#definitely a goty

[imaginary-wanderer]

166h, I finally finished Baldur's Gate 3! What a game!

As I knew very little about DnD rules when I started, I have to say the entire combat system and how to use skills and what they really do didn't make sense to me at first. The game gives no explanation, seeing a weapon being 1d6 or 1d8 meant nothing because what it means is never explained. There's no tutorial. You know DnD or you don't. And when I say nothing is explained, I mean nothing. You play and the game never proposes you a small tutorial about DnD basics. Very strange. So you have to go find the answers yourself.

Bugs also prevented me to finish an important companion quest. I'm a bit bitter about this one, I really wanted to finish it but if what I read is true, then it's really because of a bug. Ah well, the outcome was also interesting, just not the one I was planning.

The end was also sort of bugged, I had to manually end all the conversations, and had to pass what seemed to be a transition black screen at the very end, and I hope I didn't miss anything because of that.

In spite of that, the game is really good, very rich, so many things to do and discover, long side quests, good romance (forever thankful for the updated kiss scene with Halsin) and good writing. The characters are nuanced and complex, as are the events, which makes a lot of decision sometimes very difficult to make. Everything has consequences and it's quite impressive how a choice you make early in the game will have consequences throughout the game, sometimes even a lot later with no mention of it for a very long time.

I'd recommend this game even if you don't know DnD. It's a very good RPG, just know that you have to read about DnD rules before to play the game more easily. I also feel like the PS5 version is less easy to play than the PC one, less flexibility with the UI and various other things, so if you have a good gaming PC, it's a better choice for this game for sure.

[ashinaisshin]

見せてもらいましょう…借り物の翼で、どこまで飛べるか。 Let's see how far they can fly... on borrowed wings. ARMORED CORE VI: FIRES OF RUBICON (2023), dir. Masaru Yamamura

[gonkaccino]

if larian doesn't fix her romance + make it possible to recruit her without losing karlach I will never forgive them. It's like if you had to go on a murder spree and kill Lohse just to get Sebille to join your party in DOS2

[cliji]

hiiiii if tga reveals one of the dlc trailers, which is very likely, i’m gonna start posting on my warfield media archive account @/andthesectary!

everything warfield related (be it game or media outside of it) will be posted in a timely manner since i haven’t actually finished my 3rd playthrough, which is an extreme exaggeration because i haven’t made it to the second time-skip LMAO. but i already have 70 clips in my g-drive which is kinda insane and i’m fearing that it’ll hit 300 by the time i’m done…and i need the storage for rebirth ohhhh.

so yeah! i hope to see you guys there as the first wf archive acc (i hope so???) on planet earth!

[transgender-anakin-skywalker]

baldur’s gate 3 did not even remotely deserve to win game of the year that shit isn’t even properly finished, especially considering some of the games it went up against. they only added the epilogue in major patch fucking 5 and act 3 is STILL barebones as shit. and THIS beat tears of the kingdom AND spider-man 2????? nah i’m pissed about this, i’m fully convinced they ignored actual game quality in favour of what was hyped on social media close to award season

okay after thinking past the initial anger i’m adding this on the end just to make a more coherent point. goty is “given to a video game judged to deliver the best experience across creative and technical fields” (goty wikipedia page introduction). i fully believe that bg3, with its plethora of bugs, technical issues, and other mechanical problems that very much have been game-breaking for some people (and even when it isn’t, still wildly frustrating), very much does not deliver “the best experience across technical fields” by a long shot. i will say the creativity part is down to personal taste and therefore i would find this win a lot more acceptable if goty didn’t make any comment on mechanical functioning of the game, but the thing is it DOES. so because of this i am now sulking

[landlordevil]

If re4make doesn't win goty... i've said it before i'll say it again. If bg3 wanted to be my goty they should have added a sniper section

[judyalvqrez]

I finally finished Final Fantasy 16

[kimmkitsuragi]

alright this is so annoying and disappointing because -obviously i cant know for sure, but- it feels like something happened to change their minds :/ which would be just sad

[supersunky64]

That Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct was awesome! 😃

[isayoldbean]

gotta say even though bg3 is too gory for me i really appreciate it and ac6 taking over all of my gaming spaces because i don't have to deal with people trying to gaslight me into being interested in ff16 anymore. thank you bg3 and ac6

[onewingedangels]

y'know what? after playing a plague tale 2 I really would love for it to win some awards at tga's this year :D

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i can't believe i love all characters in pokemon scarlet this has never happened to me before

[britishchick09]

a year from today, summer will be learning how to knit! :D

...or try to 😅😅

[letlionslie]

re4remake is goty in my heart. i need no external validation on this. neat how my favorite game in 2005 can make a comeback to be my favorite game again nearly 20 years later.

you know how fucking wild it is that not even a new legend of zelda release can sandblast me off my ps5?

[definitelyanearthperson]

Life has been very different since I beat totk.

( idk what to do now , guess I’ll keep exploring and try to 100% the game

[wisdomshoes]

playing elden ring pvp is like that time you were a baby-child and you were pretend fighting (with words) and there was this one kid that always said stuff like "i call my huge dragon and it breathes fire and lasers and it kills you instantly"

"okay i dodge the fires and lasers"

"NO you cant dodge it youre dead haha you stinky dork"

except its not one kid its EVERYONE.