#it's still a win wtf

[theographos]

Baldur's Gate 3 deserved to win.

If you're a stranger to the video game community, let me give you the context of this post :

The Game Awards of 2023 happened this thursday. And for the nomines of Best Game of 2023 we had Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Marvel's Spider-man 2, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the kingdom. And the winner happened to be Baldur's Gate 3.

And ever since then we can see the salty reactions of fans of Spiderman 2, who were baffled at the results. Some argue that Baldur's Gate 3 has nothing more to offer than Spiderman 2, and there are even people who claim that they never heard of Baldur's Gate 3. A statement that I find odd, because even if I'm only briefly present amongst the video game community, even I was perfectly aware of how successful Baldur's Gate 3 has been since its release in August 2023.

Before I dive into another rant of mine, I would like to say that if you never heard of Baldur's Gate 3, it's a video game based on Dungeons and Dragons (with some minor worldbuilding differences apparently) and who work just like a D&D campaign : you role dices to know if your attack landed or not, it's a turn-based game, roleplay is encouraged. It's playable on PC and on Playstation and it offers a multiplayer gamemode.

Now let's dive into the rant shall we ?

Disclaimer

I do not consider Marvel's Spiderman 2 bad, and i'm no video game expert either. So don't expect some deep dive into both of the game's gameplay or graphism. It's just not what i'm good at. What I'm good at however is to pinpoint the content present in those games, and that's what i'm going to do.

Baldur's Gate or not, Spiderman had no chance to win.

I mean have you seen the nomines ? First of all there is a Zelda. It would be unwise to pretend like Tears of the Kingdom has not been a major hit ever since it came out. It doesn't matter if you like Zelda or not, the facts are here : Tears of the Kingdom is really good. Yes it has its bad sides, just like every game really, but it's still good ! But seeing the results of the different categories they were nominated, I would say that they had equal chances. Because for the Player's Voice Award and the Best-Game Direction they were both nominated, but none of them win. It shows that in 2 of their shared best aspects, there was still better than them, and a 50/50 is not a guaranted win.

Next we have Alan Wake 2, who also won the Best Game Direction Award, the Best Narrative Award and the Best Art Direction Award. Spiderman 2 was nominated for Best Game Direction and Best Game Narrative but didn't win. Again, if we take a look at the facts, Spiderman had no chance to win ! Again it's not because it's not a good game, it's because another game did even better. I mean Alan Wake 2 has a level of storytelling close to Inception, visuals that mix real-life footage and game footage and fans of the Remedy Connected Universe (the sort of game franchise that Alan Wake 2 is part of) have been waiting for this game ever since 2013. (the creator said at that time that because of the lack of success of the first Alan Wake, the studios weren't interested in a sequel at that time.) Meanwhile, Spiderman 2 has been teased ever since 2020. This time Spiderman 2 had a severe disadvantage compared to Alan Wake.

I will not pronounce myself about Resident Evil 4 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder, since I don't have enough knowledge about theses games. All I can say is that those two games also come from a successful franchise just like Zelda and just like Spiderman.

But why did Baldur's Gate 3 won then ?

If we look at the results of the award, it was no surprise. They won the Player's Voice award, Best RPG Award, Best Multiplayer Game Award, Best Community Support Award and Best Performance Award (Neil Newborn's performance with the character Astarion. If you never saw it, just go ahead, your ears will thank me. He can go from cocky to sassy to evil to dominant to soft without a difficulty) and were nominated in 4 other categories. Meanwhile Spiderman 2 was nominated in 8 categories and won none of them. So from a factual point of view, it means that Spiderman 2 is good, but not the best.

Now if we look at the game itself, it's absurd to even believe that Spider-man 2 would ever win. Let me list you a bunch of contents that are available in Baldur's Gate 3 :

First of all you have tons of option to customize your character. Not just from an aesthetic point of view, but also a gameplay point of view. First of all you have 11 races available for your character, with 40 sub-races, all giving you different stats and different ways to play and/or build your character. Then you have the classes, with 12 main classes and 46 sub-classes, and again they all give different stats and different ways to play your character. So with that you can play the game 5 times and will not have the same combat experience each time.

Oh you don't want to spend too much time on character creation ? It's fine because they give you 7 pre-defined characters with their own identity and their own stories, that you can even personnalize on top of it. So again, you can play this game entirely 7 times and you will have a different experience each time.

Like D&D you will have a party accompany you, a group of people with whom you travel. These characters are romanceable and also have their own quest on the side, quest that have at least two different outcomes with major changes for the character in question. So here you have at least two reasons to replay the game, like that you can experience both ends of your favorite character's quest.

Baldur's gate 3 is a game based on choices. I am a big fan of visual novels, in which your choices matters a lot, so i'm fully aware of what it means to have choices with almost every dialogue of the game. But if you're not, just you know that you cannot experience the entire game in a row. You have to do at least twice each dialogue to fully experience it.

Baldur's Gate is also a game based on a roll of dice. You can look at a painting, roll a perception check, fail and find nothing, but if you replay the game or retry, you could win it and discover that actually that painting is a map towards a treasure. So you could have missed a ton of hidden quest without even knowing it, just because you didn't talk to the right pnj or won a particular roll of dice.

Last but not least, there is three different difficulties for the game. So three reasons to replay the game if you want to enjoy it to its fullest.

And like I said, Spiderman 2 is really good, I mean it wasn't nominated as Game of the Year for nothing, but it is not able to keep up with a game like Baldur's Gate 3, which proposes hundreds of hours of new content.

Conclusion

I think I have talked enough about how much Baldur's Gate 3 deserved to win, and why it's so popular. But Spiderman 2 isn't a total failure you know ?

Even if it didn't win, it was still nominated in 8 different categories, which is really good ! Out of all the games who were out in 2023, Spiderman 2 has been nominated for the award, he's still in the top 5 of the bestest games of the year for The Game Awards !

A nomination is not something to overlook, because it still means that you won in some kind. Sure it's not as great as an award, but it's still something to brag about !

If we look at last year's numbers, there was around 10 000 games who released in 2022, and we can only guess that we got to 11 000 games in 2023. Again, in 11 000 games, Marvel's Spider-man 2 was chosen in the top 5 of the best games for this year, 5 out of 11 000 is roughly 0.45%, so really it's a great victory !

Spider-man 2 still won something, it's still considered as a good game if we follow the Award's opinion. Not the bestest, but still good enough to be part of the 0.45% of games chosen for the award of the Best Game of 2023.

[userhangmanpage]

For you this is a professional accomplishment. For me... this is personal. I don't want this opportunity. I need it.

[dollysh]

just got done watching squid game and wtf was that ending..?

me thought out watching squid game season 3:

[heyimkana]

Glimpses of Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling: Ragnarok

[chikenbrain]

Alright, so Batman’s rule is ‘no killing’ but let’s say that after Jason’s death, he takes that rule to an extreme, and the breaking point is the Joker.

He probably said something like, ‘there are things worse than death,’ right before leaving him in a vegetative state with phantom pain for the rest of his life. Technically, he didn’t cross the line, and while he doesn’t feel good about what he did… he doesn’t feel bad either.

Neither Alfred nor Dick judge him. They don’t even bring it up, probably hoping he’ll pull himself back from the edge or something. But Bruce promises himself it won’t happen again. This was a one-time thing. Just for his son. And it’ll be the last time revenge blinds him.

Even so, he’s way more violent during arrests than usual. Tim Drake steps in, trying to talk Dick into helping him stop Bruce, but Dick… well, he agrees with Bruce, even if he won’t admit it out loud. He’s hurt too.

Tim does everything he can to pull Bruce back from this path, and eventually, he puts on the Robin suit himself. Bruce is not happy. His first instinct when he saw Tim was anger—yelling about ‘everything he doesn’t understand and shouldn’t get involved in’ but the rage didn’t last long. It melted away when he really looked at him—standing there, worried and small, like a little wounded bird.

He was smaller than Dick had been when Bruce took him in, but bigger than Jason. Still, Tim was definitely small… and brave.

‘Robin gives people hope. That’s his role in Gotham’s war on crime.’

Robin brings hope to those who need it, even when the situation is so dark it feels like the light has been swallowed whole. Even when there are people who don’t deserve it. Even when that person is him.

Bruce couldn’t help himself. He hugged Tim, wrapping him in his cape like he’d done with his other Robins. Tim froze—physical contact wasn’t something he was used to. It felt out of place.

The best way to describe it was: uncomfortable. But that feeling didn’t last long. Soon, the warmth started seeping in, and it felt more like being a little kid wrapped in a bear hug.

Neither of them remembers how long Bruce stayed there, hugging the kid, murmuring over and over that it was going to be okay, while attempting to rub his back.

[ganondoodle]

master koga propaganda

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 823: Third year Imaizumi!!

Pag 1

1: I slipped.....!!

5: The cleats!!

Pag 2

1: Get in!!

Gunma and Kyoto passed the puddle

Pag 3

1: The two of them are heading for the curve!!

Sohoku's in trouble!

He's falling behind!

2: Woah!! It's already over!? That fun water attraction!!

3: -oss!!

4: They got in!!

Pag 4

3: Now that they've passed the puddle and their tires have grip on the road again, those two in the lead are so fast!!

They're accelerating so fiercely!!

Pag 5

2: They're leaving behind the third person, from Sohoku

Hurry up, Chiba!

Do your best...!!

3: He fell behind and is now passing the puddle

Pag 6

1: I fell behind!!

Oooooo

2: Really...

4: I always make mistakes

Pag 7

1: You really always make mistakes in the most important moments

2: It's true, Midosuji, it's just like you said

3: In the most important moments

5: During the second day's of the Inter High of my first year...

6: In a moment when I had to stick to Kinjou-san

I gave in to despair and threw the race

“Weakizumi-kun”

Pag 8

1: During my second year, the reason why things weren't going as planned was because I said horrible things to Teshima-san

(Onoda accelerated, Teshima-san!! Let's stick close to Kyofushi!!

If we ride behind them we can get to Hakogaku in the lead

Recover fast, Teshima-san!! You're a climber after all!!)

2: “Snapizumi-kun”

3: I lost heart each time

I really am Snapizumi after all

4: But

5: But lately I've also been thinking about this

Pag 9

1: That every time my heart folds, it becomes stronger!!

2: Naruko, who more than anyone else knows what it means to lose, said this...

Uh... oi, I also know a lot about winning! I'm... a guys who's won!!

3: Naruko-san, this is already hard

I can't go on!!

4: Are you stupid, first years

This is till the start of the practice

5: But I can't go on

Me neither

Can't be helped then

6: Alright, I'll teach you the magic spell I always use!

Thank you!!

You're thinking “this is too hard I can't do it”?

Yes!! Right now

Pag 10

1: But you also thought “well that's to be expected” and worked a little harder?

Yes!!

I'm doing my best right now!

If we count that as the first time...

2: First time?

3: People can do it up to four times

Huh?

Four times?

4: So chant this

“When the fourth times that I say 'I can't do it anymore' comes.... that's when you start!!”

5: There's nothing magic about that at all...!!

Hii.....

That's the way of thinking of an expert!!

6: Come on let's go, do your best

Ye... yes

Yes

7: I see...

8: If I run with the assumption that I'll lose spirit from the start,,,, that might make me stronger

You're thinking about it too, Naruko

Pag 11

2: Sugimoto said this...

3: That guy seriously pissed me off!!

Ah come one, it's no problem to me

What happened?

4: Ah, hear this, Imaizumi-san

Today Sugimoto-san was doing morning practice alone, and an old man on a scooter he didn't now approached him

5: Oh, I know that jersey, you're from Sohoku High School

Ah, yes... good-

6: Even if you're from Sohoku you're not really fast

7: Hahaha

Work hard...

-morning

Pag 12

1: He said this, laughed, and then passed him!!

Wasn't that too rude!?

2: I mean, Sugimoto-san is always slow!!

Ouch

Oi, you're the one who's the rudest!!

4: Well, it's true, I am slow

5: That's why I practice

7: Sugimoto...

It's true

8: I'll continue practice diligently, no matter what people say

That's right!! And next time we'll meet that old man I'll tell him myself!!

Stop, I don't even know what you're talking about

9: I'll practice and work hard, and if I make the team... then I'll tell that man myself

11: I'll tell him “I ran in the Inter High”

Pag 13

2: And your passion really made that real!!

3: I fell behind...

4: The I have to recover desperately!!

5: That's fine!!

6: I always make mistakes

Then I just have to accept it

Pag 14

1: I already know I'm going to make mistakes!!

2: I used Naruko's spell four times!!

5: Amazing

6: Since before

Pag 15

1: Those two have been pushing my back and making me move forward!!

Pag 16

2: Gunma came into view of the second curve before the finish line.... and Kyoto too!!

3: And then

Pag 17

1: It's Chiba's Sohoku!!

Ooooooo

Pag 18

2: The strength I borrowed from my friends its's definitely making my heart stronger!!

Pag 19

2: Pua?

He's not snapping?

3: Woah!! Seriously? He caught up

4: Those three are once again neck and neck!!

5: After the curve is basically just a straight road!!

There are 600m left until the finish line!!

Pag 20

2: Not yet, Yuuto

There's no need to rush

It's alright

3: The only two people left before the finish line

4: will be us, Hakone Academy

[anathemav360]

so, the director totally mumbles butcher vanity to themself while xer killing dawn, right?

[ @askoverkill ] (textless version under break)

[lilith-is-off]

Tf you mean morrow's back? Forbidden five Jay? Live action Ninjago movie? Spin off series with new characters in 2025? Season 3 episodes titles tomorrow?

[lezalla]

I just read Phantom of the Opera today (By Gaston Leroux) and I feel really weird trying to engage with the online content because the book is my only reference for the story but I know the phantom is changed to be a proper romantic option in the musical/movie while in the book he is literally the toxic asshole to say he is going to kill himself if you break up with him. Except he is also gonna blow up an opera house and kill everyone else too.

So keep being taken aback by seeing so many people be like "Christine should have chosen the Phantom" "The Phantom was so romantic" because i am just here like "YOU MEAN THE DERANGED ABUSIVE MURDERER MAN?!?!" "WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?!?!?"

[serpentae]

thinking about how I went on eurovision tumblr in 2018, saw a lot of people outraged about israel not only winning and hosting the next one but also about being allowed to participate in the first place, went "wait what did they do" and proceeded to find out and start learning. meanwhile people now will watch footage and read news of actual genocide that no one committing it is denying and will still repeat israeli propaganda how it's all about defending from hamas and absolutely refuse to make any effort to learn anything. horrible

[psychokillermp4]

Not only was there no pie in the bush turns out they were driving me to the vet to have me put down

[fantasma-de-la-cueva]

Remember that I said that my biggest delusion was Gouenji Shuuya being strong enough to give the kingdom hearts foretellers a run of their money? Well, asked a friend that played both Inazuma Eleven and Kingdom hearts (except for union x) and said that it was non-ironically correct, that actually the inaverse was strong enough to deal with half or at least the vast majority of the khverse 😭😭😭.

I mean, if we keep in mind that this 14 yo mfs are basically pokemon, that hissatsu techniques are, indeed, the very real thing like the pokemon moves and that soccer balls are basically created inverse to deal with that insane amount of power and even the evolutions of this things… Yeah, the og teens can actually give characters like the org XIII a good run of their money, the go kids can give battle to characters like Xehanort and the adults can defeat the foretellers or Luxy… With the power of sakka…

Also, at least for characters like Endou, Kidou and Gouenji as adults keep in mind that this three are suggested or is implied that they are at the same level or stronger than Tenma, Tsurugi and Shindou… Characters that with the use of souls could stop a blackhole, but that in IE2 there were alredy moves that were literally blackholes and wormholes and this three were alredy suprassing them. And that as adults they have the experiences of the matches against Zeus, Aliea Gakuen, the FFI, the supersoldiers and angels of IE3 with all the physical improvement that means to be able to deal with the power of hissatsu and alredy inhuman speeds. And the fact that Endou could literally survive being wipped out of existance in Chrono Stone + being able to deal Beta’s vaccum for 7 seconds no hissatsu (bc that vaccum was directed at him), but with God Hand V was able to handle the vaccum and protect Fei for a good amount of seconds too, let’s say from 7 to 10 more or less

And I’m not talking that with the existance of the mind eater in the chronicle mode of VR now we need to take more seriously the things saw from the adults in the danball senki movie (like the fact that in total Endou could stop Fran’s dimensional wipping shoot for ~14 SECONDS, THE HALF OF THEM ALONE)

[squad-3]

ugh🙃

[redshoes-blues]

This jury is going to be so pissed at Kyle until he explains himself lmaooo I can’t wait

[yujeong]

I can't believe we almost saw cock like, 5 times this ep. BOC please I'm not strong enough.