No awards at The Game Awards???

[Barbarian]

I am so disappointed that this game did not get any awards this year. For the first time we had a game which was very true to the Alien universe and did the task more than expected. It should have won at least one award.

[Ben Dover]

There is no reason to be disappointed. These game awards are worth nothing. The game is still good.

[Barbarian]

Originally posted by Jack of Games:

There is no reason to be disappointed. These game awards are worth nothing. The game is still good.

Why is not there a reason to not be disappointed? I am because I love this game and feel it deserves recognition outside Steam forums. I think the awards are worth something. It is recognition and respect.

[deepeyes]

What ? No award at all ?

[Sovereign108]

lol an RTS game like Aliens Dark Descent does not have a broad appeal like Baldurs Gate 3 did. Does not mean its bad.

[Barbarian]

Originally posted by Sovereign108:

lol an RTS game like Aliens Dark Descent does not have a broad appeal like Baldurs Gate 3 did. Does not mean its bad.

Why is it LOL? I shared my thoughts/opinion. Yeah, I understand the appeal part. But there were several categoories which I feel this game would have had a place in.

Just take a look at this list/categories: https://thegameawards.com/nominees

[Sovereign108]

If there was a Best Atmosphere category, this game would be in it!

Anyway, awards are always high competition.

[Narrowmind]

Not really. There have actually been terrible games that have won awards over the years. It's some kind of popularity contest.

[Shockwave]

There are many games better than this one. While this is good, it isn't so shocking it didn't win an award. Can you make a case for which award it should have won and why it is better than the game that did win?

[lynchie72]

When you see some of the nominations you can see that they are skewed towards games that have very high player counts.

[IAmSquidget]

Game Awards are a junk popularity contest, and just an excuse to show endless launch trailers. It's been like this for years. It means nothing.

And yes, I say this even when games I like win. Seriously, it means nothing.

[Crypto Gamer]

Basically popular well known AAA games are on the list with much higher budget,reputation than this nieche RTS AA game with much more jank.

Many people heard about Resident evil 4 remake or Alan awake 2 quite many do not even know Alien Dark Descent exist.

[Patarack]

I dont care about any awards, this is still a great game. With that said, this year it was pretty high competition. A lot of really good games.

[tadleszcz]

The game awards this year were actually not that bad? I love this game, but is it really unfair that a more popular game will beat a niche one?

[Kaelortis]

Keep in mind the game awards are 90% decided by some panel , 10% outside vote. Its like looking to film critics to see who would win film awards, it means absolutely zero since only 10% are from actual gamers. Only steam awards matters as that's us using our voice, it is 100% decided by the gamer's.

[ED-E]

I think it didn't help it was released in such a buggy state that many reviewers punished their score for that (rightfully so). Once the average Metacritic/OpenCritic falls under 80, I guess most judges in an award show don't care to take a close look. I mean the judges have to filter out a couple of games out of those ~14.000 games which came out this year.

Case in point "Company of Heroes 3". A game which is not really liked by many players on Steam but had an average 81 Metacritic score. It was nominated in "Best Sim/Strategy" but Aliens: Dark Decent was not, even though it could have had a shot there. It didn't even need to win, the mere presence on the board would have been a good ad.

That it goes diffferent however were the judges for "Best Action" which nominated "Dead Island 2" (which had under 80 Metacritic score). So it really depends who you have in there to push for games which are not review darlings.