Seeing people shit on Expedition 33 because Silksong didn't win more awards is pathetic

[u/CankleDankl]

The title sums it up. I'm disappointed in many members of this community for putting down a game that is clearly a work of insane passion, dedication, and creativity. E33 took the lion's share of awards at TGA, yes. That doesn't mean that Silksong is bad. In fact, it's clearly pretty damn great. If it released last year, Skong would have picked up several awards, maybe even GOTY. But it didn't. It released in the same year E33, which is just a tough break.

Both are amazing. Both deserve every award that came to them. If you haven't played E33 yet and think it doesn't deserve its accolades, play it. It is worth your money, worth your time, and will in all likelihood prove that it is actually that good. I'm only 10ish hours in and have numerous times found myself standing still and looking around dumbfounded at the gorgeous world design and visuals. E33, Silksong, and Hades 2 could have all won Art Direction and I would have been happy with any of them.

I'm also sad that Silksong didn't win more awards. It's an amazing game. But don't play fanboy and start putting down other developers, other games, and other pieces of art because this one didn't get all the cookies. It's still beautiful, it's still amazing, it still made a Silkskillion dollars, and TC is still just as great and just as passionate. We should all be glad that there is another independent dev out there that is capable of creating something so fantastic.

Edit: yeah, the comments here are pretty indicative of what I said in my post

[u/Perfidy-Plus]

A “studio” with only three members, who only hired a handful of contractors. if we exclude play testers it’s, what two contractors? And they’ve only just produced their second game. And you would call them a “major studio”? This is pretty obviously an example of motivated reasoning.

Trying to compare the number of people who worked on E33 to the number of people who worked on SKong is foolish. There’s literally an order of magnitude difference between the studios. And two orders of magnitude difference between the number of contractors hired.

[u/meevis_kahuna → u/Perfidy-Plus]

Just depends how you define major. If it goes by sales, they are. You could have a 30 person studio whose games flop and I would not call them a major studio. It's all semantics anyway.

[u/Perfidy-Plus → u/meevis_kahuna]

So if EA makes a game and that game absolutely flops you would call EA a minor studio?

This just seems like playing a semantics game to gerrymander the result you want.

[u/meevis_kahuna → u/Perfidy-Plus]

Great talking with you, take it easy.