Starfield voted most innovative gameplay by community in 2023 steam awards
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I'm still salty that BG3 won game of the year :(
Even if you like woke stuff the game story was crap and it won outstanding story-rich game?
The reason is women. They are over the moon about ambiguously gay Twilight vampire Astarion.
I think is more about 12 -15 year old kids that liked the sexual nature of the game. I assume they are willing to ignore all the gay stuff just to get it on with either Shadowheart or Karlach.
Add fun combat and some marvel humor and you got your game of the year.
The story is complete trash but most people do not care about the story and the game does provide dopamine hits at good intervals to keep you entertained. The fact that I played it despite hating it to the core is proof of that.
All this time I thought the name of the game was D&D Dating Simulator.
Are there any good games that came out this year that you would recommend for the award?
Sadly no, a mainstream game with huge popularity - nothing comes to mind. I understand why it won I just hate it won.
I also hate how people that never played a decent CRPG tell me how great BG3 is. Not even online but in real life as well.
When I mentioned is crap I was told it was game of the year.
There is little I can describe how much I hate this game, BG2 is one of my all time favorites and BG3 is complete trash - story, setting adaptation and even most characters are trash. It's also full of woke crap I'm getting the same as when the Disney SW was released and I felt crazy for being the only one that thought it sucked.
BG3 actually made me interested in the genre, I started right after with Pathfinder wrath of the righteous since I've had it sit in my library for a while. Was surprisingly good, even better than BG3 I feel. I'm in the middle of Planescape now and wanna check out Icewind Dale or BG1+2 next.
I was not impressed with Icewind Dale, I would recommend NWN2, especially the expansion Mask of the Betrayer - is the best high level campaign I know.
BG2 is great and you can easily play it even now but BG1 is a bit hard to get in to, still great and there is a lot of overlap with BG3. I played it just to get a refreshed for BG3 and you can see how they made it full of memberberries - the entire main plot was trying to be BG1 but larger somehow, but ended up being retardedly stupid because Laryan don't ever make a good endings on their stories. Even the entire doppelganger story line it was trying to do BG1 but left it completely unfinished.
From this perspective I would suggest playing BG1. At least you would get how dumb the BG3 story is.
I admit I did not play Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous because I did not like Kingmaker, the companions in that one were either boring, pathetic or annoying and the Kingmaker mechanic was just load screen after load screen after load screen.
I also recommend Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - great setting, just find some graphic / resolution mods. 4
And ofc Dragon Age Origins is a spiritual successor of BG1/2 games, I assume you've already played that one.
If I can add to the conversation, Robocop would be my choice. Great game on Steam that came out of fucking nowhere.
Last year? Yes, there were some fun ones: Lies of P, while super linear looked amazing, the world was cool and some of the mechanics were pretty cool too. That Bunker Amnesia game is fucking scary, actually does well as a survival horror game too. System shock remake was surprisingly good. While it's kinda a 1.5 Tears of the Kingdom is very, very fun especially with the building vehicles mechanic. The Phantom Liberty DLC for Cyberpunk actually made me finish the game for once, now actually playable. I liked Dave the Diver, very relaxing game even with a nice look.
Ready Or Not officially had it's 1.0 release.
I've started playing Ultimate General American Revolution and it's looking very promising.
Six Days In Fallujah is also playable as of this year.
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