Denton
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Yeah, third game from a polish developer is very safe choice compared to Bethesda game or Konami game or From game or Nintendo game, such niche, brave choices.
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Witcher 3 Wins GOTY @ The Game Awards 2015!
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Yeah, third game from a polish developer is very safe choice compared to Bethesda game or Konami game or From game or Nintendo game, such niche, brave choices.
Interfectum
Gold Member
I've played a lot of games this year (yes, even Bloodborne) and I would give it to The Witcher 3 hands down.
I really need to get my hands on Bloodborne 1-3. Could you point me towards to where I could get them?
Safe? FO4 or MGSV now those would be safe. TW3 however not really that 'safe'.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Not my choice, but close enough. Great game.
Really? They could have named it Dark Souls: Yharnam or Demons Souls: Bloodlust if they wanted.
All the options this year can be considered safe.
Of them all, W3 is the least safe though.
Uno Venova
Banned
So I asked this in the show tread but why is an award from TGA already considered prestigious and gets such a strong reaction? It's been going for like three years...
Thread is delivering! Don't forget they beat Bloodborne for best RPG and Ori had better art.
I find Bloodborne to be vastly different from Souls aside from very core mechanics. Saying Bloodborne is in the same series as Dark Souls is the same as saying Last of Us is fourth Uncharted game.
Uncharted: Zombies Edition
Shadoken
Member
Hey guys remember that time Uncharted : Zombies won GOTY? Yea totally not a new IP.
I'll give you Bethesda or Konami. But lol@ From or Mario Maker.
A GOTY award to a new IP that just sold 2 million? Thats something that takes balls.
I'll give you Bethesda or Konami. But lol@ From or Mario Maker.
A GOTY award to a new IP that just sold 2 million? Thats something that takes balls.
Are we really pretending that Bloodborne isn't within the same series as Dark Souls?
I guess Demon's Souls is a totally separate thing too?
Sheriff_Battlesnake
Banned
I don't think a game has ever come close to the art design brilliance of Bloodborne.
Krappadizzle
Member
Aside from the core mechanics that make Dark Souls and Bloodborne unique from pretty much every action game they are different games? They really could have called it DS:Bloodborne and people wouldn't have batted an eye. It's not dismissive of Bloodborne, there is a reason people hold the combat of DS and BB in such high regard.
TLOU example doesn't really work as there is more importance placed on stealth and survival as opposed to the action and shooting/set pieces of UC.
NullPointer
Member
Not only GOTY but the cinematic trailer for it is one of the best I've ever seen too:
"A Night to Remember"
I was completely in the dark about this game, waiting to jump in once the game was patched and the price is right. That PSN sale last week was the right time and price and its been gravy ever since.
"A Night to Remember"
I was completely in the dark about this game, waiting to jump in once the game was patched and the price is right. That PSN sale last week was the right time and price and its been gravy ever since.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Probably Todd Howard lol
His wikipedia page has something like, he won GOTY with Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Maybe he is mad CDPR broke his winning streak
Next thing you'll be telling me Primal is called Far Cry: Primal.
No, it's much closer, but we've had this discussion about a hundred times before, so probably shouldn't bother again.
iAmMaximus
Member
So I guess I should finally play this game...
BlindJesus
Member
IIRC, the guys who did the CGI trailers are also doing the visuals for the Witcher movie.
BigTnaples
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In a year of amazing games, this comes well deserved.
Witcher 3 is a colossal achievement.
Witcher 3 is a colossal achievement.
It isn't pretending when it isn't in the same series. Demon's Souls is little bit weirder as it shares lot of stuff with Dark Souls but has still so many things making it be its own thing.
Only things I really find similiar are the general movement and how leveling up works.
Bloodborne puts importance on being aggressive against enemies with health regain, high possibility of stagger and stamina cost being really low. Dark Souls is much more slower paced and it encourages playing more passively as you get easily punished from being reckless. I think these are very different gameplay styles.
I've never participated in this discussion before and haven't even read discussion about it.
OrbitalBeard
Member
I wouldn't go that far but I do agree Bloodborne has plenty of things that differentiate it from the Souls games.
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Not my game of the year, but then the winner of this award hardly ever is. I had fun while my time with this game lasted but got bored before finishing it. I just don't like Geralt, and the combat was pants.
ShadowkillXNA
Member
Disappointing that a game with shit tier combat like Witcher 3 can win an award like this.
Gameplay and controls do matter, and Bloodborne, Fallout 4 and MGSV are all far better than Witcher 3 in those areas.
Gameplay and controls do matter, and Bloodborne, Fallout 4 and MGSV are all far better than Witcher 3 in those areas.
no, people love to get touched in that special place
Morgan Blackhand
Member
Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've ever played so well deserved!
NullPointer
Member
I play it with the HUD disabled save for the health bar area, and would have it no other way.
The world makes sense, and paying attention to conversations and texts has kept me on track.
Opinions and all that, and the combat was the one thing I was worried about most, but its great. It just requires you to take meaningful actions - to mean what you're doing, and to position yourself so that you don't get surrounded. I actually love it, which is the last thing I expected after reading so many complaints about it. Maybe it goes to shit at some point, but I've enjoyed how purposeful it is, and how much the combat rewards preparation and positioning.
My only gripe would be that the game decides when you switch into *combat mode* or not, and its too slow on the uptake for my tastes, leaving me exposed to initial hits I could have otherwise parried or dodged.
Kinda weird to me that so many people are acting like Bloodborne is some niche product that's somehow gone overlooked, or is so complicated that only a small segment of the population will be able to play and fully enjoy its majesty. They seem like fairly popular, mainstream games at this point.
The real tragedy of the GAs is that Crypt of the Necrodancer not only didn't win best score but was somehow not even nominated.
The real tragedy of the GAs is that Crypt of the Necrodancer not only didn't win best score but was somehow not even nominated.
Yeah, this is one of the weirder delusions I've seen. Bloodborne is a really fucking good video game, but you are not some special snowflake if you like it in the year of our lord 2015.
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Bad form, Monocle. Your role is to reply to shitty posts like this, not make them.
Shadoken
Member
Have you played Demon Souls or Bloodborne?
BB combat plays nothing like Dark Souls , Demon souls on the other hand is very similar and even shares the same Souls name.
Also a game doesnt have to be 100% different to be considered a new IP. Many games are just spiritual successors but still get counted as new IPs. Its such a dumb argument that I cant believe people are actual trying to downplay BB with it. Sharing some level design and progression mechanics doesnt mean its immediately " Yea its just dark souls in victorian era skin". Many games share aspects with other games.
Looking at my own GotY list I have to say that this checks out. Fantastic game.
Nope.
Nope.
I think just because, from what I understand, it's the only "event" or gathering for these GOTY awards. At least in the United States. I really don't know though.
It's also only the second year.
ginger ninja
Banned
I haven't even played W3 and the salt here is just stupid. "Witcher 3 is a mass marketed game" ? Wtf are some of you smoking. It's from a relatively unknown publisher and developer and it took three titles for the series to get any kind of name recognition for the mass market. Fallout is a broken mass and Mgs is heavily polarizing. Bloodborne will eventually have its due by other outlets.
It's an experimental successor and it shares a ton with the Souls series, right down to the renaming of different aspects and the same inherent structure as that series. To say it plays "nothing" like Souls is insane. It is definitely one of those games, although it is tweaked to play towards a more aggressive style and has less RPG elements.
Bloodborne is a damn awesome game but people who are using the "new IP" card to try and treat it like this brand new thing are fooling themselves. It is definitely within the same vein as a Souls game. Different sure, but it doesn't differentiate itself from Souls all THAT much.
Denton
Member
Yeah, I would put SOMA up there instead of Until Dawn. SOMA was just incredible, one of most memorable experiences in a while.
Radical Edward
Member
just look at the winners last year to see how prestigious these awards are. Still, a loss for yoir favorite game can feel shitty
johnnydrama
Banned
So now the TGA doesn't matter because they gave the GOTY award to a game that some people don't like. Man, these TGA threads just keep on delivering.
It's considered one of the must-have PS4 titles at this point. Even friends who are only interested in sports games have a copy just because it's brought up frequently when talking about PS4.
I've played every Souls game and since Demon's Souls I've gotten them day one without question and they're certainly some of my favourite games. I'm not arguing that it's not a different IP, it is, but that's really just semantics. It's a spritiual successor to the Souls games, just like Dark was to Demons. They play extremely similarly and you're totally downplaying it, I'd more question whether you've played the games if you honestly can't see just how similar they are.
Banana Aeon
Member
It's kinda sad that nothing about the Witcher franchise appeals to my personal tastes, so I can see the noise around it. Fantasy is such a drab genre, and the gameplay never clicked with me.
Still, it's got a lot of people's top of the list, so it had to do something right.
I hope Cyberpunk is a massive improvement to the Witcher combat. Cyberpunk is one of my favorite genres, so I would really like to enjoy playing this.
Still, it's got a lot of people's top of the list, so it had to do something right.
I hope Cyberpunk is a massive improvement to the Witcher combat. Cyberpunk is one of my favorite genres, so I would really like to enjoy playing this.
Um I've played the souls series and bloodborne and they feel vastly different in many areas. idk why.