After a hundred hours, I am finally done with this game, and what a ride it has been. From the excellent in-depth combat to the interesting fleshed out companions you have. I'd go on and on what I like about this game, but (one) I'm tired as fuck and (two) there are way too many aspects of this game that I absolutely loved, and I'd rather not spend my day writing an essay no one will read. But I have a couple things that prevent it from being a perfect game:
1). Bugs. Even ignoring Act 3, the game is a buggy mess. I had problems with textures loading in (especially the last part), freezing in between cutscenes, input lag that you fixed by killing a specific character, portraits either blacked out or weirdly rendered, and so on and so forth. Those bugs, while annoying, don't detract me from a great experience. What is absolutely unacceptable is when I'm fighting 20+ enemies and some enemies take 2+ minutes on their turn, only to do nothing because the AI doesn't know how to path properly. This applies to companions as well, when you are travelling and trying to make a jump, only for some of your party to not understand what to do, therefore making you control each character individually to do a very basic action. It is annoying, and happens way too often for me to be okay with it.
2). Level cap. I know it's a D&D thing that anything above level 12 gets too close to becoming godlike, but Larian has already taken some liberties with a lot of D&D rules (from what I know, I don't play D&D), so there's little excuse especially when Pathfinder does it. Although I absolutely loved the city of Baldur's Gate, sometimes it felt like a waste of time exploring all of it because of the level cap.
I have a couple of other problems, such as the party limit, no contextual dice roll (too hard to implement), no upper city and some story issues, but overall a fantastic video game that got everyone to play an otherwise dead video game genre. It deserves its place as one of the best RPGs ever. There are games like Witcher 3 and Skyrim that are always talked about with unlimited replayability, Baldur's Gate 3 deserves to be treated the same (also its better than those two), and with modding and the enhanced edition down the line, it could be one of the best video games of all time, if not the best.
1). Bugs. Even ignoring Act 3, the game is a buggy mess. I had problems with textures loading in (especially the last part), freezing in between cutscenes, input lag that you fixed by killing a specific character, portraits either blacked out or weirdly rendered, and so on and so forth. Those bugs, while annoying, don't detract me from a great experience. What is absolutely unacceptable is when I'm fighting 20+ enemies and some enemies take 2+ minutes on their turn, only to do nothing because the AI doesn't know how to path properly. This applies to companions as well, when you are travelling and trying to make a jump, only for some of your party to not understand what to do, therefore making you control each character individually to do a very basic action. It is annoying, and happens way too often for me to be okay with it.
2). Level cap. I know it's a D&D thing that anything above level 12 gets too close to becoming godlike, but Larian has already taken some liberties with a lot of D&D rules (from what I know, I don't play D&D), so there's little excuse especially when Pathfinder does it. Although I absolutely loved the city of Baldur's Gate, sometimes it felt like a waste of time exploring all of it because of the level cap.
I have a couple of other problems, such as the party limit, no contextual dice roll (too hard to implement), no upper city and some story issues, but overall a fantastic video game that got everyone to play an otherwise dead video game genre. It deserves its place as one of the best RPGs ever. There are games like Witcher 3 and Skyrim that are always talked about with unlimited replayability, Baldur's Gate 3 deserves to be treated the same (also its better than those two), and with modding and the enhanced edition down the line, it could be one of the best video games of all time, if not the best.