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[vodka-bull]

To be fair I don't know many third world countries who got GOTYs.

 

[StueyDuck]

I cant even tell you who won last year's.

Who cares about this stuff.

 

[ungalo]

american studios are going full cringe

 

[Mayar]

Mayar keeps reminding me to take my pills

I'm trying, but it feels like someone suddenly found a year's supply of Viagra in their basement, looked at it and said, "No, I wouldn't let it go to waste."

 

[TrebleShot]

People don't like Americans not exactly breaking news.

I on the other hand absolutely Love Americans such as Sydney Sweeney and others.

 

[calico]

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Games for Impact is what matters though. Which I'm sure we dominate.

 

[Topher]

I'm trying, but it feels like someone suddenly found a year's supply of Viagra in their basement, looked at it and said, "No, I wouldn't let it go to waste."

Thankfully my plumbing doesn't need priming of that sort (yet) but I have to think that in that scenario you might never see ole Topher again.

 

[Plague Doctor]

Games for Impact is what matters though. Which I'm sure we dominate.

Totally not a participation trophy

 

[tanners]

More sad turth:American basketball players hasn't earn any NBA MVPs since 2019
Just think about American can't get the best player on a American invented sport makes me chuckles

 

[Diddy X]

Why are you so worried about not being #1 in something, 90% of countries don't win anything ever, deal with it.

 

[Topher]

More sad turth:American basketball players hasn't earn any NBA MVPs since 2019
Just think about American can't get the best player on a American invented sport makes me chuckles

How many MVPs are from your country?

 

[ReyBrujo]

"American made" is kind of an oxymoron. Almost every game, big or small, does a lot of cheap international outsourcing for assets and development.

 

[Gp1]

What surprises me most is that the last one that won was The Last of Us 2...

What was the 2019 goty?

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

More sad turth:American basketball players hasn't earn any NBA MVPs since 2019
Just think about American can't get the best player on a American invented sport makes me chuckles

Team USA mens basketball has a 143-6 record in the Olympics

Grats on your single player taking home an MVP though

 

[adamsapple]

 

[nial]

Reminds me the best boomer shooter - a very american genre - i played this year was by a japanese hentai artist. The one from last year by some guy in New Zealand

You can't just say that without dropping the name.

 

[Mayar]

Equating game with a specific country is an extremely stupid decision. Unless, of course, it's an indie game or a game made by a small group of developers. Hundreds of people work on games, and they all have different nationalities. Large games don't have flags or countries. They are the combined work of a huge number of talented people from different countries.

 

[Arsic]

Wolverine GOTY 2026. Believe.

 

[Zacfoldor]

Seriously, I would rather not be the smartest person in the room or the hardest worker, lol. France is doing better than us making awesome videogames!? GOOD! I hope Spain does too, and Belgium and Guam and everyone on this Earth. If you tell me some human has improved one of my favorite things, then yeah, I'm excited not jealous. This is probably what all Americans want, lol. Yall must think we are real shits, lol.

 

[Guilty_AI]

You can't just say that without dropping the name.

Beyond citadel

here is the MC

You can see her boobs/thighs when you look down too

Add to it incredibly autistic gun mechanics and you have a GOTY

 

[StereoVsn]

That it is a big world and competition is good.

US born and bred, but I really don't care where a game is made as long as it is good.

Got to admit though Europe has been doing amazingly well recently.

BG3, Owlcat's WotR and Rogue Trader, various Paradox strategy games, E33, KCD2 and so on.

Eurobros are pumping out gem after gem!

 

[Physiognomonics]

They need to get away from rotten California.

 

[DeepEnigma]

More sad turth:American basketball players hasn't earn any NBA MVPs since 2019
Just think about American can't get the best player on a American invented sport makes me chuckles

They're too busy fixing games anyhow. All sports are compromised more than ever now.

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[StereoVsn]

They're too busy fixing games anyhow. All sports are compromised more than ever now.

*this post was brought to you by, Draft Kings. Text GAF411 to 1337 for $10 on your first bet.

I started going on an angry tangent about enshitification of sports and especially gambling and stopped in time.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I started going on an angry tangent about enshitification of sports and especially gambling and stopped in time.

Funny how KC (NFL) can't win shit to save their life after the most obvious year last year. NFL got their Swift fill for 3 years until the spotlight got too bright on specific called games.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I started going on an angry tangent about enshitification of sports and especially gambling and stopped in time.

Which has been going on forever

 

[BlueManifest]

One will win next year with half life 3

 

[StereoVsn]

Which has been going on forever

It's gotten a lot worse lately, especially since sports gambling (and gambling in general) basically got a green light thanks to Supreme Court.

Gambling is everywhere now. I don't think it's a great idea. Also, College Ball is air more problematic and less interesting due to payment structure with gambling being the cherry on top.

But enough of my rants! Let's discuss why E33 didn't deserve GotY!

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

It's gotten a lot worse lately, especially since sports gambling (and gambling in general) basically got a green light thanks to Supreme Court.

Gambling is everywhere now. I don't think it's a great idea.

I think in my sport one of the earliest fixing scandals was the 1919 Chicago Black Sox fixing the World Series for the Mafia

 

[DeepEnigma]

I think in my sport one of the earliest fixing scandals was the 1919 Chicago Black Sox fixing the World Series for the Mafia

Seeing ads plastered all over stadiums, specific camera shots to capture them, commercials with athletes in them... it's all things that would have been blasphemy in your day.

Just doesn't sit right with me.

 

[StereoVsn]

Seeing ads plastered all over stadiums, specific camera shots to capture them, commercials with athletes in them... it's all things that would have been blasphemy in your day.

Just doesn't sit right with me.

And of course athletes themselves are directly advertising gambling sites now.

 

[LordCBH]

And last of us 2 didn't even deserve it in 2020.

 

[DeepEnigma]

And of course athletes themselves are directly advertising gambling sites now.

"Whats the total yardage, TDs, as well as catches needed for the parlay on me?"

"Okay, tell my network of 13 cousins to bet $50K each on the under and I'll be sure to come up shy on one or two."

 

[Wildebeest]

The Keighley's are pure trash as a metric so I look at BAFTA instead. The unusual thing is that in the 2010s the USA really dominated game of the year awards unlike the 2000s. Now you can say there is a reversion to the mean. It is really weird for every year a game made in California to win like clockwork, for a global industry, but that is what was happening. But California is suffering from success due to the high cost of living and lack of financial incentives to support developing industries. Before the 2010s the UK was winning way more game of the year awards but the industry there has been totally gutted by developers leaving for places with better salaries, which are often places where the government is really trying to grow the industry with financial support. I think that California is better run and wealthier than the UK so I can't see the industry in California being left to rot by corrupt and stupid government the same way it was in the UK.

 

[ByWatterson]

Honestly the main reason is because of American wages.

Americans cost too much, so the games they do make have enormous budgets, which mean the stuff coming out of American studios is going to be lower-risk, less surprising, and less innovative, both in design and narrative.

 

[DeepEnigma]

And last of us 2 didn't even deserve it in 2020.

I mean, this was the nominee list.

The Game Awards 2020 GOTY Nominees:

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
• DOOM Eternal (id Software/Bethesda)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
• Hades (Supergiant Games)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE) - WINNER

 

[StereoVsn]

I mean, this was the nominee list.

Yeah, I mean I liked Tsushima and FFVII Remake and would have picked either over TLOU2, but that list was not amazing.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Honestly the main reason is because of American wages.

Americans cost too much, so the games they do make have enormous budgets, which mean the stuff coming out of American studios is going to be lower-risk, less surprising, and less innovative, both in design and narrative.

These companies could save a ton of money getting out of the west coast, especially the over inflated CA.

 

[ByWatterson]

These companies could save a ton of money getting out of the west coast, especially the over inflated CA.

 

[LordCBH]

I mean, this was the nominee list.

I would've given it to Hades or Ghost or FF7 tbh lol. Ghost was my personal GOTY that year so I'm a LITTLE biased. I don't even hate LOU2, and think it earned all the technical awards it got, but the creative side of it (writing, characters, and story mostly) we fucking abysmal and should've held it back from the big award.


But that's just one tard's opinion, of course.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

 

[Fortress of Regrets]

American games have been reduced to sauceless goop. Their once proud RPG studios turned into purple slop churning factories.

 

[Sethbacca]

You realize we're only like 4.5% of the world's population right? Games are being made everywhere these days. It isn't the 90s anymore.

 

[bender]

Next one will probably be Half LIfe 3

So...never.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Based on the implications in this thread, Nintendo is toast.

 

[Lord Panda]

To be fair I don't know many third world countries who got GOTYs.

The French just won though.

 

[Madjaba]

America 3rd world country confirmed !

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Not that I even take GOTY seriously in the first place since all their choices were bad throughout all the years anyway.

Elder Scrolls, Fallout, GTA, and Half Life beats all non American games.

GTA is not American, dude.

 

[Branded]

This is just 5 years lmao. Dude talks like it has been 2 decades.

Cope and seethe.