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TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#1: Jan 18th 2024 at 12:29:03 PM

An issue I see extremely often for Award Snub is people listing them on works where it was inevitable (such as a year with multiple highly acclaimed films). This feels like cheating since it's less that a work is being unfairly passed up in awards, and more a consequence of there only being one winner. For example, is it really an Award Snub for TOTK to simply lose GOTY to another deserving game (in fact I'd wager it would probably count if it beat Baldur's Gate 3)?

* Award Snub: The game was nominated for five awards at the 2023 Game Awards, including Game of the Year. Unlike Breath of the Wild, it lost four of them, only winning Best Action/Adventure and losing out on Game of the Year to Baldur's Gate III.

I think there needs to be some sort of quantifiable backlash to the award choice (from more than just salty fans).

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Jan 18th 2024 at 3:32:46 PM

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number9robotic (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#2: Jan 18th 2024 at 12:54:20 PM

Yeah, I think this is form of documentation is itself a poor ZCE; there's no explanation or context for why something got "snubbed", it just says it didn't win, which are two distinct things that these kinds of entries don't do well bothering to distinguish.

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