I went over to Reddit so I could keep track if the game awards because I didn’t have time to actually watch it. Holy shit the hate E33 is getting is completely ridiculous, as Reddit does. Whether you go to the Silksong, KCD2, Death Stranding, Dispatch, Arc Raiders, or any other games subreddit that was nominated for any award about half the comments saying E33 is trash, overhyped, and their game deserved to win instead. As someone that has enjoyed all of these games, the salt is absolutely bonkers. Most of the ones complaining are basically saying “I never played it but I heard they did [blank] so they don’t deserve [blank] award.”
I just don’t get why they need to shit on other people and the games they like just because their game didn’t win. Shit on TGA all you want, but the fans and the devs literally had nothing to do with winning. They were all great games and all deserve praise in their own ways. In two weeks none of us will give a shit anymore anyway and will probably be complaining that “RV There Yet” wins the “Most Innovative Gameplay” award on Steam. I mean, a flippin’ gacha game won the “Players Voice” Award and people are spending their time shitting on objectively good games.
For what it’s worth most people are more mad that E33 won best indie and best debut indie. It’s not an indie game, many people have said as much and it’s completely unfair that they won in categories meant for small budget games by small teams.
Totally deserved in other categories, but that does leave a bad taste in my mouth.
That’s pretty much where I’m at too. Though the “Indie Award” has always had similar problems before, such as the Dave the Diver debacle. But even though you could technically argue E33 is an indie it felt really wrong to have it up against something like Blue Prince in the indie categories. E33 had a huge budget with A-list actors ffs.
Game awards are ridiculous, but I will never forget Expedition 33. It deserves all the accolades it has earned and achieved.
I’ve only seen bitching about it not being an indie and taking those awards.
They hired out a small army.
Some people need to hate to fill the emptiness they feel inside.
Gamers sometimes like to act as though they’re better than most by not watching reality tv or some shit but they’re really no different in engaging in pointless drama. I remember seeing trailers for when the Wii or Switch were both coming out and expecting people to be excited and I saw gamers shiting on Nintendo like hell. I’m like, damn man, no one is forcing you to buy it …
Also, Expedition 33 is a game that transcends its medium. It deserves all the positivity it’s getting.
Hopefully their next game continues with that quality. The old RPG giants are mostly floundering are mere shells of what they used to be. Most of the old talent already sold out or retired.
The industry needs new talent to take over.
And get rid of its predators… I’m always so sad to see my friends working in the game industry so exploited, fired without a thought, all to benefit greedy executives who never played a single game in their lives…
Which is weird, since that game wasn’t even marketed. I literally hadn’t even heard of it till it started winning shit left and right
One could even say it’s quite the obscure game to win awards like this…?
That’s Clair
yes
I don’t think it had a big marketing strategy, but it definitely marketed itself through word of mouth because it definitely deserved all the praise (and now awards) it got.
If you had ever seen the Game Awards before, this isn’t exactly surprising.
It was not only good, but weird and unique. It was always going to sweep the show because that’s exactly the kind of game the judges of it have favored every single year.
That’s why the good, but ultimately derivative games didn’t win as much.
Aaaaah this game was amazing, can’t wait to download it again to play the new update
I’m so happy for them, the emotions this game brought to me were absolutely unique, its approach on grief was so beautiful. And can’t forget the music that I keep humming for the last months…
A bit overhyped I think. Yes, I haven’t played it through yet. Yes, it is indeed a good game (even though I don’t like JRPGs). The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic. Bit I don’t think it’s better than BG3 and I’m sad, that KCD2 didn’t win anything because in most, if not all, categories it was paired up with COE33.
In my honest opinion as someone that had played and enjoyed both games, they both deserved the awards in their own ways. I think Kingdom Come is definitely a better RPG in general, but at the same time E33 is an amazing game that is an RPG. It’s semantics at this point and I think it’s more of a lack of categories. RPG is such a loose term these days that I feel like it should be sub-divided into a few more. Lumping games together and comparing games that are vastly different based solely on a loose term like RPG is disingenuous.
That’s because Clair Obscur is directly influenced by the JRPG genre which is why it feels almost like not a RPG compared to something that is a western RPG like KC:D2.
But I agree, the term RPG is way overloaded and it needs a more stricter set of rules to define what a RPG is. But it’s been that way for almost a decade at this point and I no longer care to split hairs about it, I just laugh when Monster Hunter gets nominated as an RPG because in my mind I would never consider it a RPG.
Couldn’t agree more. E33 isn’t a RPG in the classical sense but has certain RPG elements. Don’t get me wrong, it is, as far is I’ve played, a great game in it’s own right, but imo it didn’t deserve to win in the RPG category and maybe not even storytelling.
Which is funny because it didn’t win best sound track at the biting awards.
