I might have the wrong personality for this game.

My kids got me BG3 for my birthday. I am coming off my first playthrough of Cyberpunk which has some aspects of decisions making a difference to the story. But not to the same extent I think.

I feel kinda paralyzed. I picked Karlach bc she's big and hot and I assume a Barb is going to be a bit easier as a noob. We crashed, I woke up on the beach, and I'm traveling w/the Paladin lady. We won a couple fights, met the rogue but he didn't join us. Then came across a party in some ruins and they got mad at us. Completely kicked my ass. It felt like I'd somehow already reached a fight I wasn't leveled enough to handle, even though I'd been just wandering the beach area for maybe 7-10 minutes.

I am conditioned in games to find everything, do everything, complete everything, leave no stone unturned. And I'm getting the idea that this game isn't really like that. I don't think I can do everything, there's too much. I just have to decide to do things and live with whatever the consequences are. And I am asking myself dumb questions like "how do I have fun with this?"

Any tips to wrap my mind around this? I haven't even considered mods yet. I'm on PS5 so I didn't even know mods would be an option. Back when I had a gaming PC I would download way too many mods for Skyrim or whatever and get lost in the sauce. So I'm trying to just play the game and not worry about that other stuff.

EDIT: I re-started with my own character (still a Tiefling barbarian) and have recruited Shadowlady, Astarion, Gale, and Wyll. Helped the Grove people fight off the goblins (that was a very fun battle, I need to remember to zoom in more to see cool shit up close), I punched the shit out of one of them to stop an argument (did not know that would happen and I kinda think I punched the wrong guy but I did get a nat 20) and am deciding our next move.

Thank you everyone for your comments, all the input and tips are exactly why I posted this thread. This game seems cool as shit.