Black Myth Wukong won the steam awards?

[Ghost_Ship_Supreme]

Huh? I've never even heard of that game until the winners were announced...
Did it only win because china or something?

[Ice_Tea_Zero]

Elden Ring winning labor of love and a game from 2010 best soundtrack is even more ridiculous.

[crunchyfrog]

No it won because it is legitimately a great game.

You not hearing about it doesn't mean anything. It did come out of nowhere of course, no doubt because it's Chinese and the language barrier can often be a thing.

But it's utterly justified.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Ghost_Ship_Supreme:

Huh? I've never even heard of that game

That's kind of impressive. It was all over game media.

[Soren]

Nice to see Chinese culture getting recognised like that. Journey to the West is kind of classic in it's own right, but there isn't a lot of media that uses it directly. Mostly just indirectly using Wukong as a character in their own fictional setting/world.

[dazza0511]

Originally posted by Ghost_Ship_Supreme:

Huh? I've never even heard of that game

Originally posted by Ghost_Ship_Supreme:

Did it only win because china

Nice Ragebait, I'm not buying ty.

[crunchyfrog]

Also, it was quite sweet how the game came out in China.

It's easy to get news of how awful the CCP is and how the bad stuff continually goes on in China. But the week Black Myth was released a number of companies were giving away the game to staff and some even gave a day off to play it.

[Volfogg]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Originally posted by Ghost_Ship_Supreme:

Huh? I've never even heard of that game

That's kind of impressive. It was all over game media.

I barely heard about it myself. I didn't even bother to check what it was about. I avoid game media usually.

[ŋıɠɧɬɱąཞɛ!]

Space Marine 2 got completely locked out? What? Did Wukong need to win 13 awards and SM 2 not even earn one? Seriously?

[Sparks]

The game awards have been awful for like 4 years now, both the big event and steam awards. Enjoy and tell an angry gamer how wrong he is about his ramblings :)

An Elden Ring / Darksouls game with a Far Cry perk tree made game of the year.

A Russian roulette game is apparently innovative.

More un-optimized High definition slop made Outstanding Visual Style. (This is not a dump on the game its self, just what it was nominated for.. i know its a good game)

Elden Ring has labor of love despite having few game changing updates and 1 DLC. (That for some reason got nominated for game of the year dispite being extended content?)

VR, eh, okay cool VR exists.

Valve system plug.

HD2 makes sense. Cool i guess

Wukong for BGYSA makes sense. Cool i guess

I don't know its story so i have no Opinion on Story Rich.

RDD soundtrack? Sure i guess?

Relax game, sure, probably better options.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Nightmare!:

Space Marine 2 got completely locked out? What? Did Wukong need to win 13 awards and SM 2 not even earn one? Seriously?

A flaw in a user voting process. Where users of the most popular game are going try and make that one game win every category it's nominated in, even if it's not a strong contender in all those categories.

[Ice_Tea_Zero]

Originally posted by Sparks:

The game awards have been awful for like 4 years now, both the big event and steam awards. Enjoy and tell an angry gamer how wrong he is about his ramblings :)

An Elden Ring / Darksouls game with a Far Cry perk tree made game of the year.

A Russian roulette game is apparently innovative.

More un-optimized High definition slop made Outstanding Visual Style. (This is not a dump on the game its self, just what it was nominated for.. i know its a good game)

Elden Ring has labor of love despite having few game changing updates and 1 DLC. (That for some reason got nominated for game of the year dispite being extended content?)

VR, eh, okay cool VR exists.

Valve system plug.

HD2 makes sense. Cool i guess

Wukong for BGYSA makes sense. Cool i guess

I don't know its story so i have no Opinion on Story Rich.

RDD soundtrack? Sure i guess?

Relax game, sure, probably better options.

Didn't u know? Liar's bar invented Russian Roulette.

[Nihi]

I think China should have their own separate awards, given that they want to have their own market separate from the rest of the world, I don't see why everyone else should accept them to be part of our market.
Chinese players can't even play half the games that made it to be finalists, ofc they'll vote for the ones they can play.

Get your ♥♥♥♥ together Valve, as it is your awards is even worse than the game awards.

[Zeph Grey]

Originally posted by Sparks:

The game awards have been awful for like 4 years now, both the big event and steam awards. Enjoy and tell an angry gamer how wrong he is about his ramblings :)

An Elden Ring / Darksouls game with a Far Cry perk tree made game of the year.

A Russian roulette game is apparently innovative.

More un-optimized High definition slop made Outstanding Visual Style. (This is not a dump on the game its self, just what it was nominated for.. i know its a good game)

Elden Ring has labor of love despite having few game changing updates and 1 DLC. (That for some reason got nominated for game of the year dispite being extended content?)

VR, eh, okay cool VR exists.

Valve system plug.

HD2 makes sense. Cool i guess

Wukong for BGYSA makes sense. Cool i guess

I don't know its story so i have no Opinion on Story Rich.

RDD soundtrack? Sure i guess?

Relax game, sure, probably better options.

More or less agree. Especially Elden Ring getting Labor of Love, and Farm Simulator getting Sit back and Relax. All the hard-working, dedicated indie devs out there slaving over projects just for the love of being able to create a game, and we end up with big studios. I'm not saying Elden Ring isn't a good game, but there are games that have a lot more love poured into them. And Farm Simulator..? Yeah, no.

[Lucky Overlord]

The Steam Awards is just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke at this point. The only winner that even remotely makes sense this year was Helldivers 2 as "Better With Friends"...

[Scrumbles]

Originally posted by Sparks:

The game awards have been awful for like 4 years now, both the big event and steam awards. Enjoy and tell an angry gamer how wrong he is about his ramblings :)

An Elden Ring / Darksouls game with a Far Cry perk tree made game of the year.

A Russian roulette game is apparently innovative.

More un-optimized High definition slop made Outstanding Visual Style. (This is not a dump on the game its self, just what it was nominated for.. i know its a good game)

Elden Ring has labor of love despite having few game changing updates and 1 DLC. (That for some reason got nominated for game of the year dispite being extended content?)

VR, eh, okay cool VR exists.

Valve system plug.

HD2 makes sense. Cool i guess

Wukong for BGYSA makes sense. Cool i guess

I don't know its story so i have no Opinion on Story Rich.

RDD soundtrack? Sure i guess?

Relax game, sure, probably better options.

Most, if not all, of the selections boil down to 2 things when it comes to the voting: popularity and/or trolling/meme.