MSFS nominated for best sim/strategy game...

[RobJC 2,073]

I think Microsoft Flight Simulator is the OBVIOUS winner in this category. It should be game of the year, and I am sure it will win many awards in the coming months. A huge success. 

Vote early. Vote often. 🙂

https://thegameawards.com/nominees

[langly 129]

Why exactly should it be game of the year? There are at least 10 titles I've played more and spent less on then this sim.

Unless, of course, you think sitting and hoping for bug fixes every week counts as fun and engaging.

[jcycmj 7]

Maybe also for “the most unfinished/buggy whatever it is”

[leprechaunlive 1,861]

3 hours ago, langly said:

Why exactly should it be game of the year? There are at least 10 titles I've played more and spent less on then this sim.

Unless, of course, you think sitting and hoping for bug fixes every week counts as fun and engaging.

Need a hug?

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,799]

Animal Crossing is a strong contender 😄

[David Mills 4,774]

I cast my vote for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

 

[Virtual-Chris 682]

Too many issues. Nothing this buggy should receive any award. 

[Ricardo41 5,965]

Doom Eternal is nominated for game of the year? Uh, no.

[Chock 17,769]

17 minutes ago, Virtual-Chris said:

Too many issues. Nothing this buggy should receive any award. 

It is worth a vote, if only to prevent the appalling 'woke' PC-fest that is The Last of Us II from winning anything.

[Scottoest 1,561]

Folks, it's nominated for Best Sim/Strategy Game, not Best Game.

[Fielder 3,822]

Voted for MSFS, two reasons:

1 Wonderful sim!

2 Makes for entertaining whiners on the Avsim boards!

[Janov 2,383]

I browsed through the categories on that website (who entitled them to call what is "game of the year" anyway?) - and I am not sure if I would be proud if my flight simulator was to be nominated alongside those other entries...

Looking at the "advisory board" https://thegameawards.com/about it also does not surprise that the entries are - ahem - pretty much limited to certain companies...incidentially the same as those represented on the advisory board, it seems to me 🤣

[spacedyemeerkat 421]

1 hour ago, Scottoest said:

Folks, it's nominated for Best Sim/Strategy Game, not Best Game.

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good ol' pitchfork-fest!

[Chock 17,769]

Yup, you can take any award pretty much with a pinch of salt, for example the Oscars, which are most often about how much advertising revenue and campaigning a studio does. For example, I mean really, an A lister actor gets paid millions of Dollars for basically spending a few months playing let's pretend, and then they want us to blow sunshine up their wazoo for it as well?

Years ago I was actually one of the people who picked the winners of the 'advertising awards' at a daily newspaper, and I can tell you it was all just a facade where we sucked up to clients who spent the most money on advertising revenue with us, by inviting them to a junket - oops I mean 'award ceremony' - where they'd have sunshine blown up their @ss and end up with a little statue they could put in a cabinet in their company lobby.

[Mike777 163]

1 hour ago, Scottoest said:

Folks, it's nominated for Best Sim/Strategy Game, not Best Game.

It's true many of us have had to devise complex strategies for working around the sudden unexpected behaviors and other bugs, so I guess it has improved our strategic skills.

Mike