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The Steam Awards winners announced (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Wukong for best story? That game has more of a premise than a story. What are my Steam peeps smoking?

The rest is disappointing, but not surprising.

[–] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Steam Awards are mostly just "what's my favorite game" or "which game have I heard of" for all categories. It doesn't matter if the game fits or not. For Wukong it's additionally "where was the game made", since it's one of the few high profile Chinese games (outside of China) and Steam has a lot of Chinese users.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

100% Agree. I'll throw Elden Ring into the "I don't get why these games are so popular with people" category.

Not sure how Elden Ring won Labour of Love either.

[–] minyakcurry@monyet.cc 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Didn't you hear? Fromsoft nerfed consort radahn = labour of love. Never mind Larian Studios casually dropping new subclasses in a patch 1 year after release.

[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I am actually shocked that Baldur's Gate didn't get that award. total bullshit tbh.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stardew deserved it more. Game is maintained for 9 years now and still gets updates.

[–] minyakcurry@monyet.cc 2 points 10 months ago

Actually valid. Though I feel like concernedape genuinely needs to take a break. Stop giving us more!

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What didn't you like about Elden Ring? I thought it was awesome, and I'm hard to please when it comes to mainstream big studio games like that!

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but why LOL? That's for games getting long term patching and devs going to extra mile, like DRG, BG3, etc. Not From Software stuff.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or Stardew Valley getting new content 9 years later.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Not my cup of tea. Haven't been about to get into any of the souls like style of games. Not sure what it is.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Yeah but the Chinese market absolutely flooded it with votes.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's probably all because it didn't win the GOTY in the games awards so all the fanboys went to make their game win something.

The game is not goty material, and for how shitty the devs are, they don't deserve crap.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who cares about the GOTY?

I'd say Chinese people don't.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They didn't care so much they review bombed the winner...

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And also Baldurs Gate 3 for some reason

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Action games with few linear cutscenes between hours of finger break wins those awards almost every year, simply because they are more popular. I was actually shocked last year when a game with actual story won that cathegory.