Shaz from PS: "The recently announced nominees for The Game Awards bring to light an ongoing issue with the awards show."
The Epic Games Store is giving away two Styx games this week.
The new offering is geared towards 'senior decision-makers' across the industry.
PlayStation Store shoppers are seeing fewer undesirable search results. ThiGamesDE, a major publisher of shovelware like The Jumping Spaghetti, no longer appears on the marketplace. The games are inexpensive, duplicate versions of other titles that appeal to trophy hunters.
dude who made those games definitely made bank with them tho.
im glad they're gone tho
Too bad for the trophy hunters, but this action is necessary.
The existence of these games for the sole purpose of helping people pad their trophy list cheapens the experience.
It also clutters the store with garbage games.
I wouldn't even care if you could just filter them
but I like sorting by newest to oldest to see new games and this really just ruins it
Politics and backroom wheeling and dealing are common for many awards. The lobbying, gifts, parties, campaigns with lavish spending, etc for films and television is a massive undertaking. Movie awards often come down to who has spent the most on the campaigns. Warner Bros reportedly spent millions to lobby for Fury Road as an example. One report said an Oscar win could involve 4-6 million or more in campaigns per major category.
Until game awards have categories like best physics, best new mechanic, best enemy/NPC AI, best level design I cannot take them seriously…
Yeah i agree with what is said in the article, Yotei shouldn’t be anywhere near in those high categories but then again so does DK Bananza..
The guy in the article says Bananza should be in the best game direction category for this and that etc but here i am thinking how the f does a game that has awful framerate, obnoxious blabbing characters, insufferable cringe sidekick character that says weird uncomortable things that you can’t mute, derivative world design that’s very Mario Odyssey underneath, a very disappointing end game with disappointing challenges, a paid dlc nostalgia world that only 8 years ago would have been in the main game (imagine if Mushroom Kindom in Odyssey was paid dlc and cost $19.99), only 4 DK country nostalgia levels (only 4?? Come on man) how does a game like that deserve to be anywhere near those big categories? So all this “award shows have a problem” thing always comes down to people being pissed or disappoined that a game they liked isn’t nominated or didn’t win something or in my case here with my little rant a game did get nominated for several things but does not deserve it IMO.
So politics and some sort of bias will always be involved so instead of always complaining we should just be grateful that games that deserve to be there, games made with pure passion and creativity like BG3, Astro Bot, E33, Silksong are there being nominated and wining.
Personally, I think I brewed one Saviour Schnapps too many in GOTY nominee KCD2. Couldn’t finish it. The sim life, man. I already have one thankless job, lol! 🤣