Great video! Im gonna sub for sure. I love spiderman but anyone who thinks that a game that is 35 hours long, linear af, repetitive and also is only available to 1/4 of gamers worldwide could be GOTY is just simply ridiculous. BG3 won, and rightfully so. Im sure AW2 was really good and Zelda too but BG3 has it all. IMO its not even close man. BG3 is the best game ive played in a long time and possibly the best game ive ever played.
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
I think there is another feature that contributed to Baldur's Gate 3's success and that's "accessibility". By having full voice and performance captured dialogue to describe 90% of the game's story it makes the CRPG genre accessible to players who don't like reading pages of text. By changing the D&D game system to be more intuitive and forgiving for newer players they made this more accessible to players who aren't already familiar with it or with the "always be prepared" RPG gaming attitude. This introduced an entirely new audience to CRPGs and for people not used to how immersive and fun a CRPG can be this made the game seem even more special.
agreeeee . I love how Larian change that strict rule become esier & more enjoyable like bonus action or healing, great & smart ideas from them because I'm totally new with D&D but still inlove with this BG3
I agree with you completely but that word "accessibility" has been poisoned to me by people that want to abuse that word to take down games they don't like the From Soft needs easy mode crowd
YES. That's been the biggest obstacle for CRPG's. Games have gotten way more stimulating and graphically rich and less mechanically dense/complex with time. CRPG's have been trippling down on mechanical density/complexity without much improvement to presentation, they're still great games but no freaking way are you gonna convince anyone who's not already into CRPG's to play the new Pathfinder or something. BG3's mechanics are easy to understand with a high mastery ceiling with beautiful presentation. It's not reading text story for hours, then reading text stats/perks/mechanics for hours, then reading status effects/conditions/buffs for hours in combat. It's snappy, easy to get your hands on, and tempts you to get deeper.
Larian saved gaming, or definitely helped save it. Without Elden Ring or BG3 Bethesda would have the world convinced games like starfield is a work of art, and is what to expect going forward. Larian, From Software, Elden Ring and BG3 are the only games I've played more than 4 hours in years . I played both over 200.
Larian didn't make BG3 as a commercial product. They are really making art with all their hearts and souls. And it's just somehow a sin not to pay them for letting you experience something this exquisite. An once-in-a-generation game indeed.
That's really the only reason I bought it on PS5. I already paid them for it when Early Access started. It felt bad not paying them again for the experiences I had on release.
Honestly the entire Game Awards this year felt more like a battle for second place due to just how massive BG3 was. If you were on the internet this year, you would know that it would get GOTY, and there was just no arguing that, so it was really surprising to me that there we genuinely people expecting something else, especially the Sony crowd shouting that SM2 was snubbed despite their game not even being a contender.
Well thats Sony fans for you, and Xbox fans for that matter; utterly convinced of the superiority of their chosen console and the games upon it while being outright hostile to anything that suggests they might be wrong. Solid example, look at how pissy some of them get whenever you insult Starfield.
@@Lorekeeper72it’s because any console fanboy needs to try and justify their purchases by overhyping everything that comes out as exclusive. Sony fanboys tried to convince everyone Spider-Man was hands down GOTY despite not innovating anything. It truly felt exactly like the Arkham games but with more tedious traveling and less features than the previous titles. Same with Xbox fanboys trying to convince people halo infinite was half good. 343 killed halo and Microsoft couldn’t care less about exclusives at this point. With each console generation, fewer and fewer games that are worth a damn come out which makes the consoles as good as paperweights for non casuals.
I’m gonna be honest. My big take away here is that the genie in act 3 of bg3 can change you into cheese if you piss him off lol. I keep learning new things about it 500 hrs in
I started gaming on the Sega when I was 6. I'm in my mid 30s now. I've been there for the release of tons of games that went on to be legendary classics. I can say without a doubt that Baldur's Gate 3 is going to go down as a legendary RPG that still gets mentioned years from now.
It will get mentioned, probably in game developers board rooms, something like "Ok, so we are agreed to add sex scenes to a game, lets just make sure we do less than Baldur's Gate 3, that shit was insane"
I've worked in game dev a bit, and I can offer a bit of insight that will either make BG3 even more admirable or break the illusion a little bit, for those who don't already know: In order to make the gameplay so freeing and imaginative, BG3 leverages a lot of the same principles that made BOTW and TOTK so groundbreaking. That is, rather than scripting certain enemy/environment interactions, certain assets/abilities/mechanics are given a comprehensive list of properties that have the potential to interact with other assets/abilities/mechanics with similar/opposing properties. To use the giant boulder and grease example that you mentioned, it's not that the designers planned for giant things to be easier to move on slick ground (though they probably did); it's that they laid the groundwork for various properties to alter the gameplay in realistic ways. In this case, rough terrain + slick substance = slippery ground that reduces traction for all objects that traverse it. These systems are so carefully and comprehensively prepared for that it's hard to imagine certain interactions not being planned. Of course, this freedom can also mean a lot of bugs and exploits, many of which are still being quashed to this day. What's amusing is that Larian's left a lot of game-breaking mechanics in the game because it's part of what makes the game so amusing. Ironically, this method of allowing for what's sometimes referred to as "emergent" interactions is something that game devs historically programmed against specifically, for fear of invariably creating those bugs and exploits. There was nothing inherently wrong in that approach, and in linear games that needed to follow a specific flow, it was definitely the right choice. But as modern tech allows for more grandiose open worlds and real-time physics, a lot of the restraints are lifted, allowing for some incredible gameplay moments that are often just happy accidents. Finally, great video. It was very well put together, and I think you have a lot of potential in this niche.
Spider-Man fans being assmad that they didn't win anything at the Game Awards is shows how out of the loop some people are. If BG3 didn't win, it would have been either Zelda or Alan Wake. Spider-man got a courtesy nomination to keep Sony happy, but it was never really in the running.
@@bmobmo6438 Spider-Man 2 deserved to be there. Even more so since companies like Microsoft, Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA, WB and Bethesda all sat on the sidelines for putting out mediocre crap.
Hey, thank you for pointing out the whole 'lazy' dev thing. Baldur's Gate 3 is amazing, and I love that it's got the attention it has. In a year with Bethesda slop like Starfield, it's really satisfying to see a fully-fledged finished game on release with no microtransactions. But as you say the devs aren't at fault when it comes to bad games, it's the higher-ups who put their staff on crunch and only care about profit margins. It was really upsetting to see people dogpile on a dev for pointing out that this game was only possible with an experienced team and a big budget, especially when the tweet that started off the whole "Lazy devs are intimidated by BG3!" newscycle was done by a pretty productive and impressive indie dev. This wasn't someone highup in a big corporation who is at fault for shipping terrible games, they directly participate in making and selling great independent titles. I know at least one other person has said this (the brilliant Jim Stephanie Sterling) but thank you for also bringing it up. Anyway, it's always nice to see love for BG3. Has put my faith back in games again.
Not only was bg3 a solid release that really didn't need any upgrades, larian still consistently creates new content for the game FOR FREE. Any other dev would have probably put honor mode and custom mode difficulties under a paywall. Maybe even the magic mirror. And larian is still adding new things to this day. They could've just been fixing bugs exclusively with the patches and hotfixes. But they also use that as an opportunity to add new things for the players to enjoy. I am incredibly excited to see the future of larian 10+ years down the line and no developer has ever elicited that response from me.
To win GOTY in the best year ever for gaming (in my opinion) is an enormous accomplishment. They deserve every single bit of their praise and recognition.
Why do you think this year has been best for gaming? IMO this year was completely carried by BG3, all the other titles (excluding Alan Wake and BG3) are sequels of previous years games that don't really innovate much. RE4 is fine, but is the same as their other remakes. TOTK is BOTW with some building. Spiderman, again contributres barely anything new to its established formula. Mario, I know nothing of that title, but I don't imagine its much different than the hundreds of other mario titles. None of them really were a contender for the title if we're being realistic. 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2015 all had more innovation in their nominee selection than this year. Or do you have different opinions on what makes a year for gaming best? I don't know how to write this reply without sounding like I'm being passive aggressive on the internet, I'm genuinely curious.
@@thelifeofkenji4900 Only one game nominated for GOTY had micro transactions. No live services were nominated while Bethesda, Microsoft, Activision-Blizzard, and WB didn't get a free pass for phoning it in. Games like Spider-Man 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 never get nominated often at the game awards. Like the Oscars, journalists get together and vote for games they like. For a licensed superhero game and a CRPG, which is considered a niche genre to both get several nominations in the same year and to be nominated for GOTY is a huge feat within itself. Every game nominated for GOTY really did represent what is possible in gaming if you just put out feature complete titles and make games to be fun instead of habit forming. There were so many great games, that a lot got overlooked like Armored Core VI, Cassette Beasts, Dave the Diver, Pikmen 4, Hi-Fi Rush, and Street Fighter VI, Mario RPG and many others. With greedy corpos in the game industry trying to put out low-effort, wallet bleeding titles, this was a great wakeup call. Baldur's Gate 3 especially was so spectacular that other developers tried to call out that it shouldn't set a new standard or not to expect the same level of quality from them. This stuff was said even before the game released. On top of that Baldur's Gate 3 was a passion project. Larian had to purchase the rights to Dungeons and Dragons from Wizards of the Coast, and nearly went bankrup because WotC kept rejecting offers until Larian made one they couldn't refuse. That was just for the license to make the game without even considering production costs. Larian is also for all intents and purposes an indie studio with no pull in the industry compared to Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. They knocked it out of the park and went above and beyond to even beat out Alan Wake 2, which most likely would've swept the game awards.
@@thelifeofkenji4900 I do not agree. Some of those former winners to me does not look impressive either to me. Overall I think this year is praised because there is a lot of really highly graded games that is simply good and just not inflated IGN graded.
If that was true, then why GTA5 is still in the trending game on my PS5 when I bough this game on my PS3 before the release of PS4 in 2013? I saw 250,000 players on this game on Steam last week, an 10 years old game. Counter-Strike, a Half-life mod game, I was playing it with 640x480p in 1999-2000 at my parents home... Well now CS2 is #1 on Steam with 500,000 to 1,200,000 players playing it on a daily basis. Honestly, after buying Baldur's Gate 3, the feel of those older games came back right in our face, which doesn't fit with games surrounding it, without microtransaction and battle pass, which does create that feeling of not caring about others games this year. I only care about Baldur's Gate 3 this year. I barely touch Diablo 4, Elden Ring or any games. I still spend time on Starcraft 2, Rocket League, but those public comments from devs and companies about Baldur's Gate 3 and how Sony is hiding the game as much as possible and still putting GTA5 in front line does say everything about the corruption and moneyseeker from people who does not care about gamers, they care about more clients and finding a way to be paying more money for them. Even with 4,86 stars on 5, I still have to type down the name of the game in the search engine to find it. How absurd!
I played SM2 and thought "Wow, this game is really refreshing. Insomniac really did a good job" and honostly, I thought it might win the GOTY. When GA came, after declaring the winner I wondered "What the hell is Baldur's Gate (yes, it WAS under the radar for me and everyone I know) and why does it get so much praise. After reading reviews and descriptions of the game, I thought it to be absurd, people simply overexaggerating it. All I will say is that I decided to give it a shot, to see are these surreal descriptions of Deep exploration and vast dialogue options really true. After I did, I couldn't stop playing it. I still AM playing it. Not only is this game revolutionary, but it is what games should be. In conclusion, any Spider Man fan who still disses BG3 is just an ignorant individual incapable of realizing BG's mastery. They look at Fortnite and call it a good game 😂💀
In act 2, theres a temple of shar with a gate in it you have to unlock. On my first playthrough I used a specific character to do a set of puzzles to make the gaurds allow me in and then lockpicked the gate. On my second playthrough, i just killed the gaurds then shot a teleportation arrow through the bars of the gate and hit a button to open it from the other side. Even some random, unimportant gate had more solutions than most RPGs give you
Funny story, I explored most of the underdark before I came across karlach 😅 It's honestly mind boggling how I could've continued into act 2 without ever meeting a companion, regardless of how that meeting came about (no, I didn't know that you could recruit Minthara before I killed off the goblin leaders 🥲). It's mind boggling how you can just straight up kill potential companions, with the game giving practically zero indications that they are a potential ally. Even though I still haven't moved on to act 2, I'm already thinking about my next playthrough, what path I might take, what class/race I'll want to try next, etc. That level of replayability is simply astounding.
I don't think they should be in the same "category", since games let you do something impossible with films or literature, which is make choices. But they definitely deserve the same level of respect.
11:53 You’re describing the function of a dungeon master. That’s precisely why D&D is the secret sauce that makes this game work. Anything you can think of in the game world that you can try, a dungeon master will let you attempt. To think a game is on the verge of doing this in 2023, is mind boggling. This is without AI too!
I'm close to finishing my first run of Baldur's Gate 3 and I'm already planning my 2nd and 3rd run. The amount of builds and narrative choices in this game you can make is just amazing. This game is a piece of art. Like a good book or TV series that makes you feel for fictional people, that forces you to think about important things, that has hidden themes and symbolism in it. Everyone at Larian did a great job to make this game into what it is and they deserve all the awards in the world.
So true! It really feels like you are reading a book. You want to find out the ending but you also don’t want to reach it because you are enjoying the story so much!
"It's like playing a game of chess but the rules are you can throw your rook at the king if you wanted to" OMG I've never found a better description for this game lol Great video btw
Simple. It’s better than everything else. Anybody who disagrees probably hasn’t played it for longer than 45 minutes. I hate turn based games with a passion, but I admit the hype train got me. I’m glad it did. This game changed my outlook on gaming.
People these days don’t know what an RPG means. BG3 is an RPG in the true sense where you can create and play a role and where your choices actually make a difference. It’s modelled on old school PC RPGs but modernised without making it too dumbed down. And while Spider-Man 2 is good, it’s just more Spider-Man. While TotK is good, it’s just more of Breath of the Wild. BG3 feels fresh compared to these options and it’s one of those rare games that pushes the genre forward and opens it up for new players.
As a BG1 fan...I waited 23 years for this game. BG3 finally made Planescape:Torment the 2nd in my narrative isometric list. Larian's way of listening to fans, not doing scummy microtransactions and Feature rich gaming.....come on... This is a Legendary game. Time to fire up the OST for the millionth time!!
I've always been attracted to Turn-based games, but have struggled to 'get-into' them. BG3 has broken that curse and now I'm hooked. I sat down last night, around 7pm. Next thing I know it was 4am. BG3 is a worthy winner for game of the year. Its truly amazing
Starfield 3/5, more like a 2/10, the only good thing that game has is the ship customization. Besides all the bugs and loading screens, it's the horrible AI, flying feels like a on rail shooter, entering and leaving a planet is a loading screen, the gun play feeling really outdated, reusing locations on multiple planets like the facility full of being 1-1 the same. The worse is the lack of consequences and the illusion that your choices actually matter when they don't for the vast majority of quest which are extremely hand holding. One of 3 games/dlc I've actually wanted and got refund for.
I wanted to get lost in a world and expected Skyrim in space with cool planets and cool enemies and weapons. No wonder in Starfield, it's terrible. I never been more disappointed in a game. I had respect for Bethesda.
The heads up that this was going to be GOTY came right after release. A lot of the games industry was immediately terrified they they might be held to this lofty standard going forward, that the gaming public wouldn't recognize BG3 as a stupendous anomaly and think this was the new baseline. The wories were unfounded, plenty of games have succeeded without needing to match BG3's depth. But the fact that the worry was so widely voiced was a collective admission by the indistry that the game is on a level they can't match.
I voted online this year and gave all my votes to BG3. If you didn't vote, don't complain. And if you didn't play a game that won, then don't be mad cause you don't understand why it would win. If Spiderman had won over BG3 I wouldn't understand but I didn't play it so maybe it did deserve a win and maybe it would get me to play it. I don't feel like people are having that response, they're just getting mad.
and people forget how longe Larian had to perfect their formular for BG3, from the Divinity OS Series to the over a year long Early Access.... Larian just had the time to polish their game design what many games simply cant afford. Not that they dont have the time but that most Devs dont get the time from higher up to have such a long early access or the chance to create some lesser known games in order to "beta test" your gameplay systems.
I didn't want to play turn based. But this game made me love it, actually. And while I only ever replayed two games in my entire life, I'm on playthrough 3 of BG3 and already planning the next one. It's kind of crazy how hooked on it I am.
The real triumph of BG3 is they swept against Bethesda, Capcom, Nintendo, Sony, Blizzard and Epic. The supposed industry giants who banded together to curb our enthusiasm for a future, where every company with a legitimate budget can produce products we're proud to play. "I'm not gaming, I'm being gamed". All the Spiderman and Bethesda fanboys need to demand better. The standards have been raised and its on us to hold them accountable to those standards.
The fact that anyone thinks Spider-Man 2 was a real contender for GOTY (which i know is subjective) is just ridiculous. I fuckin love spiderman, but thats like a 20-30 hour linear game that only people with Playstation can play.......so how could it be the game of games for that paticular year?
It’s funny because they also won the ultimate game of the year…. It’s like it was destiny also I finally beat the game today and instantly went to a new character I made and saved the brain. Us for the win
I'm going with "because it was the best game of the year". The story was phenomenal. The gameplay, while not necessarily my favorite style, was coherent and exactly what they wanted to to be. The NPCs were memorably good. The story branches were incredibly well done. Cause and effect was done better than any other game that I have ever played. What future game developers have to take from BG3 has nothing to do with game mechanics, graphics, or anything else new. The best aspects of BG3 could have been in a game 30 years ago (and sometimes they were). Writing. Deep NPCs. Meaningful choices. That has nothing to do with tech. It's the core of a good game. Quick plug for my favorite game of the last 5 years: Kingdom Come Deliverance. That game had all of the above as well.
For context: I generally dislike top-down games. I generally dislike turn-based games. I mostly dislike roll-to-hit mechanics. Baldur's Gate 3 is literally built around all of these, and I still love this game. It's easily in my top favourite games of all time, alongside The Witcher 3, KotOR 1 & 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Skyrim and Mass Effect. Larian managed to take a bunch of things that 99% of the time turn me off to a game, and they made it _fun_ for me. And that coupled with fantastic companions with great acting performances... Yeah, that merits game of the year. For me personally, best game since TW3.
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Honestly I love BG3 and it is my favorite game of all time, I can't see how anything will ever top it for me. BUT the most satisfying part about your video? When you validated my opinions on Breath of the Wild. That game was so, so boring and empty. It honestly felt a little eerie to me with how empty it was. I can appreciate what it did for moving things forward but I never finished it.
I take back everything bad I said about baldur gate. I won’t lie, im still not a fan of the combat. Turn base just isn’t my thing but so far I’m really enjoying the story. The character dynamic just gives off so many dragon age orgins vibes for me. Still isn’t game of the year for me but fuck it, it deserved it’s win. So Well played
I agree that CRPG's have a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to game awards, but at the same time you can't forget that Dragon Age Inquisition won game of the year in 2014 and Dragon Age Origins is one of the most critically aclaimed RPG games ever, so I don't think it's as big of a debuff as some people make it out to be Also, Dragon Age 2 is not a bad game at all
Since I started playing DoS2 and especially after BG3 I can’t really go back to other games. The fact that your choices not only in the world but in combat as well have an effect that lasts for the entire game is incredible. The player’s decisions genuinely dictate the story of the world. One bit that was really awesome was from act 2. Without spoiling, after completing a certain quest a certain NPC, who you’ve known from act 1, celebrates your accomplishment and calls you a hero and to me that felt awesome because I had the option to completely abandon them and still continue on the main story just fine. But I CHOSE to save them and it made me realise that your player character’s reputation is dictated by your actions and is known among the people you’ve saved. It’s not simply because that’s just who you are. Not to poop on SM2, I love that game it’s awesome, but you can ignore all the crimes and cries for help and you’re still the hero and the story still completes just fine. If ignored every NPC in BG3 that cried for help I could miss out on HOURS of content simply because I didn’t bother to talk to that person.
TotK has difficulty bottlenecks. Baldur's Gate gives you a hundred ways to kill a boss. If you are not winning in BG its because you aren't paying close enough attention, not because your twitch skills are getting rusty.
I was so on the fence about playing BG3. I’ve never really enjoyed turn based games as I get bored of them so easily but I’m so glad my friend persuaded me to try it! This has literally become one of my top five favourite games. I haven’t felt this excited to play a game in years. I love how creative you can be with your solutions to problems and combat. I LOVE the combat, which was really the greatest surprise for me. It’s been so fun learning how to play each class to get the most out of each character.
EXACTLY! When you play nothing but the exact same games year after year after year, expect to be out of the loop and confused as to why BG3 won GOTY. People should broaden their horizons a bit.
Finally someone commenting on why baldurs gate 3 and what are some of the things that make it special. Most people are just being obnoxious and laughing at Spiderman fans. Which I didn't even play Spiderman but I think just making fun of them because they are ignorant isn't going to explain why BG3 won to them
People who believe SM2 was even a serious contender are dumb@ss fanboys who's would be incapable of understanding even if they were willing to listen in the first place. It's just easier to point out that they're stupid and move on. 😂
I mean, I think that we shouldn't discount the fact that BG3 is essentially video game D&D5. The IP is still pretty popular from what I've noticed and let's not forget it will always have the "it's the OG ultra high profile nerdy fantasy game". 😊 People who don't know what a BG3 is will almost always give an "AAAAH! Now I get it" when you explain it's D&D5. There's no way some obscure RPG would have been so instantaneously recognizable and sold just as well had it not been for the popular IP behind it. 😊 Yes, not even a game as well made as BG3.
TOTK , Alan Wake 2 and SM2 were all great games.. but man.. BG3 is just a different Galaxy. I played and am palying it on a very low end cheap laptop from 8 years ago, quite low fps around 30-40 and its still more than enjoyable. The voice acting and the sheer consequences of your choices are insane.
I bought it as soon as it released on Xbox, I Just can’t put it down I’m 50 hours in and I can say BG3 & Elden Ring are the best games I have ever played. 30years old been gaming awhile.
I’m 44 and I can tell you, it’s the best game I’ve ever played and I’ve been playing longer than you’ve been living! I mean no offence by that, I’m just saying I think your assessment is totally dead on.
1 major correction: 7:50 - DIsco Elysium was not snubbed in 2019. No game that year deserved goty more tham Sekiro. Its one of the most obvious goty picks in the past 10 years, even more than ER last year or BOTW in 2017.
The only thing i have found that i don't like about this game is a missing mechanic. There is no way to ready an action. I know its possible because Solasta Crown Of The Magister had it and that game is nowhere near as good as Baldur's Gate (at least in terms of story, the combat is actually on par in my opinion). With that said, this game has jumped into my top games of all time list.
I'd bet some money that they experimented with readied actions and just couldn't make it work with all of the other emergent mechanics. They've been pretty clear that they didn't add mechanics that they couldn't do right. I'll be expecting it in a hypothetical BGIV
The second you called Hogwarts Legacy a mediocre open world game you got yourself a like and subscription. Game looked amazing and really brought Hogwarts to life, and combat was ok, but I got bored playing that game even more than Starfield. And that's saying something.
I really like the feature that deleted my saves on BG3! 😅 (that was a joke, I repeat, a joke. Maybe Chris Judge should use that one at the next game awards 😂)
the biggest flaw for me in BG3 is the learning curve. (the true meaning of learning curve not the bastardised way everyone uses it). It starts off really hard because you don't know you're doing. And I can see a lot of casual gamers quitting because of this.
Don't go back and play some of the NES games that we started with. Battle-Toads, TMNT, even the stages in the original Megaman were hard enough to break people.
Thats the fun of it many people dont have patience anymore attention spans are at a all time low. You need to practice to get better at something but many people want shortcuts, which is fine because these are video games.
I think it is on purpose, this game really forces you to think and work for it. It is not like these other linear games where you follow and the game leads you, your decisions and actions have weight, and you are getting better in game not only by increasing levels but also by learning in real life. It contributes to the immersion and makes the decisions feel much more high stake. This game just hits different.
Sadly I think the layoffs are a sign that video games continuing to improve at the rate they have been is infeasible but because video games are also pretty expensive to buy consumers won’t really settle for anything short of a goty nominee if they’re paying full price. The technology has plateaued and the only way a game can impress us is if they go rdr2 and abuse their employees work life balance
@@Childofbhaal That's because most other studios are pressured by stockholders and corporate overlords. Larian has no limitations or outside pressure, but they have said their next game will be less ambitious.
After a while it’s not that bad, there’s a lot of shifting through wheels and menus though for sure! The game doesn’t actually give you too much guidance on it either which I thought it sorely needs. When Xbox ported age of empires (just as an example), they changed the tutorials to be controller specific. Maybe in the future a more controller friendly thing could be put in BG.
@phillipbailey2525 as a whole they could do better on tutorials. For most of my first playthrough i had no idea the illithid powers menu existed. My friend had to tell me about it
One of the few instances where everyone seems to get it except me. Turn-based, long-winded combat in a gameworld I never cared about was never going to work for me. I deleted this game right after rescuing the druid. Don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I found this game too boring for words.
The only way Spiderman couldve won the game awards would be if it was a nepotism pick. Idk how Sony fans cant see this. It does nothing groundbreaking mechanically Its story telling isnt on par with BG3 or Alan Wake 2 All it brings to the table is eye candy. And eye candy doesnt win GoTY
BG3 totally deserves it, but there's a "perfect" game this year, perfect in a sense as it barely has much flaws if any, it's AAA quality and it's a risky game to make. The game is Resident Evil 4 Remake.
It’s strategy. Strategy requires lots of time to process and plan your next move. Chess games don’t start and finish in under 3 minutes. I don’t think anyone should expect BG3 to have quick combat encounters.
And that's why you should take feat "Alert" as soon as possible, it increases your initiative in combat so your party goes first and you can smash some enemies before their turn...
I’ll never play a game like Zelda because I can’t create my own character. The look, the feel, the abilities etc. when I have fantasy games that allow me to design a character from scratch vs a pre generated same old, same ole it’s just no contest.
I have not had so much fun and enjoyment in playing a video game as I have with Baldur's Gate 3. I have over 560 hours in it with no sign of stopping anytime soon.
1. easily over 100h playtime on first run maybe over 200h if you dont spoil anything and try to do everything whit no info 2. replayability (borderlands 3 butchered theirs back in day whit no ultimate vault hunter) 3. DND kind of game.
Disagree on the Borderlands 3 part. UVHM was a garbage unbalanced mess in BL2, and OP levels made it worse. It got to a point where slag became mandatory otherwise you would do basically no damage and the only way to beat raid bosses is with ultra cheese builds, or normal builds with 4 people. It’s also counter productive because Borderlands is not traditionally multiplayer focused. It’s a solo game with multiplayer as an optional bonus. BL3 is way better balanced but is too easy and doesn’t feel rewarding to play. The story is also terrible but narratively makes sense. The villains are cringe asf but they’re from an isolated planet with a weird dad and clearly developed garbage social skills. Borderlands 3 is better balanced but the story drags at some parts (Eden-6 has like 2 or 3 whole missions that could’ve just been removed and it would’ve been better). Borderlands 3 NOW is great though because of the end game challenges and longer expansions, but when the game came out it was pretty thin for content
So, do you think that Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Halo, Last of Us, God of War (2018) shouldn't have been considered the best games of the year because they weren't available for multiple platforms? Kinda weird that games that are widely considered some of the best games of all-time wouldn't be Game of the Year in the year they were released. Games are far less expensive now than they have ever been (when adjusting for inflation).
SM2 was awesome, but it surprises me why it was considered for GOTY over others. Jedi Survivor was better in every single way in my opinion: story, combat, world, length, characters, visuals, sound... You get it. I understand why it wasn't nominated (its launch basically), but it was clearly a superior game. Sort of the same with others, like Lies of P or Street Fighter VI.
Um you don’t really have to go through a lot of dialogue option to get the bear scene…. It’s like one one option XD I’d relent if it was harder to romance Halsin but it really isn’t the guys easy….
@@User1273- don’t you think it’s ridiculous to give a game a trophy for that? It’s like giving a kid who failed the class a trophy for passing the next year while the other kids can go fk themselves 😂
Agreed, depending under what category you put all the branching paths and permutations that affect the world and the story in BG3, they should have won either best narrative or best game direction.
Yall I’m just a small time nobody who cares too much about games but I appreciate everyone watching 🫡
the production quality is insane for such a small channel, love the commentary! you got a new sub :)
ur gonna say this and not explain like wtf 3:18 (i didn't like the movies but the game was pretty good)
Great video! Im gonna sub for sure. I love spiderman but anyone who thinks that a game that is 35 hours long, linear af, repetitive and also is only available to 1/4 of gamers worldwide could be GOTY is just simply ridiculous. BG3 won, and rightfully so. Im sure AW2 was really good and Zelda too but BG3 has it all. IMO its not even close man. BG3 is the best game ive played in a long time and possibly the best game ive ever played.
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
I think there is another feature that contributed to Baldur's Gate 3's success and that's "accessibility". By having full voice and performance captured dialogue to describe 90% of the game's story it makes the CRPG genre accessible to players who don't like reading pages of text. By changing the D&D game system to be more intuitive and forgiving for newer players they made this more accessible to players who aren't already familiar with it or with the "always be prepared" RPG gaming attitude. This introduced an entirely new audience to CRPGs and for people not used to how immersive and fun a CRPG can be this made the game seem even more special.
agreeeee . I love how Larian change that strict rule become esier & more enjoyable like bonus action or healing, great & smart ideas from them because I'm totally new with D&D but still inlove with this BG3
I agree with you completely but that word "accessibility" has been poisoned to me by people that want to abuse that word to take down games they don't like the From Soft needs easy mode crowd
this, and the writing team deserve an award too because it's not easy to write all that dialogues to be good, fluent and coherent through all the game
YES. That's been the biggest obstacle for CRPG's. Games have gotten way more stimulating and graphically rich and less mechanically dense/complex with time. CRPG's have been trippling down on mechanical density/complexity without much improvement to presentation, they're still great games but no freaking way are you gonna convince anyone who's not already into CRPG's to play the new Pathfinder or something.
BG3's mechanics are easy to understand with a high mastery ceiling with beautiful presentation. It's not reading text story for hours, then reading text stats/perks/mechanics for hours, then reading status effects/conditions/buffs for hours in combat. It's snappy, easy to get your hands on, and tempts you to get deeper.
Larian saved gaming, or definitely helped save it. Without Elden Ring or BG3 Bethesda would have the world convinced games like starfield is a work of art, and is what to expect going forward. Larian, From Software, Elden Ring and BG3 are the only games I've played more than 4 hours in years . I played both over 200.
Larian didn't make BG3 as a commercial product. They are really making art with all their hearts and souls. And it's just somehow a sin not to pay them for letting you experience something this exquisite. An once-in-a-generation game indeed.
That's really the only reason I bought it on PS5. I already paid them for it when Early Access started. It felt bad not paying them again for the experiences I had on release.
Play their other game divinity original sin 2
Honestly the entire Game Awards this year felt more like a battle for second place due to just how massive BG3 was. If you were on the internet this year, you would know that it would get GOTY, and there was just no arguing that, so it was really surprising to me that there we genuinely people expecting something else, especially the Sony crowd shouting that SM2 was snubbed despite their game not even being a contender.
Well thats Sony fans for you, and Xbox fans for that matter; utterly convinced of the superiority of their chosen console and the games upon it while being outright hostile to anything that suggests they might be wrong. Solid example, look at how pissy some of them get whenever you insult Starfield.
Its every major console fan, Nintendo fans are the same way
@@kingsarues1586the difference being that Nintendo actually makes transformative games from time to time
@@Lorekeeper72it’s because any console fanboy needs to try and justify their purchases by overhyping everything that comes out as exclusive. Sony fanboys tried to convince everyone Spider-Man was hands down GOTY despite not innovating anything. It truly felt exactly like the Arkham games but with more tedious traveling and less features than the previous titles. Same with Xbox fanboys trying to convince people halo infinite was half good. 343 killed halo and Microsoft couldn’t care less about exclusives at this point. With each console generation, fewer and fewer games that are worth a damn come out which makes the consoles as good as paperweights for non casuals.
I’m gonna be honest. My big take away here is that the genie in act 3 of bg3 can change you into cheese if you piss him off lol. I keep learning new things about it 500 hrs in
Haha there’s still stuff I’m learning about this game too
Cheese
200 hours in on my end…there’s a fucking genie??
@@nikmaciejewski3857There are two, in fact!
I actually didn't know that. That's funny. BG3 is one of the few games where I felt I got more than my money's worth in a game.
I started gaming on the Sega when I was 6. I'm in my mid 30s now.
I've been there for the release of tons of games that went on to be legendary classics.
I can say without a doubt that Baldur's Gate 3 is going to go down as a legendary RPG that still gets mentioned years from now.
It will be studied in 200 years, alongside Shakespeare and Jon-Luc Goddard.
It will get mentioned alongside Zelda ocarina of time
Agreed @@Wizardbeard91
It will get mentioned, probably in game developers board rooms, something like "Ok, so we are agreed to add sex scenes to a game, lets just make sure we do less than Baldur's Gate 3, that shit was insane"
After act 1, it could honestly use more sex scenes. *shrug*
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I've worked in game dev a bit, and I can offer a bit of insight that will either make BG3 even more admirable or break the illusion a little bit, for those who don't already know:
In order to make the gameplay so freeing and imaginative, BG3 leverages a lot of the same principles that made BOTW and TOTK so groundbreaking. That is, rather than scripting certain enemy/environment interactions, certain assets/abilities/mechanics are given a comprehensive list of properties that have the potential to interact with other assets/abilities/mechanics with similar/opposing properties. To use the giant boulder and grease example that you mentioned, it's not that the designers planned for giant things to be easier to move on slick ground (though they probably did); it's that they laid the groundwork for various properties to alter the gameplay in realistic ways. In this case, rough terrain + slick substance = slippery ground that reduces traction for all objects that traverse it. These systems are so carefully and comprehensively prepared for that it's hard to imagine certain interactions not being planned. Of course, this freedom can also mean a lot of bugs and exploits, many of which are still being quashed to this day. What's amusing is that Larian's left a lot of game-breaking mechanics in the game because it's part of what makes the game so amusing.
Ironically, this method of allowing for what's sometimes referred to as "emergent" interactions is something that game devs historically programmed against specifically, for fear of invariably creating those bugs and exploits. There was nothing inherently wrong in that approach, and in linear games that needed to follow a specific flow, it was definitely the right choice. But as modern tech allows for more grandiose open worlds and real-time physics, a lot of the restraints are lifted, allowing for some incredible gameplay moments that are often just happy accidents.
Finally, great video. It was very well put together, and I think you have a lot of potential in this niche.
This is really insightful, thanks!
BG3's only problem is that it entered the game of the year awards with the game of the decade
Spider-Man fans being assmad that they didn't win anything at the Game Awards is shows how out of the loop some people are. If BG3 didn't win, it would have been either Zelda or Alan Wake. Spider-man got a courtesy nomination to keep Sony happy, but it was never really in the running.
They should celebrate even getting several nominations for a genre that's usually looked down upon by journalists.
And if it wasn't Zelda or Alan Wake, it would have been Armored Core. SM2 was good but it was never a GOTY contender.
@@bmobmo6438 Spider-Man 2 deserved to be there. Even more so since companies like Microsoft, Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA, WB and Bethesda all sat on the sidelines for putting out mediocre crap.
Hey, thank you for pointing out the whole 'lazy' dev thing. Baldur's Gate 3 is amazing, and I love that it's got the attention it has. In a year with Bethesda slop like Starfield, it's really satisfying to see a fully-fledged finished game on release with no microtransactions.
But as you say the devs aren't at fault when it comes to bad games, it's the higher-ups who put their staff on crunch and only care about profit margins. It was really upsetting to see people dogpile on a dev for pointing out that this game was only possible with an experienced team and a big budget, especially when the tweet that started off the whole "Lazy devs are intimidated by BG3!" newscycle was done by a pretty productive and impressive indie dev.
This wasn't someone highup in a big corporation who is at fault for shipping terrible games, they directly participate in making and selling great independent titles.
I know at least one other person has said this (the brilliant Jim Stephanie Sterling) but thank you for also bringing it up. Anyway, it's always nice to see love for BG3. Has put my faith back in games again.
Not only was bg3 a solid release that really didn't need any upgrades, larian still consistently creates new content for the game FOR FREE.
Any other dev would have probably put honor mode and custom mode difficulties under a paywall. Maybe even the magic mirror.
And larian is still adding new things to this day. They could've just been fixing bugs exclusively with the patches and hotfixes. But they also use that as an opportunity to add new things for the players to enjoy.
I am incredibly excited to see the future of larian 10+ years down the line and no developer has ever elicited that response from me.
To win GOTY in the best year ever for gaming (in my opinion) is an enormous accomplishment.
They deserve every single bit of their praise and recognition.
Why do you think this year has been best for gaming?
IMO this year was completely carried by BG3, all the other titles (excluding Alan Wake and BG3) are sequels of previous years games that don't really innovate much.
RE4 is fine, but is the same as their other remakes.
TOTK is BOTW with some building.
Spiderman, again contributres barely anything new to its established formula.
Mario, I know nothing of that title, but I don't imagine its much different than the hundreds of other mario titles.
None of them really were a contender for the title if we're being realistic. 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2015 all had more innovation in their nominee selection than this year. Or do you have different opinions on what makes a year for gaming best?
I don't know how to write this reply without sounding like I'm being passive aggressive on the internet, I'm genuinely curious.
@@thelifeofkenji4900 Only one game nominated for GOTY had micro transactions. No live services were nominated while Bethesda, Microsoft, Activision-Blizzard, and WB didn't get a free pass for phoning it in. Games like Spider-Man 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 never get nominated often at the game awards. Like the Oscars, journalists get together and vote for games they like. For a licensed superhero game and a CRPG, which is considered a niche genre to both get several nominations in the same year and to be nominated for GOTY is a huge feat within itself. Every game nominated for GOTY really did represent what is possible in gaming if you just put out feature complete titles and make games to be fun instead of habit forming. There were so many great games, that a lot got overlooked like Armored Core VI, Cassette Beasts, Dave the Diver, Pikmen 4, Hi-Fi Rush, and Street Fighter VI, Mario RPG and many others. With greedy corpos in the game industry trying to put out low-effort, wallet bleeding titles, this was a great wakeup call.
Baldur's Gate 3 especially was so spectacular that other developers tried to call out that it shouldn't set a new standard or not to expect the same level of quality from them. This stuff was said even before the game released. On top of that Baldur's Gate 3 was a passion project. Larian had to purchase the rights to Dungeons and Dragons from Wizards of the Coast, and nearly went bankrup because WotC kept rejecting offers until Larian made one they couldn't refuse. That was just for the license to make the game without even considering production costs. Larian is also for all intents and purposes an indie studio with no pull in the industry compared to Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. They knocked it out of the park and went above and beyond to even beat out Alan Wake 2, which most likely would've swept the game awards.
@@thelifeofkenji4900wait till you find out that bg3 and Alan wake 2 are sequels as well
@@thelifeofkenji4900 I do not agree. Some of those former winners to me does not look impressive either to me. Overall I think this year is praised because there is a lot of really highly graded games that is simply good and just not inflated IGN graded.
If that was true, then why GTA5 is still in the trending game on my PS5 when I bough this game on my PS3 before the release of PS4 in 2013? I saw 250,000 players on this game on Steam last week, an 10 years old game. Counter-Strike, a Half-life mod game, I was playing it with 640x480p in 1999-2000 at my parents home... Well now CS2 is #1 on Steam with 500,000 to 1,200,000 players playing it on a daily basis. Honestly, after buying Baldur's Gate 3, the feel of those older games came back right in our face, which doesn't fit with games surrounding it, without microtransaction and battle pass, which does create that feeling of not caring about others games this year. I only care about Baldur's Gate 3 this year. I barely touch Diablo 4, Elden Ring or any games. I still spend time on Starcraft 2, Rocket League, but those public comments from devs and companies about Baldur's Gate 3 and how Sony is hiding the game as much as possible and still putting GTA5 in front line does say everything about the corruption and moneyseeker from people who does not care about gamers, they care about more clients and finding a way to be paying more money for them. Even with 4,86 stars on 5, I still have to type down the name of the game in the search engine to find it. How absurd!
I played SM2 and thought "Wow, this game is really refreshing. Insomniac really did a good job" and honostly, I thought it might win the GOTY. When GA came, after declaring the winner I wondered "What the hell is Baldur's Gate (yes, it WAS under the radar for me and everyone I know) and why does it get so much praise.
After reading reviews and descriptions of the game, I thought it to be absurd, people simply overexaggerating it.
All I will say is that I decided to give it a shot, to see are these surreal descriptions of Deep exploration and vast dialogue options really true. After I did, I couldn't stop playing it. I still AM playing it. Not only is this game revolutionary, but it is what games should be.
In conclusion, any Spider Man fan who still disses BG3 is just an ignorant individual incapable of realizing BG's mastery. They look at Fortnite and call it a good game 😂💀
In act 2, theres a temple of shar with a gate in it you have to unlock. On my first playthrough I used a specific character to do a set of puzzles to make the gaurds allow me in and then lockpicked the gate. On my second playthrough, i just killed the gaurds then shot a teleportation arrow through the bars of the gate and hit a button to open it from the other side. Even some random, unimportant gate had more solutions than most RPGs give you
I can’t imagine how many times during production meetings and development someone said, “but what if the player does this?”
i love this comment
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omg... yes... this must be a forbidden sentence near the end of procudciton :D
Funny story, I explored most of the underdark before I came across karlach 😅
It's honestly mind boggling how I could've continued into act 2 without ever meeting a companion, regardless of how that meeting came about (no, I didn't know that you could recruit Minthara before I killed off the goblin leaders 🥲). It's mind boggling how you can just straight up kill potential companions, with the game giving practically zero indications that they are a potential ally. Even though I still haven't moved on to act 2, I'm already thinking about my next playthrough, what path I might take, what class/race I'll want to try next, etc. That level of replayability is simply astounding.
Video games ARE art. And Baldur's Gate 3 proves that video games deserve to be in same category as novels and plays and great cinema.
Swen did the impossible and sometime I really ask myself how is that game even possible.
I don't think they should be in the same "category", since games let you do something impossible with films or literature, which is make choices. But they definitely deserve the same level of respect.
@@PaulGuybro has never read a choose your own adventure book
Totally
Not just art, the final form of art, combining the game play itself with models, acting, drawn art/textures, writing, music, etc.
11:53 You’re describing the function of a dungeon master. That’s precisely why D&D is the secret sauce that makes this game work. Anything you can think of in the game world that you can try, a dungeon master will let you attempt. To think a game is on the verge of doing this in 2023, is mind boggling. This is without AI too!
I'm close to finishing my first run of Baldur's Gate 3 and I'm already planning my 2nd and 3rd run. The amount of builds and narrative choices in this game you can make is just amazing. This game is a piece of art. Like a good book or TV series that makes you feel for fictional people, that forces you to think about important things, that has hidden themes and symbolism in it. Everyone at Larian did a great job to make this game into what it is and they deserve all the awards in the world.
So true! It really feels like you are reading a book. You want to find out the ending but you also don’t want to reach it because you are enjoying the story so much!
"It's like playing a game of chess but the rules are you can throw your rook at the king if you wanted to" OMG I've never found a better description for this game lol
Great video btw
Simple. It’s better than everything else. Anybody who disagrees probably hasn’t played it for longer than 45 minutes. I hate turn based games with a passion, but I admit the hype train got me. I’m glad it did. This game changed my outlook on gaming.
People these days don’t know what an RPG means. BG3 is an RPG in the true sense where you can create and play a role and where your choices actually make a difference. It’s modelled on old
school PC RPGs but modernised without making it too dumbed down. And while Spider-Man 2 is good, it’s just more Spider-Man. While TotK is good, it’s just more of Breath of the Wild. BG3 feels fresh compared to these options and it’s one of those rare games that pushes the genre forward and opens it up for new players.
As a BG1 fan...I waited 23 years for this game. BG3 finally made Planescape:Torment the 2nd in my narrative isometric list. Larian's way of listening to fans, not doing scummy microtransactions and Feature rich gaming.....come on... This is a Legendary game. Time to fire up the OST for the millionth time!!
I've always been attracted to Turn-based games, but have struggled to 'get-into' them. BG3 has broken that curse and now I'm hooked. I sat down last night, around 7pm. Next thing I know it was 4am. BG3 is a worthy winner for game of the year. Its truly amazing
Starfield 3/5, more like a 2/10, the only good thing that game has is the ship customization. Besides all the bugs and loading screens, it's the horrible AI, flying feels like a on rail shooter, entering and leaving a planet is a loading screen, the gun play feeling really outdated, reusing locations on multiple planets like the facility full of being 1-1 the same. The worse is the lack of consequences and the illusion that your choices actually matter when they don't for the vast majority of quest which are extremely hand holding. One of 3 games/dlc I've actually wanted and got refund for.
I wanted to get lost in a world and expected Skyrim in space with cool planets and cool enemies and weapons. No wonder in Starfield, it's terrible. I never been more disappointed in a game. I had respect for Bethesda.
The heads up that this was going to be GOTY came right after release. A lot of the games industry was immediately terrified they they might be held to this lofty standard going forward, that the gaming public wouldn't recognize BG3 as a stupendous anomaly and think this was the new baseline.
The wories were unfounded, plenty of games have succeeded without needing to match BG3's depth. But the fact that the worry was so widely voiced was a collective admission by the indistry that the game is on a level they can't match.
I voted online this year and gave all my votes to BG3. If you didn't vote, don't complain. And if you didn't play a game that won, then don't be mad cause you don't understand why it would win. If Spiderman had won over BG3 I wouldn't understand but I didn't play it so maybe it did deserve a win and maybe it would get me to play it. I don't feel like people are having that response, they're just getting mad.
and people forget how longe Larian had to perfect their formular for BG3, from the Divinity OS Series to the over a year long Early Access.... Larian just had the time to polish their game design what many games simply cant afford. Not that they dont have the time but that most Devs dont get the time from higher up to have such a long early access or the chance to create some lesser known games in order to "beta test" your gameplay systems.
I didn't want to play turn based. But this game made me love it, actually. And while I only ever replayed two games in my entire life, I'm on playthrough 3 of BG3 and already planning the next one. It's kind of crazy how hooked on it I am.
The real triumph of BG3 is they swept against Bethesda, Capcom, Nintendo, Sony, Blizzard and Epic. The supposed industry giants who banded together to curb our enthusiasm for a future, where every company with a legitimate budget can produce products we're proud to play.
"I'm not gaming, I'm being gamed". All the Spiderman and Bethesda fanboys need to demand better. The standards have been raised and its on us to hold them accountable to those standards.
If Bethesda produced a fallout game with stability/quality etc of BG3 it would be game of the century
I was a Baldurs gate hater but a friend convinced me to play it. It is now my favorite game of the last couple of years
The fact that anyone thinks Spider-Man 2 was a real contender for GOTY (which i know is subjective) is just ridiculous. I fuckin love spiderman, but thats like a 20-30 hour linear game that only people with Playstation can play.......so how could it be the game of games for that paticular year?
It’s funny because they also won the ultimate game of the year…. It’s like it was destiny also I finally beat the game today and instantly went to a new character I made and saved the brain. Us for the win
I'm going with "because it was the best game of the year". The story was phenomenal. The gameplay, while not necessarily my favorite style, was coherent and exactly what they wanted to to be. The NPCs were memorably good. The story branches were incredibly well done. Cause and effect was done better than any other game that I have ever played.
What future game developers have to take from BG3 has nothing to do with game mechanics, graphics, or anything else new. The best aspects of BG3 could have been in a game 30 years ago (and sometimes they were). Writing. Deep NPCs. Meaningful choices. That has nothing to do with tech. It's the core of a good game.
Quick plug for my favorite game of the last 5 years: Kingdom Come Deliverance. That game had all of the above as well.
For context: I generally dislike top-down games. I generally dislike turn-based games. I mostly dislike roll-to-hit mechanics.
Baldur's Gate 3 is literally built around all of these, and I still love this game. It's easily in my top favourite games of all time, alongside The Witcher 3, KotOR 1 & 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Skyrim and Mass Effect. Larian managed to take a bunch of things that 99% of the time turn me off to a game, and they made it _fun_ for me. And that coupled with fantastic companions with great acting performances... Yeah, that merits game of the year. For me personally, best game since TW3.
I genuinely think this video might be your breakthrough. I just found your channel and your other videos are great as well, but this one was algorithm favored (and really fucking good) and got quite a few views. Might bring your channel the attention it deserves. I'm really not sure how you don't have more subs considering how good the quality of your videos is.
Hope to see your sub count get huge soon. I'm sure it will!
I'll be here for it :)
Hey I really appreciate it! Luckily I have fallen in love with the process (so cliché lol) and I’ll keep grinding away 🙏
Honestly I love BG3 and it is my favorite game of all time, I can't see how anything will ever top it for me. BUT the most satisfying part about your video? When you validated my opinions on Breath of the Wild. That game was so, so boring and empty. It honestly felt a little eerie to me with how empty it was. I can appreciate what it did for moving things forward but I never finished it.
Great video, super engaging commentary all the way through
Much appreciated!
I take back everything bad I said about baldur gate. I won’t lie, im still not a fan of the combat. Turn base just isn’t my thing but so far I’m really enjoying the story. The character dynamic just gives off so many dragon age orgins vibes for me. Still isn’t game of the year for me but fuck it, it deserved it’s win. So Well played
Same, I bought it and it might be my favorite game of the year tbh
20 seconds in and you already did a better job than TGA.
I agree that CRPG's have a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to game awards, but at the same time you can't forget that Dragon Age Inquisition won game of the year in 2014 and Dragon Age Origins is one of the most critically aclaimed RPG games ever, so I don't think it's as big of a debuff as some people make it out to be
Also, Dragon Age 2 is not a bad game at all
BG3 would get game of the decade if the award existed
I got impressed with the quality of the video! Keep up the good work, soon to beat 1k subs :)
Since I started playing DoS2 and especially after BG3 I can’t really go back to other games. The fact that your choices not only in the world but in combat as well have an effect that lasts for the entire game is incredible. The player’s decisions genuinely dictate the story of the world.
One bit that was really awesome was from act 2. Without spoiling, after completing a certain quest a certain NPC, who you’ve known from act 1, celebrates your accomplishment and calls you a hero and to me that felt awesome because I had the option to completely abandon them and still continue on the main story just fine. But I CHOSE to save them and it made me realise that your player character’s reputation is dictated by your actions and is known among the people you’ve saved. It’s not simply because that’s just who you are. Not to poop on SM2, I love that game it’s awesome, but you can ignore all the crimes and cries for help and you’re still the hero and the story still completes just fine.
If ignored every NPC in BG3 that cried for help I could miss out on HOURS of content simply because I didn’t bother to talk to that person.
For those who’ve played you know that weird but happy feeling when you accidentally find the Underdark?
TotK has difficulty bottlenecks. Baldur's Gate gives you a hundred ways to kill a boss. If you are not winning in BG its because you aren't paying close enough attention, not because your twitch skills are getting rusty.
I was so on the fence about playing BG3. I’ve never really enjoyed turn based games as I get bored of them so easily but I’m so glad my friend persuaded me to try it! This has literally become one of my top five favourite games. I haven’t felt this excited to play a game in years. I love how creative you can be with your solutions to problems and combat. I LOVE the combat, which was really the greatest surprise for me. It’s been so fun learning how to play each class to get the most out of each character.
So.. your friend rolled the dices high enough. What a chad.
@@semiramisubw4864 😂😂😂
EXACTLY! When you play nothing but the exact same games year after year after year, expect to be out of the loop and confused as to why BG3 won GOTY. People should broaden their horizons a bit.
To anyone who really wants to understand why Alan wake 2 is the way it is
Watch twin peaks. (and true detective season 1.)
Finally someone commenting on why baldurs gate 3 and what are some of the things that make it special. Most people are just being obnoxious and laughing at Spiderman fans. Which I didn't even play Spiderman but I think just making fun of them because they are ignorant isn't going to explain why BG3 won to them
People who believe SM2 was even a serious contender are dumb@ss fanboys who's would be incapable of understanding even if they were willing to listen in the first place.
It's just easier to point out that they're stupid and move on. 😂
I mean, I think that we shouldn't discount the fact that BG3 is essentially video game D&D5. The IP is still pretty popular from what I've noticed and let's not forget it will always have the "it's the OG ultra high profile nerdy fantasy game". 😊
People who don't know what a BG3 is will almost always give an "AAAAH! Now I get it" when you explain it's D&D5.
There's no way some obscure RPG would have been so instantaneously recognizable and sold just as well had it not been for the popular IP behind it. 😊
Yes, not even a game as well made as BG3.
Subscribed! GREAT video
TOTK , Alan Wake 2 and SM2 were all great games.. but man.. BG3 is just a different Galaxy. I played and am palying it on a very low end cheap laptop from 8 years ago, quite low fps around 30-40 and its still more than enjoyable. The voice acting and the sheer consequences of your choices are insane.
I bought it as soon as it released on Xbox, I Just can’t put it down I’m 50 hours in and I can say BG3 & Elden Ring are the best games I have ever played.
30years old been gaming awhile.
I’m 44 and I can tell you, it’s the best game I’ve ever played and I’ve been playing longer than you’ve been living! I mean no offence by that, I’m just saying I think your assessment is totally dead on.
1 major correction:
7:50 - DIsco Elysium was not snubbed in 2019. No game that year deserved goty more tham Sekiro. Its one of the most obvious goty picks in the past 10 years, even more than ER last year or BOTW in 2017.
Snubbed from the category. I should have said nomination instead, it wasn’t even a nominee for GOTY and it should have been, that’s all I’m saying.
@@DMGT That I can agree with.
The only thing i have found that i don't like about this game is a missing mechanic. There is no way to ready an action. I know its possible because Solasta Crown Of The Magister had it and that game is nowhere near as good as Baldur's Gate (at least in terms of story, the combat is actually on par in my opinion). With that said, this game has jumped into my top games of all time list.
I'd bet some money that they experimented with readied actions and just couldn't make it work with all of the other emergent mechanics. They've been pretty clear that they didn't add mechanics that they couldn't do right. I'll be expecting it in a hypothetical BGIV
The second you called Hogwarts Legacy a mediocre open world game you got yourself a like and subscription. Game looked amazing and really brought Hogwarts to life, and combat was ok, but I got bored playing that game even more than Starfield. And that's saying something.
Not to even mention it's abysmal PC performance, not to mention how scummy it is when frame rates really start to drop after 2 hours
100 different things being possible in one place in a game is far more exciting than one thing happening over and over again in 100 different places.
I really like the feature that deleted my saves on BG3! 😅 (that was a joke, I repeat, a joke. Maybe Chris Judge should use that one at the next game awards 😂)
The only sin of this game awards is that octopath traveler 2 didn't win best soundtrack
I’m so shocked to hear all the praise for TOTK. I actually think it’s a much worse version of BOTW, sequel effect or not.
10:33 if you think about it every game is technically a point and click game
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the biggest flaw for me in BG3 is the learning curve. (the true meaning of learning curve not the bastardised way everyone uses it). It starts off really hard because you don't know you're doing. And I can see a lot of casual gamers quitting because of this.
If my friends who only play MOBA games their whole entire gaming life, can get into BG3.
The sky is the limit for casual accessibility.
@@KedaiCiplak hope you're right
Don't go back and play some of the NES games that we started with. Battle-Toads, TMNT, even the stages in the original Megaman were hard enough to break people.
Thats the fun of it many people dont have patience anymore attention spans are at a all time low. You need to practice to get better at something but many people want shortcuts, which is fine because these are video games.
I think it is on purpose, this game really forces you to think and work for it. It is not like these other linear games where you follow and the game leads you, your decisions and actions have weight, and you are getting better in game not only by increasing levels but also by learning in real life. It contributes to the immersion and makes the decisions feel much more high stake. This game just hits different.
If BG3 wasn't, I would have voted for Alan Wake II.
For me Elden Ring is not fun to play, refunded it after 40min.
Sadly I think the layoffs are a sign that video games continuing to improve at the rate they have been is infeasible but because video games are also pretty expensive to buy consumers won’t really settle for anything short of a goty nominee if they’re paying full price. The technology has plateaued and the only way a game can impress us is if they go rdr2 and abuse their employees work life balance
Diablo 4 is just trash and always was. Don't kid yourself.
Starfield is also trash.
There really aren't that many great games this year.
Thanks for not praising hl. Im tired of hearing people call it one of the years greats when it really isnt.
Awesome video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
People seem to forget Larian is an indie studio.
They have 450 employees, had 7 years of development time on BG3 and 3 years of beta. No other studio in the world would get anything like that
@@Childofbhaal That's because most other studios are pressured by stockholders and corporate overlords. Larian has no limitations or outside pressure, but they have said their next game will be less ambitious.
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I think that your missing a bunch by not playing BG3 on PC
great takes, couldnt agree more
Okay I had no idea you can turn into cheese...
That automatically makes it GoTY
Don't blame the gaming industry for layoffs, blame who 's in office
Well those in office control the industry sooooo. You know what I mean
This is my first time seeing the console ui for this game. Ngl it looks god awful to play with. Great video tho
After a while it’s not that bad, there’s a lot of shifting through wheels and menus though for sure! The game doesn’t actually give you too much guidance on it either which I thought it sorely needs. When Xbox ported age of empires (just as an example), they changed the tutorials to be controller specific. Maybe in the future a more controller friendly thing could be put in BG.
@phillipbailey2525 as a whole they could do better on tutorials. For most of my first playthrough i had no idea the illithid powers menu existed. My friend had to tell me about it
One of the few instances where everyone seems to get it except me. Turn-based, long-winded combat in a gameworld I never cared about was never going to work for me. I deleted this game right after rescuing the druid. Don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I found this game too boring for words.
The only way Spiderman couldve won the game awards would be if it was a nepotism pick. Idk how Sony fans cant see this.
It does nothing groundbreaking mechanically
Its story telling isnt on par with BG3 or Alan Wake 2
All it brings to the table is eye candy. And eye candy doesnt win GoTY
BG3 totally deserves it, but there's a "perfect" game this year, perfect in a sense as it barely has much flaws if any, it's AAA quality and it's a risky game to make. The game is Resident Evil 4 Remake.
The only thing about bg3 is when you have a shit ton of enemies to fight you have to wait so long sometimes.
It’s strategy. Strategy requires lots of time to process and plan your next move. Chess games don’t start and finish in under 3 minutes. I don’t think anyone should expect BG3 to have quick combat encounters.
@@nickcampanelli8 I have issues where the AI are not doing anything for a few seconds and it get exacerbated when your fighting a lot of enemies.
And that's why you should take feat "Alert" as soon as possible, it increases your initiative in combat so your party goes first and you can smash some enemies before their turn...
I’ll never play a game like Zelda because I can’t create my own character. The look, the feel, the abilities etc. when I have fantasy games that allow me to design a character from scratch vs a pre generated same old, same ole it’s just no contest.
I have not had so much fun and enjoyment in playing a video game as I have with Baldur's Gate 3. I have over 560 hours in it with no sign of stopping anytime soon.
One thing overlooked about BG3 is the fact that it doesn't have any mini game at all. There is only one, the mighty dice.
Bg3 the best choose your own adventure book that you can play instead of read
BG3 was totally not my cup of tea, but it is amazing.
For me it's the best game of the decade+ !
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Never in my life i ever thought anything would beat out fallout new vegas as my favorite game of all time.
The best feature of BG3 is Swen Vincke
1. easily over 100h playtime on first run maybe over 200h if you dont spoil anything and try to do everything whit no info 2. replayability (borderlands 3 butchered theirs back in day whit no ultimate vault hunter) 3. DND kind of game.
Disagree on the Borderlands 3 part. UVHM was a garbage unbalanced mess in BL2, and OP levels made it worse. It got to a point where slag became mandatory otherwise you would do basically no damage and the only way to beat raid bosses is with ultra cheese builds, or normal builds with 4 people. It’s also counter productive because Borderlands is not traditionally multiplayer focused. It’s a solo game with multiplayer as an optional bonus.
BL3 is way better balanced but is too easy and doesn’t feel rewarding to play. The story is also terrible but narratively makes sense. The villains are cringe asf but they’re from an isolated planet with a weird dad and clearly developed garbage social skills. Borderlands 3 is better balanced but the story drags at some parts (Eden-6 has like 2 or 3 whole missions that could’ve just been removed and it would’ve been better). Borderlands 3 NOW is great though because of the end game challenges and longer expansions, but when the game came out it was pretty thin for content
I wonder how the new dune game will go?
STAN CULTURE.
Honestly I think accessibility should be a metric for goty, if it's not available on at least 2 platforms it shouldn't get nominated.
So, do you think that Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Halo, Last of Us, God of War (2018) shouldn't have been considered the best games of the year because they weren't available for multiple platforms?
Kinda weird that games that are widely considered some of the best games of all-time wouldn't be Game of the Year in the year they were released.
Games are far less expensive now than they have ever been (when adjusting for inflation).
Your mixing up accessibility and exclusivity lol
Thank you for speaking out on Breath of the Wild. It was boring and empty as heck. I doubt I’ll ever play another Zelda game.
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SM2 was awesome, but it surprises me why it was considered for GOTY over others. Jedi Survivor was better in every single way in my opinion: story, combat, world, length, characters, visuals, sound... You get it. I understand why it wasn't nominated (its launch basically), but it was clearly a superior game. Sort of the same with others, like Lies of P or Street Fighter VI.
Um you don’t really have to go through a lot of dialogue option to get the bear scene…. It’s like one one option XD I’d relent if it was harder to romance Halsin but it really isn’t the guys easy….
Cuz voters thought super mario wonder is too childish to win game of the year
Cuz voters thought super mario wonder is too childish to win game of the year
It didn’t beat everything. Cyberpunk got the best ongoing game award 😂 whatever tf that means
From game awards site. Awarded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time.
@@User1273- don’t you think it’s ridiculous to give a game a trophy for that? It’s like giving a kid who failed the class a trophy for passing the next year while the other kids can go fk themselves 😂
mob mentality and groupthink
thanks for coming to my ted talk
Take a breath and slow down, and I'd appreciate this much more :)
How is 3/10 is a "solid game"? lol
3/5* I use a 5 point scale.
Yeah what’s going on? Games sales are up! So why layoffs?
It's not larian studio doing layoffs.
Increase profit margins
Allen Wake 2 robbed BG3 off a few rewards too
Agreed, depending under what category you put all the branching paths and permutations that affect the world and the story in BG3, they should have won either best narrative or best game direction.
@@snowmanthe-jimmy2731 lmao no shot. AW2 wins narrative and direction by far and i played both games. And the awards proves it.