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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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[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months 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.

[-] Renacles@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months 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.

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months 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.

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Or being one of the few games that require you having an SSD to run properly lol.

[-] Renacles@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Agreed, Starfield is basically just Skyrim but no open world. It's a shame that Remnant 1 was not nominated a few years back though.

[-] stress_headache@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I guess I really should play it at some point.

[-] aew360@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months 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

[-] quams69@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

... none of these make sense.

[-] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Like half of them do, and half of them don't. But that doesn't mean that none of them do.

[-] StewartGilligan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the award heist is going smoothly. theyll never know what hit them. but even though everyone banded together to put my crappy scribbles on the lineup, i need you to click on them AGAIN because gaben DOESNT WANT US TO WIN!!!

who is stronger, todd howard (1 man) or the HUSTLERS (millions)

—Game developer of Your Only Move Is HUSTLE, a fellow innovative award finalist

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

You mean Horny Simulator.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

sounds good but I can't get the FUCK out of the shars temple because i played pacifist with both the rats and the other asshole

[-] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Good. Well deserved IMO.

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