No contest - respectfully - BG3 kicks WOTR into a cocked hat. I was so excited for it, desperately wanted it to be good - I had terrible RPG cravings with nothing new on the immediate horizon and I foolishly bought the deluxe edition in excited optimism. I then slogged my way through 70 hours of the game but sadly, the story and characters aren't engaging enough (I can't remember anyone now or what happens), the ruleset is used as cudgel to punish, rather than as a set of tools allowing the player to be inventive. The battle/armies mechanic is bizarre and out of place, and smashes what narrative there is into a pulp. The word 'tiresome' really encaptures my experience.
Complexity and granularity aren't a substitute for good game mechanics or world building, and sadly I stopped playing feeling frustrated, bored and irritated.
My experience with BG3 is the complete reverse, am dreading the game coming to an end but when it does, I'll spin the party around and immediately start all over again.
Firstly, I had never heard the expression "kicked into a cooked hat" before and I like it, kudos. Secondly, this is probably a taste thing because you cannot convince me that Wrath is not the better game. The only thing I think BV3 does better is graphic fidelity, and even then I found Wrath pushing the limits of more traditional isometric graphics and artstyle more exciting and enjoyable. BG3 at be more popular, and I appreciate being able to go into depth with the character creator (love a good character creator) but I will go to my grave saying WotR is the better game. And maybe I'm wrong! It's opinion.
Agreed - WotR has some very gorgeous and moody locations. Most importantly, I am not fighting the camera all the time, which is a real pain in multistory buildings in BG 3.
