The minimal onboarding and tutorials in the early version we played presumes you're at least passingly familiar with games where a team of heroes take turns triggering attacks. That's because this new Baldur's Gate game was made by the same people who created one of our favorite games of the past several years, 2017's Divinity: Original Sin 2. It does, however, help to be familiar with more modern offshoots, like the Divinity: Original Sin series, as I reported in my first impressions of the live gameplay from earlier this year (making it the last in-person game demo I attended, pre-COVID-19). All that said, you don't need to be a D&D fan, or even familiar with earlier Baldur's Gate games, to get into BG3. If there was ever a time for the old-school D&D brand to get slapped on anything possible, it's now. With quarantine-friendly RPG websites like, celeb-packed D&D livestreams and even a boost from its pivotal role in Stranger Things, it's surprising to me that the official Dungeons & Dragons branding in Baldur's Gate 3 is virtually nonexistent. Larian Studios/Screenshot by Dan Ackerman/CNET It was followed by a 2000 sequel ( Baldur's Gate 2) and a handful of expansions and plenty of remakes and updated versions, like the 2013 Enhanced Edition, which remains one of best classic roleplaying games on iOS.īaldur's Gate 3 party or Jethro Tull album cover? The old-school lineage is strong here, dating back to the original Baldur's Gate in 1998, based on the Dungeons & Dragons pen-and-paper RPG.
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And this is all part of the cinematic dragons-versus-a-giant-flying-airship cinematic opening of Baldur's Gate 3, probably the most anticipated PC game of the year, now available as an Early Access game for $60 on both Steam and GoG for Windows and Mac, and streaming via Google Stadia.Įventually the giant airship you're a prisoner on crashes, and you escape mostly unscathed and get to go on a good old-fashioned quest, meeting up with other adventurers along the way, and hopefully get your brain slug removed before you turn into a Mind Flayer yourself. No, it's not a Ceti Eel, it's a Mind Flayer's parasite. The dungeons may have to wait for a bit later, because some Cthulhu-esque monster is sticking a brain slug in my eye. There are dragons pretty much right away.
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