• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Baldur's Gate III | Review Thread

What scores do you think Baldur's Gate 3 will get?

  • 50-55%

    Votes: 5 1.3%

  • 55-60%

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 60-65%

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • 65-70%

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • 70-75%

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • 75-80%

    Votes: 4 1.0%

  • 80-85%

    Votes: 21 5.5%

  • 85-90%

    Votes: 82 21.5%

  • 90-95%

    Votes: 194 50.8%

  • 95-100%

    Votes: 73 19.1%
  • Total voters
    382
  • Poll closed .
Krathoon

Krathoon

Member
They have a Twitch drop for the game. Just run a Twitch stream in your browser for 2 hours. I usually just mute it.
 
StereoVsn

StereoVsn

Gold Member
Topher said:
I'm still excited to see what CDPR has come up with in changing the gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077
Click to expand...
Hopefully more choices and way to complete quests at least. I don't have a LOT of hope for the expansion but it should at least add that much. And a lot of the options are going to base patch without having to buy an expansion.

BG3, Starfield, Cyberpunk replay, Spider-Man 2.... I definitely don't have enough hours in a day, lol.
 
Ginzeen

Ginzeen

Banned
StereoVsn said:
Hopefully more choices and way to complete quests at least. I don't have a LOT of hope for the expansion but it should at least add that much. And a lot of the options are going to base patch without having to buy an expansion.

BG3, Starfield, Cyberpunk replay, Spider-Man 2.... I definitely don't have enough hours in a day, lol.
Click to expand...
I have much hope for the expansion. It's probably at least 20 hours of new content. People who played it said it completely changed the game with all the new and improved systems. Cyberpunk was always a good game, just plagued by bugs and performance issues. With BG3, Starfield,and Phantom Liberty, its truly the year of WRPGs. I love it.
 
Tedditalk

Tedditalk

Member
StereoVsn said:
Hopefully more choices and way to complete quests at least. I don't have a LOT of hope for the expansion but it should at least add that much. And a lot of the options are going to base patch without having to buy an expansion.

BG3, Starfield, Cyberpunk replay, Spider-Man 2.... I definitely don't have enough hours in a day, lol.
Click to expand...

They already made a comprehensive list of changes. None of it is going to add choices or impact quest structure in any meaningful way. Maybe the exception would be phantom liberty new quests. What CDPR is focusing on, is changing the skill stree, overhauling the police, radiant quests, new cyberware and guns, changing the armor system, vehicle combat, graphics boost, and just the general game feel outside of the quests.
 
StereoVsn

StereoVsn

Gold Member
Tedditalk said:
They already made a comprehensive list of changes. None of it is going to add choices or impact quest structure in any meaningful way. Maybe the exception would be phantom liberty new quests. What CDPR is focusing on, is changing the skill stree, overhauling the police, radiant quests, new cyberware and guns, changing the armor system, vehicle combat, graphics boost, and just the general game feel outside of the quests.
Click to expand...
I was talking about expansion quests, yes. The rest of cha ges are good but they won't improve the overall game structure all there much.

There are always mods though.
 
Pasta la Vista

Pasta la Vista

Member
Freeman76 said:
Yeah what with CDPR being known for their CRPG and all 🙄
Click to expand...
This was the crushing realization I had to come to after they released Cyberpunk 2077. They are incapable of actually creating anything of depth in actual gameplay. Just at basically "choosing your own adventure" through dialogue choices.
 
Guilty_AI

Guilty_AI

Member
Pasta la Vista said:
This was the crushing realization I had to come to after they released Cyberpunk 2077. They are incapable of actually creating anything of depth in actual gameplay. Just at basically "choosing your own adventure" through dialogue choices.
Click to expand...
Ironically enough, despite CP2077 getting so much flak for lack of choices, its actually the one that least suffer from this issue when compared to the witcher games.
 
Gorgon

Gorgon

Member
genesisblock said:
Oh man, me and my friend went for a 4.5 hour session but his game got bugged and crashed. I can see this game is slowly going to be GOTY if this keeps up. And this is my first BG game. Didn't even play the Neverwinter Nights series.
Click to expand...

Not a popular opinion, but when I played them back in the day I tought the NWN series sucked balls. I doubt I'd change my mind today.
 
Handel

Handel

Member
Going to be one of the best reviewed games of the year. Between just this and Starfield the second half of the year is packed, 300+ hour experiences each.
 
KiteGr

KiteGr

Member
Having gone into the Pathfinder games being unfamiliar and unprepared of the DnD ruleset I can say that new people will get very confused by the Dice based stats and terminology.
 
Fess

Fess

Member
Kusarigama said:
Why are so many reviews unscored? Metacritic and Opencritic show aggregate based on only 4 reviews
Click to expand...
They sent out review codes a week before the release. Can’t go through a game like this that fast.

I’m positively surprised that so many critics went with a pending score. I hope this becomes a norm. Rushed day 1 reviews are only there to help selling a game, a customer never get the full picture on those reviews with patches and post-release added content as well as long games being a norm.
 
FeralEcho

FeralEcho

Member
SnapShot said:
who's baldur and why does he have a gate
Click to expand...
God of Light and Beauty in Norse Mythology....After battling Kratos and getting my ass kicked I would put up a gate too, wouldn't you.
Thierry Henry Smile GIF by hamlet
 
Krathoon

Krathoon

Member
Actually, I am not that familiar with the city of Baldur's Gate.

Neverwinter, on the other hand. All kinds of crazy shit happening in Neverwinter.
 
Ginzeen

Ginzeen

Banned
foamdino said:
It's subjective of course, but BG3 is pushing systems way further than any other game apart from dwarf fortress - in my opinion it's a generational leap forward and deserves game of the generation (for now). It won't win anything though because it launched same year as a zelda game so...
Click to expand...
Don't worry. It will beat Zelda for game of the year don't worry.
 
amigastar

amigastar

Member
Turn Based games (XCom, Civilization, 4X) are my fav genre. So i naturally tend to like BG3 more than the usual.
 
geary

geary

Member
5 day after release and only 8 reviews...And is 95 in MC now.
I wonder how thorough will be the reviews, because the big publication usually get out a review after they play 30% of a game.
 
lefty1117

lefty1117

Gold Member
This is my GOTY, I can't imagine Starfield topping this. Still can't wait for Starfield, very excited for it. But releasing this a month early to let players really dig into it, was a genius move aside from the financials. It's an amazing piece of work.
 
amigastar

amigastar

Member
lefty1117 said:
This is my GOTY, I can't imagine Starfield topping this. Still can't wait for Starfield, very excited for it. But releasing this a month early to let players really dig into it, was a genius move aside from the financials. It's an amazing piece of work.
Click to expand...
I also can't imagine Starfield will be better but hey If Starfield turns out to be good, the better, i'm in a mood for a Bethesda RPG right now so i can't wait.
 
Last edited:
Gorgon

Gorgon

Member
geary said:
5 day after release and only 8 reviews...And is 95 in MC now.
I wonder how thorough will be the reviews, because the big publication usually get out a review after they play 30% of a game.
Click to expand...

It's at 96 on Metacritic right now. Same as Zelda:TotK.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 7 (Mods) storms onto PS5, XBS & Mac today
News
18
2K
Kamina replied
Baldur’s Gate 3 Still Reaching 100K Daily Steam Players One Year After Launch
Community
33
2K
coffinbirth replied
Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6 Releases Next Week
News
11
2K
ChuckeRearmed replied
Baldur's Gate 3 is GAME OF THE YEAR 2023!
News 2 3 4 5
201
14K
BennyBlanco replied
PC Gamer elects Baldur's Gate 3 as the best PC game ever released
Community 2 3 4 5
201
8K
Outlier replied
Top Bottom