The Real Reason I Quit Baldur's Gate 3

My husband and I are on our first play though. We bought it the day it went on sale. We play.. a lot. and just entered act 3. and I still keep seeing things we missed. I don't care if it takes a year. we are doing the play through. LOL

To anyone who says that you should just go through the game just to beat it, bg3 is one of those rare games where it's all about the journey, not the destination. The story is pretty good, but it's not the most mind blowing plot of all time. What makes this game such a masterpiece is pretty much everything else, the world, the people, the side stories, etc. Of you rush through the plot and do nothing else, bg3 might just feel like a 7/10 game. It's the journey that makes it break the scale

Larian created a masterpiece and destroyed player's social life.

Finishing this game as an adult with a job is very demanding, lol

I think you're taking time, and in some cases life, a bit too seriously. Most of us understand our time is limited, but if you really enjoy something, it's far from a waste of our time. I took over 6 months off from BG3 after getting to Act 3 in a couple playthroughs, and when my friend and I FINALLY finished our Lolth-Drow twins playthrough this month, it felt just as magical as when we were first experiencing the game in Act 1. Don't limit yourself, especially if gaming is something you and your significant other truly enjoy.

My problem is i make characters and As soon as i see a character that looks better then mine or i see a cool build on yt i start over😭

I have had to start again recently because I didn’t play for months and I’ve fallen in love again , I totally agree you can’t just sit down for an hour , I just lose whole nights playing

agree with you that this game is a time bandit. I've played BG 1 and 2 decades ago and this game is so involved. Just playing it for an hour , I feel like ive done nothing. Sometimes I have to repeat the battles and it's so discouraging to put that much time in, only to be killed off. I want to still complete it but at this rate, this game will take me years. Can you imagine how long it took to develop this game with all it's options? Amazing.

It's not a task, if this game is still giving you new, novel experiences and a satisfying sense of progression and immersion, why do you want a deadline on it? Play it for 5 years once a week for all it matters. It's strange to me that you put a deadline on it yourself, then complain that you wont meet that deadline. It's literally leisure activity like playing a sport. If you enjoy it, why do you have to move on to something else? Make another save with a different character for non-coop. Just play it more shallow and go with the flow of it. Like the idea that 'it feels like I'm drowning in the game', just take it less intensely. Why if you just play it for an hour, would you not start a quest?! Just start a quest and stop an hour after and come back to continue it. I'm really confused. Literally nothing you said here has anything to do with the game, and 100% has something to do with your own chosen attitude toward doing a leisure activity.

This is very true. I sometimes return to shorter games like Portal, Mafia 1 (the old and superior one ;) ) or CoD 4 SP campaign comes to mind, where you can play through the whole game (or a significant part of it) in one afternoon/weekend and have one short escapist experience.

Dude, I have the same "problems" with BG3. I bought it right after the release, but since I don't really have time (wife, kids, and whatnot), I’ve managed to put around 60 hours into it in total as of today. So yeah, I'm nowhere near the ending yet. Not to mention that I really tend to take my time with these things—preparation, strategy, story choices—all have to be thought through meticulously. So I just take my time. It'll probably be a decade at this rate, but I'm in no rush. I knew it’d be a slow burner anyway (I've played BG2 for almost a decade too). It's like a good book. I pick it up every now and then and continue with the story. So this is my advice to you: start fresh and solo, and just ease into it. Whenever you feel like it, progress the story a little. I have so many weird and great memories already with this game, and like I said, I’ve kinda only scratched the surface.

For me I had to stop because the difficulty curve from acts 1&2 to act 3 was very steep. In acts 1&2 it felt like there were ways of getting around the hardest battles, or cool ways of beating them in a less difficult way. In act 3 it seems like you need to have completely mastered the combat in order to progress any of the main missions

Yep. I kept putting it down because the fighting was so tedious, and such a steep learning curve with all the spells, what works, what doesn't & with your team moves of 2 steps each during a battle, lol. Then in that fight, getting trounced against 12 enemies, then having to re-strategize, or figure out what works online and do it over again. Ugh. I like some challenge, but, the best mod for this annoyance is the ring of movment & health. Move further & get a health buff. You can always pull out the mod later, but it's been much more enjoyable this way. Gotta a real life outside plus how many other 1/2 finished games in the library!

I quit on my thirst playthrough… There was so much content that my little brain couldn’t handle it 😅 After 6 month or so I began a new playthrough bcs I did not enjoy my thirst account anymore.. there was such to many things I’ve missed and so yeah.. I’m now 430 hours in to the game and I love it!

Oh my, atm i'm doing my 2 run, I took 250H to do the first, because I really need do "everthing". But I can sometimes play all day, I know its a bit crazy when u are a 48y man. btw, is all about how much times you can expend, and this game can eat all freetime and still have something new to be discovery...

What's putting me off the game at the moment is the FOMO aspect of it. There are so many choices to make - but some confer obvious advantages and disadvantages... with the most advantages often confered by doing something against your characters nature... and the moral grey areas of some of these choices make it much more difficult... Not to mention some characters just can't be saved without roleplaying in a way that you don't want to... You find yourself constantly questioning if a choice was correct... I neglected Astarion for much of my run because I was playing a rogue myself - but I kept him in my camp for much of the adventure for his dialogue options and because aspects of his story were interesting... Only to find that I had an impossible choice to make at the end that would have made him totally evil and drunk with power, or else good but weaker and I either had to unleash another horror on the world or kill a bunch of innocents myself... None of which really felt like the right choice... and given a few spoilers I've seen on the latter part of the game this is a trend that continues... you have to sacrifice someone or something no matter what.

Bit late for a comment but I also did some long pauses, like weeks between gaming sessions. But I somewhere read that I should treat it like real D&D gaming sessions, which aren't regular, and take a lot of time. As I thought of it like that, I really enjoyed playing it. Everything just comes back to mind, when you quickly read through the questlog, or hear the music, just perfect. When you have the time to jump in again for three or four (or more...) hours, just do it. It really deserves to not be on the pile of shame. :)

Yes there are many tv series that i really want to watch but probably never will now because the "watch with partner" just doesn't happen (but boy if I'm not available its often all watched at once), to the extent i honestly have trouble watching anything anymore. Sad truth is if you actually want to watch, or play, putting the "only together" on it is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Completely agree with the time issue and the depth. I’m only ten hours in, and already wondering whether I’ll ever finish it. I’m really enjoying it so far, but at the rate I’m playing it it’ll take me a year. Having a young family prevents me from playing computer games as often as I’d like!

i quit because of shars gauntlet sooo frustrating!