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Should I get Baldur's Gate 3? Considering picking it up... but idk. I loved the other Divinity games.
Yeah, with the caveat that (1) if you liked the Divinity games, you'll like this (2) if instead you are coming for the D&D and series lore, you won't. From what I gather elsewhere, it plays about with the lore and takes it different ways.
It's a Larian game, so it's very open to romance (let us say); you don't have to play it that way but if you want the option of sleeping with party members, it's there, and it likes to take the viewpoint that the gods are bastards, the Great Heroes of the past were maybe not all that and being slightly grubby roguish grayish (not all good, not all bad) is the way to survive and have fun in the world. If you've played the Divinity games, you know what I mean.
It's fun, it's not very deep, the plot goes fairly linearly from A to B (you get Good Enough ending, Kinda Good ending, and Bad ending, slightly varying depending what character you are playing). The best thing is to play through the first time fairly straightforwardly so you get a handle on combat mechanics (which can be frustrating; why the razzle-frazzle does this gang of low-level mooks get about three turns each while my party of what should be killing machines just have to stand there and be pincushions?) but then the second time you can experiment with do you want to be a hero or a villain, different original characters, and so on.
I hesitate to say it's a relationship game, but (at least from my view of it), it is mostly about who you choose to play as, how you get on with other members of the party, and how you get on with other characters in the world. There's almost two plots running at the same time: the main one about Saving The World and the second one dealing with Raphael, the arch-devil who keeps popping up and offering you a bargain. Not to get too spoilery, since the surprise is all part of it, but his boss fight should have you going "well, that was different".
Would I recommend it? Yes! And while you play, don't forget to be good to yourself in the matter of treatos!
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