All the nominees for 2024's iteration of The Game Awards have been finalized and the final waves of votes are now coming in, with Geoff Keighley's highly anticipated awards show now just a short two days away from airing live. As you'd expect, gaming circles are abuzz with debates about which of the nominees should take home the prestigious Game of the Year (GOTY) title and other awards. Here, though, I'd like to discuss a game I feel got absolutely snubbed this year — a game that delivers one of the best and most creative multiplayer experiences I've enjoyed in years.
That game is Helldivers 2, and frankly, I'm astounded that it isn't in the GOTY running. Arrowhead Game Studios' third-person co-op shooter exploded onto the scene in early February and was an instant hit with PS5 and especially PC players, with hundreds of thousands of fans playing consistently for the entire spring and well into the summer. An entire two months of my work this year were spent writing about Helldivers 2 and only Helldivers 2, as thousands of players were frequently searching for and ravenously consuming news about Major Orders, patch note details, guides, and other content on publications and social media networks.
