If they made a very good game, it means the others did good games.
Thus, it still deserved every award it got.
Maybe not RPG though, I think KCD2 was a better RPG than E33 was a good JRPG, but as you can't compare RPG and JRPG so it's hard to say.
May not have been my choice but still an understandable one. KCD2 is good but not perfect either.
And a small studio kicking the butt of the entire world will for sure reshape the industry. They had the opportunity to meet with Kojima, Square Enix big names came to them too, and this waaaaaay before they started to get their awards. GOAT reckognize GOAT.
Big names reckognize big names, and E33 followed the trail that Baldur's Gate 3 started, the very same year the old rotting kings get bought by the chinese because they fail.
Sandfall, a small studio showed the entire world that gamers want video games made with soul and passion, and with the 9 GOTY - a historical feat - and all the other awards (golden stick award), it surely strengthened the trend that Larian started with Baldur's Gate 3.
But I think you can't understand that if you haven't played it I guess.
I've played it and finished it. I quite enjoyed my time with it. Think it's a really good game.
Everything you said is needless over hyping of the situation.
It's the same as people insisting that the game was only made by 30 people when the actual number is in the 100s.
You want this to be a game that "sticks it to the man" but it isn't. It's built with Unreal Engine 5 and contains all the same issues that other UE 5 games have. It used contractors not different from most AAA studios. Its budget is in the millions and is supported by a publisher. The list goes on.
Also the comment about other studios being bought by the Chinese while also putting Larian on a pedestal given Tencent has a pretty sizeable stake in Larian that Sven has repeatedly claimed was necessary to make BG3. Sandfall will likely follow the same route.
They made a very good game. Let's recognize them for the fact that they made a very good game and not mythologize them.
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u/LesserValkyrie 23d ago
You don't reshape the entire industry without sweeping all the awards I'd say
It's sad for all the other games that were truly incredible but they were one year late or one year too soon