Greetings, I’m fairly new to gaming and fully new to D&D. I have completed a couple play throughs of DOS1 and DOS2 so my familiarity with Larian games helped me get going on BG3.
I’ve been reading posts about the difficulty of BG3 for new players but I suspect those mostly relate to early release. My wife and I are playing co-op on the PS5 and we are just shy of level 12, I’m 5 levels of Warlock and 6 of Fighter. I tend to obsess over character build, buffed armor and perks.
I have not found combat to be terribly difficult in fact about right for me. I never eat, almost never use battlefield assistance like firewine barrels etc, just mainly using cantrips, spells, main weapon and positioning.
But nonetheless I am not sure I’ll start back up and finish. This is surely a product of the type of gamer I am - I pretty much hate puzzles and leave those to my wife while I Google and read to her. My issue is that we want a rich gameplay experience so we want to try as many side quests as can. But beginning around the Shar stuff in act2 it began to feel too hard to flow in a proper order as too much time spent Googling. Now in act3 I am really over it.
I don’t like the idea of just playing the game and let things flow based on my ignorant choices, we already had to go back a save when we learned the consequences of not saving an NPC so now I have that fear of ignorant choices impacting how the game plays out. So looking at the remaining quests we have and wanting to get them right, I am spending so much time Googling that it causes me to pause and consider stopping.
A long read to get to this question (sorry) but am I overthinking and should just play knowing I’ll miss new gear from puzzles, will miss quests and may not like the outcomes? Are we missing simple clues about the proper order to quests and treasures or are we expected to have to do lots of research to get it ‘right’?
