Bragr
Banned
There is a big issue in the music industry that critics aren't listening to music outside the popular artists, which means all the awards at shows like the Grammy's are busted. The critics are completely out of the loop of the music out there.
In movies, at the Oscars, it's similar but not quite the absurdness that you find in the music industry.
In games, it's nowhere near that level yet, but it's getting there. Great games that don't find an audience are regularly forgotten. And the games media is the medium that should curate and highlight such content.
Neon White is a smaller indie game that made some waves and got some great reviews (90 on Metacritic), and some critics are mentioning it here and there, but it pales in popularity to stuff like Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, or Splatoon 3.
God of War and Elden Ring will fight for the GOTY, but what will be the other nominees? in a week or two, we will know.
But if Neon White, a game that has an almost flawless rating on Steam, a game that goes beyond the traditional indie game material (2d-action game) and easily steps into the sphere of classic small studio games like Hades or Limbo, if that game is not nominated, something has gone wrong.
I am not a fanboy (maybe), I had no expectations from Neon White, I played it on a whim. But anyone who played that game knows, it's smart, addicting, and deserves to take its rightful place over a lot of the games with tens of millions in marketing budgets developed by hundreds of people. This is the real deal, and if it's jumped over in the favor of expensive popular franchises, it's a sign of an unhealthy culture in the game's media where the popular titles are beating better games.
The same could potentially be said of Vampire Survivors, even though that is a bigger and more popular title.
In movies, at the Oscars, it's similar but not quite the absurdness that you find in the music industry.
In games, it's nowhere near that level yet, but it's getting there. Great games that don't find an audience are regularly forgotten. And the games media is the medium that should curate and highlight such content.
Neon White is a smaller indie game that made some waves and got some great reviews (90 on Metacritic), and some critics are mentioning it here and there, but it pales in popularity to stuff like Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, or Splatoon 3.
God of War and Elden Ring will fight for the GOTY, but what will be the other nominees? in a week or two, we will know.
But if Neon White, a game that has an almost flawless rating on Steam, a game that goes beyond the traditional indie game material (2d-action game) and easily steps into the sphere of classic small studio games like Hades or Limbo, if that game is not nominated, something has gone wrong.
I am not a fanboy (maybe), I had no expectations from Neon White, I played it on a whim. But anyone who played that game knows, it's smart, addicting, and deserves to take its rightful place over a lot of the games with tens of millions in marketing budgets developed by hundreds of people. This is the real deal, and if it's jumped over in the favor of expensive popular franchises, it's a sign of an unhealthy culture in the game's media where the popular titles are beating better games.
The same could potentially be said of Vampire Survivors, even though that is a bigger and more popular title.