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Normally the steam awards winners are real stinkers, but the voters had shockingly good taste this year.

    • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      The win was not without controversy, with fans split on whether Baldur’s Gate 3 really deserved the accolade, with many saying that No Man’s Sky did far more in 2025. While players still love Baldur’s Gate 3, they point out that Hello Games did more to support its game in 2025.

      “I hate when people vote for things based on how much they like them rather than how much they deserve them,” one user writes on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit. “BG3 is a great game, sure, but it received one final major update this (last) year. No Man’s Sky received four and it’s still going.”

      https://www.gamesradar.com/games/baldur-s-gate/baldurs-gate-3-wins-steams-labor-of-love-award-following-2-years-of-updates-and-community-support-pretty-f-ing-good-way-to-start-2026/

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        3 days ago

        No Man’s Sky has added thousands of generic resource gathering tasks by now!

        I have tried playing it maybe half a dozen times and come to the same conclusion each time: “This is it?”

        It’s a great game for wasting your time in the most banal tasks possible, but not much more.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          God I’ve tried three times to enjoy no man’s sky and I just can’t. It’s just endless grinding, no real reward for it, and no way to automate any of the tasks so you can move onto more fun things

      • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        3 days ago

        How tf does bg3 have Limited replayability? Im on my 9th run! Wtf kind of take is this? Put the meds down pal.

            • warm@kbin.earth
              5·
              3 days ago

              There’s differences in playthroughs, if you choose, but it is linear. The game ultimately railroads you to the same endings.

              • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago
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                Goes on to enslave the world is apparently the same thing as killing an eldritch being with an army of friends you amass and being a hero apparently.

          • arudesalad@piefed.caEnglish
            12·
            3 days ago

            It’s linear in the same way a sony/ubisoft open world is where there is a single main path but there is a massive quanitity of side content as well. The main difference between bg3 and AAA open worlds is that the side content is better than the average ubisoft side content and the main path can take different routes in different playthroughs.