• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t think e33 is unreasonable.

    For any individual award, sure. It’s an arbitrary decision of taste and people can agree to disagree.

    When you’re stacking up all the awards on a single game, you’re effectively ignoring the rest of the releases for the year.

    The only issue I have is sandfall shouldn’t count as an independent game

    I’m more disgusted with giving “Best Indie” and “Best Debut Indie” to the same title. Why even have two categories at this point? It isn’t even the studio’s debut title.

    Similarly, three “Best Performance” nominees to the same title. You know what you’re doing and it’s not evaluation or recognition, it’s just promotion.

    But then these awards gave Pretty Derby the Best Mobile Game and FFT: Ivalice Chronicles (a thirty year old remaster!) Best Strategy, so whatchagonna do?

    Game awards have always been glorified ads.