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
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
Outstanding Visual Style should’ve been won by either Lies of P or Cocoon in my opinion.
Still wondering why the fuck RDR2 was on the nominations at all
This is… A weird spread of awards…
Like BG3 winning GOTY and story rich makes total sense.
But RDR2 won labor of love? What? Lol. Have they been putting out massive updates lately or something?
Atomic heart won visual style… Sure? I mean I guess it’s atmospheric but I wouldn’t call it particularly stylized.
Lethal company getting better with friends is a solid pick
Hogwarts Legacy is best on deck? The fuck? Lol I suppose i haven’t played this one but I was under the impression the game was like… Fine? Kinda boring after a while but still playable? It’s not horribly offensive but how does a game like that win an award for being the most beloved steam deck game lol
STARFIELD WON FUCKING WHAT??? Okay, I was not as big a starfield hater as some. I thought it was boring as shit for sure but I don’t think it’s completely without merit on the whole… But Innovative? Fucking LOL! Starfield innovated exactly 0 things, hell it retroactively made things from 2011 seem new by comparison. I don’t think theres a single fresh idea in that entire game. Starfield winning most innovative game paints a very uncomfortable picture of the steam awards. There is CLEAR tampering going on here, either by bots vote spamming, or just a behind the curtain dealings with Bethesda. To be honest every single other award here feels tenuous at best just by Starfield winning that specific award. If that boring ass rehash of 2007 gameplay can be called the most innovative game on steam then I’m not sure I can trust any of these games actually got nominated by real players for any of their respective awards. What a fucking joke
Nah, this makes sense to me.
In order to get full credit (for the badge or card or whatever they had), you had to vote for every category.
I’ve never played a VR game, but I still had to vote in that category, so I just… picked something.
RDR2 is something a lot of folks have played. Hogwarts is something a lot of folks have played.
Huh I was expecting butthurt in here over hogwarts legacy
Starfield winning Most Innovative, while the game was somehow the opposite of innovation, overshadowed the bigot-of-the-day hate.
Well I would say steam users genuinely liked Hogwarts. Nobody realistically boycotted the game it was just a reddit and twitter thing
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Really good game tho
It would have consumed my life if it came out while I was a child
Neat Hogwarts and environs sandbox-ish, which is a thing I have personally always wanted, garbage story and some half-baked gameplay.
Did RDR2 get an update that freshens the game up? I thought Labor of Love was for things like Terraria where the devs keep updating the game over time. I would think that NMS of all titles would be more deserving, unless they have a rags-to-riches sort of award
Cyberpunk wins something similar in TGA and while it’s somewhat controversial, it still makes sense. RDR2 is just plain incomprehensible.
Starfield is the one of the least innovative games I’ve ever played. How the fuck did it win that?
Probably ironically, just as Red Dead winning it despite the shennanigans behind it.
Ah, but you did play it. That’s the point.
The innovations in menu UI is out of this world!
Starfield won “most innovative” which immediately denigrates and insults literally every other game that received an award.
What an actual fucking joke.
BG3 getting GOTY makes complete sense, I’ve put like 1k hours into the game and every play through has been different and engaging.
The voice actress for aylin and the voice actor for ketheric are simply amazing, but honestly all the VA’s did an amazing job.
As much as I love RDR2 it did not deserve, at all, labour of love.
Was Ketheric the one voiced by JK Simmons? Maybe I’ve got them mixed up with another character, but I remember being surprised to hear him, followed by incredibly disappointed by how bad his delivery was.
I thought Ketherics delivery was great but maybe we chose different paths? I’ve played a couple of durge runs and several mostly-positive runs where I attempted to turn ketheric to the light, so perhaps I missed the bad parts?
IIRC JK Simmons was Ketheric
That’s fair, I’m sure there were a ton of lines he recorded lol! I’ll have to give it another chance on this next playthrough, as my memory is from months ago at this point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think what comes across as bad delivery is intentional uncaring jadedness from Simmons part.
I felt the same way, possibly having been over-hyped by the prospect of hearing a villain voiced by the man who gave us Cave Johnson, and then… meh?
Seeing the behind the scenes footage of all the voice actors in the booth, it definitely feels like he’s trying, so maybe the lines are weird or it’s just hard to play a guy who is both figuratively and literally dead inside?
I definitely agree, Ketheric struggles a lot with delivery. I think, at the very least, that I expected him to “open the trottle” at the end and finally let loose, but he still felt restrained.
That and RDR2 make no sense. What did they add to RDR2? It’s just a good game that still exists, they aren’t continuing to work on it.
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You are absolutely correct and I amended my comment because as much as I enjoy RDR2, having to navigate their god awful DRM every time I open one of their games is easily one of the most annoying things in gaming. Not to mention I don’t even think R* has done any serious updates to the game since release
As any proper award ceremenoy, useless popularity garbage. Rdr2 a labor of love? After they abandoned the multiplayer cause they coudnt give it money printing shark cards?
And starfield is innovative? In what? Being the laziest pile of poo that people still bought?
What a bunch of drivel
Last of us winning soundtrack award is LOL too
Darktide would have been better.
It’s almost as if all this was only a marketing ploy with no deeper significance…
After they abandoned the multiplayer cause they coudnt give it money printing shark cards?
At least the multiplayer got attention, the single-player game never got anything after the initial release.
GTA V, RDR2, and soon to be GTA 6
Anyone who didn’t expect BG3 to win Game of the Year has been under a rock since it launched O.o Anyone who expected Starfield to win Most Innovative Gameplay, are you offering divination services to the public?
Damn, I know some people are dead-set on insisting that Starfield isn’t that bad but… innovative?? Really??? Most innovative?!?? Baffling!
It’s probably an ironic award, though I stand by the statement that Starfield isn’t any worse than Bethesda’s other mainstream titles post-Morrowind, except for the fact that it can’t ride on the writing of much better writers who either left the company or made the IP they acquired.
Starfield is the first pure creation of Modern Bethesda, and they can’t rely on the excellent lore and world building of other games like Fallout 1 and 2, Morrowind, etc.
That being said, 90% of issues can be solved by halving the radius for POI generation, adding a huge number of new POIs for the pool, and adding a survival mode to make shipbuilding important, space travel require fuel, and spacesuits necessary for environmental protection.
I know, what an upset. Fifa2023 should have taken it.
Like someone else said it’s gotta be a result of the voting for the awards being awful. I wanted to like Starfield and (ducks down) even got it early at the higher price.*
But yeah lol innovation is a joke. Makes me feel bad for the devs who really made innovative stuff this year.
*To be fair I had a shitty week before that and needed a new Bethesda game to make my life less awful so it…worked? It was my comfort food ok???
Tsk, tsk. :P It’s okay, don’t worry about it. Also don’t worry about the red dot dancing around near you. It’s just having a nice time. Feel free to stand up and stand still in front of the sni- uh, the rest of us ~.^
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
Starfield continuing the tradition of Stray’s “Really? You’re Calling THAT Innovative?” award.
Good. Well deserved IMO.
I’m shocked Pizza Tower lost soundtrack though.
Most Innovative Gameplay Award - Starfield
ahahahahahahahahahaahah 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣😹🤣🤣😹no fucking way
Hi Fi Rush was a great contender for sound track, I would have liked either of those winning it. Last of Us winning is fucking wonky though.
I’m hoping it was just a bunch of kids trolling bc they thought it was funny
I think at some point you have to accept that they aren’t pretending anymore, or being ‘ironic.’ This is how people really are.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Hey, starfield isn’t my favorite by far, but I don’t think it’s that serious lol. It’s just a silly game award that everyone’s gonna forget about in a few weeks
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It’s a massive game that was absolutely a labor of love, but it’s Rockstar we’re talking about here. They turn love into microtx and milk it till it’s dry. Then it’s to the meat packing facilities for a little mobile/console porting so it’s innards can be broken up to be resold 😂. No real fault to the devs, art team, and story team that absolutely did put love into the game though.
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Yeah, but who reads the descriptions?
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Rule #1 of any UI design is “Nobody reads anything”
Just rename the award. Best Ongoing Development? Best Live Service Experience?
Yeah that was basically my original comment too, but I realized that’s not what the award is actually for.
Why was Cyberpunk not even a finalist? They released a massive update this year and have pretty much fixed the game and added lots of new content through the DLC.
Cyberpunk legitimately turned itself around and won back the public after a disastrous launch, just like NMS did.
