I don't want to say its all of them but the only ones that seem to actually give a shit about who wins what are console war retards. like starfield getting scuffed for even a single nomination is kind of BS when the other games are shit but also starfield itself is shit. but you can't comment on it without getting labeled an xdrone or a snoy or whatever stupid buzzword. people are basically just waiting to see if spiderman or zelda/mario get the award so they can dump their crying wojak edit folders for a week then find some other stupid hill to die on.
the only category I think ever meant a single thing was the indie ones just because its just nice to see them even get mentioned but now thats getting invaded by industry plant fake indies like that homosexual diver game thats backed entirely by nexon, its like if any of the shitposters gave a fuck about the award ceremonies they should be calling crap like that out too but nobody even really cares. next year the categories will be entirely major companies using proxies to pretend they're artsy indie efforts like how disney used touchstone pictures to pretend its not their studios making the shit
>the only ones that seem to actually give a shit about who wins what are console war retards.
Bingo. This board is borderline unuseable for a day or two after the awards, because like you said, any logical arguments or defense/criticism of a game brands you as some kind of fanboy.
I am still kind of shocked console wars are still a thing, but hey, kids.
I didn't play TLOU2, so I cannot say, though I have my suHispanicions that most of the reason it was lauded was because of the LGBTQ themes.
Elden Ring was my GOTY last year, but I don't know if I would put it above Bloodborne. I haven't played BB in a while.
TLOU2 does a lot of cool stuff that I want to see implemented in other cinematic third person releases, namely with the protagonist's visible facial expression reactions to stuff happening in-game which would normally be reserved for cutscenes. Most third person stuff, even really high fidelity games like Alan Wake 2, present the protagonist with an entirely static face sans blinking when actually in-game
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or little touches like Ellie flinching when standing under this gutter water runoff, but that's already the kind of thing I'd have expected to see in something like a MGS which cares about little touches like that anyway
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RE4 has a but of this: certain areas with dead bodies and piles of gore will make Leon recoil in disgust if you get near them.
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that's cool. Little touches like that go a long way to making the character feel consistent throughout rather than half player vessel half character
anon you are just as dumb as OP for conflating goty to some imaginary competition. you can say a game was your goty same as you can say it was your favorite
the industry of developers that make the games journalists that cover them and critics who review them
in other words not Ganker so it makes you fags seethe that as always you have no affect on the industry AND LITERALLY NEVER WILL
Just like GG
literally no one, they came in specifically due to a void in award shows for vidya. the issue is due to being the only real game in town people think these shams are legitimate, which in a way they are just as legit as any other award show for any other medium which is to say rigged as all hell
Bro it's just another award show that has viewership like the others before it. There are multiple of these and they all select their own games of the year. The only thing this shit has is a massive budget to maximize who sees it.
They aren't but this one has a super generic authoritative-sounding name so it took only a few years for the dopes of Ganker to meme themselves into getting invested. It started with simple shitposts like "Game X is so shit I bet it won't even be nominated for GOTY" and the next thing you know they're on the edge of their seats for real.
>Movie award boards like The Oscars and Cannes Film Festival >Mostly made up of tenured industry professionals and academics by invitation only >Very few film critics are invited and those who are invited because of their tenured work across notable movie trade publications and newspapers of record >The Game Awards Jury >A bunch of San Francisco based game journalists who hate video games and are so inept they nominated a game from a multi-billion dollar corporation as an "indie" game
yeah, but at least Geoff gets trailers and reveals, so his award show isn't entirely worthless if it consolidates some cool stuff into a single evening and sitting through pointless awards is the price of admission
because perhaps a lot of people watch TGAs for the trailers? Just like how people watch all the other conferences and events through the year to the extent that threads for them are often stickied on this very board?
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>because perhaps a lot of people watch TGAs for the trailers?
That's me, but the problem is that there's a shit ton of dumb shit that no one cares about and even then, the trailers are mostly or trash games or GAAS bullshit.
>Sekiro is a far better game than Shartbros Shartimate.
Sekiro has a lower Metacritic score and much worse sales than Smash Ultimate.
Clearly most people think that Smash Ultimate is better. Deal with it, Fromdrone.
Yea I agree. The fact that it won over smash is fuckin retarded. Smash was the highest rated on the list, best selling fighting game in history, dominated discussion for years, the ultimate celebration of the indsutry. Also Sakurai had to fuckin be put on IV while making the game cause hes a fuckin beast. After that the game awards shouldnt even be taken seriously
Themselves. It's how game Journalists made themselves the authority to review games and get them early, even though that's a pointless profession and some people get the games even early or straight up at the same time.
>for a film to be eligible the main storyline or narrative has to be centered on an underrepresented group etc
They're already doing that, though? At least three of the best picture nominees from 2020/2021 focused on characters who were deaf.
In the past (like not even 10 years ago) “GOTY” was a title given by basically every publication in existence, and none had any authority or power above the others. All those games with a “GOTY edition” did win an award, but there were literally 100’s of GOTY awards given out by different place every year.
Demon’s Souls won GOTY in 2009, if you count Gamespot’s GOTY award. Borderlands 1 won GOTY in same year, by a different publication. Uncharted 2 won a bunch a GOTY awards as well that same year. I think Batman was also 2009 and it won awards.
It's actually kind of sad how desperately Geoff Keighley wants the TGAs to be the "Oscars of video games." It's not going to happen, because his awards show is a fucking joke.
Biggest game awards show with over 100 publications from all over the world to vote on winners.
They are definitely the authority on what is goty and what is not.
They do make mistakes but they are better than Ganker goty where its all weeb games regardless of merit.
At least with tga you know they have certain standards to adhere to, not just weeb games = goty.
Award shows are always an industry circlejerk. I don't really put that much stake into who won especially since they started posting the outlets on the committee that vote for GOTY. Polygon, the Verge, Variety, Entertainment Weekly are on the committee this year. All of these outlets are infamous for the severe lack of journalistic integrity.
https://thegameawards.com/voting-jury
Goty is just a thing for marketing. You have to award them so studios can advertise that bullshit on the store page. Makes idiots and normalfags more likely to buy your product even if it's awful.
The Gamejourno Awards are determined by video game (and non-video game) journalists and media outlets, so the is answer is game journalists and media outlets determine it.
Biggest game awards show with over 100 publications from all over the world to vote on winners.
They are definitely the authority on what is goty and what is not.
They do make mistakes but they are better than Ganker goty where its all weeb games regardless of merit.
At least with tga you know they have certain standards to adhere to, not just weeb games = goty.
>the authority on deciding what is goty
They are not. The inclusion of universally demakes proves that it is ALL bribery. Geoff needs his non-human skull chopped off. #BoycottTheGameAwards
nobody, why do you think that?
GOTY is a meaningless term so who cares?
Your favorite game of the year is what matters.
>GOTY is a meaningless term so who cares?
Tell that to Ganker in about 3 weeks.
I don't want to say its all of them but the only ones that seem to actually give a shit about who wins what are console war retards. like starfield getting scuffed for even a single nomination is kind of BS when the other games are shit but also starfield itself is shit. but you can't comment on it without getting labeled an xdrone or a snoy or whatever stupid buzzword. people are basically just waiting to see if spiderman or zelda/mario get the award so they can dump their crying wojak edit folders for a week then find some other stupid hill to die on.
the only category I think ever meant a single thing was the indie ones just because its just nice to see them even get mentioned but now thats getting invaded by industry plant fake indies like that homosexual diver game thats backed entirely by nexon, its like if any of the shitposters gave a fuck about the award ceremonies they should be calling crap like that out too but nobody even really cares. next year the categories will be entirely major companies using proxies to pretend they're artsy indie efforts like how disney used touchstone pictures to pretend its not their studios making the shit
>the only ones that seem to actually give a shit about who wins what are console war retards.
Bingo. This board is borderline unuseable for a day or two after the awards, because like you said, any logical arguments or defense/criticism of a game brands you as some kind of fanboy.
I am still kind of shocked console wars are still a thing, but hey, kids.
>my game wins
hahaha get fucked lmao u mad now?
>my game loses
who the fuck cares about goty anyway, geoff is a loser
Same thing with reviews.
>anticipated game gets good reviews
Haha, paid reviews, doesn't count.
>anticipated game gets bad reviews
Haha, BTFO!
but anon lets be honest here. last of us 2 did not deserve any sort of recognition, while Elden Ring truly is the greatest video game ever conceived.
I didn't play TLOU2, so I cannot say, though I have my suHispanicions that most of the reason it was lauded was because of the LGBTQ themes.
Elden Ring was my GOTY last year, but I don't know if I would put it above Bloodborne. I haven't played BB in a while.
TLOU2 does a lot of cool stuff that I want to see implemented in other cinematic third person releases, namely with the protagonist's visible facial expression reactions to stuff happening in-game which would normally be reserved for cutscenes. Most third person stuff, even really high fidelity games like Alan Wake 2, present the protagonist with an entirely static face sans blinking when actually in-game
or little touches like Ellie flinching when standing under this gutter water runoff, but that's already the kind of thing I'd have expected to see in something like a MGS which cares about little touches like that anyway
RE4 has a but of this: certain areas with dead bodies and piles of gore will make Leon recoil in disgust if you get near them.
that's cool. Little touches like that go a long way to making the character feel consistent throughout rather than half player vessel half character
if i had the microwave from Steins;Gate i would
Nobody? Lmao. Just play the games you like you retard.
>Ganker is one person
nobody gives a fuck who wins Geoffs goy award. Just award yourself if he wont
Yup, anyone can do it as well. It's not like anyone is going to question you outside of a couple dorks.
anon you are just as dumb as OP for conflating goty to some imaginary competition. you can say a game was your goty same as you can say it was your favorite
>conflating goty to some imaginary competition
Didn't do that.
> you can say a game was your goty same as you can say it was your favorite
That's literally what I said..
they're not an authority on anything
this tripe is just as pointless as shit like the golden joystick awards
nice reading comprehension
Retard
game journalists
>Who made them the authority
"them"
the industry of developers that make the games journalists that cover them and critics who review them
in other words not Ganker so it makes you fags seethe that as always you have no affect on the industry AND LITERALLY NEVER WILL
Just like GG
>no effect
>still seething over GG
yeah lmao sure
israelites
The publishers that pay them under the table
Then why didn't MS pay for starfield to be there?
You do, if you take them seriously.
literally no one, they came in specifically due to a void in award shows for vidya. the issue is due to being the only real game in town people think these shams are legitimate, which in a way they are just as legit as any other award show for any other medium which is to say rigged as all hell
israelites
Bro it's just another award show that has viewership like the others before it. There are multiple of these and they all select their own games of the year. The only thing this shit has is a massive budget to maximize who sees it.
>authority
Those award shows are basically just popularity contests. There is no objectively best game of the year since taste is subjective.
Same thing with the Oscars and Emmys. What made you homosexuals think your awards are above all else when other countries don't get vote in it too.
It's like an American idol singer who won also won against the world. Fuck off
israelites
You did, Anon
By caring
They aren't but this one has a super generic authoritative-sounding name so it took only a few years for the dopes of Ganker to meme themselves into getting invested. It started with simple shitposts like "Game X is so shit I bet it won't even be nominated for GOTY" and the next thing you know they're on the edge of their seats for real.
There are hundreds of publications that all give out awards. An award from the TGAs is worth as much or as little as literally any of them.
>Movie award boards like The Oscars and Cannes Film Festival
>Mostly made up of tenured industry professionals and academics by invitation only
>Very few film critics are invited and those who are invited because of their tenured work across notable movie trade publications and newspapers of record
>The Game Awards Jury
>A bunch of San Francisco based game journalists who hate video games and are so inept they nominated a game from a multi-billion dollar corporation as an "indie" game
Swell jury you got there Geoff
i did.
any more questions?
israeliteornalists
>Who made them the authority on deciding what is goty and what is not?
Viacom's fat transsexual dick
its just advertising. literally every single awards show is advertising
yeah, but at least Geoff gets trailers and reveals, so his award show isn't entirely worthless if it consolidates some cool stuff into a single evening and sitting through pointless awards is the price of admission
wow you're right fellow anon ill make sure to tell all my friends to watch the show on twitch and youtube and like on twitter!
>anyone not being entirely negative and jaded about anything ever is a marketer
you're mindbroken
ive seen this thread and that response at least 4 times already this week
because perhaps a lot of people watch TGAs for the trailers? Just like how people watch all the other conferences and events through the year to the extent that threads for them are often stickied on this very board?
>because perhaps a lot of people watch TGAs for the trailers?
That's me, but the problem is that there's a shit ton of dumb shit that no one cares about and even then, the trailers are mostly or trash games or GAAS bullshit.
100 million of viewers, they mog hard all the other awards, even the Oscars
REMINDER: ANYONE BRAGGING ABOUT GOTY IS BRAGGING ABOUT A SYSTEM THAT PICKED THIS GAME AS GOTY.
And? why is it bad?
Dragon Age Inquisition is far from the best RPG but its still better than most Jrpgs
>so what if dogshit won GOTY at least it's not horseshit
have a nice day.
When It Take Two wins over metroid and sekiro wins over smash ultimate the awards a fuckin meaningless.
It Takes Two was leagues better than Metroid Dread
I couldn't care less about Fromslop or Smashslop, so no comment
Sekiro is a far better game than Shartbros Shartimate.
>Sekiro is a far better game than Shartbros Shartimate.
Sekiro has a lower Metacritic score and much worse sales than Smash Ultimate.
Clearly most people think that Smash Ultimate is better. Deal with it, Fromdrone.
Yea I agree. The fact that it won over smash is fuckin retarded. Smash was the highest rated on the list, best selling fighting game in history, dominated discussion for years, the ultimate celebration of the indsutry. Also Sakurai had to fuckin be put on IV while making the game cause hes a fuckin beast. After that the game awards shouldnt even be taken seriously
it was just another Smash game, nothing special
>it was just another Smash game, nothing special
Sekiro is just another action game, nothing about it is unique at all.
>smash
>fighting game
Pick one
Does it matter then its kino as fuck. Still should've won goty.
Decent bait.
Take two is good, Samustroon
Themselves. It's how game Journalists made themselves the authority to review games and get them early, even though that's a pointless profession and some people get the games even early or straight up at the same time.
Whether your game had significant input from the ESG approved Sweet Baby inc or not.
money
Who made them the authority on deciding what is best picture and what is not?
Friendly reminder
>for a film to be eligible the main storyline or narrative has to be centered on an underrepresented group etc
They're already doing that, though? At least three of the best picture nominees from 2020/2021 focused on characters who were deaf.
They got rights to the name first
Anyways gotta love the games re-releasing as a GOTY edition after not getting a single award of any kind
In the past (like not even 10 years ago) “GOTY” was a title given by basically every publication in existence, and none had any authority or power above the others. All those games with a “GOTY edition” did win an award, but there were literally 100’s of GOTY awards given out by different place every year.
Demon’s Souls won GOTY in 2009, if you count Gamespot’s GOTY award. Borderlands 1 won GOTY in same year, by a different publication. Uncharted 2 won a bunch a GOTY awards as well that same year. I think Batman was also 2009 and it won awards.
Isn't it by vote? Did I understood it wrong?
Themselves.
Reddit and Ganker did
It's actually kind of sad how desperately Geoff Keighley wants the TGAs to be the "Oscars of video games." It's not going to happen, because his awards show is a fucking joke.
Kek
Lol "standarts"
If we all agree it's meaningless lets stop making threads about it, yeah?
The same mindless EOP cattle that's responsible for this website going to shit.
Award shows are always an industry circlejerk. I don't really put that much stake into who won especially since they started posting the outlets on the committee that vote for GOTY. Polygon, the Verge, Variety, Entertainment Weekly are on the committee this year. All of these outlets are infamous for the severe lack of journalistic integrity.
https://thegameawards.com/voting-jury
Who cares about goty, it's just nu-E3
>Overwatch
>Dragon Age Inquisition
>Last of Us 2
>GOTY in any universe
lmao
no one, it doesnt matter at all. Any dev can just slap Goy of the Year edition on their case
Goty is just a thing for marketing. You have to award them so studios can advertise that bullshit on the store page. Makes idiots and normalfags more likely to buy your product even if it's awful.
The Gamejourno Awards are determined by video game (and non-video game) journalists and media outlets, so the is answer is game journalists and media outlets determine it.
Doritos did. Why are you mad Geoff is better at marketing than Golden Joystick, Famitsu, Bafta, Edge, D.I.C.E, Game Informer?
Snoys.
Biggest game awards show with over 100 publications from all over the world to vote on winners.
They are definitely the authority on what is goty and what is not.
They do make mistakes but they are better than Ganker goty where its all weeb games regardless of merit.
At least with tga you know they have certain standards to adhere to, not just weeb games = goty.
Go home, Keighley. No one but you gives a shit. And bring back Joel McHale, you pussy.
>No one but you gives a shit
Objectively false!
This is what we call Delusional.
You are delusional.
the sponsors
>the authority on deciding what is goty
They are not. The inclusion of universally demakes proves that it is ALL bribery. Geoff needs his non-human skull chopped off. #BoycottTheGameAwards
There is no singular standard for GOTY. Publications have been declaring games as GOTY for decades with no consensus what so ever.
>Spidershit nominated for GOTY but not AC6
???
>AC6 had not enough blacks or strong female characters
gee, makes you wonder
not really, schizo. Mario's a nominee.
You retards since you give them an audience.
No one. Only low IQ retards and homosexuals Gove VGAs any kind of merit.
the public, by giving them attention
it's them. every time
the viewing public