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.

I think the point they were making is that Tears of the Kingdom is practically a remake of Breath of the Wild with upgrades.

Because Baldur’s Gate 3 and Spider-man 2 are sequels... And they think they should be there.

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…

Starfield was not ghosted, it wasn't deserving. 

That’s part of the issue. The other issue is that there’s just nothing interesting to find. BGS made a handful of unique POIs, then copied and pasted them across thousands of planets. Once you realize this, the appeal of exploration goes out the window because you know you’re just going to “discover” things you’ve…

These award shows are marketing shows and most indie games have relatively little marketing compared to AAA games. If you’re looking for obscure gems to gain the recognition they deserve, The Game Awards isn’t going to provide that.

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.

Maybe? But I feel like they set themselves up for it. Microsoft literally described Starfield as one of the most important RPGs ever made, and then it barely even made the list of nominees. I think if they’re going to oversell it like that it’s fair to call them out.

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.

Yea I want to see the train wreck too maybe that will make them change their tune.

Hey don’t hate on the Deadpool game.  I’ve always found it to be pretty great.

“Sure, I suck, and all of my decisions have sucked, and Max was a disaster, and we keep posting massive losses under my leadership, but our games division can make us money if we just make more live-service games. Never mind our live-service games bombed this year, that’s what we’re doing, dear investors, because the…

One aspect of e-sports that is always an issue: If the underlying game/IP goes out of vogue and/or is killed by devs, your entire system crumbles in a (Relative) flash.

The truth is... you, everyone you know and love, everyone you don’t know and hate, this very planet, that suspicious block of cheese (you know the one), laniakea, the entire freakin universe, and yes, even I, your sort-of-friendly neighborhood ephemeral foliage, are all just an ad. Not just any ad, mind you. The…

Same here. Kinja is falling apart apparently.

They’re trying to force these online competitive games on us. Games that revolve every online player trying to show off to each other. These people aren’t really into the games. They’re looking for an online game to showoff and stream and make money. The game comes last. I’m not competitive with anyone. It’s why I…

I love paying $500 for nice hardware and then another price for an online sub to play games just so the company that makes the hardware and runs the service can then spam me with ads.

So, have you finally killed commenting on sites? Because I try to check my notifications and profile, and now all I get is...

You certainly managed to draw a lot of conclusions about games that are 100+ hours long without actually playing them, based entirely on very small amounts of information. Clearly, we have found our new authority on the subject.