It's actually still bothering me about the Warframe thing. It just got a massive update to the game last week. It receives major updates constantly. Fucking Overwatch adds a new character every, what, six months? Maybe a new map every three? Christ, Warframe can get at least two, if not three new frames out in the time fucking Blizzard takes to get one out the door. Warframe can do actual fucking story progression. They just added a second big open world region to the game, and on top of that a bunch of new gameplay mechanics including fucking hoverboards and MGSV-style animal fultoning mechanic. The category is supposed to be about games that "evolves the player experience over time." Warframe does that with almost every major update. How the fuck does just adding a new fucking character after six months do that with Overwatch? How did the player experience evolve at all?
My money is on Grand Theft Horse.
I just hope A Way Out, The Missing and Return of the Obra Dinn wins in their respective categories, those three games deserve all the merits they can get. Personal favorites this year.
In terms of obvious AAA winning games, I think either Spider-Man or RDR 2 has the edge out of all the choices at least and would deserve the wins.
Remember guys, single player games are dead!
Man, on a year where I got to play God of War and be genuinely fucking blown away by it's quality and it's story
or in a year where I got to play Spiderman, and have an experience like we've never had with that character before
or Red Dead, a genuinely good game and one of the better stories told in gaming?
I mean, really, what would make some of you happy
Glad to see Dead Cells is up there, game is fantastic
I actually agree they're all great games, though I think there's actually some notable factors why people didn't really feel this year didn't had much noteworthy stuff. God of War and Spider-Man despite selling ridiculously well, are PS4 exclusives. Despite having a really large audience on the platform, it's still a somewhat segregated audience when there's also a vocal amount of people that are primarily on PC, Xbox and Switch. (Facepunch in particularly is also no doubt still very PC-centric).
RDR 2 is in a better position being in 2 major platforms right now, but less buzz behind still it especially in communities like FP being that it's not on PC (yet). Plus it suffers from the 'super popular game that will get unfair hate no matter what' syndrome. Which is also a shame since RDR 2 genuinely has a great single-player experience and doesn't even have the usual microtransactions and modern game trappings, especially other sandbox games that recently came out. Even if the online doesn't end up being good, the single-player portion of it alone is already worth tons of merits.
There's also the whole controversies behind the big names that kept bombarding them before release. GoW suffered some unwanted scorn for looking like an easy button smasher with misleading leaks. Spider-Man got that dumb 'downgraded visuals' controversy, and RDR 2 became popular to hate on due to the recent Rockstar employee overworking controversy, which I think also soured some views and gave confirmation bias to a lot of people. Even beyond those three games, AC: Odyssey suffered a lot of hate with its microtransactions despite arguably having a really good re-design of the franchise and being one of the most ambitious titles in the series so far which is kind of a shame.
In general, other than those 3 releases, the AA-sector and indie sector are also a bit quiet in comparison which made this year not as exciting as it seems. Kind of a bummer too since despite not having a large quantity of fantastic IPs like in 2016, 2018 really did have some noteworthy stuff that fell under the radar due to general apathy or controversies affirming said apathy or worse dislike and hate.
what a great selection of content creators:
drlupo - average fortnite streamer who constantly plays with ninja
myth - slightly large ego fortnite streamer who actually was bragging on stream right after he finally lost his virginity
ninja - blue haired toxic huge ego guy who tried to get someone banned because he thought they were a stream sniper
pokimane - tiddy fortnite streamer
willyrex - clickbait fortnite youtuber (spanish ali-a)
Oh god, so you're telling me all five of the content creators are cancerous fortinte streamers? Why am I not fucking surprised.
Best On-going Game....Rocket League not listed.
What a joke.
The worst thing is that Overwatch is a pretty solid example of how not to make an ongoing game: slowly eroding the purity of the original design with more content™ that doesn't fit into the existing system. All embodied in the addition of a fucking hamster in a ball, but the cracks were showing way before then, ever since after Ana's release. And Destiny 2 is... well it's Destiny 2.
Purity of the original design? It was a mashup of TF2 and MOBAs that combined the worst features of both. The map design since launch is straight out of vanilla TF2 (tight corridors and chokepoints everywhere), and has had worse character balancing than the biggest MOBA's on the market. It's an absolute clusterfuck of bad design choices left and right, and the game is carried solely by the fact that it's a Blizzard title, and it has all the waifus and husbandos fans could ever want.
Being popular =/= being good, that should be the take away here.
I'm just happy to see Battletech nominated.
They should just change the Game of the Year to Most Popular Game of the Year, because that's what it really is these days.
can someone tell me why the fuck ni no kuni 2 isn't nominated for best art direction?
best score? really?
Half these games for best stil audio have real bad audio. It's really hard for to judge. The audio for the game is not because of whoever is in charge of audio, but poor programming that makes the audio cues not work.
RDR isn’t really a ”household” name though. Compared to the mega success of the GTA games, rockstar didn’t really need to release a red dead sequel - I think they deserve some praise for doing so. RDR1 is one of the best games I’ve ever played and pretty much none of my friends even knew it existed before rdr2 was revealed. All of them know about GTA V though. All in all, it’s not just another dreary open world game - it’s pretty fucking great.
It makes me sad knowing for every single section where it's available, people are going to vote RDR2. It's an amazing game don't get me wrong, but people are going to vote for it in sections that it doesn't really deserve to win in all honesty. Like in 'Best Performance' for example, I guarantee everyone will vote for Roger Clark just because it's RDR2 when Bryan Dechart probably deserves to win it more for Connor in Detroit: Become Human.
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