Steam awards never fail to be baffling.

I second AoE4, I started playing this year and made it to conqueror recently, it does a great job at teaching you mechanics in a very intuitive way.

Probably Remnant 2 although Hi-Fi Rush is close behind.

Bungie can fuck everything up without Bobby’s help tbh.

Good to see Remnant doing so well, it’s by far one of the best games this year.

The thing about live service is that it’s also a money-vacuum, they need to be making loads of money to keep themselves going.

Starfield probably hasn’t lived up to anyone’s expectations but people are acting like it’s not a solid game still.

The movie is pretty bad tbh.

I think I understand what you mean, I only played Splatoon 2 so I don’t have much to add, I don’t think there is much of a population left sadly.

Kong and TWD not being on the list kind of shows the problem with Metacritic overall, a lot of people have reviewed those games but there is no numerical score so it’s not here.

Can you elaborate a bit? I played Splatoon 2 until Nintendo started charging for the online but, as far as I know, Splatoon 3 only has a free battlepass.

Am I missing anything?

I haven’t seen Splatoon being recommended here, it’s a ton of fun and has no microtransactions. You can but your kid a Switch for cheap nowadays.

TLoU already had a multiplayer mode and it was great, they just had to do the same thing.

I can see that but I’d argue most people agree that being funded by Nexon is neither independent nor indie.

Indie literally means independent.

What freedom? You can’t even choose how your character speaks when there are usually 2 options and they both sound the same.

Ubisoft: checklists of Pandora

That’s actually pretty nuts.

I’m not sure how, you got lucky.

Lemmy was filled with posts linking to clickbait articles from PcGamer bashing the game.

YouTube just flooded my feed with videos about how Starfield was the worst game ever made, modern gaming was dying or something of the sort after watching a couple positive reviews.

Even in comment sections, whenever I mentioned some nitpic I had about the game, I’d get answers bashing the game as if I had said it was terrible.

It was pretty much everywhere for a month and a half to the point I just decided to stop trying to find discussions on it.

I think discussion around it just became toxic, you can’t really say anything about Starfield without a bunch of people hijacking the conversation to talk about how much they hate it.