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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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rab 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Huh I was expecting butthurt in here over hogwarts legacy

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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] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

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