People talk about Baldur's Gate for months after it's released. Nobody talked about this after two weeks. Same with Starfield.

It DESERVES a spotlight.

It's mid. Deal with it.

Meanwhile the game where you can be in queer polyam relationships with your entire party and it's fine is going to win most of the awards. Go woke get paid, apparently.

It's a really good game

That's made billions of $$$

In a franchise loved by millions

Billions of flies love shit, but I ain't gonna eat it

Any defense of a piece of media that cites sales numbers should result in forced reeducation. My son you have become the brand, repent and return to humanity

By this logic FIFA and Call of Duty should automatically win the award every year

These piss babies are pathetic and their game sucked

Now Armored Core 6 on the other hand is getting snubbed

It came out the same year as Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, and Armored Core VI. There was no way it was going to be recognized.

No fan of the potter game ever talks about the emotional resonance of the plot lines or how good the combat is.

Which is Wild in a way. They love this game but can’t seem to like any part of the game other than “I walked around Hogwarts”

It's not nominated because people and critics are tired of the same open world pseudo RPG game. Same reason Starfield did not get nominated. Look at the nominations:

• Alan Wake 2 (survival horror)
• Baldur's Gate 3 (a proper RPG)
• Spider Man 2 (it's Spiderman, simply flying around the city is fun)
• Resident Evil 4 (remake of legendary survival horror game)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (it's super Mario)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (it's Zelda).

The only game there that could fit in the "open world pseudo RPG" genre is Zelda, but it's usually so well made and executed as a Zelda game that most people don't really care. People will play a Zelda game no matter the genre.

Outer Wilds never got a game award. I mean, I had to go look it up just now just in case, because the game awards are about as on my radar as the ocars.

The "audience they create the show for" forgot this game exists like a month after release.

If it’s such a good game, why havent i heard anyone try and spoil it?

Destiny had a dogshit pile of a story, yet i know about what’s going on in it.

Imagine this being your entire personality.

Harry Potter horseshit aside, the game itself just looks like a generic game, I'd have mistaken it for a Ubisoft game if it wasn't for the franchise itself.

who actually thinks hogwarts legacy is better than bg3? Anybody? Come on...

imagine thinking that a triple A video game connected to one of the most profitable media franchises of all time doesn't already have the largest spotlight imaginable. i guarantee that my mother is aware that shit exists.

I've seeded 3 tb, hope it helped 20 people to find their 1 hour of happiness

There are no bad videogames, only bad reviewers that aren't a fan of the series.

- Gamer X

- Dunkey

I'll put it like this. I have a very insufferably liberal friend (a 'rah rah Ukraine' 'Russian jets are a joke, I know because of articles and DCS world') that I play games with because he's a soft-boi who I like playing games with even if I don't like his politics.

Naturally, he was very excited about Harry Potter coming out. And yet, he gushed about the game for about a week after it came out and I haven't heard dick about it since. It's a mediocre game, at best.

You wave a stick, speak shitty Latin, and magic happens. I know it sounds great on paper (no it doesn't) but tell me what they give you that any Elder Scrolls game doesn't? Because it's sure as shit not a good story.

The real game of the year is not Wizard game or even any of the nominees. It's actually a 50+ hour monochromatic sokoban puzzle game but Gamers™ aren't ready for that yet.

Yeah even without the Harry Potter license, it's the same kind of Ubisoft sandbox game that gets made a dozen times per year. Uninspired busy work game largely meant to sell nostalgia to wistful millennials. Was anyone really expecting it to go down as a masterpiece?