Baldur's Gate 3 Act 1, which by most estimates should take you between 30 and 40 hours to complete, is just a very long tutorial, Larian says.
As someone with very little prior knowledge of the series and who has never played Dungeons & Dragons, this would've been mighty handy to know. Watching Larian's long-awaited sequel become the biggest game in the world right now, smash Steam records left and right, and climb to the top of Metacritic's highest-rated PC games ever, I've been desperate to check it out for myself but also intimidated by its massive scale and unfamiliar systems. Little did I know the entire first act is literally designed to teach newcomers its ways. Larian founder Swen Vincke said as much in a recent interview with PC Gamer.
