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Baldur's Gate 3 comes out on PC today and people seem to be talking about it everywhere. Developer Larian has done great work with the Divinity: Original Sin games and built a strong following, so a lot of the excitement is unsurprising. What does surprise me is where the other surge of excitement is coming from, because it's something I haven't seen before. It's a surge coming from outside of video gaming, from the colossal community surrounding Dungeons & Dragons.
But it's not all about combat. Actually, it's what happens outside of combat where Baldur's Gate 3 goes beyond other D&D video games. You'll know, if you've played tabletop D&D, that half - if not more - of the fun happens outside of combat, and that an enormous swathe of the game's abilities and spells and skills are based around it, around enabling that fun. What's unique about Larian and Baldur's Gate 3 is that it realises this, and leans into it.
Baldur's Gate 3 realises so many of the utility spells and abilities people lean on all the time in tabletop D&D, and I've never seen that in a video game before. Look, it's not a perfect recreation of D&D. There's a lot in Baldur's Gate 3 that feels video gamey, that feels Larian-y, because it is those things. And because no matter how hard Larian tries, it cannot give you the same feeling of limitless freedom a living dungeon master can in tabletop D&D.
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