‘Starfield’ eliminated as GOTY candidate at The Game Awards
The results were not as good as the initial publicity, leading to harsh criticism.
Netizen: “Bethesda should not blame competitors”
Candidate for The Game Award (Source=The Game Award capture)
[아시아타임즈=황수영 기자] Bethesda’s sci-fi open world RPG game ‘Starfield’ was eliminated from the Game of the Year (GOTY) competition.
At 3pm (local time) on the 1st, Starfield was not nominated for the Game of the Year award at ‘The Game Awards’. The current candidates for The Game Awards’ Game of the Year award are △Alan Wake 2 △Baldur’s Gate 3 △Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 △Resident Evil 4 △Super Mario Bros. △The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Starfield is currently the ‘Best RPG’ The name has only been listed in the category.
Gamers who played Starfield responded that ‘Starfield is not fun.’ One netizen commented, “I hope Bethesda doesn’t think that this result was due to strong competitors like ‘Baldur’s Gate 3.’ Starfield was not nominated purely because it was a poorly made review.”
Starfield boasted an increasingly immersive story and sandbox elements as its strengths, and set many records, including No. 1 in Steam sales and exceeding 1 million concurrent users, but △ exploration elements that were poor compared to the promotion △ NPC reactions that were evaluated as regressive △ previous games The humiliation of receiving a ‘mixed’ user evaluation on Steam as of the 14th and recording a lower number of simultaneous users than the previous work ‘Elder Scrolls: Skyrim’, while being criticized for a system without improvement compared to others, meaningless multiplayer content, and problems with non-Korean translation. went through
Also, on the 28th of last month, a developer from Bethesda appeared to leave a reply directly to users who left a bad review, asking why they found the game uninteresting, and was criticized by netizens as ‘lazy.’
Netizens on the Internet community Ruliweb said, “Due to the failure of Starfield, expectations for new Fallout and Elder Scrolls games have disappeared,” “It’s an AAA game that’s worse than other companies’ remakes,” and “It’s not even half of what was promoted.” “It was worth it,” and “It’s sad beyond just not wanting to see a developer disappointing users and explaining to them why the game is fun in the comments.”
