skillzdadirecta Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I love Arthur so far... he has the same accent and speech cadence as my Grandfather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Celeste was too hard for my filthy casual hands. The self-hatred that game cultivated inside me was wonderfully exorcised during the story moments. I love-hate that game but certainly think it is great. Unrelated to Celeste, I also don't think that 1/5th of a game should be eligible for awards, regardless of how much I personally enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Way too much Detroit on that list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: Way too much Detroit on that list. It was a great(bad) movie to watch on youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 6 minutes ago, Bacon said: It was a great(bad) movie to watch on youtube. I watched Max play it. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Celeste was alright but I think GOTY is absurd for it, frankly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 1 hour ago, LazyPiranha said: I'm sorry, but the robot metaphor cannot and should not be used as an allegory for race, or any other marginalized group. "Are robots people" is an actual discussion that will eventually need to happen as tech advances and AI becomes more powerful. At what point have we stopped emulating a thinking being, and at what point have we created one is actually a debate. "Are these people actually people" is not a debate. At all. To even begin to conflate the two is both stupid and profoundly misguided. If we do things right, robots will be highly intelligent entities that are not people and not something for which "oppression" is a possibility. Scifi often seems to think that the goal of AI is to make people. It's not. We can do that already. (For clarity, I'm differentiating robots, purely artificial agents, from humans who have "upgraded" themselves into silicon should that ever happen.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 11 minutes ago, Paperclyp said: Celeste was alright but I think GOTY is absurd for it, frankly. Celeste was fan-fuckin'-tastic. Sublime gameplay. On the other hand, some overproduced bullshit like RDR2 is the direction I absolutely don't want games headed in. Unfun, sluggish gameplay where there's literally 11-12 dead frames from the second you slam your stick in any direction and literally ANYTHING happening on-screen. Pretty and Hollywood-y and not much else, aside from typical open-world jankery that's slightly more funny because of how good the game is visually. They somehow made their newest game significantly less responsive than their last, and boy howdy the shit people will eat because it looks purdy or because of some schmaltzy-ass Rockstar story stolen straight from Hollywood. I was leaning on RDR2 being a "good" game for a while, but the more I play it, the more I think it's just legitimately terrible. The art and production values don't just do all the heavy lifting, they do all the lifting, period. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Obra Dinn should win art direction, nothing else succeeds on that level in the same way, technical achievements in simulating reality should be separate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Bacon said: Oh fuck Battle of the boys @Kal-El814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man_of_X Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 2 hours ago, Xbob42 said: Obra Dinn only nominated for art direction and "best indie game"? Man, the story in that game has hooked me more than any of the top-tier schlock we've had this year. Fucking Detroit? It's okay that you like shitty garbage, but don't try to convince us it's chocolate. And it's ok that you're an idiot. I made no comment about it winning some award or another, but sorry, it's not garbage. Fact. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 5 minutes ago, Man_of_X said: I made no comment about it winning some award or another, but sorry, it's not garbage. Fact. It's the hottest of trash. It would be a bad movie, which is unfortunate, because it doesn't qualify as a video game. What is it? It's David Cage taking a hot shit right on your face. Pissing all over your intelligence, and insulting the very concept of writing and subtlety. Man, I gotta host my own alternative version of the Game Awards, I'll be the video game version of Alex Jones! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkness35 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Interesting, no music rhythm game section? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Moa said: Celeste was too hard for my filthy casual hands. The self-hatred that game cultivated inside me was wonderfully exorcised during the story moments. I love-hate that game but certainly think it is great. Unrelated to Celeste, I also don't think that 1/5th of a game should be eligible for awards, regardless of how much I personally enjoyed it. I stopped at the end of the ghost level early on. Enjoyed it and plan on returning to it, but I know it'll drive the competitionist in me nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Submitted all my votes. I went with Spider-Man for GOTY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Voted. Until I got to all the esports and YouTube categories at the end. Then I just wanted to throw my computer out the window reading those categories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 If RDR2 wins GOTY it is only cuz it is newer. I hope GOW wins it despite it faults cuz I liked it a lot. That said, I did end up voting for Arty's VA for best VA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 3 hours ago, Mercury33 said: Voted. Until I got to all the esports and YouTube categories at the end. Then I just wanted to throw my computer out the window reading those categories. Don't worry. League of Legends wins like every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Voting Redeye because he's awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 No MOONMOON, Tyler1, or Asmongold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I'll admit I had no idea what Celeste was when people started talking about it but I suspected... looked it up and I was right. A 2-D pixel art side-scroller like the dozens of games I played as a kid that i have next to NO desire to play as an adult. See when I was kid playing these types of games, I always wished and imagined that they looked and played like the modern games I'm playing now... You know, the GOW's and the Spidermans and YES the Red Dead Redemption 2's. And if Red Dead Redemption is "Oscar bait" then Celeste seems to be the video game equivalent of the kind of indie film that regular folks never see but all of the critics and film elites SWEAR is the best thing since Citizen Kane ... Gamers are so full of shit By the way, I never played Celeste and I'm sure it's good for what it is... 12 year old me probably would have played the shit out of it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I mean, I don't think it was my goty, but Shovel Knight was better than the majority of AAA game in 2014 and would have no issues with it winning GOTY awards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I don't know if I'd Celeste put on a GOTY nomination list, but it's not because of the aesthetic. Still is a damn good game from what I played. I'd have to finish it to know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Just now, Bacon said: I mean, I don't think it was my goty, but Shovel Knight was better than the majority of AAA game in 2014 and would have no issues with it winning GOTY awards. I'm sure it was cool and a great game, same with Celeste... I have no issues with folks liking those games. It's the psuedo-elitist, indie bullshit attitude that I'm pointing out. Reminds me of those folks that only like indie bands and underground rappers and ridicule anything "mainstream". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Crusader Kings II is GOTY with the Furry DLC and that doesn't look like a 2-D sidescroller or a game you're playing now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 12 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: I'm sure it was cool and a great game, same with Celeste... I have no issues with folks liking those games. It's the psuedo-elitist, indie bullshit attitude that I'm pointing out. Reminds me of those folks that only like indie bands and underground rappers and ridicule anything "mainstream". There's many more psuedo-elistist, indie bullshit games that would better fit that description. Celeste doesn't really come across that way to me. It's pretty far removed from stuff like Braid and the Swapper. Which are fantastic games in their own right, but also kind of full of themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Just now, crispy4000 said: There's many more psuedo-elistist, indie bullshit games that would better fit that description. Celeste doesn't really come across that way to me. It's pretty far removed from stuff like Braid and Swapper. Which are fantastic games in their own right, but also kind of full of themselves. Again, I'm more singling out the attitude and not the game itself. Also I'm salty that I no longer have the patience to see a game like this through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 20 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Again, I'm more singling out the attitude and not the game itself. Also I'm salty that I no longer have the patience to see a game like this through If you played it, you might find the difficulty more off-putting than the graphics. It's quite literally Dangling Carrots: The Game. The puzzles and execution challenges surrounding them are superb though. It's one of the best designed platformers I can think of. I'm glad I still can enjoy games like it. Pixel art doesn't draw me to a game typically, but if I hear enough good things, I'm usually not disappointed. There's a few exceptions: FEZ and La Mulana didn't gel with me at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Shocking that Forza Horizon 4 is not in the running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I hadn't thought about it but Forza may be my GOTY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: I'll admit I had no idea what Celeste was when people started talking about it but I suspected... looked it up and I was right. A 2-D pixel art side-scroller like the dozens of games I played as a kid that i have next to NO desire to play as an adult. See when I was kid playing these types of games, I always wished and imagined that they looked and played like the modern games I'm playing now... You know, the GOW's and the Spidermans and YES the Red Dead Redemption 2's. And if Red Dead Redemption is "Oscar bait" then Celeste seems to be the video game equivalent of the kind of indie film that regular folks never see but all of the critics and film elites SWEAR is the best thing since Citizen Kane ... Gamers are so full of shit By the way, I never played Celeste and I'm sure it's good for what it is... 12 year old me probably would have played the shit out of it Oh ive got no love for the modern wave of throw back pixel games either. If you’re going do to a side scroller and you want me to play, make it look like Ori or Rayman not Mario 1. Throwback nostalgia holds no weight for me in the video game world like it does in other genres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkness35 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Don't worry. League of Legends wins like every year. Worlds this year was straight ass. I'm surprised they didn't add anything for SC2, especially with the resurgence it been having. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 20 minutes ago, darkness35 said: Worlds this year was straight ass. I'm surprised they didn't add anything for SC2, especially with the resurgence it been having. Lol was it? I worked for them during Worlds in 2016 and that year was awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Celeste is one of the best platformers I’ve ever played. And as someone who played it with the joycons, I still felt like the controls were great. I’m sure using a pro controller made the gameplay even tighter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Where the fuck is "Best Gameplay"? PS: RDR2 is totally Oscar Bait and 98% of all that "I'm a 2-D platformer with an emotional life story connected to it because I'm a damaged artist :(" indie stuff is Sundance Bait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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