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This game is perfect
Every now and then a game comes along that takes you on such an amazing adventure and it reminds you why you love playing video games. For me, Baldur's Gate 3 is one of those games.
The game begins with you being captured on some alien type space ship where put some little tadpole thing in your head. You learn that you will eventually turn into one of the alien looking things that look straight out of an HP Lovecraft story.
You manage to break free, along with a few other captives and try to find a way to escape the ship, but then it gets attacked by dragons that eventually blow up the ship.
The ship crashes in the wilderness and that is where your adventure begins. There is something really fun about beginning an adventure that you know nothing about. I have never played any of the other Baldur's Gate games before, but I did play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons as a kid.
One of the coolest parts of this game is how the story intertwines between all the characters you meet and your decisions you make really shape the story and have massive impacts on how things go. From what I have heard, you can either choose how to get rid of the parasite in your brain or you can accept it and harness its power and become truly evil.
I think I have played for nearly 12 hours or so and I am really enjoying this game. It is a bit slower paced than normal RPGs because of the turn based combat. I wasn't sure if I was going to like that or not, but after getting used to it, I really like how the combat is in this game. There is so much freedom on how you approach combat.
There is quite a learning curve to the combat when you first start playing. You can only move a certain amount of spaces during your turn. Then you have Actions and Bonus Actions that you can do as well. Learning to balance everything that your different characters do is imperative to winning the battles.
Another cool thing about this game is that you have to take rests to recoup your HP and spell slots and stuff. During a rest, your group all meets up at a camp and the story progresses at the camp as well. It is cool how just about everything that you do in the game can progress the story and the camp is a really cool way to get to know all the characters in your party.
One thing that took me getting used to was that there really aren't the traditional quest givers. Normally on these types of games, quest givers are marked with a ? on their heads or the map. In this game, you have to talk to people to figure things out and based on how you talk to them, they will tell you stuff that updates quest markers or begins a quest. It really helps with the whole immersion of the game.
This game is also a ton of fun to play while stoned. It is a ton of fun to get high, and then wander around in this world. I was walking past a building and heard some banging and smashing, and when I opened the door, these two goblins were having sex and got mad when I interrupted them, so I had to kill them. It was hilarious.
If you are looking for a really fun RPG to take you on a crazy adventure, then you really need to check this game out. There have been a lot of great games come out this year, but nothing has been as fun for me as this game. It reminds me a lot of how excited I was when I was playing Elden Ring for the first time. This game is so good.