{"id":53377,"date":"2023-08-03T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/hands-on-baldurs-gate-3-review-in-progress-primed-to-be-held-up-with-the-best-of-the-best\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:12:05","slug":"hands-on-baldurs-gate-3-review-in-progress-primed-to-be-held-up-with-the-best-of-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/hands-on-baldurs-gate-3-review-in-progress-primed-to-be-held-up-with-the-best-of-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands on: Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 review in progress: &#8220;Primed to be held up with the best of the best&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hands-on-baldurs-gate-3-review-in-progress-primed-to-be-held-up-with-the-best-of-the-best_64cbd1d496498-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hands-on-baldurs-gate-3-review-in-progress-primed-to-be-held-up-with-the-best-of-the-best_64cbd1d496498-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hands-on-baldurs-gate-3-review-in-progress-primed-to-be-held-up-with-the-best-of-the-best_64cbd1d496498-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The socket stares back at me, empty. I found my way to this part of Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 almost by accident, a combination of a fight gone wrong, an ingenious solution to a puzzle, and a couple of disarmed traps leading me to a legendary weapon that&#8217;s the perfect fit for my cleric. After all that, I&#8217;m not going back empty-handed, but I&#8217;ve got no idea what fits in the socket. So, like any sensible D&#038;D player, I try my luck. Figuring that there&#8217;s no way the game is about to let me get away with this, I instruct my light-fingered rogue to try and yank the weapon free. In an instant, I&#8217;m sealed in a magical cage with sirens blaring and a doomsday device pointed squarely at my head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/baldurs-gate-3-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The socket stares back at me, empty. I found my way to this part of Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 almost by accident, a combination of a fight gone wrong, an ingenious solution to a puzzle, and a couple of disarmed traps leading me to a legendary weapon that&#8217;s the perfect fit for my cleric. After all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53380,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377\/revisions\/53380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}