Baldur's Gate 3 use a very archaic gameplay called DND(I mean like the whole game is based from DND). If you actually do play DND and enjoys it you definitely would be the type of people that would endlessly love this game. I personally have never played DND, and i absolutely abhor the dice mechanic. everything you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ do the dice roll depends on it its so utterly RNG i really personally feel like it would have been way better off without it. But again, that is the core mechanic of DND, so i understand why its there. Aside from all that, the game is great. The first act actually did a lot of decent setups on progressing the story with quite a great finish, but then act 2 didnt really follow up on the story all that much, and the area is also pretty dogshitty as well. act 3 is worse, seperating two part of the same area, and the city is so unnavigable and bloated with content, absurd difficulty spike, but ultimately had quite a strong finish.

Like I mentioned above, the combat is archaic. Even though they tried to make it modern by introducing interesting and pretty responsive actions, the fact that the maximum amount of action points you have is one throughout the entire game. Of course, the further you go in the game you can do so much with one action point but I still personally feel that maybe even at least 3 action points would be good. The main reason why i dislike the combat so much though is that your attacks depend on your rolls, and better armor usually leads to higher requirement of a roll to hit. So this essentially means that squishy characters that cant wear big armours will always get attacked because you need less rolls to hit them. That is such a bad system. Some enemies have very very annoying mechanics that just prolongs the fights for absolutely no reason other than forcing the playing to play in a particular manner.

The story of Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty good, all things considered. I think they all interconnected pretty well, the companions stories are awesome, and like DOS2 most of your choices can impact the whole game. The main narrative is also very good, I like the villains and allies presented in the story. Though I really wonder why they did not put the staple slideshows most RPG games do at the end of their games because i feel like BG3 would benefit from it greatly though I dont mind how the handle the post-game story stuff, its still pretty conclusive enough for me.

Exploration really really varies, though it is also a highlight of this game, especially in Act 1. Theres not really much to explore in Act 2 and there is a little bit too much to explore in Act 3. Act 3 is so bloated it makes the pacing incosistent and following through the progress of the story a little bit too confusing. Act 3 has a pretty great finale though so I think it really makes up for it.

9/10

Baldur's Gate 3 use a very archaic gameplay called DND(I mean like the whole game is based from DND). If you actually do play DND and enjoys it you definitely would be the type of people that would endlessly love this game. I personally have never played DND, and i absolutely abhor the dice mechanic. everything you fucking do the dice roll depends on it its so utterly RNG i really personally feel like it would have been way better off without it. But again, that is the core mechanic of DND, so i understand why its there. Aside from all that, the game is great. The first act actually did a lot of decent setups on progressing the story with quite a great finish, but then act 2 didnt really follow up on the story all that much, and the area is also pretty dogshitty as well. act 3 is worse, seperating two part of the same area, and the city is so unnavigable and bloated with content, absurd difficulty spike, but ultimately had quite a strong finish. Like I mentioned above, the combat is archaic. Even though they tried to make it modern by introducing interesting and pretty responsive actions, the fact that the maximum amount of action points you have is one throughout the entire game. Of course, the further you go in the game you can do so much with one action point but I still personally feel that maybe even at least 3 action points would be good. The main reason why i dislike the combat so much though is that your attacks depend on your rolls, and better armor usually leads to higher requirement of a roll to hit. So this essentially means that squishy characters that cant wear big armours will always get attacked because you need less rolls to hit them. That is such a bad system. Some enemies have very very annoying mechanics that just prolongs the fights for absolutely no reason other than forcing the playing to play in a particular manner. The story of Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty good, all things considered. I think they all interconnected pretty well, the companions stories are awesome, and like DOS2 most of your choices can impact the whole game. The main narrative is also very good, I like the villains and allies presented in the story. Though I really wonder why they did not put the staple slideshows most RPG games do at the end of their games because i feel like BG3 would benefit from it greatly though I dont mind how the handle the post-game story stuff, its still pretty conclusive enough for me. Exploration really really varies, though it is also a highlight of this game, especially in Act 1. Theres not really much to explore in Act 2 and there is a little bit too much to explore in Act 3. Act 3 is so bloated it makes the pacing incosistent and following through the progress of the story a little bit too confusing. Act 3 has a pretty great finale though so I think it really makes up for it. 9/10