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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Steam "Best of 2024" Awards
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 22:55:44 +0100
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On 1/4/2025 9:31 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> Steam released their "Best of 2024" rewards. While I generally don't
> hold any of these awards in high regard, the Steam list does seem a
> bit more reflective of, you know, games people actually played and
> liked than the other award shows, which seem aimed more at pleasing
> the publishers than listening to those pesky customers.
> 
> [Although that 'Best on SteamDeck category is a bit self-serving ;-)]
> 
>      Game of the Year: 			Black Myth: Wukong
>      Outstanding Visual Style: 		Silent Hill 2
>      Most Innovative Gameplay: 		Liar's Bar
>      Outstanding Story-Rich Game: 	Black Myth: Wukong
>      Sit Back and Relax: 		Farming Simulator 25
>      VR Game of the Year: 		Metro Awakening
>      Labor of Love: 			Elden Ring (2022)
>      Best Soundtrack: 			Red Dead Redemption
>      Best on Steam Deck: 		God of War Ragnarök
>      Better with Friends: 		Helldivers
>      Best Game You Suck At: 		Black Myth: Wukong
> 
>     [I'm calling out Elden Ring 'cause it was released in 2022.
>      All the rest of the games are 2024 releases. On PC, anyway.
>      A number of them came out years earlier on other platforms]
> 
> 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. ;-)
> 
> 

It's the "which game's publisher paid us for it" awards