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  • If a game does the best in multiple categories should it be skipped over just to highlight another game?

    It’s all subjective. If you make Balatro and I make BG3, there’s no objective way to evaluate “Best Game” between the two. You’ve got to make some subjective judgement (or just put your hand out and collect bribes).

    Giving one of them a full stack of awards doesn’t signal quality, it signals bias.

    If an indie studio’s first game wins best indie game how can it not also be the best debut indie game

    E33 wasn’t the studio’s first game. So it shouldn’t be winning the “award for debut games” on the ground alone.

    But yes, if you’re winning the “indie game” (which E33’s budget shouldn’t have qualified it for anyway) spotlight another game under “debut” even if you’re predisposed to favor turn based RPGs over platformers or puzzle games or simulators. In fact, especially then.

    This isn’t just recognizing the game, it’s recognizing the actors.

    It’s recognizing the budget more often than not.





  • The internet was so good in 08. You searched for stuff, found exactly what you needed, and were done.

    Shit was bad in 2008, too. The degree to which drop shippers had consolidated down to one mega-wholesaler rather than a dozen crappy fly-by-nights hadn’t happened yet. You got a dozen different flavors of crap rather than just one. But it was still crap.

    Poor kids today will never know anything other than ad ridden bot corponet.

    Under an Amazon keyword search, sure. You can still find good quality products outside of Amazon. You can even find it inside Amazon if you know what you’re looking for.

    The difference between 2008 and 2025 is primarily that Amazon’s algorithmic tools have degraded to the state of Yahoo or Sears.





  • I don’t think e33 is unreasonable.

    For any individual award, sure. It’s an arbitrary decision of taste and people can agree to disagree.

    When you’re stacking up all the awards on a single game, you’re effectively ignoring the rest of the releases for the year.

    The only issue I have is sandfall shouldn’t count as an independent game

    I’m more disgusted with giving “Best Indie” and “Best Debut Indie” to the same title. Why even have two categories at this point? It isn’t even the studio’s debut title.

    Similarly, three “Best Performance” nominees to the same title. You know what you’re doing and it’s not evaluation or recognition, it’s just promotion.

    But then these awards gave Pretty Derby the Best Mobile Game and FFT: Ivalice Chronicles (a thirty year old remaster!) Best Strategy, so whatchagonna do?

    Game awards have always been glorified ads.








  • It’s waxed and waned.

    I remember when you had to log into everything, but there wasn’t much to visit. Then people started using the Internet en mas and selling ads was the market maker. So you didn’t need to log in, but you did get the most malicious JavaScript ever written trying to jam pop-ups under your cursor.

    Now we’ve somehow managed to achieve the worst of both worlds




  • Get the fuck off Twitter, get the fuck off Reddit, get the fuck off Facebook.

    I mean, way ahead of you. But we’re just jerking each other off if we think saying this downthread of a Lemmy post is changing anyone’s mind. This is the most Preaching To The Choir ass post you can make outside of an actual church.

    We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.

    eye-roll

    Listen, if you want to walk around downtown with a big sandwich board that says “Log The Fuck Off And Touch Grass”, I’ll cheer for you when I see you. But there’s a reason people flock to an easily accessible portal for social engagement. And its naive to keep shouting “Log the fuck off!” from within the medium you can’t seem to quit yourself.