The French won an award for winning awards. Twas a brutal slaughter. But fairly predictable because... well yea, the game and everything about it is really really really good. But it does seem clear that its status as 'indie' was kinda nonsense.

I wouldn't necessarily say Expedition 33 was LESS violent than Doom. I mean less than an hour in and your first Player Character collapses against a huge mound of dead bodies and attempts to blow his brains out. Still, it IS the kind of game you can hold up as "Good Game"

Other than the "Players' Voice" awards it's all rigged anyway. (And even that one sometimes gets botted votes and other kinds of cheating to make it somewhat meaningless.) TGA is really a show about trailers and announcements with a side hustle of the industry patting itself on the back.