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God of War wins TGA's Game of the Year award!
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RDR2 has stunning word design, graphics, and narrative. But it's gameplay just isn't there. The shooting and movement aren't particularly fun or engaging.
God Of War may not quite reach the technical heights of RDR2 (though it's a technical masterpiece in it's own right), but it has engaging combat and well-done gameplay. It's a full package of a game.
God Of War may not quite reach the technical heights of RDR2 (though it's a technical masterpiece in it's own right), but it has engaging combat and well-done gameplay. It's a full package of a game.
God of War is a boring, photorealistic game?
I have to wonder if some of the posters here have even played the game. God of War actually has more fantastical and artistic visuals than RDR2. If anything it's RDR2 that goes for something closer to outright realism, especially in environments, assets and lighting.
I'm getting VR for Christmas, so if you're posting on the Sony First Party thread, I should post some impressions there in due time!
There are many games we will be talking about for the next 5 to 10 years. This includes God of War, and other huge profile games.
For me personally TLoU's story impacted me the most out of high profile AAA games that I recall and I've thought about certain moments in that game years after I've been it on grounded. I didn't ever finish GTA V, but I heard the story there disappoints and the controls were still pretty trash. Still need to beat RDR2 and have a long way to go.
Furthermore, you know there's one game that's going to surpass RDR 2 in half of the things you mentioned and it's likely coming out next year or early 2020 (TLoU 2)..
Regardless, GoW is generally seen as the more fun and better playing game for it's genre, which is a important factor in for this award. Gameplay > Everything.
Congrats to SSM, they made something special with this one.
Ultimately though, this was a top tier year for gaming. so many high quality games and whats amazing is that if you have a specific type of game you prefer to play, there was something there for you.
like platformers? try Celeste or Astro bot
like open world? try Farcry 5, Red Dead 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey
like action? try Spiderman or Monster Hunter World
like jrpgs? try Octopath Traverler or DQ11
like fighting games? try DBFZ or soul calibuer 6
like rhythm games? try beat saber or persona dancing
There is just so many great choices...just a superb year!
Ultimately though, this was a top tier year for gaming. so many high quality games and whats amazing is that if you have a specific type of game you prefer to play, there was something there for you.
like platformers? try Celeste or Astro bot
like open world? try Farcry 5, Red Dead 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey
like action? try Spiderman or Monster Hunter World
like jrpgs? try Octopath Traverler or DQ11
like fighting games? try DBFZ or soul calibuer 6
like rhythm games? try beat saber or persona dancing
There is just so many great choices...just a superb year!
You got that shit right!
RDR2 and it's Gameplay/Combat belong nowhere near any talk of GOTY awards.
RDR2 and it's Gameplay/Combat belong nowhere near any talk of GOTY awards.
I don't care what games win any awards, I'm just here for the salt and this thread certainly delivered.
Have fun :)
Over two years after launch, you should find a lot of great games beside Astro Bot.
Like Wipeout VR, Beat Saber, Moss, The Persistence, Superhot, REZ Infinite etc....
God of War has some great boat segments to help you get away
Well, it also comes with Moss, I d/led Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (though I think that needs Move controllers) and RIGS when they were PS+ games, and I own RE7, so I am set for a little while! =)
Joel is better acted than Arthur Morgan. I like Arthur but outside of that one scene I don't think he is some new benchmark in voice acting.
So happy for Cory and Sony SMS!! You guys did it!! And congrats to RockStar for take a lot of the awards for the night!!
My personal history with Sony SMS/GoW aside, both are fantastic games that people should play.
My personal history with Sony SMS/GoW aside, both are fantastic games that people should play.
Sony prob has more GOTY awards in the last decade than its competitors unless you are talking specifically about VGA awards?
Does every amazing performance have to be a new benchmark in voice acting? In fact the idea that there is a single voice acting benchmark in and of itself is kind of weird, just as it would be weird to claim that there is a single benchmark acting performance in over 100 years of film. In games, as in movies, we now have tons of amazing performances that excel at different things and have lots of different nuances. There is no one acting benchmark imo.
Yeah, some very good games for the beginning.
I believe Until Dawn works also with the DS4 but should be played with the moves.
I never claimed it. I think Miami mentioned no performance comes close to Arthur and I thought Joel was much better acted for example.
Sure, it's my second game of the year, not that it didn't deserve the award as well. I'm just confused on how much praise the game got from the press, I mean, how universaly acclaimed is.
For instance, I loved chapter 1 but as the chapter was going forward I thought "man, a lot of people are going to hate this", because I always remember how much people here seems to hate forced walking segments and such things, and chapter 1 is like 2hs of that, insane but I loved it.
My problem with the game were in the middle in terms of engagement, and the gameplay and some design decisions were a bit disappointing (mostly losing because not following the intended path or strict action you have to do most of the time), but overall is a tremendous game that I can't see as less of one of the best of the gen, just that it has some so evident flaws that it boggles me how it got such scores almost from everyone.
I suppose that most of the time these games are assigne to fans so reviewers are more likely to give a favorable score while the rest of the staff maybe would hate them, that's what I think happened here, reviewers loved RDR 2 but their partners didn't (as much at least).
Specifically this current iteration of the awards, going back 5 years.
That's some bad game award envelope design. Nowhere on it does it have the name of the award, so we could end up eventually getting a Steve Harvey moment.
Yeah Sony is a GOTY factory. They put out multiple GOTY contenders every year, and usually win the bulk of them. I'm happy that they finally got a VGA 😊
Plenty of God of War hype ferries you can take. ;)
Man, I remember this. ^_^ I like finding my old one before it was also Spidey-fied. xD~~
Why is play in quotation marks? What else are you doing to games this year, eating them or something?
Mjolnir would be a start.
I thought that Gow was perfect until that scene (you know which is). After that, the main quest sinks in gameplay and story. It still is my GOTY, but i still haven't played RDR2 or Spiderman
Yayy!! Was expecting best director because of that single shot implementation. Winning GOTY had 50-50 chances with RDR2.
Congrats Cory!!