Neil Newbon Wins Best Performance for Baldur’s Gate 3 at The Game Awards 2023
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- Neil Newbon wins Best Performance for Baldur’s Gate 3 at The Game Awards 2023. Geoff Keighley hosts this global showcase of video games with performances by The Game Awards Orchestra and more, live from Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
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Yall should be ashamed for rushing these talented people off the stage so you could play more advertisements. Games that weren't even nominees got to speak for 3-5 minutes but winners of awards got 30 seconds each. Shameful! Congrats to Neil! He deserves so much more than just this!
THANK YOU! It's called the game AWARDS, NOT game Announcements
The Baeksang award in South Korea (basically, best actor / impersonification award out of all categories) give basically unlimited time to the winner to make a speech. The last year winner had a warm and honest speech for 6-7 mins. This was amazing. While this is insanely cool, I was mostly baffled that this wasn't more the norm everywhere else.
@@lovethepandainyou well unlimited time is little too much since there is a schedule but what game awards did was wrong they should at least give them 5 minute after all this is game awards
@@yusufkaradag8983 I meant "unlimited time" as in a common sense. But the crowned champions in their arts deserve more than their runoff. And yes, for some strange reason, I ended up quoting Silco from Arcane.
@@yusufkaradag8983 The problem with the Game Awards is that they pretend they are making Awards, but they're catering to gamers by giving them trailers and hype, which is a hideous disrespect for the amount of people involved into making beautiful games.
Knew he’d win this. Absolutely deserved. You can tell he didn’t expect it.
Yuri deserved it
@@user-sc9mn5ot4wfr😭
@@user-sc9mn5ot4wnope whoever won deserved it and the best man won
@@user-sc9mn5ot4w Lmao, far from Neil, my friend. Yuri is now in nearly every damn release. Let this man have some spotlight.
@@AndrewMiE Right? Like Neil has only really preformed in Resident Evil games prior to BG3, which are big titles, but I feel like this will skyrocket him, and he deserves it.
"YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THIS! NONE OF US ARE!" I love this man so much. ;_;
That just made me cry more after he had already thanked the fans who related to the stories told in BG3 TnT
One of Astarions lines actually ❤
I ACTUALLY CRIED WHEN HE SAID THAT , OMG I WAS SO TOUCHED
may i know which part of the game did Astarion say thhis???
@@CookieJae I believe it's from a scene in a Dark Urge playthrough
And to think he was going to give up voice acting permanently just before BG3 took off due to a lack of success. Fantastic job and definitely well deserved reward!
Good to see TGA still get some things right
No it was acting in general that he almost gave up but then he got into mocap and acting for videogames.
I love his voice
Seriously? Resident Evil was massive.
@@nunpho ah, thanks for the correction
@@mako3197yup, loved him as mikhail
Well deserved, he was absolutely outstanding in BG3.
Devora as Lae'zel was amanzing too, she deserves a honorable mention
@@cicerobarbosa7252Sam as Karlach too, of course
And Shadowheart
dont forget my gay nig Wyll xD
@@RemagenifyShe was good of course, but I would dare say less... Interesting? Maybe that's also just her character being slighlty less interesting than the others.
Well deserved he’s an amazing voice actor
Not trying to force it down your throat but Jesus loves u and died and rose for u, not a religion but a relationship, not just going to church on Sunday
@Cody-ik4fo "Not trying to force it down your throat, but I'm going to force it down your throat"
@@Cody-ik4fo"Not trying to force it down your throat" while doing just that, great job...
Yuri deserved it. Bg3 won everything. Rigged
@@user-sc9mn5ot4w they din't win everything though. In a few categories where they were also nominated they didn't win. Like best narrative and best audio score.
ABSOLUTELY DESERVED
I wish you all would have given him more time. Please give the award winners more time to speak than the presenters. It's just disrespectful to the performers and devs who have worked so hard. Hollywood actors should not take precedence for speech giving at an awards show for GAMES and the people who MAKE THE GAMES.
I totally agree. It's the first time I watch this show and I can't believe how all the winners are pushed out of stage to push the show forward. Very happy for Neil and for BG3, completely deserving but this ceremony doesn't deliver at all.
Exactly. They barely get to speak the random Hollywood actors, and brand advertisements take up 80% of the show. Then they shove 6 awards in a row.
Yeah, really disappointing. I’m so happy for Neil, but sad he couldn’t talk for a little longer. Clearly he had so much more to say, and then he’s rushing to the finish line as the music starts to overtake his voice. It seems so disrespectful to give someone 30 seconds or so. Give them a minute or two, I have the attention span for it and I want to hear these talented people speak
You can blame Christopher for TGA having to rush the actors
@@Distress. It was supposed to be 3 hours and they still went over. also game announcements are why 95% of people watch this
Geoff: "Award winners get 30 seconds, we can't have anyone wasting our time."
Also Geoff: "Guy's its an honor to finally reveal this game, this game is gonna change the industry forever"
*Reveals a 10 minute gameplay trailer of a tencent mobile game*
There was ONE trailer we all wanted and we didn't get it
😂It's
"BUSINESS"
@@akechijubeimitsuhidewell we got it a couple days ago at least
Must please the chinese overlords
such a shame they rushed him off the stage so quickly :( he deserved that win and so much more
Its outrageous that they rushed all Award Winners of the Stage and even rushed whole Main Awards completely, just to make space for more ads. These people deserve their moment. To make a game like BG3 is hard work and takes talent and sacrifices, its not the twentiest duplicate of shovelware like Call of Duty. Neil probably had a lot of very special things to say from his heart and i would have loved hearing him talk about them.
That "I WAS RIGHT THERE" line is what made me sure this man was going to be a winner :D
And 90% of the players never heard this line)
@@Vicusor22 their loss :)
yep
@@OnyArt
for me it was the "bunch of weirdos" line, man that was so good lmao
it was all the jabs and rants he threw randomly, mostly on me (Tav) or Shadowheart.
Pretty much all the cast of BG3 did amazing performances, but I agree with this Award. Every time Astarion speaks in my game you never know what to expect and the range of emotions can be so diverse.
@@pontus.anderssonI absolutely hated him, Lae’zel and even that drow lady from the start. Then I realised the layers of depth all of them had by the way they carry themselves and emotional trauma and they way they carry out their objectives as the game progresses, shame my Astarion had to live the rest of his life at the underdark now
He's an actual professional actor that does movies, of course he will be a tad above everyone else who did the voiceacting.
I think the narrator would have been a better choice, but he was great especially during his quest
@@Arumia13she killed it for sure
WELL DONE, NEIL! You completely and utterly deserve it. We're all so proud of you!
He deserved so much more time to talk, everyone did. Geoff better give them much more time this year.
Omg Saleta crying feels like all of us BG3 fans right now. He's just an amazing performer and he absolutely deserved this.
Yeah it's adorable how she did the excited little jump and clap for him. 😆😆 Supportive partners ftw.
Good actor, garbage character.
@@zackfair6791 false.
@@void9938 Cry more.
@@void9938 There'll always be haters. I think Astarion's a great character with great writing, and I'm sure a character like Zack Fair from FF7 wouldn't approve of trashing someone else's fun just for something so petty.
He nearly cried during his speech, he's wonderful.
He definitely deserved it, I wish there was a way Ben Starr could've earned the title too since they were both stellar performances. Astarion as a character was so complex, and Neil did a fantastic job portraying so many subtle character details in his acting. Well done!
Clive made me cry much more than astarion
Honestly never thought about how well all of them have truly done. Ben Starr easily put on the best performance. There just wasn’t as many people that played FF16.
He was great, but Clive's voice after the second time skip is garbage. Though I don't blame him. Could just be bad direction as it often is.
Just gonna say it, Ben was better. BG3 is my personal GOTY as well but Ben had the bigger character that demanded a wider emotional range. He was in a different ballpark voicing Clive at different stages of life from 15 to 30. Not that Neil wasn't incredible (and factoring in mocap would be unfair because the rules on "performance" are unclear and not all VAs mocap), but I'm certain this win had a lot to do with Astarion and BG3's popularity. Compare the climactic Cazador scene to any of the emotional moments in FF16 (with Cid, Anabella, Joshua, Jill)...not to mention that Astarion had the most lines as a companion.
Edit: I think people tend to mix up liking how a person's voice sounds vs the actual vocal performance. I'm not saying who is the better VA, rather who performed better in this one instance. If anything I'd be less disagreeable had Amelia Tyler won as narrator. Astarion's character was limited by the nature of the genre and the fact that he was an optional companion (vs being a relatively silent origin protag). I think most who say Neil deserved it haven't played any of the other nominated games. I really think TGA should add a best supporting performance, Astarion belongs there and frankly Ralph Ineson deserves some kind of recognition.
@@mako3197 Both were great, but Astarion's more convincing as the smarmy vampire spawn hiding his weakness, forced to confront most of them depending on player choice and sounding convincing the entire time. BG3's character animations aren't as good, but the pieces are still in place to really sell it.
Clive loses quite a bit of range outside desperate shouting, plain shouting, or gruff menace. Cool character, just when I really think about which character showed more, Astarion gets it every time.
I'm so happy for Neil! He put so much love and dedication into VA and Mocap as Astarion. This is amazing!
Not just Mocap for Astarion, he also did Mocap for a lot of other parts in BG3, including the character selection intros for all the origin characters
Seeing Christopher and Neil hugging nearly made me cry. Two awesome people.
1:36 For when Neil starts to talk about the community, not my words but someone who brought it up on twitter
"Neil Newbon was speaking on the impact Baldur’s Gate 3 has had for survivors of abuse and the man had to shorten and shout the rest over loud music."
Neil's voice acting was honestly astounding as Astarion, well deserved!
The only bad thing about this is that he didn’t get the time he deserved, imagine the speech he would’ve given us if it wasn’t limited to 30 seconds. That aside, Neil really deserved it and Astarion is my personal favorite, his voice is purely amazing!
He truly brought an amazing character to life. His hard work and the hard work of everyone who worked on the project touched so many lives. Including my own. Love to Neil and everyone!
I don’t often get emotional but….I legit burst into tears at his speech. This game DID lift me up when I was down it made me feel like me again. Love you guys ❤️
Larian's speech at the golden joystick awards for best community support was also powerful.
I've never heard a gaming company speak with such heart before.
I really relate to what you wrote: "it made me feel like me again". I had kinda lost myself and was in a very dark place and I cannot believe how much this game has brought (and is still bringing!) me back to me and made me genuinely ... happier. I am so happy when I hear other people experiencing this as well - all of us in their own way of course
What in the sweet hells where you thinking, starting that speech?! You were right there. Do you have any idea how much joy you brought us? Well apparently theres a limit; somewhere between a soulless cashgrab AAA games and the full concentrated power of Larian Studios.
Epic comment
Next time? Oh no no no, if there's a next time, I'll be the one aiming your emotional weapon, thank you
I love this hahaha
Oh ho ho…that took me a moment.
Wonderful.
This guy .. you can tell hes so humble , he was thankful even to be part of all this, and when he won he cried hes eyes out, amazing actor , i was so happy for him when he got the award.
I'm not crying. You're crying!! Congratulations, Neil. You have inspired us all.
Kratos announcing your win is a double win
Need to meet him, Neil, etc.
100% deserved. Astarion's cry of anger at the very end of his storyline made me tear up.
I’m so grateful for both him and his character 🙏 the game has set a new standard
I hope not
Not a new standard, a new bar.
It's unrealistic to expect every game developer to achieve what Larian has.
However, they did set a new bar for the quality a game can have. It's something every game dev should strive for in their own work and deserves to be praised as such.
The Crazy thing is he absolutely was best voice... but the WHOLE ASS game cast was S+ tier. what an absolute juggernaut
You can tell his contemporaries were not surprised and happy for him. They knew he deserved it.
Probably should be considered one of the best games of all time. Considering the game overall, voice talent, the story, the engaging gameplay, depth... Incredible. Congratulations to all the amazing PEOPLE who contributed to this amazing experience.
A character I thought I would absolutely HATE ended up being one of the best characters in the game. All of it due to the great writing of that character and the performance Neil did that really brought Astarion to life. This was a well deserved award.
Same here!! I thought oh, here we go another overrated character, but I absolutely adore him. 😢 You can very much tell that it's Neil bringing that out. What a wonderful human.
I'm on my 3rd BG3 playthrough, so I skip a lot of dialogue, but every time Astarion speaks I really feel obligated to listen lol his voice acting is amazing!
I'm so glad he just kept talking - the music added gravitas to his delivery. ;-)
So proud of you and as a fellow survivor, thank you for the passion you put into your work. Your words are so humble and inspiring. ❤️
You're not alone. None of us are 🥲
Astarion is one of the best (if not the best) voice acting i had the pleasure to experience, well deserved! I hope the future holds many more works for this fine gentleman. Kudos Neil Newbon!!!!!!!
Well deserved. Real nice of you guys to give him 2 seconds to actually talk before rushing him off the stage, real class show you put on there. Guess you need all that time to let actors talk about their feet or shill ads.
All the voice actors in BG3 were AMAZING! Serious one of the best games of a GENERATION.
Well deserved award! Also to the rest of the VA in Baldur's Gate 3 as well, but Neil really knock out of the park with such distinct voice work with Astarion! Congrat!
i LOVE seein Ben and Cameron also cheering him on, all AMAZING performances
so well deserved, his character meant so much to a lot of people this year and his delivery was both flawless and so human.
such a huge deserving W for neil, im so happy for him!!
His star shines brighter THAN CONCENTRATED POWER OF THE SUN!
Well deserved! He is one of the best actors ever! I am so happy for him! Big respect for the other actors too.
I went out of my way to vote this year because of how good BG3 is and his performance as Astarion was.
Same here. I dont normally vote, not even politics lol, but i did vote for Neil, and BG3, in both award shows. Lol. Altho i only voted cuz i watch his youtube channel and he asked us to vote and supplied the link.. so i didnt have to look it up or anything. Lol
Idris Elba be like "I have no time for that videogame shit"
Honestly one of the greatest voice actors of 2023 and hopefully beyond.
So well deserved neil is such a light of positivity in the world
such a likeable guy. he deserved 10 minutes on stage
I haven't played BG3 yet but I will eventually. Based on solely this I just love him, what a genuine and lovable person. You deserved this! ❤
I love how Ben looks like he was cheering for Neil he genuinely looked excited for Neil winning.
I just hate that they were rushing him off the stage while most the presenters were pretty much just wasting time.
He literally had a message to stand for, and they kinda just shooed him...
Newborn took the assignment and made it his own, he did such a great job and I'm so proud of him!
Spider-Man fans being shocked that he won truly shows that they must live in a bubble to not know how popular this character is.
Who is this guy again?
@@Dachin55555horny vampire from an overrated game
with more rewards than yuri's spiderman too@@1yu8omir
Not as iconic as Spiderman hence the shock.
@@_MANDOWN_ just because Spider-Man is iconic doesn’t mean his voice actor was the best ever made. There are numerous good voice actors for Spider-Man, but Neil made everyone know that he’s the one guy that could voice his character.
He earned it. Give the man the space to speak. A solid minute would be the absolute minimum - life is short - we celebrate what is good far too little and we ought to give it room to breathe. I like good game trailers etc as part of the show - but don't forget why you exist.
He deserves it! The way he thanks the community and always shouts out his fellow voice actors speaks so much to his character. He really does seem like such a great guy. and his performance brought Astarion to life. Congratulations to Neil and everyone at Larian!
Congratulations Neil well deserved my man! You did it!
I will never understand why people feel the need to denigrate a winner and insist their favorite is better. You'd rather bring hate than celebrate someone for their achievement. Why can't you appreciate someone for their talent, on a post about them, and enjoy their win and happiness? Then you can make a separate post about your favorite and celebrate all you enjoy about them.
Neil is a fabulous actor, this role was exceedingly important to him. He put his heart and soul into it, because he's a survivor too. That passion and insight brought Astarion to life for many, and helped other survivors feel seen and heard. I am one such person who felt seen.
If all you're coming here to do is comment how undeserved you think the award was, and how so and so is better, you're just as disrespectful and rude to Neil as the TGA were for giving him so little time, and trying to shoo him off the stage. I hope some day ya'll will realize how awful such hate posts are, and learn to be better people. Best wishes to you. I hope you're kinder in the future.
Agreed.
This being said, you can critique something.
What people are forgetting is that the winner here is picked by majority decision. Popularity of a game plays a huge part here.
Until we get a “critics choice” award for gaming (we may already have that, I am unsure), the winners of these awards are typically gonna be based on hype, not some sort of objective analysis.
Everyone did great, all these toxic fans really spoiled this event, not that it was very impressive anyway, they treated the talent like shit and took more opportunities to advertise games.
Overall, a disappointing awards night.
I knew he would win & still cried happy tears 🥰
Kratos meeting Astorian never thought I'd see that in a million years
Congratulations to you Neil
Such a humble man. He changed the game for the better with his voice acting alone. Snarky and mysterious we all love Astarion
I just saw a picture on reddit where they showed the teleprompter telling him to wrap it up. So upsetting that they barely let him speak, practically cutting the man off while he was saying something so beautiful, and heartfelt.
Outstanding performance, not just a great talent but a hardoworking person aswell. Apparently he streams on Twitch, you can see, he is a humble guy. He is so touched by this award and the Game of the Year Award too. What a pure soul. Thank you for bringing Astarion to life for us. *applause*
0:23 Sam Lake always happy 😂 Love them both ♥
This game is getting me out of a dark place. He absolutely deserves this! ❤
What i didn't notice is Ben not putting on a face or nodding along, he was immediately excited and appaulding. Appreciate seeing the love between performers.
I’m so proud of him ❤️❤️❤️ I loved this speech even if it was short. He did such a good job
When Astarion said thanks for free him to become better than his previous boss , I cry … you well deserved it Neil!
As soon as i dropped an entire castle on his head i knew he'd win lol.
🎉🎉🎉 COULD NOT BE MORE HAPPIER FOR THIS MAN!! He’s amazing!
He definitely deserves this award! Such an incredible performance!
OMG 😍 yes Neil!!!! 🎉
The moment astarion scolding me because of concentrated sun i knew Neil deserve it
Good on you Geoff for cutting Neil's and the other creator's speeches short. Gotta get those celebs and world premieres in hey?
Holy hell I want an Astarion Spanish mod now, what an amazing voice actor
We love you Neil!
That's beautiful, thank you Neil and all the amazing other voices actors ! Thank you Larian !
Astarion is a treasure, Neil earned this outright!
Well deserved. I absolutely loved his voice and performance.
He absolutely deserves this!! Big congrats to Neil!! ❤
he has done a lot of great work, well deserved and satisfying
Astarion is such a great character right from the moment you come across him so deserved
I picked Astarion to be on my team BECAUSE of his voice acting. Neil should be proud.
his character is so much fun too
Neil we love you so much! So well deserved!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I wrote a 3-5 page letter to Larian, effusively thanking them, sharing my thoughts, feelings, and appreciation for the game. Congrats to Neil, Larian, and the rest of the team 😊 ❤
That's really touching, thank you for showing that much love and appreciation to this outstanding group of developers and actors 😊❤
Deserved❤
Amazing actor, amazing guy, amazing gamer. Thank you!
Astarion is the only chracter I ALWAYS use! 🤩
I love how videogame actors/actresses are getting the recognition they deserve. They bring to life characters that otherwise are just empty puppets in a 3D world.
Neil did an outstanding job, he earned it.
This is the reward when voice actors are paid well!!
Neil deserved this. His performance as Astarion had me stunned, and pulled me into Baldur's Gate 3 in the first place. He made this game so incredibly immersive, enjoyable, and overall beautiful. He is a True Soul and I'm so happy he won. Great job Neil! 🫶
Well deserved. I'm looking forward to more performances of his in the future.
Very well deserved!
Amazing speech. Well deserved and he also brought an important message. Things turned out great here. I loved everyone else too, it was so competed.
God bless this man. Congrats, Neil, and everyone at Larian. Splendid job. You do help us push through the difficult times.
So proud of you Neil!!!
Well done Goosestarion...well done👏
His phenomenal performance aside; just look at Neil's face right before the announcement 0:06 You know it meant something important to him. And when the award goes to someone like that, it just hits different.
Love Neil so much, what a majestic performance in BG3, absolutely deserves it.