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[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Idk why anybody puts any stock into this stuff. I mean, Astrobot won GotY, which don't get me wrong, Astrobot is a cool game with some really good uses of the PS4 graphics capabilities, efficiencies, and hardware, but it really just served as the wake to the graveyard of PS Exclusives.

It's been pretty clear that the whole thing has been mostly industry payola from the beginning.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The way I see it there's millions of people who would unironically fight in wars to defend their favorite console, game or genre. Anyone reasonable can tell that Astrobot won more or less because the game awards are just an expensive form of advertisement. However, you've got a legion of people who are pissed off that their favorite game didn't win GotY.

Add politics to the mix and you understand some people get over it and others never will. Haven't seen Athlus or Balatro fans seething with hatred because their game didn't win GotY. Wukong was at least nominated, but that won't stop soft porn fans from complaining that Stellar Blade didn't win.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I voted for Astro Bot because I'm not interested in poker, anime, sexism, and the idea of DLC as a GOTY.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Astrobot is a cool game with some really good uses of the PS4 graphics capabilities, efficiencies, and hardware

I think that's the problem is show how good PS4 is but the game was released for PS5

/s

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Oh man, I can't even remember what system we are on now.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This dev sounds ridiculously arrogant, like I think I heard he pre-wrote his acceptance speech two years before the game was even out? That would be arrogant even for Miyazaki and Elden Ring, when it was pretty much a shoehorn.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

I use Chinese forums occasionally, Wukong was wildly popular over there and considered a shoe-in for the win. Astrobot was okay but a lot of the appeal is just "I recognize that reference!" and the story is non-existent.

Personally I would've given it to Balatro or Wukong, but GotY basically always goes to a Japanese or Western AAA game so they were both out from the beginning

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bro, not even Geoff Keighley cares this much about these awards

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago

I came for nothing

Exactly, you should've retained your vital essence volcel-judge

[–] regul@hexbear.net 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you wanted to win you should have made a better game.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 57 points 2 days ago

Motherfucker did win two awards

[–] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nah, should have not been Chinese.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bigots who themselves belong to vulnerable griups when bigotry comes around to bite them in the ass.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Basically this

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't it like a step above a beat em up? He acts like he made Sekiro or something.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Isn't Sekiro also basically just a beat em up?

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Soulslikes are just beat em ups with lots of QTEs and deliberately poor accessibility options

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would totally make a soulslike with full accessibility options including slowdowns and prompts and auto parries; and I'd still give you the achievements to upset the silly internet people

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

Based. But that removes the main appeal for soulslike players: the gates which they like to keep.

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[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

i agree, Sekiro is clearly a Platformer

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. Sekiro is wildly different from beatemups. The only shared element is that there are enemies that you attack, basically, and if that's enough to call Sekiro a 'beatemup', then, for example, every shooter is a beatemup, as well.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

no shooters are all doom clones

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Except the ones that are wolfenstein clones (the woke ones)

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

We're not Nazis but also how dare a WW2 game make Nazis the villains

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sekiro is a rhythm game like DDR and nobody will ever convince me otherwise

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Every game without RNG and almost every game with RNG becomes DDR once you speedrun it. The really funny ones are old-school JRPGs where people optimize going through the menus.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

every good melee action game is basically

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

The day I made this realization was the day I beat Gyoubu Oniwa

[–] foxontherocks@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It isn't Balatro. Why did he think he could win.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Hear me out, what if they added a Balatro mode to the game? Then I think it would have a shot.

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago

Didn’t they literally win multiple awards? The fuck

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can't believe that the people nominated us for the Jacking Off Major Media Publications Award of the Year, and we didn't win. What gives?

[–] YEP@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought gamers hated this game bc china

[–] IMF_DOOM@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No they like it because the directirs homophobic

[–] YEP@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Meme of guy looking at two buttons sweating.

I thought the game was pretty good, shame the devs have brainworms.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Why do people even care about goty

Fucking Astrobot won (fun game don't get me wrong, but bruh) this has obviously just become a joke

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago
[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think they love it more because the company hates women

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've seen Chinese folks actually defend the depiction of women in the game in that they're portrayed as strong and with agency, but that that aspect was ignored by racist journalists

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I haven't played the game but I think that user was referring to the company itself, which has one or more employees saying inappropriate things about women.

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