Typically I pass on games like this because I find myself overwhelmed by the plethora of options available to me at any moment. With the sheer magnitude of substantial choices to make like what class to pick, what party to bring with you, whether to sneak around the enemies, outwit them, or face them head on, or how to handle the surprisingly large number of ways to solve main quest conflicts. I simply find myself in a state of analysis paralysis or choice overload. Basically I start feeling like my wife when I ask her what she wants to eat for dinner.

Because of this and the fact that it's essentially been in beta for the better part of a decade, I was reluctant to give it a shot. However, thanks to some heavy recommendations from friends and after seeing the backlash this game got from lesser developers for being... Idk too good or something. I felt obligated to give it a try and boy am I glad I did. This is probably the most pure feeling RPG I've played since Dragon Age Origins. And once you come to terms with the fact that rolls aren't always going to go your way, and not every conflict is going to unravel exactly as you planned, you are left with such a beautiful world with an endless chasm of depth and replay-ability. This game is not only a technical marvel but is also a true game FOR gamers. It isn't bloated with launch DLC and overpriced microtransactions, what you see is what you get. Larian Studios seems to be one of the few developers that is still making video games because they love video games, not just trying to squeeze as many dollars and cents as they can out of every project and because of these facts Baldur's Gate 3 should be celebrated.