Gamers Are Vying For Remakes To Not Be GOTY Candidates At The Game Awards

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When it comes to The Game Awards, there is almost ALWAYS a controversy that fills up viewers’ minds by the time the show ends. Sometimes, it’s because of a certain game winning an award that it didn’t deserve to win. Other times, it’s because Geoff Keighley does things that clearly show bias and highlight his “connections” with certain people in the gaming community. But in the case of the upcoming 10th-anniversary show, things have gotten controversial just one day after the nominations were announced. Oh, and we’re not simply talking about “snubs,” as every award show deals with that. Instead, it’s about whether remakes should be nominated for the show’s top honor.

This was brought up because Resident Evil 4 Remake, which was released to great acclaim earlier in 2023, was nominated for Game of the Year alongside five other titles. Many consider it the “weakest” of the six due to its remake nature and think other titles got “snubbed” because of it. That raised lots of interesting questions about what should quality for GOTY and whether remakes of older games should get such nominations:

Maybe a hot take but I don't think remakes should be nominated for GotY. I thought RE4 was a 5/5 game but it's weird to me that a remake takes priority for a nomination over a new game.

man this year was *super* loaded with high profile games so i knew this was gonna happen, but seeing armored core 6 get completely shafted while sony's spiderman, super mario, and a /remake/ are nominated for GOTY (and most of the other categories too btw) is embarrassing https://t.co/hk3v9mMcTH

This is a many-layered issue, and so we’ll talk about this from multiple viewpoints. First off, we’ll give credit to The Game Awards by saying this ISN’T the