Re: Game Awards 2024

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 10:36:20 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

Yep they are almost upon as again. Put your hand up if you care, no me
neither. Now this looks like it's more worthwhile.
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https://uksausageweek.com/awards-winners/

Gaming Awards usually have several things going against them:

    a) they're either run as obvious marketing campaigns
       by the video game publishers, (these are the big
       flashy award shows)or
    b) they're run by people who have no idea about the
       video game market (e.g., "Hello! Magazine Presents
       Best Games of 2024!")

Either way, they tend to be incredibly out of touch with what is
really popular. Add into that mix that a lot of them rely on "Internet
Voting" to determine the winners and what comes out on top rarely
reflects the current gaming zeitgeist.

We used to have "Top 100 best games of Year-n" in video game
magazines. Those were likely influenced by the publishers too, but at
least they were written by people who were immersed in video games and
they back up their claims for why each game deserves its rank. I found
those more convicing awards than anything I've ever seen on the
Internet... and even then, they were still pretty bollocks.

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Maybe we should create our own awards ceremony. Any guesses who will win
most long winded poster? :-)

I have some ideas. Let me iterate them further in a two-hundred line
explanation of whom it could be, and why. ;-)