Neil Newbon Wins Best Performance for Baldur’s Gate 3 at The Game Awards 2023 

THANK YOU! It's called the game AWARDS, NOT game Announcements

The Baeksang award in South Korea (basically, best actor / impersonification award out of all categories) give basically unlimited time to the winner to make a speech. The last year winner had a warm and honest speech for 6-7 mins. This was amazing. While this is insanely cool, I was mostly baffled that this wasn't more the norm everywhere else.

​@@lovethepandainyou well unlimited time is little too much since there is a schedule but what game awards did was wrong they should at least give them 5 minute after all this is game awards

@@yusufkaradag8983 I meant "unlimited time" as in a common sense. But the crowned champions in their arts deserve more than their runoff. And yes, for some strange reason, I ended up quoting Silco from Arcane.

@@yusufkaradag8983 The problem with the Game Awards is that they pretend they are making Awards, but they're catering to gamers by giving them trailers and hype, which is a hideous disrespect for the amount of people involved into making beautiful games.

Yuri deserved it

​@@user-sc9mn5ot4wfr😭

​@@user-sc9mn5ot4wnope whoever won deserved it and the best man won

@@user-sc9mn5ot4w Lmao, far from Neil, my friend. Yuri is now in nearly every damn release. Let this man have some spotlight.

@@AndrewMiE Right? Like Neil has only really preformed in Resident Evil games prior to BG3, which are big titles, but I feel like this will skyrocket him, and he deserves it.

Devora as Lae'zel was amanzing too, she deserves a honorable mention

​@@cicerobarbosa7252Sam as Karlach too, of course

And Shadowheart

dont forget my gay nig Wyll xD

@@RemagenifyShe was good of course, but I would dare say less... Interesting? Maybe that's also just her character being slighlty less interesting than the others.

That just made me cry more after he had already thanked the fans who related to the stories told in BG3 TnT

One of Astarions lines actually ❤

I ACTUALLY CRIED WHEN HE SAID THAT , OMG I WAS SO TOUCHED

may i know which part of the game did Astarion say thhis???

@@CookieJae I believe it's from a scene in a Dark Urge playthrough

No it was acting in general that he almost gave up but then he got into mocap and acting for videogames.

I love his voice

Seriously? Resident Evil was massive.

@@nunpho ah, thanks for the correction

​@@mako3197yup, loved him as mikhail

Not trying to force it down your throat but Jesus loves u and died and rose for u, not a religion but a relationship, not just going to church on Sunday

​@Cody-ik4fo "Not trying to force it down your throat, but I'm going to force it down your throat"

​​@@Cody-ik4fo"Not trying to force it down your throat" while doing just that, great job...

Yuri deserved it. Bg3 won everything. Rigged

@@user-sc9mn5ot4w they din't win everything though. In a few categories where they were also nominated they didn't win. Like best narrative and best audio score.

I totally agree. It's the first time I watch this show and I can't believe how all the winners are pushed out of stage to push the show forward. Very happy for Neil and for BG3, completely deserving but this ceremony doesn't deliver at all.

Exactly. They barely get to speak the random Hollywood actors, and brand advertisements take up 80% of the show. Then they shove 6 awards in a row.

Yeah, really disappointing. I’m so happy for Neil, but sad he couldn’t talk for a little longer. Clearly he had so much more to say, and then he’s rushing to the finish line as the music starts to overtake his voice. It seems so disrespectful to give someone 30 seconds or so. Give them a minute or two, I have the attention span for it and I want to hear these talented people speak

You can blame Christopher for TGA having to rush the actors

@@Distress. It was supposed to be 3 hours and they still went over. also game announcements are why 95% of people watch this

Its outrageous that they rushed all Award Winners of the Stage and even rushed whole Main Awards completely, just to make space for more ads. These people deserve their moment. To make a game like BG3 is hard work and takes talent and sacrifices, its not the twentiest duplicate of shovelware like Call of Duty. Neil probably had a lot of very special things to say from his heart and i would have loved hearing him talk about them.

He deserved so much more time to talk, everyone did. Geoff better give them much more time this year.

There was ONE trailer we all wanted and we didn't get it

😂It's

"BUSINESS"

@@akechijubeimitsuhidewell we got it a couple days ago at least

Must please the chinese overlords

@@pontus.andersson​​⁠I absolutely hated him, Lae’zel and even that drow lady from the start. Then I realised the layers of depth all of them had by the way they carry themselves and emotional trauma and they way they carry out their objectives as the game progresses, shame my Astarion had to live the rest of his life at the underdark now

He's an actual professional actor that does movies, of course he will be a tad above everyone else who did the voiceacting.

I think the narrator would have been a better choice, but he was great especially during his quest

@@Arumia13she killed it for sure

Yeah it's adorable how she did the excited little jump and clap for him. 😆😆 Supportive partners ftw.

Good actor, garbage character.

@@zackfair6791 false.

@@void9938 Cry more.

@@void9938 There'll always be haters. I think Astarion's a great character with great writing, and I'm sure a character like Zack Fair from FF7 wouldn't approve of trashing someone else's fun just for something so petty.

And 90% of the players never heard this line)

@@Vicusor22 their loss :)

yep @@OnyArt

for me it was the "bunch of weirdos" line, man that was so good lmao

it was all the jabs and rants he threw randomly, mostly on me (Tav) or Shadowheart.

Clive made me cry much more than astarion

Honestly never thought about how well all of them have truly done. Ben Starr easily put on the best performance. There just wasn’t as many people that played FF16.

He was great, but Clive's voice after the second time skip is garbage. Though I don't blame him. Could just be bad direction as it often is.

Just gonna say it, Ben was better. BG3 is my personal GOTY as well but Ben had the bigger character that demanded a wider emotional range. He was in a different ballpark voicing Clive at different stages of life from 15 to 30. Not that Neil wasn't incredible (and factoring in mocap would be unfair because the rules on "performance" are unclear and not all VAs mocap), but I'm certain this win had a lot to do with Astarion and BG3's popularity. Compare the climactic Cazador scene to any of the emotional moments in FF16 (with Cid, Anabella, Joshua, Jill)...not to mention that Astarion had the most lines as a companion. Edit: I think people tend to mix up liking how a person's voice sounds vs the actual vocal performance. I'm not saying who is the better VA, rather who performed better in this one instance. If anything I'd be less disagreeable had Amelia Tyler won as narrator. Astarion's character was limited by the nature of the genre and the fact that he was an optional companion (vs being a relatively silent origin protag). I think most who say Neil deserved it haven't played any of the other nominated games. I really think TGA should add a best supporting performance, Astarion belongs there and frankly Ralph Ineson deserves some kind of recognition.

@@mako3197 Both were great, but Astarion's more convincing as the smarmy vampire spawn hiding his weakness, forced to confront most of them depending on player choice and sounding convincing the entire time. BG3's character animations aren't as good, but the pieces are still in place to really sell it. Clive loses quite a bit of range outside desperate shouting, plain shouting, or gruff menace. Cool character, just when I really think about which character showed more, Astarion gets it every time.

Not just Mocap for Astarion, he also did Mocap for a lot of other parts in BG3, including the character selection intros for all the origin characters

Larian's speech at the golden joystick awards for best community support was also powerful. I've never heard a gaming company speak with such heart before.

I really relate to what you wrote: "it made me feel like me again". I had kinda lost myself and was in a very dark place and I cannot believe how much this game has brought (and is still bringing!) me back to me and made me genuinely ... happier. I am so happy when I hear other people experiencing this as well - all of us in their own way of course

I hope not

Not a new standard, a new bar. It's unrealistic to expect every game developer to achieve what Larian has. However, they did set a new bar for the quality a game can have. It's something every game dev should strive for in their own work and deserves to be praised as such.

Epic comment

Next time? Oh no no no, if there's a next time, I'll be the one aiming your emotional weapon, thank you

I love this hahaha

Oh ho ho…that took me a moment. Wonderful.

Need to meet him, Neil, etc.

You're not alone. None of us are 🥲

Same here!! I thought oh, here we go another overrated character, but I absolutely adore him. 😢 You can very much tell that it's Neil bringing that out. What a wonderful human.

Who is this guy again?

​@@Dachin55555horny vampire from an overrated game

with more rewards than yuri's spiderman too@@1yu8omir

Not as iconic as Spiderman hence the shock.

@@_MANDOWN_ just because Spider-Man is iconic doesn’t mean his voice actor was the best ever made. There are numerous good voice actors for Spider-Man, but Neil made everyone know that he’s the one guy that could voice his character.

Same here. I dont normally vote, not even politics lol, but i did vote for Neil, and BG3, in both award shows. Lol. Altho i only voted cuz i watch his youtube channel and he asked us to vote and supplied the link.. so i didnt have to look it up or anything. Lol

Agreed. This being said, you can critique something. What people are forgetting is that the winner here is picked by majority decision. Popularity of a game plays a huge part here. Until we get a “critics choice” award for gaming (we may already have that, I am unsure), the winners of these awards are typically gonna be based on hype, not some sort of objective analysis. Everyone did great, all these toxic fans really spoiled this event, not that it was very impressive anyway, they treated the talent like shit and took more opportunities to advertise games. Overall, a disappointing awards night.

his character is so much fun too

That's really touching, thank you for showing that much love and appreciation to this outstanding group of developers and actors 😊❤