Dragon's Dogma 2 vs. Baldur's Gate 3: Which is Better?

In the battle between Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon's Dogma 2, Baldur's Gate 3 wins in more ways than players would expect.

[RaidenBlack]

Both are great and "somewhat fresh".
BG3 is slightly better.

[Si-Fly]

Slightly 😂😂😂

[notachance]

This is why I love non live-service games, they don’t have to fight for your time. You can easily play them in any order, whenever you want to and still got the full experience of every single one of them.
There’s no season or battlepass or daily quest BS that’s borderline manipulative to make you play as much as possible.

[RhinoGamer88]

How is BG3's console performance?

[SeTTriP]

Bad to say the lease but it's so great that you stomach it.i have almost 400hrs in it and their are game breaking bugs everywhere.

[QuantumMechanic]

I have to disagree. Save for some slowdown in Act 3, BG3 performs just fine on PS5.

[anast]

Yeah, you don't have almost 400 hrs.

[GamerRN]

It runs a solid 60 minus some act 3 stuff on Xbox, game runs just fine... Haven't had any bugs and thankfully I dodged whatever was causing the game save bug

[thorstein]

Better than PC because controller. Walking about without pointing and clicking was so much better with a joystick. I know PC has controller support, but in the OG BG1 and BG2, point and click was such a staple of the gameplay that I loved playing that way (same with Icewind Dale I & II).
The radial menus are fantastic when you need to quickly grab stuff.
Inventory screens at launch were awful though. You could use them and they functioned wonderfully, but there was a ton of back and forth when there didn't need to be and they were decisively cumbersome.
But, otherwise there isn't any difference.

[Barlos]

Very good for the most part, apart from Act 3, when it stutters a fair bit. Doesn't detract too much though

[MeteorPanda]

Whats better, Vegetables or Fruits

[Si-Fly]

Fruit by some margin

[MeteorPanda]

Are you ignoring the vegetable heavyweight champion, the Potato?

[DarXyde]

MeteorPanda,

Potato is cool, but durian and pretty much any fruit from France are both God tier

[RedDevils]

Asian fruits beat all of it.

[anast]

BG3 obviously

[Bhuahahaha]

pork or chicken

[anast]

So you are saying both games are awful?

[thorstein]

So you are saying you've never had bacon.

[anast]

I'm saying I don't like either one.

[Flawlessmic]

2 very different rpgs but after atleast 90hrs in bg3 and another 25 in dragons dogma 2, all I can say is both games are brillant in there own way.

[SeTTriP]

Bg3 is in my top 5 games of all time list haven't played dd2 yet but I agree two very different games and I'm 235hr of play not almost 400hrs like I said previously.

[SeTTriP]

@QuantumMechanic you kidding right? I had to go back to an old save 3 times because their is a bug where dialog freezes and your stuck trying to interact with a NPC, my party got wiped because they fall through a elevator in the forge.these things happen constantly I have it all clipped to boot.animation freezes, and a whole host of other bugs.their already on their 28th hotfix lol.the game is buggy asf.

[QuantumMechanic]

I've experienced my share of bugs requiring save-scumming as well, but "Bad to say the least (sic)" is too strong a statement. Also, discussions of performance generally revolve around framerate, frametime, and other metrics of execution efficiency.

[SeTTriP]

Bugs impact performance and execution efficiency.and I've lost around 20hrs of play due to them, so the end of your comment comes across as a condescending attempt to try and sound more knowledgeable.he asked a question and i answered save the fan girl routine for another post.the game is great but it's has a ton of bugs (playing on PS5) some game breaking its just a simple fact.

[QuantumMechanic]

No condescension intended.

[lucian229]

the hell, they arent even comparable. they are such different games lmao

[anast]

BG3 is better because it's a complete came that wasn't designed around microtransactions. Not too mention the detail, density, and choice that was programed in to the game.

[lucian229]

both games are great and completely different. DD isnt designed around MTs, you can get everything in game, stop reading headlines and just making silly assumptions.

[anast]

It's designed to push you toward the mt shop or they wouldn't have it. There are reminders to go buy stuff.

[MrBaskerville]

BG3 was actually designed around microtransactions. Game has gold, they could have sold that, but forgot to. Proof exist.

[anast]

They spent years designing a game around an element and then somehow went against every single line of code dedicated to that resource by forgetting use it.

[jznrpg]

Almost every rpg game has some form of money that doesn’t mean MTs were meant to be in the game.

[lucian229]

if you have issues with self control, that's your fault. don't predict your failings as someone else's. if you turned the internet off, played DD you could get passed the entire game just fine with no MT.

the keys are only 3000 gold, the appearance coupons are 5000 rift crystals

they arent selling you exclusive items.

[anast]

They should have studied Stoicism, so they would have more self control. Yeah, it's not my fault

I have a toll bridge that you don't have to cross because you can always swim across the river instead and pay for the toll on the other side.

[jznrpg]

Different types of RPGs. Preference of style plays a big part in comparing games that aren’t close to 1:1 comparisons.

[SeTTriP]

@ anast I have 325hrs of play add another 20hrs for game breaking bugs.assumption are like arse holes everyone has one.

[MrNinosan]

400 hours, 235 hours, 325 hours...
You sure do great time travels today.

I have 150 hours BG3, 90 hours DD2, 220 hours Rebirth, 130 hours Elden Ring.
All 4 games above are rpgs, and none are the other alike.
I love them all.

My order if I had to chose would be based on how fun to play, which then would be:
Rebirth
Dragons Dogma 2
Elden Ring
Baldurs Gate 3

If I instead base it on story, I go with:
Rebirth
BG3
DD2
Elden Ring

If I base on exploration:
Elden Ring
DD2
BG3
Rebirth

But the games are very different, and the amount of hours anyone put into the games doesn't change that.

[SeTTriP]

Yeah check my profile pic 325hr add 20hrs for game breaking bugs.ive played this game more then all of you and its in my top 5 of all time list but it is buggy asf and thats a fact.

And their is no way I could put ff linear story up against bg3 I don't think it's a fair fight.way to many outcomes versus one.