Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Golden Joystick Awards sweep

Naturally. For a smaller game to get that recognition, it takes something. It's a public voting, which makes it so.

With all the authenticity of an elementary school president election too. The story is nothing special. Rather poor even, IMHO. When you see a game sweep categories where there is more worthy competition afield it speaks more to factors external to its storytelling qualities. It could have been nominated for and won 'best flight simulator' and it would not make it any more so.

I mean, claiming that a popularity contest is a popularity contest is hardly a shocking announcement.

Shouldn't purport to be anything but it then. Just run a 'what's your favorite game this year' and ditch the specific categories.

Congratulations to ALL of the team at Larian and any others that worked on BG3. These accolades are well earned.

PC Game Of The Year nominees also included the System Shock remake and Shadow Gambit (RIP Mimimi Games). None too shabby. If both names were as popular as the nomination suggests, Mimimi may have still continued making games (not sure), and System Shock 3 had already been a thing a decent while ago.

Decent games but yeah, they'd never had a chance against any big release in a public vote ever. That's also basically the three new games I've played all year, actually, BG3, Shock remake plus Shadow Gambit. And yeah, I haven't played much new games this year, and Broken Roads just got delayed til 2024 too. Not suggesting that those should have won. The Shock remake has its issues all the same, and in some ways, Shadow Gambit isn't as compelling as Mimimi's prior game/s.

Well In my opinion yu should only Get Nomination or indicated to any Prize when yu Product is Ready or finished..
that its not the case Here..
But ok..
Good For Yu Larian..
i Dont Beleave yu guys Deserv any Prize until the Game its Finished.. but..
God For Yu.. Now Finish the Game Please ?
and dont get this Stupid Prizes get to Your Head.. Finish the Product first.

Congrats and yay!

It’s not claiming to be anything but a popularity contest. It’s a general public voting based award ceremony. Different people like different things about different games, hence why Larian won most but not all of the categories.

Congrats to Larian.

What the hell are you talking about? The game is completed and after patch 3 it runs smooth like a butter on my 2019 laptop (GTX 1660Ti). Sure, there is some cut content, like in 90% games these days, but saying it's not finished os just an I'll will, and just a way to make some noise. It's like saying Alan Wake 2 has some previous generation graphics. The same caliber of a statement.

Thanks for this great game, story and all the great characters/companions! You really deserve it and outside of this forum, there are a lot of fans who really like your game and voted for you. Thanks to all of them too.

…. It isn’t finished, they’re still adding meaningful changes to make it a better game

Congratulations to the team for making such an amazing game and to the community for propelling it forward with excitement and positivity. It's a rare thing we have going.

All awards are so well deserved! Congratulations and keep it up!

Congratulations to us! I always knew we were the best gaming community, but recognition is nice.

So do we share the trophy on a rotational basis or should Swen send it directly to The Red Queen?

"And the winner of the most patches and hotfixes award goes to . . ."

The Red Queen should photoshop a tiny version of the award onto their avatar.

Yes!!!