If anyone was still taking them seriously, they sure as hell aren’t now.
I think my favorite was the winner of the 2023 Labor of Love award: Red Dead Redemption 2, which hasn’t had a major content update since 2022.
I finally played through the RDR2 campaign a few months ago. The game is kinda a masterpiece and I wanted to vote for it when I saw it as an option. Then I remembered it came out 5 years ago and as far as I’ve heard from friends there’s nothing special about the online play.
Bit confused as to how it was even a candidate for the award lol
It became a candidate because nominations (and the votes) are all community based. Steam has the final say, but yeah, it’s the users who are driving this.
Yeah, it seems that at least two awards this year are the results of doing it for lulz :/
I mean, I don’t think that’s entirely a bad thing. At least it’s not gushing grannies mkII…
I played half of RDR2 a few months ago and as a game it is boring af. I don’t know how a game with such a bad quest design can get so much praise.
The world is gorgeous and I guess as a sandbox game there’s lot to do and even the story is alright but the quests are so boring and 80% the same. Couldn’t get myself to finish the game.
It really depends on what you’re looking for. A lot of people like that amazing sandbox with a decent story. The quests and “gotta get from A to B to finish this asap!” are secondary to it. They just want to get lost in the world and see how detailed and how much thought was put into the hunting, fishing, etc. if you’re a “gotta attack the story” type person, you probably won’t like it as much.
Valve should stop giving incentives for voting in the awards, it just leads to people voting for crap they know nothing about.
It won’t solve the entire issue but at least it’d be a start.
It literally just needs a N/A, or Undecided button.
Even if you didn’t play any game that qualifies for a category it just tells you to vote from a selection of games you’ve never heard of.
Can’t you vote for any game in any category?
The category was for VR and I didn’t play any VR games. I don’t see why people should be allowed to vote for games they never played in the first place.
Steam isn’t the only way to play games. They have no way of knowing.
It’s a classic Boaty McBoatface situation. I fully expect at least one hentai game to win next year. 2024 being the US election year, trolls will have 12 months to practice.
boaty mcboatface was actually funny though. Internet polls being bad ideas isn’t funny anymore
I was surprised i could only nominate one of my nsfw games. Apparently it was only games from last year that were eligible? But then how did RDR2 get nominated? So confusing. All I know is I would have absolutely nominated some of my nsfw games, had I been able.
The Labour of Love is the only exception of the 2023 release rule, where older, still updated games should win.
How did Rdr2 and gta 5 win when they are the most milked r* games? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think we can make that work… Sex Chess anyone?
Most innovative game of the year.
That is honestly hilarious
It’s not really funny though. Some group got their lulz, but that came at the cost of some actually deserving game not getting extra exposure it probably needed. It’s not a victimless crime.
I completely forgot that it was a user voted award. (Never a good idea imho) tbh I genuinely forgot all about said awards till this post
people just choose what they recognize. also theres no option to skip an award for a category
You can just no answer but then you don’t get the free gacha prize, and let me tell you - people love free shit.
There is an option to skip…people just dont use it.
Odd, I couldn’t find it and wanted to skip
You mean by not voting in a category and still getting the chat emoji? Elaborate please.
There’s a chat emoji? I just didn’t vote in categories that I hadn’t played any game in.
Sadly, there was, for every category voted in. That was one of the reasons the results were subpar.
Not like the emojis were any good tbh.
I’m just sad it wasn’t Golum
That would have been great. The walking dead game too of Rick eating multiple shotgun blasts to his face deserved an award too.
I feel bad for Shadows of Doubt, the innovation award was the only one it was a candidate for and it got blocked by people poking fun at space Skyrim.
The horny robot game getting a style award over any of the amazing games that came out this year just crushes me.
Retrofuturism + consenticles fridge and dommy mummy robots beats most things to the sort of sad fucks that play games I guess?
I need a new hobby, unfortunately I too am a sad fuck.
Play Disco Elysium. It’s a game for sad fucks.
I could never imagine being crushed by the results of a poll. Good luck to you
It wasn’t a matter of degree.
Thanks for introducing the word “consenticles” to me.
What have I done…
But the artstyle is the one thing everyone agreed it was great at, after seeing some reviews I played it with an ammunition multiplier mod and it was much better, who thought that an action fps should be stingy with ammo was mad.
I played this on release when I had game pass. I didn’t really make it past the tutorial. It got so boring so quick. But the intro was interesting. If it had released that as a demo and then just never released it’d probably be better.
Did you not know award shows were advertisements before this? I have some bad news about the Oscars for you
Almost no VR gamer has ever even heard of the game that won best VR game.
I think most people voted for it as a joke.
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What is there to take seriously? It’s a community vote on what games people liked across various categories. If the outcome of the vote isn’t to your liking, accept that your opinion differs from them and move on. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that.
So you are upset that the majority of the Steam users voted for a game you don’t like? Isn’t this the whole idea of democracy?
I also don’t agree with some of the winners, but since I took part in the vote, I don’t blame anyone for the outcome, I gave my vote, the rest is outside my control.
The point is Starfield won “most innovative game” when it’s the same rehashed Bethesda RPG we have had since Morrowind. The only reason it could’ve won that, was ironically. Same for Red Dead 2 and “labor of love” with it famously being crunched through, with 100hr a week of work for people, etc. It’s not “we don’t like this game”.
Again, these awards are chosen by the community, not you or me.
Yeah, no shit. That’s why OP says “these awards are useless” - since memelords get an award to Starfield. You went a step further, accusing OP of “not liking a game” implying it deserves the “most innovative” award.
not you or me
Uh… We’re part of the community.
They’re opinions are objectively wrong.
Starfiled is a copy paste of fallout and skyrim, but this time in space.
RDR2 hasn’t been updated in years, and still wins labor of love?
You can’t look at me with a straight face and say these games received a well earned award. There are so many smaller titles that are more deserving of the award, but they don’t have the same name power as these bigger games.
I really think people are just mad that we got Skyrim in space instead of just another Skyrim. Medival sword rpg games have been done to death. Yawn. I agree that they dropped the ball on the modding situation and fucking suck for it but that’s not why people dislike Starfield. If we instead got elder scrolls 6, it would have been of exactly the same quality and have all the same issues yet people would be pissing their pants in excitement just because it’s elder scrolls. Downvote me, idgaf
If you truly believe Starfield deserves the “most innovative” award, you either have not played Starfield or don’t know what the word “innovation” means.
Actually it’s daggerfall in space, which was what I was expecting só I had a good time.
