For what it's worth most people are more mad that E33 won best indie and best debut indie. It's not an indie game, many people have said as much and it's completely unfair that they won in categories meant for small budget games by small teams.

Totally deserved in other categories, but that does leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Game awards are ridiculous, but I will never forget Expedition 33. It deserves all the accolades it has earned and achieved.

Imagine the average gamer. Imagine the average reddit user.

Now combine them.

Gamers make me embarrassed to enjoy video games

The problem with the Internet is that it amplifies minority negative voices. Hundreds of thousands of people played that game and 100 pieces of shit get on reddit and be assholes and it gives all of their players bases a bad name. It's the same across anything. On the Internet a loud minority is going to piss in everyone's lemonade because they are trash humans.

What makes it worse is algorithm based social media prioritize rage bait since it creates engagement. It's breaking all of our brains.

Whether you go to the Silksong, KCD2, Death Stranding, Dispatch, Arc Raiders, or any other games subreddit that was nominated for any award about half the comments saying E33 is trash, overhyped, and their game deserved to win instead.

Nine awards is a lot. And this is after they swept Golden Joystick. It's a fine game. It's just not the only game.

Holy shit the hate E33 is getting is completely ridiculous, as Reddit does. Whether you go to the Silksong, KCD2, Death Stranding, Dispatch, Arc Raiders, or any other games subreddit that was nominated for any award about half the comments saying E33 is trash, overhyped, and their game deserved to win instead.

This is why I don’t care anymore about what other people think and check the communities of games. I just hope the game, I like the most wins. If it happens, great! If it does not, sad but that’s okay. That’s life.

I went over to Reddit so I could keep track if the game awards because I didn't have time to actually watch it. Holy shit the hate E33 is getting is completely ridiculous, as Reddit does. Whether you go to the Silksong, KCD2, Death Stranding, Dispatch, Arc Raiders, or any other games subreddit that was nominated for any award about half the comments saying E33 is trash, overhyped, and their game deserved to win instead. As someone that has enjoyed all of these games, the salt is absolutely bonkers. Most of the ones complaining are basically saying "I never played it but I heard they did [blank] so they don't deserve [blank] award."

I just don't get why they need to shit on other people and the games they like just because their game didn't win.

Because it is the internet and nowadays people only think about themselves. “I like this game, I want and need this game to win”. The internet allows people to be sort of anonymous and that brings the worst out of people (because more often than not, there’s no consequences of the actions when it is written anonymously).

And get rid of its predators... I'm always so sad to see my friends working in the game industry so exploited, fired without a thought, all to benefit greedy executives who never played a single game in their lives...

"We've picked one game and we're giving every award to that game because it's the best game at everything and have you played the game yet? You should it's so good it's just the best at everything."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Interactive

Kepler Interactive was founded in September 2021 at the initiative of former Ubisoft employee and French entrepreneur Alexis Garavayan, who had previously co-founded the video game investment fund Kowloon Nights. Self-described as a "super developer" publishing group, Kepler was born out of an alliance between seven independent studios to “pool their resources and knowledge”:

Hedge Fund ass publisher. Come on, guys. The Gaming Awards have always just been sponsored content and you're getting hoodwinked because you don't recognize the sponsor this time around.

does seem weird to me to just give all the awards to one game, but then critic-awards shows always have been kind of a joke

One could even say it's quite the obscure game to win awards like this..?

That's one area where you can see it is indie despite the large development cost.

They were published by Kepler Interactive and for some markets Bandai Namco. Neither of which have Ubisoft or EA's marketing budget which normally makes up something like half of the development budget of a game.

They did have some marketing. I know a lot of French streamers were paid to play the game on launch. But yeah not "in your face for 6 months in front of every YouTube video and inside every happy meal box" like a new assassin's creed or something.

I don't think it had a big marketing strategy, but it definitely marketed itself through word of mouth because it definitely deserved all the praise (and now awards) it got.

I'll see you Best RPG and raise you a Best Independent and Best Debut Indie.

They have a publisher that funded them with hedge fund money and outsourced aspects of the production to entirely different companies. I'm not making a comment on the quality of the game, but how is that indie?

In my honest opinion as someone that had played and enjoyed both games, they both deserved the awards in their own ways. I think Kingdom Come is definitely a better RPG in general, but at the same time E33 is an amazing game that is an RPG. It's semantics at this point and I think it's more of a lack of categories. RPG is such a loose term these days that I feel like it should be sub-divided into a few more. Lumping games together and comparing games that are vastly different based solely on a loose term like RPG is disingenuous.

Which is funny because it didn't win best sound track at the biting awards.

KCD got absolutely shafted. Not getting best RPG sucks but the leads not even being nominated for best performance is just straight up bullshit.

I love when they block all the roads with tractors and spray manure into government buildings to protest the government being shitty at governing.

It conveys the emotions I feel so much better than I ever could (I don't own large quantities of manure, not the means to propel them at high speeds).