I’d bet my entire life savings (about $3) that a bunch of hogs made a concentrated effort to get the Blood Libel Game™ nominated. There’s no chance it wins against BG or LC but its still bizarre to see
also Starfield got a nom for “Most Innovative Gameplay” 
Lethal Company and Baldurs Gate 3 split the vote between gamers with brains and Hogwarts Legacy wins. Just like real democracy in America
Three RPGs, a shooter, and a futball game?
Pretty sure FC24 wins in a landslide.
I’ve been wondering the same. Like the choices in many categories are aweful. Beyond just the potterheads. I’ve never heard of leathal company before so why is it in so many nominations? Why are there carbin copy sports games in there? And that’s the best nominees for the Steam Deck? Just very odd stuff.
Edit - Lethal Company “came out” in OCT. and it’s in EARLY ACCESS which IMO should disqualify it from being nominated as the game isn’t really out yet. I’ve blocked Early Access games on principal. I’m not going to pay a company to beta test their junk.
Most innovative gameplay doesnxt have anything really innovative.
The pizza thing was in there
so thats something. But the selections in general have me… 
leathal company
It’s just the flavor of the week social game that’s in early access that no one will be playing by the time the game is considered complete.
A few of my favorite streamers have been playing it recently and i find myself wondering what the engagement is. Im very bored. But i guess thats as a watcher not a player.
lethal company made me laugh harder than i have all year in 15 minutes of gameplay. worth the 10$
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
The true GOTY isn’t even on the list
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.
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.
Oh hey thanks for remembering me! And for the input
Rogue trader is not even the best owlcat game
Buggy as hell and the story falls apart in act 3
Hard disagree. Kingmaker was ok game but 50% of it was running around to check the lazy rumours and quest and 40% was the really nasty loading screen fest. Wrath of Righteous got boring really quick in the main course of game.
Rogue Trader have some of the same problems but less pronounced, especially at the release time. What’s more important, it’s easily the best 40k game out there.
idk RT has all the problems that Wrath has but i dont think it has nearly as much of cool shit like the mythic paths which alter your game in so many ways
the loss of the ability to change to real time combat makes combat a massive drag in the late game too
wierd holes in the polish of the game are also present like the sporadic voice acting and important story characters not having stuff like portraits, the whole game just feels rushed
the thing that RT has over wrath is the setting tho, much more interesting than the generic fantasy that pathfinder feels like
have you gotten to act 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.
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 cook i watch her streams sometimes shes in my fave streamer’s friend group.
no digimon world
fake award
I heard the sound of Millions of Pot-turds crying out, then falling silent.
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fr. i fucking love tradle
Nobody good, that’s for sure
The free market, obvs.
Warts on a hog
:steamfront:
I voted for Fursan al-Aqsa
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
