Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3 (www.pcgamer.com)

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Creative forces behind series like Fallout, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, and Pillars of Eternity react to Baldur's Gate 3.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truly the best cRPG ever made. It surpasses even the golden age of the Infinity Engine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know if I would go that far. It's graphically superior to Planescape: Torment but that game was 5 Acts and had a better ending with more variation for the companions. The last really great DnD games used 2e, a vastly inferior system.

That said BG3 is far and away the best story applied to 5e mechanics (though I do wish Larion had looked at Solasta for navigation and UI).

The Owlcat Pathfinder games are the best examples of 3.5e/PF1e mechanics but have short comings in UI and navigation same as BG3.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

but that game was 5 Acts

Are you implying that because the game had more acts it is in some way better? PS:T has been my #1 game for decades so I'm not exactly disparaging it here, but this argument is ridiculous. A PS:T completion takes probably 50-70 hours tops, depending on your reading speed. I'm 2/3 of the way through bg3 at 80+ hours... More acts does not equal more content or better content.