Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke didn't expect 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 to come out on top at the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Golden Joysticks 2023 amid hot competition from several massiv♓e and acclaimed RPGs - but🌳 that's exactly what happened.
On Friday, the Golden Joysticks awarded Baldur's Gate 3 Ul🦹timate Game of the Yeওar, and we got to sit down with Vincke to hear his initial thoughts. In an exceptional year populated by tentpole releases from Bethesda with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield, Nintendo with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and to a different extent, Blizzard with Diablo 4 - and coming up against those titles with a relatively niche game﷽ - very few predicted Baldur's Gate 3 would be Game of the Year, Vincke included.
"That's the thing that you would never expect," he said. "Because we didn't k🐻now, we didn't compromise a lot. You know, we tried to make everything as approachable as possible, but we didn't really compromise on it. So the common wisdom would be 'compromise to make it accessible to a large audience'. So that shows you the intelligence of the gamer audience, which is really a good thing."
I don't know if it's just because I write about the games industry for a living, but I think if you were looking closely you could've seen this coming. Yes, the amount of big games that released this year is unprecedented. In addition to those I mentioned up top, there's also 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hogwarts Legacy, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Pikmin 4, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 16, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hi-Fi Rush, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Mirage, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 4 Remake, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dead Space Remake, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Immortals of Aveum, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and the list goes on, and on, and on.
All of those AAA releases, not to mention a laundry list of stellar indie hits like Dredge and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dave the Diver, had the potential to be Game of the Year, but it can be argued that none of them quite achieved the level of feverish, overwhelming acclaim and po🍸p culture ubiquity that Baldur's Gate 3 h🏅as.
All that's to say, you're too hu🧔mble, Swen Vincke.
Baldur's Gate 3 also took home awards for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best storytelling, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best community, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PC Game of the Year.
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