This game has tons of problems. I could go on about the problems with the low level cap, the poor class balance, how some party members are so significantly more important to the plot than others, how the story devolves into collecting magical stones to defeat a magical evil, how the Intelligence stat is pointless for almost every build, and even how party members often have 13 in a stat they don't use because the devs took out stat requirements for multi-classing last minute but didn't update the characters stats to compensate, but none of this matters.

Baldur's Gate 3 is easily the best game of its genre. If I had twenty major complaints for a 2D platformer then that would be a huge issue because there's many 2D platformers that are nearly flawless. However, having twenty major complaints for a Western RPG is nothing. When the best games this genre has to offer are A: games that were incredibly glitchy on launch, like nearly every Bethesda game; B: games that are unfinished, like KOTOR 2; or C: games that expect you to play the prior games to understand the story even though those prior games aren't nearly as good, like Mass Effect 2 or Witcher 3, then Baldur's Gate 3 looks incredible in comparison.

This game has relatively few glitches, the plot and character arcs felt mostly finished, and I understood what was going on without playing Baldur's Gate 1 or 2. Taking all that into account there's no way I couldn't give this a 10/10 despite its many problems.

Reviewed on Feb 01, 2024


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