Why Baldur's Gate 3 Won Game of the Year (and Spider-Man 2 Didn't)
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Why Baldur's Gate 3 Won Game of the Year (and Spider-Man 2 Didn't)
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00:00 Reactions
01:30 Intro
03:22 Gameplay
08:45 World
11:30 Story
15:00 Characters
17:10 Final Thoughts
21:10 Conclusion
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I am an avid FPS shooter kind of guy. I grew up with the OG Cods. Cod 1, waw, bo1, bo2, etc. I remember playing the original Spiderman games on the old playstation and it was fun. But it was never something to brag about. The only real games to brag about back in those days were the original Mortal Kombat games, Devil May Cry series, and the Resident Evil franchise, especially RE4. That was a core memory. There was nothing like it.
I've never played a D&D type of game, but I wanted to buy Baldur's Gate 3 for my own birthday, as my own present. And 6 hours into the game (4 hours of which, I was just simply designing my character, lol), I knew it was going to win game of the year. And that was only with 2 hours of gameplay. I knew it. GOTY 2023, Baldur's Gate 3.
I am on my 4th playthrough of this game and am not tired of it. It's always different each time, and it's bundles of fun. I never bought the new Spiderman 2 game simply because it had some lgbtq referencing in there. And it was a major turn-off for me, subjectively speaking. So, I refuse to ever buy that game. BG3 however, did not have that referencing. But you can choose your own path, and destiny as a player. And that's something that Spiderman 2 doesn't really have, from what I've seen.
Another game that is similar to BG3 in terms of paths and choices is Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and Dying Light 2. Some of my favorite games tbh.
But to anyone out there who's thinking, "Aww man. Spiderman 2 should have won GOTY. Blah Blah Blah."
There's a reason why it didn't win. It was simply not good enough. Open your mind a little bit and play BG3 for a few hours and tell me straight to my face, or anyone's face, that Spiderman is 10x better. Most likely, if you say it, you're lying. And you're lying to yourself. You secretly like BG3 but you want to prove a point. A point that goes nowhere. End of story. Baldur's Gate 3 is probably the best game that has come out in the last 10 years. I'm not even "capping". No. Seriously. And that's from someone who has seen what's out there, played nearly everything or watched it (I don't make a lot of money, but I spend money on the truly good games), and it's that BG3 REALLY IS THAT GOOD. There's nothing out there as good. It's like, not even a competition.
I bet you, if Larian Studios wanted to make another BG3 type of game very similar, they'd outdo themselves and win GOTY again. I bet they can. If they did it once, they can do it again.
The VAs for BG3 might not ever see this message. But I have to congratulate all of them for doing an excellent job. They outperformed everyone and everything in any and every game. Congrats guys.
Also, excellent video, MiNiSoTaN.
America sells babies into slavery and wants to become dubai or india wants trump to win wants russia india and north korea to win for anarchy and hate so how is America participation trophies worth anything to anyone when republicans made all your nato allies hate you and isolate you on the broader stage
America sells babies into slavery 0 minimum marriage age laws and wants to become dubai or india wants trump to win wants russia india palastine and north korea to win for anarchy and hate so how is America participation trophies worth anything to anyone when republicans made all your nato allies hate you and isolate you on the broader stage
@@origins5490 nicely done.. and i bought spiderman miles morales after playing bg3 not even knowing about the awards competition between them..
and while researching if i should get spiderman 2 or miles morales long hours of reading.. i chose miles morales instead of spiderman 2... lol if that game was
that great theres no way regular people would buy miles morales over spiderman 2... and thats the reviews of the masses out there that i searched... lmfao
your intro saying i was 4 hours in and i was just building my char... i did the same thing in bg3.. i was so stressed like bro i havent even started playing and i
need to go to sleep already?! not knowing the gravity i thought it was too much... but after playing its just an intro to how massive the game really is! im about to start
my second playthrough this week!
"Spider-Man 2 is the people's game of the year."
Guess someone wasn't paying attention during the show, because I distinctly remember Baldur's Gate winning the people's choice award as well 😂
Exactly. Fuck spiderman im his corporate ass
Yeah, they are delusional.
I never met a SOUL who thought Spider-Man 2 was even going to BE in the GOTY 😂😂😂
Yeah it’s funny because I never heard about that game even releasing
Yeah did I waltz into some weird alternative timeline where Spiderman 2 stood any kind of chance, with or without BG3? The only other nominee listed that I could ever see it beating is Mario Wonder, and even then that's just because I would expect TGA to give GOTY to an open world game over a 2D platformer (Mario Wonder still was the higher rated game in general though).
Watching grown men throwing tantrums over GOTY awards is pure gold💀
Those aren't grown men, those are manchildren.
A man will keep an open enough mind. They question why their choice wasn't right, do some research and not cry cause what they wanted didn't happen. Half the guys in the clips were like "what is this game", thats all you need to know.
Spiderman is literally eye candy, after I beat it in like 20 ish hours, I turned it off because the "open world" is empty.
So many better games this year than spiderman, it was never really considered.
I will never understand why so many people waste their time&money on people like them
pretty sure the only man children are BG3 fans
@@Zones33kid, don't come in here trying to call BG3 fans manchild when just by clicking on your profile picture EVERYONE can see how much of a butt hurt child YOU are about BG3 being praised as the masterpiece it actually is.
Stop it, get some help.
Hilarious. I love Spider-Man 2, and I knew Baldur's Gate 3 was going to win.
So Congrats to Baldur's Gate 3.
BG3 continues to be a reality check to game developers and gamers alike. Set the standard for what a game should be, zero monetization, deep lore and story, fantastic characters.
And a movement and birds eye view system that destroys all that immersion eventually, if that birds eye view alone was put into something like the last of us or ghost of tsushima imagine how bad it'll be? Even with a great story, now I respect other types of gamers like baldurs gate fans/dad but goty isn't just insulting to other gamers, its insulting to everyone even those who don't realise it yet, but because some people enjoyed the game to the perfect point in time before the game awards the devs was able to exploit that in a way nobody even noticed, and now their ads are everywhere on RUclips tiktok even for people who don't like the game, because all their money from the actual goty award is going straight to marketing cuz they know the average gamer just isn't gonna buy that off the store or shelf compared to even COD and we know how God awful cod has got as well.
@@JoshuaLovesDoggos1 the game is still best seller even on xbox, the type of gameplay means very little when it blew the competition out of the water in every other aspect as well.
@@JoshuaLovesDoggos1the camera is a weird ass complaint but go off
@@JoshuaLovesDoggos1 Birds Eye View is how DnD games work. I know, somewhat of a ground-breaking concept. I dont even want to mention the rest of your yap session
So a game should be about having sex with animals. Got it
I kept putting it this way: I Platinum'd Spider-Man 2. I played it for 30 hours and had a great experience, but i haven't even thought about picking it back up since then. I'm just starting Act 3 in Baldur's Gate 3 and have already started 5 other campaigns just to try out different classes, story beats, relationships, and a host of other options. And even before I've reached the end, i can already tell that BG3 is a game I'll come back to in 5 years and have an incredible time, whereas SM 2, unless there's DLC added, i don't know if I'll ever touch again.
i didn’t even finish act 1 and i already thought about the next playthrough when i hadn’t even finished the current one, i didn’t have that in spiderman
My first playthrough is well into act 3. But I started my second playthrough. Already it's vastly different than my first playthrough. I found things I didn't find in my first playthrough and I fully explored the whole map.
I have played Act 1 like 5 times before completing the game... for me this is one of the best games of all time
I remember hearing someone say that the majority of Spider-Man 2 fans aren’t gaming fans, but Spider-Man fans, and honestly it makes sense. Even if bg3 isn’t their personal style of game, most gamers can understand how hard it rocked the industry.
I agree with you on this. Anyone who has been a gamer for a few years would’ve seen BG3 winning a mile away even if it wasn’t the game for them.
But the Spider-Man soybois that were hating on BG3 on Twitter (X) are probably just Spider-Man fans like you said. The story of SM2 was pretty good and the swinging is REALLY good and very satisfying especially with the assist turned off. But it’s not GOTY material. I think Moist Critikal said best “it’s a really safe game, it’s a good game, just really safe.” And safe games don’t win GOTY.
Agree. It is honestly the only way I see someone thinking that Spiderman was going to win.
Anyone who knew about videogames and is a serious videogame fan knew BG3 was going to win. It deserved it 100%.
It's completely true really. I fucking love Spider-Man one of the best comicbook heros of all time and even I thought the 2nd game was overhyped. Like the game was good and writing for the most part was alright but compared to Baldurs Gate 3? That game blows any game this year out of the water with how innovative it was.
I’m a huge Spider-Man fan and you’re absolutely correct. It’s honestly so fucking disappointing and embarrassing seeing the reactions, when literally anyone with any fucking critical thinking can see just how deserved bg3 winning goty was. Spider-Man 2 was fun but it honestly didn’t even deserve to be nominated. 🤷
It’s honestly really hilariously ironic that literally “Spider-Man fan” would know Peter would absolutely love bg3 too lmfaooo.
Mobile game gameplay lmao
I hate to be that guy and say this but a real gamer would've known from far away that BG3 was going to win. The same way Elden Ring won, BG3 won. They moved the industry, sold incredibly well, and set standards so high it made many games look like baby toys compared to it. I love Spider-Man but that shit isn't quality. At least not like BG3 levels of quality.
Imo even totk is better than spiderman. Spiderman is a safe sequel, totk has a heck ton of mechanics improvement for a sequel to a game in this gaming era.
@@overnight3741 I agree 100%
@@overnight3741spiderman was the weakest of the 6 nominees imo
Edit: If you’re reading this and getting defensive over Spiderman and wanting to shit on Starfield, reread this comment, notice Starfield isn’t relevant to this comment and stop tagging me
The spiderman game was a good game and is probably most gamer wet dreams atleast visually. But I would rather play web of shadows because it attempted to a morality system and had a combo list bigger than most fighting games.
@@schoolofdank5736 you a real one
Let's be honest here. Even if BG3 didn't win, the next most likely choice still isn't SM2. It was TOTK
Lol definitely not totk was a snoozefest
Nah because armored core wouldve blown everyone out
@@jimmnator9875I love that game
I honestly think it would have went to Alan wake, but yes, not Spiderman in the slightest
@@gordo1191 ur opinion is trash
I love how fan of the other serious competitors for game of the year, aka Zelda, Mario and Alan Wake fans, were all quite positive of BG3 winning.
The only people with a chip on their shoulder were Spiderman 2 fans, even if BG3 didn't win I doubt Spiderman 2 would of beaten the rest of the pack.
Yeah either Zelda or Alan Wake II would win. BG3 is just game of the decade.
I loves tears of the Kingdom, and in another year, it'd be GOTY, but BG3 takes it, both excellent games though,.
Its always sony ponies that get the most ass blasted lmao
I think also since Breath of the Wild won in 2017 it kind of softened the blow.
The Spiderman 2 fans are most likely people that never explore other IP's that are not mainstream or Sony Ponies
Baldur gates 3 was the one that was robbed, the dev only got the chance to talk for a short time while celebrities who were completely irrelevant to the gaming industry got the chance to talk for a very long time just to talk about their lives that we don't need to know
Definitely, they didn’t even get to announce its release on Xbox that same day because they were told it “wrap it up” after a few minutes on stage.
That's just how the Game Awards is honestly with how Geoff runs things
@awhellnah__ Damn even less than I thought, really messed up situation for these actors and developers
@@edrickjackson1092
The GOTY awards: a big commercial with a side of commentary
in contrast to the amount of time given announcing trailers and most categories were even sidelined
"Spiderman got robbed bro, Spiderman is the people's game of the year bro"
*Baldur's Gate 3 winner of the people's choice award*
Baldurs gate is shit
@@justrevvy2001keep crying
@@justrevvy2001 nope
@@justrevvy2001cry
@@justrevvy2001 Just cope and seethe spider chud
What astounded me the most about BG3 was that each and every single NPC has their own unique dialogue. Randomly named people with some one-liner to say about their day, something they're discussing with another NPC about, or a quick drop of gossip about events in the story. It makes me want to talk to everyone that is not important, because you never know when you'll find someone as memorable as that one guy in Act 3 that tries being every class so he can become an adventurer. The thing too is that the voice acting for all of them is as quality as your companions that you spend the entire game being with.
Also THEY HAVE CUTSCENES.
I don't want to know how much money Larian Studios spent for making BG3 with all that many Dialogs, Motion Capture, many Actors and so on :D
I’m not a big fan of turn based combat games. But I was willing to give BG3 a chance when it left early access. After 100 hours and still going, I realised what an absolute masterpiece it is and how revolutionary it is to the gaming industry.
Technically revolutionary yes. Game style, I don’t know if it’s revolutionary, they just continued off where the 90s games were going, before all this live service, loot box, micro transaction crap took over.
it’s still funny how people think that GOTY is rigged when in fact, if it was rigged then BG3 wouldn’t have even won any awards at all.
The industry hated this game to devs to major figures in gaming corporations downplaying this game for months until they couldn’t anymore.
BG3 was the peoples game and it’s what is needed to push the needle forward for RPGs going forward
It is my headcannon that the award ceremony tried to play the BG3 creators' glorious moment down by giving them a prompt of "Please wrap it up". 😂
Very true like coming into 2023 if you told me a CRPG won game of the year i would say only in my CRPG loving dreams lol
Exactly! BG3 had the devs all across the industry hating on it because it erased any future excuses to be lazy and release 25% of a game as DLC.
I really like "BG3 was teh people's game", made me a bit emotional :') Very well said!
Yeah if BG3 lost, it 100% would have been rigged. None of the games this year had the impact that BG3 did.
If BG3 wasn’t this year Zelda would have won
If Zelda also wasn’t this year Alan Wake would have won
If Alan Wake wasn’t this year Resident Evil would have won
There was, frankly, no room for Spiderman to win this year even if it was a good and enjoyable game
But to be honest, RE4 Remake should not be on that list.
nah nah, nah
Armored Core 6 would have won between Spiderman 2 and AC6 😂 (Personal Opinion)
It's a good game, it just didn't innovate. It was too safe.
The rest I can say innovated in many different ways, they did something new and it worked.
I mean I'd argue RE4 shouldn't even be there considering it's a remake, the same way Phantom Liberty shouldn't be anywhere on those lists since it's just an expansion.
@@Tamaki742 I 100% agree but the fact it was nominated and is a better game all around leads me to believe it would have won over Spiderman
I can literally talk to the rats and they tell me locations and stories. The Animals - which you need a spell or something to talk to- are fully fleshed npcs
New york has rats but you cant talk to them in spiderman sadly 😢... unless you count the new yorkers of course 😂
I never make a character that doesn't have some form of speak to animals in bg3. After every long rest I recast it so I never miss any possible dialog. All the animals have something interesting and useful to say.
@spiritboxyxbox you can talk to the new York rats, you just have to use this spell called methamphetamine
Spider-Man 2 was one of those fast-paced cinematic action game, which has become way too common for the last decade or so. BG3 on the other hand is extremely rare in which the game leans heavily on story-telling and how your choices can absolutely change the outcome of the game. It's like Fallout New Vegas but with a whole lot more depth and possibilities. Unfortunately BG3 is going to be rare and not many game studios are going to invest heavily in coming up with a good story. Way easier to write another super-hero good guy vs bad guy storyline.
People rooting for Spiderman 2 knows very little about the industry and what BG3 accomplished. I'm glad BG3 swept Game awards, as it should've. Maybe it will inspire the big publishers and developers to learn from what they did right instead of pumping out unfinished games just for the sake of profit.
Perfect comment and I'm a spiderman fan myself and A playstation person . Spiderman 2 ps5 pissed me off that game was such a disappointment. I only watched the Game awards to see to it that it didn't win and I am extremely happy with the results.
I really like BG3 and am playing it currently, but honest question: How is BG3 not "unfinished"?
The camera is janky, there are a shit ton of crashes, the dialoges are often out of sync with the talking and some gameplay elemets/ details that you would expect from a d&d/dsa kind of game are just not there.
@@see_yl shitton of crahses? do you use mods of any kind or is ur pc like 7 years old?
@@pureexile1702 Actually the very opposite. I have a high end system and that's what baldurs gate struggles with. If you check the patchnotes, there are multiple crash fixes everytime and it's a known problem.
@@see_yl I'm over 100 hours in and i only had the problem loading was shit in act 3. But after patch 5 that was gone. Well call me lucky then
anyone saying spiderman 2 is a better game has tik tok attention span (edit: love how riled up people get over a joke)
legendary roast, well done lad
Anyone saying spider man 2 is better is people who prefer open world action games over turn based.
If everyone that had an opposite opinion from you was stupid then there would be a problem lmao
@@Setogayamari what is blud yapping about
@@Setogayamari no they just prefer every single popular AAA game from big companies like cod, fortnite, fifa, starfield, etc and are too afraid to leave their bubble
@@Setogayamari plus if they prefer that, totk does a way better job at that, it won the fucking award lol
After playing Baldurs Gate 3 for the last 2 weeks, it became IMMEDIATELY clear why it won Game Of The Year. People who still think SpiderMan 2 should have won, either haven’t played BG3 or aren’t gamers. That game literally met every single expectation I had.
I'm really happy that Larian Studios is getting the praise it deserves for BG3. I haven't felt that happy for a studio since CD Project Red with Witcher 3. My only hope is that they don't make a mistake that CD did with the launch of Cyberpunk with their next game.
"Spiderman 2 peoples game of the year!" Meanwhile, it lost the fan game of the year category 😂
Starfield didn't even get nominated for shit so stfu
Could be worse, could have ended up like starfield and just been terrible and not even showed up... Also fan game is still majority critic and has been proven many times just like how the game awards itself is %90 critic votes and %10 community. Kinda dumb in my opinion
@@SetogayamariSpider-Man 2 is still inferior regardless
@@bandawin18 spiderman was nominated with all of those, if spiderman is inferior then they all are. They are all good games, you two just sound like a angry fanboys tbh.
@@Setogayamari getting nominated doesn't mean shit, it's embarrassing that for all 7 nominations Spider-Man 2 didn't win a single one. And yeah, I am an angry fanboy, I expected the story to be better than the first game and it was worse. Brian Intihar didn't listen at all to criticism from Spider-Man PS4, in fact he actually doubled down on the worst parts of the first game as if he learned nothing. Nobody liked the MJ missions because they were boring as shit, rather than give her something interesting or, God forbid, take the MJ sections out because they suck ass, he instead gives her a gun and military training that's explained away with a single throwaway line about her being trained by silver sable because they KNEW people would complain about her again. Not only that but they make her look fuckin butt ugly and it takes you out of the experience when you realize that she looks nothing like she did in the first game. Don't try and argue about what a good game is if you can't tell what actually makes a game good
As someone who didn’t play both games, it has always felt like Baldur’s gate 3 has had more staying power compared to spider man 2. Feels like people kept talking about BG3, but with Spider Man 2, it sort of disappeared into the background not long after its release
It really reached more people like the reviews on steam are numbered at 400,000
@@Ashbrash1998yeh at peak it had 800k plus plus playes for bg3
just like all the other spiderman games. BG3 will be legend
Huge difference is the fact that, while Spider-man 2 was exclusive ps5, Larian made sure that BG3 was available on as many platforms as possible.
Spiderman 2 was never an actual contender honestly. If it wasn't BG3, it would have been Alan Wake 2. If it wasn't BG3 or Alan Wake 2, it would have been Tears of the Kingdom. Even the RE4 remake would have taken priority over Spiderman 2 I believe.
It’s insane how good BG3 is. I know this is only my experience, but as a man bearing his thirties, it’s been a long time since I’ve skipped or declined responsibilities based solely on a game. That in and of itself solidified how this game is probably one of the best I’ve ever played.
This! BG3 is the first time in a very long time I went goblin mode for a few weeks. That game is so famn immersive, I play 2 campaigns back to back. I think I got about 130 hours in those 3 weeks. BG3 literally got me back into gaming regularly again, although, not nearly as many hours.
I definitely agree with the final point summary, Larion fully deserved this and the gaming community as a whole needed this, an indie team completely embarrassing almost every AAA studio, proving these greedy monopolistic companies wrong is just perfection
calling insomniac greedy 💀 if you actually have more than two braincells youd realise they appreciate the fans.
@@bruxonfc if you could actually read I said "almost all"
I may have few braincells but they at least work
Idk about embarrassing. Nintendo still had two nominees and TOTK was easily the runner up. Some outlets even awarded it GOTY over BG3. But BG3 deserved it. It's in a league of its own
@@benjaminblackmon3341 the Problem with Nintendo Games is, you can play them only on Nintendo*s Hardware, the same with Sony Games, sure after 3-5 Years those PS Games also come to the PC, but after that many years nobody cares and wants to pay 70 Bucks for a 5 year old Console Port on the PC. While BG3 came out for PC, PS and Xbox.
And here I'm sitting, waiting for The Last of Us 2 for the PC, while Sony releases the Remaster for the PS5...
@@ploed oh I agree nintendo keeps their exclusives tight to keep to keep people buying their ancient consoles. Exclusive gaming has its upsides and downsides for sure
Dude the fact that I’m a multiplayer shooter gamer. I literally never enjoy single player games that much. And a literal CRPG became my favorite game of all time is all the reason you need.
It brought the entire world into a tiny genre and did it perfectly
This says a lot
This right here
this is really something, considering BG3 also win the best multiplayer game.
just me and 2 of my best friends, diving into Faerun and roleplaying as whatever the fuck we want. It was an experience we will remember for years to come.
I’m so jealous of the world that’s going to open up to you now 😂 ever heard of Final Fantasy or Dark Souls/Bloodbourne/Elden Ring? Enjoy.
I’m playing an honor mode run right now and let me tell you, it completely renewed the game for me. Everything regains its’ impact regarding the story, choices and consequences, strategy and planning, etc. it’s so. Good. And if you feel like you have a good grip on the game, don’t miss out on what Honor mode changes. Has some new enemies and some legendary abilities as well.
Any true gamer knows why BG3 won: the devs cared. The listened to their supporters. They raised the bar where everyone else is enthusiastically willing to do the bare minimum for their fans. The "exception" that is BG3 will remain that way if people write it off as just any other game, at least this part should be acknowledged.
This right here is the actual answer. 💯 I agree.
Also goes to show how many people love dnd rpg over superhero games 😂
Indeed. I love Spider-Man 2, but even I knew Baldur's Gate 3 was going to win.
Larian devs have perfected the early access formula. Cannot wait for Original Sin 3 or whatever their next project will be XD
imagine dnd real time action, with parrying
It’s ironic people believed Spider Man 2 even had a chance. It’s not a bad game by any means, but it was just another Spider Man game. No ground breaking, innovative gameplay concept, or something that shook up the game industry, it was just Spider Man. Baldur’s Gate 3 took the gaming industry by storm with the amount of freedom you have to explore, and the freedom you have in terms of decision making. There are so many ways you can play this game, and so many ways you can go about what happens in the world around you. Even if Baldur’s Gate 3 didn’t exist, Tears of the Kingdom would’ve won. And if Tears of the Kingdom didn’t exist? Alan Wake 2 would’ve won. Spider Man 2 didn’t really change anything about the first game, which although isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it makes it harder for it to make it worthy of winning any awards in a massive and innovative year for gaming.
I'm shocked anyone even thought Spider-Man 2 would have any chance of winning GOTY.
The degree of player agency in BG3 is unparalleled. I lost count at how many times the choices I made a few hours into the game came back and either helped me or haunted me later in the game. It’s the epitome of “your choices matter” in a video game.
Couldn’t agree more!
I've never played BG3 but I want to
And I could tell from miles that BG3 would win
It kind of reminded me of playing dragon age origins
Doesn’t Rogue Trader have even more player agency because it isn’t fully voiced so they have the luxury of more robust branching paths?
@@KingepticonThe conversations can at times be more in depth - but no, BG3 has a lot more interactivity and ways you can solve things, both in exploration and combat.
That said, I do really like the Rogue Trader game, it’s great, and they really GET the Warhammer universe.
Also, Keep in mind, Larian is *not* a Triple A studio, they are in fact an indie studio who have self-published or kickstarted their last three games, including BG3
Seems like recently the indie stufios have been kicking butt
I heard larian studio now have 4 branch and over 400 employees, isn't that means they're triple A now?
@@AzelleNoirre No, because triple A refers to who your publisher is.
@@Rolandais ah, i see
Well but Owlcat is much smaller and also doesnt have the same profit as Larian does, but they manage to make much better games than BG3, yet i did not see Pathfinder here....
Baldurs Gate 3 Deserved That.
Spidey Two is a good story of a super heroes, But Baldurs Gate 3 Literally Revived The Franshize
I know my scenario is extreme, but I literally played 130+ hours on my first playthrough. This game is by far the most replayable game ever, as I'm already playing through my 3rd-4th save with completely different races, classes, choices, relationships, personalities, etc. It truly is a masterpiece of a game. *chefs kiss*
I was surprised BG3 won. Not because it didn't deserve it, but because the industry recoiled against its level of quality so hard. BG3 raised the bar while Spider-Man just polished the bar.
They really didn't recoil though
Everyone was pissy that BG3 blew everything else out of the water when it came out
@@TraRobins234they did tho? Are we just forgetting the amount of studios and developers taking shots at larian and BG3 because they “set the bar to high” and that expectations are gonna be way to high in the future now. It’s very clear the industry did not like what BG3 did to it
Edit: I should apologize it looks like I’m coming off a little hot. Sorry for that definitely didn’t mean to offend
@jaydnhill-jones4675 everyone likes to forget that 😂🤣😂 like when bg3 came out and all these triple a devs were on Twitter saying “dont expect this from us, larian is an exception”…. Yea…. That never happened 😂🤣😂🤣
Elden ring did the same thing and won last year so it was pretty obvious bg3 was winning
I played, and really enjoyed my time with Spider-man 2, all Goty nominees for a fact, but I can't comprehend how people think that SM2 was snubbed, if it were not BG3, it would be Alan Wake 2 or Zelda before Spider-man 2
Spiderman was snubbed tho. It should have one at least one award. These shows literally control most of these votes lol. They could have gave them one but chose not to. And to preface , IT DIDN'T NEED TO WIN GAME OF THE YEAR. It just had to get one.
@@h3llboyyy407 Yeah- they didn't cuz they thought the other games were better. Imo the nominations themselves are a huge honor - even if it's ultimately pointless aside from the pride from game devs. Looking at its nominations, I don't think it deserved any of those awards more than another game there.
@@h3llboyyy407Did you see all the things other game devs were saying about bg3 when it came out? If all of the votes really were controlled by the industry, this is the last game they’d be propping up.
I wouldn't doubt it would be alan wake 2
@@h3llboyyy407 "These shows literally control most of these vote" No they don't. Seems you don't really now all that much about how the Game Awards work.
More than 120 media outlets vote, and they all vote independently. In addition to that 10 % of the votes come from players worldwide.
Besides - The Player's Choice Award, 100 % voted on by players alone without any influence of Media Outlets, was also won by BG3 and that alone should tell all the Nintendo and Sony fanboys that BG3 simply is the more popular and better game.
Lastly: Just because Spiderman 2 didn't win anything doesn't mean its a bad game. It only means that this year had even better games and that is a good thing for us as gamers.
Im not even considering buying spiderman , but bg3 is a must buy for all real gamers
Even if you didn't think that BG3 was your GOTY, the way it absolutely shook the AAA space and caused developers to literally shit their pants on social media was kind of the writing on the wall. Elden Ring did the same exact thing. Both of these games innovated by launching feature complete and making mainstream AAA developers out themselves as incompetent morons.
This was a crazy year of games but come on. BG3 was such an unexpected gem of a game, reintroducing a niche genre to mainstream players and hooking people. I like a good action RPG too, but it feels like every game recently has been an open world action RPG with a mediocre story. The amount of detail, effort, and craft in this one game is insane. The way the devs would cater and shift the story to adapt to your every move was nothing like we’ve seen before. This was truly one RPG that really made me feel like I was role playing. I made choices that my CHARACTER would make, even if that meant going against what I personally would do. And finally, though it may be unintentional, they made a lot of gamers realize that we’ve been settling for less for too long. This game was completely free of predatory microtransactions and paywalls, which is such a nice bonus
I would say that now Cyberpunk did a similar thing but not so much in regards to the story but the gameplay, the game now feels amazing and having even some hardcore GTA fans are looking to Cyberpunk with certain respect.
@@efxnews4776 bro cyberpunk ruined industry. It only after Cyberpunk studios realised that You can release unfinished product and get away with it. CDPR just fixed what they broke
@@efxnews4776Yes, but Cyberpunk released a broken unplayable memed to death mess. Where as Baulder's Gate III was released as an actual completed game
@@loselot6044 Baldur's Gate 3 has been for about the same time as Cyberpunk in Early Access on Steam, During this time the devs have all the time in the world to work on the game an get rid of bugs at the same time players were testing the game.
So when you say that Baldur's Gate 3 launched in a playable state... well thats not exactly true, we give it a pass because it was on early access wich if you ask me, is something that CDPR should have done before with both TW3 and Cyberpunk.
Besides that wasn't my point! Like i said Cyberpunk achive something similar, i didn't say that when they did that or how.
@efxnews4776 The game didn't launch, when you went onto the page it told you it was a demo/beta, and when you went to buy it the game told you it was a demo/beta. It wasn't the launch of the game it was an open demo to get interest and community feedback, so they could make an actually good game
How did literally anyone go into the awards not thinking BG3 was gonna win GOTY? Everyone I know thought it would not be close. It was gonna be a slaughter. This is a once-in-a-generation game. A god tier game. It’s not perfect because no game is, but the scale and branching options are completely unmatched in gaming history. I could not agree more that we should really praise the masterpieces when we get them. I raved over Elden Ring, and I will rave over BG3.
A lot of people just haven’t heard much of the game, and that includes me. However, from what I DID hear, this game really does DND justice
Just look at who’s reacting to them 😂 they probably wouldn’t have the patience to watch a 30 seconds short, what makes you think they will enjoy a turn based game let alone value it 😂
@@prof.person8853 I guess that makes sense. I’ve never really played DnD before, and I’m not normally a turn-based gamer most of the time. But this game… man it was such a breath of fresh air with how much freedom and personal choice you have. I have two play throughs done, and each of my three friends that I play with have 1 each, and none of our stories look hardly anything alike because we made different choices.
err.. thats accurate@@SordidusFellatio
Just look at the biggest streamers look at the general gaming community the quality has gone way down for hoping they want a better game. Games like BG3 is a game I’ll play for many years on end and that’s just something people don’t care for anymore by how people gladly play the crap they’re served
as someone who played most of the goty nominees (spiderman 2, bg3, totk, and mario wonder) i never expected anything but bg3 to win. the only one i thought would get close was totk
I find it hilarious how one of the people in the intro said that Spider-Man 2 was the peoples GoTY when the Baldurs Gate 3 was voted on by the people
BG3 is completely self-published by Larian Studios too, with no big backers behind it unlike Spidey 2 (Sony) or TOTK (Nintendo). It literally had everything stacked against it. The fact it won GOTY and so many other awards should tell people it's legit.
Not only is BG3 self-backed, but Larian spent years making games like Divinity: Original Sin just so they could be given a chance to make a Baldur's Gate game. They had to prove themselves just to be given a chance, blew it out of the park, and won GOTY
Also. BG3 has been a game that's been on early access since 2020. They've had years to work on it with feedback.
Also the CEO was the director and paid for it's development himself. DUDE ALSO SHOWED UP IN A SUIT OF ARMOR WHAT A LEGEND.
@@SKannan94 the only game where early access actually resulted in a better product
I understand that for many people the gameplay of Spider man is more approachable, but man… BG3 is really the game of the decade, the amount of content, outcomes, dialogue, it’s insane the level of thought Larion put on the quests. I’ve never played a game where you can do quests in so many ways, it’s insane. Larion deserved all the awards; truly a work of art
Most definitely
Spiderman 2 was great too, but it was sort of a very creative extension of the other games. It's the base for future spiderman games too I'm sure, unless they find a new model to making spidy games.
Oh thats how its considered good? im pretty sure most games could implement 3k choices decided by a dice if they wanted too, easily. I hate it, i dont want 3k different things to perhaps happen in the hands of an rng dice.
@@Nohono5553bro did you read the comment. It says tons of choices that YOU can decide and not a dice😂😂😂
@@Nohono5553and your name is insomnijack lol
@insomnijack5693 It's a role playing game, why wouldn't you want more variety? It doesn't sound like you played it very long if at all, You can likely do a whole playthrough without passing a dialogue check.
Ah yes Kai Cenat, the person I go to when I wanna see which games are deserving GOTY 😂😂😂😂
They indeed target two different audiences, one is for spider-man fans, the other is for (all) gamers.
That people are actually surprised BG3 won is surprising. It was such an easy win, the only competition was going to be Tears of the Kingdom and that’s because it such a beloved franchise. Spider Man 2 was a nice sequel, but played safe and not really anything new. Baldurs Gate 3 made big game companies whine online because it had too much quality and it wouldn’t be fair to compare their triple A games to this small studio. This game always should have won for how much it did for the fans and how much attention to detail was put in the game. An easy and deserved win.
TOTK did also have innovation and gameplay aswell to back it up like BG3 did beyond just the franchise, but ultimately fairly lost to it
@@sand2067what innovation? Genuine question
@taco6886 ultrahand was a huge technical marvel, especially for the switch considering the size of the world it's rendering at the same time. IMO the game had too many UI flaws and basicly ignored BOTW while executing its story even worse which is why I favoured BG3 for GOTY.
Spider-Man 2 had no chance. I don’t understand all of the focus in this video and the comments on it. It is completely outclassed in every relevant way by both Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur’s Gate 3.
@@meee_5155A turn based game over Spider-Man?
I'm a diehard Zelda fan, I thought totk's incredibly robust physics and chemistry engines deserved to be recognized; And even I knew within the first week of bg3 coming out that it'd win goty. It had the markings of a timeless inspiration source right from the start; For years to come, its bits and pieces will inspire hundreds of future games. It shook the industry, like Elden Ring did, like botw did. Spiderman 2, while a wonderful game, simply didn't have that impact.
It wasn't even better than totk... I have no idea what the spiderman fans are on about.
Tears of the Kingdom did win a few awards but not game of year deserving, it was basically just BoTW re-hashed with the same map and nothing really original.
@@AlexRodriguez-fd3rsyou can say that statement, but I feel that it enhances the world, has new ideas that work in the new enhanced world, and the world brought back the feeling botw did when I first played it. I haven’t played bg3 since I’m not a fan of huuuuuuge content driven games as I tend to do every single thing in it (I stopped myself from 100% botw) and I’m not a super dnd fan, I just know about it and dabbled in it a bit before. But I probably would like it if I was able to try it out.
@@AlexRodriguez-fd3rsPretty much what Nova said, none of us really care, it gave BOTW fans exactly what they wanted, more of BOTW.
@@novarangerx6441 BG3 Is an amazing game, I also played DoS, and DoS2, and BG3 now. BG3 is very story driven but at the same time the amount of options and choosing the paths, characters, customization, builds, side quests, all the dungeons, etc is very immersive. My friend and I played every weekend in 5 hour sessions and were able to beat the main campaign in 130ish hours. However any given campaign can easily be 300 hours or more.
I would highly recommend trying it again maybe with a friend or two.
imagine not just being happy that:
A. your game of choice was even nominated
B: The game that did win is also fantastic
this is my 1st ever DnD lore , CRPG game . been 3 months still playing . over 500+ hours spent , 5 playthrough , 2 time finished . still discovering new stuffs, this is a very special game . I am really glad i took a leap of faith with this game , once i got into it , the rest is history . Baldurs Gate 3 is in my TOP 5 OF ALL TIME .
Literally the last genre of game I would've played before playing this game I beat Spiderman and said why not give it a try I wouldn't say it's my favorite game of all time but it is the best game I ever played it literally feels unreal sometimes
Play the wasteland series or the divinity games. You’ll realize that bg3 is an unfinished mid crpg lol. It’s like a 7. Div2 is a 10/10 you need to try it
@diegeticfridge9167 that's crazy talk, DoS 2 is extremely good, but BG3 definitely tops it in more than one category.
@@diegeticfridge9167 Look, i love DOS2, but BG3 is just better in most ways. Divinity has a cool story and awesome world building, along with top notch interactive gameplay and is a top 10 games of all time for me, but BG3 is literally an upgrade. You can do pretty much anything you can do in DOS, and more. Most characters are WAY more interesting, although Fane and Lohse are fantastic. The pacing and sheer epicness of the adventure is also just better. Now, i respect your opinion, but you don't need to shit on one game just because you like another more.
@@McSireson bg3 has a worse story, worse combat, worse companions, and worse world depth. Cant think of 1 thing it does better than dos2
It was absurd what some guy said: "Spider man is the people's game of theyear" when literally the player's voice won Baldur's gate 3
Eveytime i see someone mald over bg3 winning it brings me great joy. Bg3 is setting a new standard for gaming and it made developers panic cause they know they cant do this with their infinite laziness and want for micro transactions.
Larian, keep up the good work
As someone whose played both Baldur’s Gate 3 and Spider-Man 2, and has a very strange love for the first Amazing Spider-Man game, like, it’s one of the only games I’ve completed twice and own on two different systems (PC and PS4) and had been WAITING to play Spider-Man 2, I literally laughed out loud when I heard people thought Spider-Man 2 of all games should have won over Baldur’s Gate 3. I still cannot comprehend how this is such a big issue. It’s like, Baldur’s gate 3 was one of the most obvious win with its industry shifting, groundbreaking release, thousands of hours of replayability, thousands of endings classes, play styles. It’s gameplay is so customizable that it can appeal to almost everyone. Spider-man 2 was a good game, don’t get me wrong but it’s not even close to the technicality impressive masterpiece of Baldur’s Gate 3’a game design.
Dude, in BG3, Raphael literally sings his own boss battle theme. That alone is puts the BG3 soundtrack above the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. It is a novel way of making the soundtrack enhance the game experience even more. It’s been so impactful, in fact, that you have RUclipsrs posting their reactions upon first hearing it. So in this case, I think BG3’s soundtrack is actually worth taking into consideration.
man I really should have gone to the house of hope... i couldn't find it
@@mattc9598 well there’s your reason to replay the game. I bought the physical deluxe edition and I have to wait until Q1 2024 to get it. Probably March or something. 🥲
Whats even cooler, is that if you cast silence on raphael during the fight, he stops singing too. Little details like that make the game so fucking amazing
And that song is completely optional. You can easily make a deal with Raphael and get the hammer from him willingly. You don't even have to get the Orphic Hammer at all you're free to skip the House of Hope entirely. There's so much great content that's just optional.
Raphael arguably deserves all those voice acting awards astarion received.
Loved the guy in the intro who said, "Spider-Man 2 is the people's game of the year" when there is literally a players voice award that is 100% voted on by players, and Baldur's Gate 3 won that too 😂
Yeah, I thought of that one, too 😂
As someone who played both BG3 and the new Spider-Man, there was just no competition whatsoever. BG3 was 100% going to get GOTY.
Spider-Man 2 was nice, don't get me wrong. But the sheer content and quality that went into BG3 was incomparable to pretty much every other game this year. It was so much fun.
"What is this game"
Meanwhile, everyone who played BG3 didn't even bother watching because we knew.
"Baldur's Gate 3 had me enthralled from beginning to end..."
I see what you did there.😂
I think Neil won best performance because his character essentially had two endings, a good and a bad. The range he had when performing both of these outcomes, on top of his character’s capacity to be a bit silly and playful, was nothing short of incredible and wholly deserving of best performance. His bad ending straight up has him as one of the most memorable villain origin stories in a d&d setting that I can think of to this date. Some of his character’s best line deliveries are only accessible through his romance path too (he said “you’re not alone in this, none of us are” in his acceptance speech, which is a line taken from a very specific romantic path in the game). His character also brought forward difficult topics regarding S/A, which was also due to the writers who handled such a topic so delicately, but Neil’s performance of it was true to how survivors behave in real life (imperfectly), and it spoke to many, many people.
Astarion’s story outcome probably has one of the best scenes in the game, and he’s also the companion where your choices as a player have the most drastic impact on his ending. There are no clear choices with him, and making what can be considered the “right” decision honestly requires having a good instinct and a certain degree of emotional intelligence, which is pretty demanding for not only the player but for an actor to execute such a role successfully.
In short, he was incredibly groundbreaking and wholly deserving of best performance, though to be fair, this year was pretty stacked with great performances. I don’t say this to take away from the other performer’s accomplishments, mostly just to chip in and say that most people who think Neil didn’t deserve the award seemingly haven’t 1) finished the game or 2) played with Astarion’s outcomes to the fullest.
It's seemed to be that many ppl assume the initial Astarion behavior is his core personality, and never investigate further enough to discover it's a maladaptive coping mechanism, facade, and means of surviving 200 years of utterly twisted, diabolical physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse as well as being mentally compelled by his vampire master to facilitate the abuse and victimization of others by his MASTER, not HIM. A small misdeed in his masters eyes led to him being buried alive for a year. In order to not go utterly bat shit crazy, he eventually pretty much had to disassociate, sex became associated with the worst possible feelings about himself, being charming but insincere was a survival tactic. Becoming horribly bitter and cynical, etc, a way of life. Not because HE was irredeemablably evil, but because he had to exist inside a body being compelled to facilitate utter evil.
I could go on and I'm obviously preaching to the choir, but I've seen so many uninformed takes about, just had to say that, lol. Someone show me another performance that reaches the levels of what he manages to portray? And it in no way devalues other amazing performances this year or in history, it just is on a whole different level of it's own.
Dude definitely didn't deserve it. Karlachs va did. Astarion won because his fans are ravenous
@@doombottv6524 All voice actors in the game were amazing, but Astarion was by far the character with the most nuance and complexity, as well as the most three dimensional one. Also, if I was gonna give the prize to a VA in BG3 other than astarion, that would be the Narrator. Karlach is great, but those 2 are god tier.
Neil is entertaining in the game, and since you're about to spend a lot of time talking to those characters, being actually fun is what's going to make a CRPG palatable for non genre fans.
It's like playing a Soulsborne game when you suck and can't get gud, if everything else is perfect (Like chef's kiss top tier best in the medium) you'll not only "suck it up", but you'll actually enjoy the experience.
Also, bear sex.
Edit: And yeah, a bunch of non fun sour pusses probably won't try to romance Astarion, because they're not fun. 😂
@@doombottv6524 no. Karlach is a great character, but with all due respect to her VA and writers, she's nowhere near Astarion's level, both in character writing and performance.
If you want to really see Larian’s attention to detail in this game, pay attention to Gortash’s face when he talks to you as Tav, then pay attention again when you’re The Dark Urge.
I personally have never played a turn based game and when I heard BG3 won GOTY i was not sure why they won till I played it and I must say more than 150 hrs in the game and I still feel I want to keep playing it more and more. BG3 definitly deserves the GOTY
Spiderman 2 is great, BG3 is a masterpiece. Thats just how it goes man
Spiderman 2: a masterpiece of superhero games that does little to innovate the open world genre, but delivers one of the greatest superhero games out there.
Baldurs Gate 3: a masterpiece of video games as a whole. Likely a defining step in the development of games as an artistic medium going forward.
Yea, I think anyone who takes games seriously could see this from a mile away.
i think youre glazing spiderman 2 too hard, the original was better people only pushing spiderman 2 cus muh black people muh lgbt agenda
Well put, a lot of people who have favorite genres will always select games in those genres. But the game of the year award is about games in general.
I understand that its hard for people to understand how great BG3 is, when their brain is pushed to full capacity with a Spiderman 2 (which is a great game, but a kids toy in comparison)
It actually makes me a little mad that these people will claim Spiderman 2 was robbed while not even having played BG3
Let's be honest, If Baldur's gate 3 wasn't released this year judging by all the awards given, the game of the year would've most likely been Alan Wake 2 or Tears of the Kingdom. Look, Spiderman 2 is a great game with a great story, but it's nowhere near TOTK or Alan Wake 2. Spiderman 2 was just way too safe of a game. Nothing groundbreaking really.
Yeah exactly, it’s like being mad AC Rogue didn’t win back in like 2014. Good game, good story, nothing really special about it though.
With a great story? BRUH.
Gameplay? Sure! More of the same and yet it feels enjoyable.
But story… Let’s just say that even WoS had a more refined story than SM2. And not so pretentious)
100% agree with this post ..I don’t understand how people thought spiderman2 had a chance
Or mario wonder. Spiderman2 had no business even being nominated
Spiderman 2 sucks the story is shit 😂 they retired peter to go fight climate change 😂😂😂
Oh man I wonder how a game with masterful story telling and extreme freedom won goty vs the 500th 3rd person cinematic action game.
God I just can't imagine why.
So if a game has 3rd person action it means the story is garbage? Sounds stupid as hell to me.
Alan Wake follows the same 3rd person action genre and your not complaining about that resident evil rip off?
God of war has perfect story telling, last of us had great story telling, uncharted was great, ratchet and clank is a classic, jak and daxter was amazing, spider man was phenomenal, and red dead redemption 2 was abso incredible.
All of these games have a great story regardless of the 3rd person action.
If you don't like them that's fine, but talking like your opinion is fact is wild to me.
Most gamers don't care what the genre is, if the game has a great story then people will play it regardless
@@Setogayamari Did I say literally anything about story telling?
Being bad i mean
youre being obtuse and you know it. Have you played BG3?
@@Setogayamari
Oh man, I wonder how a game with (everything you said) won over a sequel that does some things worse than its predecessor.
Ive never played a game like BG3 before, and only played it because a kind soul “thought i might like it”. So i tried it, and sunk about 30 hours in (safe to say I am LOVING it). When talking to some other friends who played it and discovering that I had beaten an entire section without ever interacting with what is meant to be a major faction in Act II, i began to realize that the game was definitely something special.
In BG3 I was able to sabotage a press to stop them from printing an unflattering article about me. The first NPC I talked to after that, got mad at me because they removed the puzzle section because of that.
I rest my case.
I only got BG3 for my fiance, I saw some clips of it on Instagram and thought she would like it. Never saw any advertisements or heard of the game. I watched her play a bit at first since I didn't care for the turn base gameplay. After learning the basics of it I decided to take a stab at it and I've been obsessed since. I was in a very deep depression at that time and this game helped me through it so much. I am an SA victim and the writing/story of Astarion made me feel so seen. I've not fell in love with a game like this in a very long time. There's a lot of amazing things this game has done, put aside my personal reasons why I love the game it does so much good and is a game that revolutionized the gaming industry. It has set a very high bar for future games as it should. This year had a lot of great games but BG3 had so much thought and love into it, it most definitely deserved goty
I hope this gets better for you. things will get better be strong
It was so gross when Neil was interrupted in his speech man. He really did something beautiful for so many, and they just had to hurry him on so they could get to the next Fortnite commercial 🥴
@@paja9762 literally! Like the game awards are to celebrate the people and Studios who worked on the game. Let them have their time to express that gratitude
@@liss_Th thank you, I appreciate it :)
I had a similar experience. My husband bought it for his birthday and I was obsessed with it! Shadowheart was the character that I connected with the most. Letting her do as she chooses and trusting her, felt so healing. Bg3 is so great because of the characters imo. I think everyone has that one character they'd do anything for! Even if it's Sazza lmao
Gabe had it right when describing fun in video games. It's about how the virtual world of the game reacts to your actions. BG3 does that better than basically anything else ever. That's revolutionary.
But that's Gaben, and he's the Valve guy, his games are on a whole other level tbh because even though I'm not much of a gamer, and I played it over 10 years ago, I still freaking remember Portal 2 😂
Makes it feel like fallout new vegas without any restrictions in terms of world building alone
@@drpygmr2416 great example tbh
As a longtime fan of both tabletop games and the CRPG genre, I feel very vindicated to see a CRPG based on a tabletop property being recognized by the mainstream. This game deserved every accolade it received and then some. I haven’t played a D&D video game quite this good since I first played Planescape Torment
Any true gamer knows 100% it’s BG3,hands down. Just facts. I agree with all there wins larian studios and from software are clearly the best developers out rn. They listen to their fans and love what they do…. And it shows.
BG3 got other multi-million dollar game studios mad and claiming that making games like Baulder's Gate 3 was unrealistic and unfair to other developers. I think that speaks to how great of a game Baulder's Gate is
lol I’ve seen so many people trying to gaslight me saying this never happened 😂🤣😂 that’s how you know bg3 is just that good of a game. Easily in my 5 best games of all time.
@@beastness501 It's a good game but tbh i think many people forget that it was just one developer that said "Don't expect this from us." and they got backlash almost instantly and deleted their tweet iirc. Other developers just said "this is a good game" etc. It'd easily lose to something like RDR2 if paired in the same year though, if you know anything about that game it literally changed NPCs and Immersion and developers today still can't replicate the level of detail that game holds, the world is also beautiful and it genuinely feels like you're living another life through Arthur Morgan.
With that said, BG3 is also in my top 10 LMAO.
I played rdr2 and loved it, still think bg3 is miles better. I also thought gow was better than rdr2 aswell. Rdr2 wasn’t that amazing imo, and I think bg3 absolutely would beat it. Again, I even 100% rdr2, but it didn’t really do anything that much different from other rockstar games; it had a good story sure, but cyberpunks story hit me much harder than Arthur’s did. But yea, rdr2 was a good game, but I wouldn’t even put it in my top 10, I generally don’t put anything in my top 10 if the only part of the game I truly enjoyed was just the story, and everything else I’m just “meh” about, which was rdr2’s case for me personally. A lot of people are big haters of turn based games but for me personally, I’ve always loved turn based above everything else. But if I was one of those people, I’d completely understand not liking bg3, gameplay wise that is. But bg3 excels in everything imo, story, decision making, everything, even if you don’t like turn-based, you could still enjoy the story, I could easily watch someone else play this game and enjoy a lp of it if I was one of those people who hated turn based. Which is the only real gripe I’d agree with that I’ve seen people have with this game, which isn’t even a problem for people like me who love turn based games.
@@beastness501 Agree to disagree i guess. I did like BG3 are alot but RDR2 was just a whole other experience for me that honestly is pretty hard to get with any other game to be honest. BG3 being a turned based doesn't really spoil the enjoyment from me too because it's stupid to judge a game based on it's gameplay mechanic.
@@beastness501 Rdr2 isn't even able to be game of the year it was released a couple years back
as a dnd player and dungeon master i really appreciate the way bg3 brings dnd to a digital format. the endless possibilities and innovative ways to approach ANY given situations are such a delight and inspire me to format my game world to allow for more flexibility. not to mention how easily bg3 visualises all effects and abilities!
bg3 is done wonderfully so that players who have no familiarity with dnd mechanics can get a quick and efficient grasp on it, and previous dnd players will find familiar mechanics in insanely fun new scenarios. i cant wait to play this game for years to come and still find new things
As a fellow DM (other trpgs) and an avid DnD hater (system and setting bad) I agree with you 100%. BG3 is insanely good in terms of choice
As a fellow DND player, I agree. I haven't played it yet but damn it captures a lot of what makes DND good
Thing I love about it is the concept of failing forward. Something going wrong is rarely the end. It just leads to a different end somewhere down the line. It's a very DnD concept, and the amount of work it took to make it work is just infinitely commendable.
Spiderman 2 didn’t cause a bunch of AAA devs to go “you can’t possibly expect this to be what AAA games should strive to be because it is simply too good” and BG3 did. Any game that can make major game developers that nervous about being held to such high qualitative standards deserves Game of the Year.
As someone who's beaten spiderman 2 and baldurs gate 3 I have to say baldurs gate is the better game in my opinion and deserved game of the year
To someone who’s never been in the ocean, a pool may seem deep.
El que nunca ha tenido gallina se cree que la mierda es huevo.
I mean one was lauded as the greatest rpg of the decade and had developers pissing themselves and making excuses as to why they can’t make a game like it and that people shouldn’t expect them to. Meanwhile, after the honeymoon phase, the other was being called out for being a good game with a lot of underlying issues.
Anyone who is truly into video games and having rich fleshed out worlds knew this would win.
There is still several hours of gameplay that not a single person has seen yet in BG3 according to Neil Gaiman. He refused to say who it involves, but he said the devs told him.
BG3 has everything, do everything you want, kill any one you want, be good or evil, play smart or dumb, take your time planning or goes balls deep, become a bear or other animals and that why BG3 is great
Freedom the game. Actual decision making and choice in a game is so refreshing
@@robertfishburn8545 Of course! Those who would argue otherwise, well… They just hate our freedom! /s
For real though, one of the best games I’ve ever played.
Best game ever made! From someone who rarely plays turn based combat as well.
also balls deep into a bear
That's the start of it. The great thing is how, not only can you do those things, but the game actually reacts to them in a believable manner.
I usually dont care at all about all these awards, but this year im very happy BG3 won and i wouldve been actually disappointed if it didnt. Not because it is 100% perfect, but because it showed to everyone what exactly the players want in terms of content, a reasonable price, no extra ultra hyper deluxe editions with 1 week early access, no ingame shop, no season pass, no cash grab... And Larian did it so so well. Love the game and i really hope other studios take notes
Baldur's Gate 3 set a new standard for video games in terms of developer care, listening to player feedback, reaching high levels of fidelity without sacrificing vision or content - and doing all of this while creating a AAA as an an indie studie. And, as the cherry on top, there was 0 bullshit monetization baked in, all of the (sometimes major) updates were free.
Swinging around the photorealistic new york city never gets old but soon as you walk around and check out the npcs, the sudden reality breaking realizationit feels like realizing you’re in a lucid dream
I really like you mentioning the price tag debate. BG3 only being $60 is amazing. The the fact I’m getting over triple the content of other AAA games for a lower price is genuinely amazing. Over the last few years I started consuming more passion project games instead of just AAA games because I feel like I’m getting more bang for my buck.
Not what I payed. An I bought it twice. Still was worth it obviously.
@@ibannash I have two copies of the game too :). One on Pc and one on PlayStation
Isn't BG3 AA and not AAA?
@@hannahw7023 Are you asking or telling? If asking, I'd say AAA. Too many resources and too much time went into it. An it's far deeper than anything with less than top quality development.
@@ibannash It’s a mix of both in a way. Larian is technically, by definition, an indie developer. The thing is that after their last game DOS2 they were able to pull themselves out of bankruptcy and better establish themselves. With near 400 devs on this game, it puts them in the same ballpark as Bethesda but still putting them lower than games published by Activision who apparently had over “3,000” devs working on COD 2022. So technically will the success of this game they can establish themselves as a AAA company but at the time of release they were just a the cusp of it.
So many people were angry because nowadays a lot of the younger crowd are so used to being told how to play the game and cant wrap their tiktok addled brains around player agency 😂
Holy shit this is true.
The next choice after baldur's gate 3 would have been Tears of the Kingdom. Spider-Man 2 wasn't even in the conversation
I literally only know what baldurs gate 3 is because someone told me you can have sex with a bear 💀
As someone who played both:
I liked SM2. I took my time and explored every inch. Got 100% in ~35 hours over 2 weeks (work lol). The story was good. Classic comic book story that is enjoyable and the performances were great. That being said, there is no real replayability for me. All I can do is swing around and fight the random crime pop ups. The graphics were beautiful and the combat system is very well done IMO.
BG3 is just different. There are so many different ways to play. I am 350+ hours in since release. I have finished 2 totally different playthroughs (First run, and a second more optimized build) and I’m finally working through my dark urge run (Necromancer Wizard going for chaotic good). I have spent hours just searching every nook and cranny (and picking up every cup to sell). I have explored and reloaded countless NPC and Party interactions. I have spent hours respecing each different party member. There are genuine impactful consequences for your actions. I also have been playing D&D for almost 7 years now, so I didn’t have as much of a learning curve as others, so that definitely added to my experience. The performances are totally amazing. The NPC and Party dialogue is amazing. The little travel conversations are so funny. They give texture to the characters. They aren’t just silent puppets. They’re “people” that have personalities that interact in so many different ways. This doesn’t even go into the customizability of the game through mods (which the game offer support for). Everything from additional classes, spells, weapons, races, items, visual customization options, WASD movement for m&kb are available on Nexus.
The Part that really did it for me was when I broke it down for myself:
$70 to play ~35 hours is about $2/hour
$60 to play 350+ hours is about $0.17/hour (and steadily declining)
This is very important for me because I just graduated college. I do not have a lot of money to go around so the games I buy tend to be ones with vast amounts of replayability (BG3, Sims, Civ 6, For the King 1 & 2, Godhood, Minecraft, etc.).
Today you woke up, washed your face and came here to spit out facts. 👍
XD nice@@liss_Th
I couldn’t agree with you anymore some gamers really need to wake up and realize this
As someone with no friends to play dnd with, this game was a dream come true and deserves every award and more
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BG3 has now entered the very small list of ethereal games that feel like a peak into the future
Spider-Man 2 is my personal game of the year, but anyone who genuinely gets mad or trashes on BG3 cause they're upset is just childish
Never got the opportunity to play BG3, but saw a few hours of gameplay on YT and was completely dumbfounded. And that was exactly when I knew it will win GOTY. The level of thought and innovation put into the game was just massive and I've truly never seen anything like it. Larion Studios didn't just create a video game. What they really made was a technical masterpiece that is just out of this world. And this is coming from a Spider-Man fan. Really sucks that I can't afford to buy BG3 rn, but its at the top of my wishlist and I cant wait to play it soon.
My man, you can suffer racism for picking the Drow race, that shit is deep lol
Set aside enough time. One playthrough is looong, and you will probably want to do more than one.
@@gogozepellievery race will suffer racism in d&d parallel to the real world
drow actually deserve it parallel to the french in the real world
My guy is in for so many hours lmaooo
When you get the game down good enough and feel confident, I highly recommend honor mode. Will totally renew the game for you once you feel like you’ve seen it all
@@sneaky5141racism against french and British is the only type allowed ;)
My boyfriend and I are both gamers. I play FPS shooters and linear adventure games, while he mostly plays LoL and tries out any RPGs that come out. I used to tease him that he hasn't finished any story game in long while, he just plays some hours and forgets them, coming back to LoL.
But now I couldn't force myself to play more than 5-10 hours of BG3. It was just overwhelming to me and so out of my comfort zone compared to all linear games that I normally play. Meanwhile, my bf proudly proclaimed that it's his first game in a long while for which he completed the story. He beat it twice already, and for the his third playthrough... he made me play co-op with him.
Now it's some of our most charming date-game-nights. He serves as my guide, but not revealing too much, letting me think at first, and only helping out if I'm at a loss. He said he genuinely enjoys playing with a noob like me, and hearing my reactions. He made me play the Dark Urge background (and I'm usually a goody two shoes hero in games, completed Mass Effect dozens of times Paragon only, haha), and oh my lord. Poor Alfira. And squirrel.
BG3 has become so much to us. Not only it's technical and storytelling masterpiece, it's also our personal get-away. Worthy winner of game of the year, and honestly for a few years ahead - I doubt any games will reach this quality anytime soon.
Uh oh! Now I know why so many people are surprised this game won, it requires ... Gasp... Thinking 😂😂😂😂😂
@@samf.s.7731 Right?? :DDD there's just so much in it
Im jealous of your guys's life and relationship.
@@jakeberry7286Same 😢
Spider-Man didn’t set any standards or raise any bars. What BG3 did and still continuing doing is incredible.
I seriously don’t understand how this was actually a surprise for some people. Baldurs Gate 3 was the OBVIOUS winner, the moment it released I knew it was going to be a total sweep at the game awards. No other game this year even came close with the exception of Zelda.
As someone who also played both: BG3 made people look at games and say "Look what we could do!" and has likely raised the bar for developers (or at least made the general gaming audience more critical). Spider-Man 2 is just more of Spider-Man 1 with improved or added gameplay elements. I love both games but I knew going into the game awards 100% that BG3 was going to win it. Though I do think its a shame that SM2 did not win a single award.
Wasn’t that the same as spider man 2018? It was nominated in a lot of things but won none. But to be fair, 2018 was a pretty stacked year. God of war, rdr2, Celeste…
Be happy, at least spider man was nominated. I still think there should have been at least one nomination for hogwarts legacy and atomic heart. I had fun with those games, but I guess it’s a political issue, one game is connected to Rowling and another is Russian
Not sure it raised the bar, but developers were quick to go on social media in order to tell people not to get expectations up, that BG3 is the exception, not the new standard.
All these excellent points aside, BG3 had the larger impact on social media since it’s release. The shear amount of fanart, video edits, fanfiction, deep analysis, and animations that cover over everything regarding baldurs gate is insane. SM2 doesn’t even touch on that level of discussion. THATS also what makes something worth goty. What got ppl talking positively the most. What gripped fans so hard they couldn’t stop talking about it and obsessing over it. That is also why BG3 won and why it’s baffling how anyone cries about it being “overrated”.
Shut yo ahh up and oil it up for papi never heard of bg3 until the awards 💀💀
If Spider-Man was also available on Xbox it would’ve won the award
@@Df19_20 Playstation tax 😂
@@Df19_20Naw, Spider-Man is a good game. However it isn’t close to baldurs gate.
I've played almost all of the games for this year as well, none of them come close to touching BG3.
I have 4 play throughs of BG3, I have yet to recruit the evil companion. I’ve played through this game 4 times and THERES STILL CONTENT I HAVENT SEEN.