Some people are frustrated that such a small simple game (solo dev) is nominated instead of a more traditional 3rd person story driven game. Just check out the past winners, basically all in the same genre (Action-adventure) except for Overwatch (Waifu sim).
My opinion? I think it is a good thing that Balatro was nominated and I hope more like it get nominated. Though Wukong should probably win this year if it's as good as people say.
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gonna take the grumpy old man position here and say there should be some skill involved in art that is classified as great. Like sure vampire survivors is fun, but it's just a dopamine farm that could have been made by a couple 12 year olds. Balatro is slightly better but still just an interesting take on card games, nothing anyone will remember in 5 years. The real question is why are we so desperate for GOTYs and these are our options, even DLCs had to be added. The gaming industry is what the movie industry was in the 70s, or maybe the 20s. too much money and no one knows what to do with it
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I think making balatro required skill. Sure if you gave a mediocre programmer the specs they might be able to make it but knowing what to make is half the battle.
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