In most games I’d be like WHAT NO YOU ARE DISMANTLING THE FOUNDATIONS OF CINEMA

Twitter wanted to sell itself; the offer was at a substantial premium and the leadership was both obligated to assess it and happy to receive it. That’s why they took Musk to court to force him to follow through on the deal when he attempted to renege on it on the basis that he felt he was overpaying after deeper…

I think saying Twitter was forced to sell is a little bit of a misnomer. Elon overpaid like crazy and I think the shareholders were too in shock by his sheer stupidity and wanted to grab the cash before the banks realized what a colossal mistake they were making by giving that moron a blank check. Thus the perfect…

Twitter was “forced” to sell itself to some dumb fuck

Avengers single player made is so obvious that if that was the focus they would have had a great game.

This game really feels like it’s going to be another Avengers debacle. Hopefully the story is at least decent like Avengers was so that it’ll be worth picking up for a single run through when it goes on sale.

It’s starting to feel like live service game monetization is becoming something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Trying to build a game around a live service design ends up taking so much more time and development resources that they literally need the live service tail to even turn a profit. But they could’ve released…

To quote the guy from the other thread: “Starfield wasn’t snubbed. It simply wasn’t deserving.”

Absolutely agree. It’s an exceptionally solid 7/10 experience for fans of the genre, but even then not one I’d recommend without reservation. There are moments of greatness which are too often offset by baffling content and design choices. This isn’t unique to Starfield, of course, but even players who love the game…

I think this is the right take, even as someone who quite likes Starfield. It’s a good game, but it’s not an outstanding game, and GOTY really should be for the latter.

It’s not a slow year for RPGs at all. Baldur’s Gate 3, Starfield, Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, Colony Ship, WH40K: Rogue Trader, Sea of Stars, FF16, Diablo 4, Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn, Wartales, Persona 5 Tactica, Star Ocean: The Second Story R, For the King 2, etc.

I was suprised by the guy who didn’t think remakes should qualify. You don’t even think sequels should? Weird!

Yeah totally, and for me Baldur’s Gate 3 ruined it completely because I played it before Starfield. It truly ruined it for me I was asking myself all the time while playing Starfield: is that it? I don’t know if I’ll manage to finish it to be honest because after a while it just feels like teleporting from point A to…

You know it’s a slow year for RPGs when Lies of P (possibly the worst name for a video game in history) makes the list. No disrespect to P as it’s a very competent and interesting Soulslike, but that seems like a stretch.

I disagree, if anything, many of the complaints in recent years (though I dont mind) is that the announcements have not been that AAA focused as they maybe were at first.

Starfield was not ghosted, it wasn't deserving. 

I think it’s more to do with the bad campaign and the general rushed feeling to be honest.

Welcome to The Game Awards - just like the Oscars, companies pay a little for a ‘for your consideration campaign’ and they get on the ballot.

Look, I don’t want to be annoying about it, but RE4 has no business being up for game of the year. It’s a fantastic facelife, but it isn’t a new game. The same goes for Deadspace (which, FWIW, I think was always a more interesting action horror game than RE4), and I’m glad that one didn’t get nominated.

Starfield honestly lacked the charm of skyrim or fallout. I think it was mainly an issue in how you traveled. It was all insta-teleport which removed most of the exploration wonder that it could have been.