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"Do not let that Expedition game win GOTY." - Shroud

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Men_in_Boxes

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If ARC Raiders does not win GotY, then the bar for PvP is simply set to unrealistic heights by those who have no desire to be objective. All in agreement with this reasonable statement say "Aye!"

If the ruling class has no desire to be objective, then Shrouds "band together" tactic is our only viable method to proceed.
 
Horse's for courses. I tried Exp 33, way out of my comfort zone. Too many baguettes.

I'm sure solo folks feel the same about Arc Raiders, but with less bread.

But yeah GOTY for me, almost a Mario 64 moment.
 
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E33 goty.

The hammer with which we shall strike this down is called "recency bias" and we will not be controlled by a bullshit streamer.
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If the ruling class has no desire to be objective, then NeoGAF's "band together" tactic is our only viable method to proceed.
 
Depends...if you are more into pvp than single player games....Arc Raiders and BF6 are absolute valid GOTY candidates. 🤷‍♂️
 
I have my gripes with E33. That was just a small snippet I played, and honestly my mind wasn't in it — but I digress. Trying to convince your sheep to vote for something else just because you like it and it benefits you as a streamer? Nah, that's not the way.
 
I was curious about this game, so I watched a stream last night. The guy was wandering around an empty map for twenty minutes straight while picking up stuff from the ground, then he shot a couple of useless mechanical monsters, then he met some other dude, they both looked at each other and went separate ways, then he took an elevator and that was it.

Peak gaming in 2025, ladies and gents.
 
In most cases, multiplatform games are reaching the biggest userbase. It's also the reason why gta 6 will win next year, even if there are actual better games out there.
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That's fucking dumb. I have E33, ( haven't played yet) and I'm loving Arc Raiders, but shit like this is lame.
 
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You know what, let me talk about Arc Raiders a little bit.

Okay, so this was a game that was nothing until we used it as a tool to disparage Marathon. This game is in the same genre so because we hated Marathon we glazed this game, just to make them and their fans feel bad. We built it up.

...apparently this game arc raiders has a sense of community. Something this crowd desperately craves. They are always looking for their next Helldivers 2 so they can use it as part of the identity. /vomit

So in like 1 month, the community will have soured on this game just like Helldivers 2 and every "game" like this before it which is just usually one mode and a "community" in discord hyping themselves up until they decide they hate it.

In like 1-2 months they entire community will turn on the game and hate it.

They will have a laundrylist of bullshit reasons they hate it to make themselves look smart.

However, the real reason they will now hate it is becasue the community went back to fortnite becasue of a simpsons crossover or some shit. It's all so shallows and temporary.

How about this, we give you the stupid goty trophy with the caveat that you have to hand it to e33 on your hands and knees if you hate Arc Raiders in 2 months. I'd win that bet everytime. Now go enjoy your new discord lobby, I mean game, Arc Raiders. I'm sure it's soooo revolutionary, lol.

I mean, we don't fuck with you about the bullshit gaas you play....much....

why do you have to pretend that your game mode is a goty candidate? So if you remove the "fun you are having with friends" is the game still goty? The game isn't your friends bro. Just because you had more fun with your friends than any game this year does not make your lobby music goty.
 
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I thought E33 was good, but I take issue with people declaring it the greatest jrpg of all-time when it's not even the best JRPG to come out in the last 18-months or so (metaphor).

Like if you think E33 is the best RPG you've ever played, you need to play more games.
 
I don't think any MP game should ever be GOTY. If repetitive rounds of the same thing is what's considered best, gaming's future is going to be even worse.
 
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The game reviewer votes tend to go for single-player narrative-driven games. Endless online multiplayer games take up too much of their time, and they resent them, consciously or not.

It'll be E33. If I ran the world, it'd be Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, but E33 was excellent.
 
I don't think any MP game should ever be GOTY. Is repetitive rounds of the same thing is what's considered best, gaming's future is going to be even worse.
Why can't a multiplayer game be game of the year? Not talking about this game in particular, just curious why you would think that.

This game for example, no 2 games are the same.
 
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What the hell is ARC Raiders? Never heard of it. Sounds like a crappy free to play game by the title though.

Edit: Just looked up the game. Really? This is goty material? It is another grain of sand on a beach of trash shooters.
 
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"band together and vote for this game"

also

"Votes don't matter" "When have you ever seen an award that is actually legit"
 
Depends...if you are more into pvp than single player games....Arc Raiders and BF6 are absolute valid GOTY candidates. 🤷‍♂️
What if there was a third way?

A way for both sides to formulate parameters so that objectivity is valued over personal preference?

I believe I found that way.
 
"If Ex33 does not win GotY, then the bar for RPG is simply set to unrealistic heights by those who have no desire to be objective."
 
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