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EDIT: Someone just said a r*cist insult on chat, I said that I would report that: they called me toxic <3

Fun little game by a small indie company.

Community is ok, very communicative and always trying to help you improve your performance. A French fellow teammate cared so much about my playstyle that he told me “MILK I HOPE THAT YOUR MOTHER *****************************”

Heroes are fun to play and the balance is a bit on the unbalanced side.

Innovative new modes and fast spawn times, especially when the game starts.

Unfortunately, they lack the funds to maintain the game with decent updates and support, but still, it’s a good time killer with friends, don't understand all the hate.

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

I cannot recommend this game right now, don’t waste your money on it @ full price.

It baffles me how Bethesda can screw up this much, this could have been a GOTY.

--> The bad

Let’s start with the obvious: the game is full of bugs, not “Skyrim launch” level of bugs but a lot of bugs nevertheless. A game of this magnitude is expected to have them, but please don’t go on the media bragging about having “so few bugs”. They are common, they are everywhere, from visual bugs to quest bugs, even whole ship fleets missing that prevent you to move on with your quest (fixed after game restart).

Second, the game has KOTOR (2003) space travel mechanics. With so many examples on the market (Elite Dangerous, NMS, etc.) it’s amazing how they couldn’t implement an in/out atmosphere landing. It’s just cut scenes all over the place: for landing, for docking, even riding the freaking metro. You cannot fly on the planet surface, you cannot fly into the planet, all you can do is a cut-scene here, a cut-scene there. Want to move around and explore the planet? Get ready to run marathons. No ground vehicles, no flying, just running - you’ll obviously end up just fast traveling everywhere. And the loadings… They are fast on NVME’s, but almost every door, everything you do is a freaking loading screen that cuts the immersion.

Third, they screwed up big on the map, inventory & management. Moving items from your character to the companion requires about 5/6 actions, one of them being to open a dialogue with them. They did it right on Fallout and Skyrim, no excuses here. The map is a huge mess, I’m 30+ hours in and still doesn’t feel right, it’s not intuitive, it’s confusing, lacks consistency and the game has no minimap.

Moving on, space combat is “ok”, a hugely simplified version of Elite Dangerous combat/ship maneuverability, still, more satisfying than the shooting mechanics on ground. Speaking of it, the weapons feel & effects are hugely unsatisfying. Nothing wrong with the weapons stats, types, etc., there is a lot of gun variety, they simply couldn’t do what (for example) Battlebit did, a game made by half-a-dozen friends where the weapons just feel amazing. NPC AI is a joke, the game feels way too easy on normal and the NPC intelligence doesn’t scale with it. Be ready to deal with bugged enemies aiming at the ground, hiding in plain sight or aliens running indefinitely into walls.

The RPG side of it is Fallout 4 level of fail, you don’t have freedom to do anything out of the rulebook. Try to shoot shop people? Immortal. Try to shoot anything that’s not a pure enemy or random generated outpost, bullets don’t affect them. Dialogue options? Vague and weak. Persuasion mechanics are a mess, all feels superficial like a big roller-coaster ride.

Last but not least, the performance. I can’t complain here because thankfully I have a really good setup, but folks that aren’t this fortunately will have a shock with the game lack of optimization. And it’s not like you’ll find the best graphics ever, not even close. The textures are outdated, the face animations too, the game doesn’t even stretch its legs to scale with GPU/CPU power. I’m running everything on ultra @ 1440p and the game only uses 5GB of VRAM, so much untapped power. Graphics aren’t that important, but it’s the cherry on the top of everything I just stated.

--> The good

The soundtrack is amazing, Interstellar meets 2001 Space Odyssey, a pleasure to listen to it on max volume.
Awesome quest variety and factions.
Game is stable, never had a single crash.
The crafting / ship customization is awesome.
The feel of the game overall is “ok”, I’m getting immersed in the story, but I just get kicked out of it every 5 minutes because of the things stated above.

--> Conclusion

Bethesda left the hard work to the modders. A 200+ million project, hundreds of people working on it, a veteran studio with all the funding they could have asked for, it’s like they f***ed up on purpose and I’m mad about it because Bethesda did a lot of my favorite games, ever, and I used to LOVE this company. So – many – rookie – mistakes.

Personally, I think they were graphically held-back by the Xbox Series S, since it is a Xbox/PC exclusive they had to make it work on that damn calculator (and we can see the results). Also, the game is 100% a console port, there are no native PC mechanics, which aren’t that difficult to implement on a single-player game…

The game is “ok” but could have been a masterpiece and it makes me mad because of the lost opportunity. Perhaps one day it will, when everything is just properly refined. Just wait for the price to drop, wait for the patches to fix everything, wait for the godsend modders to do their magic.

Get a grip, Todd.

One of the funniest things about this game is that, when you finish your first playthrough and you want to discuss the game with another friend that also finished it, you’ll end up spoiling the game to each other. That’s how big the tree branching is.

Baldurs Gate 3 it's a freaking is a masterpiece, period.

Not only a gaming masterpiece, but a narrative/story telling masterpiece: deep characters, a bazillion paths you can take, cool and exciting stories, awesome humor, tragic scenes, brilliant voice acting, fun combat (although I prefer Divinity’s one), really cool graphics & fun D20 mechanics.

What I didn’t like:

- Had a few minor visual glitches and bugs (most of them were fixed during my gameplay on patches or hotfixes), nothing extraordinary or game breaking.

- They could have done a little less of fan service, not going to spoil anything but some BG1/2 characters were a little “forced” into the narrative.

- I just don’t like D&D 5th edition in general, on one hand it is really noob friendly and awesome to attract newcomers, on the other seems like too easy/simple compared to 3rd or 3.5.

I absolutely recommend this game, even for non-CRPG’s fans. GOTY for sure, and that’s coming from a HUGE Zelda fan.

10/10, congratulations Larian, and THANK YOU.

I have to vote 'no', for now.
The game has a HUGE potential and I had quite a few fun matches.
There's one problem tho: hackers & matchmaking.
I eighter win 'easily' or I get recked instantly on the first seconds/minutes by hackers or people with an absurd higher ELO than me.
It's really unbalanced atm, will change my vote if this is improved.

YES.

I cannot put into words how mindblown I was with the voice acting, the artwork, the gameplay, the lore and the replayability. This game is a f***ing masterpiece.

Another Kojima masterpiece. Loving it!

This is a marvelous game with a incredible replay value. 10/10, worth every penny.

Wololo.

When I started playing this game I thought I was about to play one of the best VR games ever made.
I was completely wrong.
I was about to play one of the best games ever, period