My Baldur’s Gate 3 perfectionism is killing me
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#6DY97)
Baldur's Gate 3 has garnered accolades for its flexibility - it feels like you can ally with or betray virtually anyone, including your own party members. I've seen it compared to old-school RPGs like Planescape: Torment, play it your way" immersive sims, and of course, its source material, tabletop Dungeons & Dragons.
After clocking roughly 40 hours in Faerun, there's a simultaneously delightful and maddening tension to the open-endedness of Baldur's Gate 3. On one hand, it pushes me to invest in the high stakes of its narrative, where a single misstep's personal and universal consequences can feel disastrous. On the other, my most viscerally satisfying encounters have come from abandoning perfectionism and rolling with the punches. I...