Side-by-side with today's kickoff of the Steam Autumn Sale, Valve has also opened up voting in the first-ever Steam Awards, with nominations chosen by you—that's right, you. Games can be tapped for contention in eight different categories, and if you don't like how they're broken down, you can opt to suggest one of your own.
Those categories
are:
·
The "Test of Time" Award
·
The "I'm Not Crying, There's Something In My Eye"
Award
·
The "Just Five More Minutes" Award
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The "Whoooaaaaaaa, Dude!" Award
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The "Villain Most In Need of a Hug" Award
·
The "Game Within a Game" Award
·
The "I Thought This Game Was Cool Before It Won An
Award" Award
·
The "Best Use Of A Farm Animal” Award
·
The “We Didn’t Think Of Everything” Award
·
I was initially cold on the whole thing, because it's so
obviously and utterly pointless—One category (I'll let you guess which one, dude) is literally for games that "melt your
face," or that maybe just seemed really cool because when you played it
you were still super-high from having your wisdom teeth taken out. But then I
remembered that even "real" award shows, for videogames or any other
form of mainstream entertainment, are almost entirely pointless except as
fodder for ridiculous arguments. And then I felt better. Because if I'm going
to argue about which game is "best," I think it'd be a lot more fun
to hang the debate on the inclusion of farm animals than on who gave the most
memorable female VO performance.
In fact, I'll even argue that cyborg eagles qualify
as farm animals, because eagles are animals I sometimes see while I'm driving
past farms. (And since there are apparently zero restrictions on nominations, I
consider that argument won.)
That's a very
roundabout way of saying that this is all in good fun, so you probably
shouldn't get too hung up on your picks, or the inherent silliness of the whole
thing. And there is a reward for taking part: Valve is offering a badge and
Steam XP for completing tasks like nominating games and playing/reviewing your
nominees.
Steam Award nominations are live now and will close on November
29, when the Steam Autumn Sale wraps up. Winners will be announced sometime in
December. You can check for the Steam Autumn Sale in Here
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