Game news Elden Ring DLC Could Become Game of the Year at The Game Awards Thanks to This New Rule
Published on 11/20/2024 at 1:15 p.m.
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As the Game Awards ceremony fast approaches, a rule has shaken up the predictions for the game of the year. What if ultimately the Elden Ring DLC was voted best game of 2024? With this precision, it is now possible, even if there will be competition!
A year 2024 wiser than 2023
After a busy year 2023, 2024 is obviously calmer in terms of big releases. However, we were still treated to quite a few new features that stood out. Astro Bot, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth or Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: all these titles have enough to compete in several categories, because they are among the highest rated games of the year on Metacritic. And yet, the best game of the year on the site is a DLC, since it is Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. If we previously thought that the latter could not win the prize for best game of 2024, everything has just changed with this new rule.
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Elden Ring still crowned game of the year?
On the official Game Awards website, it is stated that DLC, expansion packs, remakes, remasters and even seasons of service games are eligible in all categories of the ceremony, which also means the award for best game of the year. And clearly, as soon as Internet users discovered this rule, everyone understood that Shadow of the Erdtree could be named best game of 2024 during the ceremony.
This discovery did not fail to cause a lot of reaction on social networks. For many Internet users, DLC/expansion, remake/remaster and seasons of service games should compete in their own categories as they are part of the video game landscape at the moment. However, the Game Awards jury defended itself by specifying in its FAQ that this content must be “worthy of a nomination by taking into account factors such as the novelty of the content and its price/value”.
In other words, not everything can be named in it, but clearly Shadow of the Erdtree has every chance of being there. In any case, we just have to wait for the ceremony scheduled for December 12 to find out if Elden Ring will be named game of the year a second time.
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