This won "Outstanding Visual Style Award" in the steamies!

[Karl Pilkington]

I'm not entirely sure why it won the steam award but congratulations... but.. It should have been Scorn.

[CastielArch]

Nguyên văn bởi Spring Bag:

Total Agree. Scorn should have won visual style.
Even though I thought Scorn's gameplay was boring.

Yeah, but people are stupid and can't vote for what they're asked.
I've seen people say "I voted this game because the gameplay is better"...for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ visual style award...
Truth is, people just vote for the game they like without taking into account what award it is, no honnesty whatsoever...

[Souma]

too many normies and consumooers are PC gamers

[Manny Pardo]

This award is a robbery, call Spiderman !

[=Snappy=]

Nguyên văn bởi Karl Pilkington:

I'm not entirely sure why it won the steam award...

Agree. It looks like every other UE game, at a glance. (Hey, let's use the whole color pallette in every scene, cuz that's what all the colors are there for, right?!) And every other game, at a second glance. (Hey, yeah, that first thing I said, plus gameplay "innovations" that are actually just tropes. And the story? Haven't played but I'd bet my whole account it's probably 99% tropes, too. Oh wait I forgot it's MM now not PP so that changes everything, right? Yeah.)

P.S. marvel is tired and DC is tired and comics are tired and SM is tired. He needs to do that upside-down web thing and rock himself to sleep.

[Star Taker]

Nguyên văn bởi Asuryan Fried Malekith:

This year has convinced me that the steam awards are a joke.

GoW, a game from 2016, shouldn't have even been a nominee.

Death Stranding for best game played on the go? Even the people on that communities hub are confused.

And this for best art direction? Just lol. Steam should just give up on this awards ♥♥♥♥♥♥. It leaves more people scratching their heads then not.

its not like these awards mean anything, ppl just vote for steam badges, at the end of the day, we all enjoy our fav games on our own without some superficial awards

[Pelmenji]

Nguyên văn bởi Oreo Boi:

its not like these awards mean anything, ppl just vote for steam badges, at the end of the day, we all enjoy our fav games on our own without some superficial awards

true but I do feel bad for the devs of Scorn who put so much effort into the visuals of their game and then have a fairly cookie-cutter looking game be publicly proclaimed to be more "visually outstanding" than theirs, ESPECIALLY because it was done by popular vote.

[MooP]

Agreed, even tho it was not as good as we hoped SCORN should have won that award...

[Cruna]

Nguyên văn bởi Karl Pilkington:

I'm not entirely sure why it won the steam award but congratulations... but.. It should have been Scorn.

Wow other people voted for Scorn also? Yeah. Same here. The award was for "outstanding Visuals" While Spiderman does have wonderful city environments, it wasn't actually something new or special compared to any other similar game. And Scorn was outstanding both in quality and it's Giger style was a breath of fresh air overall, to see something new.

[Stormspark]

This makes a lot more sense than the fake "Game Awards" that aren't even legitimate. Those are an industry circle jerk where the dude that runs it sells awards. It's all bought and paid for. I'll take a popularity contest over that any day.

Also, the way Steam works, when voting on things, it will at first only give you options to vote for games you own. Not everyone is going to go through the store and look through games they DON'T own and haven't played to vote for them.

Steam also will not let you vote for a game more than once. If you vote for it for any category, you can't vote for the game in any other category. I juggled my choices around quite a bit to find a category each game I wanted to vote for fit best in. I personally think Steam should introduce some sort of ranked choice voting, that might help mitigate this...where say you can vote for something for GOTY, and select secondary and tertiary categories also. So if the game fails to win GOTY, then your vote transfers to the second category. If it fails to win that, the third.

I actually didn't vote for this game for visual style, I just said I could understand why someone else might. But I didn't vote for Scorn either, because I haven't played it.

[AleX]

Spider-Man looks average at best and is also graphically bugged on PC.

SCORN looks a million times better both Graphic and Artstyle wise.

[Luna ~]

not true you can vote for games you don't own, I voted cult of lamb and dont own it.
Steam only lets users vote if they spent X amount before a certain date though so it cant be as rigged as bad. The nominations however you can only nominate games you own.

[badfluffy]

Who gives a rats ass though? Nobody actually wins anything. They're fictional awards nobody cares about in the industry and there's no cash prize so who cares?

[Pelmenji]

Nguyên văn bởi badfluffy:

Who gives a rats ass though? Nobody actually wins anything. They're fictional awards nobody cares about in the industry and there's no cash prize so who cares?

Because the winning games, as well as the nominated, can use it for advertizing. Same thing with review scores nowadays. Few read the actual reviews anymore, people see a "9/10", people think "ah, must be a good game". And publishers of course use these to show off.

Is it stupid of people to base their purchase descision on that? Yes but it still works so people still care about it. Not for the prize it has but for it's marketing value. Better than some static cash prize if you ask me.