Is the game actually good? Seeing a ton of hype around it, but also saw a ton of hype with Diablo 4 and Final Fantasy 16 and I thought both of those were mid at best.
If you like roleplaying games, absolutely yes. It’s way move involved than their previous games (which were also great). Divinity always felt AA at best, but the polish on BG3 is impeccable.
For me what really does it is the professional voice work and motion capture on seemingly every single sentiet humanoid character in the game. Even random folks who have a single line of dialogue have a unique voice and an interesting character design. They don’t all blend together, even when they are objectively filler characters.
It’s very good. D4 was also really good to be fair too, minmaxers just screamed a lot online while most people just played the game. I intentionally played a fire sorc this season because these people said it’s unplayable, currently in wt4 and doing tier 20 nm dungeons with my level 65 character so those people were obviously wrong.
D2 was maybe my favorite game. I couldn’t pay D4 more than an hour before being too bored to keep going. BG3 is capturing me though. It’s much heavier in the story and writing and less combat like a real dnd session would be. So far it’s not going to beat Pathfinder wotr for me but we’ll see
Depends on what you like. I’m enjoying it so far, but it’s not a casual game. It’s slow and there’s a ton of information thrown at you from the beginning in terms of game mechanics. It’s pretty overwhelming honestly, even though I’m familiar with older editions of d&d.
The turn based combat means battles can last a long time. It’s still satisfying, but it can also be a real slog sometimes.
I think a lot of people will find some of the dialogue mechanics tedious. If you want to roleplay for a certain outcome you’ll be forced to save scum because it uses on-screen dice rolls for conversation checks. But at the same time the RNG/dice system can lead to some cool, unexpected situations so I usually just go with it and enjoy the consequences, there’s a ton of freedom in this game and the writing and design is pretty clever. It does feel like a next gen RPG just because of the sheer scope of it and the huge number of options and abilities it gives you.
I’m finding the story interesting, the characters are well written, and there’s a ton of good content. It’s also gorgeous and hitting 60 fps on my laptop 3060 on ultra settings at 2k.
I’d say if you enjoy a deep/thoughtful role playing game, it’s worth trying. If you prefer a faster-paced RPG like Witcher or Dark Souls it might not be your cup of tea so watch some videos first. I definitely like it more than Diablo IV, but it’s basically a different genre entirely. It’s much, much deeper than D4.
Is the game actually good? Seeing a ton of hype around it, but also saw a ton of hype with Diablo 4 and Final Fantasy 16 and I thought both of those were mid at best.
If you like roleplaying games, absolutely yes. It’s way move involved than their previous games (which were also great). Divinity always felt AA at best, but the polish on BG3 is impeccable.
For me what really does it is the professional voice work and motion capture on seemingly every single sentiet humanoid character in the game. Even random folks who have a single line of dialogue have a unique voice and an interesting character design. They don’t all blend together, even when they are objectively filler characters.
It’s very good. D4 was also really good to be fair too, minmaxers just screamed a lot online while most people just played the game. I intentionally played a fire sorc this season because these people said it’s unplayable, currently in wt4 and doing tier 20 nm dungeons with my level 65 character so those people were obviously wrong.
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D2 was maybe my favorite game. I couldn’t pay D4 more than an hour before being too bored to keep going. BG3 is capturing me though. It’s much heavier in the story and writing and less combat like a real dnd session would be. So far it’s not going to beat Pathfinder wotr for me but we’ll see
Depends on what you like. I’m enjoying it so far, but it’s not a casual game. It’s slow and there’s a ton of information thrown at you from the beginning in terms of game mechanics. It’s pretty overwhelming honestly, even though I’m familiar with older editions of d&d.
The turn based combat means battles can last a long time. It’s still satisfying, but it can also be a real slog sometimes.
I think a lot of people will find some of the dialogue mechanics tedious. If you want to roleplay for a certain outcome you’ll be forced to save scum because it uses on-screen dice rolls for conversation checks. But at the same time the RNG/dice system can lead to some cool, unexpected situations so I usually just go with it and enjoy the consequences, there’s a ton of freedom in this game and the writing and design is pretty clever. It does feel like a next gen RPG just because of the sheer scope of it and the huge number of options and abilities it gives you.
I’m finding the story interesting, the characters are well written, and there’s a ton of good content. It’s also gorgeous and hitting 60 fps on my laptop 3060 on ultra settings at 2k.
I’d say if you enjoy a deep/thoughtful role playing game, it’s worth trying. If you prefer a faster-paced RPG like Witcher or Dark Souls it might not be your cup of tea so watch some videos first. I definitely like it more than Diablo IV, but it’s basically a different genre entirely. It’s much, much deeper than D4.