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[–] 149 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Everyone is mad about this but I still don't understand how RDR2 was even nominated for Labor of Love, let alone won.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It's a popularity vote, players nominated and voted for the games. So they just trolled the votes for this and Starfield

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    For the nominations users at least had the option to skip sections if they couldn't think of anything to nominate. For the voting, in order to get the participation reward players had to vote for something in each category.

    This led to a lot of users who don't care about the actual voting and just wanting the participation to vote for the one game they recognized in the category.

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    [–] 141 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Technically the game does have innovative gameplay, no AAA studio has the balls to release a game as boring and lacking in gameplay that Bethesda has, they spent over a decade making fast travel the most integral gameplay mechanic.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    The awards don't mean shit, there was nothing even close to innovative about Starfield. They took No Man's Sky, made it worse, and shoved their 15 year old npc behavior in it.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Fan votes have been and will always be popularity contests.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    I am in a mad bubble then because I have never heard anything good about Starfield, or even seen for that matter. Besides maybe Joel Haver's starfield videos on youtube and those are parodies.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wait, do they know what the word innovative means?

    Wait, do they know what the word gameplay means?

    Wait, do they know what the word most means?

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    2006: Make oblivion

    2007-2022: Recycle gameplay for other IPs

    2023: Make oblivion in space

    Truly innovative

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    I have no side to take, but it's sorta hilarious seeing people saying the award mean nothing when it's starfield that win it, and on the other hand congratulate Baldur's Gate for winning another GOTY. Truly the Schrodinger Award.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Steam has nothing to do with this, people voted like that.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That‘s a user-vote, no? I can‘t say I‘m surprised that there‘s some headscratchers, I doubt the average user knows what innovative gameplay is supposed to be. They should let people vote as they did, then curate the top 20 of each category into 10 fitting games so those that don‘t match the award category are out, and then let people put their final vote between those 10.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That‘s a user-vote, no? I can‘t say I‘m surprised that there‘s some headscratchers, I doubt the average user knows what innovative gameplay is supposed to be.

    Valve incentivized its users to vote in all categories.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not only incentivized it, but put certain games at the front of all of the categories. I don't know if those games were already voted on by other players, or paid for ads by the companies themselves, but I know that I was presented with games that I didn't feel fit into the category they were in. Personally, though, I really don't give a shit about awards. I can't think of any, aside from some book awards, that aren't bought and paid for popularity contest.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's for the lock pick mini game.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    Winning this award has done so much more damage to Bethesda than I'm sure they could ever have expected.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    It's completely fan driven so if thats the result, then fans trolled themselves

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    i couldn't even get through the tutorial, space skinned skyrim is a about as innovating as a subscription model for a new app.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Even if it weren't for all of the problems the game has it's hardly innovative. I don't think a Bethesda game has been innovative ever. They didn't even invent the fallout franchise.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Fallout 3: Find your dad!

    Fallout New Vegas: Your quest for revenge will lead you right into the middle of a political struggle which will decide whether this post-apocalypse society will fall to fascism, a corrupt republic that's two bad elections away from fascism, a technofascist, your rule, etc.

    Fallout 4: Find your son!

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    It was indeed quite innovative. Was the first game I ever installed on my HDD that refused to run at any acceptable level, without any warning anywhere that it needed to be on SSD or not at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't believe shadow of doubt didn't win it. I guess it just isn't popular enough.

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