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Steam Awards Nominees
- Thread starter Silky
- Start date
If the games are still played and have a big fanbase and new content, why not?
Wow at best developers. I voted SEGA cuz they gave us Yakuza and Valk 4 this year and their PC support has been great in general.
Square-Enix is cool too I guess. They did try to be pro-active with FFXV at least.
Square-Enix is cool too I guess. They did try to be pro-active with FFXV at least.
You do know Valve aren't the ones that decide on the nominees right?
My personal Favorites:
Nominees for Game of the Year
Nominees for Best Environmen
Nominees for Better with Friends
nothing in here what interests me
Nominees for Best Alternate History
Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine
Nominees for Best Developer
Nominees for Game of the Year
- PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS*
* not played it myself, but had some hundred+ hours of fun watching different 2- or 4-man groups playing the game
- Beat Saber*
* don't have VR but Beat Saber is cool and was binge watching people play insane tracks.
- Path of Exile
This game is just insane with every new league every 3 months.
Nominees for Best Environmen
- The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
W3 is just beautiful and the weather is impressive (I love rainstorms and normal storms)
Nominees for Better with Friends
nothing in here what interests me
Nominees for Best Alternate History
- Hearts of Iron IV
Of course! HOI4 is just great
Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine
- Factorio
There is no way in hell, that I would NOT shill for Factorio!
Nominees for Best Developer
- Paradox Interactive
They had some questionable decisions in the last 2 years, but they are still the best.
Yeah. Games can change quite a lot in a year, it's quite an outdated view of gaming to think a game from previous years can't be considered the best of the current year.
Fornite is technically a 2017 game - it'd be silly to exclude it from awarding it for this year.
Valve didn't nominate these games, the users did.
To be perfectly honest, imagine it's 2025 and you're looking back at that list. I'm not sure i'd go "Yeah, what a fantastic fucking year for gaming".
It really is a weird list.
Like, there's so many mentions of games that are a year old or even older when - even ignoring the fact that many AAA releases were indeed console exclusives this year - many smaller games simply don't show up here.
No Obra Dinn, Into The Breach, Dead Cells, Celeste, Guacamelee 2.
Instead we have "old" games like Fallout 4, Hearts of Iron, Nier Automata, Rocket League, GTA V, Dota 2 be prominently nominated. - and i don't blame the users who still enjoy these games or Valve who just collect the votes or make these categories.
But the end result is just a weird list that doesn't feel like "fuck yeah, 2018!" at all :/
It's like the 2018 Youtube Rewind of GOTY lists ;)
Maybe it should be added to the OP that it wasn't Valve/Steam who nominated the games but the community during the last sale.
I believe folks concentrated more on Digital Extremes netting the "Best Developer" category since they are one of the very few devs that actually listen to their customers and does not treat them like sacks of money.
My picks:
Nominees for Game of the Year
Nominees for VR Game of the Year
Nominees for Labor of Love
Nominees for Best Environment
Nominees for Better with Friends
Nominees for Best Alternate History
Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine
Nominees for Best Developer
Nominees for Game of the Year
- PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
- MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- HITMAN™ 2
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Nominees for VR Game of the Year
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
- VRChat
- Beat Saber
- Fallout 4 VR
- SUPERHOT VR
Nominees for Labor of Love
- Dota 2
- GTA V
- No Man's Sky
- Path of Exile
- Stardew Valley
Nominees for Best Environment
- The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
- Subnautica
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Far Cry 5
- DARK SOULS™ III
Nominees for Better with Friends
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege
- PAYDAY 2
- Dead by Daylight
- Overcooked! 2
Nominees for Best Alternate History
- Wolfeinstein II: The New Colossus
- Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
- Hearts of Iron IV
- Sid Meier's Civilization® VI
- Fallout 4
Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Rocket League
- NieR:Automata
- Factorio
- Space Engineers
Nominees for Best Developer
- CD PROJEKT RED
- Ubisoft
- Bethesda
- Rockstar Games
- Digital Extremes Ltd.
- Square Enix
- Capcom
- Paradox Interactive
- BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
- Klei
It won that category last year. I don't know if that makes it ineligible or not for this year, or if people just didn't vote for it.
How is GTA V a labor of love? Path of Exile better win that shit.
Also, what's the point in including a bunch of games that didn't come out this year? Like, what? CD Projekt Red's gonna win dev of the year for what? Thronebreaker?
Also, what's the point in including a bunch of games that didn't come out this year? Like, what? CD Projekt Red's gonna win dev of the year for what? Thronebreaker?
Dunno how they're even on the list. Only game they developed this year wasn't released on Steam.
Maybe 2018 just wasn't that great? I know for me personally it paled in comparison to 2017.
On the flipside, thanks to PC being a platform with mods I can go back to games like Fallout 4 and NieR Automata (which just got an awesome fanmade 4K texture pack) in 2018 and still have a blast. Likewise for live-service type games like DOTA 2 and Rainbow Six.
Don't really see the issue, personally.
Well, if you think that 2018 wasn't that great, and this list properly reflects how unexciting it was, i guess we agree on the end result. Though i absolutely disagree on the underlying premise.
2018 had some fantastic games, just that many of them weren't released on Steam or aren't really appreciated by Steam's voting audience.
Which, again - is fine ... opinions and all.
It's just ... weird that such a big share of the "2018 Steam awards" are games that haven't even been released in 2018.
It's nominated by the public. Way more people will have played the nominated games. You'll have to wait until next year to see some of the other games you mentioned get a nod.
If other places allowed users to vote for games from any year like this one did I think you'd get similar results for consoles too, a mix of new and old(er).
I'm not so sure about that. I don't think any of those games will get a nod, because they are - both in production as well as appeal, pretty "indie".
That's certainly (partly) true, but still, i strongly believe that - if there was a user curated, platform agnostic, GOTY list, you'd certainly get one that would be filled with a lot more titles released witin this year.
I'm a bit confused why i feel like i have to take this kind of weird platform-war-like stance, even though it's really not my intention, but i'm similarly confused by the replies downplaying the (imho obvious) advantage of non-steam storefronts with regards to the biggest / (arguably) best / most influential releases this year.
But maybe that's the point of the Steam awards - being a weird list of games that people (still) liked. The discrepancy to more "mainstream" GOTY lists just never felt this big, though.
Edit: Woopsa, yeah, i acknowledge the warning - i kinda felt it coming. Wasn't my intention. - Would it be acceptible to discuss this in a separate thread though? (Edit2: Whom am i kidding, i'm not gonna make a separate thread ...) I'll leave it be ...
God, some ResetEra posters have a real "bitch eating crackers" issue with Valve. Every thread...
Fornite isn't on Steam, that's why it couldn't be nominated, not because it's a 2017 game.
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Come on people, use the few neurons you have. There are 2015 games in the list. And 2016 games , and 2017 games. It other words, this isn't a 'best of 2018' list! The awards aren't limited to 2018 in the first place. Which yeah, it's weird, but what you gonna do.
I'm very aware, I said nothing about Fortnite not being in these nominations. What I said about Fortnite was about awards in general, not the Steam one.
I was talking about the broad idea that older games should be excluded from yearly awards. I was using Fortnite as an example because it blew up for a reason this year, not last. That games can change significantly and excluding them from yearly awards doesn't make sense to me.
Read what I replied to.
Oh yeah, sorry about not explaining myself well, I'm ok with the "Labor of Love" award for such things.
Valve place the rules for who we can vote. I find silly that a game like Dark Souls III can get away with an award in 2018, because of course is gonna wins cause the hardcore gamer can't stop treating Dark Souls like the holy grail of gaming when clearly it isn't. At least this awards have no cosmic significance. I don't even know why I'm getting so riled up by it, lol.