While most Geoff Keighley Game Awards winners are determined through a combination of public voting and jury selection (PC Gamer is one of those judges), one award called Players’ Voice is entirely will be published. Currently, the leader in that public vote is overwhelmingly Sonic Frontier.
After taking first place in the first two rounds, Sonic Frontiers won a whopping 48% of the votes in the third and final round. Player’s Voice Award Voting (opens in new tab)Genshin Impact is in second place with 29% and Elden Ring in third place with just 13%. God of War: Ragnarok is fourth with 8% and Stray is last with 2%.
“Can you do a Sonic Sweep!?!?!” wrote Evan Bader, Sega’s Senior PR Manager. on Twitter (opens in new tab) early today.
There’s Elden Ring, God of War: Ragnarok, and Stray, but Sonic Frontiers isn’t among the judges’ nominees for TGA’s Game of the Year award. Works include Horizon Forbidden West, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. It’s almost unsurprising that Elden Ring wins that category. I used to think that Ragnarok could topple it, but if the public and jurors voted the same way they voted for player voices, it wouldn’t come close.
The Player’s Voice Award, on the other hand, could go to Sonic Frontier, which has not been nominated for any other game awards.From one point of view, this contradiction shows why major awards shouldn’t be decided entirely by fan votes. To tell (opens in new tab) We combine jury voting with public voting to ensure winners are not “socially engineered”. (opens in new tab) A higher Metacritic User Score than Elden Ring seems to do a pretty good job of justifying its enthusiasm.
However, another interpretation is that Sonic Frontiers’ nominations are simply underrated by mainstream critics. Our Anti-Sonic Bias Exposed! (Plus, it was released a little later this year.)
Can you get your hands on a Sonic Sweep?!?!?! The third round of the Player Voice voting for #TheGameAwards has concluded, with Sonic Frontiers taking a commanding lead.December 5, 2022
The divide between fans and professional critics is actually less chasmic than I thought. There is a review. According to Gene Park Washington Post (opens in new tab)Frontier’s controls, soundtrack, “evocative” storytelling, and Sonic Adventure-style structure will benefit longtime Sonic fans.
“Sonic Frontiers won’t and shouldn’t win any awards,” Park wrote in November. “For Hedgehog fans, experiencing this game feels like receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.”
That last part may be true, but unless Genshin Impact fans rally soon (and the gap between games has closed a bit today), Frontier will eventually win at least one non-fictional award. seems to get
Non-Sonic fans also seem to be obsessed with Sonic Sweep. On Twitter he voted for another game in one category that could beat the favourites, as one voter said that in the main prize he would get all the attention Elden Ring etc. why do not you?
vote for Player’s Voice Award (opens in new tab), and other gaming awards will be held for two more days. Winners will be announced at the 2022 Game Awards this Thursday at 7:30 PM ET.
