3 Reasons why This game is Boring | Baldurs Gate 3 - Game Review
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
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This game is sooo boring!
Baldur's Gate 3 is a fantasy rpg based in Dungeons and Dragons. It merges turn based combat with rng chance and world exploration. Inhabited by various characters and creatures, you journey with your companions to defeat the Mindflayer's and escape a grim fate.
My experience of this game so far has been pretty negative. The game is held back by weird game design choices and an overall a limited functionality. It goes out of its way to make things as boring as possible and if you don't see it yet, come the end of this video, you'll see what I see.
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Gameplay from: Act 1
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Have you tried Jingling Keys Simulator? That might be more your speed. Cheers
I bet if you put a clip of somebody playing subway surfers over the whole game he'd like it
Uh oh. Someone sounds butthurt because they are poking holes in your beloved game 😢
lol butthurt someone offended your game :( not everyone likes the woke trash you gobbled up like a particular barn yard animal that crows in the morning !
Why so butthurt? Everything in this video is on point. Game is overrated.
@@SolidPRAWN yeah.. It's on point if you have no idea what you've gotten yourself into and you just bought into the hype without thinking for yourself. If you like the genre, it's about as good as it's ever gotten, if not you'll probably still like it as long as you have some sort of critical thinking skills
Great, not just me then.
Nah I thought the same thing dude. I’m not into this style of game, but I’ve played Fire emblem games before that do this turn based tactical combat and I loved those games. This game though just didn’t click with me
That’s because you suck at the game and probably like cod or think dragon age origins has fun combat
If your reaction to every "non-perfect" situation is to reload, you haven't understood the game at all. It is just great to see, how the story is evolving based on your "mistakes".
Playing a CRPG and beeing annoyed about too many spells and dialogues is like complaining about too much shooting in CoD.
He reload more in this video than my first 2 play throughs
> It is just great to see, how the story is evolving based on your "mistakes"
No, it isn't. Because forced combat is not "evolving".
@@urgian my guy, the goblin camp is 100% gonna notice when they are being attacked, being a stealth type build means you can surprise enemies alot more, not be an assassin
you act like save scumming hasnt been a thing for these types of games since their inception
By "mistakes" you mean being soft locked in a combat, LOL
They hated him because he spoke the truth. All his points in this video are completely valid.
Got NEWS for you, its OVERWHELINMGLY positive reviews on steam ... No one agrees with you, no truth.
It is valid because you agree with said points?
What crpg doesn’t have slow pacing? It comes with the genre. Just because you can’t properly click the right things on the screen or are too lazy/stupid/ uninterested to read does equate to valid criticism l. It just means you don’t like it, you not liking something dosent mean it’s overrated
I don't understand any of your points. It's a CRPG based on DND and it does that really well. You don't want to choose your spells? Brother what.
And as a D&D game, it sucks ass. I still play Neverwinter Nights. lvl 40 max and lvl 60 modded servers. BG3, max lvl 12 ?!?! Then PRC mod with 40+ base classes and almost 100 prestige classes. No room for creativity whatsoever, so everyone will end up making the same builds. 20+ year gap and every D&D game since, has been giving less and less freedom, to the point we are at now, which is just insulting. I've owned BG3 since release and played 0.0 hours. BG3 is playing at the kiddies table. Not interested!
@@waynestapleton1205 it's 5e game? Level 40 or 60 don't exist in the system. And beyond level 12 spells become too hard to code in for a game with so much action and consequence narratively. I don't think the game is for you, nor do I think 5e is. But it's not about it being a bad dnd game, it's just that you clearly don't like 5e. Which is fine. But you're expecting things not even remotely considered when someone is wanting a dnd 5e game. Lots of other picks. Go choose them.
Lot's of others to pick from ? I just said it's been going downhill for 20+ years. I've tried and reviewed or refunded where I can on every D&D style released since and it's always out right crap, or first hour or 2 are fine and then it falls apart to the point of being crap. It's never bugs that cause me to leave, it's always the game play itself and/or character progression, or lack thereof.
@@jakehelder3254 the details you guys always go to the game is just so detailed. I drift in forza and manny other car games I’m in wheel and pedal and stick shifter. it took me almost a year to learn how to do this that half a year Of reviewing clips learning angles understanding pedal discipline. Learning how to mod a car the was I want it a lot of small detail that go into the big action. And I would rather do all of that again then play this shit. This game isn’t about details it’s just tedious and even when you line everything up perfectly it still fucks up.
@@kazum1809 I get ur point but I'm not sure you get mine. Dungeons and dragons is a game of dice rolls where no skill or build can guarantee success in anything. It is random. It is fun because of this. If this is not fun for you because you need to perfect a skill, or spend time learning the intricacies of a pedal, to have fun, then dungeons and dragons and therefore baldurs gate 3, are not for you. It is very simple. Baldurs gate 3 is an adaptation of a table top game to a video game. I am not saying it's perfect, but it's trying to be something neither this video, nor the other replies seem to understand. They want it to be a different thing than it is. They are asking for a completely different game, based on a completely different tabletop game.
1 - enemies despawn when combats starts
2- slow stale and boring top down
3 - horrible characters with little to no depth to them. Hate them all😅
"horrible characters"
Compare them to the characters from BG and/or BG2; the difference is night and day. You will never see an Aerie, Keldon, Kivan, Mazzy, Valygar or Yeslick in a Larian game.
I can't agree more with this review. I'm a hardcore BG1/BG2 veteran. I've beaten those games modded with the absolute max difficulty (sword coast strategems). Loved them to death because they were simple games to play in comparison, and, they played SMOOTH. Real time with pause meant you didn't need to slow the fight down, fixed perspective meant no screwing around with the camera. Less random crap all over the map (cups, dishes, etc.). Less bugs.
Overall, as a veteran BG fan, as much as I want to love this game (the characters, voice acting and story seem fantastic) I just can't get over the absolute jankiness that is the game itself. Very disappointed overall. I'm sure Larian makes the best turn based games, but the thing is, BG was never turn based. Bioware never made turn based games, cause they knew they only catered to extremely niche audiences.
Have you tried rogue trader by owlcat recently?
@@microwaveenthusiast7410Instead of that, Owlcat's Wrath of the Righteous. If you love epic CRPG's and original BG's, that is the game for you. Also, it has both real time with pause or turn based combat, both work and both can be toggled back and forth, any time you like.
Rogue Trader is still way too buggy and broken, it needs another year in the oven. They created their own system for that game, and it's quite a mess.
@@noway8662 i’m currently having a blast playing Wrath of the Righteous. That turn based-realtime switchable combat system is peak crpg.
@@noway8662is worth playing? Just finished pillars of eternity and was an amazing game, Trying baldurs gate 3 right now
Also, Baldur's Gate 3 looks awful. Almost everything is dull gray, green or brown. Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (particularly the enhanced editions) is the opposite. Everything is bursting with color.
Oh no, not the people complaining that there is story and lots of dialogue in a RPG game.
If you want that crap, then go watch a movie.
@@kenseryew My dude, what kinda take do you think that is? That's like me complaining about the game design and stupid dialogue in a Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Masters game when in reality I just have no idea why I'm playing a fucking virtual card game.
The game was marketed ad nauseam as being infinitely replayable, with your first playthough taking over 100 hours. Did you honestly fucking think a BALDURS GATE GAME was going to be a first-person extract shooter?
@@kenseryewdumb take
BRO - imagine outting yourself as under 90 IQ like this@@kenseryew
@@Gwilherm yours is great LOL
I tried so hard because I really wanted to get immersed into this game… But I just couldn’t! I tried. Just not for me like you I was so bored.
I really, really wanted to like this game but it's just sooo complicated and boring:
1. Every Level up feels like homework because you have to read through 100 new spells and decide what might be best for 4 classes at a time even if you have no clue.
2. The camera feels outdated
3. The characters are boring
4. Every dialog is super long and there are 1000's of them.
5. Honestly the Graphics look outdated
6. The combat system is super hard to get into and frustrating because of minor mistakes
7. Even over a year after release, there are crashes that send you back hours of playtime if you forgot to quicksafe. I'm done.
I had the same experience!
fully agree this game overrated
I love people who claim a game is boring while skipping all dialogs
I do that lol
The game is amazing - however If a game doesn't have captivating combat atleast or the conversations take too long I can see why someone would be bored.
That is not the case here tho this games dialogue keeps everyone amused and entertained.
@@TeaTimeTable the game is shit I miss when it's 70 percent hit Chance
@@frozenllama23 When I first played I thought that too until I learned "Cleric" exists and the spell "Bless" makes this happen not as often
@@TeaTimeTable well I change my class to palentin so I can heal my self
When you said "I do not give a **** about how these fictional characters feel, or what they're going through that should not be the focus of your game." that is the whole point of D&D by the way. The characters and the role you like to play make up the tale. If you do not care about them then the game is not for you!
My position is that, you never go into a game already caring about the characters, unless they're from something else. Well-written characters make you care over time. Either a game will do this well or it will flop. With the current social agenda, I'm a very hard sell so, anything that's even remotely associated with being "woke" completely turns me away. I've seen a lot of people tell me that "RPGs" aren't for me but, the problem I have isn't with the genre. I don't like the appeal that this game has towards the current mainstream.
I believe a lot of people are made uncomfortable by it but remain silent because, a disliking towards some of the ideas in this game speaks to a broader community of extremely opinionated humanitarian activists, that will respond to, even slight negativity, with complete outrage. From my prospective the herd mentality surrounding this game was always obvious and the feedback from this video is unsurprising. I don't mean to suggest that you "yellmo2646" are a part of that herd, I'm just trying to explain where my disliking comes from and hopefully after putting it like this, you won't agree with me, but at least understand why someone my have an opinion like this.
I care more about the gameplay than the sexual reproduction organ between these fictional character's legs and I'm completely unmoved by their emotional outbursts. While simply giving an honest opinion and expressing how I feel about Baldur's Gate 3, I've been accused of rage baiting and insulted. It seems the woke community is only accepting of all ideas and opinions... that are their own.
Oh no, you are one of those people that think BG3 isn't immersive enough because it's "woke", aren't you? I hate to break it to you, but the world this game is set in has always been like that, people in this setting pretty much don't care about the sexuality of others because they are used to crazier stuff to go down, it's part of the lore and in my opinion it makes it more immersive.
Also, i bet you have never played D&D before, most if not all of the tables i have played with have a few LGBT people in them. This game was made for us D&D fans, so it's safe to say they made this for their target demographic, not everything is a conspiracy.
Nah he's totally right. I felt the exact same way. Granted, every time I tried to play I would start to nod off so I only made it to the druid's grove before I uninstalled. 6 hours of play time, restarted once hoping it'd grab me. I didn't care about any of them at all, no one I talked to made me say "I want to know more about x". I just didn't care at all, probably because I was already bored when I met them. I was bored about 10 minutes after the opening cinematic. Overhyped garbage.
I appreciate that the developers aren't scummy like most are today, I absolutely love turn based games, and I love D&D. If I were in the market for a choose your own adventure audiobook I'd consider attempting to play this again. Even then though probably not. It's so fucking boring. I love cRPGs as well...I don't know what it is because I loved Pillars of Eternity. Larian games make me sleep. I know I played Divinity OS1 but I don't remember anything about it. I tried to play DOS2 and never made it off of the island in the start for the same reasons, so mind numbingly bored I kept falling asleep within 45 minutes of booting it up. BG3 same thing. The entire time I was playing both DOS 2 and BG3 I was just thinking about what game I should be playing instead, and end up starting my 50th darkest dungeon campaign.
@ZenMaster2026 No, they are. Like I said I've played Pillars of Eternity, Dragon Age, all of em. It's just Larian games are sooo boring. I hated Elden Ring also.
@@nickr0425 bro what, you played Pillars of Eternity and you call BG3 boring? PoE is a fricking snoozefest in comparison, the story is so convoluted and you care so much less about the story in the end. Also the way you're describing that you only made it the grove and complain that the characters didn't grab your attention. Nothing happened yet in the story at that point, it's like 0,5% of the game. You didn't even try the game, or you're just hating for no reason or out of spite, or you're trolling. In no way did you gave it a real shot.
This review sounds like you actually haven't played a real RPG before and this was your first. Welcome to a real game that doesn't hold your hand.
Honestly feels like a bad attempt at rage bait tbh.
Lol this game isn't difficult, it's all RNG dice rolls
@@cartoonvideos5 There is a difference between 'reload spam' and actually knowing how to play. Most who find it easy either really know what they're doing or just reload spam for the best outcome in their favor. Newish folks who play D&D type games certainly won't find it easy unless they abuse 'reload spam'.
@@cartoonvideos5 Furthermore .... and not to mention honor mode that was just released TODAY.
And how many rpgs you played to call this a good rpg? This game is boring af
Just closed it today in 170 hrs and not opening again, 10 years of patching won't fix an uninteresting story with 0 variety and gameplay that is just as interesting as watching grass grow
not to mention lazy written characters
the game is a cheap copy of old bioware games story wise, it even tries to copy characters from me/dao but does it pathetically bad
As a new player to this kind of games its impossible without hours of watching guides on youtube
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idk man i tried so hard to like the game, i just cant with the turn based combat. just not for me
But combat is just a part of this game.
@@LerppunenYeah , I was a dumb fucking manchild. Grew some hair on my chest and played the game. On my 4th play through. Just over 250 hours in. Amazing game.
@@dragonfetus4125 4 playthrus took 250 hours??
I put 500 hours into a single Fallout 4 before starting the main storyline and still didnt discover everything. 250 on 4 playthrus IS NOT the flex you thought it was lol
@@drewzith i don't understand what you mean? Is 250 hours too little? I did all my companion quest lines and story plus side missions in every playthrough. The evil playthroughs were easier than others but I still did everything. Do you have a problem with the hours or the playthroughs? You even played the fucking game?
You are 100% right how in the world did this get GAME of the year. Turn based combat is the worst. Spending all that time creating a character you can barely see fight sucks. The camera angles are horrible.
Bro this game is so ass
You realize the og rpg’s of the 80’ and 90’s were turn based? What do you prefer? Skyrim?
@@jordanwilson4182 pokemon is the only good turn based
Here we see a victim of modern gaming... Who cant lean back and enjoy a RPG, a game with Story, a game with development
It's a shit story man, he was on point about characters being poorly written and cringe af.
I played several crpgs and enjoyed them including the first two baldur’s gate games and didn’t enjoy this one? Also, How exactly is he a victim? He is just voicing his opinion on a game that goes against the popular narrative. That’s it.
Just accept that its not for everyone my guy. Personally I think the combat is just ass.
Mate I've just bought it, some people got too much free time on their hands, it's too complicated, combat turn based is archaic and just plain boring... The graphics are good but the characters are ugly and the companions I really couldn't care about, how it beat Tears of the kingdom is beyond me
Here we see a wok casual gamer that enjoys a game just to be part of the "tribe", and comments bs just to be part of the "tribe". Are you still playing the game btw? I doubt, and if so, maybe you deserve it.
My huge issue is arbitrary rules that any semi-reasonable DM would be lax on, but the game can’t because it’s a game.
I’m trying to shoot an enemy that I have line of sight on, but the game says no, I’m 1 meter off from where I need to be. Very annoying.
I want to talk to someone I’m fighting to stop fighting them. Nope.
Walked 1 meter further than I meant to? RIP, everyone is dead.
Exactly! For example, Sacred Flame in 5e is unique for not requiring line of site. It's a mediocre cantrip, but it's nice that it has that little ability to give it a niche. BG3 requires line of site. Why? Why would they just remove the spell's niche? Did they literally get the rules of the game wrong? Early D&D literally had a whole mechanic where you could drop treasure or food to be given a % change to pacify an enemy and end combat. Why wouldn't BG3 have something like that? I hate the game because it's a poor adaptation of D&D, it's a poor successor to Divinity: Original Sin 2, and it's an even poorer successor to Baldur's Gate 2.
@@youcantbeatk7006 Sacred flame in 5e reads: "Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can SEE within range.'' Its niche is that it ignores cover.
Porblem with BG3 is that the story is boring and companions are cringe af. Writing is just meh in this game.
Im with you
Nah
@@zookaton2940Yup
Blud only played act 3
the good voice acting tricked people into thinking the writing is just so amazing huh? It's really not.
You're not in the minority. It's the first major RPG game I've been this bored in and it's by far the worst gameplay mechanics. It's almost like adapting a system that was meant to be played in a social setting with a human dungeon master that can react to your rolls and adapt the story to a PC system where you play completely alone is a horrible idea.
The only good elements of this game are all Divinity OS remnants, and they had to GUT the systems of that game to make it work with D&D5e. This is THE most overhyped game in a long time. I played the early access and the release 35 hours and I could not care less about the story, the NPCs and my companions are 90% annoying and the only one I like I already know what happens to and I don't enjoy that either, so pointless. Not to mention the game railroads you into a certain decision making path at the end.
But the worst thing are all the butthurt fanboys, who couldn't be more toxic because someone dared to criticize their little game. I'm sick and tired of these immature dickheads like the Star Citizen Crowd who defend a game by throwing insults at everybody daring not to like it.
This game and its community are the prime example of everything wrong with gaming and gamers these days. yuck
Look on literally any fan rating score on the internet. You both are clearly and undoubtedly are in the minority
You can't go against the wok mob, how dare you? xD
Right?! This is what I wanted to say. In D&D you roll with the punches and the DM will make things work out. In this game, the amount of rng is so nauseating that it feels more like playing the lottery than a game. I've had to save/reload more times in this game (playing partially) than the last 10 or so videogames I've played fully. I've gotten the hang of the combat system and how to deal with random traps throughout the world. But you just can't beat stupid rng, especially when it has lasting consequences. And don't get me started on dialogue choices that sound WAY different than what they actually do. Viva la Dirt League did a video on that, and I'm pretty sure this game was the main inspiration for it. 4/10
@@resident1123 And then? To be in the minority means to be wrong? How old are you? If you study some history you may actually find out that most of the times is the majority to be wrong, or maybe study some statistics (look into the Pareto principle for example).
Gate keeping dnd5e so hard is very cringe. This the best game ive ever played and im not even into rpgs
This game feels like a chore, after rough day at work i want relax not study the fucking game to make myself better.
It depends what you are doing for a living. I am the whole time on PC organizing stuff and I don't want to organize stuff in a game. I love strategy games, but they need to be kinda easy to get on.
After 30+ hours I gave up, near the end of only act 1. It felt painful to push on. Just realised that this wasn’t my type of game. Never did enjoy the dnd format tbh.
I love D&D games, and crpg are exactly what I love to play. But this game is so slow and boring
Purchased it because of the gaming community rants and raves how fantastic this game is! I want to support the gamers. For me $50 down the drain.
Throwing in my two cents here as I saw this type of player in my personal dnd games.
I appreciate your view and even agree with some frustrations raised in point one, regarding the game being slow.
Seeing the rest of the scenes with context provided by you I can probably say that this game is not up your alley and I wouldn't be surprised if further more issues would raise till you finish the game. Trying to make a distinction between the game not being for you and your criticism I have noticed a few faults that entirely confuse me.
It seems you're trying to play the game "as it's intended" by an arbitrary someone instead of playing it however you like.
The game clearly gives you plenty of "outs" and possibilities to refine any encounter & dialogue to whatever would be enjoyable for you. With Alfira you had loads of options to simply antagonize her, why would you continue the dialogue tree as if you want to help her? With Karlach, why not boot her from the party? With the party members trying to dump their life story on you, why not simply pick the option that tells them to shut up? You seem to consistently abide by this set of rules that you're clearly not enjoying and this set of rules has the prerequisite of you buying into the story which you already consider "cringe" and can't immerse yourself into.
And I get it, when your only options in dialogue is either to pretend you're best buds and "fuck you, die (Attack)" it isn't much of a choice at all, but I really think Baldur's Gate rewards antagonizing npcs just as much.
Thank you for your video, it's a refreshing perspective and I've enjoyed it
it seems like he and a lot of other people that complain about d&d games, are trying to play it like a jrpg. D&D rules are different from japanes rpg rules. And some people cant wrap their heads around it
You can say "this game just isn't for you" for literally ANY game... And hey technically your right, poorly designed awkward games definitely aren't for everyone lmao.
All those outs that you're referring to make the game feel like it lacks direction. I keep stumbling into quests that I never picked up and the Game acts as if I (my characters) should know about those things.. If I loot an item, if I speak to an npc, or if I enter the a location, the journal updates, and I'm suddenly in the middle of a quest that I never accepted! It feels directionless and convoluted..
I had the same problem with divinity original sin part 2, these are the only two games I've ever had this problem with. I play exclusively High fantasy D&D style games in the crpg genre,
As much I love Baldurs Gate 2 , I just hate Baldurs Gate 3.Baldurs Gate 3 looks like a fortnite with graphics , and the turn based gameplay is so annoying , and boring.I also think that the story is really much average.Baldurs Gate 2 was like LOTR movie.Baldurs Gate 3 is like Eragon movie mixed with Fortnite
You were eerily accurate with the mention of "Fornite"; the art direction is this game is so bloated compared to BG/BG2.
Of all the complaints that are legitimate this is not one of them it doesn't look like fortnite at all you CLOWN
I still really hate the fact that they even called it Baldur's Gate 3. It has pretty much nothing to do with the original games.. There's no bhaalspawns running around.
@@jaredmcclure1730 It lacks the spirit of the originals and no amount of detail in L's interpretation of the titular city is going to mask that deficiency.
@@jaredmcclure1730 Factually incorrect by the way. There is bhaalspawn and bhaal has a prevelant part in the story.
I'm sorry you feel this way. I hope you get better soon.
Severely overrated. Review bombing on Steam fucked me once again
Get a refund?
I played for 4 hours, decided it was shit, and then got a refund.
Funny how the comments section are an echo chamber for this opinion. Its like people only seek out opinions that align with their own. I respect the opinion but dont agree with it, different strokes and all that.
It's so boring, I played it till the grimforge golem (first try) in Act1 or 2, played good games like Robocop and deleted it entirely after it lay around for a year or so. Graphics good, music + voices good, but shitty written characters and stupid story + actions. Like who in the right mind would befriend a parasite inside a parasite (Astarion) and other narcissistic assholes like Lae'zel... The whole story plots don't make any logical sense... The combat system is so shitty, even with disabling the "balanced rolls" you get up to 7 misses in a row, while every single enemy makes 10-20 dmg in a single turn - crippling unbalanced gameplay. Then there are fights with up to 20 enemies, where you feel like your hair grows a few centimeters after you've done all the repeating and boring same skills over and over again, you just feel robbed of lifetime after 10-30 minutes of fight against a bunch of low-level minions - just give it an auto-fight option with priority list like the better D&D games (for example Pathfinder: WotR). It's the _worst_ D&D game I've ever played in 38 years.
You've said it all, story-wise we (as the player) are just the psychiatrist/nurse of crazy people (with attention-seeking behavior) who would die without us.
The dialogues feel really weird when our character is talking to someone (dialogues between other characters are okay-ish)
Gameplay-wise the game really punishes you for trying new things if you are not an absolute nerd about every math of the game.
The dice system looks cool on paper, but in practice it just slow down the entire experience.
Even the design and how the game works is painfull to learn and to use (even when i mastered it).
Did you say auto fights... Yeah just stay away, talk about brain dead
Hear Hear! I spent 8 hours playing the game, no bugs, everything is fine on the technical side. But what takes me out of the game again and again is the endless romance parts. You can't throw a stone without some party member getting romanced. That is the game breaker for me. I want to play D&D, not having a romantic fling with my PC. Haven't touched the game since.
As someone who loves RPG's and fantasy stories with in depth characterization, freedom and beautiful graphics, I almost bought this game. The hype surrounding it was deafening. There were literally no negative reviews. Until this video. Thank you, I think I will put off buying it because although I love story driven, choose your own adventure RPG's, I hate hate hate turn based combat. I prefer games with battles in real time. Turn based games break immersion for me. Too bad, because it seems like the story may be amazing, but I buy game to play them, not study them.
I honestly thought the exact same before I bought Baldurs gate thinking the turn based will be a drag as I HATE turn based however it doesn’t break the immersion at all, if anything it sinks you into it
Elden ring
Play elden ring bro
You should 100% try BG3. The combat is great and even if you don’t like it the combat is only a small part of the game.
Of course it's boring if you're not into these kinds of games, it's gotten such positive reviews because its a great game in its specific genre. Good games don't have to be good for every gamer what?
And it has the amount of good reviews because it made some things so damn good people unfamiliar with that genre could ignore their initial flaws with the game.
Sometimes that’s the case. Ironically, Diablo 4 is great for a wide variety of gamers with different tastes. It’s the ARPG No life’s who hate it. They prefer Path of Exile, Last Epoch, Grim Dawn…etc. Call of Duty and Madden gamers like the new Diablo.
Good games are good for mostly everyone
I am into this kind of games and it's still boring for me.
Thats not a excuse,i am into these type of games but this game was simply just not it and the dialogue is godawful and long that u are most likely to skip
I love this game, and I can acknowledge there are some flaws because no game is perfect, Larian does a great job on keeping up with fixes. It's inevitable with a game of this size and with all these options. That being said, maybe you just don't like RPGs? The point of this game is that it is meant to run like DnD but in video game medium. So the dice rolls, managing stats, being strategic with turn based combat, exploring and using stats to get different outcomes etc is all intentional.
The part about the chest being trapped and blowing you up... your characters told you it was trapped and the chest glowed orange. That's your sign to disarm it.
This is a story based game, so it makes no sense to skip the dialogue. Also, if you're not playing for the story I don't understand why you reload when a fight is initiated.
Remember this game is meant to run like a DnD campaign, so story and characters is important. Also it's set in a universe that is already established in DnD lore. It would be very unfaithful to have companions that you never learn about, or you had this huge quest to embark on but never got to see it play it properly. The marketing for this game was very honest. It was available in early access years ago and everything they promised has been shown.
Personally, I just think you don't like immersive RPGs. Which is totally fine, not everyone is going to like the same sorts of games.
A fair comment but there are quite a few assumptions here. Single-Player RPG is my largest collection of games and what I’ve spent a great deal of time playing. Baldur’s Gate 3 is not my first RPG and I think the idea that it is, helps people rationalise my opinion of it. I’ve played and enjoyed many other RPGs. I just don’t think this is a good one.
Again, I’ll re-address this point, I didn’t skip through dialogue. I show a clip of me skipping through previously read dialogue, to show how much text there is to read. If I said in my video, “there’s a lot of text”, but only provided 1 or 2 sentences in the edit, the point would fall flat really. I say in the video that I have 4 hours of dialogue so, it wouldn’t have been that much if I skipped through it all like people keep on saying.
Regardless thank you for your comment and for conducting yourself kindly :D
@@CGJournalist What you forget is, that BG3 is not just a RPG, it is a cRPG. Either classic or computer role play game with quite some differences to just as RPG titled games. If you just go by RPG, you would also throw Fallout in the same pot as Dark Souls.
@@CGJournalist This game is a very specific type of RPG though. A CRPG based on the D&D 5e ruleset. Most of the things you dislike stem from this game being D&D5e, you might like single player RPG's but not like this specific type. All rpg's of this genre play in the pretty much exact same way, dice roll's, stats, stat checks, turn based, managing your party etc. and almost all of them have a massive amount of dialogue. Maybe this sorta RPG just isn't for you.
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@@CGJournalistI can respect your opinion I don't like first person shooters Unless it's like destiny or other games like it
This game is way too boring my goodness. Overrated for sure.
i don't like the game at first, never play dnd before. But this game is growing on me and i actually finish my first run and on my second run now. I even start playing the actrual dnd with my friends. One of the things that i like most is that ur action in the game actually have consequences, it just make things so interesting
It doesn’t though … like an any meaningful way you still end up in the same place with one of two outcomes you save the world or your or you die and you save the world. Nothing really changes…..
@@clifflittle460 I meant there are so many endings for the npcs, not just the companions, yes there are only a few ending for the game, but It's more like it has so many ways to get to the Ending and it's has a lot of meaningful side Quest, not just asking u to delivery an item from 1 place to another.
2nd run?? how much time do you have. I plan to finish it sometime this year or the next
@@clifflittle460 You're like 1% right. There is an overarching story and the final moments are usually similar through most playthroughs just because you obviously have to overcome (or join) the looming threat that guides the urgency of the whole game, but apart from that, there is just about no limit to the differences in story or places and characters you may or may not meet and then how those characters may or may not develop all based on your actions. Let alone how that all plays into what you experience, see, do, and the story beats that follow throughout your journey. On my fourth run now in Honour mode and I still have barely touched all that this game has to offer.
@@Zen-ku4yp no he’s right. There is no overarching charge like non I mean you can do the side quests and change small things but most if not all the side quests are mind numbingly boring so why would you. You also don’t get anything good from them so why would you.
Thank you for synthesizing what I couldn't put into words myself. Never felt like I was ever having fun during my 20 hours. Felt super confused with having to manage every classes spells. Combat always made me feel like should be doing something more creative, but when I tried to put something more creative to action it wouldn't work, or would cause some worse unforeseen side effect. And yeah everyone is cringe
From your complaint it seems that "strategy" and "purer" RPG games are really not your cup of coffee. Hey everyone has a preference. But what you listed are a "you" problems and not objective faults of the game.
I just can't bear to look at some of the characters; the non-human women mostly.
And it's just REALLY gay, I'm sorry. It's not even an insult or anything it just feels like a gay bar.
Funny how everyone was yelling this game was the best game over so many other contenders for any awards and now everyone says it’s boring lmbo
It’s the same people that said it before. Nothing change, the hype just died down and the Haters are still salty that they’re generic ass games got fxckd
Everyone? a handful of morons with ADHD isn't "everyone" lol.
I literally just install the game today, and I have no clue what he's complaining about. I'm already level 3 and found good weapons. I was one who praised it back then, and I keep doing the same (having just played it now).
Everyone say it's boring? Where did you get that from? Some people in the comment section = everyone?
The contracts ran out so people got stop being paid to pretend it's good.
Actually loved Divinity Original Sin 2, did multiple runs on it, group or lone wolf, highest difficulty and multiple classes played, aswell as some mods to spice things up after first vanilla run was done. After that, I tried Bg3 thrice, and everytime I came back to it, I couldn't keep myself focused on the game after like 30 / 40 hours.. last run I just went alt+f4 after 5 / 6 hours, just because I missed Divinity OS2 so much and the game's mechanic itself felt better than BG3. I can't say I fully agree with your opinions on this vid, but I agree on the fact that I got way to hyped by friends and people overall on the web, and I regret it.
i felt exactly same
I koved DOS1, but did not enjoy DOS2.. I noticing alot of the problems I had with DOS2, in BG3..
I agree with you 100%.
I asked for a refund 2.7 hours in so I can't talk about much but I have to say :
- the movement in this game is absolutly atrocious, clunky and unresponsive.
- camera is awful and doesn't position itself, Feels like playing N64 or Playstation when we had to move the camera ourselves.
- too many spells and skills to begin with , they should come as the game goes on.
- jumping and other movment abilities can't be used outside of the menu.
- too many corpses and boxs to loot, waste of time.
- combat has too much rng
On the positive side :
- Dialogues and characters are well made
I feel like BG3 is more a roleplay simulator than an actual game.
That being said I'm really happy so many ppl are enjoying it , it's just not a game for me.
Some people have patience for rpgs and some people don’t
Well said.
Not patient but interest. Some people skip cutscenes and love challenging gameplay. While some just want cutscenes with less gameplay like an interactive movie. I really hope witcher 3 use D&D gameplay because hack & slash is not for me.
@@mohdfarhan5255
Imo : Nah bro,
I dislike bg3 gameplay becuz top view camera placement ain't my style. I'm a over the shoulder guy
Visual immersion of TPP n FPP and Visual muscle memory are my jam. Also strategy ain't my strong point
theres a word for that its called: jobless. RPGs do not respect your time so ofc they cater to the unemployed and pathetic people. If you are over the age of 18 and playing over 30 hours of videogames a week, there's a 99.9% chance you are a BUM. the 0.01% is for successful streamers that get paid six figures to do that shit.
I loved morrowind but this requires too much patience?
I'm noticing this game is beloved by a very niche crowd, and they are trying to make everyone feel lesser for not being willing to waste 200 hours on inventory management.
Yeh i dont understand why this game is liked so much. Im 50 hrs in and yeh. I like it less each time i play.
A lot of times the concersations dont make sense either. "hey man i like your shoes" "those are fighting words here" enter into battle against 7 guys. Barely kill 6 and then 9 more walk up out of nowhere.
Thats just one thing about the game that sucks. I hate having to reload repeatedly because of crap design. If i die in bloodborne its because i didnt have the skill to win that battle. In this game it can happen because of unlogical dialog choices, bad rolls of the dice, or because of terrible battle design that causes you to lose because of glitches.
I just dont see how this game got the hype it got and why so many people love it. I love a good crpg man but this crap is.....well crap.
Because they make bots hype it up.
Lmfao you really think you dying is bg3 is not because of a skill issue? This game isn’t that hard and I play on honor mode rules with all spell casters and no tanks and rarely even have to reload a save.
I wasted 50 hours on just the first act then lowered the difficulty and just got bored
“If you’re reaction to every non perfect situation is to reload” I talk to Isabel I get into combat and die, I ambush the spider cultist I die and if I talk to Oliver I die, everything seems to kill me and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong
What level are/ were you when attempting those combats? It's possible you are simply underleveled, and rushed to areas you are not ready for. Act 2 in general is for level 7 and up, so if you are at level 6 or lower, that's might where your difficulty comes from. Also, you might be playing on a difficulty that is just to high for you. It's not a shame to lower your difficulty, and run the game on Adventurer if you are struggling with Balanced or Tactical.
This is the first game I requested a refund for. So boring. And I have 100% every game I have ever played. Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, Dark Souls, Division 2 anything you can think of. But this.... Turn based really isn't my type, and fuck the reviewers saying that BG3 is good regardless. It isn't.
but it is, because they said so
This game has created a cult of personality...and this cult leans a particular way.
You can't go against the wok mob, how dare you? xD
@@DS-nv2ni Chinese stir-fry is delicious.
@@Ragitsu The wok(e) mob will hunt you watch out, they will come after your with theirs pans rainbow-painted and give you a lesson!
@@DS-nv2ni The obvious modern political messaging is one thing; however, otherwise, this game is absolutely _terrible_ as a _Baldur's Gate_ entry. I'll share my thoughts on the matter in this comment section.
Whats the way?
I wish I could like this video again.
I played this game for 45 hours. Tried my best to like it: read the dialogues, so I am able to follow the story, advanced slowly exploring everything... and man, for me is very obvious that this game was designed by someone who has not played a lot of games in their lives, besides some stuff like FIFA or golf simulators. UI is awful, camera is bad, very bad. Game's performance is extremally bad. Is top down view (almost), so render distance don't need to be high and there are no need for many calculations on every frame, as the most complex part: the battles, are turn based. And still, games run like shit on a very decent PC. The game has an alarming amount of glitches and bugs, that should only be seen in beta games. And some of them game breaking.
Then the story, well I leave it for personal tastes. But for my own, story is lame. I have seen side quests in other games with better stories than the main story in BG3. Also, game is very slow, but not for dialogues, which you could skip, but for those animations, like when a npc is searching for a character that became invisible: 10 second looking around. WTF.
I was ghosted by old friend because I said more less what you said in this video. I don't like the game, because instead of playing a game, I need to study stuff, load game and talk to all NPCs all the time. And the worst is that I can use spells only sometimes, which forces me to constantly camp, where I need to talk to everybody. Game isn't that bad, but I don't like to play it. Divinity Original Sin was better, it contained less of that stupid sheet
If a "friend" ghosted you because you had an opinion on a fcking game that's cringe af, I wouldn't even call that an old friend.
@@Junksho1 Agree-why the fuck would a friend give a shit about a game?
ive never agreed more with someone ever great review !
A D&D player, video maker, and a Bauldur’s gate lover here.
Solid video essay and appreciate the work you put into it, but this game clearly isn’t marketed toward you. Many of the things that are your main critiques I would say are what many players look forward to in this game. I appreciate it because it’s so different than 90% of games out there and to play devils advocate here, if you’ve never played a table top game and are expecting a typical video game experience you will be disappointed and you should know what you’re buying. Good of you to turn certain people away from playing with your review because it could save people money. BUT your critiques fall on deaf ears for the majority of the world it seems.
A fair comment. I appreciate your conduct.
“Majority of the world” apparently is Reddit, metacritic and the woke GOTY ceremony. In reality The majority of gamers will never play this boring trash. Get out of your tiny internet bubble. Baldurs Gate, Elden Ring, It takes two, Last of Us 2 are Not good games. And are not what blue collar people play. Which is the Silent Majority.
@@kevinfinnerty8414 That guy appreciates the criticisms I made and was just saying that most people wouldn't agree. Which is further substantiated and verified by the other comments, dislikes and awards it has won. It's rare that someone will disagree with you and yet, still try find value in what you're saying. I don't think this person is in a bubble at all. Their comment was very fair.
@@kevinfinnerty8414 Every game you listed is good except for Elden Ring. I'm a blue collar gamer, and I want to relax after work. Why would I ever play a game that's really hard?
@@kevinfinnerty8414 Just out of curiosity, what do you consider good games
Hats of to you chap. This is excellent ragebait.
i don't agree with something so it has to be ragebait. ahh the 2 braincell take
Hahaha xD
it is though, come on@@wsrtwetr
@@wsrtwetr you're in every comment shitting on the game, man you spend more time on this games videos than people who actually play it. This shit just lives in your head
@@jacobbrackett3568 Really must be upset that it won game of the year, lmao. Cause Spiderman 1.5 totally should've won.
Why play a character and story based game if you dont care how they feel? I love to read, and this felt like playing a book, but i could choose how the story went. Your criticism is vaild and reasonable. It is not a game for you. I didn't like candy crush, but many people do. We all have tastes
In my personal case, because I do not know them, like anything. It's random people, and the fact that I got to controll their actions feels weird since they are unique and independent people with their own stories and temperament. Have you tried Octopath Traveler? That game provides you a backstory for every playable character in the game (if u want to), the game shows you a flashback so you can meet the characters, their motivations, frustrations, pain, dreams and why are they fighting for.
Bg3 just put a bunch of hyperventilated people in front of you and expect you to like them, I don't, they are so mean and weird, they would tell me about their life but why would I want to know in the first place? I don't wanna hear their damn backstory on dialogue, they could make a playable or cinematic so you can get info about them, honestly, it's really boring to hear characters talk for hours, I do love to read, but Im honestly not interested in that amount of speech and text on a turn based rpg.
"You not like words? I like many words. I smart."
You say critics of the game are too stupid to appreciate it? If we're gonna assume each other's intelligence based on gaming tastes, seems to me more like fanboys dumb enough to endure it. Victims of hype, playing the latest big thing in genre to keep up with all the memes.
Why so much seething and coping every time an unknown youtuber trash talks the current darling for a couple minutes?
And it being rather popular means nothing, by that metric the entire RPG genre is worthless next to Flappy Bird.
@@Kaucukovnik666where did you get “you’re not smart enough to appreciate this game” from?
@@bucketts6148 From using Candy Crush as an example of "different tastes in gaming". More comments like this are littered all around, usually even less subtle.
@Kaucukovnik666 It's an example, my friend, not a question of the reviewer intelligence. Would Fortnite be better or Apex Legends or COD. Pick your position. It doesn't change anything I said. I like the game, and others don't have to is the point. Life is too short to be wasting it on things you don't enjoy doing.
First good "critical" review I've seen. It's too bland and janky to be great. The praise is a protest vote.
I agree. 50+ hours and ... I'm not enjoying it. It's just dull
Any time I can see that a character can level up..., my heart sinks
Time to try something different, i think.
Shame it cost me fifty quid
I was beginning to think I was alone
We are many.
Dos 2 was better imo in every aspect they just should get rid off companions imo, I don’t like building multiple characters and builds or at least shrink the party to 4 people max so it doesn’t feel overwhelming. Also the armor sets and weapons were poor and I don’t like the dnd universe, I’d prefer they do their own thing.
Real.
My only problem is the combat, is not for me but the rest i really enjoy
Hilarious how people will want to crucify you over an opinion. State of the world, I guess. Spot on, though. Turn based games are time consuming and I personally don't have a problem with them, BUT when the dialog drags on for no reason, that doesn't make it better. The dialog is also not very well written, some of the voice actors help, but in general it's a mess. But anyway, back to the turn-based combat, it can be very finicky in this game when trying to select a target sometimes. Overall, the game is overrated. It's just a complete game at release and that's the standard we're at now. Just be complete and they'll sing your praises.
I prefer washing the dishes than playing this game.
Me too actually
Yeah all it is roll dice 1, miss, miss, miss. Enemies spam spells, hit, hit, hit, kill my party. Reload, reload, reload. I've finally broke and just started killing my companions, just took Karlach's head. It's nice to have English accents for a change, sick of American ones all the time. Or American's being English, Crapcom for one does this. Then again the voices in Dragon's Dogma 2 worries me, I found them fine in 1.
People are blinded by stupidity to realise how crap this game is. Act 3 I have no words for.
Slowly I hate the game with a passion, not gonna lie. I think it's the most overrated game of this century.. give it that award instead
I'm old enough to remember when games not railroading you and holding your hand with literal on screen directions for every action you need to take, then letting you suffer the consequences of your actions if you didn't bother to pay attention and try to solve problems through your own thinking, was the norm. And frankly the sense of accomplishment when we succeeded because we figured out the solutions rather than just riding the rails was exhilarating. I'm not usually one to dunk on the younger generations wanting instant gratification with no effort, but wow...
I would say that a game not telling you how to play it is a problem. I've had games where they just throw you in, and you have to figure out everything for yourself. It's frustrating if it's not obvious. But not only is BG3 obvious, it has a tutorial. And most things are pretty obvious.
We dont claim him hes just very clearly never played a story based game before. Or a strategy game. Or an adventure game. Or a TTRPG.
I can agree.
I am young and I do hate having to read a bunch of bs to learn a game, but I can't judge it.
An allegory for life
just say you like shit games its easier to explain
This video is either satire or this guy has no idea how an rpg works.
cRPG isn't a RPG though. If you read the comments you notice that he does like RPG's
@@TheNapkuchen an airplane isn't aerial vehicle either i guess or? - in your brain probably.
cRPG's are the purest form of RPG.
@@Mesterlock you've got it in reverse. Not every aerial vehicle is an airplane. RPG and cRPG aren't the same.
@@TheNapkuchen Not every aerial vehicle is an airplane, just like how not every RPG is a cRPG.
I genuinely think this video is satire. For my mental health. /j
Thank you confirming exactly my impressions after watching (some of) a play-through. Btw, it's worse than you thought: 4 out of 20 hours is 20%! 😀
Throughout this review, all I really heard was "I don't like role-playing games". There are plenty of games where all you do is run around and whack stuff. This game isn't one of those. Personally, I find running around and whacking things incredibly monotonous. (Also, the reloading thing is your personal choice - you're *supposed* to just run with whatever the dice hand you, in an "oh well, that's life" manner - that's how D&D works)
baldur’s gate 3 fans are the same people who have a tattoo that says “empathy” 💀💀💀
Huh?
I wish to plumb the depths of long-forgotten ruins, but everyone else seems interested in plumbing the depths of my trousers.
ultra boring combat system + characters that feel like from some TV shows where they hire ppl who are not actors and tell them to act. i care more about trash i took out today in the morning than about any story that was presented to me so far in this game (8 hours, mostly made of shitty 2 long turns and watching animations of running)
id say if ppl who refer to themselves as they/them and do not feel like they have any identity were a game they would be bg3 (love u all ppl, do not take your pitchforks)
This game really reminds me of death stranding: *VERY* small group of elitists thinking they're better than everyone who doesn't like it. The truth is 98% of people took 30 seconds to realize this game wasn't worth it, moved on and forgot about it.
This is the only place on RUclips you find negative comments about BG3 lol. So y’all are closer to the 2% but to each their own
@@kingofgrim4761 Not really, go check trailers and gameplay. The *very* vast majority of people didn't even bother with this game. It took one video to understand how bad the game was. I wanted to try it, but it was really clunky! I'm a rpg fan and still play classic turn based games but this game... Wow
Is this a real review? Too much Story, too many game-mechanics too choose from, characters with depth? If this is a real review I recommend something like Call of Duty....
yes
The vibe of this game pretends to be dramatic and serious but is so overdramatic it looks funny like yakuza series
ur getting a lot of hate in these comments from fans of the game, but coming from someone who hasn't played it yet and was considering buying, this review definitely helped me ignore the hype and give it a pass since "rpg" to me is more akin to something like zelda than this - it seems bg3 really puts the "role playing" in "role playing game" and that's just not my cup of tea, plus when every other review is nothing but praise, we need honest perspective reviews like this to exist
I was expecting you to just nitpick things, but you surprised me. You actually had good points. How dare you go against the hive-mind which is BG's fan base?
Thank you for a great video mate.
I greatly appreciate your words.
Did you ever try right clicking on a trap or trapped chest and then pressing disarm? also if you think the dialogue is shit / theres too much of it, just skip it by pressing space.
Finding traps has a very small radius. In most cases, the character is notified of a trap half a step away from it, but does not stop moving. For a game that spent a few years in early access and a few months after release, this is very crooked.
That's what I did for most of the dialogue. But I'm just very baffled, because I don't remember the dialogue in BG2 being nearly as bad. My memory is a bit rusty but I thought BG2 actually had quite solid dialogue. I'm not sure why the devs decided they needed to make everything either about social commentary or lets smash. And the way the game railroaded you into certain decisions/paths regardless of what you did in Act 3 felt very jarring. In Act 2 it didn't feel like that was the case at all. To some extent this has always been an issue with Larian games and maybe even the genre as a whole, but it felt very egregious in this case. I think BG3 is a good game, maybe even a great one, but I find the near universal praise quite strange. I don't think it's quite on par with BG2 and I doubt it will be looked at as favorably in the future.
@@urgian how is it crooked if it forces you to be careful and pay attention when you know there are traps ahead, it's part of the immersion. Never had any issue with it. As a typical tactic I use my highest perception char to walk in front by himself and scout all the traps, maybe disarm ones that could not be avoided and then the rest of the group generally avoids all of the traps automatically except for some very rare occasions when there's very little space.
@@dirzz I explain how throughout the comment up to the word "crooked".
@@urgian and I explained why it is not. With a proper character build you'll see them from afar and never set them off unintentionally.
I really wanted to like it, but... Gosh, it was only frustration. I see people praising the game for being a perfect video game translation to a tabletop DnD session and to those people I will just say that I am sorry for them and for their dungeon master lack of entertainment skills. Twice have I tried to get into the game, with a fresh start everytime, twice have I been bored to death in a few hours. I keep golden memories of BG and BG2 when I played them back then, but seriously with BG3 I felt scammed and robbed. Glad to see I am not the only one who dislike it, while come on dude have you seen how much it seems to be forbiden to dislike it ? This is ridiculous. Anybody who enjoyed BG3, I am glad for you but please respect that the game can be boring and disapointing for somes.
I hate how well this game did…
Agreed. Game is a snorefest. I love RPGs. Skyrim, mass effect, kotor, morrowind… they are all great.
But baldurs gate 3 is the same thing that Elden ring was and the Witcher 3 was. Overhyped trash. A nice, long lullaby to fall asleep to while you accomplish nothing inside of terrible stories and bad gameplay. Can we just please stop gassing shit like this up?
The witcher 3? overhyped?
@@Zitar-nn9zbYes.
@@Zitar-nn9zb easily
@@simpledanman play it first
@@suspicioustumbleweed4760 play it first
bro is literally angry about features
Compared to RPGs in the exact same genre, this game has an extreme lack of features! Its like babys first rpg, with training wheels!
Its a mixed bag for me. Great world, exploration, graphics and customization. Somewhat cringy dialogue with a lot of hornyness does get tiring after awhile (mostly avoidable if you know where to look but sometimes not either). Companions are hit or miss, with some being really entertaining and interesting, while others are downright boring or annoying. The custom character also feels hollow for some reason, the world doesnt let you do a backstory or it doesnt interact with you the same way it does your companions. The game felt way more interesting with origin characters because it felt fleshed out more. The perfect example of this is Tav Warlock vs Wyll, Wyll felt much better to play because the story interacts with your class way more then with a custom character (Dark Urge is the perfect example of a custom character that has personal ties to the story and world, this should of been a thing with regular tav as well).
The combat is actually really good but it just feels so slow waiting for turns constantly. Most similar games solve this by just letting you speed up the turns which I felt should of been included in this game for those who maybe wanted to make the encounters a bit faster. I had to get mods to speed up the overworld walking cause it felt super slow getting from one place to another sometimes (It only needed to be a tad faster to make it feel good). Act 1 is tedious and a bit boring but it does ramp up from there, sadly by the time Act 1 was over I mostly was just burned out and needed to take a break from the game.
Overall I'd give it a 7.5/10. I enjoyed Divinity 2 much better for gameplay reasons and the bit more serious tone.
I agree! Omg! I am so bored playing this game and I am an old (45) gamer who played wow and even everquest back in the day. I am no stranger to rpgs. I am so bored and annoyed with the underdark, I expected something wayyyy coolet more like in Salvatore's book homeland.
Salvatore’s book homeland?? You mean Ed Greenwood? Can’t ask for Menzoberranzan when you don’t even know who created Toril.
I am right there with you. I also read Homeland and quite nearly all of the other R.A. Salvatore novels written for the Forgotten Realms universe. This 'BG3' does not 'feel' like the Forgotten Realms setting at all. It is a far cry from what the other FR-based PC-games were able to evoke, including even the more mediocre productions. BG 1 and 2, along with their original expansions, play and 'read' like a well-written novel; they manifested the FR atmsophere really well (I would also say the same about Planescape: Torment, which technically plays and reads as a parallel universe to FR). After reading through what all Chris Avellone revealed about the inner-workings of Obsidian Entertainment over at RPGCodex, I can kind of understand now why Wizards of the Coast turned them down and decided to work with another company. However, what we are left with is a hollow shell of the title.
@@SevillaLorenzo-kd2ef No. It was Salvatore that wrote the Dark Elf trilogy. lol.
@@lemystere5345 I think its just a modern take or generational thing... Just look at Beamdog's NPCs they added to BG1 and BG2.. They are basically the same kind of bland and boring characters that are present in BG3.
This game is so amazing it’s pretty much ruined other games for me. The fact this game has amazing story, and not a single bad voice actor is beyond amazing. The only negative is the clear drop in quality in act 3, due to budget and writing changes.
BG3 is a sign of instant-gratification becoming the norm in game development. Remember the original saga's progression? *One hundred-plus* hours passed (i.e., all of _Baldur's Gate_ and _Tales of the Sword Coast_ along with a fair chunk of _Shadows of Amn_ ) before extraplanar beings and extraplanar travel were significant elements in the story. In L's attempt, a massive plane-hopping tentacle ship assaulting a city and attacking *RED DRAGONS* (yes, "plural"...I think people forget that even a single dragon is supposed to be campaign-shaking) take center stage right out the gate. The developer must have figured that this latest generation does not have the patience for a "slow burn" introduction.
Yep. Put me off right from the start. Giant squid floating through the air? Give me a break!
@@CloudyMcCloud00 That and the whole unusually contemporary atmosphere is what drove me away from L's attempt; I play these games for the _earned_ escapism and what I saw was too close to what I can already easily find in reality.
@@Ragitsu Absolutely. I've watched some of a play-through and the density of incident, and even how close together locations (and collectable objects) seem to be, I find off-putting too. One of the things I loved about BG1 was you could travel with your party for what seemed like hours from one location to another just taking in the sounds of nature, etc. and the (much better) music, and at the end of your journey chill for as long as you wanted in a tavern. I watched a couple of hours of this and didn't see any beer at all! We're all supposed to have the attention span of the proverbial knat today. Even the spaces between tracks on CDs seem have got smaller!
@@CloudyMcCloud00 "I've watched some of a play-through and the density of incident, and even how close together locations (and collectable objects) seem to be, I find off-putting too. One of the things I loved about BG1 was you could travel with your party for what seemed like hours from one location to another just taking in the sounds of nature, etc. and the (much better) music, and at the end of your journey chill for as long as you wanted in a tavern."
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It's funny that you feel that way about the environments. Below are thoughts that I have shared elsewhere ->
"When you play the original games, you will notice - graphics aside - the difference is night and day. Speaking of which, the developer couldn't swing a true day/night cycle (the original games are about a quarter-century old by this point and even they featured more of a living environment); BG3 carries a degree of artificiality reminding you that the world is - at least in this regard - catering to the player instead of functioning like an independent world. The map design in BG3 is also questionable; people have bellyached about the scope of _Baldur's Gate_ 's maps (yes, I know) in order to justify BG3's comparatively smaller maps more centered around the action, but those areas (in the BioWare games) are not explicitly catering to players in search of adventure/immediate excitement...the substantial gaps packed with emptiness between encounters remind you that The Sword Coast is an environment that exists beyond the Player Character's needs/wants/desires."
There is a reason _why_ L's attempt is a fantasy theme park by comparison.
@@Ragitsu I think that's spot on. 👍 The night/day cycle, the frequently inclement weather and (to my mind) the superior music in BG1 added so much atmosphere, which doesn't seem to get a look in in BG3. As was said in a BG documentary, Bioware really wanted you to enjoy the game; whereas Larion (with all the tense relationships, etc.) seem, in many ways, to want to cause the player to suffer! I've also heard (with credibility) that BG3 isn't really a BG game at all -- it's more of a sequel to Divinity: Original Sin -- which is where the turn-based combat comes from.
Turn based combat is the reason why this game is so bad for me
This is like playing a D&D game with a GM that refuses to do anything but railroad you
Railroading you into characters who wish to rail you.
@@Ragitsu I'm so tired of hypersexualized media being so prevalent. There's a place for that type of content, but I want it to be separate. IDGAF about the sexualization in something like Bayonetta, but the older D&D games weren't particularly sexual, and it doesn't fit in with the themes of D&D as the TTRPG. The Divinity games were like that either. There was the dragon RTS with dating mechanics, but it was so tame in comparison. Why do we have the devs of Ultrakill updating the game for vibrating buttplug compatibility and the Darkest Dungeons devs endorsing a mod that adds in a femboy stripper class and a bunch of big tiddied monster girls and scantily clad women? Let smut be smut and fantasy adventure be fantasy adventure.
@@youcantbeatk7006 Old D&D trusted the DM to run the game in a mature fashion; new D&D wants to reassure you that everything is going to be okay.
Spending too much time managing my inventory is my big complaint. Why do I have to individually move each piece of food to my camp in order to reduce my weight limit?
select top item and then select botom item while holding shift to pick all items in those rows and you can move all of them at once *there should've been help list somewhere in a corner of inventory with all the key combinations for easier workaround
@@ervinaspetrauskas1716 Thanks!
this sounds like a patience/skill issue.
what is the "get gud" equivalent for cRPGs?
@@jensenmcjens4029 "git inspo" I think.
Dear god your cringe didn’t even use get good right 😂🤡
how does one have a skill issue in a glorified dating sim?
Btw it’s dungeons and dragons so everything has a percentage chance. Have you ever heard of dice rolls… you know the whole core of DnD. Don’t cry that attacks miss. Happens in BG1 and 2 aswell. It’s just more noticeable because they made a turn based table top rpg into a turn based rpg.
Other CRPGS don’t leave everything to chance
My problem with BG3 is that it became way too popular and putting unrealistic expectations of how good this game is on people who have never tried game in this genre, causing others to make videos like these. I really would like to hear genuine reasons as to why the game is bad or the flaws with it. But due to its popularity we get complains equivalent of "CoD is too much shooting" or "FFXVi is too much story"
I have played other games in this genre. Cringe dialogue and boring combat are not consistent features of an RPG, only a bad one. It’s convenient that people like you say that I complain about the dialogue but forget the “cringe” part and that I complain about the combat but forget the “boring” part. If I said a first person shooter has clunky controls and is too slow paced, that’s called valid criticism. A far cry from the dimwitted “Shooter game has shooting, boo hoo” that you portray. You don’t understand my points despite the 10 minute video explaining them. I would have played and reviewed Badur’s Gate 3 irrespective of its popularity. I hate seeing comments like this, making these assumptions and discrediting my review. I am as much entitled to my opinion as anyone else and my points deserve more credit or at least, a better debate than your dumbfounded “cod game too much shooty”.
@@CGJournalist Dude you could re-explain your takes over and over again, they're still really bad, whether or not you think they're objective. You can hate all these types of comments you want, but quite literally, from a game design, dialogue, branching storyline aspect, this game is being heralded as the Magnum Fucking Opus of RPG's, because people established in this world for the last 40 years have come to appreciate the nuances the genre brings.
Again, this shit isn't for you. Conflating your opinion of the game with a psuedo-critique of the aspects of cRPG dynamics isn't a review.
"My experience of this game so far has been pretty negative. The game is held back by weird game design choices and an overall a limited functionality. It goes out of its way to make things as boring as possible and if you don't see it yet, come the end of this video, you'll see what I see." --- this is the polar opposite of what literally 97 percent of 1.4 million people who have COMPLETED the game feel. You're entitled to your very wrong opinion.
@@dylanherron3963amen
I loved other games of this genre, like the Dark Eye games. This one is still boring and super annoying. Maybe works as a D&D nerd.
@@CGJournalist your takes are fucking stupid and awful for the most part. There are some things I agree as someone who beat the game multuple times but srsly blaming the game for being too woke when theres racism, genocide, slavery, and satanic ruitials is wild to me. this game simply is not for u and thats fine doesnt mean the game is bad
did you play dnd before?if you find boring its just not a game for you,and i respect that,its fine
all the main things i see about it is romances its like pushed onto you too everyone so thirsty
•DEI & Woke. (1st)
•Not even close to *Baldurs Gate 1 & 2* And None of in-game models even look Good; Let alone - Hot. (2nd)
Even *Shadow of Mordor* looks better and that's an ~ Old LOTRO Game. *Civilization 4, Kingdoms of Amular* & *Fable 1 & 2* Have better Story as-well options. (3rd)
• Bad reports (within Company) is a bad sign to horrible writing. Possible HR & Legal mess. (4th)
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PS; *Gaming Awards* is corporate and always have been...
So you're dumb, got it.
You can't go against the wok mob, how dare you? xD
It is the internet; you have to love what the majority loves and hate what the majority hates or they descend like locusts to devour you. All this angst from them for a stranger they will never meet not liking something. On the bright side all interactions feed the algorithm right. I liked the game until I did not, it is what it is and me thinking it did not stick the landing does not actually mean it's a bad game it just means it did not stick the landing for me just like everyone saying it's flawless masterpiece because they liked it does not actually make it flawless. In the end it's all just art and art is subjective
I love Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (probably more than 1000hours, multiple playthroughs over the years), but my time of playing Baldur's Divinity 3 is 20 min at most and I have no desire to install that garbage ever again. The best thing I can say about BGDivinity 3 is intro cinematics are very good and that's all.
At best, this gets a "fine" from me. While I appreciate the graphics and the voice acting and find the plot and some of the companions pretty good, the overall feeling isn't one of immense excitement and having to see what's next. More like, "OK, let's give this another go." The game is, IMO, also held back by a lack of character and progression options and a very simplistic combat system that gets very old very fast (and no, pushing enemies off edges or blowing up barrels is NOT good gameplay, nor water effects making electricity do more damage). I'm not a fan of 5E DnD, and I think it's a bad system to convert for a cRPG. I'm sure I'll finish the game - eventually - and I'm happy I gave it a shot, but I'm not blown away. I am, however, EXTREMELY happy the game did so well. This means more cRPGs in the future, ones with great graphics and voice acting. And hopefully, there will also be better gameplay.
>cringe dialogue
Interesting. I can stomach FF7 rebirth's cringe cutscenes because the action rpg gameplay is at least addictive. But this gameplay looks grim as hell.
the singing tiefling gave me cancer
There's a _Cure Disease_ spell for that.
Best song in the game
@@Duckman8213 lol
Then smash her instrument