Winning Game of the year is a great honor and I want to first thank everyone that voted for us and I want to congratulate all the other nominees. This has been an incredibly competitive year and you each would have deserved to win this award @CapcomUSA_@remedygames@insomniacgames@NintendoAmerica
I want to thank @geoffkeighley and the people that organized the #gameawards for creating an award show so big that it gets mainstream attention. While 30 secs is a bit short , there’s nothing like the game awards and it’s an incredible achievement
I wore armor at the #gameawards because BG3 is a game that couldn’t exist without its our player community and I wanted to pay tribute to how important they’ve been for the development. You rock community BG3
Making a game like this only works if you have an incredible passionate and talented team and in that regard I am incredibly lucky with the @larianstudios – they are some of the finest and they did a truly amazing job
Over 2000 people are listed in the credits and since I can’t call out everyone, I want to focus on a group of people that don’t always get the credit they deserve
Team QA, team localisation, team customer support, team operations, team publishing, team play testers, and every other developer at Larian, BG3 wouldn’t exist without you and you all deserve to be very proud of this
I want to dedicate this award to the friends and family members we lost during development including Jim, our lead cinematic animator who passed away last month and personally to my father who passed away the week before we launched our early access campaign
You don’t get to make something like BG3 if you don’t have the support from the people around you. Personally, I really want to thank 5 special people, a crazy dog and a one-eyed cat for sticking with me
Big shout out also to our localization partners and @PitStopTweets who had to use every corner of their building to record and performance capture what was an insane number of lines
To our actors – you did great. I hope our paths will cross again in the future and your agents will remain their usual reasonable selves :)
I also want to thank @Wizards_DnD and specifically the DnD team for giving us carte blanche. I’m really sorry to hear so many of you were let go. It’s a sad thing to realize that of the people who were in the original meeting room, there’s almost nobody left. I hope you all end up well
There are many more partners I want to thank. We asked much of you all, but you delivered and without your efforts, BG3 would not be what it is
I want to end with a story of a conversation I had a long time ago with a publisher. He told me, luckily for them, games are driven by idealism. He meant it in an exploitative way but he was right
Games are a unique art form, as important as books, music or movies. Many developers, myself included, make games because they love seeing others engage with their creations in a way only games can offer
They don’t care that much about the money made beyond it being the fuel they need to create new and better games. It’s worth reminding everyone that fuel is but a means, not a goal. Whereto and how we journey are what matter and what we remember
#GameAwards are over now and the world felt the punch in the face. It's time for gaming people to better choose their platforms and representatives. Let's stop using shiny trophies to hide an industry in crisis—suffering, poor conditions, massive layoffs.
#BaldursGate, the Game of the Year winner of yesterday's #GameAwards, is currently featured in the "In the News" section of the English @wikipedia home page. Those who aren't aware of how these items are chosen might be surprised, pleased, or outraged to see this. As a long-time Wikipedian who is familiar with this process, I was still amused by some of the commentary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates...
So you spend 6 years and shepard hundreds of talented developers and artists to create possibly the best video game of all time, Tears of the Kingdom, one of your team even dies during production, you win Game of the Year and when your acceptance speech goes on longer than 30 secs you’re told to “wrap it up”.
Ich muss sagen, dass mir der Sega Reveal Trailer am besten gefallen hat, und ich bin sehr gespannt auf einige klassische Spielereihen 😍
Am meisten auf Crazy Taxi und Shinobi 😁
Neil Newbon (Astarion) in his moving acceptance speech:
"You're not alone in this, none of us are"
"The community has reached out to so many of us at Larian and said they were seen and they were represented by this game. When they lost hope, they felt isolated, and they felt alone, this game brought them together and gave them something to push through."
Please “wrap it up” Geoff and get the fuck off stage quicker. Almost nobody cares about your shitty jokes and long-winded transitions. Let the devs say what they want about their achievements and working conditions, you little shit. #GameAwards
Watching the Game Awards broadcast for the first time. it's like seeing the Oscars for the first time. This strongly demonstrates the difference between #indiedev and AAA games.
#GameAwards Bon Niel qui gagne c'est mérité mais clairement il gagne aussi grâce à l'écriture donc Alan wake 2 qui gagne la narration là je suis chagriné... #thegameawards
#GameAwards Pony Island 2 et The Rise of the Golden idol ♥️ Franchement je suis content de voir que les jeux vidéos ont bien évolués.
Fini les enchaînement de simili call of et fifa #thegameawards
Why Hideo Kojima is so popular? (gearsrealm.com)
Hideo always has his 10 minutes on Game Awards, why? Why other game devs don't get that much recognition or screen time?
Larian Studios CEO posts speech he didn't get to say at game awards (twitter.com)
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