while as a long time RPG enjoyer it is easy for me to sniff at everything that BG3 doesn't do as well as it could, if someones reference as to what an RPG is like are Dragon Ages or action games with light RPG elements like Witchers or Ass Creeds, than it is not susprising that Baldur's Gate3 is judged like a groundbreaking masterpiece.
Honestly, even when compared to those RPG-lites... BG3 doesn't come up as impressive as it gets rated at.
Like, after recently having played DA:I, the ME trilogy, W3, AC: Odyessy before BG3 dropped... My take was "Okay, and?" while everyone else was losing their minds and giving it GOTY awards out the wazoo.
I think that standards have simply been set really low as of late with the concerning number of abject failures coming from AAA studios. Where it feels like every other week there's a brand new "Lowest rated game in history" and several studios getting completely shut down due to how horrendously poorly their game performs.
So anything that is even passably good looks like a diamond in a sea of turds.
This is not just BG3, but also many people highly praise CP2077's 2.0/Phantom Liberty but playing it myself I'd give the game more of a 6/10 maybe a 6.5 if feeling generous (A lot of stuff is still based on the flawed 1.0 designs...). But hey, compared to Redfall, a 6/10 may as well be a 10/10...
