Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy playing the game but it hasn’t seduced me like the originals did. I understand this is a purely personal experience; some posters are already exclaiming this as the greatest game ever made and it seems to have spawned an entire industry of Astarion and Shadowheart memes...whatever floats your boat. I suspect I am not truly the target market for this new iteration of the BG series.
I haven't been seduced like I was with the original Baldur's Gate either, but I think a big part of that is the loss of gaming virginity, when you see something new for the very first time. There's nothing quite like that first time.
The original BG was my first experience with an isometric, turn-based DnD fantasy game. I had never played tabletop DnD before, and still haven't. Now it's 22 years later. I've played a lot of other games with similar mechanics in both fantasy and sci-themes, and even with all the improvements in graphics and voice acting, it's more difficult for a game to really "wow" me. What it takes now is high quality story telling and character immersion, and frankly that's not one of Larian's strong points.
As an aside, I don't know why more game companies don't license classic fantasy literature for story telling, like Zelazny's "Amber" series, or Leiber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" stories (showing my age here). That's one reason the Witcher games were successful; CDPR had good material to work with.
Anyway, I'm still having enough fun with BG3 to look forward to the final release, although I think this may be my last play-through until then. There are only so many times I want to run through the same encounters in Act 1.
