2024 Steam Awards Nominees Announced

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• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nominating Stalker 2 for Most Innovative Gameplay Award seems crazy to me. It’s a great game, but I definitely wouldn’t call it innovative.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It has always been a “Which game has the bigger fan base” contest 🤷‍♂️

    I don’t think I ever agreed with the nominations or the the final winners, because they never make any sense other than through the hype and fan-base lens.

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    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Occasionally good games get nominated for the correct categories (Terraria for Labor of Love) but it’s very rare. I haven’t even played any 2024 games but wanted the badge so I just nominated some off brand games that will never win.

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    • whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I agree with this comment so much that my dumb ass tried to upvote it twice forgetting I already did

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In the modern gaming industry, it’s considered innovative to not be shit cuz your shareholders forcex you to.

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  • yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    didnt they even ban elon? absolute winner move.

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  • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Came here to comment the same. I love the game but those mechanics are 17 years old.

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• Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Early access games shouldn’t be allowed. Hades 2 isn’t even officially released yet.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d like to see Black Myth Wukong win nothing just because of how salty they get over it.

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  • tb_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s going to be based on user votes, and given just how popular that game was I don’t think it unlikely to win.

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m a little disappointed not to see Elite Dangerous nominated for Labor of Love. The game is ten years old, and the developers have recently been bringing in new features like it was still new.

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  • CitricBase@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s unfortunate. Games don’t get nominated by being apt for the category, they get nominated by being popular. Heck, last year RDR2 won in this category, and it’s never had any community support beyond a bug fix patch or two.

    This whole thing is a popularity contest, for the most part. No way anyone nominating or voting in these awards has played more than a few of the eligible games.

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  • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m surprised to see ED brought up. They gave up console players and won’t even push token updates, like when they balanced engineers for PC players to reduce the crazy grinding. Tried to get back into it but I guess it’s now a legacy game and Frontier straight up bailed.

    The game isn’t shut down though. I can still buy their MTX stuff. That’s got to count against them.

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    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, they stopped updating the legacy PC client, too. I suspect it’s in the same game world as your console, still alive and playable, but with no new content.

      The new client is free, but also more resource-hungry; I guess they didn’t have the budget to get it working on consoles.

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  • IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Relies on people knowing about it, sadly.

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• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Best Game You Suck At Award nominations make no sense to me. They just choose fighting games.

  Games like A Difficult Game About Climbing or Shadow of the Erdtree make more sense to me.

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  • SlamWich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think The Finals is one of the more difficult shooters to wrap your head around and takes forever to get really good at. I think many people use this category “fun game where I always get my ass kicked” low skill floor high skill ceiling games.

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  • Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shadow of the erdtree all the way. People bitched so much about it being too hard. Great DLC, was not that hard compared to other souls games (the final boss was a total bastard though holy shit I died a lot)

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Balatro getting nominated for two separate GOTYs is wild (in a good sense)

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  • Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t understand the appeal of this game. Played it for a couple of hours because it got hyped so much. What makes this game so fun for people?

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, fun is subjective. For a lot of people Balatro strikes just the right spot between strategy and randomness, and is very replayable. It’s perfectly okay if it’s not your cup of tea, though.

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• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m so glad Tiny Glade is getting some attention and is even on this list at all. That’s amazing.

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• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So Palword was nominated for the Better With Friends award, meaning they are okay with it being in the awards despite being a beta, but it didn’t get nominated for GOTY.

  Robbed.

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  • Metostopholes@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was surprised to see Hades 2, as it’s still in early access. Not that it doesn’t deserve it.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can‘t even rate early access games for obvious reasons. Nominating it for GOTY is just silly and potentially very awkward for the devs.

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  • CitricBase@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “They” is you. These nominations were voted on by steam users over Thanksgiving.

    Besides, Palworld specifically campaigned for the “better with friends” award.

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• falkerie71@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Outstanding visual is pretty packed this year, but I wish Nine Sols wins it. It’s not even underrated, just feels like it wasn’t talked much about outside of Hollow Knight enjoyers, maybe due to it launching on PC only (console version came out only recently), or perhaps due to the studio’s turbulent past. More people should really give it a go.

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• Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is the award called a Steamy or a Steamer?

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• caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Labor of Love is a tough one… I might as well flip a coin between at least three of them, they all deserve it

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• CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m surprised to see God of War Ragnarok on the best game for Steam deck. I tried playing the first one on there and got like 15 fps. Does this somehow run better?

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