August 20th 2023.
Baldur's Gate 3 has been getting a lot of attention lately, with many claiming it to be the greatest computer role-playing game ever. There is a lot of positive buzz about the technical elements and the lack of microtransactions. But is this praise warranted?
One reader insists that the quality of Baldur's Gate 3 has been exaggerated. In their opinion, like many of Larian's previous games, it fails to stick the landing. They point out that the technical depth in terms of animation and mocap is nice, but it doesn't make a good game. Additionally, nothing Baldur's Gate 3 does is anything new and has been done in games before it.
The reader also notes that as the honeymoon period slowly ends, they have started to see more posts on Steam lamenting the decline of quality in the game post Act 1. Many players complained about a large amount of glitches, bugs, repetitive combat encounters, heavy emphasis on combat with little content elsewhere, poor writing and only a few mediocre endings.
It seems like the game declines in quality after the first Act, which is something that has been a problem for Larian ever since their first game, Divine Divinity. This same issue was present in Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga and Divinity Original Sin.
Ultimately, the general consensus of those who have actually finished the game seems to be that Baldur's Gate 3 is mediocre at best and unfinished - like many of the other AAA franchises it has been compared to. It looks like Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is still this year's best game and the only one that can boast of being a complete and polished experience from beginning to end.
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