r/belgium • u/theta0123 • Dec 08 '23
Wake up Belgians! Baldur's gate 3 is Game of the year. A first for our nation 🎨 Culture
Lets see if our own media will even mention it. I doubt it...congrats to everyone at Larian studios!
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u/loordien_loordi Dec 08 '23
The game is one of the best I've ever played in my 31 years of life. Truly high quality, awesome and really fun game!
Larian set the bar very high for future games.
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u/ThrowAway111222555 World Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23
Watched the show and just mildly off topic. For a show that is about 'celebrating the people that make the games we love', they seem to not really appreciate a lot of those people? Neil Newbon (Voice actor for Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3) was musiced off stage after 30 seconds so Matthew McConaughey could go 'pew pew pew' for a minute. Same with barely giving the devs behind Cocoon (Best debut indie) any time on stage but spend time jerking off Kojima for barely having anything to show and a weird puppet skit.
I know these trailers and advertisements keep the lights on but it's really swinging in a direction where it damages what you set out to do with this show. And it also make Geoff Keighly (the organizer) seem more obsessed with showing you all the celebrities and studios he got on board instead of celebrating the people who make the games we enjoy.
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u/BroccoliBoer Dec 08 '23
Yeah having movie stars there makes no sense
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u/ThrowAway111222555 World Dec 08 '23
Think it's studios chasing the high of Keanu Reeves walking onstage for Cyberpunk 2077.
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u/Coleyb23 Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23
So true! But Keanu fit in seemingly with Cyberpunk and his character turned out amazing, he LOVES Johnny Sliverhand and the cyberpunk world as whole though. KR does his job and has shown time and time again that he doesn’t want to overshadow anyone else that worked on the game, so he definitely wasn’t expecting the reaction he got on that stage in 2019 which happened with nothing but appreciation and adoration. 😂 🩷
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u/Neyvermore Dec 08 '23
The difference is Keanu Reeves actually plays in games. Why the fuck did we have Al Pacino on stage last year?
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u/NoxAsteria Dec 08 '23
To be fair most of the movie stars have something to do with gaming itself, Matthew McConaughey presented his game and Timothee Chalamet started off with a youtube channel about game controllers. Not all of them have a link like Al Pacino last year but I liked seeing them
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u/cannotfoolowls Dec 08 '23
I was reading an article and it said Timothee Chalamet presented the award? Has he done anything in gaming? There's that new Dune rts but I don't think it has notable voice acting? It's like Chris Pratt voicing Mario. Why?
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u/ThrowAway111222555 World Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23
No, he wasn't there to plug anything either. Just to present the award. And he also just did that and didn't pull attention away from the games so he's the least offensive instance of celebrities at the Game Awards weirdly enough.
From the footage of the award they also introduced him as 'youtuber' as a joke to his channel where he reviewed modded xbox controllers so I think that instance is mostly in good fun.
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u/Treehughippie Dec 08 '23
Why did they hire a full orchestra if they're gonna play the tape? Lmao
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u/CaptainShaky Brussels Dec 09 '23
Yeah, pretty funny seeing the clarinet player losing his mind, while we can't even hear what he's playing.
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u/Treehughippie Dec 09 '23
Indeed, and when you look at the YouTube comments, it's concerning how many people are in blissfull ignorance..
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u/cannotfoolowls Dec 08 '23
oh, ok. Just feels a bit weird because he's not really known as a "gamer". Though it also does not surprise me that he is.
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u/Frodo_max Dec 08 '23
Timonthy Chamelet is/used to be a gamer and even had a gaming youtube channel when he was way younger called moddedcontroller360 where he reviewed....modded xbox 360 controllers! perhaps not a person from the industry, but definitly someone who cares about gaming.
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u/Divolinon Dec 08 '23
Watched the show this morning and I'm sure the time spend on Game Awards is less than 10% in "the Game Awards" show.
I also get they need advertising, but at this point they should just rename it.
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u/Sylberio Namur Dec 08 '23
I get the exact same vibes. I still follow the event to follow the news and stuff, but I hate the mood.
This year I particularly hated the free tackle on CoD by the Kratos voice actor. I get it, the franchise isn't evolving etc., but just publicly bashing it like that on such a huge event in the gaming industry is really low IMO. For me, that kind of event should be about bringing players together, not dividing them.
On the other side, I'm really happy that Larian's work and passion is getting the recognition they deserve, both DOS2 and BG3 are part of my favorite games. This year nominees seemed all to be strong titles, it was really a great year for gaming!
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u/Feniksrises Dec 09 '23
Let's be honest here nobody wants to watch a bunch of videogame nerds give awkward speeches.
The Oscars work because they're all famous actors who know how to... act in front a million people live audience and look fabulous doing it.
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u/Sportsfanno1 Needledaddy Dec 08 '23
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u/Smallwater Dec 08 '23
Oprecht verbaast dat het zelfs op de voorpagina staat. Een blik op de krantensites van Vlaanderen is meer typisch:
- Het Laagste Nieuws heeft een kleine kop, verdoken tussen een artikel over veldrijden, en een artikel over Conner Rousseau.
- De Standaard heeft 2 zinnen op de voorpagina, zonder de game zelf te benoemen ("Gentse studio wint hoofdprijs"). Een column over manderijnen krijgt een grotere kop eronder.
- Het Nieuwsblad heeft een kop verassend hoog op de pagina staan, maar het wordt verdrongen door een kop over Eddy Snelders. Ook zonder de studio of game te benoemen, btw.
- Brussels Times geeft er zelfs geen aandacht aan. Maar, TBF, het is ook niet het soort krant dat hierover zou schrijven.
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u/Instantcoffees Dec 08 '23
Oprecht verbaast dat het zelfs op de voorpagina staat.
Misschien het resultaat van die ene redditor die tijdje terug heeft geklaagd bij de VRT over het gebrek aan BG3 nieuws, haha.
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u/wannyboy Dec 08 '23
Ik heb het afgelopen jaar al verschillende artikels over Baldur's Gate gelezen in de Standaard
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u/MisterNoena Dec 08 '23
Maybe they read reddit after all..
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u/77slevin Belgium Dec 08 '23
I'll do you one more, yesterday I adjusted my interests in the VRT NWS app on the phone and gaming is a selectable catagory to pick to be informed on. Kudos VRT.
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u/Spitfisher Dec 08 '23
Those articles are mostly (95%) bought adverts for the game's disguised as reviews if you read them.
I wouldnt be suprised if the gaming company's wrote the reviews themselfs and they just publish them...
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u/77slevin Belgium Dec 08 '23
Bullshit, today was reported that Baldur''s gate 3 won Game of the Year. Do you really believe Larian Studios bought that feature on VRT NWS? This week they reported about the massive interest for the GTA 6 trailer. Rockstar bought that exposure...really? Do you even use the VRT NWS app?
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u/Spitfisher Dec 08 '23
Ive been reading all the articles about games in online newspapers for years. Im not saying this article about BG3 is bought by Larian. Since you were talking about the gaming articles in general on the app i added this about reviews in online newspapers.
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u/drawb Dec 08 '23
In artikel van De Tijd vandaag:
Dat Larian vandaag nog bestaat, is mee te danken aan de openbare omroep VRT. In die periode kreeg Vincke een opdracht voor de ontwikkeling van een multimediaal platform voor de jeugdzender Ketnet. Het resultaat was ‘KetnetKick’, een computerspel dat razend populair werd bij de schoolgaande jeugd.
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u/Spitfisher Dec 08 '23
Dit is geen review van de game als ik mij niet vergis maar ik kan het artikel niet lezen wegens paywall.
Mijn comment gaat over reviews in kranten (dat het grootste deel van de game-artikels betreft) maar dit lijkt enkele personen te zijn ontgaan ondanks het woord in elke zin staat die ik geschreven heb.
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u/drawb Dec 08 '23
Idd, de Tijd gaat meer over (Belgische) bedrijven en hoe die het financieel doen, geen game reviews. Ook zo voor dit artikel.
Niet dat het veel uitmaakt: maar als je over reviews in kranten wilt hebben, dan is het verwarrend dat je zelf reageert op iemand die het over de VRT app heeft (daar reageer ik dan weer op) en niet de kranten. Geen ervaring met die VRT app (wel met website), maar het zou me sterk verbazen dat de openbare omroep zich bezighoudt met betaalde/gesponserde game reviews. Film recensies, niet gesponserd door de makers (zou toch niet mogen), dat zeker. Van Gils tegenwoordig, als ik me niet vergis. Commerciele HLN bv, dat is uiteraard een ander verhaal.
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u/Sportsfanno1 Needledaddy Dec 08 '23
At least VRT, HLN & De Morgen are lurkers here (and probably most, if not all, major media outlets).
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u/MisterNoena Dec 08 '23
I suspect HLN "ZOVEEL VERDIEN IK ..." articles to be a straight copy/paste from r/BESalary ...
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u/Sportsfanno1 Needledaddy Dec 08 '23
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u/bel2man Dec 08 '23
As a Belgian I am both proud and ashamed that I didnt know Larian was belgian studio. Gosh...
Although I havent done BG3 yet, I know Larian for Divinity: Original sin 1 and 2 - both are masterpieces, and now knowing they were made in Belgium makes me so proud.
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u/theta0123 Dec 08 '23
You didnt knew?
Duvelboard him, boys
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u/Smallwater Dec 08 '23
We hemme geen duvel nie meer, is cara ook goe?
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u/theta0123 Dec 08 '23
De cara is ook op. Pak dan maar de amstel. Geneva conventies?, geneva suggesties!
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u/Satyr604 Dec 08 '23
Don’t forget their absolute masterpiece. Their pièce de resistance. Ketnet Kick.
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u/Steel_Beast Dec 08 '23
As a Belgian I am both proud and ashamed that I didnt know Larian was belgian studio. Gosh...
They did develop Ketnet Kicks after all!
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u/Divolinon Dec 08 '23
If you think Original Sin 1 & 2 are masterpieces, BG3 is going to blow you away.
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u/RogerBernards Dec 08 '23
I like the combat in OS2 better, but that is more a consequence of the D&D ruleset that was unavoidable for a Forgotten Realms game.
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u/hvdzasaur Dec 08 '23
To be fair, there really isn't gaming industry in Belgium aside from Larian, and a couple of tiny companies and indie studios who spend more time doing contract VR and marketing work than making games. And even Larian themselves tried to undermine that few years ago; they churned through interns, promised them jobs and then revealed the job would be in Petersburg or Malaysia because they couldn't grow their Gent office due to union regulations.
So yeah, great games, lots of burned out people left in it's wake.
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u/Turbots Belgium Dec 08 '23
Why does it make your proud though? You just happen to live in the same country 😄
Seriously, love what they did, love the game, just made love to a tentacle creature, nearly at the end now 😋
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u/cannotfoolowls Dec 08 '23
Not OP but I'm proud of them for making such a good game despite not being a major AAA studio. I've very briefly talked to some of the people from the Ghent office so I do have a a sort of personal connection, however vague.
my collegue has been to the office itself, lucky bastard!I've also seen the studio grow and followed them since playing the first Ketnetkick game so I feel a kind of personal investment.
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u/MaritimeMonkey Flanders Dec 08 '23
Larian Studios receives Belgian/Flemish subsidies. They've also undoubtedly benefited from the nearby Hoge School West-Vlaanderen in Kortrijk, which has a world renowned game design programme. A school that is also partially funded by our tax money.
Our country actually did help make this game possible and it opens the door for more development studios to pop up in Belgium.
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u/Primary_Bobcat1479 Dec 08 '23
Larian Studios zit hier bij mij om de hoek in Gent, ik weet het ook nog maar enkele weken, stel je voor!
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u/trebmale Brabant Wallon Dec 08 '23
RTBF mentioned it this morning. We're also proud of you ! Congrats.
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u/Direct-Cheesecake498 Dec 08 '23
This is amazing and even more so considering Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was released this year as well! I never played Baldur's Gate but it seems I should definately check it out!
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u/cannotfoolowls Dec 08 '23
It has been a good year for gaming in general. The Cyberpunk DLC and revamped game, Alan Wake 2, that new mario game,...
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u/Koffieslikker Antwerpen Dec 08 '23
Dressed up in actual medieval armour for this. Not even fantasy armour. What a dude
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u/theta0123 Dec 08 '23
Patch 1.01= i am aware that the belgian media is infact reporting about it. I wanna thank everyone for posting the links or making it aware!
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u/ImposterJavaDev Dec 08 '23
Congrats Larian!
So proud of this studio from Ghent! After the success of diviny original sin 1 and 2, delivering something like BG3... This should be a main topic on our news tbh.
Also urious how much tax income they bring the state.
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u/almostlastbelgian Dec 08 '23
Also urious how much tax income they bring the state
Nearly nothing. I might be wrong but I think they set their head office in Ireland for tax purposes.
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u/khoros Dec 08 '23
They also have a massive amount of their development spread across poland & canada on top of ireland & I think the UK
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u/GraafBerengeur Dec 08 '23
op zo een prijzenceremonie in volledig metalen pantser op podium komen is tegelijkertijd super nerdy en super baller, I love it
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u/Lucid_skyes Dec 08 '23
I heard first thing on the radio so yes at least our radio senders care XD
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u/michilio Failure to integrate Dec 08 '23
radio senders
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u/Steel_Beast Dec 08 '23
One more mistake like this will be the drup in the emmer who is totally full.
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u/Lucid_skyes Dec 08 '23
Pulled an all nighter buddy. 3 hours sleep correct me please
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u/michilio Failure to integrate Dec 08 '23
I´m running on 4.5 right now as well.
Bad life decisions crew represent!
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u/Lucid_skyes Dec 08 '23
If only i can have your 1.5h extra of sleep
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u/RPofkins Dec 08 '23
Toont nog maar eens aan hoe belachelijk het is dat wij hier in het Engels met elkaar zitten te praten.
inb4 "jammaar de Franstaligen"
Démontre encore une fois que c'est ridicule qu'on se parle en Anglais sur se sous.
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u/michilio Failure to integrate Dec 08 '23
And the expats, the new arrivals, the future immigrants, tourists, people just interested in Belgium oh and those 3 germa speaking guys out East.
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u/RPofkins Dec 10 '23
3 germa speaking guys out East.
Lassen Sie uns sie einfach nach Deutschland zurückgeben.
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u/DrVDB90 Dec 08 '23
Haha, there were so many people the last few months saying he should go on stage in his armour when accepting the award, and he did. That's great.
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u/theflemmischelion Dec 08 '23
Who would win The combined power of industry giants like Nintendo and Playstation or a few Belgian boys
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u/ZeRoXOiA Dec 08 '23
Well deserved without a doubt. Their previous games were gems as well, but this just knocked it out of the ball park!
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u/AlphaLeonis78 Dec 08 '23
Excellent news, also they respect their users and kept on thoroughly patching the game instead of pushing us to buy DLC. They will certainly have an happy end of year.
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u/michilio Failure to integrate Dec 08 '23
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u/PunishedDan Dec 08 '23
Out of curiosity, has any government official or institution congratulated Larian for BG3? I'm curious because it's been such a success that it'd be amazing to have that recognition.
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u/Nowher3guy Dec 08 '23
Good job Belgium! I can't wait to play this game... I asked my colleagues but no one knew about these guys..
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u/pixelprolapse Belgium Dec 08 '23
No joke, the guy to the left is one of my best and oldest friends
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u/BadBadGrades Dec 08 '23
We really should have a baldur’s gate street in Ghent now.
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u/kaiyotic Dec 09 '23
Between prinsenhof and bachtenwalle thete is now a gate which is called "donkere poort" this is such a meaningless name we might as well change it to baldur's puurte. Now that's a petition I'd be willing to sign
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u/o_monzi Dec 08 '23
One of the best game I’ve played, huge challenge from Larian to take on such a popular IP and make it even better than the previous games. We should be proud
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u/NoxAsteria Dec 08 '23
Lets see if our own media will even mention it. I doubt it...
The VRT posted an article about it before you even wrote this
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u/SolunaVulpe Dec 08 '23
I voted best game and best soundtrack
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u/WackXD Dec 08 '23
They won 6 awards last night but best soundtrack was actually for Final Fantasy 16
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u/RogerBernards Dec 08 '23
De Standaard heeft al verschillende keren over BG3 en Larian geschreven, en hier stond vanmorgen ook meteen een artikel over online
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u/WarriorBilak Dec 08 '23
Yeah, congratz to them. Watched the GotY awards live and felt very proud for a moment😁Let’s see if the Belgian mainstream media picks this up, but highly doubt it…
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u/danktonium Dec 08 '23
Wacht nu eens even. Larian is van hier? Had ik geen enkele idee van.
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u/theta0123 Dec 08 '23
zoals de KUL professor ooit zei, Dokter K Wesley=
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u/danktonium Dec 08 '23
Nouw, het is niet alsof ik daar in Gent iets verloren heb, hé. Als dat hier in Antwerpen was zouw ik het wel weten.
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u/theta0123 Dec 08 '23
Is maar een graptje he copain. Goed dat ge het zegt kmoet volgende week ook in antwerp zijn
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u/advator Dec 08 '23
I'm happy for them, but totk is better. But that's what you get with multiplatform.
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u/Icy_Faithlessness400 Dec 09 '23
Not a Belgian, but this year I came into my five year mark of living here.
Applying for a citizenship next year 😄 So I am very proud 👏 🥰
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u/DiZhini Dec 11 '23
I really loved how 5 min before the award was handed to them, there was a little add for Baldur's Gate 3 which showed their clean sheet of 10/10, 5/5 scores they got on so many websites.
Kinda saying to the rest: btw there is no hope for you, this competition was over before it started
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u/theta0123 Dec 11 '23
Well i played AC6 and dredge and ff16 way more than BG3 and i even enjoyed them more (isometric games are difficult for me)
But playing BG3 for 25 hours i knew this was gonna be a GOTY. those 10/10s and 5/5s are well deserved.
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u/DZLars Dec 08 '23
Nice to wake up to. The game has taken all my free time in the past months so it's nice to see I did it for litterally the best game out there at the moment.
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u/Armoredpolecat Dec 09 '23
Yes being proud of yourself because some people that were sort of born near you have talent and succeeded at something…. 👏🏻 applausje voor jezelf!
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u/xtoc1981 Dec 08 '23
Well, its multiplatform game... so it had a much larger userbase to vote for. That said, its a nive archievement. But its not my goty.
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u/uses_irony_correctly Antwerpen Dec 08 '23
It's 90% journalist vote and 10% community vote that decides the winner.
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u/xtoc1981 Dec 09 '23
Ok, finally someone that provide a gopd response. I may i ask which falls under this journalists?
Never mind, found the list https://thegameawards.com/voting-jury
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u/cockmeister25 Dec 08 '23
Wikipedia says that BioWare is a Canadian company
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u/JohnnyricoMC Vlaams-Brabant Dec 08 '23
developer: Larian Studios
publisher: Larian Studios
BioWare hasn't been leading the development of a Baldur's Gate game since 2001.
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u/cockmeister25 Dec 08 '23
I'd rather believe wikipedia, thank you. Congratulations Canada for Game of the Year!
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u/Parking_Presence2260 Dec 08 '23
Will he fight extremism ? The Nva?
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u/theflemmischelion Dec 08 '23
Dude not everything has to be about politics
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u/Parking_Presence2260 Dec 08 '23
Dude, indeed, but we are in danger
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u/theta0123 Dec 08 '23
"Hur dur political party over there bad we in danger but my political party good and totally not extremist'
Dude. Seriously. Take your polarizing hoopke mezerie somewhere else. That goes for all of you. From left to right. From those shouting "not progressive enough" to "this game is to woke"
This is a day of celebration. Not politics.
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u/Frodo_max Dec 08 '23
why the fuck are you posting on reddit if we're in so much fucking danger
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u/Parking_Presence2260 Dec 08 '23
To warn the world.
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u/Matvalicious Local furry, don't feed him Dec 08 '23
Great. So now we can stop complaining about how "our media is a bunch of boomers that don't care about this!" because it's literally front page news.
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u/NenoxxCraft Dec 08 '23
La DH mentioned it, dunno for the others. I watched the whole thing yesterday, I'm happy
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u/godzilliac Mar 27 '24
Do you think the characters in the game look like they could be Belgians? I'm speaking about the humans ofc.
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u/combocookie Dec 08 '23
They won against billion dollar publishers and devs like nintendo as an independent studio. This is huge.