Baldur's Gate 3 Gameplay: Watch The First-Ever Footage Here From PAX East

The main thing that I can see missing from the original Baldur's Gate games is the role-playing and character development, elements that I feel are key to D&D as well. Party members had memorable personalities (as evidenced by the fact that an audience member brought up "a certain ranger and his hamster" from a 20-year old game), party members and other NPCs reacted to decisions made by the player, and there was constant interaction with and among NPCs.

Baldur's Gate 3, similarly to Divinity: Original Sin, seems all about the puzzle solving, coming up with creative ways to defeat enemies and other obstacles. The interaction with party members seems two-dimensional (have the NPC join your party? kill the NPC?). And the past tense dialog options only further alienate the player from the characters, making it seem as if the player is just replaying someone else's story instead of creating their own.

I hope that Larian realizes that making a Baldur's Gate game is not just about integrating D&D mechanics into their game approach but rather a opportunity to combine their strengths in building highly detailed and interactive environments with the traditions of true role-playing.

Stop with the DnD This-is-not-BG posing, you're probably going to pre-order the game anyways.

I’m afraid I’m not into turn based gameplay which Baldurs Gate 3 is portraying from the same gameplay as Divinity Origin Sin 2 ,as I prefer Original Baldurs Gate games and Dark Alliance . So I’ll be giving this game a miss

So refreshing to not get "No Mans Skied" instead we see honest gameplay complete with bugs and mistakes. I might have to sneak into NASA to find a rig to be able to play this one, but hey, it'll be worth it!

Wow, they have been busy. Easy to tell, game looks fantastic, cinematics and lore seems insanely good. Shame I don't like the turn based combat. Played games like that alot when I was a child, but now when I'm older I don't have the patience anymore xd. I mean FF fighting turn based still works but this overhead chess clicking, I'd rather have it like diablo or dark alliance.

looks amazing

What the hell were people expecting? This is Larian, of course it's going to look like D:OS a lot. If you wanted something more like old BGs, then look at what Obsidian has done.

TB combat works great in game based on a table top RPG. Much better fit than the original BG games.

Xbox 1, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch are ignored for Google Stadia! Are they serious?

Pure turn-based = not BG

Everything feels so DOS = doesn't feel like DnD

Having to pick a predefined character to feel like you're not missing something by creating whatever you want = ass.

This isn't BG3. It's DOS3 wearing a DnD costume...a DnD reskin of a DOS game.

Also, the past tense dialogue choices are irritating, like it's a story being told to you, rather than you living YOUR adventure in the present...much less immersive and feels like less agency because even though you do make a choice, the past tense is telling you it already happened.

I do give props to the more cutscene focused adventuring tho...nice touch....and Larian does make a pretty game, so there's that too.

I'm not saying it won't be good in its own right, but I just can't think of it as a BG game.

Wait a minute. Did they simply re-skin the Divinity engine and call it Baldur's Gate? What is this?

I give props to any gamer that has patience to play a game with turn based combat system. This is a deal breaker for me, looks like I'll just skip BG3 unless the devs come out with real-time combat. Or at least make it an option to choose which combat system you want to play.