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The Game Awards 2023 Awards Results:
Game of the Year
Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.
Baldur's Gate 3 - WINNER

Best RPG
For the best game designed with rich player character customization and progression, including massively multiplayer experiences.
Baldur's Gate 3 - WINNER

Best Performance
Awarded to an individual for voice-over acting, motion and/or performance capture.
Neil Newbon as Astarion - Baldur's Gate 3 - WINNER

Best Multiplayer Game
For outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op and massively multiplayer experiences, irrespective of game genre or platform.
Baldur's Gate 3 - WINNER

Players' Voice
This category is 100% voted on by fans for their favorite game of 2023.
Baldur's Gate 3 - WINNER

Best Community Support
Recognizing a game for outstanding community support, transparency and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates/patches.
Baldur's Gate 3 - WINNER

Best Game Direction
Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.
Baldur's Gate 3 - Nomination

Best Narrative
For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game.
Baldur's Gate 3 - Nomination

Best Score/Music
For outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song and/or licensed soundtrack.
Baldur's Gate 3 - Nomination

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Original Post

I want BG3 to win GOTY, and I think it is likely it will!

Well now that the Game have closure for the two sides of the Tale..
I can say they deserve it.
And be proud with the ludicrous amount of time i spend in this game so far. haha

(btw i normally dont like to praize and gave prizes to anyone.. but just this time i will give then a Brake. haha)
So Nice One Larian.. 9/10
Fix the Rest and i can gave yu a 10/10

So I was on the fence about whether they deserved awards after Patch 4 (with its game-breaking bugs), but after Patch 5 and the addition of the epilogue, I think that they 100% deserve all the awards. I voted for them. I hope that they’re not done adding features to the game, though, because we could still use some at-will hugs, debugging Minthara, a few things like that.

Of the major releases this year I feel like the only worthy of consideration is BG3. I mean Starfield was a joke and still is, an open world that is EMPTY. Hogwarts was lackluster at best. Diablo was a mess that Blizzard just seemed to keep adding to. Redfall was, well just utter crap. Alan Wake was decent but did not gather the attention of BG3.

I voted for them for almost every category they were nominated for! There were a couple I thought games like Cyberpunk or Lies of P deserved more but, I absolutely voted for GOTY as well as Players' Voice.

Love you Larian! Love BG3! Once I experience the epilogues (I restarted entirely when they announced Patch 5), I'll know if it's my favorite game but it already won GOTY in my heart well before that.

I think BG3 has the award locked in. This forum tends to attract people with strong criticisms, justified or not, but if you take a cursory glance at most other forums, like the Starfield subreddit, you find near unanimous love for BG3 and players lamenting that their game wasn’t more like this in some way or another.

Good for Larian. They put a lot of work and passion into this game, and they deserve recognition. Winning a GotY award in a year that saw so many major releases is doubly impressive.

Larian deserved the win, I voted for they in almost every category.

At this point it would be shocking if Bg3 didn't win. I knew it years ago when I first played the EA that I was looking at a future GOTY/Decade

Just fyi - I take no joy that Starfield isn't even nominated. (He's lying, he can't stop laughing about it! What an asshole.)

Baldy Ron's Three Gates, let's go!

Strong start. Beautiful acceptance speech from, Astarion’s VA. That part at the end about being seen was quite powerful.

But dang, who decided to cut to Ben Starr like that? The man looked like he was barely holding it together.

YES! I was so hoping he'd win, but the competition was fierce!

I honestly thought Idris Elba would be a strong contender, but then I saw he wasn't even there and I was like "Yeah Neil is going to win this."


Omg, Gonzo? Really?

A loss on "best narrative", but, well... fair.

Win for best community support. No win on the music front, though - that's a shame.

Gratz to CD Project Red - Cyberpunk 2077 - for the Best Ongoing Game Win! Well deserved!

I saw that Gabe Amatangelo gave Swen a slap on the back on his way up - hope he didn't hurt his hand on that plate armor. lol

This is the first Game Awards I've ever watched. They sure do show a lot of, uh, filler, don't they.

Oh yeah, a commercial for upcoming games...

Sean Murray, just shut up and take my money.

He plans to support Light No Fire in the same way as No Man's Sky, it'll be a day 1 purchase for me.

Best RPG! Probably obvious.

Best multiplayer! Players' voice!

Sweep, as expected.

I’m only still watching to see Swen walk up and accept GotY in his goofy armor. XD