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In 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 became the first game to win Game of the Year awards on all of the five major game awards (The Game Awards, Golden Joystick, DICE Awards, Game Developers Choice Awards and BAF (fedia.io)

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Take a look at Wikipedia page of GOTY awards.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Linear" is not a word I would use to describe it, hah. I'm pretty sure you can go back to the start, make different choices, and play another 70+ hours of content you've never seen. Which is even more insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

that's the thing that set it apart. AAA games don't do this because it's a ton of extra work and most players won't even see it. this is only achievable by a creatively independent studio that respects the medium as an art form. if you think in pure bang-for-buck value, it's literally insane to even attempt to do what they did.