I did my first ever checking out a live Twitch thing this morning! You know instead of catching it a couple days after the fact on youtube - just woke up hella early (early for me anyway) hehe. It was pretty cool! Even for an ancient luddite who knows next to nothing about these things like me. First it was the Dev'zel stream with the Dino Dances, and then after that to the Karlach stream for the fire up! Then Karlach did some sort of "Raid" thing when it wrapped, that brought us all to Jay Britton's stream. Like as a giant triple feature somehow? So rad! They were all very friendly and totally on point! Who knew Mondays could be such a blast heheh
Important things I learned from the Actors:
Dev'zel can whistle and so can we!??? Like legit, how did I play the game for 3 years and never realize what happens if you perform without the instrument? You whistle!!! Genius! She absolutely crushed it, as always!
Karlach is full fire and a complete badass! Also saying Karlach's Voice Actor is like saying Karlach's 'Face Actor' and those are silly words! They're all Actors! Full stop. Love that! and duly noted. Going to strike VA from the lexicon on that count. Good call!
Jay can do every Voice! Like every single voice! It's insane and hilarious.
And of course, THE NARRATOR is up for the Golden Joystick: Best Supporting Performer! Astarion too I think!
This has been a crazy year for gaming. Three of my favorite childhood series had amazing showings.
Zelda reinvented itself and became a brand new game and both Baldur’s Gate and Armored Core burst back into the scene in a big bad way.
Bad for my productivity, but good for the kid in me.
Actually, maybe not so bad for productivity. Me and a few of my game dev friends were so inspired by all of this we are in the early stages of building our own indie RPG.
I tried to vote for the narrator but it wouldn't take my vote unless I vote for game of the year - which I don't plan to do until Larian says it will fix the end game.
It's a great game and will probably get the award but the end game upsets me enough that I can't vote for in its current state.
Actually, maybe not so bad for productivity. Me and a few of my game dev friends were so inspired by all of this we are in the early stages of building our own indie RPG.
I voted for BG3, and for Neil Newbon who I think is fantastic as Astarion. Amelia Tyler also does a great job as the narrator/DM, but but for me there are a few performances that I’d put ahead of it the game. Though huge credit to her that it all comes from her voice, as she doesn’t have an animated avatar to help bring her performance to life.
I’ll admit I felt unqualified to vote, given pretty much all my gaming attention this year has been on BG3 so I’ve not actually played the other nominated games. But I guess most people voting aren’t going to have played more than a couple.
"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
Oh that's a trip I was able to pass over the first vote, without needing to make the tough choices, but I definitely voted it up of the year. It's given me too many good times and smiles or just hundreds of hours spent preoccupied that I couldn't see voting for anything else. I like to think if they win maybe that keeps the fire burning under it to get the finishing pass and then expansion or sequel up, which I think it needs. I'd like to see a whole big sweep where the custom Tav gets a lot more love and the UI and such tidied up. Optimist in me
Yeah that split is with The Narrator and Astarion. That's a tough call. Jay made it simple, but of course hehe. I think from my frame overall I had the Narrator with me on each run, but Astarion only like every other run, so kinda tipped that way I guess. They should have like way more categories! I mean right? I guess. Anyhow, here let me get the thumb off the scale there and do like double feature title post right quick. There we go amp'd it up with the conjunction hehe
Just FYI, the official GOTY is really down to three main events and The Golden Joystick is one of them.
The main one at this point is held by The Game Awards - https://thegameawards.com/ - those Nominees won't be announced until Mid-November and the decision will take place in December.
There is also the Game Developers Choice Awards - which won't be until March 2024. This one doesn't get a whole lot of attention outside the industry, but it's still significant.
Everything else is irrelevant pretty much, and that includes my former hometown Austin, TX SXSW Gaming Awards which is hot garbage. They literally care more about being "different" than awarding the most deserved game. Really, just a bunch of total helmets over there.
Anyway, I do hope that Cyberpunk 2077 DLC Phantom Liberace* gets listed, it very much deserves a few awards. Also BG3 for GOTY overall is 100% at this point.
I voted for anything but BG3. Unfinished games do not get an award from me.
I put it as #5 - mostly because, of the listings, I only really knew AC6, RE4 remake, and Lords of the Fallen, and FFXVI. I didn't care about or know the rest, and I've only played one of the games in the running.
I'll still vote BG3 over FFXVI any day of the week, though. At least it has actual gameplay in it.
It was a no-brainer to vote for Neil as best supporting VA, though. Like Astarion or hate him, it's undeniable that Neil put forth probably the best and most varied performance in the game, hands down. The man deserves that award, for sure.
You are right, they aren't just voice actors, they are full blown actors. Neil Newbon deserves an Oscar for the non-ascension scene. I've never seen anything even remotely that good and moving in a game before.
There used to be a time when what BG3 did , it was standard stuff. WIth even more great things. Our views of RPGs have shifted so much, quality went down so much, BG3 stands out like a gold nugget.
It deserves the award, yet I still feel melancholic about the whole thing. It is barely touching on what it COULD of been. In its end cycle, over-catering for THE crowd that basically destroyed the genre. It is lacking in so many departments. Its a solid clap in the right direction but hardly a rave party due to its originality.
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It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..
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Astarion and BG3 of course! GoGoGo! Hope so mutch they win. 
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