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Game of the Year Award - Baldur's Gate 3

VR Game of the Year Award - Labyrinthine

Labor of Love Award - Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Game on Steam Deck Award - Hogwarts Legacy

Better With Friends Award - Lethal Company

Outstanding Visual Style Award - Atomic Heart

Most Innovative Gameplay Award - Starfield

Best Game You Suck At Award - SIFU

Best Soundtrack Award - The Last of Us Part I

Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award - Baldur's Gate 3

Sit Back and Relax Award - Dave the Diver

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The Last of Us is a goddamn masterpiece I will never shut up about, but I don't even remember the soundtrack. If it deserves as award in 2023 (a questionable premise to begin with), it should be for the story, acting, or gameplay.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I guess I really should play it at some point.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Huh I was expecting butthurt in here over hogwarts legacy

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Starfield winning Most Innovative, while the game was somehow the opposite of innovation, overshadowed the bigot-of-the-day hate.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They really had Starfield competing for “most innovative” with nothing but smaller indie titles that most people probably haven’t played. No wonder it won, it looks like Valve practically guaranteed them the award.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The biggest other game on that category was Remnant 2, a fantastic game that improves on everything the previous iteration did but isn't really innovative since it's a sequel.

The votes make no sense.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree with you, but how many people do you think played Remnant 2 vs played Starfield? Unfortunately part of these game awards, at least for ones that players vote for, is the popularity aspect. People will vote even if they only know 1 or 2 of the nominees, so a game’s popularity ends up being a huge advantage.

So in this case Starfield, for some bizarre reason, got stacked up with a bunch of indies with significantly smaller player bases. So despite Starfield having no right to win the award, it did.

It really feels like it was purposefully pit against those games to give it a free award. I can’t think of any other explanation.

Edit: Some people are speculating that people voted for it as a joke, and did the same for RDR2 winning “Labor of Love” despite having no new content since release. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this was true.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Remnant 2 was far more innovative than Starfield. The biggest innovation of Starfield was to get the game to even run on their crappy engine.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I didn’t think I would enjoy Hogwartz Legacy as much I have. I’m not sure what I was expecting but being a demigod who just absolutely wrecks anything in my path with pure violence wasn’t it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still wondering why the fuck RDR2 was on the nominations at all

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Outstanding Visual Style should've been won by either Lies of P or Cocoon in my opinion.

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