>Forspoken and Hi-Fi rush released around the same time >both games have dogshit writing >Ganker only tells you only one of these games have dogshit writing
Lies of P > Hi Fi Rush but otherwise I agree because HFR is my #2. At 3 I'd put AC6 or RE4R. FFXVI and Starfield shouldn't even be up there, both those games went beyond the definition of disappointment.
>Hi-Fi Rush
This game's entire legacy was releasing at the same time as a shitty AAA sony game and being better. It's not GOTY material by any stretch of the imagination, Rajeesh.
Shut up you fucking retards. Most of this board doesn't play games at all. You play maybe one or two games per year if that much, and just throw out your own clueless impressions.
You're saying Hifi Rush only because it's not AAA and it seems to have a cartoonish feelgood artstyle compared to the other games. You never played it. Don't fucking lie.
AC6 and FF16 are objectively better products. No amount of kimchi cope is going to disprove that.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nta but AC6 yes, its better. FFXVI? Not a chance, that's a mediocre ass game
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nta but skill issue.
FF16 is the only AAA game that came out with virtually 0 bugs on release this year.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>ANY final fantasy game >skill issue
lmfao
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Go ahead, beat all the chronolith trials in FF16 on every difficulty without the cheat rings buddy.
I'll wait.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>trust me once you clear all the chinpokoru trials in woman game #19 its actually hard
lol nope
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm waiting, pussy.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You can't do it? Skill issue?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>ffxvi has boss health checks for extra handholding throw some journalist mode rings in >LoP doesn't
played both and LoP shits on ffxvi
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Souls enemy-centric combat
Nah
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>skill issue >When favoring AC6 and LoP, two of the hardest games of the year over FFXVI, the walk in the park DMC wannabe
You might have broken a new barrier of cope there
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>AC6 and LoP
Do those games have BOTH the combat and the AAA directed narrative cutscenes with some of the best cast in the industry?
No, they do not. FF16 does.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>just completely move the goal posts
not even that anon but i'll accept your concession on his behalf
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Tagteam tranny
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>final fantasy fag >y-y-youre all trannies!
kek.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Where? The entire point is FF16 has both the combat and the narrative production value.
I replied to a typical From autist who can only digest a game that puts all of its eggs in one dodgeroll basket.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
All that "narrative production value" poured into a tepid narrative literally nobody gives a shit about.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>nominated for best narrative >nominated for best performance and already won one
Yeah sure no one cares.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
genuinely how bad is your reading comprehension? an anon said "skill issue" to someone for putting lies of p and armored core above final fantasy and the guy you replied to called bullshit on that. bringing up narrative cutscenes completely misses the point of the chain you replied to
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I said skill issue because that From tard is unfamiliar with action games.
You are stuck to one formula like a homosexual. FF16 has both good combat and good production values across the board. AC6 only has combat.
It's perfectly reflected in the number and nature of the nominations too, between these two games. Although FF16 being in the RPG one over action or action adventure is pretty questionable.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>I said skill issue because that From tard is unfamiliar with action games
there's nothing in his post that implied that and you're still not using that term correctly
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's what I meant though. I'm literally explaining it to you, autist.
Skill issue, implying you do not play enough action games.
It's always the From tards, man.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Not what skill issue means. Keep trying anon you'll get it soon!
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Don't bother. He probably doesn't even know what skill issue actually means, after so many years of throwing that term around mindlessly
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's very clear.
From tards cannot comprehend combat systems aside from the one formula they're used to.
Skill issue.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It is what I meant, From tard.
You just proved another point about the sheer autism of you lot.
Play more action games some time.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Zelda was bug free and 1000x as complex for physics and systems. XVI was just a cutscene simulator.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I agree, and it's still better. So are Dead Space and Hi-fi Rush.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
preemptively saying cope over and over is generally a sign of cope but glad you enjoyed your first mecha game
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>FF16 >better product
sure if you like forced handholding and no rpg elements in your "rpg" and i used to be excited for the ff16 release
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Remember to not say JRPG because offensivu onegai.
Kotaku literally wrote a hotpiece against FF16 because Yoshida said FFXVI did not include any Blacks.
https://kotaku.com/ffxvi-square-enix-naoki-yoshida-ff16-release-date-1849744847
>FF16 had no blacks
It was funny how everyone got real quiet once the game was out and they realized the plot was about slavery and that it had more poc than any other FF.
People weren't really quiet, it's not like people didn't discuss the plot. It's just that sites like GCJ or resetera quietly shifted their position on FF16 overnight and began saying thought the game was great
>Why God of War lose to Elden Ring?
Because they already rigged the previous GoW against RDR2. You can only go so far before you risk facing consequences
If anything but your own opinion "matters" to you, you are a retarded sheep and should have a nice day immediately. Imagine actually giving a shit about this ceremony.
Go look at all the game awards shows and Snoy games almost always lose to nintendo or a third party. The reaons xbox games don't get nominated is because they're never seen as Game of the Year material by just about anybody.
You are either disingenuous or have never really watched TGA's winners. Sony games get nominated the most by far, and always win like 40% of their nominations at least.
Wrong, retarded. There have been 9 TGA shows, Sony only had their games win 2 of them with GotY. Bloodborne, both Horizon games, God of War Ragnarok, Uncharted 4, and Death Stranding all lost and didn't win a grand majority of their nominations Some didn't win any awards. Hell, in 2021 there were more Xbox studios nominations than Sony ones. The only year that was blatantly biased towards Sony was 2020 where TloU2 somehow won despite everyone hating the fucking game. And that wasn't even the only terrible win or nomination that year. Hades somehow won best action game despite being a terrible "action game" and other actually good actions games lost. A game from 2018 got nominated and won its categories because it got popular in 2020, not because it came out that year. That whole ceremony was completely illogical.
>Sony only had their games win 2 of them with GotY
You know we are not talking just about the goty category right retard? We are talking about ALL nominations. The sony bias is very real no matter how much you want to turn a blind eye. Also, you didn't see anything weird about RDR2 winning against GOW on most categories and yet losing GOTY? Reaally, not at all weird right, even tho it doesn't make any sense
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>You know we are not talking just about the goty category right retard?
Then you're still wrong, dumbass. God of War only won three awards. Uncharted/Bloodborne/Horizon won nothing. Ragnarok got humiliated by Elden Ring. >you didn't see anything weird about RDR2 winning against GOW on most categories and yet losing GOTY
RDR only won 4 awards, GoW won 3. And if your autism is about total nominations, as if the game that had the highest amount of total nominations deserved to win, then I'd just call you an idiot again and tell you to look at Sekiro beating Death Stranding despite having half the amount of nominations for that year. Ragnarok had more nominations than Elden Ring and lost. It even had more total wins yet lost Game of the Year (same goes for Death Stranding, by the way). It's like you forgot about 2021 where It Takes Two won out of nowhere. ahead of Xbox, Sony and Nintendo.
You are retarded. I would tell you to just look this shit up on the wiki but I know you won't do it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Damn. I know nobody will care anon, and you might not care. But I REALLY appreciate the way you just logically deconstructed his whole fucking retarded narrative contructing. Like genuinely gave him no opening for argument. I don't see non stupid people that don't easily fall for narratives and collective biases too often on Ganker so I just wanna commend you for being unequivocally right.
Agree with you anon, having a fucking Remake game as a GOTY contender especially in a year as packed as this year has been is so fucking retarded. People aren't even saying FFXVI or AC6 should win overall GOTY but they definitely deserve to be nominated up there over RE4 remake, it's a graphical upgrade of an existing game. So fucking stupid whoever made that decision.
Having a fucking 2D Mario up there which maybe took like 5 months to develop and two glorified expansion packs (naggerman and TOTK) also is complete nonsense.
I don't even like FF16 (if anything, I would want LoP to win) but it and AC6 or Hi Fi Rush absolutely deserved the nomination over any of those 4.
Agreed about Mario, that is either a recency bias or one of the Judges being Reggie again (He was a Judge for previous GOTY awards).
>When the moviegame crowd who only wants games to be realistic movie experiences with no actual gameplay find out about super mario bros wonder
You love to see it
Mario Wonder is legitimately so easy it should just be counted as a moviegame >Y-YOU'RE A MOVIEGAME AUTIST IF YOU WANT LIES OF P AND AC6 TO WIN GOTY
Kys autist
>Movie game crowd with no gameplay
Yet one of the best critics on schmups and fighting games came out and said how great the combat and gameplay in FFXVI is. Get fucked tendie.
>11k views in 3 months
jesus, posting your own channel and suckign yourself off is just sad
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Doesn't know who Electric Underground is
Fucking hell I knew this place was getting worse but I didn't realise it was this bad. Lurk more you fucking newfag.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
the only thing about 'electric underground' in the archives is you just shilling your own irrelevant channel
fuck off
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Holy shit are you embarrassing yourself, why are election tourists like this?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yikes lmao
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Yikes
Was it a big Yikes or a small Yikes, Reddit friend?
That remake was a much better game than FF XVI. Even with having both original RE4 and the remake available to me, I can see myself being in the mood for the remake, it has qualities of its own that make it worth my time. Having finished FFXVI, I don't see myself ever returning it, all the more when I could just play DMC5 instead. I'm not a fan of the general trend of remakes the industry is going through right now, but RE4 remake easily deserves that spot over FFXVI.
Jedi Survivor doesn't deserve a GOTY nomination and I say that as someone who enjoyed it. It's pretty good but not great, and has so many technical issues it'd be bad practice to praise it. Maybe a nomination in best adventure game or some shit, but the competition there is already stiff.
They hate armored core because it proves they are fucking useless hacks doing fuck all in their cosy jobs of doing shit for 8 hours a day spending bazillions on dog shit mocap and bad voice actors and what not
Hi-Fi Rush is the only one here that would deserve it based on nomination numbers in other categories alone, replacing Resident Evil 4 remake
>Starfield
Underdelivered in every category >Armored Core
Niche genre boosted only by FromSoftware bias >FF16
Pretty game that does very little else >Star Wars >Hogwarts
Wouldn't get half the attention they did if not for the IP slapped on them >Diablo IV >Dead Space remake
Downgrades to what came before them
>Niche genre
It's an action game >b-but it's mec-
It's an excellent action game. That should be enough to have it nominated if those awards weren't such a fucking joke.
Agreed about everything else. I wouldn't say Dead Space is a -complete- downgrade but yeah
Heh, in fact Armored Core and Ninja Gaiden are my 2 favorite series.
If you think you just win in AC6 by filling a bar like it's sekiro you don't understand how the game actually works.
Have you actually played it? Because that's exactly how it works. The bosses have 90% damage resistance when unstaggered, filling up the yellow bar is completely mandatory.
It was Dragon Ball fan service you soulless homosexual. Imagine a game developed by japs would include anime references and nods?
The background is because they're in a pocket dimension. You're nitpicky as fuck, this is the level of hate this game is getting. Absolutely insane people nit-picking because they don't understand anything unless it's specifically told and spelled out to them in big bold lettering.
Says a lot about FF niggas that this triggers them. Maybe it needs to be like nu-GOW and staple clive’s feet to the ground with rpg mechanics bloat and colour coded enemies.
I’m talking about the responses to the webm + the fanbase who can’t into action games unless it’s either souls shit that gimps your moveset and mobility or nu-GOW that gimps your moveset plus keeps you glued to the floor.
You’re not wrong, but that being it’s biggest issue is better than “no jumping allowed, we’re super serious + colour coded enemies + cooldown spam” the nu-GOWs run into. 16 caught flack for removing elemental weaknesses when all it would likely lead to is “use blue move on red enemy” bullshit.
Nothing in the game prompts you to play like this unless you wanna swag on shitty mobs for personal pleasure. Posting a SunniLegend WEBM doesn’t automatically make the game anymore more than a fine action game that isn’t worth a GOTY title.
I thought the game was pretty good but why do you want a game to force you to play a certain way? Maybe the dude that made that webm likes playing that way because it’s more fun. You can beat a game like dmc using basic combos and spamming stinger and call it a day. Doesn’t stop people from wanting to engage with the mechanics and play in a more stylish way. 16’s problem is that clive’s base moveset should’ve been a bit larger, cause there’s room to experiment with what’s given, but the ceiling is lowered a fair bit because clive’s moveset just isn’t big enough.
The combat is the best part of this game, but even that is marred by one weapon, no pause combos, cooldown skills and the awful stagger system. I would be okay with it just being DMC-lite if it offered me something distinct from DMC still, but it doesn't and I'd rather just play DMC.
I’m praying that the dlc will add pause combos or just more moves to clive’s base moveset. I feel like I’m hoping for a lot but if they add >arcade scoring fixes >either a bunch of superbosses/s-rank hunts + ability to rematch at the arete stone >bloody palace-adjacent mode >ultimaniac as a difficulty option outside of arcade >ability to skip phase transitions in boss fights >at least one more eikon slot, or another eikon ability slot
It would legit fix 90% of my issues with the combat without sounding like a dumbass asking them to delete all of it and make it a turn based game cause their feelings are hurt or some other nonsense.
Lmao did hogwarts get nominated for anything? They dont even try and hide their disdain. (still deserves to be forgotten though for including a tranny)
>cringefield
Negative reception >hi-fi rush
Most people have never heard of it >ac6
Journalists don't like video games that play like video games >ff16
There's no black people in it >shart wars
Disney has Spiderman which is more recent and features black people more prominently >hogwats
Removed out of fear of inducing psychic damage to trannies >Diablo 4
Punishment for the trashy mobile game >dead space
No room for 2 survival horror remakes and RE4 is more iconic
None of them.
Yellow and red are opposite, so top right and bottom left where they're adjacent can't be correct. Green and white are also opposite, so top left can't be correct.
Finally, bottom right is wrong because if you turn the scheme 90° clockwise red is to the left of green like in the picture, but blue is below and black is above.
Osrs level calc relies on probability. If you never hit anybody in the wildy at interesting levels, people get wondermad. That is fun. They dont know then. They can pay to find out maybe.
Sounds pretty dumb as it’s not a perfect game and I’m only about 70% through but robocop is my favorite game of 2023. There were so many letdowns like payday 3 and starfield but to have a gem like robocop come out was a breath of fresh air. Game was clearly made with love. I’m sure baldur’s gate is an overall better game but I just can’t stand all the dialogue, slower gameplay and cinematic scenes. For me rogue city was the perfect game this year for me despite the few graphical glitches
Xtrannies are so pathetic, the way the cry on the internet is really gay. This explains why this board is the way it is and why they always hide behind Nintendo for their shitposts.
AC6 should've been atleast a nominee for music as well because of how there's actually quite a couple of memorable tracks in the OST, like the Balteus fight
predictions:
bg3 easily wins the goty along with some other categories
totk wins some irrelevant category, same with mario wonder
genshin wins best ongoing
star rail wins best mobile
ninny manbabies are gonna seethe
I want BG3 to win if only so that Nintendo fans will stop latching onto game journalists as if they meant anything. Then again, I've unironically seen Zelda fans praise TLOU because it won tons of awards, so maybe it won't help.
Zeldafags will just move on to praising BG3 because tendies need to be seen as "cultured" and "going with the flow"
They have no games (its all on PC) and barely any games worth playing so they need to gain social credit somehow, and shitting on snoys only goes so far
Zeldafags will just move on to praising BG3 because tendies need to be seen as "cultured" and "going with the flow"
They have no games (its all on PC) and barely any games worth playing so they need to gain social credit somehow, and shitting on snoys only goes so far
Geoff should have diversified the noms more especially with how much shit came out this year. You can call it whatever you want but it feels short sighted to give RE4 the spotlight but completely miss Dead Space. As a Lies of P fag I’m glad it got two noms even if it can’t win but Geoff went with the easiest fucking options on the table.
Media skunks are truly terrified of getting blacklisted by Nintendo holy kek.
Rockstar should drop the GTA 6 trailer on their YT channel during the awards out of spite.
They have the power.
>Media skunks are truly terrified of getting blacklisted by Nintendo holy kek.
Isn't Kotaku the only media outlet blacklisted by Nintendo, and that's because of them leaking shit and talking about pirating shit, not something like not being nominated for awards or for getting low scores?
That has nothing to do with the Game Awards or media blacklisting, but wasn't that a decision by the courts more than Nintendo (though they didn't raise any objections as far as I could tell)
>though they didn't raise any objections as far as I could tell
Yeah because they're greedy fucks.
And the media notoriously and desperately tries to keep flawless relations with this corporation because it sells great numbers to gaming (man)children.
TGA is essentially a bunch of journo sellouts choosing nominees and winners.
Most of them did not even play all the games on the list. It's much like the Oscars.
-Hi-fi rush and AC6 are too niche
-Dead Space is decent I guess but still a worse remake than what RE4 did
-Starfield is not that popular even with mainstream media, just look at the scores (as much as I despise using numbers to rate games)
-Diablo is a steaming pile of trash and Blizzard should just die at this point
-Hogwarts is surprisingly absent because it was quite popular but it's ok because the game itself is nothing special, just heavily boosted by its name
-Jedi Survivor was a broken unoptimized mess at launch (still is I think) and Star Wars as a franchise has gone to shit in the last few years so the name doesn't carry the same weight
-I loved FF16 but it's just a good game. Not an amazing action, not a good enough RPG. Should've went with one genre or the other, instead it feels like a cheap DMC with shitty RPG mechanics.
Would've liked to see Street Fighter 6 among the nominees, but fighting games are also very niche.
Regardless, every single game is filler. The real candidates are Zelda and BG3
Hi-Fi Rush and AC6 would deserve a nomination, though it should have been obvious that the former wouldn't receive one. FF XVI doesn't deserve one and I regret the time I wasted on it, that it even got nominated for best RPG is generous, even calling it an RPG is generous for that matter.
>looks like
I see you haven't played it, and if you think it looks like that then you're just outing yourself as a zoomer that never grew up with 90s and 00s cartoons
Hifi Rush could have justified a nomination and while I haven't played it yet I'd be shocked if Armored Core 6 didn't warrant a nomination. I also think Pikmin 4 was a justifiable nominations that was not gonna happen due to just being too niche.
However: >Diablo IV >Starfield >FF16 >Dead Space Remake >Hogwarts Legacy
Are all crap, and while slop like that is usually ashooing for awards shows there's genuinely just too many unarguably amazing games this year for even the corrupt media to pretend that this kind of shit is worth a damn. It's genuinely based as hell to watch this TRASH get snubbed.
The real nominations are pretty stacked, honestly >Baldur's Gate 3 >Mario Wonder >Tears of the Kingdom >Resi 4
The only outright laughable trash pick is Spiderman 2, and it's only there so that Sony and fart huffing elder and core millennials that worship narrativeshit don't kill themselves.
Resi 4 I think is a little questionable, but it's ultimately a well liked about GAMEPLAY so fuck it whatever.
I think the perfect list would probably be Baldur's Gate 3, Mario Wonder, TOTK, Hifi, and AC6, Pikmin 4 if there's a 6th slot.
Besides, the real crime of TGAs every year is that Age of Empires 2 has never been nominated for best Esports event OR best ongoing game.
>Mario Wonder
Get that boring corporate mascor dogshit out of there. Your other 3 choices are fine but Wonder is as much of a pity nomination as FFXVI and Starfield
Only AC6 is worth the nominee over Mario, but BG3 is the clear winner this year. It's the only game that people talked about for more than a month after release.
Resident Evil 4 doesn't deserve a place in the goty contenders when AC6, Pikmin 4 and FF16 exist purely because it's a fucking remake and a fairly half-assed one at that.
Neither does anal wake but because it's barely even a game to begin with.
>Starfield
LOL >Hifi Rush
didn't play it so I can't say. >AC6
8.5/10 but too narrow in scope and honestly it's too simplistic >FFXVI
this game can be described with "i a-am Game of Thrones and Witcher, i am, i-i-i swear!! :(" it's a desperately pandering game that doesn't land its mark (still better than Starfield though) >Jedi: Survivor
maybe an 8/10 if it wasn't so buggy and badly ported to PC >Hogwarts
7/10 at best, Ganker only championed it because trannies >Diablo 4
didn't play it >Dead Space
too similar of a remake to the original. at least R4make remade a better game and changed it up a bit more
>sequels so it's bad
I love how 2023 mindbroke Ganker so hard that we started pretending sequels are now the same category as remakes, just so we can keep acting like doomers.
My point wasn't that Sequels are bad, just the fact that when there is something new and unique in the gaming industry, we should focus on that more, the fact that Hi-Fi Rush wasn't really apart of the GOTY list even with all of the nominees shows how much things are just a popularity contest instead of showing actual quality and unique games.
We need more new and unique things to win like how in TGA 2021, It Takes Two won.
Who the fuck plays Metroid for a good story? They’re always barebones and serviceable at best.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
And you wonder why it didn't win GOTY?
Nta, and I'm not gonna reply further on this because I've had this conversation too many times. But the EMMIs were great. They were a source of tension and variety the first time around, and they are a test of speed and skill to bypass them as efficiently as possible on replays. I genuinely dont get how some didn't find the enjoyment in the EMMIs unless they just hate chaser enemies in any game
Nah they were annoying and not at all that scary, especially the fact that even if you die to them, you can spawn right outside their areas with minimal punishment
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I thought the award was for GAME of the Year, not Story of the Year.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Game of the year means you have to excel or at least be decent in all category of being a game, including having a decent fucking story.
You can't just coast on gameplay alone
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Fucking Overwatch won a GOTY. Gameplay should be king, everything else including story is secondary.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's why the gotys are a scam and wish things like It Takes two should win more.
That game was such a breath of fresh air in the co-op genre
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
IT2 didn't have great gameplay tho. It had very surface level platforming and constant variety sections. Which worked fine for casual fun on a first playthrough but certainly doesn't offer any degree of depth and makes it have little replayability. What Medroid Dread lacked in story it certainly surpassed IT2 in gameplay by a mile
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
IT2 won by variety and uniqueness, which Metroid Dread wasn't
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Then you are just admitting that saying a goty game should balance great story and gameplay was bullshit. Since IT2 didnt have both
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It had fun and great gameplay with a decent story of a broken family fixing itself.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
The gameplay wasn't great. Already explained why. Unlike you, variety by itself doesn't make gameplay great, it just means the game is varied
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You should stop seething about Dread not winning goty, someone else deserving won it
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nah, you are seething that valid reasons why it didn't deserve goty are being given. Quite frankly A Way Out deserved to be nominated and win more than IT2, since most of what made IT2 stand out as a coop game was stablished there
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
What valid reasons? That you didn't find the game fun meanwhile million others did?
Also A Way Out didn't came out in 2021 and was pretty flawed in a few aspects, they really refined a ton of it in It Takes Two.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Which worked fine for casual fun on a first playthrough but certainly doesn't offer any degree of depth
Yeah that's the point for a game like this, it didn't need you to have a ton of skill to play, its just something really fun to play with your friend or partner and very much succeeded in that.
There is literally no other game that lets your coop bro be in a fighting game while you're trying to control the plane that they're fighting on.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>no other game that lets your coop bro be in a fighting game while you're trying to control the plane that they're fighting on
This kinda example showcases what I'm saying perfectly tho. Does it offer some laughs for the expectacle? Yes, of course. But that "fighting game" controlled rough as fuck, I would know since that's the side I got when I played it. My point is that IT2 is a fun game, but I'm pretty much sure someone who enjoyed Metroid Dread is going to play through it more times, and stick with it more on the long run than someone who enjoyed IT2. And if we are arguing it deserved to win for what it did for Coop games, AWO deserved that recognition more back in it's year for being the game that came up with the formula
Nta, and I'm not gonna reply further on this because I've had this conversation too many times. But the EMMIs were great. They were a source of tension and variety the first time around, and they are a test of speed and skill to bypass them as efficiently as possible on replays. I genuinely dont get how some didn't find the enjoyment in the EMMIs unless they just hate chaser enemies in any game
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Emmis weren't really chaser enemies. They were quarantined in zones and couldn't break free of them. A REAL chaser enemy would make it so there was no safe zones. not even a save room would be safe.
Games are iterative, sequels are almost always the biggest release of the year. A year that had exclusively original IPs as its most notable releases would be astonishing, even more if it was because those games actually merited it and not because it just happened that no well-liked series had a good release that year.
>the usual suspects are butthurt because Mario got nominated for GOTY >extra butthurt for Nintendo having 2 games nominated this year
Man, you love to see it
D4 is my goty, AMA 🙂
But I mean this year is packed with better games so it make sense for some of the other good games on this list to not be nominated.
>What was so bad about Jedi:survivor?
it was so buggy and so poorly optimized at launch that it killed the game's presence completely (it's somewhat better optimized now but still not good)
bugs aside, it's a sidegrade from fallen order and i wouldn't say it's worse or better than fallen order overall
The TGA are trying their best to give BG3 all the awards
They nominated mario and zelda for goty to split the tendies votes
They nominated xvi and lies of p as best rpgs to give another easy W for BG3
>Forspoken had a professional "team" of writers and ends up with a script that is relentlessly mocked >Glorified code monkey writes his sincere but cringy reddit script and ends up being praised
There's a difference between a game with a serious tone with an extremely cringy script VS a game that harkens to old saturday morning cartoons not being a super serious game with a somewhat cringy script.
One fits and the other doesn't
I think the Dead Space Remake is better than RE4 Remake.
RE4 had a lot of changes I didn't care for while Dead Space Remake is just an all around upgrade in basically every department to the original.
be honest, people only worshipped hi fi rush because they were surprised at xbox releasing a game that wasn't a shooter
let's not pretend a game with marvel-tier writing, tumblr character design, and QTEs all over, is a good game
Bayonetta, metal gear rising and DMC are GOTY material, this downgrade on every single aspect? not GOTY material
I get the argument against remakes being put on the same level as other games. But complaining about sequels is a sign of pure retardation. If sequels in a franchise keep the quality going there is zero reason to complain. And if a sequel is a better game than a new ip, it deserves to be called a better game
Alan Wake 2 is the only game that actually uses videogames as a medium to an substantial or meaningful degree. Which means it won't win, because gamers and retards on Ganker don't think of videogames that way, and they're ultimately still homogenized formulas that exist to trigger people's dopamine more efficiently than toys.
Don't care if I get called a pseud. Industry speaks for itself. When people are saying stuff like "Baldurs Gate is so good because it's finally a REAL RPG!!!" You know that people only want games for trying to fit properly into whatever specific and narrow box of arbitrary characteristics they have chosen to value.
I liked when labels, notions, and preconceptions didn't exist as much. Where games like Classic Tomb Raider couldn't easily be fit into a genre because it made it. And nothing to come after has ever played like it. When Silent Hill 2 proved that videogames itself, as a medium are special not simply for its gameplay, but the almost tangible experience it could instill, an experience that simply wouldnt be the same as a movie, where you were navigating and trying to understand a strange world and strange circumstances. When games like Prince of Persia Sands of Time thought it would be cool to make the character and story feel more personal and lively by having the Prince narrate the story himself and insist that "No No No, that's not how it happened" whenever he died. When Dark Souls 1 decided to try and make a robust, and cohesive hostile enviroment, where every push to the next bonfire managing your estus and navigating dark complex areas, felt like fighting for your life to progress. To find something new, to satiate that curiosity and sense of discovery and continue to press on through harsh conditions, and varied structures filled with a number of unique traps and enemies always ready to greet you.
Today. TR would be called clunky, slow, boring. SH2 a moviegame. SoT is marvel/disneyesque and DS1 simple and tedious.
>Alan Wake 2 is the only game that actually uses videogames as a medium to an substantial or meaningful degree.
It’s a literal movie game with live action cutscenes, that’s the opposite of what the medium’s strengths are. The actual gameplay is extremely mediocre.
>Alan Wake 2 is the only game that actually uses videogames as a medium to an substantial or meaningful degree.
haven't played a minute of it so i wouldn't know, care to elaborate?
very surprised jedi and armored core weren't nominated, but from software just had a win last year so maybe that contributed it. didn't sell nearly as well as the other nominees, outside of Alan Wake I guess. That probably sold just as much as AC
the music nominations are exceptionally retarded this year. Even RE4make's soundtracks mogs BG3 and TotK and that's not even getting into the top soundtracks this year
>tranny game griftslop >literally who tranny game >good game but not goty >tranny game >tranny game >anti tranny game no where near goty >blizzard tranny game >remake of tranny game
I'm not transgender, I just see angry homosexuals like you and decide to poke the (teddy) bear
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>you are angry
Go take your anti depressants, heroin shot and hormones you metnally ill HIV infested transvestite. You will LITERALLY never be a woman.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You're only proving me right.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
The only thing right about you is that you will never be a woman.
Is Alan wake 2 good better than the first one or no? I don't think SM Wonder should be on that list either could be easily swapped out with any of the OP pic
>asiatics and asiaticfags are still trying way too hard to push Lies of P
I swear to God that mediocre soulslike would have been DOA and shitposted to death by Ganker if it's not made by Korean, the king of obnoxious, shameless shilling
Agreed on top 4.
Hard pass on bottom 4.
I think remakes and licensed games should have to clear a high bar to be nominated. Like, Spiderman is a few hours of fun to forget, and REmake 4 is great because RE4 is great.
Hogwarts legacy started out ad clearing the bar. But then it got way way to repetitive and didn't spend enough time with hogwarts or offer much in the way of interesting side content.
This is the gaming press that nominated PUBG and HZD over Nier A.
The people who gave GOTY to DA:I.
They are not serious people. They are underpaid bloggers who power through every game quickly on the lowest difficulty to get their review out at embargo.
>what were they thinking
One of the major publications at the time had a reviewer who only ayed Nier A to ensing A and thought he beat the game.
It does not surprise me this person would vote for the BR he played for 3 hours with his buddies before voting ahead of it. A lot of it seems to be hype at the time of voting. I think that's why Wonder got nominated, and they probably would have (wrongly) snubbed BG3 if it didn't blow up online.
I really don't think Mario Wonder should be up there.
I liked it well enough but if you go into any of the threads it's got its fair share of criticism and a lot of it does not hold up to scrutiny. They should've just let Nintendo have only Zelda and give Mario's spot to one of the snubbed games. It's definitely not GOTY, and I would say while it meets the criteria to be a nominee, I don't think it should be one given how stacked this year was for the competition.
none of those apart from Hi-Fi Rush are even close to being a game of the year in any category
Jedi Survivor is WAY better than Spider Man 2
As someone who played both, it isn't. Granted, Spider-Man 2 doesn't deserve the GOTY nomination either
Care to explain? I loved fallen order but survivor was meh.
Hi-Fi Rush was terrible. Why do you casual fucks keep shilling this Simon Says rhythm trash?
AC6 shit on SM2, RE4R and SMBW
Nah. AC6 was a brain-dead action game that even From cultists quickly abandoned.
Nonsense, the game is killer and the pvp is fantastic. Dlc for shoulder mounted Gatling cannons is highly anticipated by any non gay.
>Forspoken and Hi-Fi rush released around the same time
>both games have dogshit writing
>Ganker only tells you only one of these games have dogshit writing
Lies of P > Hi Fi Rush but otherwise I agree because HFR is my #2. At 3 I'd put AC6 or RE4R. FFXVI and Starfield shouldn't even be up there, both those games went beyond the definition of disappointment.
>Hi-Fi Rush
This game's entire legacy was releasing at the same time as a shitty AAA sony game and being better. It's not GOTY material by any stretch of the imagination, Rajeesh.
Pretty much this. I'd say Armored Core IV as well, but outside of that and Hi-Fi Rush, I don't think any of those deserve it.
Hi-Fi Rush is the worst game in that image
Shut up you fucking retards. Most of this board doesn't play games at all. You play maybe one or two games per year if that much, and just throw out your own clueless impressions.
You're saying Hifi Rush only because it's not AAA and it seems to have a cartoonish feelgood artstyle compared to the other games. You never played it. Don't fucking lie.
missing Lies of P
That's true, swap Hi-Fi Rush with Lies of P.
lol
it's unironically better than everything on this list except maybe dead space
Korean-grade copium made from baby penises and pig blood.
name the game on the list you think is better
AC6 and FF16 are objectively better products. No amount of kimchi cope is going to disprove that.
Nta but AC6 yes, its better. FFXVI? Not a chance, that's a mediocre ass game
Nta but skill issue.
FF16 is the only AAA game that came out with virtually 0 bugs on release this year.
>ANY final fantasy game
>skill issue
lmfao
Go ahead, beat all the chronolith trials in FF16 on every difficulty without the cheat rings buddy.
I'll wait.
>trust me once you clear all the chinpokoru trials in woman game #19 its actually hard
lol nope
I'm waiting, pussy.
You can't do it? Skill issue?
>ffxvi has boss health checks for extra handholding throw some journalist mode rings in
>LoP doesn't
played both and LoP shits on ffxvi
>Souls enemy-centric combat
Nah
>skill issue
>When favoring AC6 and LoP, two of the hardest games of the year over FFXVI, the walk in the park DMC wannabe
You might have broken a new barrier of cope there
>AC6 and LoP
Do those games have BOTH the combat and the AAA directed narrative cutscenes with some of the best cast in the industry?
No, they do not. FF16 does.
>just completely move the goal posts
not even that anon but i'll accept your concession on his behalf
Tagteam tranny
>final fantasy fag
>y-y-youre all trannies!
kek.
Where? The entire point is FF16 has both the combat and the narrative production value.
I replied to a typical From autist who can only digest a game that puts all of its eggs in one dodgeroll basket.
All that "narrative production value" poured into a tepid narrative literally nobody gives a shit about.
>nominated for best narrative
>nominated for best performance and already won one
Yeah sure no one cares.
genuinely how bad is your reading comprehension? an anon said "skill issue" to someone for putting lies of p and armored core above final fantasy and the guy you replied to called bullshit on that. bringing up narrative cutscenes completely misses the point of the chain you replied to
I said skill issue because that From tard is unfamiliar with action games.
You are stuck to one formula like a homosexual. FF16 has both good combat and good production values across the board. AC6 only has combat.
It's perfectly reflected in the number and nature of the nominations too, between these two games. Although FF16 being in the RPG one over action or action adventure is pretty questionable.
>I said skill issue because that From tard is unfamiliar with action games
there's nothing in his post that implied that and you're still not using that term correctly
That's what I meant though. I'm literally explaining it to you, autist.
Skill issue, implying you do not play enough action games.
It's always the From tards, man.
Not what skill issue means. Keep trying anon you'll get it soon!
Don't bother. He probably doesn't even know what skill issue actually means, after so many years of throwing that term around mindlessly
It's very clear.
From tards cannot comprehend combat systems aside from the one formula they're used to.
Skill issue.
It is what I meant, From tard.
You just proved another point about the sheer autism of you lot.
Play more action games some time.
Zelda was bug free and 1000x as complex for physics and systems. XVI was just a cutscene simulator.
I agree, and it's still better. So are Dead Space and Hi-fi Rush.
preemptively saying cope over and over is generally a sign of cope but glad you enjoyed your first mecha game
>FF16
>better product
sure if you like forced handholding and no rpg elements in your "rpg" and i used to be excited for the ff16 release
Remember to not say JRPG because offensivu onegai.
Good joke, anon.
lmao no
Hi-Fi Rush and FF16 absolutely deserved to be nominated. replace RE4make and SMW with them, and it's a good list of nominations
Hfr is too happy to be nominated
FF16 had the no blacks thing
Hogwarts was obviously boycotted
>FF16 had the no blacks thing
Ridiculous.
Kotaku literally wrote a hotpiece against FF16 because Yoshida said FFXVI did not include any Blacks.
https://kotaku.com/ffxvi-square-enix-naoki-yoshida-ff16-release-date-1849744847
>FF16 had no blacks
It was funny how everyone got real quiet once the game was out and they realized the plot was about slavery and that it had more poc than any other FF.
People weren't really quiet, it's not like people didn't discuss the plot. It's just that sites like GCJ or resetera quietly shifted their position on FF16 overnight and began saying thought the game was great
>it had more poc than any other FF
What?
It's the FF with most variety except for black (probably because of slavery)
Every single major character is white though. The only nonwhites are the Arab-esque faction that are barely relevant.
Most NPC (and there's a lot of them) and Hugo aren't. Even Barn and Clive are a mix, very different from other FFs
I’m not seeing it. Clive, Joshua, and Hugo all look completely white to me.
Joshua does, yes
Looks white to me. He literally looks like a gigachad.
What are you smoking? You know white people can have black hair, right?
Geoff is not allowed to nominate Xbox first party games because he's on Snoy's payroll
why Nintendo get 2 GOTY noms? Why God of War lose to Elden Ring?
>Why God of War lose to Elden Ring?
Because they already rigged the previous GoW against RDR2. You can only go so far before you risk facing consequences
Hi-Fi Rush got more nominations than Starfield.
Not the one that matters which is GOTY
If anything but your own opinion "matters" to you, you are a retarded sheep and should have a nice day immediately. Imagine actually giving a shit about this ceremony.
Don't let the zoomers hear that, they can only think in sales and metrics.
Go look at all the game awards shows and Snoy games almost always lose to nintendo or a third party. The reaons xbox games don't get nominated is because they're never seen as Game of the Year material by just about anybody.
You are either disingenuous or have never really watched TGA's winners. Sony games get nominated the most by far, and always win like 40% of their nominations at least.
Wrong, retarded. There have been 9 TGA shows, Sony only had their games win 2 of them with GotY. Bloodborne, both Horizon games, God of War Ragnarok, Uncharted 4, and Death Stranding all lost and didn't win a grand majority of their nominations Some didn't win any awards. Hell, in 2021 there were more Xbox studios nominations than Sony ones. The only year that was blatantly biased towards Sony was 2020 where TloU2 somehow won despite everyone hating the fucking game. And that wasn't even the only terrible win or nomination that year. Hades somehow won best action game despite being a terrible "action game" and other actually good actions games lost. A game from 2018 got nominated and won its categories because it got popular in 2020, not because it came out that year. That whole ceremony was completely illogical.
>Sony only had their games win 2 of them with GotY
You know we are not talking just about the goty category right retard? We are talking about ALL nominations. The sony bias is very real no matter how much you want to turn a blind eye. Also, you didn't see anything weird about RDR2 winning against GOW on most categories and yet losing GOTY? Reaally, not at all weird right, even tho it doesn't make any sense
>You know we are not talking just about the goty category right retard?
Then you're still wrong, dumbass. God of War only won three awards. Uncharted/Bloodborne/Horizon won nothing. Ragnarok got humiliated by Elden Ring.
>you didn't see anything weird about RDR2 winning against GOW on most categories and yet losing GOTY
RDR only won 4 awards, GoW won 3. And if your autism is about total nominations, as if the game that had the highest amount of total nominations deserved to win, then I'd just call you an idiot again and tell you to look at Sekiro beating Death Stranding despite having half the amount of nominations for that year. Ragnarok had more nominations than Elden Ring and lost. It even had more total wins yet lost Game of the Year (same goes for Death Stranding, by the way). It's like you forgot about 2021 where It Takes Two won out of nowhere. ahead of Xbox, Sony and Nintendo.
You are retarded. I would tell you to just look this shit up on the wiki but I know you won't do it.
Damn. I know nobody will care anon, and you might not care. But I REALLY appreciate the way you just logically deconstructed his whole fucking retarded narrative contructing. Like genuinely gave him no opening for argument. I don't see non stupid people that don't easily fall for narratives and collective biases too often on Ganker so I just wanna commend you for being unequivocally right.
>samefagging THIS blatant
That's just sad
Ffxvi is 4/10 garbage, kys.
HFR did deserve it. FFXVI absolutely didn't. Its mediocre af, with too many ups and downs, and far below all the games nominated here
Agree with you anon, having a fucking Remake game as a GOTY contender especially in a year as packed as this year has been is so fucking retarded. People aren't even saying FFXVI or AC6 should win overall GOTY but they definitely deserve to be nominated up there over RE4 remake, it's a graphical upgrade of an existing game. So fucking stupid whoever made that decision.
Having a fucking 2D Mario up there which maybe took like 5 months to develop and two glorified expansion packs (naggerman and TOTK) also is complete nonsense.
I don't even like FF16 (if anything, I would want LoP to win) but it and AC6 or Hi Fi Rush absolutely deserved the nomination over any of those 4.
Agreed about Mario, that is either a recency bias or one of the Judges being Reggie again (He was a Judge for previous GOTY awards).
>When the moviegame crowd who only wants games to be realistic movie experiences with no actual gameplay find out about super mario bros wonder
You love to see it
Mario Wonder is legitimately so easy it should just be counted as a moviegame
>Y-YOU'RE A MOVIEGAME AUTIST IF YOU WANT LIES OF P AND AC6 TO WIN GOTY
Kys autist
>Movie game crowd with no gameplay
Yet one of the best critics on schmups and fighting games came out and said how great the combat and gameplay in FFXVI is. Get fucked tendie.
>11k views in 3 months
jesus, posting your own channel and suckign yourself off is just sad
>Doesn't know who Electric Underground is
Fucking hell I knew this place was getting worse but I didn't realise it was this bad. Lurk more you fucking newfag.
the only thing about 'electric underground' in the archives is you just shilling your own irrelevant channel
fuck off
Holy shit are you embarrassing yourself, why are election tourists like this?
Yikes lmao
>Yikes
Was it a big Yikes or a small Yikes, Reddit friend?
But Hi Fi Rush and Lies of P are better than Mario. Hell, even pikmin 4 is.
That remake was a much better game than FF XVI. Even with having both original RE4 and the remake available to me, I can see myself being in the mood for the remake, it has qualities of its own that make it worth my time. Having finished FFXVI, I don't see myself ever returning it, all the more when I could just play DMC5 instead. I'm not a fan of the general trend of remakes the industry is going through right now, but RE4 remake easily deserves that spot over FFXVI.
>Sponsored by Tencent
shit games dont qualify for goty
Jedi Survivor doesn't deserve a GOTY nomination and I say that as someone who enjoyed it. It's pretty good but not great, and has so many technical issues it'd be bad practice to praise it. Maybe a nomination in best adventure game or some shit, but the competition there is already stiff.
They hate armored core because it proves they are fucking useless hacks doing fuck all in their cosy jobs of doing shit for 8 hours a day spending bazillions on dog shit mocap and bad voice actors and what not
>Metroid Prime Remaster
>System Shock Remake
>Wild Hearts
>Pikmin 4
Finally, a man with taste
Hi-Fi Rush is the only one here that would deserve it based on nomination numbers in other categories alone, replacing Resident Evil 4 remake
>Starfield
Underdelivered in every category
>Armored Core
Niche genre boosted only by FromSoftware bias
>FF16
Pretty game that does very little else
>Star Wars
>Hogwarts
Wouldn't get half the attention they did if not for the IP slapped on them
>Diablo IV
>Dead Space remake
Downgrades to what came before them
>Niche genre
It's an action game
>b-but it's mec-
It's an excellent action game. That should be enough to have it nominated if those awards weren't such a fucking joke.
Agreed about everything else. I wouldn't say Dead Space is a -complete- downgrade but yeah
>another dogshit game about filling stagger bars
>inbred Gankerermin: its on the level of ninja gaiden and bayonetta
Heh, in fact Armored Core and Ninja Gaiden are my 2 favorite series.
If you think you just win in AC6 by filling a bar like it's sekiro you don't understand how the game actually works.
Have you actually played it? Because that's exactly how it works. The bosses have 90% damage resistance when unstaggered, filling up the yellow bar is completely mandatory.
t. laserlet
>Pretty game that does very little else
if you're a retard? Sure.
why the fuck is ff a devil may cry knockoff game now?
>this is what Final Fantasy has become
trash game
They should make these hack n slash games into FF spinoffs. Not main games.
Accept the truth moment is one of the best hype moments I've ever experienced, it's so simple just a button prompt but fuck did it get me.
Is this supposed to make me impressed?
>Is this supposed to make me impressed
Third World ESL outs himself.
The sentence is gramatically correct you dumb Indian mongrel.
>cinematic flair that's just button mashing
Hey, it really is faithful to the series!
>teleports behind you
>haha i win
>uh actually the fireball was behind you
>NANI!?
This is so fucking stupid lmao
That battleground they're in is so damn boring too. Did they run out of money for the background design team?
It was Dragon Ball fan service you soulless homosexual. Imagine a game developed by japs would include anime references and nods?
The background is because they're in a pocket dimension. You're nitpicky as fuck, this is the level of hate this game is getting. Absolutely insane people nit-picking because they don't understand anything unless it's specifically told and spelled out to them in big bold lettering.
Says a lot about FF niggas that this triggers them. Maybe it needs to be like nu-GOW and staple clive’s feet to the ground with rpg mechanics bloat and colour coded enemies.
>Says a lot about FF niggas that this triggers them
I don't think you understood the purpose of why that webm was posted.
I’m talking about the responses to the webm + the fanbase who can’t into action games unless it’s either souls shit that gimps your moveset and mobility or nu-GOW that gimps your moveset plus keeps you glued to the floor.
XVI already has shitty MMO rotation cooldowns like God of War reboots. We're not far that Simon Says shit.
You’re not wrong, but that being it’s biggest issue is better than “no jumping allowed, we’re super serious + colour coded enemies + cooldown spam” the nu-GOWs run into. 16 caught flack for removing elemental weaknesses when all it would likely lead to is “use blue move on red enemy” bullshit.
>for removing elemental weaknesses
Only Fhomosexuals and RPGkiddies thought this was a bad thing. They don't understand Action games.
Nothing in the game prompts you to play like this unless you wanna swag on shitty mobs for personal pleasure. Posting a SunniLegend WEBM doesn’t automatically make the game anymore more than a fine action game that isn’t worth a GOTY title.
I thought the game was pretty good but why do you want a game to force you to play a certain way? Maybe the dude that made that webm likes playing that way because it’s more fun. You can beat a game like dmc using basic combos and spamming stinger and call it a day. Doesn’t stop people from wanting to engage with the mechanics and play in a more stylish way. 16’s problem is that clive’s base moveset should’ve been a bit larger, cause there’s room to experiment with what’s given, but the ceiling is lowered a fair bit because clive’s moveset just isn’t big enough.
Nothing prompts you to play in the most boring way possible either. The game allows you to choose how you want to play.
Thanks for reaffirming that I'm not missing out on anything by skipping 16.
The combat is the best part of this game, but even that is marred by one weapon, no pause combos, cooldown skills and the awful stagger system. I would be okay with it just being DMC-lite if it offered me something distinct from DMC still, but it doesn't and I'd rather just play DMC.
I’m praying that the dlc will add pause combos or just more moves to clive’s base moveset. I feel like I’m hoping for a lot but if they add
>arcade scoring fixes
>either a bunch of superbosses/s-rank hunts + ability to rematch at the arete stone
>bloody palace-adjacent mode
>ultimaniac as a difficulty option outside of arcade
>ability to skip phase transitions in boss fights
>at least one more eikon slot, or another eikon ability slot
It would legit fix 90% of my issues with the combat without sounding like a dumbass asking them to delete all of it and make it a turn based game cause their feelings are hurt or some other nonsense.
>Twitter/Youtube meme
have a nice day homosexual
>trash, AA
>AA, trash
>trash, trannybait
>trash, trash
Wow, how did none of them get meme attention?
armored core has more sovl but lies of p was a better game overall
>So what, put Mario Wonder and RE4make in the list instead lololol
Time to pay the piper, Ganker.,
ekdromoi my beloved
Lmao did hogwarts get nominated for anything? They dont even try and hide their disdain. (still deserves to be forgotten though for including a tranny)
To this day Ganker can't decide if Hogwarts is pro or anti tranny.
Its pro but msm and retards think its anti because of JK. So it sits at the anti table even if it came dressed as pro
Got it now?
Do you think I care or do you not realise I'm criticising the collective understanding of Ganker?
Got it???
>cringefield
Negative reception
>hi-fi rush
Most people have never heard of it
>ac6
Journalists don't like video games that play like video games
>ff16
There's no black people in it
>shart wars
Disney has Spiderman which is more recent and features black people more prominently
>hogwats
Removed out of fear of inducing psychic damage to trannies
>Diablo 4
Punishment for the trashy mobile game
>dead space
No room for 2 survival horror remakes and RE4 is more iconic
>No room for 2 survival horror remakes and RE4 is more iconic
Anon... Alan Wake 2 is also a survival horror
Now read the next word right after horror anon
Okay fair. I skipped over that for some reason when reading
>DSR over REmake 4
Yeah you are retarded.
Bottom right.
None of them.
Yellow and red are opposite, so top right and bottom left where they're adjacent can't be correct. Green and white are also opposite, so top left can't be correct.
Finally, bottom right is wrong because if you turn the scheme 90° clockwise red is to the left of green like in the picture, but blue is below and black is above.
They just gotta start dividing these award up:
>Best Sequel/Remake Game of the Year
>Best New IP Game of the Year
No need for the former since most GOTYs are sequels.
The latter would be nice though, new ips deserve the attention.
What's up with this recent group of retards that are trying to group remakes and sequels together? Is it actually just one idiot?
Osrs level calc relies on probability. If you never hit anybody in the wildy at interesting levels, people get wondermad. That is fun. They dont know then. They can pay to find out maybe.
Every game on this list is completely mediocre, like Hi-Fi Rush and Final Fantasy 16, or just outright garbage like Diablo 4 and Star Wars.
be straight with me. Is the dead space remake better than the original?
No.
Yes.
Not nominating Starflop is the one good deed he did
Sounds pretty dumb as it’s not a perfect game and I’m only about 70% through but robocop is my favorite game of 2023. There were so many letdowns like payday 3 and starfield but to have a gem like robocop come out was a breath of fresh air. Game was clearly made with love. I’m sure baldur’s gate is an overall better game but I just can’t stand all the dialogue, slower gameplay and cinematic scenes. For me rogue city was the perfect game this year for me despite the few graphical glitches
Xtrannies are so pathetic, the way the cry on the internet is really gay. This explains why this board is the way it is and why they always hide behind Nintendo for their shitposts.
Literally who cares. GOTY is just a battle between BG3 and Zelda, everything else that's there is just filler.
AC6 should've been atleast a nominee for music as well because of how there's actually quite a couple of memorable tracks in the OST, like the Balteus fight
armored core is the sole contender
predictions:
bg3 easily wins the goty along with some other categories
totk wins some irrelevant category, same with mario wonder
genshin wins best ongoing
star rail wins best mobile
ninny manbabies are gonna seethe
I want BG3 to win if only so that Nintendo fans will stop latching onto game journalists as if they meant anything. Then again, I've unironically seen Zelda fans praise TLOU because it won tons of awards, so maybe it won't help.
Are those "Zelda fans" here in the room with us?
Zeldafags will just move on to praising BG3 because tendies need to be seen as "cultured" and "going with the flow"
They have no games (its all on PC) and barely any games worth playing so they need to gain social credit somehow, and shitting on snoys only goes so far
Pathetic samefagging.
Name one Switch game that I don't have in my PC library right now LMAO
>no reply
OH NO NO NO NO NO TENDIEBROS
I'll be playing SMRPG remake on my switch. Where's the PC version? Oh wait.
>inb4 someone brings up a buggy non-functional emulator
Hah
>Zelda fans
by which you mean one shitposter on Ganker
>These games : exist
Do they really?
>No Lies of P
TRASH LIST
Ganker should make its own
Geoff should have diversified the noms more especially with how much shit came out this year. You can call it whatever you want but it feels short sighted to give RE4 the spotlight but completely miss Dead Space. As a Lies of P fag I’m glad it got two noms even if it can’t win but Geoff went with the easiest fucking options on the table.
Starfield is not a good game
God, i just want to see GVH won for shit and giggles
I wish i could play Hi-Fi Rush for the first time again
>if I samefag they won't notice
Why would someone reply to obvious bait you child? Lmao
Media skunks are truly terrified of getting blacklisted by Nintendo holy kek.
Rockstar should drop the GTA 6 trailer on their YT channel during the awards out of spite.
They have the power.
>Media skunks are truly terrified of getting blacklisted by Nintendo holy kek.
Isn't Kotaku the only media outlet blacklisted by Nintendo, and that's because of them leaking shit and talking about pirating shit, not something like not being nominated for awards or for getting low scores?
Have you forgotten the emulator guy who got fucked in the ass for literal life by Nintendo because they're a greedy control freak corpotation?
wtf i love nintendo now
That has nothing to do with the Game Awards or media blacklisting, but wasn't that a decision by the courts more than Nintendo (though they didn't raise any objections as far as I could tell)
>though they didn't raise any objections as far as I could tell
Yeah because they're greedy fucks.
And the media notoriously and desperately tries to keep flawless relations with this corporation because it sells great numbers to gaming (man)children.
TGA is essentially a bunch of journo sellouts choosing nominees and winners.
Most of them did not even play all the games on the list. It's much like the Oscars.
Geoff NEEDS his head chopped off. #BoycottTheGameAwards
Starfield?
-Hi-fi rush and AC6 are too niche
-Dead Space is decent I guess but still a worse remake than what RE4 did
-Starfield is not that popular even with mainstream media, just look at the scores (as much as I despise using numbers to rate games)
-Diablo is a steaming pile of trash and Blizzard should just die at this point
-Hogwarts is surprisingly absent because it was quite popular but it's ok because the game itself is nothing special, just heavily boosted by its name
-Jedi Survivor was a broken unoptimized mess at launch (still is I think) and Star Wars as a franchise has gone to shit in the last few years so the name doesn't carry the same weight
-I loved FF16 but it's just a good game. Not an amazing action, not a good enough RPG. Should've went with one genre or the other, instead it feels like a cheap DMC with shitty RPG mechanics.
Would've liked to see Street Fighter 6 among the nominees, but fighting games are also very niche.
Regardless, every single game is filler. The real candidates are Zelda and BG3
Im trans btw
And?
Hi-Fi Rush and AC6 would deserve a nomination, though it should have been obvious that the former wouldn't receive one. FF XVI doesn't deserve one and I regret the time I wasted on it, that it even got nominated for best RPG is generous, even calling it an RPG is generous for that matter.
Are you guys serious about Hi Fi Rush? The game looks like soi boi central.
>looks like
I see you haven't played it, and if you think it looks like that then you're just outing yourself as a zoomer that never grew up with 90s and 00s cartoons
Most zoomers grew up with 90s and 00s shit and that image looks like soi shit as well
A grown man caring about cartoons for children is embarrassing, honestly
I'm sorry you had a shitty childhood
Hifi Rush could have justified a nomination and while I haven't played it yet I'd be shocked if Armored Core 6 didn't warrant a nomination. I also think Pikmin 4 was a justifiable nominations that was not gonna happen due to just being too niche.
However:
>Diablo IV
>Starfield
>FF16
>Dead Space Remake
>Hogwarts Legacy
Are all crap, and while slop like that is usually ashooing for awards shows there's genuinely just too many unarguably amazing games this year for even the corrupt media to pretend that this kind of shit is worth a damn. It's genuinely based as hell to watch this TRASH get snubbed.
The real nominations are pretty stacked, honestly
>Baldur's Gate 3
>Mario Wonder
>Tears of the Kingdom
>Resi 4
The only outright laughable trash pick is Spiderman 2, and it's only there so that Sony and fart huffing elder and core millennials that worship narrativeshit don't kill themselves.
Resi 4 I think is a little questionable, but it's ultimately a well liked about GAMEPLAY so fuck it whatever.
I think the perfect list would probably be Baldur's Gate 3, Mario Wonder, TOTK, Hifi, and AC6, Pikmin 4 if there's a 6th slot.
Besides, the real crime of TGAs every year is that Age of Empires 2 has never been nominated for best Esports event OR best ongoing game.
>Mario Wonder, TOTK, Hifi, and Pikmin 4
Söy starter pack
Cry about it
>Mario Wonder
Get that boring corporate mascor dogshit out of there. Your other 3 choices are fine but Wonder is as much of a pity nomination as FFXVI and Starfield
>BG3
>good
Please for the love of game play another CRPG before you say this trash is good.
Shut the fuck up, tendie
Told you, you subhumans haven't played another CRPG before so you shill this garbage. have a nice day. Play something actually good like Undertail.
That's an unfortunate typo
Shut the fuck up, tendie
Aw, mad you got exposed? Go ahead and tell me how a tranny game has anything on Underrail.
Only AC6 is worth the nominee over Mario, but BG3 is the clear winner this year. It's the only game that people talked about for more than a month after release.
BG3 was terrible and you haven't played another CRPG before.
Starfield - 6
Hi Fi Rush - 7
AC6 - 7
FFXVI - 7
Star Wars - 8 but buggy
Hogwarts - 7
Diablo 4 - 7
Dead Space - 8 but remake
Geoff made the right call then
Honestly Lies of P and Pikmin 4 are the only big-budget games I would even consider calling GOTY.
>denuvo shit and kiddie shit
Yep, sorry
Resident Evil 4 doesn't deserve a place in the goty contenders when AC6, Pikmin 4 and FF16 exist purely because it's a fucking remake and a fairly half-assed one at that.
Neither does anal wake but because it's barely even a game to begin with.
Pikmin 4 is a remake too
And the game of the year award goes to...
WHY ESS TEN!
He's in
>Starfield
LOL
>Hifi Rush
didn't play it so I can't say.
>AC6
8.5/10 but too narrow in scope and honestly it's too simplistic
>FFXVI
this game can be described with "i a-am Game of Thrones and Witcher, i am, i-i-i swear!! :(" it's a desperately pandering game that doesn't land its mark (still better than Starfield though)
>Jedi: Survivor
maybe an 8/10 if it wasn't so buggy and badly ported to PC
>Hogwarts
7/10 at best, Ganker only championed it because trannies
>Diablo 4
didn't play it
>Dead Space
too similar of a remake to the original. at least R4make remade a better game and changed it up a bit more
>Every game in the list is either remakes, sequels or something based on a series
>The only unique and original IP in the whole list is Hi-Fi Rush
>sequels so it's bad
I love how 2023 mindbroke Ganker so hard that we started pretending sequels are now the same category as remakes, just so we can keep acting like doomers.
Yeah, Ganker seems to have forgotten that most of the best games ever made are sequels.
That's a load of crap. There isn't a single sequel that lives up to a masterpiece like Metroid Prime 2, or Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando.
It can only be considered the best if you never played the prequel. If you already played the series its just derivative dlc slop
Which game are you talking about?
Spiderman 2, totk, fzero gx, halo 3, etc
You know that Breath of the Wild and Halo 2 were also sequels, right?
LIES!
Sakurai confirmed that sequels are basically remakes
My point wasn't that Sequels are bad, just the fact that when there is something new and unique in the gaming industry, we should focus on that more, the fact that Hi-Fi Rush wasn't really apart of the GOTY list even with all of the nominees shows how much things are just a popularity contest instead of showing actual quality and unique games.
We need more new and unique things to win like how in TGA 2021, It Takes Two won.
Metroid Dread deserved to win that year tbh, or maybe Psychonauts 2.
I liked Metroid Dread but nah, the EMMIs sucks and the story sucks
Who the fuck plays Metroid for a good story? They’re always barebones and serviceable at best.
And you wonder why it didn't win GOTY?
Nah they were annoying and not at all that scary, especially the fact that even if you die to them, you can spawn right outside their areas with minimal punishment
I thought the award was for GAME of the Year, not Story of the Year.
Game of the year means you have to excel or at least be decent in all category of being a game, including having a decent fucking story.
You can't just coast on gameplay alone
Fucking Overwatch won a GOTY. Gameplay should be king, everything else including story is secondary.
That's why the gotys are a scam and wish things like It Takes two should win more.
That game was such a breath of fresh air in the co-op genre
IT2 didn't have great gameplay tho. It had very surface level platforming and constant variety sections. Which worked fine for casual fun on a first playthrough but certainly doesn't offer any degree of depth and makes it have little replayability. What Medroid Dread lacked in story it certainly surpassed IT2 in gameplay by a mile
IT2 won by variety and uniqueness, which Metroid Dread wasn't
Then you are just admitting that saying a goty game should balance great story and gameplay was bullshit. Since IT2 didnt have both
It had fun and great gameplay with a decent story of a broken family fixing itself.
The gameplay wasn't great. Already explained why. Unlike you, variety by itself doesn't make gameplay great, it just means the game is varied
You should stop seething about Dread not winning goty, someone else deserving won it
Nah, you are seething that valid reasons why it didn't deserve goty are being given. Quite frankly A Way Out deserved to be nominated and win more than IT2, since most of what made IT2 stand out as a coop game was stablished there
What valid reasons? That you didn't find the game fun meanwhile million others did?
Also A Way Out didn't came out in 2021 and was pretty flawed in a few aspects, they really refined a ton of it in It Takes Two.
>Which worked fine for casual fun on a first playthrough but certainly doesn't offer any degree of depth
Yeah that's the point for a game like this, it didn't need you to have a ton of skill to play, its just something really fun to play with your friend or partner and very much succeeded in that.
There is literally no other game that lets your coop bro be in a fighting game while you're trying to control the plane that they're fighting on.
>no other game that lets your coop bro be in a fighting game while you're trying to control the plane that they're fighting on
This kinda example showcases what I'm saying perfectly tho. Does it offer some laughs for the expectacle? Yes, of course. But that "fighting game" controlled rough as fuck, I would know since that's the side I got when I played it. My point is that IT2 is a fun game, but I'm pretty much sure someone who enjoyed Metroid Dread is going to play through it more times, and stick with it more on the long run than someone who enjoyed IT2. And if we are arguing it deserved to win for what it did for Coop games, AWO deserved that recognition more back in it's year for being the game that came up with the formula
Then Overwatch didn't deserve it either.
Nta, and I'm not gonna reply further on this because I've had this conversation too many times. But the EMMIs were great. They were a source of tension and variety the first time around, and they are a test of speed and skill to bypass them as efficiently as possible on replays. I genuinely dont get how some didn't find the enjoyment in the EMMIs unless they just hate chaser enemies in any game
Emmis weren't really chaser enemies. They were quarantined in zones and couldn't break free of them. A REAL chaser enemy would make it so there was no safe zones. not even a save room would be safe.
Games are iterative, sequels are almost always the biggest release of the year. A year that had exclusively original IPs as its most notable releases would be astonishing, even more if it was because those games actually merited it and not because it just happened that no well-liked series had a good release that year.
AC6 should've been goty. The only real game on that list.
>the usual suspects are butthurt because Mario got nominated for GOTY
>extra butthurt for Nintendo having 2 games nominated this year
Man, you love to see it
>unable to communicate with each other
skill issue tbh
D4 is my goty, AMA 🙂
But I mean this year is packed with better games so it make sense for some of the other good games on this list to not be nominated.
I really liked fallen order apart from the egregious sliding. What was so bad about Jedi:survivor?
It’s just more of the same. The story feels less like filler but the villains are kinda stupid.
>What was so bad about Jedi:survivor?
it was so buggy and so poorly optimized at launch that it killed the game's presence completely (it's somewhat better optimized now but still not good)
bugs aside, it's a sidegrade from fallen order and i wouldn't say it's worse or better than fallen order overall
The TGA are trying their best to give BG3 all the awards
They nominated mario and zelda for goty to split the tendies votes
They nominated xvi and lies of p as best rpgs to give another easy W for BG3
This shit is rigged beyond repair
>RE4 remake is in
>but not Dead Space remake
Here is your Hi-Fi Rush dev team, say something nice about them.
No wonder they didn't get a goty nom
>White guy has to walk on less eggshells as a tiny minority in a japanese company than in a 90% white company
Haha...
Funnier to think that he's the director and writer of the game and basically owns the studio now after Shinji Mikami left it.
funny that you guys don't bitch about that, but bitch about Team Asobi
I don't see how the two relate
They're both Japanese teams taken over by gaijins
One is because of company meddling, the other is someone having a protege and passing the torch to him.
>Forspoken had a professional "team" of writers and ends up with a script that is relentlessly mocked
>Glorified code monkey writes his sincere but cringy reddit script and ends up being praised
Lmao, who needs a writer's union
There's a difference between a game with a serious tone with an extremely cringy script VS a game that harkens to old saturday morning cartoons not being a super serious game with a somewhat cringy script.
One fits and the other doesn't
I think the Dead Space Remake is better than RE4 Remake.
RE4 had a lot of changes I didn't care for while Dead Space Remake is just an all around upgrade in basically every department to the original.
Why do you gays care about the Geoff awards other than laughing at the retarded streams for a few days?
>https://twitter.com/xboxcurator/status/1724267707447595243
XboxSisters, we will not stand for this!!
>Cereza and the Lost Demon not in best art direction
>Mario clearly the filler game
So these fuckers don't actually play games right
>So these fuckers don't actually play games right
Obviously. It's all agenda pushing, pandering and bribery. Your votes and choices mean literally nothing.
>public gets 10%
>elite ruling class despite making up less than 0.1% of the population gets 90%
Great... just like voting in real life
>public vote only 10%
Thanks for saving my time.
be honest, people only worshipped hi fi rush because they were surprised at xbox releasing a game that wasn't a shooter
let's not pretend a game with marvel-tier writing, tumblr character design, and QTEs all over, is a good game
Bayonetta, metal gear rising and DMC are GOTY material, this downgrade on every single aspect? not GOTY material
>2 originals and te rest are sequals or remakes
grim times for the videogame industry
>sequels are bad because…because they just are, okay?!
I never got the "sequels and remakes bad" rhetoric.
I get the argument against remakes being put on the same level as other games. But complaining about sequels is a sign of pure retardation. If sequels in a franchise keep the quality going there is zero reason to complain. And if a sequel is a better game than a new ip, it deserves to be called a better game
A remaster I could agree with; that's literally just a paint job.
A remake is a whole new game.
No account, but I'd vote
>BG3
>Mario Wonder
>FF16
>Hi-Fi Rush
>Hi-Fi Rush
>Hi-Fi Rush
>FF16
>Hi-Fi Rush
>Chants of Sennaar
>FF14
>FF14
>Coccoon
>Pizza Tower
>Honkai Star Rail
>Synapse
>AC6
>Spidey 2
>BG3
>SF6
>Pikmin 4
>Pikmin 4
>Forza
>SF6
>Mario movie
>7Rebirth
>
>Dota 2
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Alan Wake 2 is the only game that actually uses videogames as a medium to an substantial or meaningful degree. Which means it won't win, because gamers and retards on Ganker don't think of videogames that way, and they're ultimately still homogenized formulas that exist to trigger people's dopamine more efficiently than toys.
Don't care if I get called a pseud. Industry speaks for itself. When people are saying stuff like "Baldurs Gate is so good because it's finally a REAL RPG!!!" You know that people only want games for trying to fit properly into whatever specific and narrow box of arbitrary characteristics they have chosen to value.
I liked when labels, notions, and preconceptions didn't exist as much. Where games like Classic Tomb Raider couldn't easily be fit into a genre because it made it. And nothing to come after has ever played like it. When Silent Hill 2 proved that videogames itself, as a medium are special not simply for its gameplay, but the almost tangible experience it could instill, an experience that simply wouldnt be the same as a movie, where you were navigating and trying to understand a strange world and strange circumstances. When games like Prince of Persia Sands of Time thought it would be cool to make the character and story feel more personal and lively by having the Prince narrate the story himself and insist that "No No No, that's not how it happened" whenever he died. When Dark Souls 1 decided to try and make a robust, and cohesive hostile enviroment, where every push to the next bonfire managing your estus and navigating dark complex areas, felt like fighting for your life to progress. To find something new, to satiate that curiosity and sense of discovery and continue to press on through harsh conditions, and varied structures filled with a number of unique traps and enemies always ready to greet you.
Today. TR would be called clunky, slow, boring. SH2 a moviegame. SoT is marvel/disneyesque and DS1 simple and tedious.
>Alan Wake 2 is the only game that actually uses videogames as a medium to an substantial or meaningful degree.
It’s a literal movie game with live action cutscenes, that’s the opposite of what the medium’s strengths are. The actual gameplay is extremely mediocre.
>Alan Wake 2 is the only game that actually uses videogames as a medium to an substantial or meaningful degree.
haven't played a minute of it so i wouldn't know, care to elaborate?
very surprised jedi and armored core weren't nominated, but from software just had a win last year so maybe that contributed it. didn't sell nearly as well as the other nominees, outside of Alan Wake I guess. That probably sold just as much as AC
>outside of Alan Wake I guess. That probably sold just as much as AC
system requirements likely slashed many potential buyers myself included
the music nominations are exceptionally retarded this year. Even RE4make's soundtracks mogs BG3 and TotK and that's not even getting into the top soundtracks this year
Was Phantom Liberty in the music list?
No. it's
>Alan Wake
>BG3
>TotK
>HiFi Rush
>FFXVI
I couldn't care less what that homosexual shill is picking as their GOTY.
It's all fake and paid for.
>tranny game griftslop
>literally who tranny game
>good game but not goty
>tranny game
>tranny game
>anti tranny game no where near goty
>blizzard tranny game
>remake of tranny game
Obsessed
seethe transvestite
You'll never make a transgender person as angry as that transgender person make you angry.
YWNBAW tranny
I'm not transgender, I just see angry homosexuals like you and decide to poke the (teddy) bear
>you are angry
Go take your anti depressants, heroin shot and hormones you metnally ill HIV infested transvestite. You will LITERALLY never be a woman.
You're only proving me right.
The only thing right about you is that you will never be a woman.
For me it's FF16 no doubt
Best game
Lol... Lmao even
name your goty
It should have been:
>Lies of P
>Baldur's Gate 3
>REmake 4
>Armored Core 6
>Pizza Tower
>SMB Wonder
Is Alan wake 2 good better than the first one or no? I don't think SM Wonder should be on that list either could be easily swapped out with any of the OP pic
They should have expanded the nominees to 8 games so Final Fantasy XVI and Armored Corey VI could get in.
Final Fantasy XVI doesn't deserve the nomination.
these are mid
>asiatics and asiaticfags are still trying way too hard to push Lies of P
I swear to God that mediocre soulslike would have been DOA and shitposted to death by Ganker if it's not made by Korean, the king of obnoxious, shameless shilling
Came out of nowhere and surprised me unironically the best soulslike game of the year 9/10 and i hate Kpop shit, what's your goty nomination?
>unironically the best soulslike game of the year
>Of the year
So it's fucking nothing then ?
Try playing it you coping little cunt, the game is awesome.
>first sentence describing your game is "it's just like this other game!"
That's kind of sad to see actually.
Agreed on top 4.
Hard pass on bottom 4.
I think remakes and licensed games should have to clear a high bar to be nominated. Like, Spiderman is a few hours of fun to forget, and REmake 4 is great because RE4 is great.
Hogwarts legacy started out ad clearing the bar. But then it got way way to repetitive and didn't spend enough time with hogwarts or offer much in the way of interesting side content.
>Shit
>kinda fun
>Shit
>Shit
>Shit except for a five minute stint playing as an actual jedi.
>Shit except for qt sebastian
>Shit
>Shit
>nagger and Tranny Awards presented by the israelite himself
This is the gaming press that nominated PUBG and HZD over Nier A.
The people who gave GOTY to DA:I.
They are not serious people. They are underpaid bloggers who power through every game quickly on the lowest difficulty to get their review out at embargo.
Holy shit I just remembered pubg got a nomination. What were they thinking?
>what were they thinking
One of the major publications at the time had a reviewer who only ayed Nier A to ensing A and thought he beat the game.
It does not surprise me this person would vote for the BR he played for 3 hours with his buddies before voting ahead of it. A lot of it seems to be hype at the time of voting. I think that's why Wonder got nominated, and they probably would have (wrongly) snubbed BG3 if it didn't blow up online.
I really don't think Mario Wonder should be up there.
I liked it well enough but if you go into any of the threads it's got its fair share of criticism and a lot of it does not hold up to scrutiny. They should've just let Nintendo have only Zelda and give Mario's spot to one of the snubbed games. It's definitely not GOTY, and I would say while it meets the criteria to be a nominee, I don't think it should be one given how stacked this year was for the competition.
N word.