Was this the biggest desperate psyop attempt at westerners trying to undermine Nintendo? Just flat-out pretend like TOTK didn't happen that year and give the award to one of their ambassadors?
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Banjo Kazooie nuts N bolts didnt win ANY rewards so I think zelda lucked out with just the 1.
Hi Eric.
nta but like lmao totk looks like nuts and bolts to non-tendies
they already sold like 20 million copies and never really cared about what the yanks think
Its 30 million now. Outsold even the mighty Baldur's Gate 3, which will not get a sequel as Larian has abandoned the series.
18.5m in June (a month after release), then 19.5 in September, then 20.2 in December (Dec 31 mind you, so after the holiday sales season). Sales 100% slowed down sharply after its first month. They'll pay attention to that too.
Which is normal, 90 percent of game copies are sold in the first week usually
>and never really cared about what the yanks think
Oh so that's why Bowser, Aonuma, and Fujibayashi were all in attendance at the TGAs. And why Aonuma at least visibly seethed every time TotK lost a nomination.
Outsold everything else that year including the 2023 GOTY BG3.
Just goes to show how meaningless the GOTY distinction is.
It's not meaningless at all. It has a noticeable effect on game sales.
Can you prove that?
We get it. You think you're an investor.
Reminder that Nintendo directs started out because Nintendo refused to play buddy buddy with journalists, so they decided to skip them altogether, which marked the beginning of the end for E3
TotK was fine, but it felt like a DLC pack or a mod. You can't just make BotW again to win the same awards a second time, it doesn't work like that.
It literally works like that
>people acting like this was poised to sweep awards in May-June
>BG3 absolutely steals its thunder
God I can't wait for the same to happen to FF7 Rebirth and its fans. FF7Rgays are also getting incredibly uppity by declaring Rebirth a lock for GotY 2024. Though it's even more unwarranted because FF7R1 didn't win shit.
Clearly, it doesn't. God of War Ragnarok also lost 2022.
>I can't wait for the same to happen to FF7 Rebirth
homie there's literally nothing else worth talking about that's coming out this year unless you count ER dlc, which geoff won't count so as not to piss off all the advertisers and publishers that give him money.
TotKgays thought the same thing.
BG3 was a once in a generation dark horse that came out of nowhere. I'd like to be wrong that there isn't another candidate like that for this year but realistically this looks to be an off year for gaming that the industry sees every now and again.
Damn so close to legendary get
>Though it's even more unwarranted because FF7R1 didn't win shit
didnt it win RPG of the year in 2020? and soundtrack obviously.
If the Wukong game isn't another over-glorified graphical tech-demo or another poor-performance flop ala DD2, then I think that one has a genuine chance of winning it over FF7 Rebirth (China controversies aside.)
>expecting a chinese game to win anything let alone be good
It probably won't be but the year is still young, we might get another surprise-hitter like we did with BG3 last year.
Personally I want SM2 to just be good. Don't care if the rest of the year is shit, just don't frick this one up
Hope it is as well, but it's probably going to suffer from optimization and performance issues from the getgo.
always funny when you can pick the atlusgay from a mile away. You cucks have real 'im a big boy too!' energy.
>it's eric! it's barry! it's arthur! it's the atlusgays!
wow you homosexuals are pathetic
You lost, Darren.
Who the frick is Darren? the new boogyman? lmao
There was Eric, then Barry and now Darren
What about Arthur? I thought he was the Erictroony spammer
If true then he's behind to of the most based anti troll pushes in the websites history. The first being picrel
You lost and got raped Maurice.
If you create a boogeyman, you can win any argument.
>Make Zelda thread posting anything remotely resembling criticism
>"Eric troony, you lost and got raped"
>Mass replies to himself with fake reactions
That guy. He's Darren. Probably one of the worst schizos on this board and the mods do frick all about it.
>Just flat-out pretend like TOTK didn't happen that year
it might as well have not
ToTK was slop
Go frick yourself, Eric.
Gonna cry?
Eric fricked your mom btw
im nta
I can identify you by your moronic posting pattern Eric. It isn't hard. It doesn't help that you never attempt to mask your moronic replies. It's always the same moronic style of opposing Nintendo with shitposting around some other game or attempting to suddenly a moronic "centrist" position yelling "SCHIOSCHIZOSCHIZOSCHIZOSCHIZOSCHIZO" when called out for your bullshit
>opposing Nintendo
Definitely not a cult, btw.
yeah... it had some nice ideas, good enough for dlc, but not a full adventure.
It was biggest selling dlc of all time the frick are talking about
TOTK was nothing special, considering that it felt like it just like an expansion to BotW. That's why it didn't win anything.
Simple as.
>The Spike TV Game Awards
Who gives a shit about Spike TV?
Who the frick cares about these "awards"?
Frick off and die.
I accept your troonycession, Eric 😉
LMAO this homosexual needs homosexual awards and its ceremonies to feel validated.
Zelda fatigue.
I really think reusing the overworld from BotW was a huge mistake and the number one reason it lost so much standing in the industry for awards season. The technical achievements for its new mechanics are very impressive, but the world after the Great Sky Island rarely makes substantive use of them (and in practice they often amount to BYPASSING the world and challenges wholesale since it's easy for even dummies to figure out cheese contraptions which utterly invalidate most obstacles). Instead of fleshing out BotW being a glorified tech demo, they just taped another tech demo on top of it.
I don't oppose open world design inherently for Zelda. But they HAVE to stop giving Link so many strong options, or at least not give them to him right away.
>Nintendo just flat out pretends like TotK isn't repackaged DLC
>Game Awards just flat out pretend it didn't happen
what's the problem?
Yes, are now just noticing how they've been doing their best to downlplay anything Nintendo related since the PS5 was released? When do you think "first in dollar sales" became a term?
>t-t-the Snoys are out to get TotK!!! it's all a conspiracy!!! ... oh but also 2017 doesn't count despite Nintendo going up against an expensive debut prestige Sony IP that Sony really wanted to force down people's throats immediately!
Or maybe TotK's legs were miserable and simply didn't capture most people's attentions for nearly as long or deeply as BotW did.
Eric, it's too early for your melty. Save energy for tomorrow, you'll need it
Careful anons, Eric might be around.
I don't understand
Are Eric and Darren friends? Enemies? Are they supporting Zelda? Against it?
>morons trying to make this a West versus Japan issue when the best selling western game of last year (Hogwarts Legacy) got snubbed completely from the awards
>when the best selling western game of last year
Best selling game of 2023, period. I can't wait for the Harry Potter HBO series to cause tons of seethe in the entertainment journo circles, since IIRC Rowling is going to be more involved with these adaptations than she was with the movies. no she's not the redeemed based queen so many are making her out to be, but right now she's a useful tool to bludgeon the correct people over the head with
>people shit on Armored Core 6 for not being popular enough to win awards
>it actually wins something at the TGAs
>now suddenly people hate the awards
Curious. Very curious.
Why do people act like the Game Wards (tm) aren't a corporate wienersucking PR stunt? It's worse even than the Oscars because the people handing out the awards have zero qualifications, at least the Oscars is the academy sucking itself off on TV, the Game Wards (tm) are just talking heads giving awards to the highest bidder.
see
The board dicksucked them for years whenever it was convenient. Remember 2017?
>Why do people act like the Game Wards (tm) aren't a corporate wienersucking PR stunt?
Oh they absolutely are. But BotW/TotKgays won't outright admit (not without a ton of strings-attached cope anyway) that 2017 was no exception either. Myself, I'm a firm believer that Super Mario Odyssey was shafted. However, the TGAs aren't the only GotY award by a long shot, and TotK got its ass spanked by BG3 across most GotY awards as well, not just at the TGAs.
And 2019. And 2022. And, to a lesser extent, 2021.
>TotK got its ass spanked by BG3 across most GotY awards as well, not just at the TGAs.
Inb4 they cope with schizo theories about how every award show was given money by Tencent to name the best CRPG in years GOTY
when you release a sequel for your game that's nothing but an expansion pack that gives you garry's mod vehicles and a new map you don't deserve game of the year
I liked BOTW but they can't expect people to suck off the exact same game a few years later.
low iq take
How? It's completely correct. TotK only got one award (not GotY or even the big consolation prize), and Spiderman 2 (another extremely flagrant rehashquel) got nothing. Again, people admired the core mechanics of TotK, but clearly the rest of the game surrounding it wasn't enough to give it long-lasting appeal or importance as a whole package.
Not just that, they didn't fix problems from the original, and just made everything worse.
>horses and mounts go underutilized since you can just fast travel anywhere you've been
>let's make this even worse with mounts that let you fly anywhere you want without issue or consequence
>hey you know how the Champions' Abilities in BotW were intuitively tied to specific actions?
>let's now make the Sages' Powers cumbersome by requiring you to walk up to them and activate their power with the commonly-used interaction button, and let's make their movement semi-random so that it's easy to activate them by accident if you have three or more of them around
This is some alarmingly short-sighted design. Especially when there was already smarter precedent from themselves to go off of just one game ago, and for an asset-recycling game that was in development for ~5-6 years (including an extra year supposedly just for polish).
>when you release a sequel for your game that's nothing but an expansion pack
The frickers also had DLC planned for it at some point. and make no mistake, they didn't fully scrap it. It's absolutely going to be used to justify the inevitable full-price "DX" rerelease on Switch 2.
Yes. Goty is a israelite show.
I love Kass!
>Eric
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Obsessed
At this point is not about companies like nintendo or sony it's about leftists vs Jap media
Alan Wake 2 won more awards than Zelda.
Eric won and had consensual sex.
itt eggsly pretends to be eric
With the honeymoon phase out of the way, most hardcore fans, zoomer babbies and normies now agree that it was a massive disappointment; another dud for the series.
It was basically SS 2.0 as far as everything but initial sales go. Went through the same honeymoon phase cycle, made the same core developer mistakes, generated the same degree of content and media buzz (or rather, lack thereof,) and so on. Even got dicked hard by the same range of competitors. In 2011, SS overshadowed by two games that changed the landscape: a Fromsoft game known for its notorious difficulty and combat, and a western RPG with an insane degree of replayability and player choice (Skyrim.) And what do you know? It happened again with Elden Ring and BG3 (granted, the former released a year prior - but still...)
IMO Nintendo doesn't have the talent or the balls to make a good Zelda game anymore. To make something truly great, they would have to break out of their there "family-friendly/kiddy pool" ideology for braindead mainstream appeal and create another MM. But it just isn't going to happen, especially with the Disney-esque direction this company's heading in.
ToTK and the upcoming live-action movie are proof that they no longer care about top-notch quality, they just want that mainstream, normie-slop money.
>IMO Nintendo doesn't have the talent or the balls to make a good Zelda game anymore
Yes they do. They just need to get rid of the buttholes who've been weighing the series down since 2002 and 2011. At this point, if there's any series that DOES actually deserve a good ol' Shiggy-Dicking, it's Zelda.
>but le sales!!!!!
Let's see how the next tentpole Zelda fares. TotK losing so much energy and engagement after its first month already bodes worryingly.
Nah, it stems deeper than the lead producer & director managing the Zelda team. It's inherent to their modern design and business philosophies. IMO the only way to save the franchise now, is hand the IP over to a competent third party developer and seeing what they could do with it, but Nintendo would never, they're too arrogant for that and a good title would scrutinize the quality and professionalism of their first-party developer teams.
oh no
pool multi-dollar teracorporation only got one measly award
Eric general
>the legend of bingslop doesn't get deepthroated anymore
>this is a bad thing somehow
it's nintendo just doing BOTW again, of course it wasn't gonna win much if you just do it again but bigger.
It was $70 DLC, simple as.