>didn't get nominated for Best Indie even though Dave the Diver got in
>didn't get nominated for Best Art Direction
>didn't get nominated for Best Score and Music
>got snubbed for Indie Debut for a game no one played
They did Pizza Tower dirty.
>didn't get nominated for Best Indie even though Dave the Diver got in
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not clicking that
morons
I ain't clicking your ip logger homie
>84%
wtf man
No.
yeah, the audience was dead silent at the awards too
I have to be crazy but it sounded like there was a a subtle "boo" in the audience when they were getting the award
They were saying boo-urns.
oddly they were like that for pretty much every game :/
pizza tower gays exposed for not playing video games
Cartoony games aren't allowed to win, only cinematic and globohomosexual style slop
Well maybe if Pizza tower was a good game it wouldn't have been BTFO so hard
You're right. Game awards can only appreciate good games at best, great games are too much for them.
Yes, they clearly pick games which are good
It was the best game of the year
It only got in because some exec's kid mentioned it. All the rest have strong industry backers that can throw cash around to get their game noticed, or pander to the most popular (marketable) message of the time.
Congrats to the dev on the nomination tho. That should bring in a bumper crop of sales regardless of the result. It got a similar nomination on the jap indie awards
this
for once, the devs for this game seem like normal nerds, every other "indie" dev seem like a californian with lots of connection
also the game doesn't have black characters
> didn't get nominated for Best Art Direction
Because it's fricking awful. Just horrendous. MSPaint tier, and not the good one.
Should've won best indie tho.
>Because it's fricking awful. Just horrendous. MSPaint tier, and not the good one.
That's not the point. It had a clear creative vision of replicating the feel of 90's cartoons and it did so masterfully. Even from a technical standpoint it's an incredible piece of work if you look at all the different sprites and the fluidity of the animations, especially considering it's from a solo dev.
But looks like shit. They've done masterful work on a pile of shit.
The category is called "Best Art Direction", not "Prettiest Graphics"
Right, it was an ugly art direction they picked and thus weren't nominated.
damn do you homies really not know what direction means
clapped ass board
moron
>It had a clear creative vision of replicating the feel of 90's cartoons and it did so masterfully.
No it didn't you c**t. It looks like a sloppy piece of shit
Ok zoomer moron, kys and ywnbaw
>Ok zoomer moron, kys and ywnbaw
Your the zoomer you curly haired berk. The only thing impressive about Pizza Tower is how far up its ass cultists like you are.
t. filtered by the first boss
you first doomer newbie tourist yawngay
t. cultist
>it looks like shit ON PURPOSE
Making a piece of shit ironically is still making a piece of shit anon.
>game has unique deliberate art style made to appeal to a niche and very well received by fans
>"NO IT'S UGLY BECAUSE... WELL BECAUSE I SAID SO THAT'S WHY"
kys yourself holy shit. this isn't even with regards to pizza tower specifically, you're just mouthing off saying something you don't even truly even believe because you dislike the fans of something, peak Gankereddit
No I genuinely hate pizza tower to the core, or more accurately indie games. Every one of them are obnoxious games made by obnoxious people which are vague metaphors to some sort of mental illness. I never played Pizza Tower in my life and have zero intention to do so ever. The only reason I turned off my pizza tower filter was to revel in the misery pizza troonies have and mock them for how shit and irrelevant their game is.
take your meds
>thinking about meds
ngmi
Holy fricking based and pro-AAA-pilled. I kneel, king. You are a true video gamer.
They hated him for telling the truth, uppity pizzatroons were always going to be in for a rude awakening
Told the truth in the sense that he was actually honest about having a completely moronic opinion.
>One Ounce of Corn Syrup has been delivered to your door
>not even high fructose
What the frick anon?
Because he didn't shill any corporate backed products WHILE shitting on pizza Tower. Not even a hell yeah for Lego Fortnite.
Maybe next TGA.
Admit it, you tried it and found it was too hard despite the only way you can lose is by being too slow in the escape segments which give you enough time to do them 2-3 times over. Filtered.
Nah he found it and dipped when he saw the fanbase lmao
>Every one of them are obnoxious games made by obnoxious people which are vague metaphors to some sort of mental illness
You took the memes seriously. Actual brainrot.
>The only reason I turned off my pizza tower filter was to revel in the misery pizza troonies have and mock them for how shit and irrelevant their game is
>having this much unbridled anger against them that only this brings you joy
you sure showed them
Hyenas WILL return because of your post. You're welcome.
-Sega Execs
Good. Sega and CA unironically need to close, the fact that 100 million can go into Hyenas and not get stopped until the absolute second means they all need to be purged from the industry. The competent devs will find work somewhere else.
homie its literally a love letter to WarioLand what the frick.
Best post in the entire thread.
pizzaslopgays seething.
bro this is a real mental illness. like what the frick. pizza towers a game about a stressed old man trying to save his failing pizza resturant. theres no trannies or no mental illnesses metaphors whatsoever. you need to get off the internet for awhile man. It was legitmately a good game. I enjoy every level
PIZZAS*STERS???????
>vague metaphors to some sort of mental illness
>I never played Pizza Tower
Kek, it shows, here's your (You)
god, ironically pretending to be moronic is such a fricking plague on this shithole and this post alongside the replies encouraging this garbage are shining examples of why
>It had a clear creative vision of replicating the feel of 90's cartoons
This pile of putrid shit doesn't look anything like 90's cartoons.
>this homie hasn't watched EEnE and Ren and Stimpy
>It had a clear creative vision of replicating the feel of 90's cartoons
I'm so sick of you homosexuals pretending to be nostalgic for a time period you weren't even old enough to remember.
How old do you think the people are on here anon? Plenty of us are in our 30s here. Are you just assuming everyone here is as young as you or something?
At the end of the day its an platformer with a coat of 'wacky 90's cartoon' paint which can be made by any 12 year old in gamemaker.
Platformers aren't going to win any awards as everyone just thinks of them as the age old bargain bin slop of the indie field.
90d cartoons didn't look like this you zoomers homosexual. The 90s were an animation golden age before the ugly adult swim shit that came in the 2000s
It's clearly inspired by Ren and Stimpy, which I don't think you've seen.
I feel like your sense of time is completely distorted, not that you actually think Klaskly Csupo and John K and Rocko's Modern Life and stuff is actually from the 2000s
are you blind?
meant for
>confusing direction with fidelity
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY FOMO HECKIN VALID INDIE IS FORGOTTEN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
dilate
MCPIG WAS ROBBED.
Here is a secret. Award shows are always rigged. Its the industry jerking itself off.
Yep same thing with the Oscars. Most awards are just pay to win. 30 under 30? Companies pay to get a nomination, so everyone bought their slot. Game reviews? Pay for coverage and any GOTY awards you need
Also like the Oscars, the only winning games are the ones that go for all the depressing trops like Oscar bait.
>Black and White Period Piece
>Child protag
>Deals with handicap
>Copes with loss
>Copes with addiction
>Copes with intolerence
>Quirky title to grab attention
Cringe isn’t it
Big ff fan but 16 randomly getting best music confirmed that for me. The game was ass and the music was Soken on a leash and it showed. Shit was average as frick. My bet is square threw money to win any award possible and soundtrack was the only category that wouldn't look like blatant shilling
>no diversity and inclusion
>too hard for journos
>developer is on the wrong side of history and said bad words in the past
> >developer is on the wrong side of history and said bad words in the past
>yet still nominated
???
It had to be nominated for its popularity but journos never vote for problematic games as the winner.
It literally didn't have to be nominated.
And what do you think would happen if the most popular indie game of the year didn't even get a nomination?
Absolutely nothing. Three seething threads on this board at the worst.
why is Ganker arguably the worst board on Ganker?
Because it's basically /b/ but an incredibly thin veneer of being "sfw" and "advertiser friendly" even though said advertisers do shit that's sometimes raunchier and more crass than what actual posters post
NTA, but honestly I'd be more ok with Pizza Tower not being nominated than watching the devs go all the way to LA just to get snubbed live on camera.
Like it just comes off as a huge dick move by AAA to dab on actual indies for daring to be more popular than their grey generic slop.
>Like it just comes off as a huge dick move by AAA to dab on actual indies for daring to be more popular than their grey generic slop.
if you're not part of the crowd and do not share in their ideals, you will receive no official recognition and will be passed over in favor of literal whos with friends on the inside. it's that simple and that's how it's always been
tens of millions of morons would still watch Teal'c botch the delivery on the easiest joke in the world, just like this year when a game from a AAA developer and publisher was nominated for Best Independent Game.
You don't seem to understand how award shows (read: marketing events) work. Two kinds of products get nominated
>things that the public expects to be nominated
>things that are getting shilled
You have to nominate the things that people care about as a way of convincing them to watch, in hopes of seeing the thing they care about win. Then, you're free to make the product placement win instead, as a way of saying "If you liked <good thing>, well, <shilled thing> is better!" A full roster of shilled products immediately reminds everyone that the game was rigged from the start, and a full roster of worthy products doesn't make you money. The healthy mix is key.
It's similar to how Indie Game: The Movie split the focus between a guy with 10 years as a Flash game dev under his belt and an Ubisoft-connected industry plant that was in bed with the IGF award committee. Recognition of the deserving is a tool to co-opt authenticity for your own products.
Tf did he say? QRD?
the game features heckin wops you moron
Those might as well be hyperboreans in modern day Muttistan
Any game that wins shit is confirmed as a borderline industry plant pretty much
Didn't watch the bore awards, what game snubbed PT?
Cuckoon
Of course, they didn't have anyone on the inside to assign them the reward, do you think this a democratic process or something? PT had literally twenty times as much steam reviews as that literalwho game no one on Ganker or the rest of the internet has even heard of
Nikke was snubbed too and it pissese off. Imagine all the jimmies we would get if they were nominated (as they should).
>nikke
huh, what would it be nominated for? it's old gacha for phones, not a game.
> didn't get nominated for Best Score and Music
That category is complete garbage because they never nominate the best soundtrack, just the biggest budget games. These games never have memorable music and it’s a farce. Sonic Frontiers was robbed last year too. We really need to return to the days of outlets doing their own Game of the Year awards. Was a better time.
Humans are lazy and don't want to go to several different sources to discuss media. It's the plebbit effect, that site came around and murdered classic internet forums. This award ceremony redditizes game awards in the same manner, complete with the corruption to boot
>We really need to return to the days of outlets doing their own Game of the Year awards. Was a better time.
Reminds me that Darkstalkers 3 won Gamest's GOTY for 1997, despite people these days saying that series was never relevant.
Does this game have any sexy girls like the one with hell satan harem?
Why did Cocoon win, unironically? I want to believe they paid for it or something but no one has heard about it ever. Just makes no sense.
It's from the guy that made Limbo and Inside.
Ok, that makes sense. Really stupid decision, but I see the thought process from some stale dlop like TGA. Thanks anon.
so how the frick did it win DEBUT indie?
Hey, stop asking questions
no, you will not stop me from asking questions about
Well, see, Limbo and Inside were made when he was working at the unquestioned designer for a studio. Now, he's the OWNER of a studio, so it's different financially.
Because Geoff is the kind of moron that put Dave the Diver on the "Best Indie" nominations when it wasn't even an indie, and when asked his response was "i-indie's a broad term!!!!!"
Because anyone who would care enough to challenge it doesn't have enough power for anyone to give a shit
It's the first Cocoon game (^:
Nobody knows what those games are either
Because it was an actually good game that had cohesive and appealing art. Not like Slop Tower with its garbage art and terrible soundtrack and just awful to play gameplay
You forgot to attach the hook to the line my friend.
None of you played cuckoon.
Bro threw the bait and forgot the hook.
post steam hours right now
It’s just the superior game, mcpig should just get good at game development
Tell me what you like about it more
It was an amazing game start to finish with breathtaking animation and sound. ADHD pizza troons won't understand this, but it lost for a reason.
I'm sure the one person who actually played it on Ganker would be really excited to answer you if he was aware of this thread
it's really weird, barely anyone even played Cocoon
And yet Cocoon is a true slow-burn, genre-defining, soulful and introspective masterpiece of gaming, while Pizza Tower represents everything wrong with gaming and media as a whole.
I'm sure you can enlighten us all about all the great moments in it then, can't ya
next time pick a more original pasta
what pasta?
and as we know these awards should be given according to popularity, not competence
That's kinda the point considering they have the audience vote for the winners, anon
If audience vote mattered in any way PT would have won and Alan Wake 2 wouldn't have gotten a single award.
This. We can't have our precious Hollywood style slop losing now
>It's been 3 hours
Cocoon indie fans are so fake. Pizza Tower sweeps.
Are you really pulling up "popularity" as a reason why PT should have won? In the exact same thread where other anons are complaining that big games on other categories?
Why would you buy it on steam when it's on gamepass? It's the perfect gamepass game as well. The type of game you forget about as soon as the credits roll.
Why this game was even nominated? It was shilled as 'from creators of limbo' How it is a fricking debut? Still a good game. Best sound design for me.
>All the shitposters replying have zero actual points on why Coccoon is good
Lmao literally no one has played the game
I only played Cocoon but not Pizza Tower. It's a good game but not knowing the competition it's hard to really pick a favorite. Pizza Tower looks cool too.
Artsy. That's about it.
Winners are chosen by jurnos so maybe they are the only ones who played it
This is why I can't take these awards seriously, when public votes only matter for 10%
the only people who should be allowed to nominate and vote are people who actually work in the industry
Artsy fartsy jurno slop. Made by the limbo guy, so its a safe pick for the judges and jurnos that definitely play video games they dont
If you don't like Pizza Tower's artstyle, post one you do like.
Hardmode: No anime games.
No, I won't.
Exactly. You don't have one. Just another contrarian.
It's okay we'll wait for you to watch a youtuber to give you the opinion you need to answer this.
it's not really indie dev awards, it's more like a "low-budget game" award. you need to be backed by a big company to get in
>McPig's so shit at networking he couldn't get in with the big boy publishers like Dave the Diver and Cocoon could
roflmao
>independent game award
>you need to stop being an independent developer to get it
how does this make sense?
Dave the Diver isn't an indie game, for starters.
Then why even invite them and nominate their game in the first place?
Before bed I kept thinking about the hows and why and it feels like a weird sort of logic loop.
>1. Why did Pizza Tower get Nominated even if it didn't have a change against people either networked or with big money behind them?
>2. Only logical explanation is they wanted to throw a bone because Pizza Tower was just super popular, OR, a Judge liked it alot
>3. Ok but if that's the case why even bother if Cocoon was going to win because it's the dev of inside and Kojima liked inside?
Then it goes back to step 1-3 repeat. Unless Geoff got on twitter and gave a full blunt explanation. It's a weird kind of mystery of "If you weren't even going to give the popular indie game a decent shot, why fricking bother"?
Honestly this would be less painful than if Dave or Dredge won because, hey at least with those two you GET why they won, they both did well with reviewers AND streamers, winning the public eye. But no, it went to a game people forgot about with the only OBVIOUS reason is
>Kojima tweeted about how he liked Inside
>Geoff and Kojima are BFFs
>I suppose if Cocoon didn't win it would feel like he snubbed Kojimbo
Honestly the only winning move would have been to simply snub Pizza Tower. Not like our feeling would have been hurt; not like it's the first solid indie game/game in general to get snubbed for the AAA boys.
They better do some funny shit with this
>Playable Noise drops after aeons
>Story justification is Peppino isn't marketable enough for awards and they need a hip new replacement
of course they did, mcpig is a HECKIN CHUD
he's lucky PT even got nominated at all
Pizza Tower wasn’t popular with game journo outlets and those are the only games that ever win these rewards.
I’m shocked it was even nominated but you are crazy if you thought it would win over something backed by Microsoft and circlejerked over by every game journo circle.
To be fair, I'm more upset that they snubbed 'em live than them not winning.
>experts in your field are people that take money for reviews
>not seasoned game developers like carmack
Joke of an industry
Why would companies help out actual objective reviewers?
Getting yesmen to hand out 4/5s is much better for them
I know that heartless greed works that way but honestly anything that isn’t a meritocracy is pure shit. Gaming used to be much closer to meritocracy because the older audiences are much savvier and more intelligent than zoomers
bigot tower finally lost
>Didn't get nominated for most anticipated game
because they know Toby is a hack and will never finish it, too busy making music for other shitty games than his own
It would of lost to Silksong
Pizza Tower was literally called out by Geoff in the first three minutes. That's better than winning an award that reviewers / industry influencers voted on.
Serves you right for forcing your shitty game down people's throats when they didn't ask for it.
>IT'S TOTALLY LIKE WARIO LAND LOL
>From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE
"Indie Debut" my fricking ass, Microsoft paid off Geoff because it's a Day 1 Game Pass game
Agreed. Even the nomination was laughable. I suppose that should have been a hint that it was going to win, though.
Cope. Pizza chuds lost.
Arrest. Pizza chads won.
Developer and publisher are not the same
Should be auto DQ for indie awards
Indie is just a buzzword for lowish budget
Pizza Tower fricking sucked.
>n-nuh uh!
If it didn't suck then explain why it was forgotten about literally a week after release?
The aesthetic and style were the only thing the game had going for it but the gameplay was dog shit.
>If it didn't suck then explain why it was forgotten about literally a week after release?
it wasn't, twitter and tiktok people are still buzzing and memeing about it
i don't think it had as big of an impact as say celeste or stardew valley but it was certainly the biggest indie game this year among gamers, critics and media are a different story
I would argue Pizza Tower is bigger than both of those games. There is next to no replayability in Stardew Valley outside of modding, and Celeste falls apart once it actually tries to be a real precision platformer. There are already innumerable custom skins and levels to play through for the game, along with a few TCs, one of which might as well be an unofficial sequel. The closest either of the aforementioned have to that would be the Strawberry Jam compilation, which is an unbalanced fricking mess mainly meant for speedrunners and masochists.
I stopped reading when said stardew valley had no replayability.
I didn't really like Pizza Tower that much and I'm not a fan of the community it has, but I think it's irrefutable that out of every new game from 2023, PT was the only one which actually captured the attention of younger gamers. Not just zoomers but gen alpha caught on to its popularity and you can still see this on YouTube by just how many kids are playing it and begging for ports.
I think it speaks volumes that a medium designed around appealing to kids doesn't care about them anymore. Say what you will about Alan Wake 2 or Baldur's Gate III as narrative experiences, from a pure gameplay and fun perspective they are way less interesting than Pizza Tower. Gay romance plotlines and silly dance sequences can't compare to a whole game's worth of slapstick humor and chaos. Arguably, the same goes for Tears of the Kingdom, since it's so washed out and slow paced.
Like am I the only one who takes umbrage with kids not being the main demographic for gaming anymore? You'd think The Game Awards would more closely resemble the Kids' Choice Awards, but it doesn't, it's all crap that adults play, and I find that really fricking weird.
You're not the only one anon. As a kid I wished games would be taken more seriously by adults, but now that I'm an adult I wish people remembered who games were originally made for again.
>a medium designed around appealing to kids doesn't care about them anymore
They realized they had no money
I definitely get that feeling that people are trying to drift more and more away from making "childish" content due to a want to be seen as more mature and refined, as well as people not wanting to deal with the absolute eggshell minefield that is making GOOD children's content in the modern era.
Most people are just content to leave them with Ipads and Youtube slideshows full of poorly made and moderated content, without realizing that depriving the younger generation of actually good and entertaining/interesting content is just gonna result in them being somehow more soulless and mentally numbed than the boomer generation.
> think it speaks volumes that a medium designed around appealing to kids doesn't care about them anymore
Is this like movies and books were designed around kids in mind too? There’s many genres and different types of games out there with different types of market. Unless you’re fricking telling me that Tetris was a puzzle game designed for kids lmao.
Just means you’re not the target demographic and that’s ok. To assume that video games (which were largely developed and played by older people
Because getting a game and a console was not for kids back in the day.
>Like am I the only one who takes umbrage with kids not being the main demographic for gaming anymore?
They never were. Teens and young adults were just as big of a demographic for games if not larger. They had the money buy games too.
Anon what fricking 15 year old wants to play Chants of Senaar or Cocoon
The same fifteen year old that played Super Mario Bros. or Sonic the Hedgehog at the time of their respective releases. Don't fall for the 'children's game franchise' rhetoric that people spew when someone criticizes something. There's a difference between a game for children and a game for a general audience. That's what that poster probably meant to say. Trust me, being childish and being for children are two different things, and then there's something made for a general audience.
The concept of "All Ages" is has been lost. The balance of making something appropriate for kids to enjoy while also having depth and wit for older audiences takes effort and talent to maintain. It's so much easier to just lean into bright baby nonsense for kids and mature, grim, "realistic" nonsense for adults.
It's not like kids watch TGA anyway
>Like am I the only one who takes umbrage with kids not being the main demographic for gaming anymore?
If you were a dinosaur like some of us, you'd remember that "video games are for kids" was a mindset that only existed for a very small window after decades of it being an adult hobby, and that the industry was almost immediately pushing back against that mindset (except for Nintendo, who used it to rapidly recover from the Crash and turned it into their core focus).
I am a big fan of slapstick and PT's whole brand of bullshit, but to think vidya was ever aimed at children is to admit that you were a child in the era where Nintendo was the undisputed king. That's not how it was; that's how it looked through a child's eyes.
McDonald's used to market exclusively to kids.
Young adult fiction used to be the most profitable literature genre.
Cartoons were made for children first, not the whole family.
Arcades had more preteens playing in them than any other demographic.
Even the radio used to have kid-friendly stations.
This is what happens when your country stops having kids
Nope, it's what happens when marketing executives get their panties in a twist about "predatory practices" towards kids, so they look to older people in order to do the same exact shit.
The state of cartoons in general is really weird to me.
It seems the only two target demographics are funko pop collecting manchildren and families, but nothing aimed directly at kids. If I was a kid growing up these days I doubt I would even be watching cartoons because everything would either go over my head with references and humor I don’t understand or are just fricking lame.
Don't look into the Bluey fandom. It's literally bronies 2.0 and no one wants to admit it yet.
Most kids are into anime these days.
Which isn't too far off from 2000s kids.
McDonald's also used to market exclusively to jazz-addicted burnouts that were up and hungry for burgers past midnight.
Young adult fiction is a genre that still exists.
Cartoons were made for the whole family because their primary purpose in the Golden Age was to shove in as filler before/after the feature presentation at a theater back in the days before home televisions.
Mall arcades existed as pseudo-babysitting, yes, but stand-alone ones that attracted people with cars existed and did well in most cities (and existed for decades before the kid-centric ones in the form of pinball-heavy bars).
The radio STILL has kid-friendly stations.
There's a misinterpretation running through everything you say. You are confusing "being a child and being drawn to the child-friendly options" with the child-friendly options ever being the primary focus. Gaming started as an adult-oriented medium. If we wanted a new game, we used to have to wait for the gaming magazine to show up and then copy all of the source code out of it into our computer. Kids were not playing games in any meaningful numbers until decades after gaming had been established as a hobby, simply because most kids couldn't afford or work a computer back then. It was an adult hobby built on an adult hobby (and "owning and using a computer" WAS a hobby in and of itself back then). You're looking at a tiny fraction
I am very much in the camp of "things should be fun", but it is straight up historical revisionism to pretend that any of the things you listed were ever more than a single part of the landscape of each medium.
>Cartoons were made for children first, not the whole family.
I don't think that's true, back in the 20's and 30's it was taken seriously as an art form that all audiences could enjoy. It didn't start to get seen as for kids until the 70s.
This, vidya lost its soul when it started pandering to manchildren
>we never get commercials like this anymore because Saturday Morning cartoons are dead
Dam.
I don't care about the younger community PT has but I genuinely love the game. It's definitely an all-ages style game rather than exclusively for kids, but its crisp colorful artstyle appealing to the younger demographic is certainly a bonus.
>Like am I the only one who takes umbrage with kids not being the main demographic for gaming anymore?
There's always been games made for older audiences than kids exclusively since the NES era at minimum (not talking about stupid atari porn shit but more like shooter arcades), however it does seem pretty odd that games meant for a younger demographic are buried in Steam's catalog rather than advertised anywhere near the same shelf as the more primarily adult-focused games you'd see on the front page at any given moment. When's the last time a game with a child focus actually got released with a ton of marketing? Bluey? What about before that?
Tetris was designed for everyone. It is one of the most mathematically perfect games in existence. Hell I'd argue all the spins and DT cannons in the world giving it more depth are almost unnecessary considering how many people still play NES-style Tetris
Why would you care, dude? The awards show is just there so oublishers can splurge as many ads as humanly possible. The game show is just some hlf assed attempt to keep you idiots watching.
I want PT devs to make more money and I want more fun and creative platformers.
>I want more fun and creative platformers.
Then support Nintendo or one of those Microsoft-funded AA game studios like the guys who did Ori.
I will if the game is good.
The only platformers from nintendo that you should support are the metroid games, maybe mario (the 3d ones, 2d is okay but not great), the issue with them is they make super slow and easy baby games like kirby and yoshi
>all these threads
>caring about the goyim awards at all
indie-gays are the biggest homosexuals and obnoxious gaylords in the face in the earth you mfs are no better than AA/AAA consoomers
https://gamemaker.io/en/blog/gamemaker-awards-2023-winners
Yall are tards, Pizza Tower did win a fricking reward.
>Rusted Moss
I don't get why anons hated the game. Besides the lab being a shit place to navigate I found it really fun.
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There are no cocoongays. Only pizza tower haters who probably never played it and never will, because one troony looked at the game one time.
I do wonder what games they allow themselves to enjoy.
WE HERE NIKKA
>Caring about the arbitrary circlejerking that celebrates everything wrong with video games in the modern age
>tfw we missed out on the kino moron fight when a journo inevitably made the article about Pizza Tower had offensive carciatures of israelites and indians and Geoff Keighley let it win an award
>>got snubbed for Indie Debut for a game no one played
That doesn't matter, popularity should never be indicative of quality and anyone who argues against this is a moron. The real issue is that it lost to a game that wasn't an indie game and wasn't the dev's debut game.
I laugh when people tell me they actually value TGA's.
Pizza Tower loonie here, you guys need to learn to differentiate the difference between DEVELOPER and PUBLISHER. The team itself (Geometric Interactive) is debuting, the director has already previously worked on games such as Limbo and Inside. Annapurna Interactive is a PUBLISHER that houses several small teams with indie games, which THEY use to garner TGA awards so they gain attention as a famous indie publisher that consumes more and more indie developers. Only three words.
Mother.
Fricking.
Stray.
The game that at a certain point, was incredibly clamored about that can be finished in about 2 to 5 hours, with ART DIRECTION and other visual key aspects that could be clamored and presumably its story, but otherwise, it is an incredibly easy (rather clunky) to go through game even your 85-year-old grandmother can play and clap her hands to.
I'm not saying the quality of the game itself is bad, but ultimately, it's games like these that garner the judges' whole attention, unfortunately, not a MS Paint looking game as many rizz frizz kids wish it could have. The damage is already done because the TGAs already got what they wanted which is: audience and money from advertisements.
tl;dr stop watching the fricking TGAs
the studio can be new but if the people involved haven't made a debut it isn't different to the game not being made by another studio, even more when it had a publisher and a company backing it up, meaning that it wasn't an indie at all (debut is the start, pizza tower it's the literal start of someone publishing commercial games and he complies with an indie game by not having publishers or back up money, something that debut doesn't have).
in general the tga are shit but we should see why they are shit and to not watch them, we can still mock them with that by the shilled decisions that they make tho (obviously using adblock and other ways to not give them money on any site where the theme is talked).
Remember when PizzaKEKs kept getting their wiki vandalized by underage fetuses and they had to make a completely new wiki lmao
absolute state of that fanbase
That game wasn't good anyway
This was the best bit. After all the money that turd burglar sunk into it shilling on the clock, troony Tower is ACK.
>shilling
It actually was fun.
There is thing called level design, and the most basic tenet of it is that you introduce mechanics, iterate upon them, and then ask the player to think for themselves about solving a problem.
In Pizza Tower, you are just doing things, and when you do the thing, you can then go back and do the thing faster, while keeping your combo.
The transformations barely matter, because you cannot die and the only real obstacle is conserving momentum between setpieces.
If the entire game is set up to be like Wario Land, then I should not be taking alternative routes after hitting Pillar John.
Creative use also implies there is more than one solution or that the levels branch off, when even someone with all C ranks could tell you that's obviously not the case.
Go ahead and reply again calling me moronic or nonsensical, just because I enjoyed the game and it's in my top 10 for the year, doesn't mean I'm suddenly not allowed to critique it.
>the transformations barely matter because you can't die
I don't think that means anything since the point of the game is to play at your own pace/difficulty
>you're just doing things
As opposed to... not doing things?
>Ask the player to solve a problem
Pizza tower does do that. It makes you solve the problem of you not being better at the game. The puzzle is your skill.
>Creative use
The creative element of the game is it's execution and solid use of consitently introducing new mechanics to keep the game fresh, it's level ideas, and overall style. Linear a bad game does not make necessarily, and it doesn't have to work the same as it's inspirations.
I'm not gonna call you a moron, but I am going to say I find your criticisms to be rather confusing.
>Creative use also implies there is more than one solution or that the levels branch off
Everything else you said is reasonable, but this is way off. Multiple solutions in a game framed around speed/score are a waste of the dev's time, at best. At worst, they're a waste of everyone's time. Any meaningful difference between the branches/solutions is going to boil down to "This is the (fast/easy) one. That is the (hard/slow) one. You will never enter that one again after you go in the one time and find out it is worse choice."
Branching options/paths are good, but only in a genre that benefits from them. As soon as you're in something with quantitative performance metrics, they're dead weight.
>If the entire game is set up to be like Wario Land, then I should not be taking alternative routes after hitting Pillar John.
gay that never played Wario Land 4 outs himself as never having played it.
vote harder next time
LMFAO
it's called karma for how annoying you homosexuals have been this year
just saying it here, help it spread, the only reason Pizza Tower was even nominated was so they could garner even more audience attention from its own fanbase. You can't undo the past which is why TGA tried to make people watch the thing in the first place, thanks for watching our Samsung advertisement. 🙂
It really does say something when people start taking this fricking pathetic attempt at an awards show seriously. Video games used to be above this shit.
Berdly
>bigotly
Pizza Tower?
Undertale general anons with Pizza Tower derangement syndrome attacking the thread.
QRD? Sounds moronic
TL;DR Some batshit anon there has a huge hate boner for pizza tower and screams >bigot tower to the void while anons mock him endlessly for their stupidity
It has turned into a general meme with >bigot X turning into a way to say you hate something an anon posted.
"bigot tower" is an oddly specific term
It really rolls off the tongue, I've taken calling my archive.org build leaks folder 'bigot tower'
Where did it come from?
Too much gameplay not enough fake movie cinematic sorry
>caring about the gaming "journalist" popularity poll
>"gameplay" consists of getting to max speed then running through every enemy
>do this for every level
I love 2d platformers but pizza tower was disappointing. Cocoon was actually super engaging the whole way through
>if you're good at the game the game is easy
???
It's meant to be similar to, but not a exact copy of Wario Land 4. You go max speed if you want to, it's only mostly required if you want the P rank. Otherwise you can still progress through the game and defeat the enemies in other several ways. You can't just max speed through everything either since the game requires you also to explore through the entire level for the required collectables to progress through. This ain't bloody Sonic Rush where you hold left to win and even that game had pitfalls (and this one does as well).
I still don't know what the FRICK a Cocoon is.
>Ganker complains for years the game awards are just popularity contests
>And the winner is: Cocoon!
>lmao who even played that game?
COONGOONS STAY WINNING
PIZZASISSIES ON SUICIDE WATCH!!!!
If you haven't played both Pizza Tower and Cocoon then your opinion isn't valid on this.
How do you know you wouldn't like Cocoon more if you played it? The people who voted for the award played both and that's what they chose.
They're gaming journos anon, they barely play the games they write about because they need to squeeze a review out before it launches
>The people who voted for the award played both and that's what they chose.
Trust me when I say this but I can promise you that the judges didn't play a single one of those Indie titles
>The people who voted for the award played both and that's what they chose.
On the off chance you're not memeing, "familiar with all nominees" isn't actually a requirement in any academy-based award ceremony, regardless of medium.
>The people who voted for the award played both
Oh you are so very naive.
>The people who voted for the award played both
That's not true and you know it.
>critic reviews
that explains a lot
The people who voted on the award played neither. The likelihood that they collectively played more than 2 of the nominees across all the awards is less than 1%.
why would you lie on the internet like that?
I just learned of the existence of cocoon , i cant play ir right now but i will certainly PIRATE it at some point , gonna watch a speedrun for now.
>Best Art Direction
it looks like shit though
Your mom is best art direction.
Cocoon is a 100 times better
but Ganker doesnt play games
I swear to God in Heaven I'll pirate Cocoon and play it so I can say to homosexuals like this guy to shut the frick up and that his artsy not actually debut indie game is mediocre
describe the game for me, anon.
Not that anon but it looks like an easy puzzle game where most of the time you only use one button. So it's exactly what would appeal to a Game Awards judge.
>it looks like an easy puzzle game
So no one has played it right?
It was on Game Pass day one, so they probably didn't anticipate many sales.
How did Pizza tower exploded? Did it had a lot of backers before ,or was it a FNAF situation where it exploded due to people discovering it at random?
It took like 5 years to make but had a pretty open development and a good amount of demos to keep people interested
Niche genre with very few games coming out, its development was followed quite closely by a small group and Ganker since he shared stuff here. A few larger streamers also played the demos and were going to play the game anyway when it came out since they liked it.
The game also pulls people in because of the music first and foremost and the ridiculous cartoon aesthetic. A few friends got into it when I shared the escape theme and the 2nd lap theme, just really good music.
Its also extremely well polished for an indie game, every single level feels perfect and fair for a P rank run outside of MAYBE that one section of gnome forest but that was patched. Too many games expect absurd autism to get the "best" score and then just do not give a frick about their level design to make it fun.
It had a backing prior to release, I played the SAGE demo but admittedly forgot about it a few years later until a friend told me it was coming out
Being /agdg/ AND actually releasing your game is really all it takes to get a following here, and that guarantees a following elsewhere because of how incestuous social media is. See also: Risky Rain.
Really good animation along with that go fast charging ability is all you need to realise the game is something special. Not our fault some people aren't able to recognise a good game when they see one and become clueless as to why it got popular.
It's genuinely appealing without any further context. Like Cuphead, it feels like you're playing a cartoon. To top it off, it's also fun to play. It's obvious to me why this game is so infectious. The dev got it all right.
No one gives a frick about your shitty tower defense clone.
Goddamn I've never seen such a tryhard bait post before, this is a new level of bait
>tower defense
>Redditbob
>2 hour long arthouse game journo darling wins the indie award
Isn’t this the case every year?
yeah only this time, it affects FOTM wildly popular indie game. It's like comparing apples to oranges in that one is a easy eye candy artsy puzzle game your nana can complete and the other requires far more skill input and isn't usually for every family.
Both can be completed a little over 3 to 5 hours, realistically, without caring for 100% that much.
It got Nominated, coming from The Nepotism awards, that's a lot really
I dont care that it lost. I know VGA is rigged as shit, but holy frick they really did pick a game nobody has ever heard of, and wasnt even a debut game. The team behind it was made up of people with years in the industry.
You at least have to be subtle with your rigging.
iirc the only other game from that category i had even heard about was viewfinder
not to mention Stray has already carried a lot of awards from what I recall under that very same publisher
different game, same publisher
When have the TGAs ever been subtle with their rigging?
They don’t even try to hide it, remember TLOU2 and fricking Deathloop?
The first year ever was fricking Dragon Age Inquisition, it's always been a sham.
"Awards" are completely worthless. Every last one of them. They're all industry snobs who only choose whatever they're paid the most to, or whoever licked the most political boot.
Mcpig's entire development time was wasted
I mean, he still did sell a lot of copies so in the end it doesn't really matter that much honestly
Yeah this. People will say its cope but the game was a smash hit that was all over social media, people drawing fanart, buying merch, etc.
10 years from now people will still remember Pizza Tower. People wont remember Coccoon in a calendar year.
I don't remember Cocoon now. I didn't know it existed until I read this post.
He got critical acclaim enough to be nominated and sold a shit ton of copies of his game. Im sure he doesnt care
I'm sure he's doing fine
He'll live, lads. He's probably drawing a joke pic about it as we speak
Pizza tower got shafted, but the biggest crime was Alan Wake 2 winning two awards. The game fricking sucks and Hi Fi somehow losing art direction to it was mind boggling.
Dogshit troony game. I voted for cocoon just to spite pizzahomosexuals.
Anon we all know that if people voted something to spite pizzahomosexuals they probably voted Viewfinder, don't lie, nobody knew Cocoon
I knew about Cocoon for a while, imagine going to videogame board and being actually knowlegable about the medium. Couldn't happen to average Gankerermin.
This melty says more about the state of posters on this board than anything else.
Because all I've seen is trannies praising and playing this game until they found out that dev said Black person once or something.
>I knew about Cocoon for a while
Decribe it to me in details
It's a top down game with strange world shifting/teleportation mechanics. I think they showed it first at summer game fest or some other show like that. That's where I heard about it first at least.
I honestly couldn't care less I just found it amusing how troony fanbase flipped instantly as soon as news came out.
It's a good indicator of what a game is, if you just look at the crowd it initially attracts. You can't judge F:NV the same way because it's too old and all this "F:NV turned me into a girl" is just autism speaking rather than some troony quality of the game.
Time to pop that estrogen pill sister.
That's the most basic description you could've ever given to me
You googled it for 2 minutes
Sorry anon, I'm not writing you full essay for free.
>You will find troony shit about every AAA game
I'm not talking about AAA games tho.
For example, Celeste or Omori are 100% troony games.
On the other hand current FOTM Lethal Company isn't troony at all. Because they are drowned out by the rest of the playerbase.
>Because you like F:NV
I don't like it enough to defend it. F:NV is too old to judge it by it's fanbase, that's all.
>Is RE4 a troony game as well
it's a troony game when I want to shit on it on Ganker, yes.
You're already working as a clown for free, what's stopping you?
don't want to steal your job
>no u
Lol
Lmao
You're even shit at baiting, you're lucky I keep giving (You)s because I'm bored
>if you just look at the crowd it initially attracts
You are so fricking moronic its unreal. Troons are a tiny minority that screams the loudest. You will find troony shit about every AAA game that released this year.
>You can't judge F:NV the same way
Because you like F:NV so it cant be a troony game.
>just autism speaking rather than some troony quality
The fact that you can even type "yeah the game's troony quality" and not realise how much of a fricking moron you sound like is amazing.
This is also putting aside the fact that studios keep hiring literal drag homosexuals and actual trannies like that weird large nose homunculus and placing them in all their advertising and panels. Is RE4 a troony game as well?
Don't ever reply to a Ganker thread again.
That's shaping up to be a great image. Put some Mr. Stick in the blue
>long nose
>money hungry
>has a funny hat
>stops you from playing if you don't pay him
How did he get away with making Mr. Stick?
grandfathered in
It's even more surprising that he got away with mr. pinch. He might as well have drawn a happy merchant at that point
hating israelites is currently lefty-approved
Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, just as hating ISIS is not Islamophobia.
That's a lot more up for debate than you probably think it is.
We all know that Mossad's finest are still morons. Go away.
There are a lot of people who will legitimately call you an Islamophobe, if you even bring up Islamic terrorism as a thing.
ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism.
Zionism is just Britain's to the israeli Question
*raises eyebrow
>Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism.
homie..?
people threw a fit over this but he explained it away he was more based on scrooge
people also threw a fit over the native stereotype
pretty sure it's just a mr burns reference
Mr. Burns was an antisemetic caricature
The fact that it seems so on the nose, suggests to me the developer is in fact not an anti-semite, otherwise he would have known what it looked like he was doing, and wouldn't have done it, if he had any real desire to make money on his game.
The characters are conniving businessmen in businessman hats. If something about that seems israeli to you. That either says something about you, or
The dev used to post on Ganker though
Why does nobody remember this? He posted his progress for years on here.
Who cares? Literally everyone comes to Ganker. It doesn't actually mean anything.
A lot of people on Ganker legitimately just hang around in general threads and don't even look at all of that other shit. You'd be surprised.
Especially if you're mostly on Ganker or something. That's just Deviantart for Ganker users.
>or
Or what?
Snake, respond!
SNAKE?
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
Yep, this one is going on r/Ganker ASAP
McPig seems like such an autist I wouldn't be surprised if he genuinely didn't think anything of it.
He didn't even say the hard R. MF made mild takes on the Japanese and Chinese, and suddenly he's a full on nazi to the twittertards.
Even Tumblr got over it and went after the person who started this shit in in the first place which is saying a lot about this nothingburger
>Because all I've seen is trannies praising and playing this game
If you base your opinions on what trannies think then youre fricking doomed anon. Trannies will glue themselves onto any popular thing if they think it will get them attention.
Do you think F:NV is a troony game despite having nothing to with trannies in its plot because 5+ years after its release a bunch of mentally ill troons decided it was their favourite game?
>trannies like the new Godzilla x Kong trailer
It's fricking over
I can't be a Godzilla fan anymore
>Dogshit troony game
Where do you morons even get this shit from. What part of Pizza Tower is troony. The entire game is an italian man beating the shit out of pizza themed enemies
>Where do you morons even get this shit from.
leftover residue from shartygay trying to troll threads back in march, brainless newbies pick up on the wrong shit all the time
So it's youtube spitting in the face of people who wanted an actual video game to win over some paid slop?
>>got snubbed for Indie Debut for a game no one played
Snubbed in debut indie for a game that was neither debut NOR indie. Literally funded by a multi-billionaire israelite. It itself didn't even win best indie. VGAs are beyond a scam. Having it be FOUR HOURS LONG really put it on the bottom for worst VGAs yet.
grim
What too much bigot tower ohio rizz does to an mf
Anon what the frick have you been looking up to get that ad?
NTA but searching up "pizza tower" on youtube earlier today would bring up hotline ads even if adblocker was enabled
it was on every search, not just pizza tower
i searched nursery rhymes for babies and it still showed up
>i searched nursery rhymes for babies and it still showed up
Anon why were you looking for that
to prove the point that it was everywhere.
What the frick is youtube doing anymore? Does google even know they still own that? Seems like there hasn't been an actual human being leading the website in years.
Youtube unironically died once Susan left the company. It has only gotten much worse with the cryptobro in the helm.
So there really HASN'T been a human being leading the website in years. Good to know. Things were still fricking terrible under Susan's iron fist anyway.
frick cocoon
frick pizza tower
viewfinder deserved the win
>Wow did you just do that?
>Did you just give an award to Cocoon?
>Well, that just happened!
Why would an indie game care about awards. First you care about sales. Maybe later in your career you might want an award capstone.
Honestly I'm kind of disappointed that Jonathan Sims didn't at least get nominated for best performance. Dude voiced every male voice in Slay the Princess and managed to make each one feel unique. That shit takes a hell of a lot more talent and work than voicing a single character.
Princess was too white and heterosexual to get nominated for anything
If it isn't popular enough it won't get nominated because the nominees are decided by the jury and if the jury didn't play it, the game won't get nominated.
i find it funny how pizza tower has been accused of being on every quadrant of the political axis
>centrist tower
give me some evidence for commie tower
industry award shows are 50% bought off with favors and 50% bought off with actual money, and community award shows are pure popularity contests. this isn't just a gaming problem, I'm talking in general here.
the only GOTY that matters is your own
I loved the artstyle and animation in pizza tower. The very theme of the game, anxious italian man going through cartoon hell, was drenched in soul. But I have to admit that the gameplay was only appealing to a very small fraction of people. It's just not fun enough and relies too much on perfect inputs and memorization for too little reward.
>best art direction
Lol.
The one it got shafted in was:
>Best Debut Indie Game
The art direction is unique but I dont think anyone expected it to win there.
Even expecting it to get nominated is fricking delusional.
For best debut indie??? It absolutely was the best. Cocoon wasnt even a debut game for most of its studio, let alone indie if you look at its backing.
For art direction
Anon no one is talking about the fricking art direction award for Pizza Tower. I personally think its marmite, you either love it or you hate it. People are calling bullshit on Cocoon winning.
Didn't read the OP did you, he expect a nom for music and art direction
Sorry correction, no one but OP expected it and hes really the only one defending it itt
you mean to say pizza tower has always sucked and rode completely on its memability? you don't say....
you cant really expect legitimate nominations and awards for indie stuff at normalBlack person shit like this.
Guys, think about it in a different way. PT was never going to get any awards, especially not in that show and its intended audience.
BUT Mcpig got to have his game on the nomination list at the biggest vidya event around along many other gigantic games,
sit amongst famous vidya developers (which I have no doubts McPig would kill to meet in person)
How is this not great for the lil quebecuck fella? I'm happy for him even if he got robbed.
Like mentioned last thread, pizza tower didn't play nor felt like a qwirky depression game about traumas or mental illnesses that the masses could relate to. Obviously it won't get praised.
On a side note, you can probably get good advice on which games not to play depending on what wins the game awards.
Funny how the people posting about Cocoon haven't even posted a single screenshot from it
it should've at least been nominated, people were going nutty for this game when it came out
yeah, but you have to realize that, while every game in the indie debut may be good, cocoon was a puzzle game. thath genre where you need no skill, no reaction time, that you can beat by just sitting in front of it for 7 hours without thinking with your rotten brain and still end up winning somehow. absolutely perfect for the game journalists and corpo plants at the jury.
Apparently Geoff personally liked Pizza Tower so much he told the judges to give it special attention.
Hence why it was on the list.
the only way to win an indie award is if youre butt buddies w/ geoffs wallet
Guys, should I buy this game? I somehow missed it and I feel like a gay for it flying under my radar
Your answer is however you answer "Did you like Wario Land 4?"
it’s barely anything like 4, far more streamlined. Plays more like Shake It but five times as fast and with good movement; same deal with very straightforward stages and clear racetrack lineups. Not that it’s bad outside of the first world being so shit (Bloodsauce excluded) that it almost put me off entirely.
Do you liike 2D platformers and speedrun games?
It's a good game. Just try it
thats what you get for being ugly and stupid.
cow and chicken, and ren and stimpy are nothing to aspire to.
>I didn't buy it
Face it, pizza tower lost.
They said that the shit game that won over this was from the same gays that did Limbo and that other game about the boy that runs to the right side of the screen. Haven't seen anything from that game, but i'm gonna assume it's the same garbage as their previous two, so yeah, frick those VGA homosexuals, and those shitty, unoriginal devs
Why do people shill this generic platformer like it's some groundbreaking masterpiece?
>tranime
>traneply
>tranpost
It’s fun and there aren’t a lot of games like it. It does what it sets out to do well with an interesting style and music.
Cause it is
LISTEN
?feature=shared&t=65
The original version of the song was gonna have Wario samples but cut them out before release
Well that was fricking horrible. Closed that shit immediately. Is this the "Best Score and Music" you guys are harping on about?
me when a metal album isn't magically a smooth jazz lullaby specular and i peepeed in my diapey
You didn't listen to it.
the wah pedal is so fricking godly bros
For me it's the pig snort
>The demonic laughter at the end
Kino every time
> train noises
The songs in this game are so fricking good
DOOR STUCK DOOR STUCK
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I don't understand what's going on here?
What the frick, isn't there a twewy song that has the beginning of this song?
Okay it sounds a little different, but it reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy4nFJuk6Uc&t=3s
They might have both taken from the same sample library or something. People recognised a bit from Sim City 4 in Tombstone Arizona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBabiUURxOY
Near enough every stage has banger BGM but this one in particular stood out when I first played. The key change with the distorted guitar is so good
This.
The best floor 3 song, FRICK crust cove. That stage SUCKS
Pig City is Top 3 if not Top 1 most fun levels in the entire game.
whats your favorite and least favorite stage anons?
for me it's:
>WAR
>Peppibot Factory
>Bloodsauce Dungeon, Gnome Forest I P-ranked it post-nerf, unfortunately, Oh Shit, Secrets of the World (I was actually a little sad that it didn't have a Lap 2)
>Wasteyard (the most forgettable level in the entire game for me)
>Pizzascape and Pizzascare
>Gnome Forest
>pizzascare
it's a hard P rank but the music, halloween theme, and gimmicks are great.
>fun farm
sorry mort but your stage and song are slow and boring.
>ancient cheese
>golf
>ancient cheese
huh? almost nobody puts ancient cheese in the top half of levels, let alone their favourite.
>Pizzascare
Pizzascape was great already but I'm a Halloweengay so this is naturally even better. I can get why it's disliked by some, though. Because they suck 🙂
>Oh Shit!
Even this game can't make sewers fun to play or really even look at. Frick those ninja pizzas
>Pizzascare
>Gnome Forest
I pranked Gnome Forest pre-nerf so I'm not a shitter.
I was busy playing games didn't see you reply to me
>favorite: Pig City
>most hated: Gnome Forest
I had a lot of enragement doing Gnome Forest P-Rank. I did P-Ranks before McPig made this and a few other stages less bullshit to keep your combo. Having to keep your combo in Gustavo tutorial along with all the shitty piss ass enemies and fricking long stretches where you have nothing to keep your combo going except your speed was very, very infuriating. Peppibot Factory is my second most hated P-Rank but I've lightened up on it in my more recent 101% run, I can appreciate all the moving parts of the level much more than Gnome Forest.
What's generic about it?
It is an actual game, so it wasn't going to win some bullshit journo award. Dave the Diver isn't even an indie game.
That's what happens when 90% of the voting power was given to "gaming journalists" and ESG-tier companies while only 10% to people that actually play video games.
It's no wonder that Bear Gay 3: Zoophilia Edition won.
Honestly most nominations in most categories seem completely arbitrary and I wish they'd fricking go into more details or something instead of blowing through the actual awards part of the game awards so they can show more trailers or let some celebrity ramble on.
Can somebody even explains what the frick Breakout Indy even means as a catagory since the fricking show couldn't?
I assumed it meant indy dev's first wide spread hit, but Cocoon was from the Limbo people, so it sure as frick wasn't their first rodeo.
It seems like it's blindly going by company. Cocoon was made by the guy was was designer for Limbo, but he's left that company to form a new one, hence debut.
Yeah it's bullshit.
>got snubbed for Indie Debut for a game no one played
For a game who wasn't even at it debut. (Creator of limbo and inside...)
Game journalists never played wario land.
>Best Art Direction
It looks like ass, though.
who fricking cares about this game awards bullshit?
Man people do. It's fun.
Unironically a humiliation ritual. They even invited the guy there, just to tell him he's not in the club. That's how fricking vile and petty these """people""" are.
And yes, I am being ironic, but I'm also right.
You're schizophrenic, that's what you are.
The schizophrenic see more than you could possibly imagine.
Sure, but when 90% of what you see are things that don't exist, how useful is that ability actually?
Tell me it wasn't a humiliation ritual. Tell me that with a straight face.
Anon, you are schizophrenic.
No matter what arguments I present, your brain will literally invent new arguments that go against them and support your worldview.
What part of the statement are you taking issue with?
>Unironically a humiliation ritual.
>They even invited the guy there, just to tell him he's not in the club.
>That's how fricking vile and petty these """people""" are.
That's what happened.
>Nooooo! They would neverrrrrr!
Of course they wouldn't.
Again, you're seeing things that don't exist and there is nothing anyone can do to make you change your mind.
>le nothing is real. There are no evil cabals running everything, even though I'm a member of one, and brag about it!
Yeah, yeah. We know man. We know.
Ok schizo
(^;
XD
it's the ugliest game i have ever seen. cant tell what's part of the actual level and what's in the background. not only that, but the fanbase is genuinely fricking annoying. the sooner this shit stops being talked about, the better.
>Level has more intense colours
>Background has much less intense colours
>moron somehow can't tell the difference
kek
dont care, your game is shit and didn't win any awards. die.
i don't like the clay aesthetic they went for with every game after new vegas, but i liked morrowind, oblivion, skyrim, fo3, and fnv a lot. it felt like you were sucked into a theme park ride.
Oblivion is legitimately horrible looking. Fallout 3 isn't much better.
Lol frick off
You seriously think THAT looks worse than PT? Are you retarted?
>this is fine, but Pizza Tower is ugly
We share a board with these people...
Looks like a fricking bloated grapefruit with playdough for hair.
It's hilarious how upset Trashzza towers fanboys get at basic criticism. Extreme insecurity.
You honestly have terrible aesthetic sense if this is the ugliest game you've ever seen.
How do you feel about Bethesda games?
Who the frick cares about mainstream awards shows anyway?
Indie fans complain when an indie game is indie.
We lost, pizza bros
still have no idea what the game that won is even about.
is it gud?
It's a pretentious puzzle game, but apparently the puzzles are pretty good. Worlds within worlds being the main gimmick.
Unironically, it was because there were so many playable demos that they didn't realize it was a new game.
You homosexuals really need to learn to be smug about liking good games that no one knows about. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a hipster when it comes to video games.
Game awards shows are popularity contests for AAA shit. It's fun to shitpost about game X losing or game Y winning but it doesn't actually matter.
never even heard of cocoon.
I don't understand how Pizza Tower of all games attracts such vitriol here. I'm assuming it's just one autistic guy, right?
It's not political, it doesn't waste your time, it is just a genuinely great game.
All games attract vitriol on Ganker, and there's something about well-regarded indie games that really triggers some of the schizos on here.
>All games attract vitriol on Ganker
Unless it's AAA trash with a big budget!
Frick no that shit gets some of the most hate lol. Lots of threads shitting on Starfield, Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3, Spider-Man 2, etc. Indie games get like 1% of that hate.
They don't get nearly enough because the type of subhumans that play that shit shouldn't even be here. Every single fricking post about that garbage should be pure hatred and vitriol.
I have no fricking clue. This board is like permanent opposite day anymore. Actual good games get completely shit on while Gay Dicksucking Simulator #823789237 gets nothing but worship.
I mean, it USED to be just one turbo-autismo, but apparently there's another gaylord from the undertale general that's getting in on it a little too?
Anyone other than that is your usual contrarian frickface and/or master baiter who doesn't really give a shit beyond surface level remarks about how it looks like shit or it's speedtroony bullshit or what have you.
There are a group of people who don't like it because the developer said something vaguely politically incorrect years ago, and didn't apologise.
You know what these people are like. They're nuts, and they're obsessed, and they will brigade something for years until they start to switch consensus.
they must be discordtrannies
Ehh. Speaking as a longtime fan of the Wario Land series, I actually didn't finish Pizza Towers... marking the first time I've actually didn't finish a Wario Land type of game.
To be fair, Pizza Tower is nothing like Wario Land.
Some people are just so ass-blasted they literally MUST complain about everything and never EVER EVER see the good in anything. The anal annihilation present on Ganker is the most of any board.
PT might have some spiritual essence of Wario Land but it is absolutely NOT Wario Land in practice. PT is its own game.
the music is grating and the game is ugly. it looks really bad, i don't know why
TGA is basically the Oscars now. If you don't have a big publisher behind your game, forget about winning any award.
Do people legitimately get upset when a game they like doesn't win an award at something like the TGAs?
Like there are people that exist who actually get angry about that? Seriously? Or is the whole thing like an online bit where you go and make some funny posts like "hahah oh no no no!! pizza bros our response?!" and have a laugh about it? It's all mostly a joke, right?
>people look at THIS and think it's "good graphics" because it's 3D and ""realistic""
You unironically have zero aesthetic sense. You may as well be blind.
It's literally just flavor of the month streamerbait garbage, nobody fricking cares about it.
What's this message supposed to bring up Popularity? I thought you guys said popularity shouldn't count? The real issue is that this crap isn't even an indie game so it shouldn't have even been nominated, not that it's less popular. All the nominee's were awful for just about every category.
best indie game this year was void stranger but its literally 2deep and 2obscure.
There's an argument to be made for Seraphima (which is a ZX Spectrum freeware game, that's surprisingly awesome).
I am really concerned at the amount of people that take these shitty events seriously
Even Reddit doesn't care about this shit, Ganker is the only spot on the internet where loser homosexuals engage in gay tribalism over which AAA corporation they hold "allegiance" to.
I only take it seriously in as far as it's another example of "our democracy" being dictated to us by a bunch of unelected elites who think they can just decree what is good. It's laughable, but terrifying in that there are people who take it seriously.
Whether you like it or not the Oscars has shrunk to below 8 million views while the VGAs have reached 100 million. With E3 dead this is the single biggest event for an industry that's bigger than hollywood and the music industry combined. It's naive to think this shitty event isn't bigger than the fricking superbowl. It sucks that a genuinely great game got snubbed, not the end of the world but obviously there will be contention
Also I sat and watched the entier piece of shit for 4 hours expecting an Elden ring announcement. So I'm pisssed due to stockholm syndrome
Dave The Diver is an industry plant and you will not convince me otherwise.
>No one I'm friends with have heard of or played it.
>Never see anyone praise it online.
>In every steam discovery queue I have.
>On front page at least every month on steam for me.
Can anyone relate? Is there actually something here? Is it just that sort of indie game every stardew valley fan buys?
I have no idea, never heard of it until Steam started begging me to buy it. I don't think a single person out there has actually played it.
It's basically a 2D survival game, isn't? I absolutely don't give a frick about playing this.
its a siderscroller where you shoot fish and then a Diner Dash clone where you serve said fish to customers, then spend the cash on upgrades. It's more simplistic than most Newgrounds games.
not at all familiar with dave the diver but i do remember seeing some anons parrot that the indie scene is being taken over by shell companies that take "indie" as meaning "lower budget"
This is exactly what is going on. Tons of companies are basically registering smaller development teams as their own indie studios.
On the one hand, I approve of more companies making smaller-budget games that focus on gameplay first. On the other hand, frick corporations for trying to steal the little guy's space. I guess we're going to have to come up with a new term....
>smaller-budget games
yes
>that focus on gameplay first
lol
hope you enjoy indie being full of black homosexuals in pixel form
The game is published by Nexon, so your theory might not be as delusional as it seems.
it's a game developed and published by Nexon, so less an industry plant and more an industry tree
It's an actual good game, despite not being indie.
It's because it's a good game, BG3 winning anything is enough evidence about how you shouldn't take any of it seriously
Don't care. Never played it. I did play Wario Land 4 though.
the awards are completely fake and just a vehicle for Geoff to jerk off to his hired celebrity friends
Cocoon won
troony tower lost
Cocoon is literally about the troony egg thing
When i read threads like these i always ask myself, exactly what is it about being a contrarian thats so appealing?
troony game
I'm more disappointed that Cocoon, in fact, has nothing to do with the Jade Cocoon franchise.
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Holy fricking based. This is the peak v user. Glorious bait that just wrong and moronic enough to be believable, and with so many (You)s too. I could actually see some zoomers v users saying this
On the one hand it's fun to lead these newbies astray, but on the other it just makes them parrot this brainless bullshit and manipulates them into believing this is how Ganker actually is, driving down board quality even further. You can't win.
Is he a threat or just a misunderstood autist?
I presume all the other clones died when the tower collapsed so our boy is finally unique in a sense
>Is he a threat
He's the only boss Peppino had to fricking run away from.
i dont think he fully knows whats going on
>Is he a threat or just a misunderstood autist?
yes
Both
This happened because The Noise is still not playable.
DING DONG ARE YOU OKAY
ARE YOU OKAY?
ARE YOU OKAY?
ARE YOU OKAY DING DONG?
Is Pizza Tower one of those things where if you ask Ding Dong about it, he'll freak out, and stream his meltdown for ten hours?