4 people found this review helpful
Recommended
2.2 hrs last two weeks / 136.4 hrs on record (41.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 16 Aug, 2023 @ 8:51am

Best modern CRPG in existence....however, not without a couple of flaws.

The UI/UX is by far the weakest part of this game.

1) The interface has no scaling so a lot of text/tooltips/icons are incredibly small making it hard on the eyes. Its bizarre this was never addressed in EA. Even DOS2 had a better UI scale.

2) There is no party formation function. So all your companions just follow your selected character making it very awkward to position yourself before fights. Again a feature that was present in DOS2.

3) Many mechanics are left unexplained in the descriptions. For example some tooltips completely fail to tell you how often you can cast a spell/ability (e.g. is it short/long rest?).

4) When you are indoors/underground you cannot view the overworld map so unless you memorized all waypoints you dont know which one will teleport to where. Small gripe but I often find myself having to randomly selecting waypoints to exit dungeons.

There are many other smaller UI quirks that hopefully will get fixed with future patches.

The only other concern are bugs. I am still in Act 1 which for a game as complex as BG3 is very polished. A couple of smaller bugs here and there but nothing game breaking. Act 2 and 3 is where the majority of bugs is nested as per other player reports so hopefully Larian can fix it up rather quickly.

Despite these drawbacks its still an easy 9.5/10 game.
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