I am definitely an old player. Played the DND White Box back in the day. I enjoy BG1 more than BG2 and any of the other IE games. That said BG3 may be one of my favorite games of all time. I really enjoy the turn based combat, though. They really went far in making the combat encounters unique. The fights at first are interesting, and then they add wrinkles to them; i.e. enemies that teleport your characters away from each other, enemies that disguise themselves, enemies that turn invisible, etc., etc. My first playthrough did have a number of bugs, but the thing now plays really well on consoles all the way down to a Steam Deck, which is quite amazing. I would imagine that people that are not familiar with the game could be overwhelmed, but if you are familiar with RPGs that learning curve would be shortened. I love it and wish Larian would continue with DND in the future but alas…
