A CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate without a bird's-eye view camera sure sounds wrong, but it feels so right. If you're looking for something a little more Dragon Age and less Divinity for your next replay, Modder Relysia has gone and stuck an over-the-shoulder third-person camera in Baldur's Gate 3, uploading it to Nexus Mods last week, and it looks a lot better than you may expect.
In the brief showcase teaser, you can see the player wandering around the Undercity Ruins. Animations are a tad jittery, but because BG3's environments are made to be zoomed in and gawked at and shown off in dialog cutscenes, everything is at a believable scale. I'm not sure this would work in all of the game's environments to the same extent, but that it works at all is nifty.
You've always been able to get the camera up close in BG3, but it's always angled sli...
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