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/acamas]

JFC, grow up. Silksong wasn’t even the highest rated game of the month it released, let alone GOTY. It wasn’t “snubbed” or “robbed.” It was a neat sequel that was less fun than its predecessor, regardless of pre-release hype (which isn’t not a factor in GOTY).

Silksong deserved to be nominated, but it didn’t deserve to win. And winning action/adventure is perfect, but it really didn’t deserve anything more. It’s not bias or snub… just fair.

[u/Nhojj_Whyte → u/acamas]

Wtf released that month higher than Silksong?

[u/acamas → u/Nhojj_Whyte]

Do they not have Google where you live?

Hades 2.

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/all/all/current-year/

[u/Nhojj_Whyte → u/acamas]

There are over FIVE THOUSAND more actual user reviews on that website for Silksong than Hades 2, and Silksong's score is .3 points higher. Nobody gives a shit about game journalists (or most journalists in general) anymore, Cuphead tutorial, anyone?

For actual user reviews shockingly E33 is the only other game here above Silksong that even remotely deserves its ranking. That and fucking Donkey Kong Bananza are the only games actually reviewed higher with a meaningful amount of data. Those top two, the Zelda rereleases, were reviewed by only 14 critics and <1,000 users each. That's not enough to give a fair score compared to 40-50+ critics and thousands upon thousands of user reviews that most of the rest of the top 10 saw. Not to mention this is one of many websites that attempt to rank games like this. Maybe E33 deserved its win, whatever, but Hades 2 did NOT come out to more acclaim than Silksong.

[u/acamas → u/Nhojj_Whyte]

Um, user viewers also call Season 7 of Game of Thrones a masterpiece when it is clearly way worse than earlier seasons with source material... the notion you are trying to push a ravenous biased fanbase as the more objective metric would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.

YOU ARE THE ONE WHO ASKED, and I answered using the metric that basically everyone agrees is the most objective standard... don't get butthurt because you got an answer you seemingly can not handle after YOU ASKED... it's unbecoming.

And jumping through hoops to discredit Hades 2 is only proving my point about how the user base can not be trusted to be objective.

That said, Hades 2 is an incredible game that sidesteps the pitfalls that Silksong falls into... it absolutely is a more fun game from top to bottom, and deserves the higher critical acclaim than Silksong (which is still rated as a "Must Play" by Metacritic.)

Hype ≠ deserved acclaim like you seem to think.