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Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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Not that I strongly disagree with you, but did you see the map in early access? Ha! And at least we got a few things fixed in the inventory system since EA. Sorting and multi-select are key for a hoarder like me. They took so much feedback from early access and fixed most of the worst things they could. But I've been playing since patch 0, so....
Any game that gets anywhere close to being a good DnD campaign is Gold in my book. But yeah; certainly still lots of bits are undercooked and janky.
There is still stuff in here that other games have managed to fix like a decade ago, like being able to access all your characters inventory in the camp, having a place where all the books and texts you've read are collected, automatically picking up gold or merging the inventories of enemies when their bodies are close together. The quest log is just a void filled with text, without any flavor or convenience whatsoever, no way to click on a quest and see where the quest marker is or anything like that. Same with the map, there's no worldmap that shows the location of the individual maps on some larger scale that would help you orient yourself, no way to even switch between the different maps and all the fast travel points are just in one giant list. Also even in singleplayer I've not found an actual way to pause this game. For a game that was in early access for three years, these feel like basic things that never got the second round of polish they deserved.
I have collected several chests/containers that are in my box in camp. I have sorted my inventory into these containers, one with books for example. It's relatively easy for me to add any books I find to it, so that part isn't really an issue if you think for a second about it.
As for the quest log showing you were to go, yes it totally does if you know where to go. There's a "show on map" button at the bottom of the log.
To pause, enter turn based mode. Shift-space on KB&M, or the button on the button right next to the camp button, where end turn is in combat. I somewhat agree in single-player, esc should just pause as well, but it really isn't an issue worth worrying about.
The rest of what you said, yeah I agree with. Probably the most frustrating thing you've mentioned is the fast travel not allowing you to see other maps. I remember where each one is, but it'd be easier to select it on a map for some of them. They're ordered based on the order you found them, so close ones may not be grouped.
My biggest wish is either to be able to place other chests in camp for better organization, rather than having the chests in the traveller's chest. This could be done with a zone in camp that's saved, or even better would be a portable hole item. It's one of the oldest and most useful items in DnD, next to a bag of holding. Maybe the issue is dealing with taking one inside the other, which is supposed to open a portal to another realm and kill everyone basically, which requires work to add and sucks for new players who don't know that.