DO NOT BUY Baldur's Gate 3 - VERY disappointing

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the new

Baldur's Gate 3, and as an avid fan of

Baldur's Gate and ARPGs in general, I knew

I just had to play this game.

Unfortunately, so far from what I've

played, it's kind of bland, boring,

uninspired, and rather lacking in luster.

So first of all, I want to talk about the

character creation screen. It's a very

nice character creation on the surface.

The models look pretty good and there are

a few attractive faces, although it's very

difficult to actually make a character

look exactly how you want it to look.

Going through the different faces and

hairstyles, I would say that most of the

characters look very ugly and it's

basically almost impossible to make a girl

look good in the character creation

screen. And I feel like this is kind of

disappointing and a massive letdown

considering the fact that this game is

supposed to be a fantasy role-playing

game. I mean, even Street Fighter 6 has a

better, more in-depth customizable

character creation screen, and that's just

a basic fighting game. So you can't really

alter the way the face looks on a

feature-by-feature level. You can't change

the shape of the nose or the size of her

lips or things like that. You can just

choose from several preset faces, and you

can choose from several hairstyles and

choose the hair color. It's a very basic

character creation menu screen, I believe.

So after making your character, you get

thrown onto this ship. As the beginning of

the game, you're on this flying ship and

you've got to make your way to the helm.

And my initial thoughts was, number one,

why do I have to aim where my jump is.

It's like a point-and-click movement

system which feels very janky and slow and

unresponsive. And as someone who's been

playing a lot of Diablo 4 recently, this

game kind of looks like Diablo 4 in the

sense that it has a top-down isometric

camera angle, but it doesn't feel or move

like Diablo 4. So I guess you could say,

yeah, in Diablo 4 you use the mouse to

point and click, but you can also use a

controller to move around, which is how I

like to play. I don't know if this game

also has controller support. I didn't test

it out, but as with the mouse and keyboard

movement and playstyle, I just felt like

clicking and pointing to move my character

around didn't feel as smooth and fluid as

it should feel. If I had to describe this

game in a few sentences, I would say

imagine if XCOM had a baby with Diablo,

then this is what it would be like. So the

combat system is turn-based. Like XCOM.

It's very weird because I was thinking

this is going to be a hack-and-slash game

like Diablo, but then it's turn-based and

you've got turns and movement points. So

you move and then you attack, and then you

can only move or attack a limited amount

of times per turn, and then the enemy

takes their turn, and then you just kind

of whack each other until one of you dies.

And it's not really a fun or engaging

combat system. It works well in games like

XCOM because it's like a tactical

team-based squad shooter game, but this

just feels weird. It's like, imagine if

Diablo 4 was a turn-based game and

you had to fight demons and stuff. I mean,

even the enemies in this look like the

enemies in Diablo— the demons and the imps

and the devil stuff. Very reminiscent of

Diablo 4, which is kind of weird. I didn't

like how vague the game was. Didn't really

tell you exactly where to go. They kept

telling me to go to the Helm, but I

couldn't really see where I had to go.

And I kept getting lost, or I kept getting

stuck on the scenery and then having to

click around to move, maneuver around the

scenery. It was just a very frustrating

and annoying experience to play this game.

I didn't really feel like the game felt

fun, even though I'm someone who really

enjoys things like stats and building a

character and different builds and

leveling up. I really enjoy that kind of

gameplay aspect, but not when the game

doesn't feel fun and it feels janky. And

just feels like a very badly made,

badly poorly developed game. There's a lot

of dialogue options in the game, so you

would meet a character, they would tell

you something, and you get quite a lot of

options for dialogue. Like, you can choose

the evil route or the good guy route, or

just be nice or be bad. It's kind of up to

you, and it's kind of cool they give you

that flexibility in choosing how you want

to play the game and who you want to be in

the game. But I don't really care that

much about it. I don't really feel like it

made the game any more fun because the

gameplay mechanics and the core gameplay

loop just doesn't really feel fun or

engaging enough for me to care enough

about who I want to be in the game. The

combat was very dull and bland and lacking

in luster. I really don't know why the

beginning of the game starts off on this

really ugly-looking ship. It's like a

weird-looking alien ship It looks just

like a map from XCOM, and it's really ugly

and dull. I think it would be much better

if you started off the game in a nice

peaceful quaint forest with nice

atmosphere, nature, and birds chirping to

begin off— to start off your adventure.

But they just throw you onto this weird

alien-looking ship, and I have no idea

what I'm doing here, how I got here, what

am I supposed to be doing. Because I

skipped the boring cutscenes, I have no

idea what's going on, and I just didn't

really feel engaged in the game at all. I

didn't really feel like I cared about. So

unfortunately, I really cannot recommend

this game. It's going for £50 on Steam,

which is quite a lot of money, and I just

don't really see myself enjoying this

game. And I don't think you would enjoy it

either if you're a gamer like me. I feel

like this game isn't really going to

satisfy those gaming needs. So I have to

give this game a 4.2 out of 10. Cannot

recommend. I'd much rather play Diablo 4,

which is basically the same as this but

actually fun and more engaging. So for

now, I would say do not buy it.

Oh my God,

he keeps one-shotting me.

Christina,

take this or Sario will have your head.

How do I revive my team member?

I need help. Swift and

Oh my God, this game's so shit. I think

Is that succubus licking him?

Okay.

I think I'm gonna make the video now.

Refund this piece of shit. What a shit

game.

This boss is impossible.

Oh no, I can't be fucked with this. Fuck

this stupid game. What a load of rubbish.

How can you make such a shit game? Oh my

god. Okay, well, bye then.