Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 16:40:29 +0000
From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Steam "Best of 2024" Awards
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:39:44 -0500
Message-ID: <85dlnjhtulp5o5fd4pp97qtuqf1r987itm@4ax.com>
References: <616jnjdpe31dno26euauhpjvd52gpbdtmu@4ax.com> <slrnvnjp0r.hqf.usenet@raspberrypi.geeknix.net>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 42
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-NFrZ9t5zTA6D3OywfDfWpqvLjYDZL/jR3FTwhixPjwL0/mma4TDEWcAWYoSP1S/B2ZuPS8AkJtw7tSH!LQW61x3JtKrnMnHg6+jInL6JPiBVlUE4zrbQXru8JFGRjEF19s5RvIa5Qakw3bxE/o3Lrm4X
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
Bytes: 2976

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:00:04 GMT, Geeknix
<usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote:

>On 2025-01-04, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's good advertising, anyway. It reminds me that -eventually- I want
>> to get around to playing "Black Myth: Wukong" and "Elden Ring". I'll
>> probably grab "Silent Hill 2", "Liar's Bar" and "Red Dead Redemption"
>> too. But I'm skipping "God of War: Ragnarok"; I don't want to bother
>> with Sony's account requirements. Maybe one day, if it ever makes its
>> way to GOG. ;-)
>
>My son played RDR2, he loved how the story changed based on how you
>interact with it. He played it through twice with different styles to
>see what would happen.


RDR2 is an exceptional game (even if not entirely to my liking). It
should be noted, however, that the award this year went to the
/original/ "Red Dead Redemption" and not its sequel. RDR1 only
recently got a port to PC.


>
>I would have liked to see more categories like; best Indie, best small
>studio or single dev, most innovative game. Basically some categories
>that help less established publishers.

I'd have liked more categories too. A few more of the typical
genre-based awards, for instance (best strategy, best adventure, best
first-person, etc.) as well as those you mentioned.

Still, the results aren't too surprising, since the Steam Awards are
(reputedly) voted on by Steam users, and the biggest and best-known
games are obviously going to have a huge voting advantage over the
tinier titles that only a few dozen people have ever heard of. Valve
does stack the deck a bit by pre-populating the poll. Nominally you
can select /any/ game in your Steam library as a candidate, but as any
pollster (or teacher) can tell you: people will almost always go with
the offered options rather than selecting their own.