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Baldur's Gate 3 is an overall good game with many, many flaws. Some of these will be fixed by Larian, and some will be fixed by mods. Regardless, if you want to play D&D without all the work, this is as good as it gets.

They spent so much time on the aesthetic and visuals that they forgot they were supposed to be making an RPG.

Me: DOS2 is the best game ever made.

Swen, entering the room in full plate with a toe ring: ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º)

The game is a buggy mess right now, and I'm honestly astounded it was released in this state, but that's not the worst of its problems. It's terribly unoptimized and riddled with poor design choices. Here are some:

- You can't bind to mouse keys. Why? WHY?
- Can't inspect status effects on enemies.
- Using quick load will ONLY restore to the most recent quick save, even if there is a more recent manual save.
- The stealth implementation is lack-lustre AT BEST.
- Dialogs are SLOOOOW and tedious, and you must click through one every time you need to interact with a merchant.
- THERE IS NO SAVE BUTTON WHEN LEVELING UP. YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON A DIFFERENT TAB AND IT WILL ASK YOU TO CONFIRM. WHYYYYYYY
- For some reason you must constantly reselect your group RTS-style to control everyone despite the fact that needing to control everyone is the MOST COMMON SITUATION BY FAR.
- There is no way to scroll back up in conversations if you missed dialog or need to reference something. How is it possible that you missed this?
- LOADING SCREENS LOADING SCREENS LOADING SCREENS

And that's just some I can think of off the top of my head. Even if all the bugs were fixed I would still hesitate to recommend this game because it seems to have been made by people who have no experience and apparently have never played other games in the genre.

This game, although improved significantly from launch, is still just bad. It's a slog at every point, un-fun and uninteresting. While technically there, the VR support is unusable due to the incredibly poor optimization of the game. Additionally, grinding as much as this game requires is just not feasable in VR, where it is necessary to play in short bursts. Overall, hated it.