I guess my point is: why does it matter at all? Knowing that these things have been lambasted by devs across the industry and we clearly have problems with it, why care what these fools have to say when you can set a clock to the biases and snubs? It doesn’t change anything about the game and it shouldn’t change how YOU as a player feels.
Criticizing and mocking this garbage fest is one thing, but subjecting yourself to actually watching it and letting it shape your opinions… that’s masochism.
Yup, that’s why I said he should make the best sim RPG that he can possibly can that Bethesda is known for. Don’t care about “facial” animations or top notch graphics. With the advent of AI, he can try to make a more immersive world, just need to improve the writing a bit(Starfield is definitely in the right direction).
Good year for games. I think the GOTY list is accurate imho
Knottian.gif my friend (I’ll edit when I find my damn gif).
Yeah I was surprised to see that as well. It was a super strong year for RPGs I guess.
Fair point
let’s be real. we all know the reason…
FH6 could be 95 rated, greatest racing game ever made and it still won’t likely make the list that year, because it doesn’t count as a game in the same way the others do.
Because it was released in February and game media have a brain of a goldfish.
Oh for fuck’s sake…that truly is it?
A lot of the people voting probably don’t seriously play multiplayer games. They are journalists jumping from one game to the next, so they don’t have the time to sink into these games.
Taking this further, why isn’t Halo Infinite on best ongoing game? Did Apex Legends, FF14, Genshin Impact and Fortnite all have a lot of great new content this year? Or are people just voting for the GAAS game they happen to have played at some point?
Geoff seeing the outrage and knowing 80% of them are going to tune into his show anyways.
I don’t think so. Octopath 2 is missing as well and was released in February.
That would be insane. Yet had SM2 release in February I’m sure they wouldn’t have forgotten it. Hogwarts scored super high too. It seems to be lacking in any of the awards…
not a single mention of Talos Principle II
Trash
Because first party effect. Best example would be Hifi Rush.
a certain community aren’t triggered by who own the Octopath IP.
A goddamn shame.
Also very hard to take serious anymore, this show, well, increasingly harder to take serious.
Not a fan of Geoff, nor the show’s format, but i gotta admit he did a great job at creating this, we have to understand this is a show also aimed to the very casual player, it’s watched by like over a hundred million people already? it’s good for the industry.
I would like to see more smaller games, but i understand these only make it when they do something special and different, or have gone viral, etc.
I am sure Baldurs Gate will win GOTY, but i am also sure it wouldn’t have a chance if the game didn’t have the visibility it had. 2017 isn’t that far away, Divinity OS 2 released that year, it was GOTY material, it didn’t even make it to the nominees since it was a kinda niche PC game. That’s how The Game Awards works.
I’d love TGA to be some E3 like conference, only game trailers from MS, Sony and third parties of course, but it wouldn’t be seen by 100 million persons then.
The show shouldn’t be taking serious since they left out Forza Horizon 5 and the not changing list of ongoing games.