Baldur's Gate 3 has been rated as one of the best RPG games of all time, why?

[Alxndr]

I'm only probably about half way through act 1. I've reached the goblin area with the guy strapped to the windmill.

Yes the game is good, good in the sense that I've not encountered any bugs, the game looks great and the combat is fun. But as for the story, I'm just not feeling any sense of "oh my god this is incredible.

Maybe I'm a bit early into the game and it takes a while to progress I dunno. But so far the story pretty much consists of Astarion wanting to drink my blood and Lae'Zel's insistence of finding a githyanki cresh.

Do things pick up in act 2?

[juicy j]

act 1 is the best part enjoy it

[myxlmynx]

Story-wise, it becomes much more interesting in Act 2 and 3. Just keep going, the story is great. Also the stories of the companion NPCs which also develop further as you go. The game is also big so you just have to keep going in order to reveal more of the story.

Also I'd recommend not making any deal with Raphael, at least not for your first playthrough, so that you'll end up fighting him later, which is a great fight and it might be missable so I'm mentioning it.

[hermit0wl]

IMO Act 2 has the best story moments.
That said, what makes the game so great isn't so much the main plot, but the variety of choices and player freedom in most situations. And the companions' character developement.

[EricHVela]

Of all time? Source? I suspect the source isn't as familiar with "all time" so far as some of us are familiar with it.

This game is great for what it does. Other RPGs are great for what they do. What one prefers tends to colour one's opinion.

Having been around the block since the 1970s when home gaming started becoming a thing, the RPG genre is quite a wide array of games that some don't remotely resemble others and they're all great in their own ways.

[Alxndr]

Originally posted by hermit0wl:

IMO Act 2 has the best story moments.
That said, what makes the game so great isn't so much the main plot, but the variety of choices and player freedom in most situations. And the companions' character developement.

Do the choices you make actually affect the long term characters though? For example if I meet an NPC in Act 1 and choose not to fight them, I might meet them again in Act 3 where they have a quest or something.

Or do NPCs never move to different Acts?

[JawaJoose]

You must remember, most everything you read about games these days is targeted at people 25 and below. If you've been gaming since the 80s or 90's you know it's all been done before. It's a very well made game, but it's nothing new.

[BunnyMann]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

Originally posted by hermit0wl:

IMO Act 2 has the best story moments.
That said, what makes the game so great isn't so much the main plot, but the variety of choices and player freedom in most situations. And the companions' character developement.

Do the choices you make actually affect the long term characters though? For example if I meet an NPC in Act 1 and choose not to fight them, I might meet them again in Act 3 where they have a quest or something.

Or do NPCs never move to different Acts?

Oh yes, you'll see them again. And things will be quite different depending on how you helped them.

As for the story thoughts, a lot of talk about the story is not about your story, but all the stories in the game. I wouldn't do it now due to spoilers, but if you ever look at other peoples playthough you'll see stuff you never saw. You'll probably not see 50+% of the stuff in the game, while the main plot stays constant. My sister is playing it and we talk about it, and so often it's "what happened to you?!" to each other. It's the craziness of so many choices being fully coded in the game. How many different ways you can get through things.

Edit: It's one of the things Bethesda devs said they could never do, have large amount of content you might never see. Which goes into that whole thing of do choices matter. In BG3, there will be whole camps that will live or die removing them from the game. You can kill Astarian early on if you want, and he's gone. In that way, it's totally new.

[hermit0wl]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

Originally posted by hermit0wl:

IMO Act 2 has the best story moments.
That said, what makes the game so great isn't so much the main plot, but the variety of choices and player freedom in most situations. And the companions' character developement.

Do the choices you make actually affect the long term characters though? For example if I meet an NPC in Act 1 and choose not to fight them, I might meet them again in Act 3 where they have a quest or something.

Or do NPCs never move to different Acts?

Yes, you can (and likely will) encounter some NPCs again in later Acts, most notably the tieflings.

[alanc9]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

Maybe I'm a bit early into the game and it takes a while to progress I dunno. But so far the story pretty much consists of Astarion wanting to drink my blood and Lae'Zel's insistence of finding a githyanki cresh.

There's also that whole going-to-turn-into-a-mindflayer thing, of course.

[Welbert Asker]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

I'm only probably about half way through act 1. I've reached the goblin area with the guy strapped to the windmill.

Yes the game is good, good in the sense that I've not encountered any bugs, the game looks great and the combat is fun. But as for the story, I'm just not feeling any sense of "oh my god this is incredible.

Maybe I'm a bit early into the game and it takes a while to progress I dunno. But so far the story pretty much consists of Astarion wanting to drink my blood and Lae'Zel's insistence of finding a githyanki cresh.

Do things pick up in act 2?

it's like watching the lord of the rings and not even reaching to the first nazgul and then saying bad movie

[Oonayah]

Good news! If you've only gotten as far as the Blighted Village, as you describe, you're not even remotely close to being halfway through Act 1. From the sound of it, you're barely close to being halfway through the first map.

The game is still laying all the groundwork. You're meeting a whole lot of new people and there is a huge knot of stories to unravel. Soon you'll start pulling on these threads to find out where they go. Eventually the pace picks up a bit as you weave the strands together but one of the reasons the game is so lauded is because they adhere to the practice of "show, don't tell".

In terms of "adventure", think less like a roller coaster and more like driving through the middle of nowhere in the Midwest with the GPS off. You have no idea where you're going other than "north", hoping you'll find an outpost of humanity, and sometimes it turns out a paved road is a long driveway and sometimes the gravel path is actually a road.

[belgix]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

Yes the game is good, good in the sense that I've not encountered any bugs, the game looks great and the combat is fun. But as for the story, I'm just not feeling any sense of "oh my god this is incredible.

Well you already caught the essence of the game. A really good game with a sour aftertaste regarding the story. It will get better til end of Act 2 but felt flat after finishing Shadowheart quest line and the final battle of Act 2. Act 3 is fine, with some lengths on it and with a lot of content unconnected to the main story. Act 3 is a like of "rite of passage" to the final battle; you need to do it, but at some point you will ask yourself why you do it.

[thefollowingcharacters]

True. Act one is: "We have a mind flayer parasite. Can we get rid of it?" Its an act intended to get your feet wet into the game, showing you that exploration and role playing are important. You have SEVERAL ways of approaching quests and getting your answer. Act 2 advances the story further, and Act 3 finishes the story links from Act 1 and 2 and ends the story. Its good! Keep going.

[Zombie]

imo the best thing you can do on the start of a new game is slap Gales hand and walk away (fairy just wants magic items). The in the first by the grove kill the blade (he is just more trouble than he is worth. actually he is worthless like Gale). Shadow-heart is meh.

[Chaosolous]

lmao, because it's an excellent game.

If you don't understand why, that's a you problem.

Go play Veilguard or Forspoken if you don't get it.