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I'd bet my entire life savings (about $3) that a bunch of hogs made a concentrated effort to get the Blood Libel Game(TM) nominated. There's no chance it wins against BG or LC but its still bizarre to see
also Starfield got a nom for "Most Innovative Gameplay" 
Lethal Company and Baldurs Gate 3 split the vote between gamers with brains and Hogwarts Legacy wins. Just like real democracy in America 
Three RPGs, a shooter, and a futball game?
Pretty sure FC24 wins in a landslide.
I'm not saying it deserved to win but Armored Core 6 deserved to be nominated
When their game isn't explicitly a souls From gets snubbed like it's 2006 again, bullshit
The true GOTY isn't even on the list 
We have a fucking Peppino emote I love hexbear
It's all sales numbers. More surprising is that in two cases it actually aligned with reality in Baldur's Gate III case, but Baldur isn't even the best RPG this year.
What is?
Rogue Trader and maybe Wandering Sword are imo better (though it's very close). Overall it's the best year for RPG ever so it's hard.
Wandering Sword
that game looks cool
Wandering Sword
I hadn't heard about this but now I'm very intrigued.
Wandering Sword
I wasn't expecting this game to be mentioned here. I've been playing that constantly a few months back until I finished my second playthrough (and got back to playing New Vegas constantly).
Yeah, when i first saw it it looked like RPGmaker game no 928374982375, but fortunately they rolled up a demo and i would never pass on a RPG wuxia game (except those from RPG maker) and it was actually excellent. A little bit stingy in pixels but that game really have soul.
I practically assumed you were going to say Sea of Stars, which i personally feel underwhelmed by so im glad it was something else lol. Thoughts on that game?
I guess i would need to check this, but it don't really look appealing on a first glance, many old jrpg elements that were always offputting me like combos, multiple protagonists and running around for no reason.
Ah, see, i like those things, i love Chrono Trigger and its supposedly inspired by it. In just found the charachters/story/world kind of unengaging. Even the art while beauiful at first glance felt uninspired to me after a bit.
Like the game supposedly was made for someone with my tastes but something about it bounced off me completly.
I'm trying it now. Just starting but it's pretty ok, a lot of running, pseudo-platformer terrain (it's not the real platformer though, it would instantly go into trash if it was). Graphics and music are pretty good. Combat system is full of really obnoxious minigames including twitchy trigger combos at every single move, sometimes even multiple per move which would be case for unistall too, but fortunately it have pretty ok storytelling relic you can activate for HP boost and healing after each combat.
Overall decent but nowhere near even the early engagement of Rogue Trader, Wandering Sword and Baldur.
Also, i just guessed after 10 minutes that it is actually a French game. It might be inspired by Japanese classics, but it just absolutely feel like the 90's-00's French comic books from even just character design and setup.
Rogue trader is not even the best owlcat game
Buggy as hell and the story falls apart in act 3
Nobody good, that’s for sure
Starfield got a nom for "Most Innovative Gameplay"
Hey now give them some credit it was pretty innovative to do something that wasn't another repackage of Skyrim
Lmao i mean 90% of prerelease advertisements and previews in press was literally just "Hey Bethesda finally did something in a new setting".
Though i for one am pretty happy with it being rehashed Skyrim, because it could have been much much worse, with the enshittification and actionisation of RPG games i seriously expected just glorified shooter or souls-like shit and was pleasantly surprised it's at least way better than F4.
no digimon world
fake award
The free market, obvs.
I voted for Fursan al-Aqsa
:steamfront:
Vote EA FC 24 and just make each year's EA FC game GOTY.
My GOTY was the System Shock remake.
That shit is so good. Can't believe it got so little press.
I don't follow this kind of things, but I'm curious: is there any cool shit like The Wreck or Slay the Princess nominated at all, or is it just the usual blockbuster crap for every category with a stray oddity here and there?
The latter unfortunately 
The va for the princess is so cool i watch her streams sometimes shes in my fave streamer's friend group.
I heard the sound of Millions of Pot-turds crying out, then falling silent.
Most innovative 🤣🤣🤣. So innovative that I was hyped beyond belief that I was going to get you play a game with space flight, and only played my pirated repack for a couple hours and haven't thought about it since. If I wanted Fallout 4 with space ships I'd just mod Fallout 4.
I'm so glad that the terf wizard game came out and immediately disappeared into the aether of mediocrity in March. Not sure I could cope with the discourse if it had been released during the Gaza atrocity.
RE4 was pretty great.
Maybe but I don't think remakes should ever be nominated, no matter how different they are to the original
I disagree with this heavily. If its a top down rebuild with none or few of the original assets then its a new game. Games like RE4 remake and FF7 remake dont take any less time and effort to make than a sequel, so its no different to me.
Now something like Star Ocean 2 R, yeah thats not a ground up remake so its not to be considered.
Is the new RE4 different? That game takes me back to freshmen year of college.
I've been wondering the same. Like the choices in many categories are aweful. Beyond just the potterheads. I've never heard of leathal company before so why is it in so many nominations? Why are there carbin copy sports games in there? And that's the best nominees for the Steam Deck? Just very odd stuff.
Edit - Lethal Company "came out" in OCT. and it's in EARLY ACCESS which IMO should disqualify it from being nominated as the game isn't really out yet. I've blocked Early Access games on principal. I'm not going to pay a company to beta test their junk.
Most innovative gameplay doesnxt have anything really innovative.
The pizza thing was in there 
so thats something. But the selections in general have me... 
leathal company
It's just the flavor of the week social game that's in early access that no one will be playing by the time the game is considered complete.
A few of my favorite streamers have been playing it recently and i find myself wondering what the engagement is. Im very bored. But i guess thats as a watcher not a player.
Lethal Company got a 17 minute videogamedunkey video for it so it got a boost in popularity.
lethal company made me laugh harder than i have all year in 15 minutes of gameplay. worth the 10$
I've never heard of leathal company before
you must be living under a rock, everywhere I go people haven't shut up about it since it launched lol
It's true I am an extreme introvert, I blocked early access on Steam, and I don't do-a the Tick Tok-a
Warts on a hog
the GOTY is clearly oec tradle
fr. i fucking love tradle