How exactly did a game about rolling a die win GOTY?

[Alvin Artichoke]

Would love for someone to explain how that is even possible. What does this movie with the occasional dice roll bring to the table? Seems like an industry plant in my honest opinion.

[Pigsnortcore DSP style]

they rolled 20

[Rhythmless Ninja]

Originally posted by Sammy Feckles:

Seems like an industry plant in my honest opinion.

Plants provide oxygen that we need so by the square root of pi carried by seven that means this game is good for the world therefore it was the only clear winner.

[jonnin]

while its a good game, it won GOTY because the gaming industry has faceplanted for the last decade or so. Its like asking how the USA can consistently find the two least qualified, biggest morons in the country every 4 years and pit them against each other in a 'who is worse' face off. Ill even give this game an A+, but looking back at previous winners, its still a loss for the gaming community that it has come to this. There were simply not a lot of contenders -- everything out there, and to an extent this one too, all felt like the bare minimum to be highly profitable. ITs been said, but the recycle-foo of BG3 from DOS2 is strong enough that had there been any real competition, it may have lost out.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Easy answer:
A couple of years ago all these people got together to answer one simple question:
"How can we really annoy this Sammy Feckles guy?"
And their answer was:
"Okay, we'll spend the next 6 Years to create a game with tons of storywriting, mocap, voice actors, based on the biggest TTRPG Franchise, that involves dice and the player having to make choices etc, and then we'll give it the GOTY. That will really annoy the crap out of him."

And as we can all see, they were right.
I was there, I didn't want to believe them, that this plan would succeed, but here we are...though I still think this plan was a little over the top...but meh, who cares...

[Recjawjind]

Sad midfield didn't win anything? Oh how sad, what a colossal tragedy :(

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by Sammy Feckles:

Would love for someone to explain how that is even possible. What does this movie with the occasional dice roll bring to the table? Seems like an industry plant in my honest opinion.

All computer games have dice rolls under the hood. Sometimes thousands of dice rolls per second.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by jonnin:

while its a good game, it won GOTY because the gaming industry has faceplanted for the last decade or so. Its like asking how the USA can consistently find the two least qualified, biggest morons in the country every 4 years and pit them against each other in a 'who is worse' face off. Ill even give this game an A+, but looking back at previous winners, its still a loss for the gaming community that it has come to this. There were simply not a lot of contenders -- everything out there, and to an extent this one too, all felt like the bare minimum to be highly profitable. ITs been said, but the recycle-foo of BG3 from DOS2 is strong enough that had there been any real competition, it may have lost out.

Basically they haven't fallen victim to capitalism yet. Any company which 'goes public' starts becoming more risk adverse from a content perspective (which means just rereleasing the same game over and over again with minor tweaks) and becoming more demanding for profits (which means releasing whatever buggy heap of ♥♥♥♥ you have at the drop dead date.)

It's the circle of life.

Private dev house releases good games.
Private dev house goes public or is bought out by a publicly owned publisher.
Publicly owned dev house starts rereleasing bland buggy ♥♥♥♥ instead of games.
Owner sacks all the staff and firesales the IP.

CDPR just barely avoided calamity this time, but their next game will 100% be a bland buggy piece of ♥♥♥♥.
Blizzard (or rather Activision Blizzard) speaks for itself.
Ubisoft has somehow gotten away with reskinning the same core gameplay loop about 5 times in a row (in multiple franchises).

It's only in your indies that you're seeing mechanical innovation, new IP (although not in this case) and actually caring about the quality of the game you release (although not in the case of act 3).

[Maraxus]

Once upon a time some dudes decided to roll dice to play fantasy games... many years later an armor clad dude picks up the GOTY trophy. And everyone lived happily ever after.

[Marquoz]

Originally posted by Sammy Feckles:

Would love for someone to explain how that is even possible. What does this movie with the occasional dice roll bring to the table?

The best game of the year, and I say that as someone who's been computer gaming since the 1970s. Gold Box games? Played them all. Wizardry 1 - 8? Yup. Every Ultima? Of course. The Bard's Tale series and all of Might and Magic? Indeed. BG1 and 2? Loved them. Every RPG from Bioware, Bethesda, Interplay, and so on? Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

BG3 is great.

[Agent Chieftain]

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Sad midfield didn't win anything? Oh how sad, what a colossal tragedy :(

There should be a best minigame award, and Starfield should win it for ship building.

11/10, would build my giant space home again (and I probably will).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048541911

[Recjawjind]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Sad midfield didn't win anything? Oh how sad, what a colossal tragedy :(

There should be a best minigame award, and Starfield should win it for ship building.

11/10, would build my giant space home again (and I probably will).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048541911

I'm happy you found your fun :>

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Sad midfield didn't win anything? Oh how sad, what a colossal tragedy :(

There should be a best minigame award, and Starfield should win it for ship building.

11/10, would build my giant space home again (and I probably will).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048541911

Shipbuilding has one major problem, though....I can't design/decorate the interior...or even just choose where doors and ladders are...:P
Though I have no doubt the modding community will fix both those flaws, if they haven't already...^^

[amathy]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Sad midfield didn't win anything? Oh how sad, what a colossal tragedy :(

There should be a best minigame award, and Starfield should win it for ship building.

11/10, would build my giant space home again (and I probably will).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048541911

kingdom hearts ship building was just about as in-depth and that came out over 20 years ago

[Sugarwolf]

You know any game with "chance" mechanics is just a die roll right? This game just lets you see the dice.

[Agent Chieftain]

Originally posted by Powerword: Shill:

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

There should be a best minigame award, and Starfield should win it for ship building.

11/10, would build my giant space home again (and I probably will).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048541911

Shipbuilding has one major problem, though....I can't design/decorate the interior...or even just choose where doors and ladders are...:P
Though I have no doubt the modding community will fix both those flaws, if they haven't already...^^

Ah, but that's not completely true. Different pieces have different priorities for where the do and don't like to put doorway and ladder connections. Through dozens of hours of trial and error, I discovered the pieces that would do the things I wanted them to do; connect in the ways I wanted them to connect.

The interior of my ship is an absolute masterpiece in this regard. There is not a single ladder or doorway that isn't exactly where I wanted it to be. The layout is flawless.