Tears Of The Kingdom, Mario Wonder & Dave The Diver Compete For Top Prize At BAFTAs

Tears of the Kingdom is the game I used to dream of as a kid. Definitely the best game of 2023, and top 5 of all time.

Go Baldur’s Gate or any other game rather than TotK

Baldurs Gate is dog water compared to Tears of the Kingdom.
thats just my opinion tho.

I'm hoping Zelda takes it home, I just don't get the hype over Baldurs Gate 3 as it was missing it's ending at launch, failed to run on Xbox and even when it did it had save issues, the game in general had so many problems (hundreds) that it needed a huge patch (30GB) to fix them. If that happened with a Nintendo/Sony first party game it would be ridiculed online.

Tears of the Kingdom is dogwater compared to BG3. That's just my opinion, though

Dave the Diver doesn’t surprise me, it’s an absolute gem of a game and I can’t put it down at the minute.

The duality of man

Still working my way through Tears of the Kingdom and trying to savor it as much as I can. I've been gaming for over three decades and it has been so long since a game made me smile this much. Maybe it's not everyone's favorite, but it really feels like it was custom tailored for a particular sort of gamer. Glad it is getting recognized for the music too. Maybe people are finally realizing the lolwhatmusic take from Breath of the Wild was horrendously off the mark.

I really like TotK even though I haven't progressed very much!

Easily Tears Of The Kingdom. Still the most fun open world to traverse through.

I am really excited for the next Zelda game, because I feel they are starting to go in the right direction again, making it feel more like a Zelda game.

idk they're still doing Zelda dirty by not having real temples. The sky islands, undergound and caves weren't enough to rejuvenate the sense of exploration for very long after BotW and there wasn't enough to do with your inventions besides waste time messing around. The race tracks should have been way cooler, there should have been more shrine-like puzzles in the overworld, etc. Not to sound too picky, I just had so many little issues that in the end greatly diminished my overall opinion of the game as far a piece of the Zelda canon goes. It was just a fun time waster for me.

That's strange considering Baldurs gate is boring and uninteresting. Tears all the way

Gollum and Kong skull island are the only games that deserve a GOTY award. I can't believe they aren't even mentioned in the article!

@CaleBoi25
Dog water is Baldur's gate compared to my opinion. That's just tears of the kingdom tho.

Baldur's water is Zelda gate compared to my tears. That's just my kingdom opinion tho.

Zelda's opinion is compared to my Baldur's gate. That's just my dog water tears tho.

People fighting over BG3 and TOTK.

Me, who thinks SMB Wonder is better than both:
🙃

I prefer a faithful, yet innovative entry in a well established series over a rehash of an overrated, unfaithful entry and a literal DnD campaign.

@Rhaoulos you. . .you're joking, right?

DLC versus the best RPG in over a decade? Lol not really a contender, BG wins. Haven't played Dave to judge but kind of surprised to even see it along side such titles.

Dog Kingdom is opinion baldur's compared to Water of the Gate.
that's just my tears tho.

@N0SEGaming Honestly, and this is a very hot take - I felt the same. You simply cannot beat the mechanics of Dog Kingdom (just my tearpinion).

@Digitamamon64 🤣 wooooooow

So is there a retro game awards show for titles that have withstood the test of time called the LAFTAs? That stands for Long AF Time Ago. I nominate Moon Patrol.

Suffice to say if I recall it's definitely going to be baldur's gate 3 if only because the baftas prioritize storytelling and such over gameplay.

@edgedino What, like Vampire Survivors? Yeah, you really hit the nail on the head there. Did Tolstoy write that one?

(Sorry, couldn’t resist the cheap shot)

The only important thing to me is if I enjoy a game.

All these awards mean naff all to me, won't make me like or not like any of these game any more than I already do if they win or don't win.

Best game of the year is Resident Evil 4 (original) anyway. It is the best game of every year.

@bobby_steurer Dog Kingdom also had immense replayability and the 100% requirements make it a challenge for completionists like me. Again, just my tears.

@Krull no worries I forgot that games won last year.

I can’t see past TotK for a specific ‘best design’ award. The amount of coding, testing, and general skill, hours and creative insight, needed to make all of those abilities co-exist successfully is impressive.

@batmanbud2 I'd say yes. Never played those games and they were ubiquitously destroyed by critics and players

Never thought I'd throw a Baldur's Gate game under the bus, but def pulling for TotK here. It's exactly what I thought BotW was gonna be. Enjoyed Breath well enough but it always felt "incomplete" to me. The video game equivalent of being alone in a crowded room; something was just missing. Tears fills all those gaps in as the missing cogs and gets the machine running even better than expectations.