Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Wins Big at DICE Awards, But Baldur's Gate 3 Takes Game of the Year

Obviously BG3 is better than that quickly made, painfully unfunny, terribly written, paper mache feeling, hand holding Spiderman

@Specky
At last a man of culture!

I remember in the comment section of The Game Awards some people being snobbish and writing that the DICE awards are where the professionals of the industry vote and that's what counts.
I wonder what they have to say now considering 80% of the winners are the same. I guess the professionals and us common folk are not so different after all.

Animation and Original Music should have been FFXVI, best character should've been Astarion, not Miles Morales, lol.

@Specky How dare you question PushSquare's game of the year?

@Max_the_German

The one which got 8/10 for PushSquare?

@Max_the_German
Hey I'm the biggest Spidey fan, but these games are nowhere near Arkham quality.
Same with DBZ games, I'm just disappointed they never meet their potential and never have any substance.
It's way better than all the crap Activision gave us after Spiderman 2 PS2 tho, but it's a speck of dust on BG3.
Very telling how Insomniac devs were crying their eyes out and criticising BG3 for... being too good... "just like Rockstar games"...

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@Specky
>Very telling how Insomniac devs were crying their eyes out and criticising BG3 for... being too good... "just like Rockstar games"...

Huh, got any more info on this?

Zelda TOTK should have got best technical achievement for even running on the switch. Spider-man 2 was pretty buggy and less polished than the first.

I still need to play most of the 2024 GOTY nominees.

Still yet to play it, but I am surprised that Spider-Man 2 edged out Tears of the Kingdom for Outstanding Technical Achievement. I’m not a programmer, but getting ToK to do what it does running basically on a potato is mind blowing, according to what I’ve been told. Still, Insomniac does great work and I have really loved how they have the different RT performance modes in their games to give more technical options.

The other awards SM2 won sound like they’re certainly reasonable, despite the revisionist phenomenon that occurs a few months later after the shine has worn off.

BG3 more than deserved the GOTY, what an amazing game. I haven't been this obsessed with a game for years now.

HiFi Rush should have gotten best Audio design in my opinion.

And Tears of the Kingdom should have won best technical achievement:
The physics
Destructible grass and trees
The fact it has 3 different layers of a gigantic world with no loading screens (only loading screens are fast travel and shrines).
The crazy weapon customization and building mechanics that are available.

All on a console with a fraction of the power of PCs and current-gen consoles.

Spider-Man 2 was a good game but it was barely in my top ten last year. I have to respectfully disagree with so many of those awards that it won. Spider-Man 2 having better characters than BG3? Not a chance. Spider-Man 2 having better sound design than Hi-Fi Rush or Alan Wake 2? I … no … just no. FFXVI was far more gorgeous than Spider-Man 2 and it didn’t have janky facial animations. I honestly think Spider-Man 2 is the most overrated game of last year, it’s good, but it’s not THAT good.

Safe to say a lot of you don't like Spidey 2. Hmm...is it really that bad?! Some are saying (design wise) that it was a cookie cutter, copy and paste job to the first game. However, in the same breath saying that Totk should have gotten technical design when it's pretty much identical to BotW. Not ragging on Zelda as I have both wonderful titles on Switch. Just an observation.

@Rafie
Technical execution and game design are two different things.

Happy to see Spidey getting the recognition it deserves. An absolutely amazing, fun game. Naysayers can, by all means, eat their heart out

@Rafie from a gameplay perspective, I’d say it’s a huge step forward from the other two games, but with that said, I didn’t love the story and found it fairly predictable. It felt more large scale and bombastic, but that took away from the deep character moments like we got between Peter and Octavius. It also felt more bloated with side content than the original, which I chose to skip, so that isn’t exactly a big deal to me.

Very mild spoiler
The MJ sequences played better than the first one but she was also far more powerful than Peter or Miles because she could basically one shot almost every enemy, which came across as a disjointed choice, in my opinion.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a very good game, but it came out in a year filled with incredible games, I just don’t feel it holds up against many of the other games that came out last year.

I hate Spider-Man. I also love all other other games that are mentioned here. But I'll just focus my hatred for Spider-Man right now. Because only my opinion matters when it comes to Spider-Man. Anyway, if you've read this congrats. You beat the mods to the punch lol.

N.i.c.e. 🕷 spiderman 2 and Baldur's gate 3 is amazing.word up son

@Specky Maybe do some better research next time before saying Insomniac was crying their eyes out.

@Nepp67
They were lol. Obviously an exaggeration, but there was a lot of criticism from other devs for BG3 being insane