It's weird. I keep hearing about how I'm playing a game that started so epic that it can't be working. While I'm playing a game that's working.
Well, the graphics are great, there are many little side stories, the combat mechanics are fun. Divinity Original Sin 2 was also fun, but had an unhinged story and world.
But yes, we're not talking high class literary fiction here. BG3 has more of a sandbox feeling and less of a credible fantasy world. Which might just be ok.
