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The Baldur's Gate III debate

What the community thinks of Baldur's Gate III, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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  1. EmeliaWarden

    What sets it apart for me is how much the world actually remembers you. Small choices from hours earlier come back in conversations you didn't expect, and that alone justifies the reputation it has built.

  2. WallaceKnight

    Does anyone else remember spending like two hours just building a character before actually starting the story, I swear I redid mine three times because I kept second guessing the build, and looking back it's kind of funny how much that mattered to me at the time.

  3. xkshlerin

    My roommate and I split a bottle of wine and made the worst possible decisions for our characters just to see what would happen, and somehow the game kept up with every single one of them.

    Arcade_Maillard

    Une bouteille de vin et ça tient encore debout comme partie ? T'as vraiment fini la run dans ces conditions ?

  4. IronPilot

    What gets me every time is the sheer density of reactivity, like there's always some tiny detail I missed that changes a conversation three hours later, and I keep telling myself I'll do a clean second playthrough but I never actually start it because the first one already ate my whole autumn, and honestly I'm not even mad about it.

  5. Pagac35

    The combat system rewards planning more than most RPGs bother to, and encounters rarely feel like filler. Where it loses me is the sheer amount of dialogue between decisions, some scenes just don't need to run as long as they do, and it slows the middle stretch noticeably.

  6. VinylMaster

    What sets it apart from Skyrim is how much the choices actually stick, or rather, how often the game remembers them at all compared to just flavor text. Against Witcher 3 though it's closer, the writing there feels more consistent across the whole thing. I still think this one deserves its rank, just maybe not the exact one it has now.

  7. Willie_12

    I've put maybe forty hours in over the last year, never in one long stretch, and it still surprises me how much reacts to what I do. That said the later acts feel less reactive than the first, like the writing team ran out of runway.

    MertieHunter

    I went back into it recently with no nostalgia goggles on and the first act still holds up better than most fresh releases this year, the drop after that is real though.

    heller_brain

    I had a similar drop-off feeling around the same point, the systems keep reacting but the writting just cant keep pace with all the branching anymore.

    GhostLegend98

    Le vrai sujet c'est pas la réactivité en soi, c'est qu'on la mesure jamais face aux concurrents qu'il affronte au classement.

    Nova_Pagan

    Replying to heller_brain

    Witcher 3 mantiene el ritmo mejor, ritmo que aquí se pierde justo cuando más falta hace.

    OcéaneOwl

    Ah parce qu'il y a des gens qui font des choix rationnels après quarante heures de jeu, moi je recommence juste par réflexe à ce stade.

    Paola_1997

    El primer acto está tan pulido que el resto parece otro juego, más flojo, y eso a mí sí me pesa bastante en la balanza final.

    SaveByte40

    Forty hours and the same act three complaint every duel, at this point I just nod along and move on.

    casas_ander

    Más que el juego, lo que cansa es el mismo debate del acto final repitiéndose en cada hilo de votos.

  8. AbdullahKnight

    Put it next to Witcher 3 and the pacing argument writes itself, no contest there

    Iron_Mitchell

    Pacing argument aside, Witcher 3 sustains its world building longer without leaning on branching dialogue to carry every scene.

  9. Harvey73

    Anyone else remember the exact fight that made them restart the whole run?

  10. ArcadeNinja

    It gets credit for reactivity that half the other big RPGs also have, just with less marketing noise around it. The scale is real but the ranking treats it like it invented the genre.

  11. IronKid2

    Un ranking que sube y baja según el humor de la gente esa semana, qué novedad... y aun así aquí seguimos discutiendo como si fuera ciencia exacta.

  12. Álvaro_72

    Comparado con Witcher 3, la IA de combate reacciona mejor al terreno y a la altura (aunque el rendimiento en ciertas zonas sufre un poco).

  13. ArcadePhoenix2

    Bon, on va encore débattre de sa place alors qu'on sait tous qu'il finira dans le top malgré tout.

    Antonette_77

    Same feeling every duel, honestly. Voted anyway, again.

    LuckyDragon2

    Replying to Antonette_77

    same energy in this thread every single duel, we vote, we complain about act three, we vote again, nothing changes.

    André_20

    Débat sans fin, oui, mais moi j'ai encore mon perso de la première partie en tête, incroyable.

  14. LuckyMaster

    Y sigo pensando que el ritmo del primer acto no lo mantiene el resto del juego.

    frida_sawayn

    My kid asked why the NPCs kept bringing up something small he did hours before (I didn't even remember it myself), that's the real hook here.

    Gaudin1990

    Le rythme du premier acte, justement, c'est ce qui masque le reste au début.

  15. RogueRider2008

    Est-ce que la comparaison avec Skyrim a vraiment un sens quand les deux jeux ne cherchent pas la même chose au fond ? Je trouve la réactivité impressionnante par moments, mais je me demande si elle justifie vraiment tout ce qu'on lui pardonne sur le rythme du dernier acte, plus mou que le reste.

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