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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is your 2019 TGA Game of the Year Winner
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The difficulty of the game it's being talked to this day but it was heavy during the first two months, articles and articles about it and people complaining they were being left behind.
Sekiro was outpacing DS3 initially per estimated sales. And you're completely wrong on only people that follow games daily knowing about it. I know plenty of people who game but don't follow games who know what Sekiro is.
If you think Sekiro wasn't big or went under the radar that's on you for not paying attention. Gaming media lent more than enough attention to it to spread to casual viewers. It got the whole game difficulty debate flowing again giving it legs. It was a prominent seller in March despite only being available for a week and still charted in April and May. It was also carried by the hype of the developers of DS/Bloodborne, multiple time nominees at the same show they just won. If you don't know Sekiro or From you sure as shit don't care about the VGAs of all things.
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I played this for like an hour and could not beat some generic random enemies so i quit lol Wish I could git gud and finish it out, but my brain could not comprehend the combat for some reason.
never understood why they scrapped the Best Shooter category and then jammed a bunch of shooters in the action category. 4 of the 6 nominations in action were shooters. Sekiro won action-adventure though the whole distinction between action and action-adventure makes no sense to me. Devil may cry 5 rightfully won the action, but also confused why it wasn't nominated for GOTY over stuff like Control, Smash, and Outerworlds.
Sekiro was one of the most amazing first play throughs of a game I've ever experienced. It isn't as replayable as other From games, but that's fine. It is its own thing and I love it for that. Can Miyazaki do any wrong?
He was even able to fend off whatever fuckary Activision Blizzard probably wanted to do with his game.
I first played King's Field II (well, just King's Field here since we never got the original) in like 2014 and I absolutely loved it.
the only From game I've played was bloodborne and I beat it. For copycats I played the surge and absolutely loved it
Ok so you're familiar with how these games work. I was gonna say, cuz I personally don't think Sekiro does the best job of teaching the player how to play it. If you ever do go back to it (and you should, there's a lot of great stuff to see) my biggest piece of advice would be to focus on the audio/visual cues for perfect parries, as combat in this game is almost entirely based around parrying to open the enemy up to being attacked, and then realizing when the enemy has parried you so that you know to stop attacking.
Congratulations From and Miyazaki not a second to late and goty as well so could not be happier.
Maybe resist instinct of being a child when someone doesn't immediately slurp your favorite game and you won't need to be reminded you're acting that way?
It's their best alongside Bloodborne. I prefer the combat of sekiro and the world/atmosphere of BB. I honestly don't think we'll get another game with as good a sword combat for a very long time.
Constantly referring to the people you are arguing with as being children is a bad look. It is utterly petulant. You should consider taking it down and notch and refraining from name-calling.
I hate the game and would be sad seeing it winning something I don't think it deserves. It's simple as that.
I love Kojima games, but this one is a stinky for me.
lol I don't think I've ever seen as many people more happy that a game didn't win than celebrating that a game did. It's bizarre.
When you meet him on top of the rooftop - I get to his second phase consistently, and sometimes his third.
I probably need to just go back and try again - i put it down for so long, I'm reluctant though.
Bloodborne was a cake walk compared to this for me lol.
The same way a movie didn't win director of the year or sweep most of the awards but still wins film of the year. There might be other titles that individually were better in one specific regard but this one as a whole encompassing other categories is the best as a package.
Sekiro was nominated for Action/Adventure, not Action. And it won that as well.
Yeah I'm trying to find who won all the awards as I didn't get a chance to watch. Point remains though. It has happened in film awards prior so it's not like an argument couldn't be made that a game is still a better packaged good.
So even if it was a niche game as you are laughably suggesting it should not win Game of the Year?
Demons Souls was niche. From Software was a major name in the game once Dark Souls became a huge hit.
Do you need have to replay the game like three times to get the plat?
No, but you have to be really careful where you back up your save.
Congratulations to Miyazaki and the whole team at Fromsoftware! Thank you for all your incredible games!
That's no fun. Once you know the level layouts you can just run through things and escape to safety, and absolutely annihilating bosses that were massive roadblocks on my first playthrough was so satisfying. My NG+ playthrough took like 2-3 hours.
Haven't played it yet but congrats to the team at From, especially so for a new IP like this. Game looked awesome and I'm glad it succeeded when many were questioning how it would stack up against the Souls games. I don't remember the last time I was so genuinely surprised by a GOTY winner.
