Larian Studios, the developer of Baldur’s Gate 3, demands that you leave your preconceptions about video games behind and instead spend your time in a painstakingly well-crafted world as if you really live there. This is how a “role-playing game” should work.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, if you try to loot the body of a fallen soldier while his friends are standing nearby, they will rightly become very upset with you and throw you in jail. In most video games, if you see a dead body, you walk up to it and grab whatever loot you can, because that’s how video games work. Art is subjective- but if it's not number 1 using whatever criteria you decide on, it certainly was one of the major gaming stories of the year. That's right! BG3 placed at number one! If you had told me going into the year that not only would BG3 beat out Diablo 4, but that it would place at, or near, #1 for the year on any list. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I think that the article is worth reading, but if you don't bother clicking through, here are the top 10-Ģ. Normally, this wouldn't be of too much interest here.
