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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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Yea I don't get why only Animal Crossing gets that distinction.
It's a popularity contest. Alyx would have a chance if vr stuff wasn't so expensive. The other 3 are just niche, no matter how good they are.
It might help if you read the nomination properly. It is not "best streamer."
This feels needlessly toxic. What is your issue?
Yep. Albeit those are the two games I played that are nominated for GOTY but I'm rooting for them. i am expecting a TLOU2 win though.
Aside from that, gaming has been a form of escapism many many many years prior to the pandemic.
Laura was fine, but Ashley deserves it 100%. One of best performance from a video game I have seen.
Sadly you're right, but it shouldn't be. The Academy awards do a good job of nominating and promoting lesser known films instead of just going with the most popular. I wish the game industry was more mature.
It's more that the interconnective nature of the game helped people who were experiencing social isolation during COVID. People held birthday parties, holiday gatherings, and other events in game with family and friends during a time when they couldn't (and still can't) have them in person. And for people with a lot of time and no structure due to stay at home orders, the daily tasks helped people bring some routine back into their lives. So while other games like TLOUII or Hades certainly provided escapism in the same way any game might, I do think ACNH should get some credit for just how much of a great game it is for the moment we are in.
FF7 Remake for me, that game was everything I wanted it to be.
ACNH Dropped off so hard for my friends and I, I haven't touched it since April.
Ghosts of Tsushima felt like the Arkham games with their stale combat.
DOOM Eternal was an OK platformer, and not a great game
The Last of Us 2 was meh, I dunno, it didn't do it for me.
Hades is a contender for sure, it's fantastic.
ACNH Dropped off so hard for my friends and I, I haven't touched it since April.
Ghosts of Tsushima felt like the Arkham games with their stale combat.
DOOM Eternal was an OK platformer, and not a great game
The Last of Us 2 was meh, I dunno, it didn't do it for me.
Hades is a contender for sure, it's fantastic.
I absolutely love her. But ehhhhhh.. I just don't feel her being nominated in the list at all. Just not feeling it overall. Also, content creator is basically streamers. These nominations are all streamers too (not sure about Jay). Overall, I think Valkyrie deserves this due to her blowing up with insane amount of views for the past few months.
Just scrolling through the thread there's actually quite a few games that should be nominated but simply aren't because they aren't typically thought of as GOTY material. It's kind of sad in a way, Half Life Alyx, Ori 2, Yakuza LAD, Tony Hawk 1+2, Fall Guys, Among Us, 13 Sentinels and so many more are certainly going to top a lot of people's GOTY lists so to see them omitted so easily just feels...wrong? Not to say the ones nominated aren't deserving I just think this year was exceptionally good inside and outside of the AAA space.
No Alyx there is sad. Geoff Keighley you better get GabeN to go on stage and announce something when he accepts the VR award
We did the same thing with Zoom calls for birthday hangouts, playing games like Jackbox, hosting digital trivia, etc.
Oh my God, the Best Fighting Game category is just hilarious. They should just give it to Smash again.
But why?
You had a very strong negative reaction to her nomination. Why?
They promote 'lesser known films' when the studios behind them fund enormous 'For Your Consideration' ad campaigns. If a TGA GOTY started carrying the same weight as a Best Picture Oscar (ie, an entire corner of the industry is pathologically obsessed with winning one) - you'd start seeing the same effects.
With Sekiro winning last year I hold a glimmer of hope for Hades and Doom Eternal, but I fear the cinematic blockbusters will bag this easily.
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I'm not sure it'd get nominated anyways. It's a remake. The gameplay is basically unchanged. Not sure slapping better graphics (and worse art) on an old game gets you nominated in many categories.
To be the fair, the oscars does much better with nominees most of the times then TGA.
but it's also easier to consume film then A video game. So it's not always compareable
I think Laura did a bit more than fine but yes, what Ashley did was Oscar worthy.
No, according to the devs their team peaked at 30 during development, though that has probably changed since the game blew up
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I have a very strong negative reaction to everything brah. That's how I react in forums and social media hahahaha.
Judging from last year, there won't be an on-stage moment for VR (timestamped for 2:40:10).
If FF7R was a new game, it would win the best score for me. But it is in a weird position (in my mind) simply because some of my favorite songs from the original were worse is FF7R.
Perhaps if you only take the plot outline in written form. (But wouldn't agree here either.)
But for me the important part is how the narrative is presented a game. In 13 Sentinels, the story is presented as a mindbending multi-protagonist layered flowchart with no set order. One of the most innovative presentations I've seen.
TLOUII is usual, stale Naughty Dog schlock. I don't really blame Naughty Dog that they don't have the flexibility to try something new to the scale that a smaller studio like Vanillaware could.
I agree with the second point, though.