Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Books in BG3 need improvement

Maybe this has been raised, and a small niggle but in such a (brilliant) game a valid one I think.

The books are very poorly done. BG1/2 and eg elder Scrolls games look like printed or written pages. These look like they have been typed out on word, so definitely not very immersive.

An immersive quality re-do would be briliant!

Thanks for all the work so far.

Agreed.

And on the Quality-of-Life side of book-related things (somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, because I have not yet played the game) :

Could we please have the books start on the left page (instead of the right page) ?

For books with an odd number of pages, this changes nothing.

For books with an even number of pages, this saves one click to turn one page (and interacting with this poorly immersive UI).

For example : if the text of a book takes 3 pages, it would now be printed on pages 1, 2 and 3 (instead of 2, 3 and 4), still requiring one click ; but if the text of a book takes 2 pages, it would now be printed on pages 1 and 2 (instead of 2 and 3), meaning one less click.

God it’d even be better if they just changed the font.

The strange thing is that it was nice during EA. I guess it is difficult to satisfy everyone.

Oh really, was it more book like than word processor?

The police was definitly different, with an old style. And a bit bigger if I remember well.

I don't understand this change to be honest.

I have less problem with the style but with the content. I know not many people read ingame books, but iterresting Lorbooks that have twitter (sorreh X) length are a bit disappointing - for example the book in the Owlbearcave about the conflict between Shar and Selune - I'd even like it if there was an "audio book" option (maybe at the long rest camp site) where you could just listen to it ...

Immersive style needed and agree on the content, some interesting stories and backgrounds would be great - we don't have a fear of reading!