{"id":40694,"date":"2023-12-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/beyonds-best-playstation-game-of-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:00:00","slug":"beyonds-best-playstation-game-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/beyonds-best-playstation-game-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond&#8217;s Best PlayStation Game of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p>If you haven\u2019t heard, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a really, really good game. Just, so good. When the semi-regular cast of Beyond was asked to decide our best PlayStation game of 2023, several of us immediately blurted out Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, and no one else had any objections. So, there are plenty of write-ups on IGN and elsewhere about why it\u2019s so great, but I wanted to reflect a little on how it seemingly came out of nowhere. Make no mistake, this game is 100% Game of the Year material. It almost was IGN\u2019s overall pick, losing to Zelda by a handful of votes. That said, it seems like a miracle that such a dense, unabashedly technical entry in a 23-years-dormant franchise would have such widespread appeal.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\"><\/section>\n<\/p>\n<p>When the first two Baldur\u2019s Gate games were released, I was a prepubescent middle schooler who was way more interested in the slick, stylized JRPGs on PlayStation about guys with cool hair than I was in a text-heavy isometric PC game about subject matter that would be at home airbrushed on the side of a van in the late 70s. A few decades later, the third Baldur\u2019s Gate was revealed with a slick launch trailer as part of some Stadia presentation. A handful of Elder Nerds around the IGN office were ecstatic, but despite having dabbled in analog Dungeons &amp; Dragon, it didn\u2019t really move the needle for me.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"igns-best-of-2023-every-ign-award-winner\" data-value=\"igns-best-of-2023-every-ign-award-winner\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\"><\/section>\n<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line, a friend convinced me to check out Divinity: Original Sin 2 by saying you can play as a skeleton who talks to dogs and picks locks with his bony little skeleton fingers, and also you can also turn people into chickens. On one particularly seasonally depressed weekend I threw it on, and got completely sucked in. My wife went out and came home 10 hours later to find me in the same position, bleary eyed, still playing. She asked if I was okay, and I said, \u201cI am better than okay. I am a skeleton who talks to dogs and I can pick locks with my bony little fingers.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Upon connecting the dots that Larian Studios, the team behind the Divinity series, was also handling Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, my interest level in the game went from a faint hum in the background to a blaring siren, and it skyrocketed toward the top of my mental list of games in the distant future I should be keeping an eye out for. Of course, at this point, it was probably in Early Access, so if I\u2019d been really impatient I could\u2019ve just played it, but I decided to hold off until it was fully baked.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"quoteBox\">What I adore about Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is how unabashedly it\u2019s willing to be itself<\/section>\n<p>Way back in February of this year, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 got another trailer during a PlayStation State of Play. Along with a release date, there was a bunch of gameplay and the revelation that the cast would feature the dulcet tones of famed Hollywood actor J.K. Simmons in the role of General Ketheric Thorn. I love J.K. Simmons, and I\u2019ve been a fan since he played a neo-nazi gang leader and child psychologist on Law &amp; Order. That was uh, two different roles, mind you. Hearing he was joining Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 was cool, I guess, but it didn\u2019t exactly turn heads like Keanu Reeves popping up in Night City.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I had a hunch Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 was going to be massive, but I don\u2019t think that trailer got the attention of too many people who weren\u2019t already aware of the game \u2013 it just kind of looked like another fantasy RPG. I didn\u2019t know who General Ketheric Thorn was, and while it was nice to see some more of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 in action, it\u2019s hard to make turn-based gameplay sexy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The thing that eventually got more people talking, of course, was the revelation that you could have sex with a bear. (In the game, I mean. You can do it in real life, but please don\u2019t.) Anyway, technically, in the game it\u2019s not really a bear, but a wood elf who\u2019d used druid magic to transform into a bear. Arcade technicalities notwithstanding, for a lot of people, this was the \u201cyou can be a skeleton who talks to dogs\u201d moment. Not just because they were huge perverts, but because this was a glimpse of how much humor, depth, player freedom and weirdness was in store. But also: a lot of people are huge perverts, so probably that too.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"baldurs-gate-3-shadowheart-and-laezel-react-to-horny-ign-comments\" data-loop=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>What I adore about Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is how unabashedly it\u2019s willing to be itself. Unlike so many other digital RPGs, it doesn\u2019t try to hide its dice. Instead, it literally rattles them in your face. It is a crunchy, systems-heavy game with a fairly steep learning curve. It\u2019s also a very human game in the best ways possible; it\u2019s silly, weird, occasionally hard to figure out, and yes, sometimes it\u2019s pretty horny. But none of that is readily apparent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A lot of games feel like theme park attractions: they\u2019re loud and colorful and you can see from a distance what makes them exciting. Playing Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is more like a cross between getting lost in a good book and hanging out with a group of weird friends (so basically, playing D&amp;D in real life) but the appeal of those things is tricky to market. Far too often, creative projects get streamlined, dumbed down, or have all their rough edges sanded down to make them fit the mold of something with mainstream appeal, whatever the hell that means. The team at Larian Studios made an uncompromisingly nerdy game and clearly poured their hearts and souls into it, and I\u2019m so happy it paid off. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/best-playstation-game-of-2023\">Go to Source (IGN.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a really, really good game. Just, so good. When the semi-regular cast of Beyond was asked to decide our best PlayStation game of 2023, several of us immediately blurted out Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, and no one else had any objections. 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