Originally Posted by Phea
Originally Posted by Ixal
Those awards are in the end all popularity contests. With enough hype and people who only played act 1 or writing fanfics about companions no one will dare to give the game a more realistic review or deny them awards because in that case the horde will descent upon them.
Just look at Eurogamer and what happened when they dared to not give a 5/5.

Yes. As much as I like this game, people confuse quality with quantity. In terms of narration, BG3 is very cartoonish and sadly not always logical even.

Still a great game, but best narrative is a bit too much.

GOTY fully deserved though.

I agree with all of this. I have many criticisms of BG3, mostly to do with the story writing, but it's still a breath of fresh air for crpg fans as of late. All I can hope is that its popularity will encourage more quality crpgs to be made. And perhaps Larian will take some of the story's issues into account and try to improve on structure/pacing/payoff next time they make a game, who knows.