It Makes Perfect Sense That Less Than Half Of Players Have Finished Act 1 In Baldur's Gate 3

I love 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s the best RPG I’ve ever played, one of my favorite games of all time, and it topped 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:my game of the year list for 2023, beating out other games I loved, like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tears of the Kingdom and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alan Wake 2. And yet, six months after I st𒁃arted my journey through Faerun, I still haven’t finished൩ the game.

It turns out, I’m far from alone. Just 49.6 percent of players have made it thrꦆough Act 1, and only 35.8 percen🥂t have completed Act 2. That number drops down to 17.6 percent for the final section, Act 3. Those numbers may sꦯeem really low for the year’s most critically acclaimed game, but for Baldur’s Gate 3, it makes perfect sense.

Thought I haven’t finished📖 the game, that hasn’t stopped me from spending roughly 120 hours with Shadowheart, Astarion, Gale, Lae’zel, Karlach, and Wyll. The only game that came near to rivaling that playtime in 2023 was Tears of the Kingdom. I finished that game, exploring much of its massive open world, and I was still a dozen or so hours away from my running BG3 total.

In fact, I spent longer playing Baldur’s Gate 3’s first act than I did several full games last year. I explored the starting section for more than 30 hours, which means that I was traipsing around that single area for longer than I played Alan Wake 2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hi-Fi Rush, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4 Remake, and several other full-length games in their entirety. Baldu🔥r’s Gate 3 isn’t, geographically, as big as an open-world game, but it has oceanic depth.

Another part of the reason that players are hanging out in Act 1 for so long is that the combat can be really difficult. This is a huge part of the fun if you click with Larian’s approach t𝄹o turn-based tactical fights, but whether you love lighting your enemies on fire or hate it, finagling a win is often a slow process. You start a fight, watch your party get decimated because they were all clumped together, then reload your save and space them out. But, oops, now Shadowheart is too far away to heal anyone, and Gale succumbs to his wounds. It’s a trial and error process that may require starting the same battle over a half dozen times before you find the right approach.

Again, that’s part of the fun. But that level of choice extends into everything about Baldur’s Gate 3. In the same way that you might restart a fight to see the other ways you could play it, you might want to restart the whole game to see how it goes with a different Tav. As my colleague James Troughton noted, people love to start Act 1 over again. They get close to the end, then wonder what the game would be like꧟ if they were playing as the Dark Urge or a Drow or a Tieflings and head back to the character creator before they ever reach the Shadow-Curse💧d Lands.

So, really, it may be a compliment to Larian that so many players haven’t finished Act 1. Some may have quit because they didn&𓆏rsquo;t like the game, but I suspect plenty others have stalled out because they like the game too much to move on bef𓂃ore they’ve seen all it has to offer.