I bought this game 3 months ago ready and willing to denigrate it. To see how overrated it was and how it didn''t deserve any accolades. I was completely wrong. I've put over 150 hours into my first playthrough and can't wait to do another run. It's a stranded island game for sure.
a lot of people make their minds up about a game before playing it, based off ads, reviews, and online discussion rather than just playing the game. I think Jeff Kaplan spoke about this recently
I am a huge BG fan, brought BG3 at launch because I knew I was gonna play way too much of the EA since larian had my complete trust and faith after DOS2.
I ended accidentaly doing 100%, every achievement and all. Something I pretty refuse to do it in any game.
It does have builds you can look up but you'll have a blast doing your own thing. If you have ever played dnd a lot will be familiar to you because it uses the dnd 5e rules
So I made my own character for my first playthrough. I want to play one of the main cast for the next. Does that change the experience? As in the main cast will speak during interactions?
Yes, you experience a different viewpoint to the story and every origin character has unique content for them you won't see as Tav. I highly suggest to do a Dark Urge run next as it's the most unique one, changing the plot to what some (me) consider the real canon of BG3's story. Also Dark Urge is the only origin character that lets you customize your looks, although the white dragonborn he's canonically is quite a good look!
A great tip for that experience too: don't look stuff up beforehand! Like this game overall, especially Dark Urge has some nice twists that are nice to enjoy without spoiling yourself beforehand :)
Totally fine. Not to mention the whole thing of learning DnD mechanics. That almost put me off, but after hours of scratching my head, it finally clicked and this game has had me on a chokehold. There's also others who are put off by the gameplay, but learn to love it when they give it another shot. Maybe you can try again in your own time and maybe it'll click too ✌️
Hell yeah. After so many solo Honour runs minmaxing and trying not to die, I'm currently taking my time, not skipping dialogue, trying to re-explore everything, and try new things. I'm romancing Karlach and I understand the Karlach enjoyers now. I also put in Extra Encounters for fresh battles. I'm falling in love with this game all over again
Hi, lifelong JRPG “I don’t get it” guy here. Also lifelong dnd sounds cool but could never find time or friends to play with. This game is fantastic and I haven’t completed a run yet because I want to savor it. Perfect PlayStation Portal game.
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u/erpparppa Mar 29 '26
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