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God of War wins TGA's Game of the Year award!
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I think we should retroactively remove all of BotW's GotY awards and give them to God of War instead.
I am not done with RDR2, so I cannot form a definitive opinion yet until I do, but as I just told my friend via texting back and forth I was no doubt way more excited to keep playing GOW than I am to keep playing RDR2.
I just wanted to keep playing GOW.
RDR2 I have taken several breaks to play other games. I am nowhere near as excited to keep playing it as I was GOW.
Granted there were not a lot of other games to compete to GOW when it was released. I do no doubt acknowledge that was a very big part of things, but I was fucking psyched to keep playing GOW even when it felt like it was getting repetitive.
While I am enjoying my time with RDR2 immensely, I do at times have to "force" myself to continue playing it.
And to clarify, the reason I compare the two games is for my money it was one or the other to be the GOTY.
Congrats to the GOW team. Truly cannot wait to play the next one.
I just wanted to keep playing GOW.
RDR2 I have taken several breaks to play other games. I am nowhere near as excited to keep playing it as I was GOW.
Granted there were not a lot of other games to compete to GOW when it was released. I do no doubt acknowledge that was a very big part of things, but I was fucking psyched to keep playing GOW even when it felt like it was getting repetitive.
While I am enjoying my time with RDR2 immensely, I do at times have to "force" myself to continue playing it.
And to clarify, the reason I compare the two games is for my money it was one or the other to be the GOTY.
Congrats to the GOW team. Truly cannot wait to play the next one.
These are two of my favourite games ever, and it was really hard for me to choose between them. RDR2 has much better narrative, so it deserves that award, and has some amazing music at times to create emotional moments. But God of War has much better gameplay and is more fun to play. Overall I think God of War does, just, deserve to win overall GOTY. Going to be a fun fight to see which wins the most awards.
I thought Red Dead being multi-plat might hold also contribute to holding GoW back. Pretty impressive what Cory & Co accomplished to sweep past any biases.
Exact opposite for me. I dropped RDR2 after about 30 hours due to how repetitive it felt, how overly linear the missions were for such an open world game and how much of a shit show the controls were. IMO that game is hugely overrated but I accept that I'm in the minority with that opinion.
I started newgame+ with GoW the other day and I instantly remembered why I thought it was the best game I'd played in years. I haven't yet played RDR2 admittedly, but I have a very hard time imagining anything being better than GoW this year. It just plays magnificently, particularly in newgame+ with all of your abilities and gear unlocked. Its special.
Oh come on Red Dead gameplay is like watching wallpaper dry lol no offense, just...oh man maybe it's just my opinion tho. But I do like Red dead - the world is incredible.
Fuck Yeah Cory! But, I am extra happy for Shannon Studstill. She has given a lot for this studio. I still remember from behind the scenes of original God of War, how Jaffee asked for an extension and she took the news to Shu and basically put her job on the line because Shu pretty much gave her an ultimatum that the game better be good. She had in fact left the studio at one point, but Shu asked her to come back after brought her back after shipping Allan Becker to Japan. Of course, it hasn't been smooth sailing since then, but this one she and the studio deserved.
Even in a thread that has nothing to do with it, BotW has to be mentioned.
To me RDR2 was at its best during cutscenes with dialogue, it was like a HBO series. The moment the game hands me the reins it falters considerably. Not surprised it won best narrative and best performance, totally deserved those, but man it's not a game I would like to play.
Best game won. So happy to see this, and would have accepted Spider-Man winning as well. Absolutely wonderful experience, and so happy for Cory and the team.
I loved GoW, but yeah, RDR2 for me is an all time classic, probably my favorite game ever. Would have been cool to see it take the top honor but you really can't go wrong with GoW. Amazing game
Dan went from loving RDR2 to being annoyed to absolutely despising it.
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I'm so happy for SSM and Balrog, they so deserve it. And it's proof that a game can win GOTY even against a Rockstar Game.
Well fuckin' deserved. Arguably the richest and most well-rounded game I've played this year and easily one of the best of this generation (and certainly, ever). Not my personal GOTY but it is really, really, really close. Red Dead Redemption 2 would also be a worthy winner (as it is a whooper experience) but from all the nominees, it had to be GoW. Believed it would be the winner and here it is. The Best Game Direction was the turning point. From that moment on, the winner was chosen, so as to say.
Congrats, Cory! You deserve it!
Congrats, Cory! You deserve it!
We could say the same about Red Dead Redemption 1 you know, maybe RDR 3 will be better than 2?
Honestly the rewards were handed out correctly , red deads soundtrack and story are incredible but it's gameplay is seriously lacking. God of war is overall just a much better package the story is great soundtrack is epic and the gameplay is tons of fun and fluid unlike red dead . Both games are fantastic as are were all the nominees.
Man, looking at Shannon in this, makes my heart swell up.
After a great year for games, this was personally my GOTY as well. Congratulations to Cory, Shannon, the cast, the audio team, and all of the hard working devs at Sony Santa Monica.
agreed. red dead has some amazing stuff, actual gameplay isn't one of them.
This actually gives me hope that GoW will win overall GotY. It's seems like reviewers are looking past all the spectacle and flash of RDR2 for a truly exciting, fresh take on an old series that was phenomenal.
I find it weak, the whole game boils down to setting up the camp at one point, doing some missions until you steal the city closer, the mission is unsuccessful and they have to flee and find a new place, repeat this in all 6 chapters , very predictable from start to finish,the game drags a lot,also chapter 5 is a joke.The writing does not run too far from Rockstar's standard.The game is just much bigger and has more dialogues than other R* games,that is it.
IGN is in the bag,like all podcast I saw,God of War is unanimous.I think takes Gamespot too.
lol yeah
