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I'm about to be an addict!! HELP!

(EA - 52.4 hrs at review time)

With Baldur's Gate 3 full release being few hours away I thought I should put down my 2 cents on the game as someone who has being playing since day 1 of EA.

Where to even begin, being fan of Larians last work I stepped in to Baulder's Gate with full hopes of enjoying this adventure and having a good ol' time. So you would be correct in thinking that's exactly the case. The first day of EA was fantastic, the bugs were minimum if any and the performance was decent on a mid spec PC. I was surprised the game ran so well; and with so much of the development ahead of them at this point.

The best part though was the game play and how you interact with the world. The choices indeed mattered here and how you play in this sandbox is totally up to you. But it's not all roses and rainbows. What held this game back was something as important as game play, this being the cast. While their models were fantastic and voiced perfectly, the emotions just weren't there yet. A found family made up of rag-tag team of misfits would usually be the perfect recipe for fun dialogue, emotional depth and inspired scenarios but here I felt that was lacking. But It's only early access and that could be improved upon, getting to know these character well and exploring the story arcs. Which I have high hopes for and is eagerly awaiting.

But going back to what worked, the character creation is fantastic and allows you to play with surprisingly high amount of freedom. The perfect example being my first play through Wizard aptly named ''The Wizard of the Coast-ally Rock''. I like being a jack of all trades and wanted to explore the map to gain a sense of the world which is unfamiliar to me being only a new fan of table top games such as D&D, CoC (the one with tentacles). And a wizard being able to learn any spells seemed pretty fun. 40 hours in... My wizard was a capable of such feats as; Jumping really high (why?), Teleportation (nice!), Talking to animals (okay yeah that's cool I suppose), Talking to the dead (wait what), Invisibility, Changing shape naming a few. Which also meant that I could basically travel anywhere, get past any trouble, pretend to be my enemies and have fun with the fact that I'm my enemy (jinx). So I left my team behind, across the map. Found fish people, found people who eat those people, found a witch doing witch stuff, good or bad? never getting down to finding out which is witch? but always keeping the memories of the ones I left behind... just about a half a mile away. Good fun. Best times.

So where does this all leads to then? Here, now, soon. Today I think. Could be as far as tomorrow...

Did this review feel like it just ended on an anticlimax? well that's cause this review is still in Early access you fool.

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ACT 1 - Completed (124.1 hrs at review time) - 71.7hrs
(Hotfix #1-4)

So, I wanted to make a diary of each act by updating my initial review. To start, let's begin with what I had issues in the EA. The characters and the lack of unimportant but world-building events. Thankfully I was so pleasantly surprised to learn most of the characters have had a major writing transformation. Some of my least-liked characters such as Shadowheart and Gale are some of my favourites now, Githyanki are still hard to love - I suppose that's lore accurate... But truly the character writing and dialogue as well as their input along our adventure is well crafted and completely natural. Loved every second that I spent with my companions.

https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3021978691

Additionally, the combat is satisfying as usual, I'm playing hard difficulty and with the Karmic Dice off which means that every battle feels a little more compelling and satisfying to complete. Truly there is nothing else to announce about the combat, it's just great! The world feels a little more familiar as we travel and the new characters get all the more stranger which is a good thing. Sometimes.

It's also big, I've spent the same time I spent in EA in 3 years to complete this first act alone lmao. Is Act 2 just as big? I'm not too sure and also will it be as well crafted as Act 1 which supposedly had 3 years of EA to twist every loose bolt? It's time to find out.

https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3022382730

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ACT 2 - Completed (170.3 hrs at review time) - 46.2 hrs
(Patch #1)


If Act 1 was perfect then you can be safe in knowing that Act 2 is better than that. But seriously, Act 1 is a 9/10 for me, which is still amazing. Where it lacks were the combat scenarios compared to Act 2 some thing you would only know with the context of continuing the journey. That is to say that Act 1 feels like its purposefully held back, in a level design degree, to not overwhelm the player. In doing so it lacks the amazing set pieces soon to come.

And it should be clear that if this game ended here, as in Act 2 I would be completely satisfied. Feeling as though this is only the first instalment of a trilogy. But it is not so. The story continues and so does the game.

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ACT 3 - Completed (317.8 hrs at review time) - 147.5 hrs
(Patch #1 -5 | Hotfix 20)

Under construction...

Why would you need mods when you can get 500 Khuzait horse archers and they turn in to a 80mhp travelling army that circles the enemies until they are dead.

a really Casual game.

Installed 100+ mods - Makes cities my PC can not run = Best City Builder on the Platform.

One of the funnest games I had the pleasure of playing. Tales from Borderlands has a similar feel to the Deadpool game which shares a similar humour code. Though not as over the top it has a great understanding of it's own universe and has fun with it's own tale.
https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1099383694
This game is a solid - LOADER out of BOT

It does something.

The only game ever to make me feel completely incapable of playing ranked 135 hours in...

When you are lost in life
And you were left by your wife
The world seems too large
This is the time for you to recharge

Look for the Ethereal ?
Sometimes that also means cereal
When rhyming is too hard
Bad ones bombard
the game of the afternoon
Play Game Dev Tycoon

9 More please.
... Informed Drug Dealer

10 Everyone loves it!
... The Sun

8 Played it for days.
... Every Gamer Girl

10 Outstanding achievement.
... A Dave

'' The only way to review this game, is to review yourself first ''

Do you ever wake up from sleep and wonder why you are awake ?
And confused as to what game you want to play ?
Then play this until you realize what game you want to play.

I give it a score of : 20-30 mini playtime works everytime.
And it's Free !