why I HATE Baldur's Gate 3

I made a pretty scathing and critical

review of Baldur's Gate 3 a couple weeks

ago, and it's been a few weeks since I

released my review, and it seems like

basically the entire internet disagrees

with me. And it seems like the game is

extremely popular, it's getting all of

these awards, and it's beating other games

in terms of viewership on Twitch and stuff

like that. And I just, I really don't

understand why this game is so popular.

It— when I played the game, I just felt

incredibly bored, and I felt like this

game has absolutely nothing interesting or

unique about it. I still stand by my

points, and I still think it's one of the

most boring games I've ever played in the

last few years. Basically, it's just like

a turn-based role-playing game where you

got a lot of stats and you level up your

character and you get gear. I mean,

that's like basically every single

role-playing game that's ever existed.

And exactly what does Baldur's Gate 3 do

that is so mind-blowingly amazing? I just

do not understand it. I think one of the

main appealing parts of Baldur's Gate 3 is

how there's like multiple dialogue options

and you can like choose the destiny or the

future of your character, and there's

different paths and ways you can develop

your character depending on which

characters you talk to and which ones you

help or which ones you don't help. And I

don't really feel like this is a unique

selling point either. There's loads of

role-playing games where you've got

multiple choice and multiple endings.

This is nothing new, so I really don't

know why Baldur's Gate 3 is getting so

much hype and so many people are praising

it. When I played it It was like a very

dumbed-down version of like some kind of

role-playing game, but it's turn-based and

you've got attacks and different abilities

and you level up, you've got attribute

points. This is so bog standard and

nothing new. The graphics were not even

that good. They were okay for 2023, but

they weren't very impressive. And then

because of the far-up camera with the

top-down view, you can barely even see

your character anyway. So you spend all

this time customizing your character and

all you ever see is like the top of the

heads. And the level design was really

rubbish and I kept getting lost and stuck

on the map and I couldn't tell where I was

supposed to go because they don't really

make it very clear. And the maps and the

environments just look kind of boring as

well. Everything about the game just

incredibly bored me so much that I

couldn't play it for longer than a few

hours. And don't get me wrong, I love

turn-based games. I probably love

turn-based games like Darkest Dungeon. I

really love that game, it was so good. I

played it loads of times. I spent more

than a few hours— I spent like weeks and

weeks playing that game, completely

hooked. And I was trying out all of the

different classes. I named my characters,

actually felt kind kind of sad when some

of my characters died. And the game is

really challenging and exciting, and that

was really fun. And I also liked XCOM. I

played a lot of XCOM 1, which is also a

turn-based tactical shooting game, and I

really enjoyed that and customizing my

character and leveling up and getting more

powerful. So I do enjoy turn-based games

when it's a good game like those ones I

mentioned. But when I played Baldur's Gate

3, I don't know why I couldn't get into

it, because it's not that I hate

turn-based games— I like some— but I just

couldn't get into the game even though I

like fantasy RPG games. I loved Elden Ring

and Diablo 3. They're kind of like fantasy

RPG games in the same way Baldur's Gate 3

is, but the combat mechanics are obviously

different. But with Baldur's Gate 3, I

don't know why, I just, I couldn't get

into it. It was just kind of weird. It's

kind of strange because the game just

feels kind of janky and unpolished. It

feels kind of like an indie game, like

maybe very passionate game lovers made it

in their mum's bedroom or in their

basement when they're studying at

university, and it's like a passion

project. But I don't really feel like it's

a AAA game with very high polish, even

though the— I think the game's been in

early access for years now. And even

though it's been in early access for years

and it's finally like the proper public

version that's been released, it just

didn't feel good. The gameplay, moving the

character around didn't feel good. The

gameplay didn't feel good. I just didn't

really feel good with the UI or the menu

system or the inventory system. The entire

game just felt kind of unpolished to me

personally. And also I didn't really find

the romance part of the game to be very

amusing. I know a lot of people think it's

funny, like a big lizard man falling in

love with a little tiny dwarf woman, or

like a little dwarf guy falling in love

with a big hot elf lady.

That's— yeah, I guess it's funny if you've

got the mentality or the sense of humor of

like a 12-year-old, but as a grown man, I

didn't really find the romance stuff very

interesting because number one, I don't

really want to get aroused. I don't want

to be playing a video game and then get

turned on at the idea of like a wood elf

and a dwarf doing it in the forest. I just

kind of want to play game and have fun and

get hooked on its gameplay mechanics,

not, um, you know, have my man drive

activated. So I was tempted to buy the

game again because I bought it the first

time, then I refunded it because it was so

boring. I was kind of tempted to buy it

again and try it again since it seems to

be getting so much praise and everyone

seems to love it, and they're saying, oh,

it's like the next best thing to Diablo

and Elden Ring. But I just don't really

see myself enjoying it. And if I buy it

again, then obviously I can't refund it

again, and then I would have just wasted

like £50, which I don't really want to do.

I would like to save my money if I could

feel confident that I would really enjoy

the game, then yes, I would buy it again.

But I've been watching videos and it's so

boring. I mean, it's boring to play and

it's boring to watch. I just don't really

see what is so great about this game. So

unfortunately, I'm gonna stick with what I

said in my review and keep the score I

gave it. I think I gave it like 6.2 out of

10, which I think is fair enough for the

game. I really don't think it's a great

game. I don't think it should win any

awards, and I don't know why it's smashing

milestones like, oh, the most number of

viewers, players playing it at the same

time, concurrent playership. I just don't

understand what all this hype is around

it, and it's just kind of a boring,

bland, and lacking in luster kind of game.