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FireballDragon
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 Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:28 am
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As it should've.
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El Hermano
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:12 am
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Considering The Game Awards are all about marketing, I expected it to win at least 1 category after the Sephiroth announcement.
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Greed1914
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:01 am
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| El Hermano wrote: | | Considering The Game Awards are all about marketing, I expected it to win at least 1 category after the Sephiroth announcement. |
That's something I was thinking about with this year's show in particular. I know they need the money and announcements/ads are a way to get eyes on the event, but the Game Awards seems to be trying to establish itself as the Oscars of Games and you don't see ads for upcoming movies baked into the Academy Awards program since the focus is supposed to be on the nominees. I don't know, it feels sort of like there is the conflict in purpose when it's positioned as trying to recognize accomplishments from the prior year, but it's having to rely on companies touting their next thing to get attention. That seemed even more apparent this time when you have examples like the company that bought up what was left of Tell Tale saying not to expect anything from them (presumably because Tell Tale announced Batman at the show years ago) or one of the last "world premiers" as Geoff Keighly put it being a CGI trailer to acknowledge that Bioware is working on something new with Mass Effect, which we already knew. (Seriously, "Mass Effect continues" merits its own trailer? Seems rather presumptuous that mere existence is meant to be exciting, especially when this was already known.)
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ZelosZoidberg
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:56 am
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Should probably just rename it the Playstation Awards Show because besides the Family and Strategy categories no PC, Nintendo or Xbox titles can win.
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AmpersandsUnited
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:56 am
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| ZellosZoidberg wrote: | | Should probably just rename it the Playstation Awards Show because besides the Family and Strategy categories no PC, Nintendo or Xbox titles can win |
I think that's just the nature of critic awards. They tend to value story and narrative over gameplay and fun, and most PlayStation first party titles tend to be all about those cinematic experience. Given their inclusion of Hollywood celebrities presenting awards, it does seem they want to be taken seriously and treated like the Oscars. I guess focusing on gory shooters like Doom or sandbox games like Animal Crossing can't accomplish that sort of professional image as a serious artistic medium if they win Game of the Year.
FF7R was definitely my favorite game that came out this year though, although in terms of competing with other RPGs it didn't exactly have much competition... The Game Awards put it up against a gacha game, a port of a 2016 game, a Yakuza spin off, and an isometric indie game. It was the only real high profile title there.
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bleachj0j
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:42 pm
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| AmpersandsUnited wrote: | | [quote="ZellosZoidberg"
FF7R was definitely my favorite game that came out this year though, although in terms of competing with other RPGs it didn't exactly have much competition... The Game Awards put it up against a gacha game, a port of a 2016 game, a Yakuza spin off, and an isometric indie game. It was the only real high profile title there. |
Like a Dragon wasn't a spinoff. It's literally Yakuza 7 in Japan. While despite being a re-release of 5, Royal was still one of the best reviewed games on the platform. GEnshin Impact was one of the more popular games this year. I wouldn't say that is exactly easy competition.
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ThatMoonGuy
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:44 pm
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As someone who really liked TLOU2, it's victory as GOTY rubs me the wrong way. I don't think it won for being a good game, per se. Gameplay wise, it brings nothing new over the last game or other action games. I feel like it's push towards making games more like interactive movies is not something I look forward to.
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TexZero
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:00 pm
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| AmpersandsUnited wrote: |
| ZellosZoidberg wrote: | | Should probably just rename it the Playstation Awards Show because besides the Family and Strategy categories no PC, Nintendo or Xbox titles can win |
I think that's just the nature of critic awards. They tend to value story and narrative over gameplay and fun, and most PlayStation first party titles tend to be all about those cinematic experience. |
There's some cosmic level irony here when TLOU:2 wins in nearly every catagory it was nominated in and people still want to claim that story and narrative matter. If that was actually the case they wouldn't have won anything since that games narrative was a bigger trainwreck than GoT final season.
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Florete
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:22 pm
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| ZelosZoidberg wrote: | | Should probably just rename it the Playstation Awards Show because besides the Family and Strategy categories no PC, Nintendo or Xbox titles can win. |
Non-PlayStation games win plenty of categories. Breath of the Wild won game of the year in 2017. Fire Emblem: Three Houses won more categories than it was nominated for last year, taking 3 awards home. Your statement just isn't true.
| TexZero wrote: | | There's some cosmic level irony here when TLOU:2 wins in nearly every catagory it was nominated in and people still want to claim that story and narrative matter. If that was actually the case they wouldn't have won anything since that games narrative was a bigger trainwreck than GoT final season. |
TLoU2's story is good. It's just not what the average gamer expected or wanted. 90% of the criticism of it comes from that, not from actual issues with the narrative.
People criticize game developers all the damn time for playing it safe and never taking risks, Naughty Dog goes and takes a big risk with TLoU2 and the reaction proves to all of us why no one wants to. I suspect history will be kinder to TLoU2 than the present.
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