This year's Game Awards GOTY (and almost everything else) is the popular French RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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“We’ve picked one game and we’re giving every award to that game because it’s the best game at everything and have you played the game yet? You should it’s so good it’s just the best at everything.”

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Kepler Interactive was founded in September 2021 at the initiative of former Ubisoft employee and French entrepreneur Alexis Garavayan, who had previously co-founded the video game investment fund Kowloon Nights. Self-described as a “super developer” publishing group, Kepler was born out of an alliance between seven independent studios to “pool their resources and knowledge”:

Hedge Fund ass publisher. Come on, guys. The Gaming Awards have always just been sponsored content and you’re getting hoodwinked because you don’t recognize the sponsor this time around.

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Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning?

I’m perfectly fine with people making money in exchange for an excellent product, and Expedition 33 is a fucking masterpiece.

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I won’t say E33 didn’t deserve to win an award, it definitely did. But I will absolutely say with certainty it did not deserve to be nominated in so many categories and proceed to win basically every category.

Having an award show give awards to only one nominee feels bad for everyone except the show runners, that one nominee, and their fans. Lots of games deserved to be there that simply weren’t, and lots of nominees deserved to win but didn’t simply because E33 won this year’s popularity contest.

For example, Best Performance should not have been allowed to have 50% of the nominees be from the same game (E33, in this case).

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I get where you’re coming from, but awards shows shouldn’t be participation trophies. The panels should give the awards for each category to the games they think were the best in that category.

And games aren’t made by a single person. If they decided that E33 shouldn’t win Best Music because it also won Best Art Direction, that’s unfair to the composers and musicians who worked on E33.

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Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning?

??? How did you get here?

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But it was the best at pretty much everything.

Other than best RPG, that should’ve gone to kingdome come deliverance 2 imo, but like e33 winning that isn’t unreasonable.

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Indie title should have honestly gone to Silksong, and the Making a Difference award probably had worthier games.

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Silk Song had x33 beat by almost triple the max player count. the fact that it didn’t get the inde title and they gave it to X33 is criminal. Silk Song beat it on price and player count and arguably story.

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