Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback How does one capture the essence of the original Baldur's Gate? An honest opinion from longtime fan.

I might have had some similar impressions honestly, but for me there was a curious outside influence at work too, that perhaps dialed it up and made it even more extra special as it was a gift from my GF at the time. A first time RPG neophyte and we rocked it cover to cover together over the course of the Winter break. So I got to see it hook in a different way I guess and just love it for many and varied reasons. We also watched Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian that same break, classics for me, a first time for her. Perhaps more what we brought to the game than the game itself, but it had the resonance in my case. Probably a confluence of different things that would hard to pin down, but definitely the witch of the wilds has a special place in the heart hehe.

I'm on team Kotor all day too, so I can see what you mean. I think for her it was like timebean's intro, or perhaps more like the BG experience was for me and that gave it a glow. My first time playing Bioshock gave me what I imagine might be a similar kind of impression. I don't know, but it was great for me!

Also, for as much as I enjoyed DA, and Kotor too, they could never have delivered in the way that BG did for me. I thought DA felt completely different from FR Baldur's Gate 1/2 even though it was billed as a spiritual successor. To me it was basically Jade Empire with a setting change, so that was something I had to just get over immediately. Strangely BG3 looks and feels much more like DA than it does BG1/2 to me, which is a bit of a bummer. Not cause I didn't like DA, but because DA was always a very different sort of game than Baldur's Gate, which I felt strongly at the time, and still do.

I don't know that DA ever clocked more than a couple hundred hours in my house, and when I finished I was more or less finished, though I still have the disk of course. BG1/2 combined was probably closer to that magic 10,000 hours expertise level time sink. First install with every new rig, always on the hard drive. I mean I played the living fuck out of those games for like years and years and years, and can still find an excuse to do it again. I want BG3 to be like that!