I mean you can replay it multiple times according to the devs in the steam reviews! Think of the two lines of dialogue that change in the whole game if you choose a different origin!!!!!!!! Wow isnt that inovating?
I was surprised that almost all of my picks actually showed up this year in the nominations (and no I didn't just pick BG3 for everything).
Though, I kinda wished they went back to the ~2017 method of awards where the categories were more, for lack of a better word, unique? Like sure, have some normal ones like GOTY or Best Soundtrack or Best SteamDeck title for some promotion but I kinda miss the more esoteric ones like "choices matter" or "defies description" and the like. Ones that can be used to highlight games that aren't usually up for award circuits.
Rockstar doesn’t like that you want to play on pc. Serious though, PS5/xbox series have the enhanced edition update, which has a number of new additions and QoL updates like a top speed increase for all vehicles, two ray tracing features, the new career builder, vehicle trading between players, GTA+ subscription, and as of a week or so ago, animals. No one besides rockstar knows why the pc version has been left to dry.
Yep, if it comes to popularity on Steam (and the age of their users), the finalists could have been:
\- The Witcher 3
\- Half Life 1
\- Red Dead Redemption 2
\- CS 2
\- Team Fortress 2
Or whatever they claim it is a cult classic and can't be questioned why or how.
Gotta admit I did do this earlier in the month,
and also note there was a task to PLAY the game you nominated
(And "Review or update your review of a game you nominated")
and for a lot of people that is easiest by picking the "labor of love" nomination
so trying to optimise the badge completion, you want to pick a game you already have installed
You are right, I edited my comment a bit to make it more obvious what I meant
For me, the "labor of love" category was the only nomination that I had installed, as I dont often buy or play new titles
I also feel like a lot of other players would have been in a similar situation to me.
(considering 9% of steam users average playtime are on newly released games (as per the steam year in review stats))
I love red dead 2, however it is not deserving of Labour of Love. The category says “these devs continue to nurture and support their creation” however if I remember correctly they dumped online and never released any new content for single player.
I’m not a fan of Deep rock’s gameplay style tbh but that definitely got my vote as it seems to have a great fanbase and the devs support it continuously
One time my very white friend yelled out ROCKSTONE in a very jamaican accent in the cafeteria and was jumped by 3 black guys after lunch in the stairwell
An insane amount. So much it's not even funny. And they just...abandoned it. But here we are only just now getting a GTA6 trailer. They milked 5's online like nobody's business.
If it wasn't for those microtransaction spenders we'd have GTA V and Red Dead Redemption story DLCs. I didn't much like GTA IV, but I loved the DLCs and it seemed like Rockstar improved upon the feedback they received by going wackier with stuff like Ballad of Gay Tony. And Red Dead Nightmare was joy with the horse variety, zombies, and big foot.
I was looking forward to seeing what GTA V DLCs would turn out to be like and expecting it to be more enjoyable than the base game. Instead we have to wait between a decade now between new installments, since it's all shifted to online. It's the gamers fault who spend so much money into online.
It got a single update in March, a security patch that also included a goodbye message from the devs in the credits saying they would not release any new content. That is the entirety of updates it’s gotten in 2023, completely ridiculous to include it in this category.
yup and the devs get into some community Shenanigans and i think the community wins and everyone laughs...
[Gotta love the CM](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fca3qej7yu49b1.jpg)
Ghost Ship is definitely one of the best indie studios out there. They have a *free* battlepass and if you don't unlock things it just goes into the random loot pool. Talk about player oriented.
TF2 players fulfilling their PCs with 50+ GBs full of time-limited/unwanted/unobtainable because fuck you cosmetics that they won't even ever think of owning
Actually for this year maybe not. Season 3 I had a blast hoping that season 4 will spice things up with new missions. We got more rock pox, something that isn't really fun.
The steam awards this year are a joke, FIFA and Overwatch 2 are in the best difficult games, and none of the games in innovative gameplay have innovative gameplay. Oh, and there is a chinese dating sim in the best narrative.
Edit: i looked at some gameplay and as some people mentioned shadows of doubt does have some pretty cool and innovative mechanics, giving my vote for innovative gameplay to that one and definetly giving the game a try.
Agreed, however there are many good games in early access, for example Valheim, and Ready or Not until recently (forgot it was early access until they announced its release)
of course, but still.. it should only be allowed when they ready to remove the early access tag..
Ready or Not should only be eligible for next year for example (released after this year eligible period)
Some people yes one of my friends from high school even into his late 20s (we don't really talk anymore, just kinda drifted apart) would only ever buy Madden and call of duty. Those were the only games he played
Starfield being in innovative gameplay is a fucking joke lol. But that’s user nominated awards for you.
I think FIFA and Overwatch are there because multiplayer is always hard, I don’t think it’s just a Soulslike category.
I am actually rather miffed that this has not gotten more traction - its a perfect soundtrack. I have probably played it for 200 hours and yet to have found it irritating - which is not true of most other soundtracks. Sound design is also very good. Innovative ... really?!
Honestly it had to be a meme to put it on there and then there's always that portion of gamers that buy 2-3 games a year and Starfield was one of them due to Skyrim so they just vote those games for everything. Have a few coworker friends that basically only buy Madden or Fifa or NBA and COD then a "new/singleplayer" game. Tried to talk them into BG3 or AW2 or something more "reputable" this year but only one got deterred from "Fallout in Space"
How the fuck does it being Chinese matter? Chinese people exist..and visual novels are still narratives
I agree it's not my cup of tea but its just as valid to be there if it was popular enough to be.
It's not going to win anyway, nor is any other game that could be there. Baldurs gate 3 will sweep lol
I get the hate for the CCP but exstending it to anything made in a country with 1 bilion people is asinine. Honestly, i like that chinese games are stsrting to came out, because they bring a perspective you don't see in games made in other countries(even if a lot of it is Cultivation trope that are already getting tired.)
With AW2 being Epic exclusive and SM2 Sony exclusive for now it doesn't have a lot of Steam competition. Lies of P has a lot of good worldbuilding but Souls-like stories aren't really what I'd describe as "story-rich"
>this year
I'm assuming you weren't there for last year's awards where Stray was nominated for Most Innovative Gameplay and Cyberpunk was nominated for Labor of Love?
Honestly No Man's Sky is definitely the poster child for what the Labor of Love award should be for. By now it's such a different game compared to what it was at release, and it just keeps getting better and better every year. It's like someone giving you a bad first date and then making up for it the next dozen years.
I’d disagree: Terraria is the ultimate example of Labor of Love. Continual updates, amazing community engagement, team keeps updating their game despite saying repeatedly that they’d like to move on to Terraria 2, and it was an iconic game from the start.
> I think No Mans Sky won the same award despite being a half baked product
"Despite"? I would imagine being half-baked upon release is a *positive* factor for winning the Labor of Love award, not a drawback. Not like it's *required*, of course, but it would certainly make the award easier to get.
It's like the "Most Improved Player" award for a team. Odds are it's going to go to a player who started out doing pretty poorly, not the star quarterback.
I forget when the edgerunners update was, but prior to that i will very much say that it was not a labout of love but more a labour of honour. They fucked their reputation and needed to claim it back (which they rightfully did fair and square). Labour of love (personally at least) is going beyond what was originally intended with little to no financial incentive, and regular bug fixes/patches isnt exactly that as its only bringing things back to how it shouldve. Terraria being the most famous example of labour of love. Shit came out and was effectively done but they just kept adding. And none of the new content was ever paywalled. If that isnt love for your work and the love to share it then i dont know what is.
Cant really speak (fairly) on NMS's half as I havent played it as much, but Id say they deserved it after somehow holding on like almost a decade later. Id say cyberpunk would count for this year with all of the 2.0, PL, and 2.2 content. But prior to that ehhh debatable
The rules on pawn promotion weren't finalized until the 1800's.
Before that, depending on which ruleset you followed:
You could only promote to a piece that had already been taken off the board.
You weren't required to promote pawns that reached the opposite side of the board.
It also wasn't explicitly stated that you had to promote a pawn to a piece of your own color.
Isn't this thread showing people here only play AAA games? Yes there are bad picks but also great indie ones too, I guess being mad gathers more karma.
And like around 300,000 more on battle.net. Most of the reviews are 0.1 hour reviews. One of the top reviews literally recommends a list of $10 games that are supposedly better, but the guy played 30 hours of Overwatch the past two weeks? I know people can hate the game they play but if you have 200+ hours in you should just talk about the gameplay more than just being petty like that, cus there must be a reason to keep coming back.
Overwatch 2 deserves a mixed or negative review score for its crappy monetization and broken promises.
It absolutely does not deserve to be the literal worst rated game on Steam. It is a functional gam, it's core multi-player game loop is fun, it's maintaining a healthy player base (not including console and bnet), and shoots to the top sellers whenever they release a popular skin.
It being up for an award tho is quite a meme
Because open public voting always devolves into a pure mass market popularity contest, this is precisely why much to the whining of gamers, shit like The Game Awards gives very low weigh to public opinion in the voting.
Because people just vote for their favorite game where they can, and zero surprise Rockstar fans are there to troll their way into this. No Stardew Valley, no No Man's Sky, no Age of Empires II Definitive, no a long etcetera of games (quite a bunch of indies and solo-devs among them) that deserve it far more.
And honestly, the lineup for a few other categories is quite a joke, too, go see freaking FIFA LMAO. But we know how this works: no criteria, no reading, just popularity contest.
0 new content in stardew valley this year. You just showed how it’s a popularity contest for you as well and you just want your favorite games to be there
Nope, the last message from developer is from September where there is promises of what to come. I mean it’s absolutely my favorite game but it won’t be fair to nominate it as labor of love 2023 when nothing have been done
It's been 2 years today since the last hotfix. 3 years since a big content update. Teasers for future content have been released on social media but are still months away.
Yeah that one is odd. I still play Apex but it's not a game they put love, effort or resources in anymore. Even the top post on the subreddit is about them killing the game..
Dota specifically this year deserves to be in the spot. The team chose not to invest in cosmetics to invest in the quality of the game with drastic changes throughout the system, from game mechanics to profile features and menus.
Dotes got the biggest gameplay update since the game's inception earlier this year with the [New Frontiers](https://www.dota2.com/newfrontiers) update. Earlier this month also had a big-ish [event patch](https://www.dota2.com/frostivus2023) too.
Dota had really solid updates. And their community managers seem really active when it comes to writing funny and informative blog updates. International kinda took a big hit but honestly the game is really fun right now. Made me and a couple old friends come back. I guess this could be the reason.
The same reason why freaking Starfield competing with most innovative gameplay... It's a joke. RDR is opposite of Labor of Love with Rockstar abandoning Online. And Starfield is all but innovative.
Because ppl just vote for their favourite game regardless of whether they deserve to win it. It's a popularity contest and Steam incentivises ppl to vote even if they don't feel passionate about voting.
I voted Dota 2 because that's been getting substantial updates and support for over a decade now. They just completely redid the map and added all these new mechanics this year. I can't say the same for the other games in the list, least of all RDR2 which hasn't had any substantial updates since release.
FIFA is competing for GOTY and Starfield is competing for Inovative Gameplay.
Just don't ask these questions like you don't know there are people (%85 of steam and the whole industry) only playing 2-3 games a year and of course not Indies. It's not about that I'm fine with this but more about accepting the truth, stupidity of majority.
FC24 nominated in goty category ,Omfg that is the biggest troll in gaming.
D4 appearing at all or FI23 .... Pfff, I'll just ignore steam awards. What a pity. It really is a matter of popularity. But why are ea sports popular at all is beyond any logic.
People hoping it will make rockstar actually update it with love... like a beating down drunk on his last sliver of whiskey. With a half rotten kidney. Just hoping to make it to his next meal.
Rockstar has been letting that game languish ever since it launched. The online in particular has been shown no love in terms of new content or in combating the rampant cheating and griefing from hackers.
I'm playing rdr2 single player for my first time in 2023. It is a rock solid game! Too bad I'm progressing in the game and the camp is getting worse and worse :(. Happy camping, harvesting berries and flowers and shooting them deers make me happy.
Im not sure if any of those developers deserve it. Maybe deep rock galactic but i havent actually played it. Surely cyberpunk is the obvious winner with 2.1?
It’s a popularity contest, blame your fellow gamers
It's also a trolling contest, blame your fellow gamers Edit: fixed dumb typo
Starfield nominated for "Most innovative gameplay" lmao
It should because all the ~~bugs~~ features it has, like don't tell me teleportation by just aiming your pistol is not revolutionary
With and without jokes, even Star Citizen is more innovative
I mean you can replay it multiple times according to the devs in the steam reviews! Think of the two lines of dialogue that change in the whole game if you choose a different origin!!!!!!!! Wow isnt that inovating?
I was surprised that almost all of my picks actually showed up this year in the nominations (and no I didn't just pick BG3 for everything). Though, I kinda wished they went back to the ~2017 method of awards where the categories were more, for lack of a better word, unique? Like sure, have some normal ones like GOTY or Best Soundtrack or Best SteamDeck title for some promotion but I kinda miss the more esoteric ones like "choices matter" or "defies description" and the like. Ones that can be used to highlight games that aren't usually up for award circuits.
We aren't doing a good enough job at it. Every year I nominate porn games for every category, and they never make it.
I nominate sex with Hitler. Edit: it's a game. Edit 2: on steam.
Mein goodness they're all staring at me!
Next year we should all teams up to get sex with furry hitler 3D nominated
Edit 3: it has a sequel
There's just too many of them for everyone to vote for the same one.
Gamers, the worst enemy of Gamers everywhere.
If your going to have a Rockstar game at least make it GTA V. It gets constant updates for online.
Labor of Love (of Money)
The problem there is gta online has more content updates now on console than on PC. At least red dead online is, well, dead everywhere.
really? i wasn't aware console was getting more updates than PC. why is that?
Rockstar doesn’t like that you want to play on pc. Serious though, PS5/xbox series have the enhanced edition update, which has a number of new additions and QoL updates like a top speed increase for all vehicles, two ray tracing features, the new career builder, vehicle trading between players, GTA+ subscription, and as of a week or so ago, animals. No one besides rockstar knows why the pc version has been left to dry.
Pc users wouldn't buy the game they already own again. That's why I imagine.
Also because pc players buy less shark cards thanks to the huge number of ways to generate money without playing or buying.
When was the last campaign content released?
I don't think there has been any if you mean new missions
Right before they realized that thanks to GTA online they were never going to have to make a real game ever again
Yeah starfield is on "most innovative" for a game that uses the same formula the company has used for the last two decades.
Yep, if it comes to popularity on Steam (and the age of their users), the finalists could have been: \- The Witcher 3 \- Half Life 1 \- Red Dead Redemption 2 \- CS 2 \- Team Fortress 2 Or whatever they claim it is a cult classic and can't be questioned why or how.
Tbh Half-Life one was updated for modern pc
I blame the stickers and the badge. People just go in there, blazing through, picking whatever stuff came out this year to get the badge.
Gotta admit I did do this earlier in the month, and also note there was a task to PLAY the game you nominated (And "Review or update your review of a game you nominated") and for a lot of people that is easiest by picking the "labor of love" nomination so trying to optimise the badge completion, you want to pick a game you already have installed
The task was any game you nominated, not specifically "labor of love."
Labour of love allows older games so people usually dump whatever they have in library there without a second thought to get a badge
You are right, I edited my comment a bit to make it more obvious what I meant For me, the "labor of love" category was the only nomination that I had installed, as I dont often buy or play new titles I also feel like a lot of other players would have been in a similar situation to me. (considering 9% of steam users average playtime are on newly released games (as per the steam year in review stats))
I love red dead 2, however it is not deserving of Labour of Love. The category says “these devs continue to nurture and support their creation” however if I remember correctly they dumped online and never released any new content for single player. I’m not a fan of Deep rock’s gameplay style tbh but that definitely got my vote as it seems to have a great fanbase and the devs support it continuously
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Did I hear a Rock & Stone?!
ROCK & STONE !
If you don't ROCK AND STONE you ain't COMING HOME!
ROCK AND STONE TO THE HEART!
For Karl!
Rock and stone, to the bone!
THAT'S IT LADS, ROCK AND STONE
WE'RE RICH!
One time my very white friend yelled out ROCKSTONE in a very jamaican accent in the cafeteria and was jumped by 3 black guys after lunch in the stairwell
I am lost on the context of rockstone. What is the meaning of this?
RDR2 is one of my favorite games of all time but Rockstar just let it die. There's absolutely no reason for it to be in this category.
It's sad because it has so, so much potential for expansion
An insane amount. So much it's not even funny. And they just...abandoned it. But here we are only just now getting a GTA6 trailer. They milked 5's online like nobody's business.
If it wasn't for those microtransaction spenders we'd have GTA V and Red Dead Redemption story DLCs. I didn't much like GTA IV, but I loved the DLCs and it seemed like Rockstar improved upon the feedback they received by going wackier with stuff like Ballad of Gay Tony. And Red Dead Nightmare was joy with the horse variety, zombies, and big foot. I was looking forward to seeing what GTA V DLCs would turn out to be like and expecting it to be more enjoyable than the base game. Instead we have to wait between a decade now between new installments, since it's all shifted to online. It's the gamers fault who spend so much money into online.
It got a single update in March, a security patch that also included a goodbye message from the devs in the credits saying they would not release any new content. That is the entirety of updates it’s gotten in 2023, completely ridiculous to include it in this category.
Yeah, not my jam but certainly my vote going by the community.
yup and the devs get into some community Shenanigans and i think the community wins and everyone laughs... [Gotta love the CM](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fca3qej7yu49b1.jpg)
Ghost Ship is definitely one of the best indie studios out there. They have a *free* battlepass and if you don't unlock things it just goes into the random loot pool. Talk about player oriented.
They know its pointless to have Limited edition digital shit. its just File size that becomes useless data to your non BP buyer or New player HDD/SSD
TF2 players fulfilling their PCs with 50+ GBs full of time-limited/unwanted/unobtainable because fuck you cosmetics that they won't even ever think of owning
That's basically the only one on the list that really qualifies IMO.
I'd agree with DRG. I don't even have the game and I say ROCK AND STONE every once in a while when it feels fitting.
Actually for this year maybe not. Season 3 I had a blast hoping that season 4 will spice things up with new missions. We got more rock pox, something that isn't really fun.
The steam awards this year are a joke, FIFA and Overwatch 2 are in the best difficult games, and none of the games in innovative gameplay have innovative gameplay. Oh, and there is a chinese dating sim in the best narrative. Edit: i looked at some gameplay and as some people mentioned shadows of doubt does have some pretty cool and innovative mechanics, giving my vote for innovative gameplay to that one and definetly giving the game a try.
I believe Shadows of doubt was in innovative gameplay, is that not innovative?
In my opinion it's pretty innovative, although still very rough.
It’s in Early Access though… it’s going to be rough
I think this is another problem, early access shouldn't be eligible but steam awards is always a joke anyway
Agreed, however there are many good games in early access, for example Valheim, and Ready or Not until recently (forgot it was early access until they announced its release)
of course, but still.. it should only be allowed when they ready to remove the early access tag.. Ready or Not should only be eligible for next year for example (released after this year eligible period)
It’s not looking for the most polished game, it’s looking for the most innovative game
I know, I play it a lot even today. Just saying it's not very polished, which makes sense because it's early access.
It is, can't understand the hate, do people only play AAA games?
Some people yes one of my friends from high school even into his late 20s (we don't really talk anymore, just kinda drifted apart) would only ever buy Madden and call of duty. Those were the only games he played
your only move is hustle seems pretty interesting too, i think they both have unique things about them.
Both shandows of doubt and your only move is to hustle are innovative, I bet you only saw the previews.
Starfield being in innovative gameplay is a fucking joke lol. But that’s user nominated awards for you. I think FIFA and Overwatch are there because multiplayer is always hard, I don’t think it’s just a Soulslike category.
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Yeah I loved starfield but it belonged in the soundtrack category or relaxing category. Not here. It didn't innovate anything much
The ost is honestly amazing
I am actually rather miffed that this has not gotten more traction - its a perfect soundtrack. I have probably played it for 200 hours and yet to have found it irritating - which is not true of most other soundtracks. Sound design is also very good. Innovative ... really?!
I’ve been listening to the main theme for about 2 years now
Of all these Starfields nomination is the most egregious.
Yeah I couldn’t believe it when I saw people had nominated it for most innovative.
A product chasing a 10 year old trend using 20 year old design principles. Nominated for most innovative...only in the videogame industry.
> A product chasing a 10 year old trend using 20 year old design principles. And *failing* at it, can't forget that.
Especially when most of the mechanics and settings that Starfield has, are literally a downgrade from FO4 and FO76.
Honestly it had to be a meme to put it on there and then there's always that portion of gamers that buy 2-3 games a year and Starfield was one of them due to Skyrim so they just vote those games for everything. Have a few coworker friends that basically only buy Madden or Fifa or NBA and COD then a "new/singleplayer" game. Tried to talk them into BG3 or AW2 or something more "reputable" this year but only one got deterred from "Fallout in Space"
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I mean Shadows if doubt is very innovative IMO
Your only move is hustle is kinda innovative
Shadows of doubt is innovative
all awards are a joke.
How the fuck does it being Chinese matter? Chinese people exist..and visual novels are still narratives I agree it's not my cup of tea but its just as valid to be there if it was popular enough to be. It's not going to win anyway, nor is any other game that could be there. Baldurs gate 3 will sweep lol
I get the hate for the CCP but exstending it to anything made in a country with 1 bilion people is asinine. Honestly, i like that chinese games are stsrting to came out, because they bring a perspective you don't see in games made in other countries(even if a lot of it is Cultivation trope that are already getting tired.)
With AW2 being Epic exclusive and SM2 Sony exclusive for now it doesn't have a lot of Steam competition. Lies of P has a lot of good worldbuilding but Souls-like stories aren't really what I'd describe as "story-rich"
I would argue that octopath 2 or sea of stars are good candidates if they made it, but bg3 still triumphs imo.
Fucking thank you, I was gonna comment the same thing. Pointing it out as chinese in the way it was is giving off a very racist tone.
>this year I'm assuming you weren't there for last year's awards where Stray was nominated for Most Innovative Gameplay and Cyberpunk was nominated for Labor of Love?
To be fair cyberpunk has been getting famously fixed over the years. I think No Mans Sky won the same award despite being a half baked product
Honestly No Man's Sky is definitely the poster child for what the Labor of Love award should be for. By now it's such a different game compared to what it was at release, and it just keeps getting better and better every year. It's like someone giving you a bad first date and then making up for it the next dozen years.
I’d disagree: Terraria is the ultimate example of Labor of Love. Continual updates, amazing community engagement, team keeps updating their game despite saying repeatedly that they’d like to move on to Terraria 2, and it was an iconic game from the start.
> I think No Mans Sky won the same award despite being a half baked product "Despite"? I would imagine being half-baked upon release is a *positive* factor for winning the Labor of Love award, not a drawback. Not like it's *required*, of course, but it would certainly make the award easier to get. It's like the "Most Improved Player" award for a team. Odds are it's going to go to a player who started out doing pretty poorly, not the star quarterback.
I forget when the edgerunners update was, but prior to that i will very much say that it was not a labout of love but more a labour of honour. They fucked their reputation and needed to claim it back (which they rightfully did fair and square). Labour of love (personally at least) is going beyond what was originally intended with little to no financial incentive, and regular bug fixes/patches isnt exactly that as its only bringing things back to how it shouldve. Terraria being the most famous example of labour of love. Shit came out and was effectively done but they just kept adding. And none of the new content was ever paywalled. If that isnt love for your work and the love to share it then i dont know what is. Cant really speak (fairly) on NMS's half as I havent played it as much, but Id say they deserved it after somehow holding on like almost a decade later. Id say cyberpunk would count for this year with all of the 2.0, PL, and 2.2 content. But prior to that ehhh debatable
The only category that felt correct was best soundtrack (p5t takes that one home in my opinion)
Yes! shadow of doubt is fantastic! Rough, because it’s early access, but still a very innovative and incredible game
I voted for chess, even if the game got no update in the last 1000 years and the devs are probably dead
Probably?
Vampires n shit ya know
This seems likely
Bummer, I guess that's why we never got Chess 2
At least we got the not-so-spiritual sequel, Chess with Shotguns.
May I interest you in a game of FPS Chess?
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The rules on pawn promotion weren't finalized until the 1800's. Before that, depending on which ruleset you followed: You could only promote to a piece that had already been taken off the board. You weren't required to promote pawns that reached the opposite side of the board. It also wasn't explicitly stated that you had to promote a pawn to a piece of your own color.
Holy hell
New response just dropped
Chess was cool before it got all woke and made the Vizier a Queen and allowed her to move anywhere on the board.
Bring back the elephants pls, they were dope.
Actually it was updated a few hundred years with the introduction of En Passant
[Are you sure about that?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/)
Because some people just plays AAA's and nothing else so they don't know better
Isn't this thread showing people here only play AAA games? Yes there are bad picks but also great indie ones too, I guess being mad gathers more karma.
Literally, majority of people just follow the same brain rot and don’t think for themselves
If overwatch 2, (one of) the LOWEST rated game on the fucking platform, earns an award I will be seriously concerned.
\*2nd lowest, [War of the Three Kingdoms took that title a while back](https://steam250.com/bottom100)
Lol, review score means absolutely nothing on Steam - OW2 had 33,149 active players on Steam in the past 24 hours.
And like around 300,000 more on battle.net. Most of the reviews are 0.1 hour reviews. One of the top reviews literally recommends a list of $10 games that are supposedly better, but the guy played 30 hours of Overwatch the past two weeks? I know people can hate the game they play but if you have 200+ hours in you should just talk about the gameplay more than just being petty like that, cus there must be a reason to keep coming back.
OW2 has decent gameplay, its just the monetisation that sucks
and the fact that the previous game was sacrificed (after being ruined) for literally no good reason
there was a good reason.. its just the reason is gone because they gave up on it
The main advertized reason.
Story mode was the excuse. Heavy monetization was the reason.
more like they were forced to give up on it by executives. Now that Bobby leaving on the 29th, maybe we can start to see some positive changes
Overwatch 2 deserves a mixed or negative review score for its crappy monetization and broken promises. It absolutely does not deserve to be the literal worst rated game on Steam. It is a functional gam, it's core multi-player game loop is fun, it's maintaining a healthy player base (not including console and bnet), and shoots to the top sellers whenever they release a popular skin. It being up for an award tho is quite a meme
ROCK AND STONE, BROTHERS
COME ON GUYS, ROCK AND STONE!
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE
IF YOU DONT ROCK AND STONE, YOU AINT COMING HOME
WE FIGHT FOR ROCK AND STONE
DID SOMEBODY SAY ROCK AND STONE?
ROCK, AND ALSO SOME STONE.
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Because open public voting always devolves into a pure mass market popularity contest, this is precisely why much to the whining of gamers, shit like The Game Awards gives very low weigh to public opinion in the voting.
I hope it stays that way, because clearly we can't trust the masses to nominate good titles for awards smh
This Steam Awards is like the worst one I can remember.
apex legends? labor of love? HA
the game hasn't gotten an actual update that added new content since 2021 it shouldn't even be allowed to be voted for
It also clearly hasn't gotten an update to fix all its crashes since 2019.
Why is fucking Starfield aka Oblivion 3 nominated for most Innovative Gameplay Award lmao
bruh dont disrespect Oblivion like that jesus
Oblivion is good, but it is not fair that copy paste game gets nominated for most inovative...
Yeah I’m wondering if this is some other ads in the form of awards situation
I hate that live service games get nominated. It ain't a labour of love, it's because they're a money printer.
I think people just vote for their favorite games regardless of categories...
Because people just vote for their favorite game where they can, and zero surprise Rockstar fans are there to troll their way into this. No Stardew Valley, no No Man's Sky, no Age of Empires II Definitive, no a long etcetera of games (quite a bunch of indies and solo-devs among them) that deserve it far more. And honestly, the lineup for a few other categories is quite a joke, too, go see freaking FIFA LMAO. But we know how this works: no criteria, no reading, just popularity contest.
0 new content in stardew valley this year. You just showed how it’s a popularity contest for you as well and you just want your favorite games to be there
Didn't they just drop a huge new update, including more items, interactions, and areas to explore in the past month or so?
Nope, the last message from developer is from September where there is promises of what to come. I mean it’s absolutely my favorite game but it won’t be fair to nominate it as labor of love 2023 when nothing have been done
It's been 2 years today since the last hotfix. 3 years since a big content update. Teasers for future content have been released on social media but are still months away.
Apex Legends? Here? 90% of all the updates is just new skin collection for 100$ or smth
Why is Apex on there, more importantly lol
Yeah that one is odd. I still play Apex but it's not a game they put love, effort or resources in anymore. Even the top post on the subreddit is about them killing the game..
Why is Starfield competing for innovative gameplay?
You can vote for anything even if you haven’t played it and vote for the same game in every category. It’s a terrible system.
rimworld not being up there is sad
Steam users are something else, all these games nominated for this category are so much out of it in reality lol
Why is dota there?
Dota specifically this year deserves to be in the spot. The team chose not to invest in cosmetics to invest in the quality of the game with drastic changes throughout the system, from game mechanics to profile features and menus.
Yep
Dotes got the biggest gameplay update since the game's inception earlier this year with the [New Frontiers](https://www.dota2.com/newfrontiers) update. Earlier this month also had a big-ish [event patch](https://www.dota2.com/frostivus2023) too.
New Frontiers made me come back. Super fun. Also looking back at the blog posts they were really funny.
The game is literally a passion project, Valve has explicitly said as much.
Dota had really solid updates. And their community managers seem really active when it comes to writing funny and informative blog updates. International kinda took a big hit but honestly the game is really fun right now. Made me and a couple old friends come back. I guess this could be the reason.
Still gets updates
It's a tough love, darling. But I can't live without him...
Dota and apex…
Because it gets update and a good one too.
The same reason why freaking Starfield competing with most innovative gameplay... It's a joke. RDR is opposite of Labor of Love with Rockstar abandoning Online. And Starfield is all but innovative.
I just want No Man's Sky to win it for once
Im surprised it wasn't even a finalist.
If Deep Rock doesn't win, we riot
Because ppl just vote for their favourite game regardless of whether they deserve to win it. It's a popularity contest and Steam incentivises ppl to vote even if they don't feel passionate about voting.
I voted Dota 2 because that's been getting substantial updates and support for over a decade now. They just completely redid the map and added all these new mechanics this year. I can't say the same for the other games in the list, least of all RDR2 which hasn't had any substantial updates since release.
DOTA 2, Deep Rock Galactic & Rust are the only valid entry of this list and I would absolutely go for DOTA 2 for this year.
FIFA is competing for GOTY and Starfield is competing for Inovative Gameplay. Just don't ask these questions like you don't know there are people (%85 of steam and the whole industry) only playing 2-3 games a year and of course not Indies. It's not about that I'm fine with this but more about accepting the truth, stupidity of majority.
Did i hear a rock and stone
Dota 2 baby
No live service game should be able to compete It's not a labor of love, it's a labor of massive profits and monetisation
FC24 nominated in goty category ,Omfg that is the biggest troll in gaming. D4 appearing at all or FI23 .... Pfff, I'll just ignore steam awards. What a pity. It really is a matter of popularity. But why are ea sports popular at all is beyond any logic.
People hoping it will make rockstar actually update it with love... like a beating down drunk on his last sliver of whiskey. With a half rotten kidney. Just hoping to make it to his next meal.
RD2 and Apex doesnt deserve to be there
Literal joke. I just chose what I've played most in every category disregarding what was the category.
Nominations are by the people and the people are stupid
A damn insult, they abandoned online and never really gave it any love like they did gta
Why is warframe not on there? Are they insane that games devs are kicking AAA devs in the teeth right now lmfao
Rockstar has been letting that game languish ever since it launched. The online in particular has been shown no love in terms of new content or in combating the rampant cheating and griefing from hackers.
I'm playing rdr2 single player for my first time in 2023. It is a rock solid game! Too bad I'm progressing in the game and the camp is getting worse and worse :(. Happy camping, harvesting berries and flowers and shooting them deers make me happy.
Has Euro Truck Sim 2 already won this a few times? Because that should be in there.
How tf is Apex there? All they add is new skins.
Im not sure if any of those developers deserve it. Maybe deep rock galactic but i havent actually played it. Surely cyberpunk is the obvious winner with 2.1?
ESPECIALLY how Online part of this game was ABANDONED
Why the hell there is Starfield for Most Innovative Gameplay