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Baldurs Gate 3 — игра 2023 года по версии PC Gamer

Редакция PC Gamer подвела итоги уходящего 2023 года и выбрала компьютерные игры, оказавшие наибольшее влияние на индустрию в указанном временном периоде. Награду «Игру года» получила Baldur’s Gate 3, лучшим ремейком журналисты назвали System Shock, а из дополнений выбрали Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.

Forget alignment: Here's where Baldur's Gate 3's companions fall on the real-life political compass

Here's what you need to know about me: I'm not well. I'm a kind of thwarted commissar. In a righteous world I'd have been born in the late 1760s, just in time to become some sort of political adjutant in the French Revolution, weighing the loyalties of deposed members of the nobility before meeting my own sticky end at the hands of a Girondin plot...
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No, you don't need to play DnD to enjoy Baldur's Gate 3

Dungeons & Dragons is responsible for more videogames than you'd think. Obviously Baldur's Gate 3 springs to mind, but when you think deeper, almost any RPG that uses a baseline stat system evolved from those early tabletop roleplaying games. Many of the earliest text-based RPGs played on old CRT screens took inspiration from DnD or were even set in Faerûn-like worlds.

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Game of the Year 2023: Baldur's Gate 3

No surprises here. Baldur's Gate 3 is the best game of the year. For the rest of the awards, visit our Game of the Year 2023 list...
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We expected Baldur's Gate 3 to be good, but who knew it'd be such a huge hit?

When Baldur's Gate 3 bumped up its PC release date to avoid Starfield, it didn't occur to me that Starfield was the game that should be worried. Wes was the most prescient among us at PC Gamer, wondering at the time if Baldur's Gate 3 would be so good that Starfield would suffer from the comparison. We were all excited for it, but who knew that it would be such an enormous mainstream hit?

Not Larian.

"This was not in the books at all," Larian CEO Swen Vincke told us after Baldur's Gate 3 broke 800,000 Steam concurrents just days after launch. "This was way, way beyond what we expected. There's also no precedent for it, for our type of game to have that many people playing concurrently ... Everybody here is very happy."

I definitely didn't predict this kind of success for BG3. I knew I'd be into it, because I liked Divinity: Original Sin 2, and argued for it to win PC Gamer's GOTY award back in 2017. But if I'd mentioned Original Sin at Christmas dinner that year, my family would've been startled by my newfound piousness. Not so with Baldur's Gate 3: Family and friends who I've only ever heard talk about Fortnite or Zelda know about a CRPG that involves mind flayers. It's a new era.

Part of the surprise comes from Baldur's Gate 3 having been available in early access for so long. That shrunk the significance of the launch for me, because surely, I thought, if this were going to be a big phenomenon, someone would've told me...
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