Baldur's Gate 3

Very fair reasons! Much of it are common things people say about it, even those that enjoy it

The story being hard to puzzle out on your own is understandable, I've never understood what's going on well in ER or any Dark Souls game by just playing it. But I have to say, as someone who's a big fan of a good story and deep lore, I actually really like that they do it that way. Even though it may not seem it on the surface, the lore is very deep in all the games. It's not just item descriptions that show us it, the sparse conversations things you hear from NPCs are also part of it. There's also lots of indicators throughout the world in just the environment. The fact that the only reason we know so much lore is because the fandom has pieced it together over the years with all these masses of obscure clues and evidence is really cool, to me. Also just have to say there are many different ways in which your characters actions affect little sub plots and the world at large. ER has a bunch of different endings and ways you bring them about, for example

As for the messages I totally feel you there, the fandom has a lot of memelords who tend to repeat the same things over and over with messages. You can actually turn those off though if you play the game offline, which is what I do. I'm not bothered about PVP and there's plenty of times I've been invaded across the games at real inconvenient times, so there's nothing that attracts me to playing online

I love the combat and always have but again that's obviously subjective. I really like the diversity of builds you can do and how it opens it up to so many potential challenge runs. But yeah if it's just fundamentally the way the combat is that isn't for you then I guess just trying out different builds wouldn't change much for you

Yeah this isn't me trying to pressure you or whatever into giving it another go, even though I love these games I totally understand why a lot of people don't like them. I haven't been able to play a single one all the way through without having to look things up online, as have most others. There's a lot of times in all the games where you just think "how was I ever meant to figure this out on my own?" They all have their flaws. DS1 and DS2 were both released unfinished and DS3 I think is actually pretty overrated, though still a fantastic game

Anyways thanks for explaining what you didn't like. I didn't intend to write back something like this, I expected what you would say would be entirely subjective. And a lot of it is but I just thought I'd give my thoughts on the rest. The irony of the longest posts I've written on Lemmy about soulslikes being in the BG3 community