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Baldur's Gate 3 continues its unbreakable winning streak to become the first-ever game to grab gold at all five major Game of the Year awards.

Developer Larian Studios walked away from last night's BAFTA Games Awards with another 'Best Game' trophy for its smash hit RPG, alongside wins for best music, narrative, supporting performance, and player's choice. That's an admirable bundle of trophies in isolation, but they also mark a new record.

Baldur's Gate 3 has now won the Game of the Year trophy - or equivalent - at the Golden Joysticks, BAFTAs, Game Developers Choice, DICE, and The Game Awards - the first game to sweep the biggest award at all five shows since the TGA's inception a decade ago.

Other heavy hitters have gotten close to a spotless streak in previous years. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would have held that record in 2017 if the BAFTAs hadn't gone with the excellent family tragedy What Remains of Edith Finch. God of War similarly won four major GOTYs before the Golden Joysticks chose to honor (the admittedly more impactful) Fortnite in 2018. And Elden Ring almost claimed the record in 2022, but the BAFTAs instead gave the award to deserving indie roguelike Vampire Survivors.

 

[G-DannY]

wow so unexpected

 

[XXL]

Well deserved.

It's one of the best games ever made, especially when contrasted against the slop people are generally consuming in gaming.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

The topic title and what says on that tweet aren't the same.

 

[Three]

The topic title and what says on that tweet aren't the same.

Yeah should have had a 'major' or something but still not too far off.

 

[LordCBH]

Golden Joysticks chose to honor (the admittedly more impactful) Fortnite in 2018

An actual travesty.

 

[German Hops]

Was there nothing else released in 2023?

 

[Madflavor]

One sec. I think I have something deep within the pockets of my PC. I know I left it somewhere, it might be in my - oh wait here it is found it:

Spoiler

 

[XXL]

Was there nothing else released in 2023?

Nothing that even comes close to BG3.

It's easily the GOTG so far.

 

[AV]

It all just comes down to the BAFTAs being all over the place, really.

Still the best game in 18 years.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Was there nothing else released in 2023?

 

[SlimySnake]

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would have held that record in 2017 if the BAFTAs hadn't gone with the excellent family tragedy What Remains of Edith Finch.

God of War similarly won four major GOTYs before the Golden Joysticks chose to honor (the admittedly more impactful) Fortnite in 2018.

And Elden Ring almost claimed the record in 2022, but the BAFTAs instead gave the award to deserving indie roguelike Vampire Survivors.

 

[touchfuzzy]

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Other heavy hitters have gotten close to a spotless streak in previous years. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would have held that record in 2017 if the BAFTAs hadn't gone with the excellent family tragedy What Remains of Edith Finch. God of War similarly won four major GOTYs before the Golden Joysticks chose to honor (the admittedly more impactful) Fortnite in 2018. And Elden Ring almost claimed the record in 2022, but the BAFTAs instead gave the award to deserving indie roguelike Vampire Survivors.

I think we can see the problem of why this hasn't happened before. Edgy BAFTA voters.

 

[Three]

An actual travesty.

The weird thing was that Fortnite didn't even release in 2018, it was 2017.

 

[fatmarco]

To be fair, What Remains of Edith Finch is a great game.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I can't even fathom that a non gaas game has been so successful. How can this be!?

 

[Team Andromeda]

This for a boring game?

 

[Madflavor]

And Elden Ring almost claimed the record in 2022, but the BAFTAs instead gave the award to deserving indie roguelike Vampire Survivors.

Oh so a complete imbecile wrote this article then. Nobody is talking about Vampire Survivors in 2024. Nobody was talking about it in 2023 either. It's been two years since Elden Ring and people still talk about it. Right now in the middle of the day on Friday, Vampire Survivors has 31 viewers on Twitch, and Elden Ring has 12k. People are hyped up for Shadows of the Erdtree. The BAFTA were retards for giving the award to VS in 2022.

 

[Flabagast]

Good

When I think that the purple place gave it to the Zelda DLC lmao