The hype surrounding Bethesda Game Studios’ Fallout 4 has only gotten stronger since the studio held its first ever E3 press conference in June, and now the game has been given the industry’s highest pointless honor. The E3 Game Critics Awards have named Fallout 4 the Best of Show, meaning that out of all of the unreleased games or hardware given a firm marketing push at an industry press event, Fallout 4 was the best.

While consideration for the Game Critics Awards does require that “in order to compete, a game be shown in hands-on playable format,” there is no stipulation on how long the demo must be.

It is a bit ridiculous to imagine that critics could get anything more than a brief glimpse of gameplay during something as hectic as E3, and Bethesda titles like Fallout are known for being expansive games with hundreds of hours of content.

Fallout 4 also won Best PC Game, but interestingly it did not win Best Console Game. That honor went to Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which due to technical difficulties had been forced to switch to pre-recorded gameplay during its E3 showcase at the PlayStation press conference.

Looking at previous winners of Best in Show, the critics do not always bet on the right horse, and more often than not the award goes to whatever title is leading the current hype train.

Unfortunately, hype trains tend to get derailed when the games finally release, often because they over promise and under deliver. Some of the Game Critics Awards’ previous winners have included Evolve (2014) and Spore (2005), both of which failed to live up to the high expectations set by the judges, which include such bastions of game journalism as Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, and USA Today.

Other nominees for this year’s Best of Show included Horizon Zero Dawn, Oculus Touch, Star Wars Battlefront, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. All of these games also won their own meaningless awards: Best Original Game, Best Hardware/Peripheral, Best Action Game, and Best Console Game respectively.

It’s almost like the press wanted to make sure each publisher got its own award blurb to put on the game’s box art.

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