Baldur's Gate 3: Review After 100% 

It is amazing how reactive Larian Studios was to address so many issues in so little time since this video.

Thats why they are legendary. One of the best devs ever. I hope they see all this love and keep the passion up instead of being money hungry

​@@ethanmoon505this game still deletes saves like it's going out of style on Xbox. Don't dislocate your jaw sucking them off just yet

Even more has been fixed in patch 6… can’t wait for the definitive version.

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Who’s Rafael

​@@danboyd6180Not me

@@danboyd6180 the ninja turtle from teenage ninja mutant Ninja turtle

Yeah but Mort can't sing like Raphael

Considering most of the experience is slightly different dialog and not any actual plot changes, that’s not surprising.

@@chrisjackson1215 Writing/dialogs isn't content??? What??? It's a ROLE PLAYING. The content is the role playing, aka dialogs. Here's what's gonna blow your mind. D&D, the game that BG3 is based on, is 100% dialogs.

The game isn't that big, the problem is that no one played it, everyone got in, played act 1, maybe act 2 and never toched it again. If you check on steam, the achivement for finishing the game, not for getting 100%, just for finishing it once, has been obtained by only 15.2% of the people that bought it.

@@luxaeterna365while I agree to some degree, there are still over 100k playing as of a couple weeks ago. On steam only.

@@chrisjackson1215I agree but the acts alone took me 250 hours to find everything in-map. I’d say that’s more than enough.

uhh... not quite

well then you have big rotten heart and nothing will ever make you happy start drinking @@frogoree

@@restfulori212Unpopular opinion but I agree, BG3 outdid even Dragon Age Origins by a wide margin.

They had good games, i think the last good one was Dragon Age 1. Also those Mass effect games were terrible.

I legit feel like I'm playing Dragon Age Origins sometimes, when I'm playing BG3

@@tincano-beans2114 Well, the "industry" consists mostly of major corporations, they can afford the time and bugets, but they still don't deliver any good rpgs..

@@tincano-beans2114 Nobody is expecting indie devs to deliver a game this crazy and expansive. Literally nobody. Millions upon millions of dollars, years of development, and hundreds of employees IS THE STANDARD for every major game corporation, but you never see anything as ambitious as BG3 coming from those studios. So it can't just be a budget issue.

@@tincano-beans2114they pulled off what the op is talking about in dos2 as well. It’s not the budget it’s the approach to interactive storytelling telling they use. I saw a Mark Darrah video and he referred to what they do as “campfires in the dark” The big money let them make the fancy graphics, cut scenes, voice acting etc. the bones of the game are all build of what they’ve done before and have just kept refining.

They won’t bro or they would have.

@@ducky36FI can’t believe more people don’t know/realize this. At least we have Larian. At least we have DoS2 (and 1 I guess) and now BG3. I hope Larian release another absolute banger in several more years again 😅

Don't know what the other a-holes in these comments are talking about, but I love your vids and I'm glad Mort has such a wide impact.

​@@zoltanschweifer4304How is D4 any better? The end game is still shit, the loot is still shit, and the builds are all still exactly the same. And how exactly is BG3 falling off? It's a predominantly singleplayer RPG and yet it still averages ~130000 daily players on steam 3 months after its release, which is unheard of for this genre and this long after release. Not even ELDEN RING was able to hold on to this percentage of its peak playerbase for 3 months.

It's literally just a bug introduced in the last patch. Either way I'd rather play a game that is a bit laggy but still amazing over a dogshit boring game

5:06 fantastically summarized about how this is just one representation of the CRPG genre. I think people really need to heed what you’re saying, and go check out those other masterfully made, and executed CRPGs.

​@@zoltanschweifer4304I'm glad your game is getting better. This video isn't about your game. Chill. You're coming in too hot.

You should check out Remortis, he’s pretty solid too. Though much newer to RU-vid. He just started putting out Rogue Trader builds but also did a ton of bg3 stuff too!

And a shoutout to Slandered Gaming, between Mort's and Slandered's video's for both BG3 and the Pathfinder WotR its added so much more enjoyment of these games for me..

I did .75 of a playthrough. Act 2 burnt me. Same as dos2 for me. In act 1: Omg this is the greatest game ever. By the end of act 2 it just felt like a slog. I did almost all the side missions and if you do that, theres too much content.

​@@tomjones2056Don't feel bad, that happened to most of the people that played it. I finished it twice and it has problems, the story is amazing, the characters are super charismatic, you end up loving most of them, but the combat is really slow and it only get's slower the more you move forward. The same thing happens with the bugs, at the start there's just a couple here and there, but by the end they're everywhere, each worse than the last one. That probably why only 15.2% of the people that bought the game have the achivement for finishing it, even after 3 months.

@@tomjones2056 I feel the exact same. Act 1 was a 10/10 and I'm pretty sure I either 100% it or very close. Act 2 was kind of a linear slog and was a 7/10. Act 3 is awful, obviously bc of performance and bugs, but the pacing, story, and sidequests that made Act 1 so amazing, just disappeared completely. As amazing as Act 1 is, unfortunately the game was not immune to being unfinished and rushed to release like pretty much every game these days. I'll give them a bit of a pass because the scope of this game is insane, but the game as a WHOLE is very overrated, at least until we give them two years to finish the game and release the definitive edition like they do with all their games.

​@trevorbye6965 Lol you're just wrong, it's okay to admit you just got burnt out. It's a personal issue.

@@tomjones2056 I felt that way with DOS2, but not this game. I played through 3 full games (my 2nd game I did skip some stuff in act 3). But I admit on my 4th and 5th games I petered out pretty early on in act 1. That said, I am tempted to at least play the beginning of act 1 as Astarian based on this video.

That's probably one of the biggest compliments to any game developer's products, reaching players that would not normally play games from that genre. Try out some of their earlier games DOS1 + 2 and you'll see the influences, both combat and style.

I´m in the same boat except I haven´t gotten much into BG3 precisely because of combat. I know it´s turn based and yes, for me that´s also a plus, but still... too much fighting, too many icons... I keep waiting on something like DIsco Elysium and I have asked all over the internet, including like 5 times in this channel coments, but either such game doesn´t exist so nobody responds, or if I get responses it´s always the ultra-elitist complaining that I dare to ask for a non-combat RPG. I know Morti has mentioned several times Planetscape Torment, but yeah, clearly his definition of "little to no combat" is completely different than mine, map is filled with people that attack on sight. I´ll see if after finishing some other games I have on the process I give BG3 another go, but I just keep wishing for this genre to finally start mixxing things up a little more than "it´s a fantasy cRPG or a western cRPG or a cyberpunk cRPG".

@@GeoGyf ... what? Sorry but your message makes no sense to me, neither is related to anything I said.

@@GeoGyf Based on your reading comprehension, I get why you'd have such an opinion.

CRPGs are my favorite genre, so I love comments like these. Like Morty says in the intro to this video, hopefully one of the lasting legacies of BG3 will be all the people who say "I gave CRPGs a chance because I heard BG3 was amazing!" Really funny to see your comment on _this_ channel, of all places, since I come here mostly because Morty more or less focuses mainly on CRPGs.

100% - BG3 is both a masterpiece in its own right and an amazing gateway drug into other games into the genre

It does its dialogue choices and reactive world very well, though there are plenty of games that do combat and even camping mechanics way better It's more like a dnd version of Dragon Age: Origins - it isn't really the best approximation overall, but it's the right balance of everything to hit mainstream popularity. That in itself is pretty great, since it introduces tons of people to the niche genre of crpgs like Pathfinder, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity Original Sin, etc.

I’m using the Tactician Plus mod at the moment and it’s great with lots of different options!

Have you played Dark Sun games before? I would argue they are a much better approximation of an actual table top setting than the original BG.

The Owlcat Pathfinder games are as good as BG3 at adapting their system, they just don’t have the level of polish.

Try the Pillars of Eternity series as well!

2nding Pillars of Eternity! Great games with amazing stories. Also check out Tyranny!

I envy you having the chance to experience all of these games for the first time. Enjoy! You've got some great adventures ahead of you.

DOS2 is one of the greatest games ever imo

WOTR is dope except the war mechanic. It drove me nuts like I dont wanna move armies.i wanna.explore and adventure.

I'm good on difficulty, turned it down to explorer after the Gnoll fight and it was just right

It probably won't get GOTY, but aparently that's not needed for a company to do a GOTY edition anyway.

@@FSVR54 That is fine, I don't think anyone mentioned uping difficulty of lower settings or removing them , but it is important how to up it on higher, higher ac or hp is an option but not the best one as it only forces optimization in a limited direction, while adding/restoring enemy abilites and spells and adding more specialized enemy types that synergize with an enemy group is a varied and more fun challenge. And owelcat like difficulty customization would be welcome.

@@luxaeterna365 True, it turns out I was thinking of the Definitive Edition and Enhanced editions of original sin 2 and 1 , witch had there 3 act / end fight remade and optimized with many overall game improvements. Becouse of those I kinda expect the same here, they somewhat drop the ball in the later parts of the game but pick it up later., about a year later :) .

Like most games based around stats and gear, it's only "too easy" with the right build and gear.

Like the other guy said. Like for example, Fromsoft games are notoriously "hard" but the game gives you tons of options to approach these challenges, that with the right build, every boss becomes a breeze.

So far its BG3 by a mile, I've played a lot of Rogue Trader and I enjoy it, but its not really comparable

If there's one company these days to be trusted fully it's Larian.

I have had that super annoying lag in act 3 since launch. Crazy that even more people are affected by it now. Hope they fix it by definitive edition. Planning to go for a second playthrough when the game is all finished up.

Since the performance issues are linked to specific save files, I have the harrowing suspicion that they have irrevocably corrupted them. This is inexcusable. It's not just some super annoying but manageable lag. It takes MINUTES to open a single damn door. That is unplayable. They have probably ruined my run for good. A hotfix was release yesterday, but the problems did not disappear.

lol it has been a week no fix yet

@@Veldrynvslol I had this problem for a week now

That’d be amazing. Tactician is still way too easy, and I don’t feel like relying on mods to spice up the difficulty is a good thing.

I would be more excited for a new difficulty level if it didn't look like it's just going to be ironman tactician.

@@xMorumoto Apparently it might be called "Honour Mode". The leak was found in the latest Patch in the GOG version in relation to an Achievement called "Foehammer".

Yeah when even I can beat tactician you know it's not too hard. Because I'm terrible at micromanagement. Not needed on this game. You can wing it and still do well.

Same situation here. I'm running a good durge paladin half orc, what did you pick for your 2nd?

@@finnfeaver1196 I actually decided to run evil durge drow warlock

@spacesh1p583 that is cool as hell! Enjoy

@@finnfeaver1196 thanks mate! I’ve played as a good guy bard on my first run so now I’ve decided to do smth completely opposite

@spacesh1p583 I was good guy bard too! Such an op persuasive build

kinda a shame that if you half-illithid him, he doesn't keep being immune to the sun - but I suppose thats more a bug than anything else that non-party members keep being half-illithid after you killed all Tadpoles :P Party Members revert, after all

They portray him as a total buffoon by the end 😂

That was exactly how my first run ended. I was a halfling bard turned mind flayer that went to Acernus to do eternal battle with Karlach and Wyll. Very badass ending.

That's a new Karlach ending after the patch

@@bananana5714 I cant find any info on it. Just read the patch notes again. It seems like they just fixed some ending scenes to be the way they wanted them to be, but i dont see any "new" endings for her.

@@tarinindell8217 its a main change from patch 2

I did not know this! I have been avoiding using powers. Haven’t used them even once. I guess I’m making things harder for myself than they need to be. I can finally stop hoarding a chest full of tadpoles. 😉

Its a roleplaying game, There doesn’t have to be a benefit to not doing it lol

@@KittenCritters Larian specifically hyped it up during pre-release and in the beta. It's definitely a wet fart.

@@KittenCritters Sure, technically there does not have to be a benefit to anything you do. But then, teasing a certain outcome and then not following through it does not make a good roleplaying game. Therefore, there should be either negative consequences for succumbing to illithid powers or positive consequences for not doing so - as was foreshadowed in the story. A DM who handwaves the choices of his players is not a good DM.

@@mreszotnik There are negative consequences for succumbing to illithid powers.

Are you really comparing BG1 vs BG3? BG1 ending was mediocre even back in the day, afterall the JRPGs were miles ahead in that department. Bioware admitted in an interview getting inspired from JRPGs for BG2. However BG3 ending is ok for a RPG of its generation. Not excellent, not good, not decent. Hopefully with the epilogues the ending moves from ok to decent.

@@GeoGyf in my mind, BG3 ending is better than BG1 ending. People just forget how awful BG1 ending originally was; they remember BG2 and ToB and project those experiences onto BG1; or look at BG1 with the knowledge that it's followed by BG2 and ToB. In reality, when BG1 finished back in the day, we had no idea there would ever be a sequel. For all we knew, that was it.

That's fantastic! I kind of had the opposite experience? I design for 5e so I'm VERY familiar with it, but I'm just so so at CRPGs. I had a big learning curve of what moves and spells are so so on tabletop but very important in this game. My biggest struggles were in the Larian style mob fights in Act 3 (House of Grief and the Foundry in particular). They destroyed me on Explorer and I'm dreading them now that I'm playing Tactician!

@@angrynerdgirl that’s really cool. I kind of feel like having no experience was a benefit to me since I had no preconceived notions of what would and wouldn’t work. I just read all of the in game tutorials like a mad man lol. I think most of the difficult fights were when they just overwhelmed you with 12+ enemies.

Financial? Save up, skip the coffee a few times. Time? If you’re so busy then why watch a 100% review BEFORE playing?

If you haven't played it, don't watch this. Watch it after a second playthrough.

Here is the way I think of it - there was never gonna be a perfect time to release a game like BG3. The issues you had with act 3 would almost certainly have been solved by delaying the game release further, and expanding early access to include content past act 1. If Larian waited until all 3 acts were polished and fleshed out before pulling the trigger, bg3 would be a 2024/2025 release and I'm personally very glad they didn't wait that long. Many RPG's release with outdated graphics, writing, UI's etc because they have such long, drawn-out dev cycles - Larian nailed it in my opinion, and another way to look at it is acts 2 & 3 only seem less-complete because we have this amazing 1st act to compare them to.

I left Minsc for literally the last quest and mostly ignored Jaheira 😂

There's so many rpg's with full voice acting...

@@tincano-beans2114 Maybe let people enjoy games how they want to enjoy games?

​@@tincano-beans2114 Judging by the way you interact with people it seems you dont have any. Not too late to change my dude.

@@BoxStudioExecutive If you look in the CRPG genre its actually not that many. Baldurs Gate 3, Pillars of Eternity 2 and Divinity Original Sin 2 are the only ones I can think of. While reading doesn't bother me, I just think it makes it far more accessible to people. This could also be completely wrong and that's fine. Not here to argue.

@@bad_chewy6092 Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Witcher, KOTOR. There's like 12 games right there. Fallout 3, 4, NV, Starfield if you want to loosen up the criteria.

I felt it was natural as you would not have as much interactions or companions if you're a murder bot, there are people with morals in the game that won't like you or have anything to do with you and everyone else is dead you killed them. If you slaughter everyone you run across you won't be having tea with people or spending time chatting and hanging out. To me that is how it would be so making a bunch of dialogs with npc's would seem weird you're a murder bot people who survive being anywhere near you are not going to want to chat. What were you thinking should have been done? Did the other games have a bunch of evil npc's that replace the normal ones so there was equal amounts of content? I have not played the others so I am unaware of how they would handle a murder bot run.

@@gabriellekili2977 Yeah, the previous games (BG1/2) did have full casts of evil - and neutral! - characters and alternative evil paths for almost every quest. This was especially important in BG2, where an entire main gameplay system would give you different rewards for increasing your power based on if you were good or evil. Personally though I think that the Pathfinder games, especially Wrath of the Righteous, show the potential for an evil route. You should watch Mandalore's WotR review for an example of how it can work. A good example from BG3 though is Moonrise Towers. In act 1, there's a big deal made about how you can infiltrate Moonrise Towers if you act like a member of the cult. This is a perfect "evil" path choice - you fuck over the tieflings and the Grove selfishly (evil) but you do it for your own good to try and take the fast lane to understanding the cult. That's exactly what evil should be, power at all costs. However, that's where this plot thread ends. There's basically no content at Moonrise Towers. What it should have been was an alternative main quest hub to the Inn of the Last Light for evil characters. You can see that they tried this in act 1 too, with several quests localized to the goblin camp. However, it even walls apart there too since the Grove has so many *more* quests and especially quests that lead you outside of the Grove to do things in the act 1 map. Another example would be the shadow druids in the "hidden" path to resolving the conflict at the Grove. There's really no reason why an evil aligned character shouldn't be able to side with the shadow druids. The game forces you to consider them bad and attack them. This would have been a great option for an evil aligned character - especially an evil druid! - to make a choice befitting their character and fight with the shadow druids against the rest of the Grove for an alternative quest reward. It's not like the game doesn't have some good evil choices. Turning Dame Aylin over to the wizard Lorroakan is a great example. And there is a slight payoff to helping the goblins in the form of the unique evil companion Minthara. Note that neither of these are "murderhobo" options. While you do kill a lot of people to help the goblins, no matter what option you pick (goblins or Grove) 50% of the population in act 1 has to die, so it's not anymore "murderhobo-y" than the other choice, it just changes who you kill. Turning Dame Aylin over is literally a business transaction. And evil one, but still just business. That's what the evil route needs to be in a game like this. I think the problem ultimately is a lack of development on the evil path. Going evil locks you out of most of the companions in the game, and gives you the second least interesting companion in the form of Minthara. That's it. There's no unique evil hub in act 2 with its own quests, there are very few quests that let you make evil choices for your own benefit, and most of the roleplaying options push you into being a pretty generic hero. Like, one of the things I would have liked is for Karlach to be evil. Evil doesn't have to equate to *mean*, her personality can still be the same. But imagine a Karlach who is *not* under any situation going back to Zariel. A Karlach who will turn on a dime and kill anyone who she thinks is going to try and interrupt her path to freedom. She is willing and able to do evil deeds in pursuit of this goal, but she's also a charismatic and friendly person outside of that. That would be an extremely interesting character and in fitting with her lore, and it would give good players a character they can work with and try to redeem, while evil players would have a character that fully supports their quest for personal power as a way to potentially free herself. And it would make the Wyll conflict more interesting by making her more a grey character!

@@gabriellekili2977 You're being noticeably reductive to downplay his concerns when you translate evil playthrough to a "murder bot" playthrough.

@@ElevenHymn You are being sensitive to wording. There was no negative flavor to my text. People choose evil playthroughs because they enjoy them, but they are what they are how many Evil playthroughs have you seen where the person is a pacifist, and most people live? That is the point of Evil playthroughs let people embrace what they enjoy without sticking your issues with morality in it I brought up npc morality because d&d has a morality tier chaotic neutral good evil ect not because i was judging the player but because the npcs will judge the player like astarion approving whenever your awful to innocents he is evil most vamps in d&d are. My son is doing a DUrge run and having a blast we laugh and talk about it all the time. You see negativity because of your perceptions not because it is actually there. Have a great rest of your day.

@@tincano-beans2114 No thank you. I like everyone else here can say what they like including you isn't it fabulous. 😘

DOS2 or Pathfinder WOTR may scratch the itch. I’ve been looking for the same feeling.

@@myst0ne you didnt even read my comment, right ?

@@BossXAOC I didn’t realize how long it was until after i sent mine. My shame is already here I cant delete my comment.

I've desperately tried to get into Pathfinder WOTR too, but I ultimately end up disliking it's overbearing mechanical focus. Like even something as simple as just showing me the percentage chance to hit an enemy, instead of making me manually calculate it by bringing up my character sheet and looking at the enemy AC. And it's frustrating because I say this as someone who loves tabletop DND and has played recent CRPGs (both DOS, and Pillars of Eternity 2). If anything, I hope Larian's success encourages many other CRPGs to just be a *little* friendlier and more accessible in their systems.

Yeah, I tried to play Pathfinder, Wasteland 3, Pillars of eternity and others RPGs but nothing compares to BG3. I played Solasta before BG3 I really recommend it and the combat is very similar and the dialogues are so funny

Curious. I found Fallout 1 and BG1 to be brutally hard first time but found their respective sequels to be really easy. For the most part BG3 was a cakewalk

Maybe bookmark the review and play a bit more before watching. It half spoils a good part of the plot.

@@ausoleil8269 ok i will,thanks

It's more vague than that, but yeah like I mentioned but didnt elaborate on, Sarevok tries to explain it. It still doesnt make any sense because Bhaal would have had to have done that at a time when he was dead. It's not a huge deal, and honestly I doubt many people besides myself even care, I do like the Durge being a spawn, but the whole thing is not well thought out.