Game of the Year 2023

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SvennoJ said:

BG3 surprised me as well, by how bad it is compared to Baldur's gate 1 and 2. I played for 20 hours and can't find the will to continue anymore. It surprises me how popular it is. But it does have the recency bias, Spider-man is just a sequel, Starfield disappointed, 2D Mario is for kids (not my opinion) and TotK launched ages ago. It is a breath of fresh air compared to the standard offerings. However I already found that fresh air with PSVR2, maybe that's why BG3 feels so disappointing.

Baldur's gate is in my top 50, BG3 has no chance of coming near my top 50. I played on PS5 though, maybe it plays much better on PC. Still the campaign and map are a badly paced mess and the party limit of 4 sucks.

Anyway I still consider TotK the best game of 2023, even though it's slightly behind BotW for me.

With me it was kind of the opposite: I couldn't stand playing the old D&D PC games (BG, NWN, Planescape) for one hour but sank 75 in BG3.

But yeah, the four-character limit sucks but you can remove it with a mod, which I always do for Larian Studios games. Just remember to kick up the difficulty a notch in that case.