Astro Bot is Sony’s 10th GOTY nomination in a row.

If you add in the number of exclusives, launch exclusives and inadvertent exclusives nominated this year for Sony, the comparison becomes even more lopsided.
 
I propose we sticky this thread at the top of the forum. Next year the title can be updated for year 11. Just 365 days of celebration of the opinions of gaming journalists and Geoff. Praise him.
 
TGA as usual will keep up with the controversial nominations because that boost their engagement numbers. At this point, it's done on purpose. Why they did the revelation that Elden Ring SoTE is eligible this late, because they for sure know everyone in the industry will bring the topic up and hype up the award ceremony to the high heavens.

And dorito pope got caught red-handed trying to trademark the term "The Game Awards" so he can keep his monopoly on gaming awards.

TGA is a joke. No one would give a shit about a very high quality DLC/Expansions like Elden Ring's if they made the announcement way earlier or if they created a DLC/Expansion category.
 
Buggy Loop said:
? I don't have an xbox

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James's logic brain has gone down the PSSR recently. Excuse him. 🙏
 
HeWhoWalks said:
Damn, Spider-Man, GT7, Astrobot, Helldivers II, Ratchet & Clank, Returnal, Horizon!

All different flavors of TLOU folks! Whodathunkit!! 🤯
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Spider-Man, R&C, Horizon, Uncharted 4 and beyond, TLOU, GoW18 and Ragnarok all have the same cookie cutter focus tested inoffensive ass presentation and gameplay where a singular brain cell is enough to carry you through the game. In all those games, the characters will literally spell out the solution to every problem the game throws at you. The narratives are also very derivative and bogged down with similar Marvelized gotcha! one-liners without taking any risk in any stage of development. When Sony gutted its Japan studios, they lost a huge amount of diversity. Which is ironic considering how hard the former mentioned games pretend they're advocates of it. In fact, they're all differently colored trash. So yeah, saying that From Software makes the same game every time while simultaneously being a blatant Sony shill ( Tiago Rodrigues Tiago Rodrigues ) is very rich to me.
 
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Look how many types of games Sony covers in this pic! Jesus Nintendo what happened to New IPs? (5 Mario games and 3 Zeldas 🤣)

Edit: I will be also be offended if Nintendo kept considering me a 5 years old.. jeez what about trying new mature games and exploring new themes!
 
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That's an impressive list of mostly forgettable games. With how obsessed this place is with the show, I'm surprised they've only won twice. I agree with LoU2, btw. God of War though, meh as fuck.
 
One helluva run by sony so far. It's crazy how people gets so bent out of shape when they release a dud here and there. There's tons of companies who haven't have a goty nominee since their existence.
 
Klosshufvud said:
Spider-Man, R&C, Horizon, Uncharted 4 and beyond, TLOU, GoW18 and Ragnarok all have the same cookie cutter focus tested inoffensive ass presentation and gameplay where a singular brain cell is enough to carry you through the game. In all those games, the characters will literally spell out the solution to every problem the game throws at you. The narratives are also very derivative and bogged down with similar Marvelized gotcha! one-liners without taking any risk in any stage of development. When Sony gutted its Japan studios, they lost a huge amount of diversity. Which is ironic considering how hard the former mentioned games pretend they're advocates of it. In fact, they're all differently colored trash. So yeah, saying that From Software makes the same game every time while simultaneously being a blatant Sony shill ( Tiago Rodrigues Tiago Rodrigues ) is very rich to me.
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Okay pal. Utter nonsense, but okay! 😂

At least we moved away from that Last of Us bullshit!
 
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Weird thing to celebrate no? Yes they've won GOTY twice in the last 10 years, but they have lost every other...
 
salva said:
Weird thing to celebrate no? Yes they've won GOTY twice in the last 10 years, but they have lost every other...
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The fact that they were nominated that many times is very much a reason they can celebrate. Means their games are out there. I think I'd rather be them than a company who's games not only are rarely nominated but never win when they are.
 
Keighley is such a hack. Lmao. Astro bot deserves to be there though. I hope they release dlc for it soon. I'd like to jump back in.
 
The game awards are just one outlet though. There are numerous game of the year awards and publications throughout the year, and PlayStation exclusives are usually in the running for the consensus total with having won nearly half of them over the past 12 years, compared to only 1 for Nintendo (breath of the Wild in 2017) and a whole lotta nothing from team Xbox:

2013 - The Last of Us
2016 - Uncharted 4
2018 - God of War
2019 - Death Stranding (at the time a PlayStation exclusive)
2020 - The Last of Us Part 2

Hoping Astro wins this year- it is such an amazing game!

Game of the Year - Award Tracker

Here you can see the awards for the best game of the year according to different media
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Zombie9ers said:
The game awards are just one outlet though. There are numerous game of the year awards and publications throughout the year, and PlayStation exclusives are usually in the running for the consensus
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Can't really spin that one. No matter how you personally feel about the games, their presence in GOTY discussions on many outlets is undeniable.

The GOTY Awards just have the biggest stage presence (for obvious reasons).
 
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The fact that they were nominated that many times is very much a reason they can celebrate. Means their games are out there. I think I'd rather be them than a company who's games not only are rarely nominated but never win when they are.
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It's like when a kid doesn't win something but is equally praised and rewarded for coming second
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Klosshufvud said:
As if Sony AAA titles haven't been different flavors of TLOU for the longest now. Including the game in your avatar, which was sadly butchered from its origins to appease to a more drama oriented audience.
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Are you all even trying with the FUD anymore? It at least used to be believable.
 
And that's why each brand is where it is, PS dominating and Xbox sinking more and more, although I have to admit that Xbox has merit, doing so badly to not have a goty candidate in 10 years is not easy xDD.
 
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And that's why each brand is where it is, PS dominating and Xbox sinking more and more, although I have to admit that Xbox has merit, doing so badly to not have a goty candidate in 10 years is not easy xDD.
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Some count The Outer Worlds in 2019, Deathloop in 2021 and Psychonauts 2 also in 2021. For what that's worth.

Deathloop they couldn't even play on Xbox at the time.
 
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Well deserved. Technically speaking this is Japan development because there team compose mostly of Japanese. It is another victory for Asian developers. Astrobot, Stellar blade and Wukong are victory for Asian game development and also victory for all of us gamers.
 
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