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Here are the winners for the steam awards 2023 (i.ibb.co)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Starfield wins Most Innovative Gameplay. If that doesn't prove game awards are a joke, nothing will.

EDIT Also Hi-Fi Rush didn't get Best Soundtrack. The music is part of the gameplay. If you time your attacks to the beat. You will do more damage.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven't played Starfield myself, but from my understanding the gameplay is: Skyrim in space. Which to me, is "Most recycled gameplay"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Essentially. That category must have been a troll by the steam community.

Even today Skyrim is a better game than Starfield. It's the same formula Bethesda have been doing for 20 years now but they somehow managed to make the world feel more artificial and lifeless. And So. Many. Loading screens. 😔

Nothing against the core Bethesda formula - I still enjoy the whole "explore, run into shit, and spend the next 30 hours on side quests" - but they really need to focus on making a more rich and engaging experience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yea thats the first thing I thought. I've seen some funny ass tags on bad games that made no sense, just a bit of trolling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This. Check out the "Psychological horror" tag for some excellent examples of trolltagging.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's innovative in that they looked at the resource scanning in ME3, settlements in FO4, and romance in practically any game that has romance, and they said, "let's put all of that in this game, but kind of pointless and more annoying to do." I actually enjoyed a lot of the game but I'm pretty sure people voting were either bots or trolls.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

These awards are community-voted, so I imagine, Starfield was either a very funny joke or a bot army...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Remember that Stray (the game where you can meow and jump) won most innovative gameplay last year. The Steam Awards is purely a popularity contest, people just vote for the game they played for the badge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They need to take the incentives away and just let people who care about the categories vote

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's Onion levels of satire. That's like the one award it would, if anything get the opposite off.