Keeping this in the realm of possibility:
Similarly:
I think that's the main reason Cyberpunk has been picked to grace the awards with its presence.
Yeah but I think that's also a case of the Game Awards not having a way around it. They're not set up to reward smaller games. Last year for instance you had Hades which was very competently produced, had a lot of community input and was characterized by a lack of crunch in a year where crunch related controversy was omnipresent. And then they skipped over Hades for ''best direction'' and instead award that prize to the symbol of crunch culture.
www.eurogamer.net
Direction doesn't mean "how good were he conditions when making this game", like Alfred Hitchcock is amazing director but was famously shitty to work under. Hades did win action game, beating Doom from Bethesda.
Perhaps not but crunch being even on the table or being uniquely severe does indicate the game was incompetently produced.
Incompetence would be what Cyberpunk was made under (although apparently it even that matters as it’s also still on the awards table). TLoU2 was still a technical/artistic success by any metric, barring some major narrative structuring issues. But some of the atypical choices with character development ended up also working in its favor, possibly as an affront to the enormous multifaceted backlash the game got shortly before release thanks to the leaks.
I'm only watching for the trailers tbh. If something big drops, watching reaction videos is fun afterwards too.
But i miss E3's bloody shitshow... that was the best part!
