There are genres that everyone knows in the gaming world. The most played genres are FPS (First Person Shooter) , RPG (Role Playing Games), and MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Games). The biggest examples of these genres are action games like Halo, Farcry, and Call of Duty for FPS; adventure games like Elden Ring, Witcher and Diablo for RPG; and finally, online games that reach a wide audience, such as Pubg, Call of Duty: Warzone and World of Warcraft for MMO.
Among these games, RPG and FPS games are especially the favorite games of those who prefer story-based games. These games are the game genres that major game magazines give the highest scores to, the hardcore “gamer” crowd prefers the most, and the ones that come closest to being the game of the year. These genres generally appeal to gamers with their storytelling abilities, the characters they show, and the solid in-game action they can potentially provide. Apart from these genres, an external genre does not affect these players. Or rather, it does not affect them easily. Here in 2023, after a very long time, a game was chosen as the game of the year by breaking all these judgments. The name of this game is Baldur’s Gate 3!
What is this species?
Honestly, if you asked players when this game was first announced, most of them would probably say they wouldn’t buy it. This is because games like the Baldur’s Gate series appeal to a very limited player base. So, what is this game genre? Turn-based games!
Turn-based games are usually tactical games where you make a move, and the opponent makes their move . Almost every game in this genre appeals to a very limited audience because players generally expect real-time action rather than waiting for their turn to move. After all, who wants to wait when they can wreak havoc with Kratos? Of course, it is a genre that pleases a certain number of players, but it is hard to come out and wreak havoc. So what did Baldur’s Gate 3 do to surpass both its previous two games and its genre, becoming one of the biggest games of 2023?
Why is Baldur’s Gate 3 Special?
- Story
- Gameplay
- Characters
- Design and Image
Generally, turn-based games cannot show their strength in some of these four elements, or they are good in all of them from certain perspectives, but they cannot be successful enough to affect all four corners of the world. When we look at Baldur’s Gate 3, we can see that it really does a great job in these four areas. Now let’s examine this game briefly.
A New Legend: Baldur’s Gate 3
First of all, when we start the game, we are greeted by one of the largest character creation screens you will ever see. In many games, the attention paid to the visuals is not given to the content of the character creation, but Baldur’s Gate is not like that. The content is definitely as important as the visuals. You decide how you will progress your character throughout the adventure from the very beginning. Of course, you do not finish all your progress in a single character creation screen, but you definitely show a tendency. You create a character with a wide variety of characteristics, from a good gunslinger to a cunning thief, from an archer who will hit the bullseye to a wizard who challenges the world.
Afterwards, the game starts you off with an interesting story. We don’t want to give too many clues about the story because we don’t want to embarrass those who haven’t played the game, but we first find ourselves in a seemingly relentless trouble. Then, we gather the game’s really delicately written characters with rich backgrounds and become a team. With every dialogue we establish, we learn something new about this team and witness their stories. Of course, there are dozens of other things happening around us. The game presents us with a new adventure wing for almost every place we go. There are dozens of adventures that take shape according to the decisions we make. Sometimes we enter into conflict with an answer, sometimes we overcome all those conflicts with a single correct answer and reach the goal in an easy way. This balance of the game makes us care about every dialogue. Apart from that, the game definitely contains a dungeons and dragons balance. We try things according to our activities and the things we encounter, and the game makes us roll the dice. The dice we roll have a value that they must exceed according to the difficulty of the move we will make. We roll two dice and the highest dice is 20. Sometimes, even if the dice we throw are lower than desired, we can gradually exceed that score thanks to our additional abilities. This is another way of telling us that you should care about almost every decision in the game.
Besides all this, what is truly incredible is the free space the game leaves us. You do not have to follow any adventure. You do not have to follow the same paths in any event. In this way, it becomes a real adventure where the game offers you endless opportunities in almost every subject. For all these reasons, it is possible to say that Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game that definitely deserves to be the game of the year. We do not know what the future holds, but it would not be wrong to say that games that will offer such a free adventure will increase in the future with such a leader…
