It is crazy how Steam users seem to interact with the platform exclusively in bad faith. The reviews are filled with memes, joke reviews and drama. You will lose IQ points just by opening the forums. And of course, people troll the awards. Not that I would expect a mainstream gaming platform to attract geniuses, but Steam community is definitely bottom of the barrel.
What platforms have you been frequenting (or avoiding) where steam is the bottom of the barrel?
Honestly, steam reviews are far more useful than most review systems. Ign or metacritic are nearly useless in comparison.
Most Innovative Gameplay Award: Starfield
still funnyWhat the actual fuck lmao. How does Skyrim in space win the most innovative gameplay award?
Gamers have lost their minds I swear
It was a deliberate joke, I think
It’s not even Skyrim in Space.
The allure of Skyrim is that your given a quest 5 miles away and on the way you literally the whole game because you keep getting distracted with infinite subplots, and sidequests.
None of that happens in Starfield. There is nothing between the end goal and the quest origin besides tens of miles of fuckin nothing. That’s why it’s “Mostly Negative” right now.
Skyrim in space is what people wanted. It was the bar to meet.
They also nominated Warhammer: 40k Darktide for the “Better with Friends” award when it was an unfinished flop that sits at 66% (Mixed) for overall reviews.
Maybe we could dare to hope for a “mostly positive” in that slot at minimum.
I knew this year’s awards were a joke the second I saw Starfield nominated for (and subsequently winning) ‘most innovative gameplay.’
This game was very popular in Taiwan but I do not think it deserves the reward. High sales because of a popular IP should not determine whether a game wins an award. Was the Steam Deck version better than the other versions? My friends who played it complained of glitches and boring gameplay.
Yes, the Hogwarts game on the Deck was glitchy as fuck despite being “Steam Deck certified”.
One of the problems was it kept opening files for content without closing the old files that are no longer used. Operating systems limit the number of files a single process can have open to prevent runaway processes and causing systems to completely hang. Linux is just a little more strict than Windows by default so the fix was to update a setting. It had obviously not been tested further than “well it starts”.
But I think that’s the joke.
I had fun for a while, but yeah, I got bored.
I feels like this sort of article pops up every single year after Steam Award. I remember the first year steam award started it’s basically the same “issue”, where game that people think don’t deserve the award are given one.
but have you considered that it’s bad actually to laud the transphobic blood libel game with Ubisoft characteristics?
particularly in a year so packed with actual decent games deserving of recognition?
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At this point the steam awards is just advertising. We don’t have proof of voting bots because Valve exclusively keeps things in secret.
When a single journo phones in an award it’s called fucking up, when it’s an entire community it’s a meme.
Enough drama, this isn’t the place to argue. Locking the thread.
