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The Game Awards 2020 GOTY Nominees revealed (Animal Crossing, Doom Eternal, FF7 Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us Part II)
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It released outside of the 2019 deadline for game awards.
I guess Noone does really care...
IMHO:
Best Performance
Ashley Johnson, The Last of Us Part II
Best Multiplayer:
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Best Ongoing Game:
Fortnite
Best Art Direction
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Best Score/Music:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Best Narrative:
The Last of Us Part II
Best Game Direction
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Game of the Year
The Last of Us Part II
Best Performance
Ashley Johnson, The Last of Us Part II
Best Multiplayer:
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Best Ongoing Game:
Fortnite
Best Art Direction
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Best Score/Music:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Best Narrative:
The Last of Us Part II
Best Game Direction
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Game of the Year
The Last of Us Part II
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And what's wrong with Alanah? She was on a huge upswing this year and totally deserves the recognition.
Nah it did a pretty good job, most fans loved him in the remake too
So why is Demon's Souls totally absent, but AC Valhalla is nominated for action adventure? I don't quite understand what the eligibility criteria is
Because it wasn't a snub.
The majority of people likely recognize that all of the games nominated are better than Pokemon.
I feel like it's gotta be Animal Crossing if only because it's the covid zeitgeist, tho I dunno maybe that's more a "most impactful game of the year," but "game of the year" is inherently a nebulous title. Does it mean "best"? Or is it more like Time Magazine's person of the year? If we're just talkin IMPACT it's gotta be AC, right?
Every game released this year helped people doing quarantines, this narrative that only AC did is annoying.
If there's one game in 2020 people will remember in a decade, it's Animal Crossing New Horizons. Would be a great disservice for it not to win.
Demon's Souls didn't send out early review code, so critics just started playing it last week on release day. Nominations probably closed at the end of last week. So Demon's Souls was technically eligible, but nobody had actually played enough of it to give it votes in serious numbers. Comparatively, critics have been hands on with Valhalla for a few weeks.
I know Xenoblade Chronicles DE is "just" a remaster but it's so good it deserved more recognition. It's my personal GOTY.
Not a single entry for Bluepoint?
Wtf is this?
May I have a word with Geoff and the group of voters?
Wtf is this?
May I have a word with Geoff and the group of voters?
So long as they don't give it to NickMercs, they can do whatever they want.
Ori is one of the best games I've ever played. Alas, I knew it would be snubbed.
Hades deserves to win. I would love nothing more than to see Supergiant recognized in an official context.
Hades deserves to win. I would love nothing more than to see Supergiant recognized in an official context.
Plot was crazy in Death Stranding. Funny, but crazy. Kojima style. But overall, Death Stranding was incredible. GOTY 2019.
Doom Eternal being nominated is an honor and to those PLEBS AND HEATHENS being up in arms about it can suck eggs.
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TLOU2 and Doom Eternal (alongside 13 Sentinels) are the best games i played this year and I hope TLOU takes it because Doom certainly has no chance
While it's great for the game, selfishly I would have preferred if 13 Sentinels didn't get a nomination. Then I could've tuned this cacaphony out entirely, as usual.
But now there will be a constant debate of the narrative between the groundbreaking 13 Sentinels and the newest, tired Naughty Dog iteration, which I doubt I can refrain from. (Seems I've already started.)
But now there will be a constant debate of the narrative between the groundbreaking 13 Sentinels and the newest, tired Naughty Dog iteration, which I doubt I can refrain from. (Seems I've already started.)
Animal Crossing was the most important game of the year. Last of Us was the single player critical darling. Hades the indie hit of the year.... hmm this could really go any way.
Valhalla sent out early codes, Demon's sent nothing, codes arrived the day before release and it was probably too late. (I mean it was last week)
I think ignoring the ways that AC, a game structurally designed around community, assisted people who were suddenly cut off from their own communities - is also annoying.
ACNH has some enormous flaws, but it's the only game on this list that I think absolutely NEEDS to be here. It's the definitive gaming experience of the year - if not the past decade - for countless people.
Hades and Ghosts were my favorites, but they are gonna get the last and second to last votes respectively. TLOU, D:E, and AC were worse games than their predecessors, and FFVII was a sloooooooog.
I'd 100% consider last of us the stronger narrative personally.
The real travesty is that 13 sentinels didn't get a nom for art direction. It's such a gorgeous game that it weirds me out it's not there.
My twitter feed was full of people who got into gaming for the first time, or for the first time since they were kids, because of AC. That's a very different phenomenon from someone who dutifully put their 30 hours into TLOU2, just like they do every other similar title.
