Tis a shame, I've always wanted to like them, especially the Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale etc games because although being very familiar with the 2nd ed rules, world, novels etc I never really got to play DnD, so I had hoped they would be good for me, but it was not to be.
Baring massive improvement in AI, a video game will never capture what a DnD session is (conversely a DnD session would really struggle to reproduce a game experience). DnD session are mostly about the social interaction and the "WTF just happened?!" moment where session go heavily off script into weird territory. An analogy would be to say that a good DnD session is like one long inside joke, you could explain exactly what happened and would sound mostly boring, but to the participant, it was the best thing ever.
Indeed, a computer game is never going to be able to compare to playing a PNP RPG with your mates. The Bethesda FPRPGs are about the closest I've found.
Definitely Human fighter, Half-Elf cleric, Half-Orc Barbarian, or Dragonkin Monk. It looks like most of the races will be from Dnd 5e Player handbook, which is a minor bummer for me because there are other cool races like Arakocra in the expansion. Maybe they'll be added in BG3's own update/expansion?
Aye, that half orc barbarian is my usual go to. Love them big juicy crits. I guess I'll be availing myself of that handbook XD.
Every time I play a monk they end up as some kind of fist of the north star character. One time I izuna dropped a guy through a building from the roof to the basement. Fun times.
I think I'll do a druid or bard for class as I like playing a character rather flexible and let the rest of the party be more simple and straight classes like fighters/rogues/clerics/etc. Since bard is charisma based, I'll probably do a tiefling or half-elf for the charisma bonus if I go the bard route. Not too many races getting wisdom bonuses for the druid class, I tend to like to play a short race for a druid because it's fun to be able to wild shape and become bigger than basically everyone else, some gnomes get a +1 to wisdom so probably a gnome druid.
PS5 release is early September which is what I'm gonna be playing. Not sure about xbox if you just have that but it will be on there too eventually.
I think that's actually this druid companion, he just turns into a bear. Though I assume you can talk to actual bears too. I expect them to ask for honey.
Oh yeah, talking to animals was like a must in Divinity just for pure entertainment purposes.
