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What are you thankful for?
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Video games (sincere) 44 10.89%
Video games (ironic) 14 3.47%
Video games (the mod) 74 18.32%
Video games (but only for my platform of choice) 10 2.48%
Video games (but only the one game I play) 13 3.22%
Video games (but only the ones I played as a kid) 17 4.21%
Family, friends, your job, the forum (sincere) 38 9.41%
Family, friends, your job, the forum (ironic) 14 3.47%
Bowsette 117 28.96%
That this Bowsette meme seems to be dying 63 15.59%
Total: 404 votes
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PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

Cowcaster posted:

to be fair it's almost guaranteed that every single title on every mainstream goty list is going to be well-polished mediocrity

:goonsay:

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Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge
May 8, 2006

"My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"
Maybe, but even the game awards put Celeste and MHW on their goty list

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
I have just realised my game of the year 2018 gets to be Nier:Automata and I am joyous at this!

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



haha i just googled the game award nominees and detroit become human is on there, in multiple categories

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Cowcaster posted:

haha i just googled the game award nominees and detroit become human is on there, in multiple categories

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002




i believe this is what the teens call a "cursed image"

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox
I think that's kind of a weird category for games. Detroit's story was pretty dumb, but if the category is "best storytelling and narrative development" and not just "best story" then I absolutely think it deserves to be nominated. It pushes the mechanical aspects of branching stories to a whole new level and I would think that would be a legitimate read of that category.

Dr Cheeto
Mar 2, 2013
Wretched Harp
I hope David Cage can take a break from his busy schedule of threatening journalists to accept an award for writing possibly the worst slavery allegory of the modern era

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Monster Hunter World is up for Best RPG, people know what kind of game MH is right.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

I haven’t played Detroit

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Jay Rust posted:

I haven’t played Detroit

remember how deus ex mankind divided had that whole "aug lives matter" snafu with its marketing? imagine that, spun into an entire david cage directed video game

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


exquisite tea posted:

Monster Hunter World is up for Best RPG, people know what kind of game MH is right.

lol it has less rpg mechanics than RDR2

Dr Cheeto
Mar 2, 2013
Wretched Harp
What even is a RPG these days

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

It technically fits the brief description they're using. That brief description just isn't generally all that accurate to RPGs.

Game Awards dumb so what?

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


RPG is just a feeling, an intuition, and if you consider MHW to be one then your Gamer Instincts are questionable at best.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Well actually all games have you take on a role,

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

I want to be Monster Hunter and live in Astera.

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox
Is anime just cartoons made in japan?

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge
May 8, 2006

"My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"
MHW is an rpg because I played the role of a dude clowning on Anjanath

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat

Dr Cheeto posted:

Man I am sleeping on Hollow Knight in a big way

It's a great game! Hope you like Metroidvania boss fights though.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



monster gunther


that's all i've got

DOUBLE CLICK HERE
Feb 5, 2005
WA3
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-11-26-nintendo-fans-excited-by-zelda-skyward-sword-nintendo-switch-port-reports rip

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Feb 5, 2005
WA3

PantsBandit posted:

Is anime just cartoons?

yes

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010



good

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



isn't skyward sword the one that even die hard zelda fans have a consensus of hating

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Cowcaster posted:

isn't skyward sword the one that even die hard zelda fans have a consensus of hating

Not really.

Poniard
Apr 3, 2011



monster hunter but at the end of each hunt it says PREY SLAUGHTERED

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
it's more like the one mainline game in the series you're guaranteed to forget if you try to name them all

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
My favorite animes from Japan are RWBY and Cory in the House.

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord

Saint Freak posted:

My favorite animes from Japan are RWBY and Cory in the House.
Get a load of this scrub who doesn't watch King of the Hill.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Feels Villeneuve posted:

it's more like the one mainline game in the series you're guaranteed to forget if you try to name them all

i guess maybe instead of "hated" i should've said "worst"

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
If they took out 50% of the Fi dialog and made it so the tutorial popups don't reappear when you quit and reload the game it wouldn't be nearly as hated

e: and a couple of copies of the imprisoned fight

haveblue fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Nov 28, 2018

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Cowcaster posted:

i guess maybe instead of "hated" i should've said "worst"

And the answer would still be not really

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
I mean the consensus of diehard Zelda fans are that none of the Zelda games are bad and all of them are GOTYs excepting dumb poo poo like the CDi ones or whatever.

MMF Freeway
Sep 15, 2010

Later!
I mean its pretty bad and I think I liked it more than most. Love the look and the story is neat but the actual structure of the game is poo poo. Fi is just like classic zelda over explanation she didn't really bother me

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

The only one I'll say is bad is Spirit Tracks

I don't like MM, BotW or the NES games though.

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
what was the 3DS one where they replaced the dialogue with internet memes, that one was probably not GOTY

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004


A Nintendo rumor turns out to be 100% false, what a shocking surprise.

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Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge
May 8, 2006

"My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"

Feels Villeneuve posted:

I mean the consensus of diehard Zelda fans are that none of the Zelda games are bad

This part is arguably kind of true, unless your definition bad is 'less than really great.'

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