Elden Ring DLC Not Eligible for BAFTA's Best Game Award | Push Square
At this point, it's possible the whole Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree expansion probably taking home Game of the Year at Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards thing may have gotten under our skin. We're all FromSoftware fans here, but at the end of the day, DLC does not a full game make. Maintaining some sense of sanity in this world, Shadow of the Erdtree will not be eligible for the BAFTA's coveted Best Game Award, which is reserved for «full games» only.
Finally, order to the chaos. The prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts confirmed to Eurogamer that DLC and updates are eligible for consideration as part of its Evolving Game category but are ineligible for Best Game. Last year, Baldur's Gate 3 unsurprisingly took home five awards, including Best Game, and is up for consideration for Evolving Game; well deserved, as anyone who has followed Larian's unbelievably generous free post-launch support can attest. Clear, concise, and logical.
Sadly, the BAFTA's aren't revealed until April, missing the end-of-the-year hype train that has become Geoff's exclusive province. And let's be honest with ourselves: we all know Keighley's got the goods.
Also won Narrative, Music, and Players' Choice
Effin and Geoffin
Does it really matter if Shadow of the Erdtree takes home Game of the Year at The Game Awards? Is anything of meaningful value lost or gained? Try to cope and not to seethe in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
As it should NOT be. Good job, BAFTA!
It was an awful dlc and easily fromsoftware's worst, so it was never in a position to compete with full games anyways.
They are henceforth known
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