Baldur's Gate 3

Its VERY dense. Both in terms of things to do and things to think about when building your character.

To be fair, I have very little dnd experience. Dnd vets probably have an easier time building their character/party.

The maps are huge and they do a fantastic job of turning, seemingly small tasks into lavish questlines.

I constantly find myself being like, "Ill just check out this little room in the back" Which turns into a 5 hour quest cause I discovered some button that opened a secret doorway behind a bookcase and took me to some whole new shit.

Well first you need to pick a race, and build your character 7 times. Then you need to pick a class which leads to rebuilding your character more times. Of course then you realize that your main character stats and background would really be better a different way with a different class, which means you need to readjust your look.

And Ect for 80hrs

The first area is really big. I think I'm about to move on to the next area after 40 hours or so but I also thought that 6 hours ago but keep stumbling into new areas.

There's a lot to explore.

It doesn't have to take that long by any means, but there's a lot to do, plus secrets all over the place. Some take a sharp eye; others you need to get a passive dice roll (affected by whatever skill) for your character to discover exists.

Game of the Day? Not very high praise ^/s

That's been my experience as well on the steam deck. If anything I think the keyboard and mouse interface could use some work after playing with the steam deck.

I waited for the PC controller support at release. I love the way the game plays with the controller. I like that the camera follows the player and looking around is easier. Hated mouse and keyboard. But I like to sit on the sofa and game with my PC on the TV.

Yes, it is, but.. the DOS2 muscle memory is a big handicap, I have lost so many battles because Y is “next turn” here. Could have made it a bit more similar.

This takes a 0.02/10 off my rating, game is 9.98/10

I mean, I got early access like the day it came out, and was away from it for at least a year.

So it's more like stuff just didn't work how I remembered it than it was bad. So I just went to mouse and binded what I used a lot to extra mouse buttons.

If id have stuck with controller and relearned it, I'd probably be fine. It just seemed like too much work to go thru the menus for actions on a controller. If there's a way to bind a "default" action it wouldn't have been so bad.

And it's entirely likely there's a way and I just didn't find it.

imagine Larian keeps putting out banger after banger for decades... that's why Zelda is revered.

Probably because they fill a niche that very few other games do.