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

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.

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.

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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:
>>
>> 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. ;-)
>
>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.

>
>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.

On 05/01/2025 02:00, Geeknix wrote:
> On 2025-01-04, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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. ;-)
>
> 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.
>
> 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'm in two minds about this, yes I think it would be better to have more
categories for different genres/publishers but I also think, I don't
care about these awards any more than other games awards so why does it
matter!