• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I mean, good for them and all. But… I hate when these award shows do this shit. Narrowing the universe of “award winning” games down to “One Title Wins Everything” feels so hack.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s a downside of the award show template. If the “best game” is, say, an RPG, then there’s no logic that should say it would win “best game” but not “best RPG”, right? If it wasn’t an award show you could go from the top down instead of building up to GOTY and it’d be spread out more. Expedition 33 is GOTY, so “best RPG” is now de facto “best RPG not named Expedition 33”. But even that collides with awards like best soundtrack or best performance by a VA.

      If anything, Golden Joystick “sandbagged” E33 by not including it in “best indie” - Sandfall is absolutely an indie studio by every meaningful definition of the term.

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      That’s a fair assessment for the most part. I think a lot of the time it’s all just hype for one title, but this game is actually fantastic, and I think it deserves everything it won. I can’t think of anything else this year that would surpass Clair Obscur in any of those categories.

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        this game is actually fantastic,

        Without a doubt. It’s on my list.

        I can’t think of anything else this year that would surpass Clair Obscur in any of those categories.

        Silksong, Outer Worlds 2, and Eldin Ring: Nightsong leap to mind.

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          I haven’t played Outer Worlds 2, but the other two, while both great, just didn’t have what it takes to beat it IMO.

          That’s not to say my opinion is objectively right, it’s really a subjective question to begin with.

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    Outrage! Scandal! When will the developers be held to account for Gestral Volleyball and Only Up?!‽ Never in the history of video games has there been such an affront.


    But seriously, great game!

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    Oh nice, Blue prince also won best Indie. In general the categories got many different winners, except for the Expedition33 categories of course

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      Blue Prince was awesome, and literally curled up with my boyfriend watching him play E33 right now (these games make me motion sick, thus the scrolling lol.) I can see why it won so much.

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        You can turn off the camera movement and screen shake during fights if that helps

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    The vibe I pick up online is that it’ll sweep all awards shows even coming from people who don’t personally like the game.

    I voted half and half on the Dorito Pope’s website between KCD2 and E33. Basically I think KCD2 better actual gameplay, E33 better story.

    I kinda broke E33 in half it’s not at all a hard game. Basically Paper Mario design.