Facts. I don’t play video games anymore and I haven’t for at least a decade, but I bought Baldur’s Gate 3 purely for nostalgia purposes. Baldur’s Gate was the shit back in the day.

In general though I do think that the 5e system is much better suited to making an engaging video game. I really like that they’ve made it actually turn based vs having to pause every 2 seconds in combat to micromanage. Although I do constantly find myself instinctively pressing space to try to pause the game…

I dinked around with BG 1 and it was clearly really good but damn the age shows and it can be tediously confusing. I didn’t really know what to do and I didn’t like how you start off with like 4 hp against enemies that do like 1-5 damage or whatever it is. I get that I’m supposed to wait before doing anything really valiant or whatever but it just never clicked. It was impressively deep though