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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me (www.pcgamer.com)

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Bethesda's latest can't help but feel shallow by comparison.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve played both for > 30 hours (200ish for bg3) and bg3 is so much deeper. Quests feel meaningful and have multiple options to complete, plus they’re not just go here grab this kill that quests. The facial/body rigging in bg3 is in a different league compare to starfield, Bethesda has always had wonky faces and lip sync but it just looks really bad coming from bg3’s full body/face mocap of real actors and then looking at starfield’s horse chomping wheat talking animation and washed out faces.

I will say starfields ships and guns are great, the guns feel good, customization is fun and impactful, ships are the same way. I could spend as long in the ship builder as I do character creation in BG3 and that’s great. Starfield has promise of modders can fix some of the jack and barrenness which I’m sure they will. BG3 doesn’t need modders help to be great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a gripe for me tho.

Modders should be adding to the game, not fix issues and fill potholes Bethesda couldn't be arsed to finish.

Why am I paying Bethesda when the modders are doing the heavy lifting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You’re asking the same question people have been asking Bethesda for 20 years.

At a certain point you have to come into a Bethesda game with an expectation of jank, that’s their “charm”, then modders polish the rough rock for a few years and you have a nice gemstone at the end of the ordeal. Is that a fair expectation for consumers? No not really. Is it ever going to change? Not likely, the company will fail before Todd makes them finish a game before releasing