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 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> 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 wrote: >On 2025-01-04, Spalls Hurgenson 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.