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Polygon: There was one big snub in the Game Awards nominations

LectureMaster

Gold Member
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Madflavor

Member
I'm in the minority in thinking that I don't mind a DLC being nominated for GOTY. Phantom Liberty and Shadow of the Erdtree is some the best shit I've played these past couple of years. However if we're going to talk "snubs", it definitely is fucked up that Shadow of the Erdtree is up there, and not Silent Hill 2. That spot absolutely was SH2's, and I won't hear otherwise.
 

Men_in_Boxes

Snake Oil Salesman
I played it, finished it, and felt dumbfounded why it got 10/10 in the first place.
All reviews are subjective.

Look, to me, Half Life 2 and Breath of the Wild are both solid 7 out of 10's. I'm dumbfounded by the adoration those titles get. But them's the ropes.
 

analog_future

Resident Crybaby
I'm loving Veilguard. It's not my Game of the Year but it's a great game.

And for what it's worth I'm about 25 hours in and have yet to come across a single piece of dialogue that would be reasonably be considered woke. I'm not saying there's nothing in the game like that, but it's not anywhere near as pervasive as many people tried to suggest. I don't give a shit anyway but I found this interesting after all the hubbub about it.
 
Don't care much for the GOTY but this is one of the few things they done right cause Transguard Pronoun Age is absolutely shit and disgusting and don't deserve to be successful and thankfully it's not with it having bad sales and very bad reception.
 

hemo memo

You can't die before your death
I just don’t want Elden Ring to win. It doesn’t seem fair since this is a first time a DLC was nominated and Elden Ring won GOTY the last time.
Downloadable content, by definition, is additional content for an existing game. So nominating it as a standalone game is ridiculous to begin with.
 
This is a surprise; as a narrative-led blockbuster in a famous series with slick production values, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is exactly the kind of game that tends to do well at The Game Awards. Its predecessor, Dragon Age: Inquisition, won Game of the Year in TGA’s inaugural year, 2014.
This was the absolute wrong choice for GoTY 2014. I have fallen asleep playing only 2 games and those are Diablo IV and Inquisition. I haven't played a game as boring and disengaging as these 2 ARPGs.
 

Braag

Member
Game Awards is already on shaky ground. Giving awards or even nominations to a game like DA Veilguard which is one of the least liked BioWare games would have ruined their credibility completely.
 

ap_puff

Member
Wukong and 6/10 dlc aren't good either
I think Wukong got in based on sales and market impact in China more than anything... it is a pretty game but like maybe an 8-8.5/10. I think the best parts of the game aren't the game itself but the cutscenes and vignettes between each act
 

mdkirby

Gold Member
Remember, Polygon gave a walking simulator Gone Home a 10/10.
I love a walking sim, and have played most, somehow I never got around to gone home. It does however highlight for me that just a generic 1-10 grading system isn’t really a great metric for games. Ie “this 7 hour walking sim is as good as Elden ring”. Like it’s objectively 100% not true. BUT it could be top notch for its genre. Likewise you could make the best match 3 game ever; but it’s not on a like for like comparison as good a game as the Witcher 3.
 
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