Re: Steam "Best of 2024" Awards

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:00:04 GMT, Geeknix
<usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote:

On 2025-01-04, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

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It's good advertising, anyway. It reminds me that -eventually- I want
to get around to playing "Black Myth: Wukong" and "Elden Ring". I'll
probably grab "Silent Hill 2", "Liar's Bar" and "Red Dead Redemption"
too. But I'm skipping "God of War: Ragnarok"; I don't want to bother
with Sony's account requirements. Maybe one day, if it ever makes its
way to GOG. ;-)

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My son played RDR2, he loved how the story changed based on how you
interact with it. He played it through twice with different styles to
see what would happen.

RDR2 is an exceptional game (even if not entirely to my liking). It
should be noted, however, that the award this year went to the
/original/ "Red Dead Redemption" and not its sequel. RDR1 only
recently got a port to PC.

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I would have liked to see more categories like; best Indie, best small
studio or single dev, most innovative game. Basically some categories
that help less established publishers.

I'd have liked more categories too. A few more of the typical
genre-based awards, for instance (best strategy, best adventure, best
first-person, etc.) as well as those you mentioned.

Still, the results aren't too surprising, since the Steam Awards are
(reputedly) voted on by Steam users, and the biggest and best-known
games are obviously going to have a huge voting advantage over the
tinier titles that only a few dozen people have ever heard of. Valve
does stack the deck a bit by pre-populating the poll. Nominally you
can select /any/ game in your Steam library as a candidate, but as any
pollster (or teacher) can tell you: people will almost always go with
the offered options rather than selecting their own.