Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award
CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 8 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 8 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 8 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 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.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 8 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 8 months ago
Or being one of the few games that require you having an SSD to run properly lol.
Renacles@lemmy.world 8 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.