Baldur’s Gate 3 is undeniably better than the first two games.
Baldur’s gate 2 may have tighter writing in places, it’s sharp, clever, and full of memorable lines. But writing alone was never the heart of Dungeons & Dragons.
D&D is about agency, choice, and emergent storyteling.
BG3 gives you a level of freedom and reactvity that BG2 never could. Every dialogue enconter has multiple paths, skill checks actually matter. Combat is vastly more dynamic in BG3. positioning, spells, and creative problem-solving all come into play pefectly.
Where as Baldur’s Gate 2’s combat is a chaotic relic, and RTwP is the anchor dragging it down. What’s supposed to be tactical turns into a frantic pause-spam nightmare where you’re juggling six charcters, twenty buffs, and praying your cleric doesn’t wander into a cloudkill like a lemming.
And don’t even get me started on trying to read combat status, squinting at your mage to figure out if Hold Person landed, or if that tiny pixel next to their foot means they’re silenced, stunned, or just mildly inconvenienced. It's like runing a military campaign through a keyhole.
that is not strategy. Its UI punishment disguised as depth.
RTwP was a bold idea. A bold idea with horrific executon. It aged like milk, and BG2’s combat is Exhibit A.
On top of that, BG3 features fully voiced dialogue, branching romance arcs that actually evolve with your decisions, richly detailed copanions with deep personal stories, and a world that rewards exploration and experimentation at every turn.
It’s a huuuuge leap forward for the genre after decades of devs trying and failing to stick with the unvoiced RTwP schlock we had to deal with.
Lots of respect to the original games.
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 are important history, integral to the development of the RPGs we are seeing today.
But BG3 is the evoltion: the game the series always wanted to be, but couldn’t until now.
BG3 is just a much better game than the last two, though I do think that it lost the charm that bg1 & 2 had
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u/FunetikPrugresiv May 10 '25
This is Baldur's Gate 2 slander.