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.
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.
Yeah but the Chinese market absolutely flooded it with votes.
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.
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.
Who cares about the GOTY?
I’d say Chinese people don’t.
They didn’t care so much they review bombed the winner…
And also Baldurs Gate 3 for some reason
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It was a translation error though
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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.
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.
I am actually shocked that Baldur’s Gate didn’t get that award. total bullshit tbh.
Stardew deserved it more. Game is maintained for 9 years now and still gets updates.
Actually valid. Though I feel like concernedape genuinely needs to take a break. Stop giving us more!
Thank god it didn’t
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!
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.
Or Stardew Valley getting new content 9 years later.
Wow, 0 of my 11 picks won.
Oh well, I play games but I am pretty far removed from the “Gamer” crowd.
How Frostpunk 2 didn’t win the best music is a fucking mystery.
Dix someone played Wukong ?
I’ve been curious to hear other people’s opinions too.
I watched some gameplay and it looked like a generic action game. It seemed like a toss up so I’m waiting for a sale or to see if anyone can convince me one way or the other.
I tried “My Time at Portia” recently and felt duped by that game. It was given a lot of praise and attention when it released (and similarly a game made by a Chinese studio), but felt like a single player MMO with half baked mechanics everywhere.
It had 2.4 million players at launch on Steam, so I guess a few people played it.
Not sure what I expected. Every year I miss the mark on all but one or two categories. Not sure if it’s because I’m out of touch with the gaming community or the gaming community is high. Probably the first, but people seriously picked Elden Ring for labour of love? Farm Sim for sit back and relax? RDR for soundtrack? The community has spoken I suppose.
It’s definitively the latter. Steam awards are mostly considered to be a joke. The actual interesting and well-deserving games rarely ein anything,.usually because they’re more niche
I mean, hell, starfield won the innovation award last year. I think that’s the biggest joke award that has ever been lmao. That game is about as innovative as a french fry
This is some absolute bullshit. Mouthwashing deserved something. People have no tastes.
Its just a popularity contest.
