Baldur's Gate 3, finally!

As I promised myself, with the new year I'm finally playing Baldur's Gate! I'm trying to approach things with tempered expectations, because the hype for this game is too high for anything to really match, and even the best video game writing is still video game writing. I have Divinity Original Sin 2 still somewhat fresh in my mind, so I kind of knew what to expect, but the first thing I noticed was how much less I like the combat system in Baldur's Gate. I've never liked the DnD system, and it doesn't make much sense to me as a video game system, but it seems like since this is a DnD product it's got to try to interpret DnD rules. I miss the Divinity system already, but I'm sure I'll adapt.

The other thing I was a little surprised by is that character creation was a little limited in terms of facial options. I'm not the sort of person who spends much time customizing my character so it wasn't a huge deal, but I like to tweak things a bit and you couldn't really. I guess that guarantees that your dude is relatively decent looking regardless. I went with a human fighter. Very vanilla, I know, but I've enjoyed sword and board classes. Having physical strength and being able to defend my allies is my power fantasy.
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