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Most "robbed" game
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Yeah, I'll be curious to see where Returnal finishes here.
In terms of bigger games that did well but still got ignored during GOTY stuff this year: Guilty Gear Strive
in terms of most robbed I'd say Fuga Melodies of Steel.
I think HL:Alyx is great and the best VR game but the VR requirement is such a heavy up front commitment it's hard to fault people really.
in terms of most robbed I'd say Fuga Melodies of Steel.
I think HL:Alyx is great and the best VR game but the VR requirement is such a heavy up front commitment it's hard to fault people really.
Half-Life: Alyx, Lone Echo, Astro Bot, and Microsoft Flight Simulator were absolutely the most robbed of last generation.
- Alyx got a lot of attention overall but not the awards it deserved and some categories like audio design where it was the undisputed winner.
- Both Lone Echo and Astro Bot were among the most obscure games of 2017 and 2018, but they redefined game genres.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator was a game unmatched in scale and really made a case for cloud compute.
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Half-Life: Alyx. A new Half-Life was overlooked because it's a PCVR game. Best VR game undersells how good it is. More like best game.
Outer Wilds. Thankfully word has spread telling how incredible this game is. If you're reading this and haven't played it, it's on Game Pass again.
Outer Wilds. Thankfully word has spread telling how incredible this game is. If you're reading this and haven't played it, it's on Game Pass again.
Doom eternal deserved more praise instead of "wow this game is harder than 2016 therefore it is worse".
I wouldn't necessarily say it was "robbed", but Resident Evil 6 is a lot more fun that its reputation gives it credit for. Yeah it wasn't a great survival horror title, and it had some bad decisions, but all in all it's quite a fun action shooter with some really fun scenes.
Uncharted 4 imho. I know it is the overall goty, but losing at VGAs against Overwatch was kinda strange to me. Just an opinion.
Bloodborne wasn't robbed lol won a lot of GOTYs, The Witcher 3 deserved all the praise, the upset is Fallout 4 winning more GOTYs
What Remains of Edith Finch won just 1 goty, probably the biggest (BAFTA), but still deserves more
Return of the Obra Dinn should have won TGA's Indie GOTY, much better than Celeste
The Last of Us should have won VGA'S 2013 GOTY, they gave studio for Naughty Dog but GOTY for GTA V lol
Hollow Knight has ZERO GOTYs
What Remains of Edith Finch won just 1 goty, probably the biggest (BAFTA), but still deserves more
Return of the Obra Dinn should have won TGA's Indie GOTY, much better than Celeste
The Last of Us should have won VGA'S 2013 GOTY, they gave studio for Naughty Dog but GOTY for GTA V lol
Hollow Knight has ZERO GOTYs
If this is correct, Hollow Knight is my pick too.
Preach
seemed popular/decent selling at the time but the influx of mid-2010 Metroidvania type indie games dampened its memory
(to my point, i kind of forgot it existed myself. i'll re-install it when i get a chance)
2020: Will of the Wisps.
2020 pt.2:Fightin Herds not being mentioned, while One Punch Man and Jump Force do.
2020 pt.3: Ace Combat 7 not mentioned for Soundtrack.
2021: Chicory A Colorful Tale. one of the best received games, 12 minutes gets nominated instead lol.
2020 pt.2:Fightin Herds not being mentioned, while One Punch Man and Jump Force do.
2020 pt.3: Ace Combat 7 not mentioned for Soundtrack.
2021: Chicory A Colorful Tale. one of the best received games, 12 minutes gets nominated instead lol.
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The Witcher 3 was like a cultural storm, sold twice as much as Bloodborne, and just had far more awards and nods for it because it was, shocker, a good game.
Bloodborne wasn't robbed.
Bloodborne wasn't robbed.
I don't think Returnal's been robbed either. It's a really cool game but it's super punishing and very much not for everyone, but it has won some awards here and there. There's been a lot of great games this year that are very deserving.
Yeah, all of the talk was performative they were never going to give it a chance.
Not sure what the premise of this thread is. Are we talking overlooked or didn't recieve any/as many GotY awards as X other game?
Anyway, my offering for this confusing thread is Death Stranding. AAA quality from start to finish with some of the most satisfying moment to moment gameplay and a genuinely unique take on an apocalytpic future.
Anyway, my offering for this confusing thread is Death Stranding. AAA quality from start to finish with some of the most satisfying moment to moment gameplay and a genuinely unique take on an apocalytpic future.
Wolfenstein The New Order, you know, the best game of 2014.
Prey is another good choice. Possibly gotg and it got nothing.
Wasteland 3 should've gotten a lot more recognition than it did.
Max Payne 3 came out in a tough year, can't complain too much about Journey and Dishonored sweeping thu.
Prey is another good choice. Possibly gotg and it got nothing.
Wasteland 3 should've gotten a lot more recognition than it did.
Max Payne 3 came out in a tough year, can't complain too much about Journey and Dishonored sweeping thu.
I'm sorry to say but at this point I just enjoy your bitter posts about this.
Has Splatoon 1 or 2 won anything?
I'm using this as a reference to kinda quickly flip through: https://www.gameawards.net/
Quite a few things in 2014 got completely robbed: Shovel Knight, Bayonetta 2, Dark Souls 2, Child of Light, Wolfenstein New Order.
2016: Dark Souls 3 (surprised me to see), XCom 2, Dishonored 2, and Titanfall 2 got heavily robbed
A TON of shit in 2017. Hollow Knight and Nioh are the biggest ones though.
Monster Hunter World got surprisingly robbed in 2018, if that tracker is right. Only 6?! That's nuts. Same with DQ11 with a big fat goose egg of a 0. And on the indie side, Into the Breach.
For 2019, it's DMC5. Hands down.
Doom Eternal absolutely got robbed in 2020. I'd argue Demon's Souls remake too, but that's more about being a "remake" than anything I assume. And then there's Nioh 2.
Quite a few things in 2014 got completely robbed: Shovel Knight, Bayonetta 2, Dark Souls 2, Child of Light, Wolfenstein New Order.
2016: Dark Souls 3 (surprised me to see), XCom 2, Dishonored 2, and Titanfall 2 got heavily robbed
A TON of shit in 2017. Hollow Knight and Nioh are the biggest ones though.
Monster Hunter World got surprisingly robbed in 2018, if that tracker is right. Only 6?! That's nuts. Same with DQ11 with a big fat goose egg of a 0. And on the indie side, Into the Breach.
For 2019, it's DMC5. Hands down.
Doom Eternal absolutely got robbed in 2020. I'd argue Demon's Souls remake too, but that's more about being a "remake" than anything I assume. And then there's Nioh 2.
FFXIV. Soken.
They wont truly recognize and praise this man until hes gone and i absolutely think he gets robbed annually.
They wont truly recognize and praise this man until hes gone and i absolutely think he gets robbed annually.
I read game news almost every day, but I still missed it (until I saw your comment). Maybe there's too much game news this year. BTW, the music is really cool
I really like BB but it didn't get robbed nor is Returnal. They are/were getting out voted for the top spot by a landslide which indicates the bulk of voters agree that other games are/were better.
I don't understand, just because a game you like isn't winning doesn't mean it was robbed. That's like me saying the Xbox One was robbed of being the market leader when more people overwhelmingly voted with their wallets for the PS4.
I don't understand, just because a game you like isn't winning doesn't mean it was robbed. That's like me saying the Xbox One was robbed of being the market leader when more people overwhelmingly voted with their wallets for the PS4.
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Feel like Sea of Thieves doesn't get the attention it deserves as "Best Ongoing Game". It should at least be getting nominated.
I will forever be salty that Tropical Freeze got basically no nods at the end of 2014. It was a famously weak year, tons of people kind of just defaulted to Dragon Age: Inquisition despite seemingly not having any strong passion for it, and Tropical Freeze is in the discussion for the best platformer ever made. It kind of blows my mind that Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World are still often discussed as some of the best games ever made but, at least according to what I've seen (https://www.gameawards.net/2020/09/2014.html), Donkey Kong didn't get a single GOTY nod from anyone the year it released.
I think part of that is the self-serious view a lot of games journalists seemed to have in the year after The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, GTA 5, and Gone Home (and just two years after The Walking Dead won a ton of GOTYs), like a simple platformer was below them if it didn't have complex characters. Part of it may be because a lot of people had already moved on from the Wii U at that point. But Retro deserves more credit for how good their Donkey Kong Country games are.
There's probably like 5+ other 2014 games I'd put over Dragon Age: Inquisition too. That games just does nothing for me.
I think part of that is the self-serious view a lot of games journalists seemed to have in the year after The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, GTA 5, and Gone Home (and just two years after The Walking Dead won a ton of GOTYs), like a simple platformer was below them if it didn't have complex characters. Part of it may be because a lot of people had already moved on from the Wii U at that point. But Retro deserves more credit for how good their Donkey Kong Country games are.
There's probably like 5+ other 2014 games I'd put over Dragon Age: Inquisition too. That games just does nothing for me.
If the Keighlies simply did a find/replace with Cyberpunk 2077 and NEO: The World Ends With You I would've actually given a tenth of a fuck about them.
Prey got super overlooked, even though i think it's really appreciated now. But yeah, got released in a stacked year with Breath of the wild and Horizon ZD. Also I can't remember if the demo or initial relrase had a couple of problems that put people off.
But it's a bloody brilliant game that was robbed of the sales figures and love it deserved. I've been robbed of a sequel as a result! (probably}
But it's a bloody brilliant game that was robbed of the sales figures and love it deserved. I've been robbed of a sequel as a result! (probably}
Hmmm I think it got plenty of recognition. Games like Hollow Knight, Yakuza 0 and Prey were also 2017 and took some time to be truly appreciated (and I rate all of them above Horizon in any case).
Mario Kart 8 was snubbed in 2014 for being on the wrong platform.
The point is that Witcher 3 was a critical and commercial mainstream success that connected with a lot of people and was more than deserving of the general media GOTY in 2015.
The whole premise of this thread is games that got robbed in GOTY outlet wins. Some games are masterful but are simply not for everyone and media votes often times reflect that.
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