Sifu, TLOU and RDR2 aren’t even from 2023 as well…

What a load of shite.

This is why children don’t get to vote when it really matters.

I voted for without a doubt, which i though was gonna win the most innovative

Some viewpoints would prefer it if you wrote off bg3 that way.

Why was Cyberpunk not even a finalist? They released a massive update this year and have pretty much fixed the game and added lots of new content through the DLC.

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Who knows. Kids voted on this stuff.

Probably ironically, just as Red Dead winning it despite the shennanigans behind it.

Steam Awards, like any publicly-voted award, is a name recognition contest.

The innovations in menu UI is out of this world!

Ah, but you did play it. That’s the point.

The problem with the Steam Awards is that they try to get as many people to vote as possible, even if people haven’t actually played the games in question.

People will see a bunch of games they haven’t played, be like “oh hey I at least know the name of that one” and vote for it even though they have no idea if the others are more deserving or not.

At the time I’m writing this, recent reviews reached mostly negative (29%), and all-time reviews are mixed (64%). Which is honestly a lot more than it deserves, but I would hardly call that “riding Bethesda’s cock”.

It’s probably just a matter of big games getting more votes, because of name recognition. This is just a popularity contest, after all.

Best guess is people voted it because they didn’t know any of the other games and didn’t bother to check.

I just came here to ask the same question. It’s not innovative one bit, it’s a clone of No Man’s Sky, and a shitty one at that.

The steam awards were never anything but a contest about which game is the most known. I really dislike them due to that, but at least one title (BG3 deserved it this year)

Yeah that’s pretty awful

Your Only Move is Hustle

Starfield

Shadows of Doubt

Contraband Police

Remnant 2

Which game out of the choices given do you think most people have heard of?

Steam users voted for those titles.

Just because it’s the same doesn’t make it worse though - so it definitely is up there with the best game soundtracks of games from this year

Last of us winning soundtrack award is LOL too

After they abandoned the multiplayer cause they coudnt give it money printing shark cards?

At least the multiplayer got attention, the single-player game never got anything after the initial release.

It’s almost as if all this was only a marketing ploy with no deeper significance…

Anyone who expected Starfield to win Most Innovative Gameplay, are you offering divination services to the public?

It was an easy call to make. Steam Awards are voted by the public, so it’s all about name recognition.

The other finalists in that category were Shadow of Doubt, Contraband Police, Remnant II, and Your Only Move Is Hustle. Of all these, I had heard about Starfield and Remnant II.

I’m sure some of these games are awesome and I want to check them out by virtue of being finalists, but it was pretty clear Starfield was gonna win on brand recognition alone.

Like someone else said it’s gotta be a result of the voting for the awards being awful. I wanted to like Starfield and (ducks down) even got it early at the higher price.*

But yeah lol innovation is a joke. Makes me feel bad for the devs who really made innovative stuff this year.

*To be fair I had a shitty week before that and needed a new Bethesda game to make my life less awful so it…worked? It was my comfort food ok???

I know, what an upset. Fifa2023 should have taken it.

It’s probably an ironic award, though I stand by the statement that Starfield isn’t any worse than Bethesda’s other mainstream titles post-Morrowind, except for the fact that it can’t ride on the writing of much better writers who either left the company or made the IP they acquired.

Starfield is the first pure creation of Modern Bethesda, and they can’t rely on the excellent lore and world building of other games like Fallout 1 and 2, Morrowind, etc.

That being said, 90% of issues can be solved by halving the radius for POI generation, adding a huge number of new POIs for the pool, and adding a survival mode to make shipbuilding important, space travel require fuel, and spacesuits necessary for environmental protection.

Hi Fi Rush was a great contender for sound track, I would have liked either of those winning it. Last of Us winning is fucking wonky though.

I’m hoping it was just a bunch of kids trolling bc they thought it was funny

Idunno if it’s what you meant but this comment could read like “They took a dumpster fire, poured it into a septic tank, and then added something unpleasant” 😅 Seems Fallout 4 isn’t much-loved, and at least in my mind NMS is never gonna escape the shitstorm it caused at launch (though even I’ve bought a copy by now) so… owch!

Either way, I fully agree that possibly the most despised-for-being-dull game of the year getting called “innovative” is asinine. Maybe it’s sarcastic? The only other option that makes any sense is that a lot of people just voted for it because they knew the name and had no real opinion. Kinda gross if that’s the case :-\

It’s just as innovative as fellow Most Innovative award laureate Stray’s automatically- jump-to-a-highlighted-platform style of platforming with crappy stealth sections.

Maybe it should have had an amazing soundtrack like The last of Us

That and RDR2 make no sense. What did they add to RDR2? It’s just a good game that still exists, they aren’t continuing to work on it.

1000 hours? Really? BG3 came out 153 days ago, which means you would have spent, on average, 6 and a half hours a day every day since then playing just that game. I’m not saying you’re lying… but I kind of am? (if true, seek help)

Regardless, what you said is true. BG3 offers so many options that each playthrough is so drastically different, the replayability is as close to infinite as any story-based game has gotten IMO. It’s kind of amazing the game works at all, let alone works as well as it does.

Was Ketheric the one voiced by JK Simmons? Maybe I’ve got them mixed up with another character, but I remember being surprised to hear him, followed by incredibly disappointed by how bad his delivery was.

I had a similar reaction on these titles…honestly I felt that the results were rigged. Is it just me?

for real… RDR2 has been abandoned years ago

It’s not even that big of a surprise after last year’s “best VR game” was Hitman 3. That game’s VR support is, excuse my language, absolute fucking dogshit.

Bonelab was a disappointment, absolutely, but at least it was a proper damn VR game and not a mediocre game with VR tacked on for literally no reason but, I assume, some exec’s feature checklist

BG3 plays so damn well on the steam deck, too. I don’t see how it wasn’t an option.

Also very hard to vote legitimately against a concentrated effort. 4 of the 5 games deserve to be there, should be about 25% of the vote each. 1 “luls” entry will draw the clowns that put it there, along with people who didn’t originally think "burn it down"was an option.

Neither the Last of Us Part 1 or SIFU even came out in 2023

Both launched in 2023 - on Steam that is.

Pretty much everyone voted for their favorite game