By Kent Yang | Staff Writer
The Game Awards, initiated in 2014 by veteran game journalist Geoff Keighley, stand as an annual ceremony honoring both creative and technical accomplishments within the gaming industry. Since its inception, the awards has gained immense popularity, evolving into the most-watched awards ceremony in entertainment. Last year’s Game Awards ceremony gathered a staggering 103 million streams. To put this into perspective, the Oscars, a longstanding and renowned awards ceremony, grappled to attain 20 million television viewers.
Coming out on top this year in multiple categories is Larian Studios’ “Baldur’s Gate 3,” winning Best Community Support, Best Multiplayer, Best RPG, Player’s Voice, and Game of the Year. For those who haven’t heard about Larian Studios, they are a Belgian video game company that specializes in role-playing games such as the “Divinity” series. In “Baldur’s Gate 3,” the game takes place in the medieval fantasy land of Faerûn where the player can create a character and pick from 12 classes and 46 subclasses, providing an endless variety of unique skill sets to take on multiple factions. The gameplay itself is a mix of turn-based, with open-world exploration, and conversations that can make the player character a variety of friends or enemies depending on which dialogue you select. In combat, “Baldur’s Gate 3” is mostly turn-based, similar to games like “Digimon Survive,” “Dungeons and Dragons,” “Final Fantasy Tactics,” and “XCOM.” As for the plot, audio and visuals, they are absolutely stunning, making it easy to see why it won so many awards.
Outside of the Game Awards, BG3 has also won the Ultimate Game of the Year at the 41st Golden Joystick Awards. For fans of adventure and/or RPG games that excel in narration, character development, and voice acting, “Baldur’s Gate 3” is the perfect game to check out.
Here is the full list of Game Awards 2023 winners:
Best Action Adventure Game – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the
Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Action Game – Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
(FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Best Adaptation – The Last of Us (PlayStation Productions/HBO)
Best Art Direction – Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games
Publishing)
Best Audio Design – Hi-Fi Rush (Tango Gameworks/Bethesda
Softworks)
Best Community Support – Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
Best Debut Indie Game – Cocoon (Geometric Interactive/Annapurna
Interactive)
Best Esports Athlete – Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (League of Legends)
Best Esports Coach – Christine “potter” Chi (Evil Geniuses –
Valorant)
Best Esports Event – 2023 League of Legends World Championship
Best Esports Game – Valorant (Riot Games)
Best Esports Team – JD Gaming (League of Legends)
Best Family Game – Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo
EPD/Nintendo)
Best Fighting Game – Street Fighter 6 (Capcom)
Best Game Direction – Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games
Publishing)
Best Independent Game – Sea of Stars (Sabotage Studio)
Best Mobile Game – Honkai: Star Rail (HoYoverse)
Best Multiplayer – Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
Best Narrative – Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games
Publishing)
Best Ongoing Game – Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)
Best Performance – Neil Newbon, Baldur’s Gate 3
Best RPG – Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
Best Score And Music – Final Fantasy XVI, Composer Masayoshi Soken
(Square Enix)
Best Sim/Strategy Game – Pikmin 4 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Sports/Racing – Forza Motorsport (Turn 10 Studios/Xbox Game
Studios)
Best VR/AR Game – Resident Evil Village VR Mode (Capcom)
Content Creator of the Year – IronMouse
Game of the Year – Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
Games for Impact – Tchia (Awaceb/Kepler Interactive)
Innovation In Accessibility – Forza Motorsport (Turn 10
Studios/Xbox Game Studios)
Most Anticipated Game – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Players’ Voice – Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
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