It’s been almost two weeks since was released, and I’ve made far less progress than expected. Life has gotten in the way – I have other games to review, friends to see, and family to spend time with. I’m still wandering my way through the Underdark in Act 1, with plenty of side missions and character quests to do before I move into Act 2 proper. I fully intend to take my time with this game and see everything there is to see, because I suspect my second playthrough (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:✤I&r🎶squo;m intending to do a Dark Urge run) is going to be mu💧ch faster, considering a lot of people will be dying and that will ex🍎clude me from doing certain quests.
Not everybody is taking this attitude, though. In fact, , a whopping 368 people finished the game during its first weekend, a figure that I find mind-boggling. People no-life games all the time – it’s not surprising that out of the hundreds of thousands of people playing the game on opening weekend, a couple of hundred managed ༒to wrap up the entire campaign. To no-life Baldur’s Gate 3 to this extent is pretty rough on the body considering the length of the campaign, but it’s entirely doable if you don’t need much sleep and you don’t do anything else for a couple of days. The more frustrating question is why? Why on earth would you want to experience the game like that?
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It’s fairly easy to straight-shoot Baldur’s Gate 3 if you really wanted to. The main quests are clearly signposted, and you don’t really have to detour and do side quests if you don’t want to. But the magic of the game is in those side quests. Doing stuff for my companions so that we 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:develop our relationships further is far more fun than kicking monster butt. I’d rather run silly little errands for random pe🌳ople than rush straight ahead into certain doom. I want to make so many little choices that my game feels uniquely shaped to me, and not rush headlong through a story that would be waiting there for me anyway. There is so much to do and see in Baldur’s Gate 3, so why would I skip through it all to reach some arbitrary finish line?
I’m probably biased. I haven’t felt the need to no-life a game since the early days of the pandemic, when I had absolutely nothing else to do and nobody to speak to. I find that I enjoy games, especially role-playing games, so much more when I take my time to speak to everybody and do everything I possibly can. Sure, these people could probably do all that in a second playthrough, but I can’t imagine wanting to take on the physical and mental toll of sitting in front of my PC for days straight just to say I finished a big game really fast, and then have to play it all over again to get to all the stuff I missed. Gamers, take your time. The game isn’t going to disappear if you take a break to shower, cook a nice meal and touch some grass in the sun. Not everything has to be a༒ race to the finish.