The Game Awards 2023: List of Winners

Mago@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

The Game Awards 2023: List of Winners

Why9@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

It honestly made my night to see Neil Newbon win the best performance for Baldurs Gate 3. With him talking about how he pretty much gave up on acting and went through some pretty rough times and discrimination before getting into voice acting, it’s amazing to see him finally be seen.

And let’s be clear, he wasn’t just a voice actor in BG3! He had to mocap as well as read his lines. His likeness was captured in Astarion perfectly. He was a full actor here and did an incredible job. Best performance was well deserved.

Oatsinator@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Ben Starr was my personal pick, as he poured his everything into the role and has continued to do so on social media. He’s so incredibly proud to represent such a character. All of the nominated performances this year were spectacular and it was a very hard choice

iheartneopets@lemm.ee · edit-2 11 months ago

I just wish they have the man enough time to give a proper speech!! He was barely half a minute through his thank yous before they were shooing him off stage. It was so disrespectful. Let him have his moment, this is a huge deal. It’s not like he was rambling on.

All that just to make room for more fortnite ads. Disgraceful.

thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

i mean, least year they had the opposite problem. this was likely just over-compensation

iheartneopets@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

I hope you’re right.

bob_lemon@feddit.de · 11 months ago

I didn’t know who he is out which character he voiced, but my immediate thought upon reading was “he’s gotta be Astarion”. Phenomenal performance.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 11 months ago

BG3 winning the GotY was something we all could see coming I think and even though it’s not my personal pick I’m hard pressed to argue. It’s a great game, it opened up many in the mainstream to a new genre and Larian is a great company with consumer-friendly policies. It’s hard to be mad.

I’m very glad Alan Wake 2 got a couple of awards, though. Hopefully this recognition means Remedy keeps pushing the boundaries and keeps going with their crazy mixed media and weirdness. We need someone doing innovation in the AAA space.

I am a little pissed they lost out on best music to FFXVI though.

sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz · 11 months ago

FFXVI’s soundtrack is pretty great tho, especially the tracks for the Eikon fights. NGL I would have honestly gone insane playing that game if not for the soundtrack and (less so) the combat. The story makes no fucking sense.

I’m more salty that people are saying AW2 didn’t deserve Best Game Direction, because I think it absolutely did. Alan Wake’s plot and the vision they went for would have been absolute nonsense in the hands of any other studio.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 11 months ago

I just love what Remedy did for the music, and I’m not just talking about Poets of the Fall. Having a bunch of established artists write original music based on a bunch of story related poems written by Sam Lake was such a cool idea and makes the end-of-chapter songs land so well. But the competition was tough, for sure.

I haven’t heard those comments about Game Direction but I can’t understand that at all. The direction is absolutely first class, from the tension-release work to the cinematic shots and framings to the double-exposure overlaps and the reality rewriting and dream logic of the Dark Place. It was a masterpiece in my opinion.

BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

I can’t believe best audio design was won by the only rhythm game nominated.

delitomatoes@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

Re4 had quite good audio design, the shots sounded incredible

simple@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

The Dead Space remake had some of the best sound design in any game. I was convinced it would win, but it makes sense to give it to Hi-Fi Rush.

CopernicusQwark@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Congratulations to all the winners - they’re all very well deserved! No surprises here (though very pleased) to see BG3 clean house.

It’s very unfortunate for Insomniac that SM2 didn’t get any wins, but it goes to show how crazy good this year has been for gamers!

PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works · 11 months ago

Honestly disappointed with the combination of batch awards and probably the shortest acceptance speech timer I’ve seen. This game awards felt solely for producers and publishers, not for the people who actually made these games. I get not wanting another 8 min speech, but it left a bad taste in my mouth

ieightpi@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

With E3 dead, this is the new outlet form showing off new games I guess

Hal-5700X@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Armored Core VI won Best Action Game, and Ironmouse won. So all is good in the world.

Baldur’s Gate 3 won Game of the Year and Player’s Voice. We all saw that one coming.

deweydecibel@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

The true winners are of course all the marketing departments out there that are just ecstatic about the fact this stupid award shit is normalized now.

How fun to know you can brute force an award show into being “legitimate” by spending a lot of money and being cozy with studios.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

You just described every award show ever.

I’m just glad there’s a big event that can act as a surrogate to what E3 once was.

Archer@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

I suppose that was the Oscars at one point as well, but yeah this organization just appeared out of nowhere a few years ago

slowd0wn@kbin.social · 11 months ago

I haven’t played many of the indie games on the list, but I’m glad to see Sea of Stars get some love. It’s probably the best game I’ve played in the last year

🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.website · 11 months ago

That’s really all I was glad to see. I mainly watched hoping they’d win something. It was a great game.

stopthatgirl7@kbin.social · 11 months ago

Absolutely no arguments with any of these. This really was a great year for gaming.

Restaldt@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Why the fuck was Lies of p in the rpg category and not the action categeory with Ac6?

GutsBerserk@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

So glad BG3 won deserving goty 2023.

Oh and “Don’t touch me!” Iykyk 😈

highsight@programming.dev · 11 months ago

Really happy that Alan Wake 2 got the awards it did. Especially in the Narrative and Game Direction fields.

That said, it’s tragic that Lies of P was nominated for best RPG instead of action game. I really believe it earned best action game this year.

JakenVeina@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

No way it beats AC6 for me, but I wish it could have gotten something, it’s a really remarkable first-entry into the field.

They had a “best first game by a new studio” or something category last year, didn’t they? Isn’t that what Stray won?

BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

i honestly cant believe starfield wasnt even nominated for best soundtrack/score. it is breathtakingly beautiful

omfgnuts@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

pfffttt hahahaa

BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 11 months ago

i take it you never heard the sountrack

Mickey@lemmy.ca · 11 months ago

Ah I was hoping Dredge would have won one of the indie categories. Such a good game!

Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 months ago

Fuck I lost.