Considering all the plot holes and retcons this award is a joke.
Ngl I kinda agree, I dunno what other game I think deserves it this year tho.
I honestly don't think that the actual story in this game is very good tho, it feels disjointed and just like you're moving between set pieces and it turns into a generic alien invasion plot instead the entire tadpole issue sorta just gets forgotten and doesn't rly matter.
Note I am talking about the main plot tho and not just general writing or side stories.
The main plot feels like it wasn't written with all 3 acts in mind imo, but like every act is a standalone.
Considering all the plot holes and retcons this award is a joke.
Those are a problem, but one could make an argument that sheer interactivity of the story makes it special.
Though my personally poor integration of gameplay systems and narrative make it farily weak, even if more glaring story problems get patched up in the future.
There's definitely a fair bit of issues with the interactivity too it can be hard to tell sometimes tho when it's a bug and when it's intended.
But I've run into a lot of janky stuff with dialogue being unpolished or having messed up triggers, like characters acting like we've met before and are friends or like we aren't and characters saying I've done things that I didn't etc.
Recently in act 2 for instance I never interacted with the goblins at all in act 1 I just ignored them and in act 2 they're acting like we're friends and know each other lol.
Karlach also accused me of killing the grove when I didn't I even went back to look again and they Tieflings were gone but Kagha told me they were still there while Karlach says I killed them xD...
Minthara is also talking to me like we know each other from before when I never interacted with her in act 1 o_o...
Edit: Also characters acting like we're best friends and they can trust me with their deepest secrets after 5 minutes, I get that early access was only act 1 but I feel like a lot of that should've been for act 2 when you've actually traveled together for a while.
It feels like act 1 frontloads a lot of the companion bonding stuffs too early in a way that doesn't rly make sense.
There's A LOT of that with other characters too where we just met and then the next second they act like we've been through a lot together and we're bestest friends.
