Baldur's Gate 3

Larian Studios, the creators of the latest installment, have gone to great lengths to make sure they didn't disgrace any of the franchise's building blocks. The love and care is evident in Baldur's Gate 3, though needless to pretend, there aren't a few bricks crumbling here and there in this monument. It's far from a perfect title, but on the whole Baldur's Gate 3 is a brilliant computer RPG that is undoubtedly not to be overlooked. [Issue#329]

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a masterpiece. Games like this don’t come along often, experiences that capture the zeitgeist so profoundly as to provoke scurrilous rumours that Larian Studios would come under legal action for making a game considered too good. From narrative to level design, combat to quests, character creation to romance, everything is fine-tuned to provide a gripping experience that provokes wonder and joy.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is exactly what we’ve been missing and the best game of 2023 so far.

Baldur's Gate 3 is the most successful and authentic take on D&D in the tabletop franchise's 50-year history. Its complexity and size might be daunting for novices, but the breadth and depth of Baldur's Gate 3's world make this a once-in-a-generation achievement.

We praised Larian a lot for Divinity: Original Sin 2, but Baldur's Gate 3 is without a doubt their masterpiece. It's an experience that deserves its name in every sense and trilogizes the Baldur's Gate saga in a spectacular way. If it makes up for its shortcomings with an Enhanced Edition, we can easily call it one of the best games of the 2000s.

Baldur's Gate 3 is an outstanding and complete RPG. All of its elements work brilliantly and mesh together to create something unique. Calling this game a continuation of the series may be a bit controversial, but it doesn't change the fact that this game is as close to a masterpiece as it gets. Many things are executed much better than in the first two installments, and we finally feel that we have a real impact on the world and events. It's like taking part in the best session of a tabletop RPG.

I’m still conflicted with how I feel about Baldur’s Gate III, and I probably will be for a while. While it carries on the legacy of perhaps one of the most influential CRPGs of all time, I’m not sure if it’s better than the first two games that preceded it. It is a different story by a different team and, while it’s deeply connected to those first two games, it is a promising start to more new adventures set in a familiar world that I’ve always loved.

While the "Forgotten Realms" is far from my favorite setting for any story, it doesn't detract from the Masterclass that is "Baldur's Gate 3" Putting 20 hours into it thinking i was far, and only then getting the Achievement for completing the "First Act" really puts into your head the size of the game you're playing. Combat is effectively "just try and find out what does and doesn't work" and its amazingly fun, even for someone like me who isn't partial to Turn Based Combat. setting up a ton of explosives, just in case a fight breaks out will always be fun

I played this coop with my wife and we were disappointed. We had played Divinity I and II before and thought Baldurs Gate would be similar but the battles in Baldurs Gate were downright boring and repetitive in comparision. The fancy videos didn't do much for us and the story and general feel lacked far behind that of divinity.

Game was solid for the first act but it started feeling way too long with so much lore and characters names that I couldn't take it anymore. Last act felt a bit lazy-executed with more and more bugs, nothing terrible though. Loved having a friend making the worst choices ever

Baldur's Gate 3 is mostly Divinity: Original Sin 3 wearing a D&D skin. The unique atmosphere of the original games was replaced by Larian's slapstick.

Since I played and loved the first two chapters (Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II) I was gifted this game shortly after it came out. However after playing it myself I can't for the life of me understand how or why this game was hyped as much as it was. I couldn't stand this game from almost the moment I started the character creation. Long story short it's a D&D hentai game and I could not care less. The mechanics, gameplay and pop-up UI are absolute crap. It's not an intuitive control scheme by any means and the really shoddy attempt to make it a D&D tabletop like campaign was just horrible. I felt so bad for not liking it at all that I ended up finding a way to pay the person that gifted it back because I couldn't refund it through steam!