Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Fans complain about Steam Awards announcement

 


Just a few days into 2024, there is already some dramatic news for game fans to follow. This time, it is the aftermath of last year that has continued into this year with the announcement of awards by the gaming industry giant Steam, which has now become a hot topic like Steam, which has announced its own Steam Awards for fans to know. For those who don't know, the Steam Awards are awards voted by Steam gamers without a committee like other game award announcements. The results are quite different from other award announcements. The Steam Awards Game of the Year Award 2024 went to Black Myth Wukong, the Monkey King Qi Tian Da Shen, which is not unexpected for fans. But is Black Myth Wukong really deserving of some awards? There are also some games that didn't win awards even though they should have.

Let's start with the first issue with the game Black Myth Wukong, which has won three awards. It won the Game of the Year award, followed by the Best Game You Suck At Award (the game you play the worst). Many people said that these two awards were worthy of it because of the fun of the game, the graphics, and the good gameplay. The game itself is not easy, but it's not so hard that you'll want to smash the keyboard. It's more like a tense game, so it's not surprising that many people aren't very good at this game. However, the award that many people are skeptical about is the Outstanding Story-Rich Game award, which is a game with an outstanding storyline. To be honest, the storyline of Black Myth Wukong is good enough, not bad at all. However, when compared to other games nominated for Black Myth Wukong, it doesn't seem worthy of the award.


Competing for the Outstanding Story-Rich Game award with Black Myth Wukong were the indie horror game Mouthwashing, a game in which we must survive in a space station with only mouthwash as food, and the samurai ghost game Ghost of Tsushima, which we all know very well for its intense storyline. And the game with a dark storyline in its own series, Final Fantasy 16, which is also interesting. All three of these games have very good stories, especially Mouthwashing, which has the most outstanding storyline, but it didn't win the award, so fans weren't very happy about this.

And it's not just Black Myth Wukong that's getting in trouble, Red Dead Redemption has also been hit hard, with a Twitter user (he's changed the name to X, why is this news outlet still using that name?) by the name of KeyToAeris (no asterisks in his name) expressing his displeasure with the Steam Awards, where Black Myth Wukong won Best Story, while Red Dead Redemption won Best Original Score, beating out games like Silent Hill 2 and Horizon Forbidden West, which had much better soundtracks (Silent Hill 2 in particular should've won).

Not yet finished, some people came out to express their dissatisfaction that the game Elden Ring won the Labor of Love award, beating games like No Man's Sky and Stardew Valley, which we know how much these two games had to go through to reach the point where fans adore them. Another problematic award is the Most Innovative Gameplay award. The game that won this award was Liar's Bar, a card game that honestly Balatro and Helldivers 2 had more creative gameplay systems. Another game that many people were dissatisfied with was the ghost town game Silent Hill 2, which won the Outstanding Visual Style award, which is actually beautiful, but it's not as beautiful as Nine Sols and Metaphor ReFantazio.


Although the awards are against the eyes of many, we must first accept that the Steam Awards awards are measured by votes from gamers more than people in the gaming industry. Therefore, it is not surprising that the voters will choose from the games they like and have played as the main factor, rather than the appropriateness that it should be. Therefore, this complaint is just an expression of dissatisfaction with what happened. It does not say that it is dissatisfied like other award announcements that are seen as rigging the awards for this or that game. So do you think these awards are deserving of the awards?





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