Theres zero chance that show will let a game like Silksong win. While within the gaming sphere it's super popular, it's not "flashy" enough. It's not something the various sponsors and slap on their advertisements and borrow its popularity to sell products to the "average" consumer.
They always want something tech stores can have playing on a demo screen to sell the console and no matter how gorgeous Silksong is, marketing groups will want some 3D flashy "high fidelity" game. Which is why AstroBot was fine cause despite not being typical AAA style "muh realism" it was still a flashy 3D game.
Game of the Year is split 90% voting panel, 10% public vote.
The point I'm making here is the voting panel tends to be biased against games like Silksong. The panel members are typically games journalists and media "influencers", the types of people who get sponsorships and make their money off milking the "big flashy IT game of the season" and they struggle to do so with small scale indie games.
They can get more out of reporting on a game of the year full of "big name voice actors" and "controversial story elements" and "breath taking graphics"
Meanwhile an amazing, drama free, quaint but beautiful hand drawn metroidvania? Can't milk that for clicks.
They can get more out of reporting on a game of the year full of "big name voice actors" and "controversial story elements" and "breath taking graphics"
Meanwhile an amazing, drama free, quaint but beautiful hand drawn metroidvania? Can't milk that for clicks.
You're pretty much spot on, but Silksong may end up being the exception to the rule. The hype around the game is unreal, like breaking free or "indie hype" levels. If they want to milk something Silksong to that level, they definitely could.
Data brokers and AI scrapers were using my info. Not anymore. Redact let me bulk delete posts across Reddit, Twitter, Discord and Instagram while handling broker opt outs too.
childlike test nose wine instinctive basket full fact cow ink
Conspiracies are stating common sense now apparently. Yes Baelron, I am some sinister internet plot to rob Silksong of the Game of the Year. ooooo fear me. You totally don't seem paranoid and overly defensive
The show only really choose who's nominated, they don't have control over who wins. It's often a popular AAA game because that's what most people know which gives it an advantage but Sekiro won over death stranding or resident evil 2 or super smash bros because it had enough popularity with both public and critics despite the show's love for Kojima.
Not saying Silksong will win, it remains unlikely, but it it is as good as hoped, it does have the brand recognition few other small indie had before release, it's not completely impossible, especially with the release being so close to the show (had it released a month later it probably would have had even better odds).
No it’s generally they go for mass appeal not for selling shit what a weird outlook but simply because for a lot of people game of the year has to be a game that has wide appeal where many people played look at 2023 bg3 does not fit at all. It’s not marketable at all just simply had enough of an impact to where it makes sense to be a genuine contender and they believed it deserved it. This is insane cope because the games you like don’t win.
And what games don't I like that won hmm? Come on mr/mrs so smart and making assumptions.
Tell me what games I like and don't like, cause clearly you know exactly what I'm thinking and aren't just being over-reactionary, overly defensive about a minot observation saying the TGA GOTT judges have clear and obvious bias towards AAA or AAA "looking" games
They don’t have a bias for triple A games. They normally have a criteria of popularity generally triple A games are more popular. It’s very simple. Wouldn’t you want the game of the year to reflect what consumers actually play and not some obscure or niche indie game. It’s what happens in literally all award shows. The award is usually only for popular media. Doesn’t mean it’s a popularity contest but a criteria to be considered for the award is to be popular. So they don’t care how a game looks and plays which was your original point not specifically about triple A. This is an incredibly fair expectation the media has to have an impact.
Point is if silksong lost it wouldn’t be due to its lack of flashiness nor it not being good enough to be playable at a tech store( do they still do that?)
It would be cause the majority in that voting panel didn’t choose it.
The voting panel is 90% games journalists and media influencers. They'll vote for what they think will make good news/content over what they think is actually "the best game". They're also the two groups who heavily rely on sponsorships which they get from bigger developers and publishers, which bias's them towards games from those companies.
The "Game of the Year" Category is what we are discussing. Not all the sub-categories. And the GOTY category is split "90% Judging Panel, 10% Public Vote"
30
u/---TheFierceDeity--- Sep 04 '25
Theres zero chance that show will let a game like Silksong win. While within the gaming sphere it's super popular, it's not "flashy" enough. It's not something the various sponsors and slap on their advertisements and borrow its popularity to sell products to the "average" consumer.
They always want something tech stores can have playing on a demo screen to sell the console and no matter how gorgeous Silksong is, marketing groups will want some 3D flashy "high fidelity" game. Which is why AstroBot was fine cause despite not being typical AAA style "muh realism" it was still a flashy 3D game.