I'm just a little bit late to the Baldurs Gate 3 party, but I searched on here and didn't see much follow up discussion about it after the review thread. I'm also trying to submit more to Lemmy so the communities can grow, so I thought I'd bring it back up now that it has been out for a few weeks.
I only just bought Baldurs Gate 3 this week and finally got time to sit down and play it tonight for the first time really and I am so impressed. The character creator allows so much character expression. I made a generic red Tiefling and when I saw there was an option to add vitiligo, I immediately built out a head canon where my character is a Tiefling that is slowly being transformed into a human by a curse from his past. I never would have thought of a character like this, but the character creator just provided some pretty unique designs and options.
Everything just feels so polished. I've played Pathfinder Kingmaker before this and parts of Wasteland 2, but I've never been much of a CRPG fan. I feel like the user interface in this game is a lot easier to follow and read. It's especially nice because I played in co-op with a friend that doesn't play much in the way of RPGs and has only ever played tabletop D&D once and he was able to easily slot in and start figuring out how things work together and where everything in the UI was. It was very entry-level friendly for our experience and it made the entire experience a lot better.
Also it's kind of a weird thing but I'm really impressed with the facial animations so far. I was expecting Bioware or Bethesda style faces where their lips move, but their faces are otherwise lifeless. I've been loving seeing the character seemingly actually move their eyebrows and their jaws when they're speaking.
I'm not super far into the game since I've only had time today to play it, but I'm super excited to play more when I get the chance.
What have your experiences been like? Any fun stories or characters you've made?
It's great, the voice acting seems really good right across the board too. Overall it makes for quite an engaging world and story at least for me. I've run into a fair few bugs and annoyances but fortunately nothing too major, been having a blast so far! Hopefully the issues that are there get patched soon.
If you don't want to wait for patches and/or just want to customize your experience, there's already a bustling mod scene over on the Nexus, getting bigger and better pretty much every day!
I'd just like to add that installing mods via vortex (Nexus mod manager, usually very solid) gave me a lot of issues and I had to use a mod manager built for BG3 to mod easily.
I'm sure I just wasn't paying attention and just decided to look for an easier method.
If anyone is interested, just reply here and I'll find the info on the mod manager when I get home.
Tl;Dr - Check individual mod install notes, BG3 doesn't mod quite as easily as say Skyrim.
I tried to use the mod manager to install the 'fixer' mod that most nexus mods claim is essential to their use.
Not sure if it's something to do with a recent update, but the only way I could get the mods to work was by... simply copying and pasting them into the mods folder recommended by Larian lol. 'more actions' and 'more spell slots' have made the game enjoyable for me as a newcomer.
Thanks for pointing this out. I use Baldurs Gate 3 Mod Manager too and make sure to follow the advice of the second pinned comment here every time I save my new load order. I don't know if it's necessary to use the mod fixer mod itself when you do that, but I have it installed just in case and every mod that isn't pre-release or broken works for me with no further issues!
Is there a list of mods I can browse online before installing the mod manager?
There sure is!