We've gotta figure out some rules for what "indie" means. E33 is a great game, but that budget is estimated to be least $20 million. How many small teams are not being honored because a spot is being taken up by a game that has the same budget as a small AAA project?
A small AAA production in 2000, maybe. E33's was only a fraction of a small AAA budget today.
TGA calls it "a game made outside the traditional publisher system," which fits. I'd agree that we're looking at wildly different scales of production in the same category, though.
Indie doesn't and hasn't ever had anything to do with budget.
Indie has always been a way to define a category for creators without access to the same amount of money that publishers had historically provided. Now publishers are both no longer needed to release a game and are very rarely taking chances on original games from first time developers.
Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 is definitely my pick for Game of The Year.
Although there are many great games in this category but E33 was definitely my favorite game this year.
I almost feel bad for all the other games lol. Especially silksong but hey I mean gang comes outta nowhere can’t do much about that.
Silksong, KCD 2, Hades 2, Death Stranding 2 alongside. It's quite the lineup!
An overall really good year for gaming!! 👍
Am I the only one who finds it a bit gross that there's a Spotify ad right in the awards list? "BEST SCORE AND MUSIC, LEVELED UP BY SPOTIFY"
Everything is for sale in capitalism.
E33, Hades 2, and Silksong are all very very close for me. I’d probably pick E33 as it’s the one whose story resonated the most but at the end of the day I’d be happy with any of them getting the recognition.
Hades 2 is tough cause after having played early access for so long I’m almost not that excited about it anymore which hurts it a tiny bit, but that shouldn’t take away from the things it did well.
Hades 2 was one of the few games I've ever gone back to after playing in early access. And I played it after every major release. I agree though, I was less excited when it was fully released than I probably would have been if I had waited.
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