#my personal goty

[venigni]

Me over here with my heart telling me Lies of P had a sliver of a chance to win something but then my head telling me

[maroonmused]

“spider-man 2 was robbed” “the game awards are rigged” and only yuri lowenthal was brave enough to raise the discussion of would peter parker and astarion explore each other’s bodies in their respective action adventure/rpg narratives

[elfcollector]

I’m a spark that won’t go out We can go much higher now! Gravity can’t hold us down — We’re only at the beginning of this one way dream!

sonic frontiers (2022) — sonic team.

[theashenphoenix]

⋘ (Some) Games Played in 2022 ⋙

[redgemwink]

i think frankie likes littlered

[malo-mart]

Wind Waker has aged so magnificently because they filled that game with so much personality and life it's hard not to enjoy yourself the entire time

[thequestioning-maiden]

So happy to see these two masterpieces officially nominated for the GOTY 2023:

And I love that Castlevania: Nocturne and The Last of Us were nominated for best adaptation 💞

[nathanialhowe]

RICKY........>TWO

[riasfallingpieces]

2023 in Games

[technicalgator]

Finally finished Pacific Drive…what a ride this game was…

[mukuharakazui]

i know next to nothing about bg3 and do not care enough to learn but wyll is my favorite simply because he's my best friends favorite, and also that he's also a warlock apparently which subverted my expectations? and he gets horns. he's just really cool in general i think. he should be the highlight of bg3 and not that vampire stick figure

for reallll his concept is easily one of the best out of the origin characters. his character, in a meta sense, was a victim of last-minute, not-well-thought-out writing choices, a lackluster story that didn't even center him, and a huge relative lack of content and compared to characters like astarion and shadowheart.

while he does unfortunately has the least amount of in-game companion content compared to the other 5 origin characters, he immediately stood out to me. my friend who bought me the game as a gift back in early access was dming a string of campaigns for us that ended with descent into avernus. so, right when i'd gotten out of a dnd campaign where my character had saved ulder ravengard, his estranged son who'd made a warlock pact a la thavius-kreeg-with-far-less-bloodshed-and-consequences-for-anyone-but-himself-until-now comes along. ok, i can vibe.

i will save you from me complaining about how he was done dirty to say that he's the character highlight of bg3 to me <3 he's so cute and his idle chats with other companions are so cute. if you let the wacky dnd wizard (whom they made into a bard for some reason?) replace your eye, he welcomes you to the one-eye club. if you play as him and spare karlach, you can ask her for horn care tips to lighten the mood while she's feeling guilty. one of my friends who knows nothing about bg3 told me "my friend just got the game you like" and when i assumed it was town of salem, they clarified for me. and i'm glad that people like people like both of you simply know baldur's gate 3 as "NO NO," the game "WITH THE HOT BLACK GUY AND THE RED WOMAN THAT DANCES" <3

[thanksvideogames]

5x5 grid of babygirls featured in media I consumed in 2023

[lady-arryn]

lies of p soundtrack was finally released to spotify today!!! i'm ready to listen to why 100 times on repeat tonight :)))))))))

[lizardsarecute]

[kunstpause]

"Larian is the new Bioware" is one of those cursed sentences bc Bioware has been on a declining slope ever since post-DAO when they started stripping more and more RPG elements out of their games to make them more mass appealing and in the same being sadly much more shallow. Yet somehow people still praise DAI which had visuals going for it at the time but no substance compared to older crpgs.

While Larian has always been experimental and willing to push what's possible when it comes to player choice for decades already. DosII was hands down better than any DA or ME title when it came to actual player impact on the story and the narrative consequences and the possibilities you had without getting railroaded.

Bioware was amazing at RPGs during BG1&2 and Kotor times, and after they were ok-ish at it, but the leading force because they were the only ones making them on a bigger scale.

Larian as a studio and their creative vision are too good to simply be labeled as "the new X" imo.

[maraschinotopped]

relating to those doodles i posted yesterday, i actually have more vitamin connection doodles that i made like. just before new years. here (inflicts onto you)