By In the wake of the Game Awards nominations the other day, much of the conversation online has swirled around the titles that were snubbed – specifically “Hogwarts Legacy” and, to a much lesser extent the likes of “Starfield” and “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor”.
“Starfield”, for example, was nominated for only one award, Best RPG, which it’s expected to easily lose to “Baldur’s Gate III”. Despite its positioning as Xbox’s flagship game of the year and apparent decent sales success along with a solid fanbase, reviews were tempered enough that its omission is seen as only a minor surprise indicates Forbes.
Drawing much more reaction is “Hogwarts Legacy,” one of the year’s best-selling titles which scored very good reviews with an 84 on Metacritic (one point ahead of “Starfield”). Yet it’s also a game that became a lightning rod for controversy.
According to Dexerto, the reasoning for the snub is likely that the title has been drowned out by the flood of great releases this year – which seems true with all six games up for Game of the Year scoring in the 90s on Metacritic (though “Alan Wake II” has slipped down to very high 80s on some platforms.
Others however on Twitch such as user ‘Liric’, and social media platforms like Twitter, have gone off on the omission with discussion of fear of backlash over its inclusion. Whatever the case, it has got people talking about the awards.
At the same time, “Hogwarts Legacy” has also been in the news in the past two days as the title’s Switch release has come out and is said to be “running reasonably well” despite major graphical downgrades.
One element notably missing from the Switch version, however, is that the game’s open world is no longer seamless with loading screens lasting up to 30-50 seconds in some cases. In places like Hogsmeade, when you have to load every shop you enter into, it’s causing understandable complaints.
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