If it's anything like my 4P co-op game, progress is slooooow.

That person that takes their turn them goes "quick AFK" to pee and get a beer... Never works out fast.

Those inventories don‘t sort themselves even with a sort button.

Can you shed light on the possible variations, aside from evil runs?

I play it on the deck but ive never needed max stuff. It amazes me how good it looks. The key is to not have a desktop gaming rig to compare it to :)

I'm thinking of giving it another go, but with mods this time - are there any that let you zoom back and up enough to feel like Baldur's Gate 1 & 2? I remember constantly fighting with the camera the last time.

Tbh it's one of the few games that is worth paying full price

You can play as one of a half-dozen pre-made characters with unique skills/voices/backstories, or create your own custom character. Throughout the game, you get the opportunity to recruit almost all of the pre-made characters to your party, as well as a few more non-starter characters, and then you adventure with squad of up to four characters at a time.

The backstories and personalities on each character are enough to keep it interesting narratively, and the branching decision trees across the game vary wildly. The depth and variety of builds is pretty solid. My first playthrough took about 100 hours while still missing a few big things. Since then, my partner and I (because it does have up to 4-person miltiplayer) have played start-to-finish a couple more times. I think she's hovering around 2,000 hours all-in, because she's done a few solo playthroughs as well.

The main character is "you," and there are a group of NPCs that you can team up with, all optional. I've never tried a solo run, but the game is supposedly do-able that way, too.

I feel this. My spouse and my brother are both autistic, and they've decided BG3 is their comfort game. At least three nights per week, for coming up on three years, we sit down and play it together for a couple of hours.

I'm glad my partner and my brother get along and have fun, but FFS, let's play anything else.

Me and my brother pirated it, loved it, bought it. (Especially because the multiplayer works on pirated version and very simply so.)

Piracy increases sales.

Remember the PS1 demos? Had I been of working age back then, I'd have bought half of them merely because I loved the demos.

Works fine for me. They even released an optimized build for steam deck

Really tried to give it a go on my deck but it was unplayable for me.

I can see why some would consider it playable but it was unplayable for me, sub 60fps and the graphics had to be so low the textures looked terrible. Or I had to enable frame gen which also makes it look like shit.

I think it depends more on the person than the tech. I've only had AAA games on my Deck for demoing to others. I'm too spoiled by my desktop to actually enjoy playing them that way.

So, you don't pay full price on launch because you better wait, but then the discount is not enough because it's too old, right?

Some games never get a big sale, also years old now is not the same difference as it were when hardware evolved way faster

Absolutely could make different choices. There's... a lot of different ways for the game to end.

Karlach or Orpheus could take that role too