Baldur's Gate III (2023)

For as universally loved as Baldur's Gate 3 is.... I'm just not feeling it.

I seem to have hit a dead end in Act 1. Everywhere I go, I just get obliterated in the extremely-not-fun battle. I accidentally warped away from the goblin camp, leaving Bear-Dude by himself, and I can't seem to find the item I need to cross the broken bridge to get back.

I'm just not having fun with this game.

Shelved.

Dipped my toes into BG3 to see if I'd like it and I'm having a lot of fun! Almost made a 70's glam rock star duo, but ended up going for a more majestic wood elf that unfortunately looks like he's pulling the Zoolander blue steel look 24/7 during cut scenes. Never played anything D&D related so the rules and mechanics aren't making much sense, I've done a bit of reading to understand the whole dice terminology stuff.

I like how many possibilities there are for different things to happen even moment to moment. At the beginning I stumbled across some people who I assumed were enemies and instantly went into combat and killed them, then realised that they were having a conversation and I should have tried to join in first, so I reloaded the save file and sure enough I had a chat and we walked away without any violence. Stuff like that is happening every 10 minutes or so and I'm loving it!

Also enjoying the turn based combat far more than I thought I would, typically get really bored with turn based mechanics. And I hate to say it, but first impressions of Astarion is that he's way too full of himself to be likeable... there I said it.

After 70+ hours across Steam and PS5, I think it’s time to admit Baldur’s Gate 3 just isn’t clicking with me.

It’s trying to do so much all the time—narratively, structurally—and it just ends up wearing me down. The loop of talking, choosing, looting, organizing, fighting, more talking… it’s more tiring than fun.

Sidequests are everywhere, tangled into the main story, which is impressive—but it makes everything feel heavy, bloated.

Probably putting this one down again. Maybe for good this time.

I'm way too dumb to play this game. I have to think of ALL MY STEPS and It's super tiring for my stupid brain sad

Im sorry for comparing games, but at least FOR ME, Elden Ring is so much cooler, in a way that I can move freely, the fights are awesome and make me anxious, I love the way I have to roll, strike, and flee and to do this all in the caos of the moment, in baldurs is a lot of one shot and then your shot was="error", go this way = "the way is blocked", go that way, you can't cuz there's grease in the way, ah god dammit. Also in ER the exploration is so awesome, I dunno I like it better.

So yea, in baldurs gate I don't like much the fights, tbh I bought the game on impulse because it looked awesome, but the fights are kind of boring for me...

The game is still kinda fun, but after some hours I have to just stop and not come back for days, because my head hurts ahah The game has a great story, and I love having the dialogues and to "participate" more with the character, that's maybe one of my fave parts.

I can't believe im still on act I. I'm always triggering a fight anywhere I go lol. I'll still try to play more to see if I enjoy it better, I have like 25 hours in, let's see.

I had no idea that Larian had patched out this bit of dialogue, I guess because I haven't played since shortly after honour mode was dropped. I'm glad a mod can restore it, because I always found this exchange between the three characters to be quite humorous.

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