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Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 (www.ign.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Shame it didn't do well, I thought it was great.

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[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought it won game of the year as well as a bunch of other awards?

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 3 weeks ago

BG3 got GotY, though there are debates to be had I suppose over the legitimacy of an "official" game of the year.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Not with how unanimous BG3's award was at basically every outlet.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was referring to The Game Awards and their claim on crowning the "Game of the Year".

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I know, but this past year in particular, there wasn't much contention over what the game of the year was.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think going by overall mainstream appeal and zeitgeist it's correct. Everybody was talking about BG3 that year, even people who are usually not fans of the genre. So in that sense I agree that 2023 was the year of BG3.

On the games' merit alone as standalone pieces of art abstracted from context I think Alan Wake 2 puts up a good fight.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, last year was not a weak year. There was a new highly-regarded Zelda game as well, which is easy to forget when Baldur's Gate 3 won every award so unanimously.