The game awards is successful and popular because it gives a wide audience what it wants. If it catered to the small % of people who truly care about the artistry of games it would be a small show few watch. DICE and GDC awards have existed for years with the public showing no interest for them.

Yeah is crazy how the mantra used to be "Games journalism is a young persons game and not for people who want a family" and now the opposite is true and there is no room for young people to get in anymore.

Obviously there are younger people who get in, & as they say streamers are definitely young, but it feels like the media who really shape coverage/conversations are an older group so you get skewed coverage toward classic games and a lack of opinions from people with no attachment to older consoles.

Oh yeah not expecting you to know, more so I think some of the convo on this has to be "It sure does seem like the game did well but in the current climate who knows what ludicrous expectations a publisher has".

Question is though what do we think Sony wanted? Find it hard to imagine that Sony is as kind at factoring in things like how Covid gave GoT a boost, and will surely have expected measurable growth with GoY.

This is all without getting into the seemingly inevitable shrinking of global population.

It is not just tech that will have problems but what do companies who manufacture actual physical things we all need like cars and toothpaste do when there is no way see reliable growth anymore.

Globalization has lead to market penetration in pretty much all markets so there are not new untapped companies/people.

Internet/cloud adoption is saturated.

In general for tech there is not really a new thing that everyone will need to pay for anew(Unless you but the AI hype).

Yeah cleared final act.

The High Halls mob fight suuuuuuucked. While not hard the flower lady you fight after Seth I did not care for the whole wall hanging aspect of the fight.

Karmelita(?) Probably my favourite fight.