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tga snubs

Mafia and Hell Is Us should get more love imo. Knew what they were and delivered at a cheaper price.

Hades, silksong and DK is a stretch imo. I'd rather see split fiction, Yotei and blue prince in there.
 
there are no snubs as the awards are meaningless.

thus who is nominated is also meaningless.

this is a trailer and game announcement show, with nonsense interruptions where people do cringe speeches in-between
 
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Jinzo Prime said:
Shocking that Trails in the Sky 1st didn't get nominatied for at least RPG of the year. Far better game than Awoved of all things.

And best Music? Sorry but Nintendo absolutley cooked with the Mario Kart World jazz fusion albulm. Ghost of Yotei should not be there.
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oh shit I forgot about Trails yes that is a big one
 
kevboard said:
there are no snubs as the awards are meaningless.

thus who is nominated is also meaningless.

this ks a trailer and game announcement show, with nonsense interruptiony where people do cringe speeches in-between
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The gaf awards are the only ones that matter.
 
The_hunter said:
The gaf awards are the only ones that matter.
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Especially in 2021

Thierry Henry Smile GIF by hamlet
 
Jinzo Prime said:
Shocking that Trails in the Sky 1st didn't get nominatied for at least RPG of the year. Far better game than Awoved of all things.

And best Music? Sorry but Nintendo absolutley cooked with the Mario Kart World jazz fusion albulm. Ghost of Yotei should not be there.
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Mostly because it's too "niche" among the mainstream.

For me personally 1st Chapter is my personal GOTY…..it has almost everything I love about JRPGs.
 
This year has been pretty underwhelming overall, Metroid Prime 4 is probably the best game this year but it's not out yet and not even that grand itself anyway. 2026 for the actual big year with truly great games.
 
Cronos should've been nominated in the audio category. I didn't like the game that much, but I can appreciate its audio layer.

At least they didn't forget about SHf, it made the biggest impression on me in the audio department this year.
 
xrnzaaas said:
Cronos should've been nominated in the audio category. I didn't like the game that much, but I can appreciate its audio layer.

At least they didn't forget about SHf, it made the biggest impression on me in the audio department this year.
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Cronos s another one I forgot about too many great games in the year they really need to up the numbers for the categories
 
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analog_future said:
Hell is Us.


One of the best games of the year and zero recognition.
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Definitely one of the most interesting releases this year (and it deserves way more recogniton), but the ending fell too short for it to be a GOTY nomimee IMO.
I could easily see a sequel/spiritual successor get nominated if they improve pretty minor things overall (enemy variety, narrative structure and pacing).
 
Tom McKay (Henry/KCD2) should've been up for best performance

Dispatch should've been nominated for at least:
  • Best Performance (Aaron Paul)
  • Best Narrative
  • Best Game Direction
  • Best Art Direction
Unfortunately it's suffering from Indiana Jones timing syndrome

Mafia: Old Country should be up for best narrative, better than SHf or DS2

Guild Wars 2 should've gotten the MMO nod over FFXIV this year

DS2 was also nominated for way too much
 
Now that there is no danger of it happening, they could have swapped out Stranding 2 for Arc Raiders.

I know I lobbied against it here, but that was just my Bananza worry.

Bananza was nominated so all is good now.

Arc Raiders should have been over Death Stranding 2 and Yotei(which got snubbed for goty) because despite Stranding 2 and especially Yotei being surprisingly decent games(Yotei is actually very good) they are both too safe.

Safe sequels are killing Sony this gen and devs need to get the message and they are not iterating on their last games but rather just copying them and we are getting bored. Yotei is very good and I've had a blast with it but we need to always be moving forward or we will stagnate, and Sony is not moving forward fast enough on by the numbers sequels. Ideally we want a Dark Souls 3 to Elden Ring leap on every game from now on and if you can't do that you aren't the best game of the year. Experiment. That's why DK Voxels is on here and other shit is not. Nintendo is always trying something new. Look at TotK. Was that a by the numbers sequel? Lol it even used the same map but the fucking building shit was WILD and not even hinted at in any way in BotW but it was the entire game in TotK, we need more wild ass ideas like Voxels and physics based building programs and less copy paste games with minimal/patch changes and story downgrades.
 
Lokaum D+ said:
Yep, he is way waaay waaaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Erika Ishi, she has no place on that category or any category.
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Troy should win this category for Indiana. He really knocked it out of the park and would've been my pick for last year's games.
 
phant0m said:
Troy should win this category for Indiana. He really knocked it out of the park and would've been my pick for last year's games.
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Strong performances this year all around.

I'd go with this: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Jennifer English

The audio design is just so perfect in the game and the VA is a main reason.

Now honestly Charlie Cox outclasses everyone on this list but they are unlikely to give the award to a big Hollywood star who did that part in an afternoon(and who feels guilty about all the praise it has brought him), so I'd go with English or Baker as my top two. Cox's acting in E33 is so good it goes beyond VA and significantly adds to the qualify of the game. Don't even get me started on Gustave. What a fucking character and Gustave IS Cox. They are the same dude and it just would take so much talent to pull that off and he did. We are dealing with some high level talent with Cox, English, Baker, the best of the best really. Kevin Conroy level stuff. Did you notice the small hints to BG3 they put in Maelle's combat dialog? She has a very specific way of whispering, "I'm ready" before a turn and gives me chills, lol.

Two of the best performances of all time in games imho. Some of Maelle's lines are so classic because of English I just can't in good conscience vote any other way.
 
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How in the fuck does Death Stranding 2 get a nom? I mean, we all know Mr Dorito's is sucking off Kojima so there is that but honestly, there were so many other FAR better games released this year that deserved that spot.
 
skit_data said:
Definitely one of the most interesting releases this year (and it deserves way more recogniton), but the ending fell too short for it to be a GOTY nomimee IMO.
I could easily see a sequel/spiritual successor get nominated if they improve pretty minor things overall (enemy variety, narrative structure and pacing).
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Yeah, maybe not a GOTY contender, but it had no recognition at all in any category this year at TGAs.
 
Zacfoldor said:
Strong performances this year all around.

I'd go with this: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Jennifer English

The audio design is just so perfect in the game and the VA is a main reason.

Now honestly Charlie Cox outclasses everyone on this list but they are unlikely to give the award to a big Hollywood star who did that part in an afternoon(and who feels guilty about all the praise it has brought him), so I'd go with English or Baker as my top two. Cox's acting in E33 is so good it goes beyond VA and significantly adds to the qualify of the game.

Two of the best performances of all time in games imho. Some of Maelle's lines are so classic because of English I just can't in good conscience vote any other way.
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One of the reasons I loved Troy's performance in Indy so much: his job was reinterpreting an iconic character played by one of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time.

He did a phenomenal job capturing the essence of Indy - there are times where if I closed my eyes I'd swear it was Ford - but still put just enough of his own spin/flavor on it where it wasn't "Troy Baker's Harrison Ford ImpressionTM"
 
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ToneyJ said:
Trails in the Sky 1st should be nominated for RPG at the minimum.
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Yeah, that's the most legit snub I've heard so far. Was it not nominated for anything?
phant0m said:
One of the reasons I loved Troy's performance in Indy so much: his job was reinterpreting an iconic character played by one of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time.

He did a phenomenal job capturing the essence of Indy - there are times where if I closed my eyes I'd swear it was Ford - but still put just enough of his own spin/flavor on it where it wasn't "Troy Baker's Harrison Ford ImpressionTM"
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I certainly wouldn't be upset if he won. Without his performance that game would have had a HARD time breaking thru but he nailed it and it amplified the quality of the game greatly.

That's like a feat of power, lol. Dude is a legend.
 
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phant0m said:
Troy should win this category for Indiana. He really knocked it out of the park and would've been my pick for last year's games.
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nah, Indiana was like played by 10 ppl, he ll never win this and we got luck that Andy Serkis wasnt nominated for E33 too, that would make 4 nominees out one game for best VA and it would be my pick for best VA of 25, now i have to vote for Gustave.
 
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Zacfoldor said:
Now that there is no danger of it happening, they could have swapped out Stranding 2 for Arc Raiders.

I know I lobbied against it here, but that was just my Bananza worry.

Bananza was nominated so all is good now.

Arc Raiders should have been over Death Stranding 2 and Yotei(which got snubbed for goty) because despite Stranding 2 and especially Yotei being surprisingly decent games(Yotei is actually very good) they are both too safe.

Safe sequels are killing Sony this gen and devs need to get the message and they are not iterating on their last games but rather just copying them and we are getting bored. Yotei is very good and I've had a blast with it but we need to always be moving forward or we will stagnate, and Sony is not moving forward fast enough on by the numbers sequels. Ideally we want a Dark Souls 3 to Elden Ring leap on every game from now on and if you can't do that you aren't the best game of the year. Experiment. That's why DK Voxels is on here and other shit is not. Nintendo is always trying something new. Look at TotK. Was that a by the numbers sequel? Lol it even used the same map but the fucking building shit was WILD and not even hinted at in any way in BotW but it was the entire game in TotK, we need more wild ass ideas like Voxels and physics based building programs and less copy paste games with minimal/patch changes and story downgrades.
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Safe sequels can be fine.

Silksong and Hades II are safe sequels. KCD2 is a pretty by the number sequels.

Difference is they're iterating on things that were quite a bit better than Ghost of Yotei in the first place.
 
MacReady13 said:
How in the fuck does Death Stranding 2 get a nom? I mean, we all know Mr Dorito's is sucking off Kojima so there is that but honestly, there were so many other FAR better games released this year that deserved that spot.
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While I have zero doubt that part of that is Keighley once again giving Kojima fellatio in front of the whole world, it did get high critical reception (much higher than the first) and the first game seemed to grow a little on the gaming community as time passed. When you open the front page of OpenCritic, 5 of the GOTY nominees appear in the top 9 spots. DS2 being one of them.

I'm not at all surprised that DS2 got nominated. What DOES surprise me is that Split Fiction didn't. My guess is that KCD2 felt like the bigger story this year and they only had 6 spots. To be honest, this is one of those years where it felt like 10 nominations would have been needed. Personally I feel like both Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 deserved spots at the table.
 
Blue Prince should be GOTY nominated.

Are we underestimating Hades 2 for overall winner? It's top for MC and OC score.
 
Dispatch for sure. Dispatch's full release was on November 12th, so while it didn't miss the cutoff, it was probably just shy of being top-of-mind for the voters. Some of the best writing I've ever seen in a "video game"--mainly the dialogue, but also in the story & its pacing.
 
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