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?

[Crazy Tiger]

Opprinnelig skrevet av ValentB:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Seraphita:

Numbers you don't like =/= propaganda. It seems like Wukong beat them all and you have no evidence of the contrary. Buuut I will be waiting, if you ever have any...

By this logic Genshin Impact & Co also "beat" such "awful" games like FF14 Online or
GTA Online.

No. A game beating another game in numbers doesn't mean another game is "awful". It just means more people play/like them. And yes, markets influence that. Which is fine.

People shouldn't attribute more value to things than there is.

Personally I don't get the issue. Somehow it's ok if a game is popular in the Western gaming world, but a game popular in the Chinese gaming world is an issue?

[General Beef]

Picking RDR over SH2 for best soundtrack is brain dead af

[wesnef]

Opprinnelig skrevet av X T R A U M A:

Despite of any awards everywhere, I trust Steam rating on games more than everything simply because you have to actually bought the game first. So when it's written Overwhelmingly Positive, it's overwhelmingly postive..by the people who actually PLAYED.

Eh, between review bombers, meme reviews, joke reviews, award farmers, agenda reviewers (anti-DLC, anti-'woke', anti-AAA, etc). . . I trust Steam reviews about as far as I can throw NYC.


That said, yeah - a lot of people bought & liked Wukong. So yeah, not surprising it got a lot of votes. /shrug

(and yes - the large market in China can have a gravitational effect on various industries. Hollywood has been making sure their 'big' blockbusters don't have anything to keep them out of the China market for years now, for instance.)

[gordo compu]

labor of love elden ring... lmao

[DNL SLDKV]

Opprinnelig skrevet av 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.

Sure, it deserved to be Game of the Year, but story-rich? Against STALKER 2 with multiple endings? It's a damn joke. Wukong's storyline is the most generic ♥♥♥♥ that anyone can come up with.

[suomuhauki]

Opprinnelig skrevet av dazza0511:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ghost_Ship_Supreme:

Huh? I've never even heard of that game

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ghost_Ship_Supreme:

Did it only win because china

Nice Ragebait, I'm not buying ty.

not a ragebait, it won because chinese players spam vote it just because its chinese
it works because they alone make up for 30% of steam users, look at nine sols developers, they got review bombed by chinese players because they are taiwanese

[Piston Smashed™]

Opprinnelig skrevet av suomuhauki:

Opprinnelig skrevet av dazza0511:

Nice Ragebait, I'm not buying ty.

not a ragebait, it won because chinese players spam vote it just because its chinese
it works because they alone make up for 30% of steam users, look at nine sols developers, they got review bombed by chinese players because they are taiwanese

If that was the case then why didn't they spam vote the entire awards and have a clean sweep of Chinese games...

[Hinokami, ArchSimp God]

Blade and sorcery should have won the vr award. the only reason why it didnt is because people just choose a completly random game in categories they didnt know what to choose. And that is true for other awards as well. like im sorry but god of war ragnarok is one the worst game to play on the steam deck. yeah, its a fun game, but on steam deck you will be able to play for like 30 min before the battery runs out. an indie game should have won.like i would never play flight simulator on my steam deck for the same reason.

[crunchyfrog]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Len:

Opprinnelig skrevet av 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.

Sure, it deserved to be Game of the Year, but story-rich? Against STALKER 2 with multiple endings? It's a damn joke. Wukong's storyline is the most generic ♥♥♥♥ that anyone can come up with.

That might be TO YOU.

But you're missing how things work. Awards, while silly, are voted on by people and as such THEY get to vote on what THEY THINK is correct.

You not agreeing doesn't mean anything. Even if you're more technically correct. The fact is that ALL awards work like this, I'm sorry you don't understand it.

The thing you need to remember is that a lot of people might not read things, or get a bit fanboy like, or truly think different to you. And they vote accordingly.

Awards are asking for your vote from the selections given. That's it.

[Magical Viktor ★]

The worst ceremony

[Rob⛧Slayer]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Seraphita:

Opprinnelig skrevet av ValentB:

Nobody loves this game. Outside China, it sold less than SW Outlaws and DA Veilguard. Let alone actual great games like Metaphor ReF, STALKER 2 and P3 Reload.

"Nobody loves this game."

Black Myth Wukong: https://steamdb.info/app/2358720/charts/

DA:VG: https://steamdb.info/app/1845910/charts/

SWO: https://steamdb.info/app/2842040/charts/

Metaphor: https://steamdb.info/app/2679460/charts/

Stalker 2: https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/charts/

Persona 3: https://steamdb.info/app/2161700/charts/

Uh huh...

I have no doubt it was a good game that people enjoyed, but Game of the Year? Lmao. Steam isn't a reliable source for awards. Valve does nothing to combat bots on their platform because inflated active user numbers are a beneficial flex for them when they make those stats public.

[Widowmaker.CpD]

Lol Black Myth Wukong as game of the year? Let's take a look at those IP addresses where the votes came from... It was a great game, but it was a Souls clone boss rush game that told a Chinese folklore story. It was a safe bet for Game Science. Safe doesn't win GotY. Also, you do not need to own the game to vote for it on Steam, which loses a lot of credibility.

[Ramstar]

TLDR for all - when it hits £15 or less it’ll be worth a try..go ahead and try to justify a £50 game these days with so many exceptional indie devs out there.

[Star Lord]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ice_Tea_Zero:

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

I agree. What “updates” for Elden Ring came out that overshadowed No Man’s Sky???

[Zefar]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Widowmaker.CpD:

Lol Black Myth Wukong as game of the year? Let's take a look at those IP addresses where the votes came from... It was a great game, but it was a Souls clone boss rush game that told a Chinese folklore story. It was a safe bet for Game Science. Safe doesn't win GotY. Also, you do not need to own the game to vote for it on Steam, which loses a lot of credibility.

Have you played the game at all?
It isn't a Souls clone boss rush game. It plays more in style of Devil May Cry series.

Also what's wrong with sticking with a story and doing a real good version of it?

Opprinnelig skrevet av Star Lord:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ice_Tea_Zero:

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

I agree. What “updates” for Elden Ring came out that overshadowed No Man’s Sky???

The massive Expansion that it got.