Discover what’s coming to Baldur’s Gate 3 next year with Community Update #30:
🎮 Cross-Play
📸 Photo Mode
💫 12 New Subclasses
🪱 Continued Bug Fixing
🔜 Patch 8 Stress Test - January 2025
Read more: https://t.co/HuVZ4buBuD
THOUGHTS: The Game Awards appears to have bent the rules this year (site updated Nov 15 according to Wayback Machine) to include Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree in the Game of the Year category nominees, when last year, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty was snubbed, despite being superior in every way, and transformative to the main game🚀
I’m genuinely tired of From Software exceptionalism. They create the exact same game every few years, an a dated engine, clunky animations and inferior visuals (save for art direction) and they are given their annual token and praise.
Meanwhile, other studios grovel to create something unique and original and superior in every aspect from gameplay to visuals to performance, and yet they are snubbed because they haven’t been deemed “cool” enough to earn that exceptionalism.
This isn’t hatred on the games. I played and platinumed Elden Ring, and I liked it, but as a GOTY winner, an expansion has no place being considered a “game” when it cannot even be accessed as a standalone experience, or even from the start of the game.
Players are also not excused from this hypocrisy when every time a remake is talked about, it gets discredited as “just another remake” or “just the same game” when it’s actually a meticulously crafted ground-up creation or a classic, that can very much be considered a new game, instead of an expansion, or even a new game that basically copies the same formula of its predecessors 🎤
This is the future of gaming and it looks 🔥
@QiddiyaGaming have released their vision for their gaming & esports district, and we cannot wait to see it come to life 👀 #PlayLife
It's Larian Studios' world, and we're just living in it! The Game of the Year is Baldur's Gate 3! 🎉
🏆 Best Performance: Neil Newbon as Astarion
🏆 Best Community Support: Baldur's Gate 3
🏆 Best Multiplayer Game: Baldur's Gate 3
🏆 Player’s Voice Award: Baldur’s Gate 3
🏆 Best RPG Game: Baldur's Gate 3
#TheGameAwards
Devs on Aim Assist:
▫️ We are not happy with the current state of aim assist, we want to make it less frustrating and there are changes coming, you can count on it
▫️ It doesn’t seem like the change is coming any time soon, however. Tweaks will happen over the “next couple of years”