Baldur's Gate III
Windows version
Meme game?
The Good
A few of the scenes like Act 2 look nice
The Bad
- The 3D camera is awful.
- Turn-based combat takes way too long compared to BG1/2 RTWP.
- Characters and monsters many actions and move too far per turn.
- It has 4 party members instead of 6 like in BG1/2.
- The UI is very ugly compared to BG1/2.
- The 3D character faces/portraits are very ugly compared to the drawn portraits in BG1/2.
- It includes childish reddit humor like the poop knife.
- It's been in early access for years, but it's still very buggy.
- It's too sexual to the point of being disgusting in my opinion
- The animations are comically bad.
- The PC is not voiced so they just mime in the animated dialogues.
- The companions are extremely unlikeable.
- The environmental graphics tend to be confusing (though not as much as JA3)
- The narrator is a bizarre feature
I could go on...
The Bottom Line
The story of BG ended definitively in BG2 ToB.
This is a different game that they cynically put the BG name on. I think that without the name this would be recognized as a bad or mediocre game.
Sometimes our memories deceive us, so after finding "BG3" so disappointing I went and played BG2 SoA. Yep, it's just as good as I remember it being and much better than "BG3".
by dorian grey (243) on March 20, 2024