Hogwarts Legacy for Game of the Year

If you want to use a more literal definition of ‘snub’ (rebuffed, ignored, spurned disdainfully) Hogwarts Legacy fits that bill to a tee. Considering the conversation around the game, it was obvious it wasn’t going to be nominated regardless if it was good or bad. –therubixcube22

It was snubbed about as much as Robocop: Rogue City was snubbed. It’s a perfectly fine 7/10 licensed tie-in game carried by people’s love for the IP, but that’s about all it is. –ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Bear Privilege is a Liberal Hoax

Regardless of the controversy, Hogwarts was a pretty mediocre game and it sold because of the IP it was attached to. To imply that it was “snubbed” for awards is to forget that awards are for the actual game delivered, not for the marketing campaign or sales quantity.

It wasn’t misunderstood and there wasn’t any hidden depth that got missed under the surface of the game’s design, it was just a pretty mediocre game leveraging an IP that a lot of people already like. – BrigBrug

Well, no, Hogwarts has a 84 MC score which is higher than many of the nominees in various categories. It absolutely would have been a legitimate nominee in the Best Family Game category, for example. Jedi Survivor’s MC score was only one point higher and it was nominated in the Best Action/Adventure category. – Jerykk

It’s also a Metacritic score, which has been established to be heavily-influenced at best and meaningless at worst. Plenty of games have been reamed by MC’s critics yet been runaway successes, as well as the reverse. Just to use a related example to this year, Skyward Sword was way up there on Metacritic in its release year but is now considered one of the worst (though not outright terrible) Zelda games ever made.

Point is, the more popular an IP is the more likely it’s going to be inflated in terms of opinion, and Legacy definitely falls into that category. – ENDG$MER 

Hogwarts Legacy was 2023. I admit I’d forgotten about it completely, but I also had no interest in playing it. It was received pretty well at the time, though, and while I’m sure some people will bring up the political controversy around JKR, I don’t believe The Game Awards would actually care about that. – MazokuRanma