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it's a bit like D&D

No, dude. It is D&D. It's set in Forgotten Realms, follows the actual lore and uses the actual mechanics of the pen and paper game for all the dice rolling stuff (barring a few things that need tweaking for the medium and eschewing more meta rules that can only work in a PnP setting).

As a fan of both the original Baldur's Gate games and D&D in general, I have found BG3 to be the absolute pinnacle of the D&D CRPG subgenre. It lets you do so much more stuff than any other D&D game. I love it. It's been a while... The last D&D game that did as much as BG3 is doing now was Neverwinter Nights.

I'm 10 hours into my first playthrough and still haven't finished Act 1.

It's glorious to be able to do so much wandering and just enjoy this rich, rich world Larian has built.

Wolfheart seems like a nice guy, he's put out tons of great content leading up to release.

I've only played a couple hours so far but I'm enjoying the game a lot! It seems like every conversation has at least one unique dialogue option based on your race or class picks, which is awesome. The companions I've met so far seem fairly interesting.

Yeah, like the other comment said, it is literally virtual D&D, not like D&D. Watching a playthrough won't even give you a fraction of the experience as it is very dependent on how you specifically want to solve problems so if you're able to, I'd recommend holding off until you buy it.