6 RPGs To Play While You Wait For Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3, at least on PC, is right around the corner, and while many of us can't wait to jump into Faerun and venture forth with our party, it's not quite time. While we wait (especially if you're on PlayStation), here are some RPGs to play as you wait for Baldur's Gate 3.
This one is a no-brainer, especially if you're new to Larian Studios' RPG series. Baldur's Gate 3 is very different than its predecessors, going from the real-time combat of Baldur's Gate in the past to the turn-based combat more like a session of 5E Dungeons & Dragons.
Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel are two of the greatest RPGs to release in the last decade. Its hands-off approach to storytelling, letting the player explore and uncover the world and its secrets through gameplay, experimentation, and just sheer luck, makes these two RPGs some of the most open in the genre. Freedom is one of its defining characteristics, allowing you to play an even-keeled Paladin-type character who protects the weak, to running around as a murder hobo, killing everything and everyone in sight. Origin characters also add even more storytelling and give another glimpse into the world, though it loses none of the freedom the series is known for even with established backgrounds.
Visually stunning and with deep mechanics that make you think about every interaction, Divinity is the proof of concept that helped solidify Larian Studios as a top-tier RPG studio — and why they were many fans' first choice to make Baldur's Gate 3 in the first place.
Obsidian created the Pillars of Eternity series as a love letter to old isometric PC RPGs of yesteryear (like the original Baldur's Gate games), and proved that there is still an appetite for the genre. Exploding out of
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