Game Information
Game Title: Baldur’s Gate 3
Platforms:
- PC (Aug 3, 2023)
- PlayStation 5 (Sep 6, 2023)
Trailers:
- Baldur’s Gate 3 Opening Cinematic
- Baldur’s Gate 3 World Gameplay Reveal Announcement
- Baldur’s Gate 3 - Official Announcement Trailer
Developer: Larian Studios
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 95 average - 100% recommended - 26 reviews
Critic Reviews
ACG - Jeremy Penter - Unscored
Attack of the Fanboy - Noah Nelson - Unscored
Checkpoint Gaming - Edie W-K - Unscored
Entertainment Geekly - Luis Alvaro - 5 / 5
GGRecon - Ava Thompson-Powell - Unscored
Game Rant - Shane Robert Moyer - 4.5 / 5
Gamers Heroes - Blaine Smith - 100 / 100
GamesRadar+ - Ali Jones - Unscored
GamingBolt - Ravi Sinha - 10 / 10
GamingTrend - David Flynn, Ron Burke - Unscored
God is a Geek - Mick Fraser - Unscored
Hobby Consolas - Alberto Lloret - Spanish - 96 / 100
IGN - Leana Hafer - Unscored
IGN Spain - Guillermo Proupín - Spanish - 10 / 10
Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - Unscored
Niche Gamer - Brandon Lyttle - 9 / 10
NoobFeed - Jay Claassen - 95 / 100
PCGamesN - Paul Kelly - Unscored
Screen Rant - Cody Gravelle - Unscored
Try Hard Guides - Erik Hodges - 10 / 10
Wccftech - Francesco De Meo - Unscored
We Got This Covered - Ash Martinez - 4.5 / 5
Worth Playing - Chris “Atom” DeAngelus - 9 / 10
ZTGD - Terrence Johnson - 9.5 / 10
eXputer - Huzaifah Durrani - 5 / 5
I can finally play D&D instead of always being the default GM! Yay!
It’s a fantastic game and I am having a blast with it. It’d be neat if they found a way to incorporate a little more of the utility stuff (scrying etc.) but I can imagine how difficult that would be. The scope of what you can do in the game is definitely much farther than I thought they’d go!
Forever GM’s unite! (But like, once we get the schedule finalized /s)
Yeah, this is probably the best D&D game in existence now. It definitely has some pretty fun mechanics and a lot of depth that other D&D vidya games just lack.
Agreed. It’s the most direct translation of the actual mechanics and gameplay of D&D to a game ever made and somehow also the most fun.
Hm, now I want a mod for NWN 2 that makes it actually play like a turn-based game to see if that’s fun. 5e is probably still more fun than 3.5, but with all the math automated away it could be close.
I forget, do the pathfinder games use v1 or v2? V1 was basically D&D 3.5 in most ways.
Either way, if you haven’t played it, you should put Pathfinder Kingmaker on deck for after BG3
How does scrying work in the game actually? I’m kinda curious and I don’t have the game yet :<
Yesterday I was playing with some buddies in chat. Another buddy that isn’t playing with us asked if we were doing the main quest line or side quests. I responded, “There aren’t any main or side quests. You just kinda play”. At that moment it finally clicked. BG3 is a game where you just enjoy yourself without a conception of what you’re doing mattering or not. You put your own weight into your experiences.
That’s true of D&D in general. Like yes, technically there’s a main quest, but honestly they all kinda intertwine in a big plot soup.
No wonder there’s 17,000 endings.
I’m absolutely loving it. I love that I can pace the game myself thanks to the turn based design, that my actions have consequences, that it’s a proper role playing game.
I’m about 30 hours in and it’s fantastic.
Copying my previous comment from Sunday:
Played it all day yesterday. It still has some bugs and if you play co-op you should do it in a separate save file because you can’t ever remove your offline friends’ characters from your party, but at a mechanical level, the game is a masterpiece.
It’s D&D 5e translated with extreme loving detail into a video game. Conversation is nearly as engaging as combat and many of the NPCs have massive dialogue trees, all fully voiced. You can switch between using a controller to directly control your character or using the traditional keyboard and mouse controls like the older Baldurs Gate games.
Hells, the character creator is probably worthy of an award by itself
I’m now 38 hours in and my opinions are basically the same, though I will add that I love how fast they’ve been patching it. If Larian ever release DLC or expansions for this game I’d expect them to be the best goddamned expansions I’ve seen in at least the last 10 years.
I’m really hoping it’s reasonably moddable because I’ve little doubt the community would love to mod entire custom campaigns into this engine.
Been having good fun with Baldur’s gate 3. Combat is taking me a bit of getting used to but it’s overall pretty nice. The plenty of character cutscenes really are nice. One suggestion for improvement is that I need all of the characters to have the Scottish accent, not just some.
