Starfield's Missed GOTY Nomination Proves It's Not Skyrim In Space
Although is an ambitious game with an impressive sense of scale, its missing nomination for Game of the Year at The Game Awards for 2023 shows that Bethesda's open-world formula might not be improving enough to keep up with the competition. A highly anticipated new IP from Bethesda, takes the open-world RPG gameplay of the studio's previous games, like and, and adapts it to a new, space-faring setting. However, while games like were influential at the time they came out, has seemingly failed to make as much of an impact on the industry as its predecessors.
Despite being one of 2023's most anticipated releases, has failed to make the list of nominees for the most prominent gaming award show of the year, TGA 2023, with other games like,, and making the cut instead. In fact, out of every category, only appears as a nominee in "," where it faces off against,,, and. And while the various releases of 2023 make for strong competition, failing almost entirely to be nominated for any award might indicate that can't quite recreate the impact of past Bethesda RPGs.
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On paper, has the makings of a GOTY nominee — the game has the same immense scale as previous RPGs from the same studio, with a matching number of quests, locales, factions, and characters to fill out its massive world. However, in many ways, the game alsohasn't advanced enough past the formula set by all the way back in 2011 — and besides the fact that a smaller could have been a better game, other games have caught up to, and even started to outpace Bethesda RPGs in exploration, storytelling, and gameplay.
Although largely follows the same formula as games like and, it hasn't been able to replicate the same impact — and,
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