Game Awards

[Theodric]

I'm probably overlooking something, but the following games are those that I enjoyed the most this year:

- Resident Evil 2 Remake
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Death Stranding winning so many awards is incredibly suspicious. Though there's always been a weird cult surrounding Kojima, the guy hosting the Game Awards has a cameo within the game itself and pretentious, 'artsy' games tend to be praised highly by critics only to fall flat with regular people.

A number of negative reviews over on Metacritic were also nuked recently, which is worthy of concern given that nothing was done to eliminate the flood of '10/10' reviews from fanatics seeking to inflate the score.

[Gula]

Death Stranding winning so many awards is incredibly suspicious. Though there's always been a weird cult surrounding Kojima, the guy hosting the Game Awards has a cameo within the game itself and pretentious, 'artsy' games tend to be praised highly by critics only to fall flat with regular people.

Nominated, but not won. I believe it was only best soundrack, to which XIV was robbed by not having a chance. The main theme alone for ShB is award worthy in itself.

[purgatori]

I'm probably overlooking something, but the following games are those that I enjoyed the most this year:

- Resident Evil 2 Remake
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Death Stranding winning so many awards is incredibly suspicious. Though there's always been a weird cult surrounding Kojima, the guy hosting the Game Awards has a cameo within the game itself and pretentious, 'artsy' games tend to be praised highly by critics only to fall flat with regular people.

A number of negative reviews over on Metacritic were also nuked recently, which is worthy of concern given that nothing was done to eliminate the flood of '10/10' reviews from fanatics seeking to inflate the score.

Even as someone who regards Kojima as a genius, I think Death Stranding was a fiasco of a game, and that it was only spared the sort of opprobrium that most games would attract if they amounted to nothing more than wearisome treks across empty landscapes because of the Kojima brand. Fortnite's win is easy to understand: it's by no means a good game, but it managed to steal the crown in a burgeoning genre populated by competitors who weren't/aren't even capable of making semi-competent products. Death Stranding, though? I suspect that it's strictly the critics' darling, and so how it won the popular vote—if popular vote it was—is beyond me. I would have thought that the halo granted by people actively willing themselves to somehow enjoy the game would have faded by now.