Baldur’s Gate 3 still dominates the video game industry: it just won one of the most prestigious awards ever, it really is the GOTY!

Game News Baldur’s Gate 3 still dominates the video game industry: it just won one of the most prestigious awards ever, it really is the GOTY!

Another prize on the shelf

While Baldur’s Gate III has already won more than thirty awards (from Game of the Year 2023 to the Pegasus Award for Best Foreign Title).Larian’s software is once again in the spotlight. In fact, one might think that the role-playing game would gradually disappear from the conversation more than a year after its release, but that is far from the case! In fact, he was just awarded the Hugo Prize

which celebrates the best science fiction and fantasy works of the past year. An award that, until the Covid period, only honored novels and short stories. A category for video games was then set up, but this was not intended to become a habit. But that is without taking Baldur’s Gate 3 into account.

“The Hugo nominations and awards have forever determined my reading list, so it is a great honor to be here“, said Larian CEO Swen Vincke during his acceptance speech.Writing video games is often underestimated. It is very, very, very hard work. For Baldur’s Gate 3, we had to create over 174 hours of cutscenes to be able to respect the players’ choices and to make sure that each player has an emotional story that reflects their decisions and actions“, he explains. “It takes a lot of time and requires a very large team, as well as a lot of stamina and talent. That’s why I’m very happy for the whole team at home and I’m very grateful to the fans

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An end that must be earned

When Vincke says he wants to ensure that Baldur’s Gate III must respond as well as possible to the players’ decisionsit’s anything but a joke! In fact, and to respect potential plot branches, the studio recently revealed that One of the rarest endings in the game was only unlocked by 34 players

(for a game that has sold over 10 million copies). This concerns the character of Lae’zel, the Githyanki warrior who, when played as the main character, is denied ascension by Vlaakith, the Lich-Queen of the Githyanki. A rejection that is hard to bear and that pushes the quarrelsome woman to end her life…

A rarity that can be easily explained the lack of popularity of the character Lae’zelin addition to the particularly counterintuitive path you have to take to achieve said result. You must therefore follow Vlaakith’s plan for most of the game and then decide at the last moment tospare the figure of Orpheus. An action that prevents you from advancing and leads to the tragic end of the character. There are so many parameters that make it difficult to reach this conclusion, in addition to the fact that the latter is extremely rarely mentioned in the wiki and forums of the title.