Obviously these awards are fake and gay, but some observations:
Pizza Tower only being in the debut indie, when Dredge is in both categories is a big lol. Pizza Tower got more attention than every other game in both lists combined.
Despite how much you'll get people here bitching about Baldur's Gate 3 and some of it's wokeish elements, and if you check the BG3 thread you'll see I did too just not to the shcizo levels of others, it absolutely deserves the win over the other games and it isn't particularly close. Resident Evil 4 is a fucking remake, Alan Wake is literally an lol who cares, Tears of the Kingdom would probably win if it weren't for BG3 but it is also too similar to BotW, Wonder is fine but it's a basic 2d platformer despite it's presentation and isn't really any kind of step forward. Spiderman is of course the uber-woke, Triple A slop that offers nothing that you have to fear might win because Sony and Disney will give them the most money. BG3 actually has the choice, presntation, polish and is different enough to where it's basically like Elden Ring last year - where it's the year defining game and not letting it win would would be to bright a spotlight on the fact your whole operation is completley illigitimate. They wanted like hell to give it to God of War last year, and they want like hell to give it to Spiderman this year but doing so would just be too mask off.
Starfield not getting anything is funny, and hopefully it is possible for such a snub (even in imaginationland) to make Todd and his grifters rethink their shit before they ruin Elder Scrolls 6.
Snoot Game being far better than Goodbye Volcano High which is a disaster by all accounts and still getting nominated for something is fucking hilarious.
Hogwarts Legacy being snubbed is obviously political BS, but it also isn't really that great of a game and probably wouldn't deserve to be on the GotY nominations... then again, probably better than Spiderman 2 so it probably would be if it weren't for Rowling Derangement Syndrome.
All the categories people care less about will of course be swept by the corporate shill games.
I mean if we’re talking about just the gameplay, how do you not even put that in the best ACTION game category?
