The Game Awards 2019 - All Nominees Revealed
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You're right. For some reason I had those two mixed up in my head.
No Luigi's Mansion, A Plague's Tale or Disco Elysium for GOTY, spare me. Everyone whining about Death Stranding but The Outer Worlds winning GOTY would be an embarrassment. What a bland year.
How did A Plague's Tale not even get nominated for best music or art direction?
How did A Plague's Tale not even get nominated for best music or art direction?
The best performance award? It's a game filled with top actors and great performances, what do you want? It's not unusual at the oscars for the same movie to have different actors nominated for the same category. If it helps I think Troy Baker should have been nominated as well. Regarding that category, I really didn't like Faden from Control, even if I enjoyed the game. That performance had zero emotional investment.
This.. but I still have hope for FF XIV to win it.. Shadowbringers expansion is the best RPG story I've played in decades. The OST and the battles are also insanely good.
The OST in Shadowbringers is perfection.. I don't know how it wasn't nominated on best OST
Horror is never popular with critics in any medium.
Here's a list of actresses robbed of an Oscar because they were in horror film:
Betty Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Veronica Cartwright in Alien deserved a nomination
Ellen Burstyn lost two times for The Exorcist and Requiem For a Dream
Toni Colette in Hereditary was not even nominated which is a tragedy
And finally we have Shelly Duvall in The Shining. She gave an excellent performance which got her a Razzi award nomination... Her performance is acclaimed now but at that time she was panned which shows how critics can't critique horror films.
Horror games need to be scary, and not everyone can be scared the same way. Some like the dread of horror games, others enjoy the jumpscares, some prefer the fear of the unknown etc...
If the game doesn't scare a critic it then it already lost the acclaim, what it has left is to be fun or have an interesting theme and plot to save it.
If a publication gave it 10/10 thats only that particular reviewer. A publication could have give DS a 10 and RE2 a 9 and still pick RE2 as their Goty.
PS4 version came out in November of 2018. I could honestly care less, though. It's a fun game and all. But just seems odd that 2018 games are on the list.
Out of the nominees I've only played Smash and Resident Evil 2. Sad that Fire Emblem didn't make the cut but I understand it.
It will still be GOTY in my heart at least.
It will still be GOTY in my heart at least.
Geoff said that games can be elegible whenever, judges just have to vote for them.
I'm totally onboard with Mads' nomination (even if I thought he was a bit underutilized). Also really enjoyed Troy Baker as well. But Reedus was a non entity in that game, very bland. I'm gonna chalk that up to the material he was given, but he don't hang with the rest of the nominations for me.
Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium and Plague Tale deserve goty nods as well. Sekiro is my pick, though all 6 nominations are good to great games.
The gameplay of Metro Exodus was absolutely dreadful imho. I played on a Pro at launch and it honestly felt broken. Shooting was stilted and it controlled like shit. Graphics were incredible though. I'm amazed it has been nominated.
Downplay what? People are trying to compare DS to MGS, a game with the byline "Stealth Action". Two elements that were literally the entire gameplay focus of the series. You NEED to engage in either one to complete a mission. That's not rhe case with DS. You can avoid BT areas and trek through MULE areas or vice versa. You can even avoid both and trek through the longer, harsher, steeper environment. And its about what you plan to bring along with you in each of those treks. Just going to wing it? Well you're either going to be caught on a mountain you can't climb, a cliff you can't get down, a MULE camp you can't just run past or a BT area you can't avoid. If you're unprepared all of these obstacles can damage or outright ruin your packages. I'm honestly surprised when I read people trying to down play these, especially later on the enemies and amount in deliveries scale with you abilities and I've honestly found myself in a number of unquie situations due to being unprepared. The game's not Souls level hard or anything like that, but the systems definitely lend themselves to some cool encounters. I also think a lot of the people not getting the most out of them are the people to engaging in the multiplayer aspect which honestly plays a massive part.
I think games like Spider-Man or Uncharted have pretty servicable but shallow stealth. Like a I said DS isn't MGS level but it's still good and it fits the world well. They're disembodied floating ghosts, not highly trained KBG operatives. I also agree that the boss fights aren't the best Kojima has designed, nothing he's done since MGS3 has, but I think the designs are pretty cool especially with how they alter that environment and they make a really nice change of pace in my opinion.
Not sure what difficulty you played on, I played on hard (I assume you did as well) but I definitely noticed that with a lighter load BT could be shaken off easily but if I was carrying a tonne it was near impossible. Not to mention vehicles are basically a certainty to get caught by BTs. So weight without question played a noticeable impact in the encounters I experienced.
Again the stealth isn't MGS level but I feel you're seriously downplaying the level of engagement in it. You actively have to pay attention to the sensor and move around BTs if you want to avoid them, often times leading you down longer paths that are going to expose you to timefall for longer and ruin you packages. Other times you're down a blind ally and are going to run into them so it's either sprint away or engage them.
Auto-organzing is fine. I can honestly see the mass amount of people that would have been insanely pissed off had the game forced you to individually orientate and stack each package. People are already pissed off because you need to press L2 and R2 to balance yourself. Auto organzing is a welcome quality of life addition.
Also don't agree with Skyrim climbing with a mass amount of packages. On multiple occasions I've overstretched and fallen. Not to mention weighing up the various skeletons and the trade off and benefits each have.
In terms if ziplines and the rest, I actually think the game does a good job of initially introducing difficulty for the player that they manually need to overcome and then rewarding them tools to make them easier after. Ian from Easy Allies actually complained about the difficulty in that regard. Said the game gave you a bunch of cool stuff to over come obstacles but then immediately put 2 new obstacles in the way that made it harder and negated the cool tools you just got. So not everyone sees it the same way.
Going off on tangent here anyway. My point was that yeah the stealth and combat are not the deepest of the games systems, they aren't really supposed to be anyway. But nearly every other systems is pretty dense in all honesty.
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I know Death Stranding is going to win because TGA lacks the balls to give it to the real winner that is Resident evil 2 imo.
It's a fun, well made game, but no. Even in a tepid year like this.
But to each their own of course.
I guess that makes even less sense to me, but whatever. As far as mobile games go, would be nice to have more games on there that are exclusively mobile. I love me some Sayonara Wild Hearts, but I would never really consider that a mobile title.
Kudos to them for not having NBA 2K in the best sports game nominations.
But this is the first time in a while where looking at those GOTY choices where nothing really jumped out at me.
But this is the first time in a while where looking at those GOTY choices where nothing really jumped out at me.
Glad to see The Outer Worlds in the GOTY nominees where it deserves. Also, it's no surprise that Disco Elysium fanboys on every forum are butthurt about that.
Guys, we're like a thousand pages into this thread at this point.
There's no need to keep posting stupid things.
It's pretty good. By far the best in the series. I don't know if I'd necessarily call it amazing or anything but it's a lot of fun
Honestly, might be a hot take but I believe while Tommy showed incredible talent the scene to me was a bit too much. It reminded me how originally Troy grieving his daughter in TLOU was much more gut wrenching and Neil Druckmann asked him to redo the scene because it thought it was too much and in the end it ended being much more subtle and realistic imo.
For instance Mads has a more emotional and subtle scene imo.
I think the Tommie Earl Jenkins scene is amazing, but Mads had a lot more to work with.
There was one scene on the later chapters that was incredible to me.
Mads had a scene that got me emotional in a game whose story I didn't particularly like or care for. So I gotta give the award to him.
Yes but probably that one guy was the only one playing the game.
