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Bg3 is the clear winner in my opinion.
Definitely should be BG3 for the win.
BG3, and it’s not even close.
It should be BG3, but like it or not Zelda will get prestige points for being part of a legendary series.
BG3. Easy win.
Baldur’s Gate by a mile.
BG3 easily.
BOTW was better than TOTK
Major releases are behind us? Spidey, Mario, and Alan Wake in the next two weeks!
Baldur’s Gate III by far
Was TotK actually a new game or just BotW part 2 essentially with different story? Genuinely asking because I haven’t played it but everything I’ve seen looks like BotW with a different skin
BG3 is pretty much an amazing experience that stays consistent the whole way through. TotK has some big highs everytime you discover something new but then overstays its welcome for long periods of time. TotK didn’t quite hit what Elden Ring hit but is far more accessible, it’s just a bit too much of the same after a while. BG3 doesn’t do that, every corner has something and every character grows with you. It’s just a superior game across the board.
Spiderman 2 somehow not a major release and going into the game awards as an underdog?
I’ve played both. No question at all. Totk
I’m definitely having more fun with BG3, but it’s definitely in part for playing with friends and having all the usual D&D shenanigans happen all the time. Single player Zelda can’t compete with that.
TotK was good, but it felt like hopping back into BotW with some serious DLC until more of the new mechanics and worlds started to show up.
I vote BG3.
TotK should not be game of the year. The fact that it’s a Zelda game will help it.
Why does it even matter? It’s not like it’s an actual award given out by people who make games. They’re glorified corporate ad campaigns to stir consolewar bullshit engagement and make even more money off slavering fanboys. It’s so pointless.
I’ll be bg3. Bg3 edges it out because of story.
BG3, TOTK, Hogwarts, Lies of P and Spiderman/Starfield are my guesses for the nominees. Not my personal choices, just a realistic guess.
I fell off zelda pretty hard
BOTW deserved it but I don’t feel like TOTK does too, BG3 should get it idc
I would go with Baldur’s Gate III, even though The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was a fantastic experience.
BG3 by a clear mile.
Haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3 yet, but Tears of the Kingdom absolutely deserves every nod it is getting.
It excites me tremendously that there is a game people think surpasses it as Tears was utterly fucking incredible. Gonna be hard to beat TotK for me, very excited to see BG3 try.
I really don’t care. To me, the Game Awards feels like fanboy fodder.
Both are excellent games in their own right. And we’ve had a lot of awesome titles besides those two this year. My personal favorite isn’t one of them.
This is just my personal opinion, I get that others think that the Game Awards, and the GotY award in particular, is fun/important/whatever. That’s all good, but please don’t hate on other people for liking something different from you. 🙂
I’m ready for my downvotes!
I don’t think BG3 is the best game in the history of gaming.
Tears of the Kingdom was very good, but ultimately it’s a victory lap for a game that came out years ago and for $10 more. The new additions are cool, but nothing revolutionary.
Balder’s Gate 3 is a new standard for RPGs. A game you could easily throw a hundred hours at on a single playthrough, tons of unique encounters, tons of branching questlines, the mechanical depth of a crunchy ass tabletop game yet simple to jump into.
For me it’s no question, and I’m a Zelda fanboy.
Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t gonna be my thing so can’t comment on it.
But just started TOTK today and it has surpassed my expectations. As much as I hate Nintendo’s out of touch business practices, these mfs can make a good videogame. I’m sure just like BOTW set a new standard for true open world games, TOTK will do the same.
Get ready bois. The virgin wars are starting!
My money is on Baldur’s Gate 3 just because it seems like such a breath of fresh air. Haven’t played it myself, but I backseated while my friend did…and it really did seem like the next best thing that has happened to the RPG genre this year.
It’s a bait question. But it’s also personally worth it to acknowledge how good TotK really is.
I think there’s legitimate criticism to be leveled regarding some creative decisions made: the UI is a real bother (no reason for the power wheel to include the map, amiibo (I never use it), the fusing/general materials UI using a single row to cycle through your entire inventory should be illegal. And I personally was excited to see a realistic, evil Ganon humanized- only to see him do more mustache twirling.
But where it counts (the gaming mechanics), is really impressive. There were cases in that game where they simply made a puzzle more (technically) complex… because they could, lol. A lot of gamers (especially kids) wouldn’t really see it. The ultrahand fusing is also really impressive.
In a way it’s a shame that Zelda often shows in a trailer, what the game *could* be, but is ultimately still held up, either by the Switch’s technical limitations or by some older decision-making higher up.
Game play mechanics = TOTK
Story and other stuff = BG3
I wouldn’t be surprised to see either of these win
I would put Lies of P ahead of Zelda. As of right now I would say LoP and BG3 with BG3 winning. But there are still more releases so we’ll see what happens.
I haven’t played BG3 yet but I’ve heard so many good things about it. Do I need to play the first 2 before I jump in?
Please don’t be Tears of the Kingdom!
Haven’t played Baldrs Gate yet, whether that title deserves GOTY I could not say.
Tears of the Kingdom was a significant improvement over Breath of the Wild yet remained a disappointment; the current direction the Zelda franchise is taking is hardly an improvement over the Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess iterations and IMHO Nintendo should be encouraged to return to that formulation.
Both are great but neither beat FF16 for me!
this is cute
Totk was pretty meh. Botw paved the way and totk just skipped down that ol’ familiar road.
I was looking to see what games compete with BG3 given that there have been some really big releases this year.
So far BG3 seems to remain with both critics and players more highly rated than any other title this year.
BG3 comes out at a more reasonable price point than its competitors, no predatory monetisation, has generally grander scope than the majority, supports multiplayer in a story based setting (unmatched), massive player freedom to handle the situation the way you want rather than being on rails, not platform exclusive and has a studio listening still to feedback to improve post release. Motion captured cutscenes with very invested voice acting. Very very few people experienced game breaking bugs or crashes and they also got fixed very quickly.
Basically the things that generally put a bad taste in your mouth for an otherwise good game were just not present for BG3. It makes you a promise about what it is and lives up to it.
Larian had to pioneer a 24 hour rotating development cycle in order to complete this game in the timeframe it was completed, it is not by chance that those who get invested in it see the extremely thorough development that has gone into this game – It’s legitimately done something that no other studio has done.
AAA games going forward may be tempted to borrow from Larians process and if that happens game development and thus the games produced as a whole would become better just from the success of BG3 this year.
Doesn’t matter. I didn’t like either of them which is what actually matters, your opinion.