You can do other things with animals too.

I think some things could be fixed by having party members able to butt into conversations.

Like Asto turning on the charm for a charisma check, or have Karlach threaten to cut somebody's plums off if they don't let us in.

For a party based game with so many cutscenes, you feel weirdly on your own as soon as you start one.

Dynamic difficulty feels cheap to me, and I imagine it does for the developers too, which is why they give you nearly perfect information in a way that a DM probably never would. When I played the RE2 remake, the one mod I wanted was one that would turn off dynamic difficulty; that mod would eventually exist, but after I had long since finished the game. At the time, there was little else besides mods that enhanced Claire's wet t-shirt physics.

It’s as close to a perfect game as we’re getting nowadays.

I agree about the same scrumming. Particularly in the beginning when I had low level characters, I would think I was being clever and bypass some section only to accidentally wander into a a bunch of hostiles that far outnumbered my group and repeatedly get massacred.

It definitely has plenty of flaws, but the good things heavily outweigh the bad.

I mean just the shear scope of that game is crazy. It's very ambitious .There are so many dialog options. I've tried to explore as much as I can in my first playthrough but I can tell there's a lot of content that I've missed.

Can't wait to do a second run.

As much as I agree with your opinion on save scumming, truth is all of the Infinity Engine games were like this as well. Even if you're a seasoned D&D player, it's all too easy to get completely wiped in the dungeon at the beginning of BG2 to an imp because barely any of your party's attack rolls are successful at Lvl 1.

That's why you play in honor mode :p

All jokes aside, I had the most blast playing the game when going in blind on a Dark Urge playthru with honor mode.

Act 3 is pretty janky at times and they seriously need to give you vertical camera controls (xcom figured this out like 15 years ago!) but it’s still a fantastic game. Lots of valid critiques, but still a great game

Don’t tell the forums that, they’re convinced it’s an unplayable woke government ops

This is far too many Steam forums lately, and I don't know why or what hurt these people. If you ask the Steam forums, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed because it went woke and hired some diversity consultancy firm that only these people know the name of and hold up as the antichrist.

I mean, my partner and I actually did stop our play through because it was too buggy and it was effecting our enjoyment. Been meaning to get back to it after all the patches, but like... It was pretty buggy around launch by my standards.

I love BG3 as a video game, but I feel like Hasbro is going to take a lot of the ideas and try their best to translate them into the trrpg space and shittify both on the way through.

It did have a "literally unplayable" save deletion bug on Xbox until recently. I just waited for them to fix it before spending my money.

And it's always people that have private profiles.
If you're profile is private on steam you're automatically disregarded.

Video game forums are always garbage.

But partially in their defense, it makes my 4070 work and the only other time it gets that warm is when I'm running stable diffusion on it constantly.

TBH it's really not that surprising, just classic gatekeeping - cRPGs were very niche for a long time and those people dislike the fact many new people are suddenly interested in them because of this game.

I kinda get it in a way, I think some other games in the genre deserve this success more, but at the end of the day it's still better than most of the shit released lately.

Honestly it's worth it at full price.

This really is one of those games that’s worth it at full price. Save waiting on a sale for the half-finished games that shouldn’t be priced as high as they are.

I think the biggest draw toward BG3 is the replay-ability!

I think I had 200+ hr on my first play through, but I made decisions, that I won't say for spoiler reasons, that cut off multiple entire story lines that I have read are another ~80hrs + of playtime! Super cool, in my opinion.

The players actions CHANGE the world, many games have strived for this, although few have achieved. BG3 achieved!

I always get the feeling that D&D's Forgotten Realms is a more goofy kind of fantasy, like everything you want is possible. It's about imagination and self-expression, rather than setting strict rules for how things work. Makes sense imo, they want it to be the world that you use to create your own stories for P&P games, so it should have many different facets and can't be too limiting.