Five Things I Didn't Like About Baldur's Gate 3

so the vast majority of time I have talked about balers gain 3 I've had nothing but praise for the game along the way there's been some nit picks here and there and eventually we got to the end I did my review I've still got to do my final thoughts video but along the way I said I was going to do some of the things I didn't like about Boulders Gate 3 even though the game definitely got my game of the year and it's definitely the number one Contender for game of the Decades so far from me there were still some things that I didn't care for what's important to note about these things is I don't consider them to be big enough flaws that it took away from the overall enjoyment of the game they're mostly just nitpick things that I probably wouldn't have put up with in other games but I was willing to put up with here because the overall experience was so overwhelmingly positive which I think also probably points to a greater conversation about how many other games are there out there would people be willing to give more time to if the rest of the game was really good um because there are games out there where you'll see a kernel of something that's kind of fun or interesting but then the rest of the game experience is just so bad that most people will throw out the baby with the bathwater as the saying goes um so it's an interesting I think it's an interesting conversation to have about other games as well but without further Ado um let's talk about the things that I didn't like about Boulders Gate 3 uh moving forward as we get into this video a reminder there may be things that I talk about that are spoilery I just kind of go off the cuff I don't do a script it's stream of Consciousness and occasionally I will just talk about stuff without thinking about it so uh you've been warned there might be spoiler stuff ahead there might not be it just kind of depends on where my mind Rambles over the next 10 to 15 minutes uh if you haven't already tuned in to one of my videos before don't forget to like subscribe and hit the Bell icon so you never miss an update we're obviously playing a lot more than just Boulders Gate 3 we do lots of different games we do TV shows films we do the podcast around Middle Earth and dune there's a whole bunch of member videos we do for our channel members we're writing a novel with our members in 2024 um there's a Discord down below check it all out the number one thing that I don't like about balers Gate 3 and this is sort of a a laran Studios things thing more than anything else but I've also noticed it it cropped up in um Rogue Trader when I was playing Warhammer uh 40K Rogue Trad of the beta which is the default to pan the camera around is the uh I'm not going to be able to pull my mouse up because of the cord here it goes the middle Mouse button that drives me nuts I don't I want to be able to click the right Mouse button and move the camera around Pan the camera around I don't want to have to do with the middle Mouse click now when a game provides me with the option to change that click over good I'm going to do it immediately and balers Gate 3 did allow me the the opportunity to do that but the right click is also used for things like the default anyway is to like cancel a spell action or to bring up a context menu if you're using mouse and keyboard which created some issues when I wanted to rebind it because then I had to go rebind other things and it just turned into a little bit of a hassle which is one of the reasons I ended up playing balers Gate 3 on the controller like 98% of the time it's not the only reason but it's it's one of the reasons why as soon as the game came out and I was able to get out of the mouse and keyboard which is what you were locked into for uh the Early Access I switched over to the controller just cuz it was far more intuitive for me um but this ties directly into my next complaint um the camera and the overall camera controls on mouse and keyboard for balers Gate 3 are some of the worst I have experienced in games uh in recent years I just do not like the way they did the camera controls in on on the mouse and keyboard not so on the controller which is again if you watch 98% of my videos I play on the controller and the reason is because once you go into controller mode you're moving your character around and the camera's following the the the character and you have free look and all this other stuff and it's way more Superior I've done multiple videos on the camera controls how to customize them mouse and keyboard versus controller why I chose to play controller most of the time on this game and the camera movement is the number one reason I chose controller over mouse and keyboard because even though the mouse and keyboard does have its pros especially when it comes to combat and really you know fine-tuning what you're doing and everything else you know you do have uh character snapping Target snapping on the controller which is rather nice the camera controls are just were not I just don't like the way the camera Works in mouse and keyboard mouse and keyboard mode it's very janky um the overall not it doesn't follow that well and there's weirdness with the way you're needing to move the camera around combined with the fact that you got to rebind it to get it to work the way I want um to rebind the buttons um it just didn't give me what I was looking for I I very much prefer like the way it was done with like uh pillars of trity one and two Boulders gate one and two ice day one and2 I like those types of cameras um this one didn't quite do it for me so the the camera was definitely one of the things that kind of made me go oof that's that's not good but ultimately the camera controls with the controller are much better and worked in my opinion in a way that made me enjoy the game a lot more there were still wonkiness aspects I if you've if You' ever watched I've done multiple videos from different characters there's a there's a mimic fight that happens in uh the underd dark early on in act one and there are some weird things going on with the colliders because of the tight confined space that that is in and and no matter what angle you're trying to get from the sides of that fight because you're in that confined space the camera is banging up against these colliders and so you're never able to get quite the angle that you want and it doesn't matter if you're using mouse and keyboard or the controller the camera is just not doing what you need it to do and yeah you could try to go into the top down mode but that's the only option to get away from that camera Jank is to pull the camera into the top down mode which then doesn't give me the view that I want cuz I don't really care for the top down mode um there were other instances the what was the Wizards Laura Laura Cal Laura Cole there's a wizard you fight in um in act three um Lura Coan maybe I can't remember the name of the wizard but that fight also had some super janky camera stuff especially we knocked one of the dudes off the third floor down to the second floor and he couldn't get back up so we were trying to Target him down below and it didn't matter if I was using mouse and keyboard or controller mode trying to get the camera angle to where I could actually Target the guy as he was stuck down in the second floor it was just pure Jank so the camera controls are definitely probably my number one complaint in in Boulders Gate 3 um because even though it's much better on the controller there are still issues and the mouse and keyboard camera control stuff could just go away I don't like it at all it just I I don't care for it again not enough to take me away from my overall enjoyment of the game it's just one of those little nitpick things um and then finally we come to the one that I think a lot of people well well I think it just depends on if you're a fan of the original games or if you're a fan of Lan's games so I'm a fan of the original games original games I didn't actually play any of laryan games until it was announced that they were doing Boulders Gate 3 that's what I went and got on go I got a a package deal for Divinity original in one Divinity original 2 went through and played them excellent games everybody you need to play those if you have not they are great games um but I don't like turn-based combat as much as I like real time with Paw I've always preferred real time with pause and that was a thing where you know you're locked into turn-based gameplay here and I've mentioned this in multiple other videos this is one of the first games so kudos to laran Studios this is one of the first games that pushed me out of my comfort zone in terms of actually being willing to stick with a game that did turn-based combat because like wastelanders 3 which I should totally probably go back and try again because I paid full price for it when it came out and I was just so not pleased with turnbas in that game that I ultimately quit playing it and now I kind of feel guilty for that and I kind of wish I would have gone back and redone it because it did have a really good storyline and I may do that you never know we'll just see how this year pans out quick commercial break everyone to give a shout out to our first official Guild officer bubonia as well as all of the guild Champions and of course all of the members who help keep me on the air fulltime to join as a member simply click that join button below and pick your tier but you can also support with super Chats on any live stream or Premiere or super thanks on any upload or YouTube short don't forget the Discord let's get back to the video um I prefer Real Time with pause and I realize that there are some really cool crunchy statistical you know the way you can really get into the Tactical side of combat in turnbas mode I realize that that's something that people really like I initially also didn't like cast's combat because it was turn-based but Casta won me over just because of of how much it felt like I was actually sitting down and playing tabletop um and that was sort of a you know wetting my appetite for what balers Gate 3 was going to do and ultimately at the end of the day thanks to both of those games really um for at least making me more willing to be patient with a game that did turn-based gameplay and because that was the what what then allowed me to sit down and play the lamplighters league and say actually this is kind of a fun game even though I traditionally don't like turn-based games play um I still prefer Real Time with pause but you know it is what it is um I would love it if they gave people the option to do either or uh that would be far more beneficial in my mind and I think that's something they did in Pillars of2 deadfire was they ended up uh adding a turn-based option after launch I think is way it worked because you could choose which way you want to play um so I much prefer that and finally my last complaint which again is not a big deal it's a nitpick and no I will never use mods to fix this I'm not a fan of and never have been a fan of anything less than a six-person party system because that has always felt traditional because that's what the first two games did that's what ice wind Dale 1 and two did was the six-person party system and I much prefer having six characters in my party I will say however and I've gone on the record and said this a couple of times in other places laryan did such a good job with the characters of this game that I never felt like it was to few I remember when never winter Knights came out and I think it was only two characters you could only have yourself and a companion if I remember correctly and I was like this is absolute Malarkey I'm not I don't I just can't can't can't I had a really hard time liking that game because they only let you have you know that tiny little amount of characters and I was coming fresh off all these other games where I'd had six people in my party so I'm always going to prefer six-person party systems having four I I think it was the very first video I ever did about Boulders Gate 3 when the game was announced my my initial gut reaction was ah I don't want to be limited to four people and that's really going to impact my enjoyment and when I actually played it throughout Early Access I did grow to become accustomed to it it's still not my preference I don't like it as much as a six-person party system but overall the the depth of the characters um as they play out over the game felt good enough that even though it's only four there are so many cutcenes and so many emotional impactful moments in this game with your characters that it didn't really feel that detrimental to me by the time I got done with it so you know those are things like I said they're not really big things um these things that I don't like about Boulders Gate 3 they're not enough to take away from me giving it game of the year or you know my number one slot for game of the decade so far um highly enjoyable game I'm happily playing through my second playthrough right now with my Sorcerer And um you know looking forward to continuing the journey with this game over the years to come I don't play with mods so none of the things that other people will say like I'm going to use a mod to do this that and the other I won't do so I always will just play the game how the developers intended the game to be played so for me those are the limitations of this game and I accept them it's no different than any other thing you know um Pizza is great I don't like pineapple in my pizza but I will eat it if it's served to me it's not my favorite but it's like it's still Pizza you know what I mean like it is what it is so um I you there are other little things along the way that kind of stuck out but not enough for me to want to jump down the Lan's throat about it you know I think there was a couple of moments where the story felt a little weak in act three um when you have these major impactful moments in act one and two and they need to act three and it just kind of feels like couple things kind of fizzled out but I as someone who has written 20 million words of print around the world for clients for the past 20 years and books and TV shows and other stuff um it's hard to consistently hit high notes every single time with every single thing you're doing so you know it's just it is what it is um at the end of the day it's a great game don't let these little things detract from your experience because overall it still is worth your time get out there and play it if you haven't already done so like subscribe hit the Bell icon so you never miss an update check out all the member videos if you're supporting the channel as a channel member check out all the other playlists join the Discord and if you're watching live don't forget we multistream on Twitch now so see you over there as well till next time everybody stay safe happy gaming

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Length: 14min 42sec (882 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 29 2023