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People talk about Baldur's Gate for months after it's released. Nobody talked about this after two weeks. Same with Starfield.
I'm not much of a gamer anymore but cultural osmosis and all, I genuinely was surprised to find out Starfield was a bethesda game
my tiktok is still full of asterion and karlach thirst
i mean im responsible for my content but its still there
It DESERVES a spotlight.
It's mid. Deal with it. 
It is incredibly mid. My wife played it and outside of some areas she said it was boring and repetitive
Wot if ur AAA Ubisoft-style bloated action adventure was based on a problematic YA series?
Meanwhile the game where you can be in queer polyam relationships with your entire party and it's fine is going to win most of the awards. Go woke get paid, apparently.
Go woke get paid, apparently.
Or fuck, just write some dialogue that isn't more thin and wooden than an IKEA bedroom suite.
Much like Disco Elysium, the game does afford you plenty of opportunities to be a pig, a freak, and a sadistic asshole by turns (hell, they even give you a background that's carte blanche murder-hobo). There's no reason Hogwarts-heads can't live out their most fascist fantasies by playing a full team of slavish dogmatic Githyanki or rolling Trad Clerics who go from scene to scene and murdering every White Knight and Goth Girl they come across. Its all available to you, if you don't mind short-circuiting a bunch of fun cut scenes.
Half the joke of BG3 is how accommodating it is to virtually every play style you can imagine by padding out the plot. You'd never know it was Woke unless you insisted on staring over someone's shoulder through their entire play.
It's a really good game
That's made billions of $$$
In a franchise loved by millions
Billions of flies love shit, but I ain't gonna eat it
Billions of flies love shit, but I ain’t gonna eat it
My new favorite words of wisdom
Any defense of a piece of media that cites sales numbers should result in forced reeducation. My son you have become the brand, repent and return to humanity
By this logic FIFA and Call of Duty should automatically win the award every year
RAID: Shadow Legends would be museum-tier gallery art.
It came out the same year as Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, and Armored Core VI. There was no way it was going to be recognized.
These piss babies are pathetic and their game sucked
Now Armored Core 6 on the other hand is getting snubbed
No fan of the potter game ever talks about the emotional resonance of the plot lines or how good the combat is.
Which is Wild in a way. They love this game but can’t seem to like any part of the game other than “I walked around Hogwarts”
Buying and playing it was virtue signaling for the kind of assholes that constantly whine about "wokes" virtue signaling. It was a performative gesture; the game sucking didn't matter.
It's not nominated because people and critics are tired of the same open world pseudo RPG game. Same reason Starfield did not get nominated. Look at the nominations:
The only game there that could fit in the "open world pseudo RPG" genre is Zelda, but it's usually so well made and executed as a Zelda game that most people don't really care. People will play a Zelda game no matter the genre.
Outer Wilds never got a game award. I mean, I had to go look it up just now just in case, because the game awards are about as on my radar as the ocars.
also, in 2020, they had a VR/AR category for Alyx, and then never had the category again.
VR's killer app killed it.
The "audience they create the show for" forgot this game exists like a month after release.
If it’s such a good game, why havent i heard anyone try and spoil it?
Destiny had a dogshit pile of a story, yet i know about what’s going on in it.
Some if us were doing that when it came out, I think one of the professors dies or was evil or something like that
I remember trying to spoil it, but snake already killed dumbolddoor, I mean how many more random moody professors going postal is going to be a surprise?
Literally forgot this game existed until I saw this ngl
Imagine this being your entire personality.
Even worse, it's her career. 70k subs on youtube, so about half of the entire population of /r/KotakuInAction. Daily or twice daily uploads. No editing as far as I can tell. About 10 minutes of ranting to a camera while slowly scrolling through an entertainment weekly article. Every video title has a word capitalized like RUINED or ERASED or FREAKOUT or FAILURE.
Harry Potter horseshit aside, the game itself just looks like a generic game, I'd have mistaken it for a Ubisoft game if it wasn't for the franchise itself.
imagine thinking that a triple A video game connected to one of the most profitable media franchises of all time doesn't already have the largest spotlight imaginable. i guarantee that my mother is aware that shit exists.
I've seeded 3 tb, hope it helped 20 people to find their 1 hour of happiness 
going by that stupid logic the marvel slop franchise deserves at leat 20 oscars because it made billions too? Has media litteracy sunk so low that merit is now judged based on fucking profits lmao.
There are no bad videogames, only bad reviewers that aren't a fan of the series.
- Gamer X
- Dunkey
I'll put it like this. I have a very insufferably liberal friend (a 'rah rah Ukraine' 'Russian jets are a joke, I know because of articles and DCS world') that I play games with because he's a soft-boi who I like playing games with even if I don't like his politics.
Naturally, he was very excited about Harry Potter coming out. And yet, he gushed about the game for about a week after it came out and I haven't heard dick about it since. It's a mediocre game, at best.
You wave a stick, speak shitty Latin, and magic happens. I know it sounds great on paper (no it doesn't) but tell me what they give you that any Elder Scrolls game doesn't? Because it's sure as shit not a good story.
The real game of the year is not Wizard game or even any of the nominees. It's actually a 50+ hour monochromatic sokoban puzzle game but Gamers™ aren't ready for that yet.
Yeah even without the Harry Potter license, it's the same kind of Ubisoft sandbox game that gets made a dozen times per year. Uninspired busy work game largely meant to sell nostalgia to wistful millennials. Was anyone really expecting it to go down as a masterpiece?
