Who nominated this crap for GOTY?
I'd bet my entire life savings (about $3) that a bunch of hogs made a concentrated effort to get the Blood Libel Game(TM) nominated. There's no chance it wins against BG or LC but its still bizarre to see
also Starfield got a nom for "Most Innovative Gameplay"
Lethal Company and Baldurs Gate 3 split the vote between gamers with brains and Hogwarts Legacy wins. Just like real democracy in America
Three RPGs, a shooter, and a futball game?
Pretty sure FC24 wins in a landslide.
I'm not saying it deserved to win but Armored Core 6 deserved to be nominated
When their game isn't explicitly a souls From gets snubbed like it's 2006 again, bullshit
I am baffled how from software still makes the games they make. There is zero loot boxes, always online, games-as-a-service bullshit and not a single fucking micro transaction in their whole incredible lineup. The scummiest thing they did was a half assed remaster of DS1 that replaced the original Prepare-to-Die edition, which sucked but in a world of EAs, Blizzards, Ubisofts and Bethesdas I can't really stay mad.
Hundreds of furious consultants must have pointed at big excel sheets projecting the millions they'd make on the Malenia Armour DLC, but they just keep saying no. They just make a real game and people buy it and then they make another game. It feels truly anachronistic.
From was not involved in Dark Souls Remastered from what I know
Also it seems like underpaying and overworking their employees has something to do with their success...
The true GOTY isn't even on the list
We have a fucking Peppino emote I love hexbear
It's all sales numbers. More surprising is that in two cases it actually aligned with reality in Baldur's Gate III case, but Baldur isn't even the best RPG this year.
Nobody good, that’s for sure
Starfield got a nom for "Most Innovative Gameplay"
Hey now give them some credit it was pretty innovative to do something that wasn't another repackage of Skyrim
Lmao i mean 90% of prerelease advertisements and previews in press was literally just "Hey Bethesda finally did something in a new setting".
Though i for one am pretty happy with it being rehashed Skyrim, because it could have been much much worse, with the enshittification and actionisation of RPG games i seriously expected just glorified shooter or souls-like shit and was pleasantly surprised it's at least way better than F4.
no digimon world
fake award
The free market, obvs.
:steamfront:
My GOTY was the System Shock remake.
That shit is so good. Can't believe it got so little press.
Vote EA FC 24 and just make each year's EA FC game GOTY.
I don't follow this kind of things, but I'm curious: is there any cool shit like The Wreck or Slay the Princess nominated at all, or is it just the usual blockbuster crap for every category with a stray oddity here and there?
The latter unfortunately
The va for the princess is so cool i watch her streams sometimes shes in my fave streamer's friend group.
I heard the sound of Millions of Pot-turds crying out, then falling silent.
I'm so glad that the terf wizard game came out and immediately disappeared into the aether of mediocrity in March. Not sure I could cope with the discourse if it had been released during the Gaza atrocity.
Most innovative 🤣🤣🤣. So innovative that I was hyped beyond belief that I was going to get you play a game with space flight, and only played my pirated repack for a couple hours and haven't thought about it since. If I wanted Fallout 4 with space ships I'd just mod Fallout 4.
RE4 was pretty great.
Maybe but I don't think remakes should ever be nominated, no matter how different they are to the original
Is the new RE4 different? That game takes me back to freshmen year of college.
I disagree with this heavily. If its a top down rebuild with none or few of the original assets then its a new game. Games like RE4 remake and FF7 remake dont take any less time and effort to make than a sequel, so its no different to me.
Now something like Star Ocean 2 R, yeah thats not a ground up remake so its not to be considered.
I've been wondering the same. Like the choices in many categories are aweful. Beyond just the potterheads. I've never heard of leathal company before so why is it in so many nominations? Why are there carbin copy sports games in there? And that's the best nominees for the Steam Deck? Just very odd stuff.
Edit - Lethal Company "came out" in OCT. and it's in EARLY ACCESS which IMO should disqualify it from being nominated as the game isn't really out yet. I've blocked Early Access games on principal. I'm not going to pay a company to beta test their junk.
Most innovative gameplay doesnxt have anything really innovative.
The pizza thing was in there
so thats something. But the selections in general have me...leathal company
It's just the flavor of the week social game that's in early access that no one will be playing by the time the game is considered complete.
A few of my favorite streamers have been playing it recently and i find myself wondering what the engagement is. Im very bored. But i guess thats as a watcher not a player.
Lethal Company got a 17 minute videogamedunkey video for it so it got a boost in popularity.
I've never heard of leathal company before
you must be living under a rock, everywhere I go people haven't shut up about it since it launched lol
It's true I am an extreme introvert, I blocked early access on Steam, and I don't do-a the Tick Tok-a
lethal company made me laugh harder than i have all year in 15 minutes of gameplay. worth the 10$
Ive played some pretty good shit thats technically still in Early Access. A lot of them are pretty far along the road and probably could be released but just want to add more idk
fr. i fucking love tradle
Warts on a hog