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Or Immortality. Stray is just an odd pick. You could argue that instead of the indie game slot Stray is taking up the populist game that was not quite as critically well received as the other nominees slot that Assassins Creed Odyssey, The Outer Worlds, Ghost of Tsushima, and Resident Evil Village availed of. With A Plague Tale being in the small game slot.

Anyway here are collected thoughts:

-ya go my Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

-With that said it was definitely a huge snub in Best Performance (Harry McEntire).

-Speaking of which, Best Performance would be a more interesting category if it only allowed one nominee per game. Does God of War really need two nominees?

-I am going to defend Elden Ring for Narrative. Lore is a huge part of Narrative and Elden Ring has some of the most extensive and interesting lore around. GRRMs presence was definitely felt there. I have a bigger issue with Horizon being there really, though I am largely done with that kind of AAA storytelling in general.

-Dang NORCO and Tunic had a load of hype at the start of the year and just vanished as it went on.

-Horizon feels like the game that gets a load of nominations and wins none of them.

-Feels like a poor showing for Bayonetta 3, only getting Action Game.

-Do we actually need so many esports categories? Best esports game in particular feels odd because it is just going to be mostly the same games every year.

-The people hyping up Vampire Survivors as a hard lock now look very silly.

-And again, Stray, really?