The way I see it there's millions of people who would unironically fight in wars to defend their favorite console, game or genre. Anyone reasonable can tell that Astrobot won more or less because the game awards are just an expensive form of advertisement. However, you've got a legion of people who are pissed off that their favorite game didn't win GotY.

Add politics to the mix and you understand some people get over it and others never will. Haven't seen Athlus or Balatro fans seething with hatred because their game didn't win GotY. Wukong was at least nominated, but that won't stop soft porn fans from complaining that Stellar Blade didn't win.

Astrobot is a cool game with some really good uses of the PS4 graphics capabilities, efficiencies, and hardware

I think that's the problem is show how good PS4 is but the game was released for PS5

/s

I use Chinese forums occasionally, Wukong was wildly popular over there and considered a shoe-in for the win. Astrobot was okay but a lot of the appeal is just "I recognize that reference!" and the story is non-existent.

Personally I would've given it to Balatro or Wukong, but GotY basically always goes to a Japanese or Western AAA game so they were both out from the beginning

Motherfucker did win two awards

Nah, should have not been Chinese.

Isn't Sekiro also basically just a beat em up?

Sekiro is a rhythm game like DDR and nobody will ever convince me otherwise

Hear me out, what if they added a Balatro mode to the game? Then I think it would have a shot.

No they like it because the directirs homophobic

I've seen Chinese folks actually defend the depiction of women in the game in that they're portrayed as strong and with agency, but that that aspect was ignored by racist journalists