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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Does the game get to a certain point and it hits? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 days ago by knowone@slrpnk.net to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

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Apologies if this sort of post isn't allowed. So I've given BG3 a go two times now. Both times I've been excited and expected that it's likely something I'll be into. But I get down to it and I just lose steam with it pretty quickly

I was wondering if there's a point early on where it takes a big jump in engaging you and I just didn't get to that point? I didn't really get that far past the starting "spaceship" area (not sure if I should call it that), so I know I haven't given it that much of a chance. I know there'll be many places that are a lot more interesting throughout it

But I dunno, it just doesn't keep my attention. The gameplay doesn't feel that great for me personally. So if it's kinda just more of the same in terms of gameplay, just with the (no doubt) great plot unfolding and better surroundings then it might just not be for me. I mostly play soulslikes, which is obviously pretty different gameplay, and I struggle to get into most games not in that style. I just really wanted to like BG3 so don't want to write it off without asking this. Not saying it's a bad game or anything, it's clearly a masterpiece, but might just not be my thing

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you like turn based combat games like XCOM then maybe try putting the difficulty up to tactician.

But like 2/3rds of the game is just dialoge if you aren't into that.

[–] knowone@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hmmm yeah I do like a lot of dialogue/story-heavy games. One of my absolute favourite games is Disco Elysium, which is like 90% dialogue. One of the things that bothers me about most games nowadays, especially AAA ones, is that they don't put all that much into the writing side of things. I kinda get why but a lot of the time a poorly written game just ruins the rest of it for me

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would vouch for the writing of BG3, i don't think it's as good as Disco Elysium tho.

How far did you get? The Grove is the first town you will find and you can start getting goals and quests from the people there.

Personally my favorite part of the game story wise is when you get to Balders Gate in Act 3, but that's also after building up the characters and plot points and having them culminate there.

I would say the game gets more interesting the more you play it, as a lot of the story is influenced and built up to with your past actions. Also your party members are always boring at first IMO and you have to get their stories from them which ended up making me like them more over time.