Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Review



Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access reviewed on PC by Leana Hafer. Also available on Stadia.

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42 thoughts on “Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Review”

  1. When reviewers are so used to EA being the actual 'release' of a game and forget to notice that it's actually eh… Early access for once not 'we're trying to sell you something on a promise of bugfixes that will never come'

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  2. Complaining about the lack of content while saying multiple times that it's early access is laughable. That they give us THAT MUCH (instead of JUST THAT like in the video) is incredible: 5 companions with an already pretty fleshed out backstory and a budding development in just the first act/prologue (though I must say I find some of them rather similar in personality, half of them are stuck-up a-holes with Astarion, Gale and Lae'Zel being the prime examples), the classes are really complex and faithful to their DnD 5e counterparts, the character creation is amazing already… My only complaints are that the companions come at you too fast (Gale literally pops into existence): having them all be on the ship – while giving them a reason to travel together – feels very restrictive in meeting conditions and thrusts the story at you without giving you time to get to know one character before the next one already tries to stab you on the road. My second and last complaint is more tied to the game feeling like a Divinity game with a Baldur's Gate skin, but it's a tricky one to fix. Larian studios are obviously playing to their strengths (and there's nothing wrong with that! I'd rather have that than them trying and failing miserably, although that's what the early access is for), but apart from the bonus actions like the amazing jump and push I feel very little manages to make the game feel different from their flagship franchise. Regardless, I and my father are glad Baldur's Gate is getting resurrected and we'll happily report all the game-breaking bugs we find!

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  3. Complains about the classes, thats what tradition epic D&D is. The whole foundation of RPG games were built by these classes. This is what you get when a millennial reviews an old school RPG
    haha.

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  4. I feel like maybe 90% of the comments here didn't actually watch the review at all. Leana is well aware of the game being early access, and if your argument is "you shouldnt review things in early access I would kindly tell you to sit and spin. If you charge full price for a product, it can and should be reviewed.

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  5. This game for me is already 10/10. Yes,it's EA, with technical issues and it's only ACT 1…BUT in spite of this…it is amazing. I wish the last two Dragon Age had been like this .

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  6. Does anyone know if Larian plans to update Early Acces with new classes and story elements once they are finished? or are they keeping Early Access as is and doing the full game release next year?

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  7. This a pre-alpha at best NOT an Early Access. The game was never tested at all. Reeks of bugs, memory leaks, and the rest. It was a quick cash grab and people are too blind to see it.

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  8. I think if a game is for sale, it's appropriate to have a review for it.

    "but it's early access! Of course is buggy as hell and lacks basic features!" well they shouldn't charge people big bucks for it then!

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  9. From what I've played so far this game makes me truly feel like I'm playing DND with my friends, it's incredible especially in multiplayer exploring the world with friends strategizing your next moves. I'm truly blown away by the freedom this game provides, and how closely it feels to playing tabletop dnd. If you can't get a group together for dnd I would highly recommend you check this out

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  10. I have played single player for a couple hours and I am playing multiplayer with a friend now on Stadia, I am having a lot of fun, I cannot way for the final version!
    I have no idea what's going to happen next in the story!

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  11. BG3 has the worst camera behaviour in history of gaming, both in and out of combat. I love the graphics, the setting, the voice acting etc., but camera is absolutely preventing me from playing it.

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  12. Thank you very much, for reviewing this early access game and being honest about the fact that it's buggy, I will now wait to purchase this game until it is polished! We need people putting out reviews like this so that developers do not get our money before they have earned it. Thank you.

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