Started Baldur's Gate 3 for the first time this week, zero spoilers please 🙏

Yes I know, I know. Everyone and their mother has played this already. I'm one of those people who bounced off it at launch because I was burnt out on CRPGs and just picked it back up this week.

12 hours in, currently in the Underdark, and I already understand the hype. The amount of stuff that reacts to decisions I made in act 1 that I genuinely thought were throwaway moments is kind of insane. Also killed a guy I probably shouldn't have and the game just... rolled with it in a way that felt real instead of scripted.

Anyway please don't spoil act 2/3 stuff in this thread, just wanted to share the "oh THIS is why everyone loves this game" moment I just had

Playing a Rogue/half-improvised chaos build and I'm realizing about half my "solutions" to problems are just me throwing environmental objects at things or shoving NPCs off ledges instead of actually engaging with the intended dialogue trees, and the game seems completely fine with that, which honestly feels like a small miracle for something this narratively dense.

Camp scenes are hitting way harder than I expected too. I went in expecting standard companion banter and instead got genuinely well-written character moments that made we want to go out of my way to trigger more of them instead of just skipping through to save time like I usually do in these games.

Also whoever designed the turn-based combat encounters clearly understood that verticality and terrain should matter as much as your actual build, there's been multiple fights where positioning mattered more than my gear did, which is a nice change of pace from games where combat is basically just stat-checking.