Re: Game Awards 2024

On 01/12/2024 16:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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 in the UK have the BAFTA Games Awards and they are quite unashamedly in the who cares if it's popular this is about, well mainly anyway, games as art. Now some may say that's all rather pretentious but at least you know what you are getting!