Baldur's Gate 3 Bags 5 BAFTA Awards, Including Best Game

@BeerIsAwesome To be fair, it's evolution from what it was at launch to what it is now is massive. I think it's deserving of that award.

Amongst all the winners was also SpecialEffect who won the Special Award

No offense to Jeter, but I wouldn’t even put him in the top 3 for Spider-Man 2 performances. Wish we could’ve seen more Ben Starr love this season.

@BeerIsAwesome Idk man redoing combat and perks entirely, adding a ton of stuff and fixes plus a really damn good DLC kinda make it deserve that award.

@Intr1n5ic I mean at the same time Cyberpunk’s “comeback” shouldn’t be encouraged in this industry. We’re now awarding games for doing the fix it later stuff.

Happy for Andrew Wincott with his Raphael in Baldur's Gate 3. That opera was awesome. Still kinda sad for the narrator in BG3, though.

Really Miles actor? Like sure he's good but he's not even the best performed character in the game he's in yet alone when compared to anyone from BG3.

@Deoxyr1bose Ben Starr was Clive from FF16 right? God i fail to see the hype around that performance, he basically done a generic gruff voice from the 360 era and then when he needed to be emotional he overacted like a really bad Anime dub. Sid was the best performed character in the game by a fair mile.

@Deoxyr1bose I don't think this award is encouraging the notion of a comeback, and it's definitely not promoting the idea that things can just be fixed later. It's an acknowledgement of a team who spent 3 years working their arse off to correct their admitted failures. Should it have released the way it did, absolutely not, but they've "evolved" what was the most heavily criticised release in recent memory, in to something that's now received a lot of critical acclaim.

Great to see Tchia snag an award. One of my favorite games

@DennisReynolds Finally, somebody said it! It always puzzles me when I see people say it's one of the best performances ever. I honestly thought that Clive was a bore.

YOU'RE TELLING ME MAMA K WASN'T AWARDED EVERYTHING?!?!?! MY BIG RED BFF DESERVED BETTER!!!

Overall a pretty logical list. Except Cyberpunk should not be awarded for fixing their broken game (fixing and evolving are not the same).
Also didn't think Miles Morales was even close to being as good as any of the main BG3 characters.

And lastly Starfield being nominated in the Technical Achievement category never fails to make me cringe and lol.

No Man’s Sky is an evolving game. Cyberpunk is a scandal, they basically developped the final game with money made selling the alfa version. Shouldn’t be encouraged. See how Larian studio works for good example…

@NightshadeNL Evolve literally means to develop gradually. The responses here are focusing on bug fixes and disregarding everything else they've done to the game. A complete overhaul of mechanics and stats, of the skill tree, of cyberware, of combat, of vehicle controls, of the police system. They introduced vehicle combat, added a ton of new weapons, made changes to stats and perks on existing ones, added finishers for melee. Along with a massive amount of QOL improvements to multiple different systems and features in the game.

I could go on and on listing everything they've done, and it would be a completely separate conversation to one discussing bug fixes and performance alone. If they wanted to, they could have just fixed the bugs and framerate issues and sailed off in to the sunset with their millions. They stuck it out and delivered a vastly superior experience to what the game was at launch.

Nobody is celebrating or encouraging how this game began, they're acknowledging what it's become over several years.

I remember having a back and forth with someone on these forums in which we were discussing what game would win Game of the Year. The debate was between Baldur's Gate 3 (my choice) and Spiderman 2 (his choice), and was taking place before either game had actually released, albeit that I had played through the early access part of BG3.

I said many times, in many forums, that BG3 was going to be a phenomenon and would win every Game of the Year award, and I am so happy to be right. Not because I want to be right, but because I wanted BG3 to be properly recognised for the masterpiece that it is. So chuffed to see it winning so many awards. Larian are easily the best developer out there...

Cool. Baldur's gate 3 is easily one of the best video games ever made.word up son

I am so happy Tears of the Kingdom won Best Technical Achievement! It's well-deserved!

Interestingly, Baldur's Gate III is the first game in the history of the gaming industry to win GOTY at five different ceremonies: The Game Awards, The Golden Joysticks, DICE Awards, GDC Awards and BAFTA Awards. Larian Studios must be an example to other developers of how to make a top game.

@Fiendish-Beaver

I'm glad Microsoft or Sony didn't buy Larian Studios.

I believe Larian offered Baldurs Gate 3 to MS Game Pass for £6,000,000 which MS refused as they didn't believe it would be a big deal, explains so much...

Really weird that the voice actor for miles got it over the voice actor for Peter.

@Fiendish-Beaver Well, there is one place that BG didn't win GOTY. Site's initials are PS. Been saying for a while that awarding the fine but hardly game-changing Spidey 2 wouldn't age well.

You are absolutely right, @Texus. Maybe I should use the phrase unbiased GotY next time... 🤣