili o contrastanti trovano sempre una dimensione e collocazione naturale ai loro pregressi. Ho amato ogni istante di Baldur's Gate 3 e di difetti non ne saprei proprio trovarne. Neppure in alcuni scontri che mi sono sembrati parecchio sbilanciati, perchè sono sicuro che se li provassi con altri personaggi o usando altre combinazioni di attacco.. anche quelli si rivelerebbero strepitosi. O l'avvio del terzo atto che sembra un'involuzione e invece nel suo essere diverso dagli altri trova l'eccezionalità del proporre qualcosa di costantemente nuovo, senza mai ripetersi (a me ha ha ricordato alcuni librigame ai quali sono incredibilmente affezionato come "La città proibita" di Oberon o "La città dei misteri" di Sortilegio; atmosfere nelle quali mi sono pienamente immerso con puro gaudio). Ci sono tanti momenti, commoventi o ilari, tensivi o quieti, che mi hanno fatto capire quanto ormai fossi personalmente coinvolto nelle vicende di questi personaggi. E ho adorato come nella chiusura tutto vada al suo posto, senza lasciare nulla in sospeso. E' la gratificazione più grande che questo capolavoro avrebbe potuto darmi.