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We're only a few days away from knowing The Game Award's nominees! If you could nominate one game, which one would it be?
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I agree. God of War is good but not a game changer or anything. It's a combat heavy game and the combat is just serviceable, from the mechanics themself to the repetitive enemies and terrible boss fights. The dialogue is solid, but the story never really goes anywhere, it's a solid setup for a sequel but that's about it. The puzzles are brain dead and only serve to waste your time. The platforming is automatic. There's also the overabundance of RPG elements. RDR2 had its bright spots, but I had a lot of issues with it. It's issues are well documented so I'll just leave it at that. I don't think 2018 is some powerhouse compared to 2019 at all.
I will put forward days gone. I haven't played many games this year but I bought and platinumed it this past week and in my opinion the criticisms are easy over stated. It is a very pretty game with a nice game play hook and I actually found the horde gameplay was very unique and fun.
Resident Evil 2 and A Plague Tale are still my two top favs this year. A Plague Tale will most likely get completely ignored.
Ace Combat 7 deserves more love. It is a must to be nominated for at least best soundtrack. It's my GOTY.
I don't have the right to choose since I only played few of the great titles this year ,but if I had to choose between the ones I played then Astral chain and dragon quest 11s takes the crown.
Ace Combat 7 or Fire Emblem: Three Houses better win best soundtrack, both are incredible. I'm still mad about RDR2 winning last year. So many better soundtracks last year: God of War, Celeste, Octopath Traveler, Xenoblade 2 (was December 2017 so was open for nominations last year). Something like Smash Bros winning this year will feel like kind of a cop-out IMO because while it's huge and great, It doesn't have nearly as many original compositions as pretty much any other game that would be nominated.
Death Stranding if I had to only choose one, since it's my GotY.
But if I could choose the nominees, they'd be as follows:
There are still a couple of games I need to play through like Control and Disco Elysium, so my list could change.
But if I could choose the nominees, they'd be as follows:
- Death Stranding
- Sayonara Wild Hearts
- Luigi's Mansion 3
- Sekiro
- Resident Evil 2
- Devil May Cry 5
There are still a couple of games I need to play through like Control and Disco Elysium, so my list could change.
Resident Evil 2 is my choice. I didn't even think I'd play it coming into 2019 and I'm still blown away by it.
Devil May Cry 5 is unquestionably the game of the year, 2019. A lot of other wonderful games came out this year, but there's only one DMC5.
Elsinore for me. One of the best adventure games I've played in recent years, shame it seems to have flown under pretty much everyone's radar.
I will legitimately mad if Outer Wilds doesn't get nominated for GOTY. It's the best game I've played since BOTW.
Three Houses since someone else is already going to do Sekiro. I love them both though. I still gotta play astral chain since I bought it I just haven't gotten to play it yet.
Remnant: From The Ashes. It's such a wild game. The coop multiplayer aspect really puts the Souls games to shame when you look at the limitations in those games and the obstacles you have to go through sometimes just to summon people to join your journey or to fight a boss. Remnant shows how fun it can be when you're playing with people right from the get-go.
I can't remember the last time this has happened but this year has been such a nothing year for me. Out of the games I've played I have no real affinity for any of them and don't really have a game of the year. Maybe Death Stranding will be that game but I am still very early.
Tough...
Days Gone was so much fun....if a little long , but even now I want more from the story and characters ...please Bend ...more
But playing Luigi's Mansion 3 now...wow, what a polished amazingly fun game...pure distilled Nintendo , so much love in this game...
Days Gone was so much fun....if a little long , but even now I want more from the story and characters ...please Bend ...more
But playing Luigi's Mansion 3 now...wow, what a polished amazingly fun game...pure distilled Nintendo , so much love in this game...
It'll probably get a nomination already, but Three Houses absolutely deserves to be nominated, at the very least. I doubt it'll win, however.
I doubt Disco Elysium will win either, but having an indie game win TGAs this year would also be incredibly cool, especially after how Celeste got robbed last year.
I doubt Disco Elysium will win either, but having an indie game win TGAs this year would also be incredibly cool, especially after how Celeste got robbed last year.
Came in here to state Disco Elysium. Though I still think I would give an RPG award to Fire Emblem. I was a little underwhelmed by Outer Worlds.
I hope to see Smash Ultimate in the nominations just so there's some precedent for December releases still showing up and not being outright ignored.
I hope to see Smash Ultimate in the nominations just so there's some precedent for December releases still showing up and not being outright ignored.
Control. Hard to say anything else tops it this year.
The rest of the best is also pretty easy IMO, in no particular order:
Death Stranding
Tetris 99
Gears 5
The Outer Worlds
True dat. Last year was somewhat meh, despite all the quality, there wasn't as much variety as this year.
The rest of the best is also pretty easy IMO, in no particular order:
Death Stranding
Tetris 99
Gears 5
The Outer Worlds
True dat. Last year was somewhat meh, despite all the quality, there wasn't as much variety as this year.
I'm torn between Death Stranding and Outer Wilds.
I'm about 30ish hours into Death Stranding and still on Chapter 5, and I love it to pieces so far. But I am going to need to see the rest of the story first to fully decide how I feel about it. I'm really loving the world and strand mechanic, but I feel like the cinematic bombasity is not quite there yet. The opening was incredible, but there are long droughts without any real character interaction. That being said if the second half of the game is denser on the storytelling than I won't mind it a bit.
Outer Wilds was pure perfection to me. It set out with a very specific goal, and really became the best version of it's vision. The story, planet interactions, and attention to detail we're so expertly crafted on what was obviously a tiny production it's just incredible and inspiring imo. Solving the Quantum Moon puzzle for the first time was one of the coolest feeling things I've done in a video game.
I'm about 30ish hours into Death Stranding and still on Chapter 5, and I love it to pieces so far. But I am going to need to see the rest of the story first to fully decide how I feel about it. I'm really loving the world and strand mechanic, but I feel like the cinematic bombasity is not quite there yet. The opening was incredible, but there are long droughts without any real character interaction. That being said if the second half of the game is denser on the storytelling than I won't mind it a bit.
Outer Wilds was pure perfection to me. It set out with a very specific goal, and really became the best version of it's vision. The story, planet interactions, and attention to detail we're so expertly crafted on what was obviously a tiny production it's just incredible and inspiring imo. Solving the Quantum Moon puzzle for the first time was one of the coolest feeling things I've done in a video game.
