Crowd Choice would have added a fun multiplayer wrinkle for streamers who let their audience influence their character’s choices and dice roles. Then there’s the promised Stadia-exclusive Baldur’s Gate 3 features that never saw the light of day. The ability to cross-save Baldur’s Gate 3 to that platform and play there if I ever needed to open up space on my PC would have been useful. That was another problem a Google Stadia version of the game could have solved. While I could play it on my Steam Deck, I’m hesitant to install Baldur’s Gate 3 on it because of its massive file size - 123.4 GB is a massive chunk of my Steam Deck’s internal memory and not something I want just one game to take up. The added portability and versatility cloud gaming provides is a hidden strength. I’ve ignored those feelings for the most part and played a lot of Baldur’s Gate 3 at my desk, but I’ve also found myself using Steam Link to stream the game to my Logitech G Cloud Gaming Handheld. My gaming PC is the same one I work from, so I don’t always love sitting at it for extended periods after work unless I have to.

But despite that, I don’t love that I have to sit at my desktop to play it. Even as I’m writing this, there’s a yearning to play more of Baldur’s Gate 3 in the back of my mind. I’ve enjoyed its excellent writing and the freedom of choice that’s allowed me to circumvent entire set pieces by killing a boss like Minthara early or letting Nere suffocate in a cave. I played over 20 hours of the title in a weekend, marathoning it in a fashion I don’t usually do for a game I’m not reviewing. Stadia could have made Baldur’s Gate 3 betterīaldur’s Gate 3 has gripped me in a way few games do.

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