300+ Baldur's Gate 3 Devs And More Game Award Winners Share Their Reactions

14.12.2023 - 23:59 / gamespot.com

Developers that worked on 2023's best games share what it means to them to win at The Game Awards.

By Tamoor Hussain on

The Game Awards is an annual event where the exceptional hard work and dedication of hundreds of developers are ostensibly recognized on the grandest stage that the video game industry has. But it also serves as the place where the future of the industry is teased, with trailers showcasing what's in store for the next few months and years. To make it all happen, there are advertisements played between trailers and awards, while mainstream celebrities appear to try and bring in eyes from beyond our corner of the entertainment landscape.

The Game Awards is an exciting event that has also been criticized for the balance it strikes between all those objectives and pieces of the show. 2023's event, in particular, has drawn criticism for the lack of time that developers were given to talk when accepting awards on stage, as well as the fact that many developers, games, and teams' achievements were rapidly cycled through as interstitial moments. Meanwhile, celebrity guests had extended periods of time to meander their way through incidental and unimportant chatter at their leisure.

The Game Awards is an event that takes place at a scale that no other yearly gaming awards show can match. In many ways, it's also the first of its kind--an Oscars-inspired ceremony in the gaming space. Mistakes are going to happen. The best we can hope for is that those who organize it see the responses and address them accordingly, as it has done in the past.

Nevertheless, 2023's show was a year in which developers were slighted and many didn't get to have their time in the spotlight. As a way to rectify this, however, GameSpot decided to reach out to every winner at The Game Awards and give them an opportunity to say their piece. Our friends at IGN have also done this, and although many of the responses are the same, we think it's still important to publish them as a show of support to those that make the games we love, including several hundred Baldur's Gate 3 developers at Larian who have shared their thoughts.

When contacting these teams, we encouraged them to seek out contributions from anyone and everyone that worked on the game and may have something they want to say. Below you'll find the responses we received.

Thank you so much. I've been outspoken throughout development that Sea of Stars is a game that's incredibly personal to me. It would be hard to put into words how much it means that the team allowed me to share this vision and then poured themselves into it to such an extent. That is something I will never forget. We are all so lucky to do what we love, and I try to keep that reminder close every day