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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. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Harvey73

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

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. CritRunner70

    Ah sí, el clásico "top mundial" que cambia según a quién le preguntes esta semana.

    GhostByte2

    La comparaison facile avec Skyrim, c'est surtout Witcher 3 qui devrait être cité en premier.

    Marina_8

    Yo también me cansé de esa comparación, sobre todo porque en votos siempre gana igual sin importar el argumento.

  12. Samuel_75

    La gente lo compara con Skyrim como si fueran lo mismo, y sinceramente ya cansa un poco esa comparación fácil.

  13. 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).

  14. IronWolf

    Je le défends à fond, j'ai clairement une préférence pour ce genre de jeu et je l'assume totalement, les autres RPG du classement peuvent bien grogner, je revoterai pour lui à chaque duel sans hésiter une seconde.

    LootLegend682

    el ritmo del acto final es justo lo que a mi me costó más, coincido bastante con esto

  15. GlitchPilot

    On l'avait lancé à trois, chacun proposant une réplique différente au même PNJ, et ça a duré bien plus longtemps que prévu.

    Homenick28

    Replying to trussel

    Wait, which fight? Genuinely asking, I think I blocked mine out too.

    Lopes69

    Replying to trussel

    Le dernier acte qui retombe, c'est aussi ce que je reproche à Witcher 3 sur la longueur, sauf que lui l'assume mieux.

    trussel

    Bit of a stretch calling that typical though, most tables I've seen just pick one line and move on.