Best guess is people voted it because they didn’t know any of the other games and didn’t bother to check.
Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award
SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Starfield for most innovative gameplsy? Am I missing something or do people on Steam ride that Bethesda cock hard?
cottonmon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I just came here to ask the same question. It’s not innovative one bit, it’s a clone of No Man’s Sky, and a shitty one at that.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 months ago
They copied shouts from Skyrim, except worse, that’s how un-innovative it was.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wow, didn’t know that one. At this point I am convinced Todd will count this game as success. Earned money and they didn’t have to try.
Marvin42@feddit.nl 5 months ago
The steam awards were never anything but a contest about which game is the most known. I really dislike them due to that, but at least one title (BG3 deserved it this year)
Chriswild@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah that’s pretty awful
EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 5 months ago
Your Only Move is Hustle
Starfield
Shadows of Doubt
Contraband Police
Remnant 2
Which game out of the choices given do you think most people have heard of?
Aielman15@lemmy.world 5 months ago
At the time I’m writing this, recent reviews reached mostly negative (29%), and all-time reviews are mixed (64%). Which is honestly a lot more than it deserves, but I would hardly call that “riding Bethesda’s cock”.
It’s probably just a matter of big games getting more votes, because of name recognition. This is just a popularity contest, after all.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if most people chose it as a joke.