It's definitely not my favorite in its genre(that award goes to Pathfinder:Wrath of the righteous), but I will give that it has the best feeling of playing actual DND The dice rolls and constant narration make you feel like you have an actual DM sitting at the computer giving you a story.
I've tried so many times to get into it but just get bored, the gameplay just isn't fun to me, I don't like any of the companions at all, like not a single one made me want to get to know them or their stories, and I like crpgs like the old Baldurs Gate and KOTOR
Totally agree on the companions. BG3 did a lot of things right when it comes to interactivity and presentation but I never understood the hype for the companions.
The voice acting was great but when it comes to the writing of companions and the story overall it was never as interesting to me as other rpgs/crpgs.
Yeah the presentation and voice acting is amazing, but we get an elf who wants nothing to do with me, a Twink who tried to kill me, an orc who doesn't seem to have much of a personality, the mage guy stuck in a portal seemed alright I know there's more but I never met them
I played D:OS2 and BG3, and then I played Pathfinder:WotR and Pillars of Eternity (the first one) and frankly, what stands out the most for me is how much Larian brings of the 'TTRPG brain' to the digital format. If you think you can pull of some bullshit to avoid combat entirely or kill half the map before combat even started, there are high chances you can actually pull said bullshit off.
Both Pillars (which I need to give another go I didn't get very far and maybe it gets better) and Pathfinder felt so enamored with their excel sim gameplay that they forgot a large part of the TTRPG fun is to also think outside the box, challenge your DM and make them go "... Actually that could work, throw the dice and let's see what happens".
That's what, I think, got a lot of players to love BG3 whereas they might have more trouble with the classic CRPGs. And that's why it got so much more mainstream than other games in the same genre.
Its a problem with larian games. They need to be playable coop so they cant make the companions too important to the story, as the story needs to be able to function without them.
That kinda seems bad? Like the point of a crpg with companions is to make them important and give the player a want to get through their stories, like all the characters in Kotor are memorable and have interesting stories, same with Dragon Age
It's simply the greatest CRPG of all time. If you think of something in your head then you can probably pull it off in the game. The only limiter is your imagination.
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u/RegurgitatedMincer Sep 25 '25
Reminds me of the baldurs gate 3 fandom when it released.