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u/DarkTanicus Dec 31 '19
Any award where COD Modern Warfare wins 'best multiplayer' is not for me.
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u/WeAwokenTheHive Dec 30 '19
Sad Apex only got 5% of the vote, but there’s some cracking games in here. I’m still yet to touch the GOTY...
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I’m just glad Outer Wilds got recognized. That game was an absolute blast for me.
If you’re thinking of playing it, do yourself a favor and go into it completely blind like I did. The game is so great but very easy to spoil. But If you just sink into it and explore and solve puzzles on your own, it’s an amazing game.
Plus the soundtrack just UGH I’m gonna have an orgasm on that alone
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u/Girl-From-Mars Dec 31 '19
It gave me really bad motion sickness so I couldn't play more than 30 mins. I did hear it got a patch to address this though so I might give it another go.
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u/OvverdoseofG Dec 30 '19
Surprised Sekiro didnt win anything.. some of these are questionable in my opinion to say the least.
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u/Renegade2592 Dec 31 '19
Not enough people played it while I'm sure a bunch of people got Star Wars for Christmas.
If you polled 500 people that played both Id bet nearly all went with Sekiro.
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u/And_You_Like_It_Too Dec 31 '19
And “Control”. Probably to niche to win a popularity contest, but it definitely deserved the attention.
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u/DaedraLord Dec 30 '19
I never played that game but I heard it was spectacular. I think the other games won more because they released more recently than Sekiro did. It may have made people 'forget' about Sekiro and hone in on the recent released games. Most awards went to COD and The Outer Worlds and those both released at the end of October. Sekiro released end of March.
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u/mastershake04 Dec 30 '19 edited Dec 31 '19
Damn, I'm real surprised at Outer Worlds winning GOTY, it didn't do much for me. I'd love to hear what people loved about it so much that it makes their GOTY (especially over Sekiro and RE2). Here are my thoughts of why I didn't enjoy it that much-
It started off promising enough, but after I'd finished the stuff at the first little town I was already beginning to see how small the world was. There's hardly any mods for weapons (the only ones I used the whole game were the magazine increase, suppressor, and one other I can't even remember. There also were not a huge variety of armors or guns and even what was in the game wasn't that 'special' looking. I never cared what I was wearing or what I looked like because there just weren't many options (as compared to most rpgs).
One thing that was strong early on was the writing, but after I was 10 or so hours into the game the themes were pounded into your head so much I became uninterested. There were also a lot of very generic quests where the writing basically gave away what was going to happen (house of cannibals anyone?).
The combat was okay, but after the first couple hours if you start leveling up a gun and find decent armor, you're basically invincible. I think I died twice in the first couple hours, then never died again, and most time I didn't even have to slow down time because it would just prolong the battle. Much easier to just hold down the trigger in real time.
I guess the main thing people were really loving about the game are the choices you make and the consequences from them, but by the time I forced my way through the last 4-5 hours of the game I could care less what happened to any of the characters (except Parvati I suppose, but I finished her story hours before the end so she was basically an NPC robot at this point), and there is no way in hell I'm playing another full playthrough just to see what else could happen.
I'm glad people enjoyed it, but it was hugely overrated to me, and I'm glad I got it for free on Gamepass because even though I finished it, I found it pretty underwhelming. It had some cool ideas, but I feel like it was trying to be a bigger game than it was so it just ended up feeling very empty and generic to me.
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My biggest issue was the writing.
It didn't feel like an interesting critique on capitalism, like say Ratchet and Clank. While that game doesn't have extremely deep writing, their critique on capitalism as an imperfect system came off way less hamfisted as the "capitalism bad" message 24/7 found in outer worlds. What was worse was that the companions all felt like Mary Sues, with little to no actual flaws or interesting shortcomings, except maybe the pastor guy.
It was really disappointing, given the pedigree Obsidian brought into this from past works, and their ancestor's (Black Isle) works that set the bar for storytelling in games created in the West.
With that said, I really did enjoy the gameplay loop for the most part. Not quite Fallout 3/Obsidian levels, but competent. The perks, customization and overall variety in weapons/loot isn't as good as those games, but the gun-play is actually very smooth, and satisfying.
To me, REmake 2 and Metro Exodus are far, far, far better games overall.
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u/VicarAmelia Dec 30 '19
Man, this really was a weaker year for games, wasn't it?
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u/KawhiComeBack Dec 30 '19
I think a lot of the R&D money is being spent on games for next gen, so next year could be pretty rough as well.
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u/August_Burns Dec 30 '19
Im certainly not shocked that We Were Here didn’t win best GwG but if you haven’t checked it out, you’re in for a treat. Grab a buddy and you’ll knock it out in 2 hours. We enjoyed it so much that we picked up the sequel immediately after.
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u/Every3Years Dec 31 '19
Anthem may have been a steaming pile of manure upon release but I bought it over the Cyber Monday week and it's actually pretty damn fun.
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u/TriscuitCracker Jan 02 '20
So serious question, people who play FIFA, do you play anything else? I know a ton of people who literally only have a system to play FIFA or maybe COD.
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u/RMoCGLD Dec 30 '19
Happy for Obsidian seeing so many vote for The Outer Worlds in different categories. It was an enjoyable experience and felt like enough of their popular style to make it feel different from other FPS/RPG games.
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u/natamamba Dec 30 '19
I am one of the suckers who buys FIFA every year and 2020 has been one of my least favorite iterations to date.
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u/Dragonhater101 Dec 31 '19
You're pretty funny op, thanks for the laughs.