Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Is Yet Another Unfortunate Victim Of A December Release Date

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tessa Kaur

Published Jan 14, 2025

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December is, without a doubt, the worst time to release a triple-A game. , otherwise known as the Geoff Keighley Show, is the onl🧸y gaming awards show that mainstream players care about. Every game nominated, especially for Game of the Year, which is incidentally also the only cat🌌egory most mainstream gamers care about, inevitably gets buzz that translates to sales.

But famously, The Game Awards’ timing makes absolutely no sense. While most award shows are held in January or later, because every game in a given year needs to be considered, TGA takes place in December. Its eligibility cutoff is in mid to late November, and games 🌜released after ꦯthat date are only eligible for the following year.

While this is technically a fair workaround, nobody ever remembers to nomin🅘ate the games released in December the previous year. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles. Recency bias also plays a part – by the time November rolls around, the games played nearly a year ago are already forgotten. Even the games released in January get short shrift. I’ll get into examples later, but Midnight Suns, anyone?

I will never forgive the TGA jury for sn🦹ubbing for G🐟ame of the Year.

Could The Great Circle Have Made It To A GOTY Nom?

was released on December 9, three days before The Game Awards aired. I’m reluctant to go on record at this point in saying that it could have earned a GOTY nomination, considering I haven’t finished the game yet, but goddamn, it’s good. I have my own reservations about this year’s GOTY noms – I don’t think 🦂168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black Myth: Wukong should have been nominated, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:nor Shadow of the Erdtree – but I’m not certain that The Great Circle wo🐠uld have been able to muscle in on the category regardless.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:My Game of the Year list looked quite different from The Game Awards’, bওut that’s par for the course.

That said, I do think that The Great Circle would have been nominated for something. We’re already seeꩲing it rightfullꦺy getting acknowledged at other award shows, specifically the D.I.C.E. Awards, one of the most prestigious shows in the industry.

The Great Circle got nods for its art direction, characters and storytelling, technical capabilities, and was nominated for Adventure Game of the Year and Game of the Year on top of that. That’s no small fe🐽at,🅠 especially considering Xbox has been on the back foot for years now and has been doing fairly poorly with its other exclusives.

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The Impact Of A December Release Date

While the DICE Awards is arguably a more prestigious event than the showboaty, extended marketing reel that is The Game Awards, and it’s been around much longer, it’s not paid quitꦫe as much attention. TGA is the gaming event of the year, whether we like it or not (and we don’t). The fact remains that if you’re looking to pick up buzz from TGA﷽ hype, a December release date makes that basically impossible. It’ll be forgotten, especially if, god forbid, Grand Theft Auto 6 actually comes out next year.

We’ve seen this happen time and time again. , which reviewed well, was a commercial flop, largely because it was released in December. Some members of TheGamer (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:okay, just Eric Switzer) maintain that was a victim of its release date, as well. December just isn’t a good time to release a video game anymore – they inevitablyꦗ slip through the cracks.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, despite being a great game – the best Xbox exclusive in years, really – will probably slip through the cracks, too. Hell, by the time February rolls around and we’re hit with four major releases (, , , and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Civilization 7), we’ll already have tossedܫ it aside. That’s a crying shame. You should play it now, before you forget it e♔xists.