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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning?

I'm perfectly fine with people making money in exchange for an excellent product, and Expedition 33 is a fucking masterpiece.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I won't say E33 didn't deserve to win an award, it definitely did. But I will absolutely say with certainty it did not deserve to be nominated in so many categories and proceed to win basically every category.

    Having an award show give awards to only one nominee feels bad for everyone except the show runners, that one nominee, and their fans. Lots of games deserved to be there that simply weren't, and lots of nominees deserved to win but didn't simply because E33 won this year's popularity contest.

    For example, Best Performance should not have been allowed to have 50% of the nominees be from the same game (E33, in this case).

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I get where you're coming from, but awards shows shouldn't be participation trophies. The panels should give the awards for each category to the games they think were the best in that category.

    And games aren't made by a single person. If they decided that E33 shouldn't win Best Music because it also won Best Art Direction, that's unfair to the composers and musicians who worked on E33.

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