Baldur's Gate 3 stole Game of the Year from Starfield 

Someone is salty they didn’t get a review code lmfao. I guess hate pays and having and the Sony pony’s come to bash a game they can’t play is good for business

​@@doomslayer8025jesus

​@@doomslayer8025The copium is strong in this one. IGN, Gamespot are also salty Sony paid shills, right?

for me starfield isnt even competing with bg3. For me its bg3 and zelda totk. but i think bg3 wins even though zelda is my favorite game ever

@@klauscavalcanti4305 ah yes BG3 a turned based snooze fest for dnd losers

Not a steal at all. Just a better work.

@@gregoryparisot6374 Yep.

TOTK and RE4 are better than Starfield. BG3 for GOTY though, for sure.

@@simulation3120 what is TOTK?

​@@NoName-ym5zjI do I believe that's tiers of the kingdom

Act 2 and 3 are shallow and unplayable from bugs

@@doomslayer8025 bro you clearly have a thing against the game as a whole, can I inquire about the reasons ? I mean sure there are bugs here and there but the game is so massive It's like small pebbles on a massive interstate to good time city. Also, haven't tried zelda and barely seen stuff from Starfield, but in no way they look like bad games, they look awesome... It's just that i haven't played such a cool game as BG3 since forever and to me it appears even better, and in a league of its own honestly

​@@doomslayer8025 Clearly you haven't played the game seeing as Act 2 has always had plenty to do and following Patch 2, Act 3 is absolutely fine.

@@Rico-nj3vl bg3 is a snore fest turn based top down broken game. People only like it because RU-vidrs said it was good yet act 2 and 3 are unplayable and broken. Zelda runs at 15 fps and anyone playing on a switch over the age of 13 needs to grow up

@@xalenthas I played it to act 3 and had 50 fucking crash’s and saw atleast 100 bugs

I don't have anything against bethesda and their mostly broken games. I played starfield and it was the blandest game I've played in a while.

@@felathar1985 And this type of thinking right there is why we continue to get the dogshit they keep producing.

It's not winning unless Phil writes a check to the voters

@@therealytshadow1750don’t temp them 😂

@@felathar1985 im a bathesda fan, and I think this is a bland game. Worst bathesda game with Tod Howard involved.

Yeah. I can't ecen imagine how will it be going back to other games. BG3 spoiled us hard. Amazing game.

they did an excellent job

Bethesda did great rpg in the past too.

@jacksheldon8566 their last actual "good" game they released imo was skyrim. Which was more than a decade ago.

Couldnt agree more, Baldurs Gate 3 absolutely spoiled us. I could probably spend the next year on it with the various ways there are to play and things to discover.

Story flexibility is so important when it comes to RPGs, they have done an exceptional job in that regard with BG3

Starfield is NOT empty 🤣 so many epic quests so much adventure its A game I was waiting for I'm over 32 hours in and not even at the half of the main quest yet its very good and quite addictive. You should give it A try Bethesda RPG's have been critically reviewed to be some of the best all time and Starfield was made by the same team that made Skyrim which won 250 Game Of The Year awards including game of the year

Funnily enough, what you said is actually in Starfield for some reason.

@@gabrieljohnson1854 It's a fast travel sim from one emptiness to another with a copy/paste of exactly the same bases. Have fun with it.

Walling simulator

GOTY this year is gonna be crazy. So many good games

@@Voiy Yeah, it's crazy

It's the most obvious candidate right now.

It is a masterpiece in every way.

@@barcster2003 because IGN are fanboys? its A candidate so is Starfield and Tears Of The Kingdom.

At least the modding community has less work to do with Starfield, unlike CyberJank 2077.

And TOTK is the SAME formula as BOTW

@@primalspongebob6144 totk takes what botw started and makes it exponentially better, by adding a massive amount of options and depth in traversal, puzzles, combat and story. Starfield takes what every other Bethesda game and puts it in space. Not the same

BG3 is the same formula as DOS2 and Zelda is the same formula as the last Zelda...

@@antonego9581 read the last reply

As the state of rn i think a lil too many bugs and a kind of weak act three. Act 1 and 2 i definitely agree. I mean ppl try to be edgy and act like its a bad game while played 150+hrs. And i dont really get it. A game is allowed to have a certain amount of mistakes, slip ups and bugs, compared to its bigness. A shallow EA or Unisoft game with no depths at all has more bugs than bg3 with this amount of content. And honestly speaking, act 3 is kind of a quest farming annoying aspect, to the most parts, but seeing how much fun i have at act 1 and 2, and that three still has nice stuff in ad well, like the house of hopes, it is 100% forgivable. Would be the most deserved game of the year in a while ngl.

​​@@Gerkan23so far 60 hours still in act 1, by now most games would have ended so i still call money well spent

Couldn't agree more.

Beat the game 3 times and no bugs lol stop whining

@@blakefenslerjr4858 Then you are very lucky. Most people have at least a few visual glitches and many have a few crashes here and there. BG3 absolutely is a 10/10, but it is not without flaws. Ironing out the kinks and perhaps giving a facelift to act 3 would just make the game great beyond reason, an 11/10 if you will.

Starfield would have lost to almost any game this year

@@jnmarshmello2728 Hard to disagree with that. I think it's a good game but even ignoring Zelda and BG3 Starfiled probably can't beat all of Diablo 4, Pikmin 4, Street Fighter 6, Pizza Tower, Sea of Stars, Final Fantasy 16, Jedi Survivor...

A remake shouldn't be GOTY as good as it is, the original already had its chance. (Note: I really like RE4 no hate towards the game)

Atomic Heart GOTY 2023

You're 100% right. It reminds me of the stellar difference between Obsidian's Fallout New Vegas, and Bethesda's Fallout games.

So true

Starfield can't be saved by mods IMO.

@@Goochen perhaps but it can probably be enhanced a bit by mods

To be honest, after BG3, anything would have been a letdown. I am an OG that played BG1 & BG2 on day 1 release and have waited a long time for the sequel. You are right, Starfield isn't rubbish, there is fun to be had, problem is I am barely enjoying it. Definitely NOT GOTY contender.

Starfield feels outdated because Bethesda refuses to put the time and money into using a newer engine. It's the updated Creation 2 engine that they started using in Fallout 4 and 76. So it's only about a step up from the same engine they used for Skyrim, Oblivion, and Fallout 3. It's also, funnily enough, the same engine they used for Morrowind. The fucking thing is twenty years old, but they'll never change. I thought maybe after the absolute catastrophe of Fallout 76, they might. But as soon as I saw the same exact character animations in the Starfield trailer that I've seen for hundreds of hours in Fallout New Vegas, I knew exactly what we were getting with Starfield.

​@@WolfHreda unfortunately it's better if they still use that crappy engine.. considering its one of if not the best game engine for modders

@@Zanoladab No. At some point you need to switch. There are a lot of modern games using modern engines that are also very moddable. It _is possible_ to use a modern engine and make a game moddable. Using an Engine that's essentially 20 years old but has a 1 meter layer of fresh paint on it... doesn't work infinitely. FO4 already looked dated. Starfield just looks sad once you look at an NPC. I'll still buy it tomorrow and play it, but it's still a 2010 game released 2023.

@@cy-one I agree. Those faces are atrocious

Unfortunate that TOTK almost had GOTY (probably still does), when it's just the same game, BOTW, with an extra mechanic. That's what we call DLC.

Yep if it wasn't baulders it was obviously tears of the kingdom.

@@samdanmas can we please stop using the "same game/its a DLC" argument? Yes, it uses the same map, but lets not act like the new story, art style, lore, and revised game mechanics just aren't a thing. You dont need to revamp an entire game map in order to deem it a next installment in a game franchise. this is so dumb

​@@naroxas7499it also has much more than just the original map. More than double the size in additional space to explore

@@rainmaker6261 exactly

maybe in Act 1. The rest of the game is trash

@@johnsonspark171 sorry you didn't enjoy it!

@@johnsonspark171 Act 3 can use some more polish but Act 2 gives you a lot of things you can go about completely differently, some of it coming off of Act 1 like the Grove and Grymforge. Depending on what you did at the grove and Grymforge, act 2 has a decent variety of different things to have fun with, even more if you play Durge.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@chadachi3970eh, yeah, but act 2 is still the weakest part of the game. The main three locations are fine and going through the shar temple is fun, but you have to wade your way through random shadow encounters while your companions try their best to kill themselves with shadow curse damage. I did not have fun exploring the map, not only because I had to constantly babysit my suicidal companions, but also because all I kept finding were dead ends with the same shadow enemies and nothing else. The town isn’t much better honestly, the fights are fun, I liked the tavern boss because my usual strategy just didn’t work at all, but after I killed him there wasn’t really any payoff story-wise. Even worse with the surgeon, cause at least the fat guy gives you some info if you drink with him, but the surgeon literally just exists. He has no purpose, it’s a fun encounter, i guess, but why is he there? Maybe to show you what shar worship is actually like because shadowheart makes it seem very tame, but it feels like that’d be a revelation you’d have in the actual temple during the trials perhaps? And why does he have the lute? Genuinely can’t figure it out, aside from him being connected to shar and shar being connected to the curse and shadowfell, but that feels so fucking stupid. I might be missing something, but I’ve tried playing through it properly twice and if I’m still missing something then perhaps it’s not just me being an idiot and the game just does a shit job at communicating it’s story in this act.

I bought TOTK not too long and haven’t even got off the island and then bought BG3 for Astarion and now have 92 hours in the game, 86 of those in act 1 so I completely agree

I say enjoy both BG3 and Starfield both are really good games

Starfield is ok not a great game but ok

@@blakefenslerjr4858 I'm playing Starfield although the side quests are addictive I have to agree with you it's just alright. If the main quest was as good as side quests it would be better than BG3 but as it stands the consensus votes for BG3 which I completely understand

@@gabrieljohnson1854I played BG3 on PC because I couldn't wait for the PS5 release, knowing Starfield was right around the corner. Though having seen all the reviews I'm happy to keep playing BG3 until Starfield goes on sale. I love SciFi way more than fantasy as a genre, but I know that the writing in Starfield will pale in comparison to BG3. I doubt that it'll even be as good as Mass Effect but we'll see once I get my hands on it.

Are you serious? Game of decade? Try RDR2 and KCD, both vastly better than BG3. Not even the best game of 2023, try Atomic Heart. But not ridiculously overhyped like BG3

@@bdleo300 time will tell

Nope, BG3 is the game in which I had the most fun ever. Started playing in Early Access 3 years ago, so I didn't go with the new hype. BG3 excels on so many levels, nothings perfect, but this game does so many things so well. Will it win GOTY? Frankly, I don't care, however I guess it would be good for Larian Studios who is my favourite developer. KCD was also a superb game.

When you say game of the decade, do you mean all genres and across all platforms? Have you played any other games?

​@@EverythingWasGreat Yeah, game of the decade is a bit arbitrary, I can't say BG3 is better than Forza, or Apex Legends, Hollow Knight or other games from different genres, but RPG of the decade? Now that is something I can agree.

Starfield is more popular

​@@daksans6764 that makes it better how?

@@whywhyerson9910 Starfield has much more mainstream appeal and is more popular among casuals. GOTY awards always goes to games which are more popular.

no it doesnt, baldurs gate 3 still has more players than starfield despite starfield having way more hype. the most "popular" game would be totk, and thats. starfield is way behind these 2 games. starfield was overhyped@@daksans6764

@@whywhyerson9910 TLOU2 won game of the year and that game was average at best, so yeah Starfield is probably going to win off "Bethesda" (Skyrim) fans alone, because they love playing the same game over and over with very little improvement to the system.

Elden Ring was a better game period ... it deserved that...95% agree with me... the rest are Sony stans that are upset with a respectable second place...

It's a shame Starfield's story is still crap though. They talk about letting you essentially roleplay, but then they literally make almost everyone you meet essential so you don't mess up the main quest by being evil.

Thats the best the incompetent devs at Bethesda can do

UwU

Me with a bigass nose as a dwarf i thankd her gladly!

I'm deep in my first playthrough. Didn't get Lae'zel. Just didn't wonder into her area at the beginning so never found her. I intentionally went and sought her on my second character, and I'm already having a totally different experience from my first character 'cause I'm following a story thread that I didn't have access to.

Did you do the sadistic abuse in the goblin camp where the guy gets off beating you with a mace? You need to pass the performance checks of loving it every time LoL

Yesssss I went for all the HARDER, DADDY options :D

Indeed. The voice acting is superb, especially the narrator Emelia Tyler, she brings the whole story to a next level. This game is pure art.

bg3 is not the greatest video game to ever release that would go to gta5 , the witcher 3, and many other games.

@@jondagamer4466 Yes, it is. It is so, So, SO much better than all those titles combined. Hell, BG1 & BG2 were better than those games.

@@mojoschmee9320 gta5 is top 3 most sold game of all time dummy

@@jondagamer4466 gta 5? Nah it was worse than gta 4.

@@bluemoon1716 GTA 2 was the best GTA, it's all downhill from there

2015 is when Witcher 3 came out

@@IndependentObserver Oops! I stand corrected. 2007 then?

​@@RichSmithifyEven Oblivion is better

@@RichSmithify 2007 was pretty stacked, we got Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Mass Effect and Bioshock that year. Maybe Starfield could've won in 2009 though.

@@theviniso OK I surrender. You guys are right. Starfield just sucks and can't compete for GOTY in any year except maybe Pong or PacMan, but I have my doubts about even that at this point.

Starfield a good game 😂😂😂😂😂 Its trash! Its AI is like 5 years old all over the place not to mention the endless loadscreens and all copypasted areas 🤮

Because of totk

And they don't have 5-somes lol

Working on it!

Hope at the very least Baldur's Gate inspires devs to realize you don't need to cut out RPG elements from RPGs. People actually like them. Loved the Mass Effect series, but as it went on it did a lot of harm to the way devs have seen RPGs for probably the last decade.

So when TotK does, because you know it'll be the one due to franchise pedigree

@@Kytseo Well, mostly because it's an amazingly well-polished open-world sandbox experience that improves on absolutely every single aspect of Breath of the Wild, but sure, franchise pedigree helps.

@@theviniso True, but my point is that these awards tend to look at name and fame first. Like how, if there was a category on best fighting game animation, Mortal Kombat would win despite most MKs having terrible animations in fights

@@Kytseo I'd say the real problem isn't even that Zelda games win GOTY over other major AAA titles, but that for most of these awards indie games are often not even in contention despite deserving to.

She gonna be real mad soon lmao, watch

Good to see you turtlzze

It is indeed!

Both are mediocre games with massive marketing.

Lol.

And things get even worse in act 3. I'm still convinced that most people who overhype this game have still not finished it and don't realize how many problems it has closer to the endgame.

@@youarealwayscorrect it's true you can feel the change in gameplay, ambiance and a less solid structure overall the further you go, but honestly it really doesn't matter that much, it offers different ways to have fun in every chapter for me. I'm at the end and love it like day1 if not even more

@@Rico-nj3vl yeah, the game is still mostly good and fun to play even at the final act, despite the entire experience becoming less polished and more buggy. But it's still a pretty noticeable issue, which undermined the overall experience for me.

@@youarealwayscorrect Well they already fixed most problems in act 3 (at least i had almost no issues after completing 2nd playthrough like a day ago). But there's a thing i think most people ignore while talking about act 3 of Baldur's gate 3. To make it clear i personally consider BG3 to be the best game i've ever played in my entire life and i never liked turn-based combat before. And the major point is that, act 3 is (or at least was) extremely buggy compared to Act 1 or Act 2, BUT, the thing is tho we're comparing Act 3 of BG3 to different parts of BG3 which are almost completely bug free (i have not encountered a single noticable bug at all in Act 1/2). What if we tried comparing act 3 of Baldur's gate 3 to other games? Imo that's where it gets tricky, because while it feels worse in Act 3 than in earlier acts, i dont have a feeling i can remember anything better in RPG from other studios? Like for real. I don't have any problems enjoying Act 3 for the second time, while i am having problems getting into Starfield (game is boring and carries on all the problems from previous Bethesda games, including those released 20 years ago lmao). So sure, Act 3 does not hold up to internal standards which the majority of BG3 set. But hell, it's still better than general industry standards by a margin. I've completed BG3 2 times now, 200+ hours in total. And i am absolutely fine with overhyping it since Act 3 never managed to really ruin my immersion, never managed to disappoint me, while definetely certain things were a bit annoying.

​@@youarealwayscorrect To make it clear, i am not here to argue or smth. I agree that Act 3 is not as good as earlier acts (mostly due to bugs, performance issues). But i just wanted to present you a perspective of someone who finished the game not once but twice already. This perspective btw is shared by all my friends who've already completed the game. So it makes sense u might be disappointed with act 3, but i'd say realistically most ppl are well aware of problems present in act 3, they just feel like those problems can be forgiven due to how epic/enjoayble the overall adventure is despite all the bugs on the way in Act 3. SO lets just say, if those 3 acts were released as different games (lets say each of 20$ pricetag). I would give Act1 a solid 10, Act2 a solid 10, Act3 a 8.5. (or even 9.5 in current state after patches at least from my experience with 2nd playthrough). But thankfully those acts are not all different games. But ofc i get that it can feel different for u

I think BG3 will beat TOTK. for the sole reason that you can pet the dog.