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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is your 2019 TGA Game of the Year Winner
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I haven't even played Sekiro yet, but I'm over the moon that FromSoftware won. They've been my favorite developer for almost ten years now.
Whish I could of played more of it because I was liking parts of it but the awful interface,useless one or 2 time use items,useless starting skills and general where the hell am I going,looks ok over here,oh wait I got spotted and 15 guys coming at me,including wolves and sniper bazookas made me stop playing after 1 Boss and about 5 hours,4 of those being retries with less and less items each time...looked kinda muddy on the Pro as well.
Congrats I guess but RE2,Outer Worlds,the only 2 other games I played on the list would of been my picks...at least I could finish those. ;P
Congrats I guess but RE2,Outer Worlds,the only 2 other games I played on the list would of been my picks...at least I could finish those. ;P
I voted RE2 but Sekiro is great too so I ain't even mad! From should have won for Bloodborne in 2015 so I'll just see this as their Dicaprio/Scorsese moment.
I was surprised at this winning (I didn't think DS would since they'd given Kojima the directing award already but with the love to Control, RE2 getting so many accolades and Smash being a huge crowd favorite, I figured they were all more likely than Sekiro) but appreciated that in general this year the awards felt like a "real" award show. A number of the winners were relatively unexpected in that they weren't the safest/most mainstream choice. Pretty cool.
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Yikes...Saw this on Reddit, god Miyazaki look so happy.
''SEC-EAR-ROW-''
But it's not even really accurate >.>
Seh-kee-roh is better. (No stress on any of the syllable).
This rumour was started by Ben Judd, who is notoriously... problematic in many ways, and I would take it with a huge, HUGE grain of salt. In fact I would rather not spread it around.
I was playing the Boss Rush Sekiro mod on PC, fighting Owl Father when the winner was announced. I was so surprised and happy that I let my guard down and died right after they announced it.
Yeah, sure, I don't understand Sekiro after finishing it 2 times on PC and 5 times on PS4 with the platinum trophy.
Reused bosses are just that, reused bosses. You fight the drunk guy 3 TIMES.
Reused areas it's not about "good" game design, come on. You came back to Ashina a lot to found just harder enemies and some areas blocked.
And I'm not gonna talk about the useless skills, but if you find that locking the use of all the skills behind 4 or 5 walkthroughs its "good design"...
And it is my type of game, I now how to play it, I know how to beat every boss and I know how to parry like a boss. That doesn't mean that the game doesn't have flaws or poor choices to my taste. If you don't want to see it it's your problem, but the reused bosses and areas en the dumb skill tree progression are facts.
Worth noting that Sekiro is currently 45% off on Greenmangaming:
Good time to pick it up!
[edit: no idea why the preview says "pre-purchase"... :thonk:]
Good time to pick it up!
[edit: no idea why the preview says "pre-purchase"... :thonk:]
Let's better stop here haha.
For you it's a great game who deserves the GOTY
For me it's a great game with big flaws that is not GOTY material
Conclusion? it's a great game anyways.
This is actually super accurate. Genichiro teaches you how to play the game and once you do that, everything else in the game sans like 3 endgame bosses are cake.
Great game, surprised it won though with RE2 on the side.
*whispers* Bloodborne was robbed *whispers*
*whispers* Bloodborne was robbed *whispers*
They certainly re-used a lot of mini-bosses, but tons of games do that, and the fact that they had so many minibosses (generals - multiple types, drunkards, ogres, bulls, catepillars, samauri, armored warrior, snakeyes, headless, warrriors, lance bosses, etc.)
In terms of main bosses, again you had the Horse, Lady B, Genichiro, Guardian Ape, Monkeys, Corrupted Monk [ 2 very different fights], Dragon,
DoH, Father Owl - 2 radically different fights, Emma, Isshin - Two radically different fights
Plus you had the snake and carp encounters level boss encounters.
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Yes they re-used bosses and arenas, but if the suggestion is that there was a lack of boss variety or enemy variety, then the point itself is baseless. Particularly given that all the bosses played radically differently and required you to learn different movesets, whereas something like Bloodborne had a lot of different creature designs, but the actual strategy for so many of them (dodge/flank/attack) was very similar. Whereas Sekiro has posture bosses, health bosses, mixed posture-health, puzzle bosses, etc., and bosses had personalized movesets and far more moves to counter.
The overall nature of combat is more complex than Souls and Bloodborne, with parrying playing such a key role and rock/paper/scissors counter mechanism being so prominent. Each of the main bosses also had a more complex moveset of abilities to test that as well.
Just because you can beat a game doesn't mean you can see the design philosophy behind it, which is why you see a ton of cons in it. You beat it seven times?? And bought it twice?? Platinum it twice? Damn, you must really like poorly designed games lol
The great Keighley has spoken, Sekiro is now your GOTY. Accept this 100% true fact. Purge all heretical thought from your head.
i was pretty surprised. This isn't a big game that anybody talks about like God of War/BOTW (which ppl still talk about).
This game came and went within a week. In fairness the other games were all forgettable too. I cant even remember the others in the running
This game came and went within a week. In fairness the other games were all forgettable too. I cant even remember the others in the running
I think Resident Evil 2 is probably my pick for this year, but Sekiro is one of the best games of this generation, so I am quite happy to see it get the nod.
Lol. What a take.
Lol. What a take.
i mean...it IS a niche game. idk what u want from me. I watched this thing with like 5 other ppl and im the only one that knew what Sekiro was.
It sold four million copies. If that is niche then VERY few games aren't niche.
Also, claiming that all the other games from this year are "forgettable" is just silly. I mean, maybe that reflects your very specific perspective, which is fine, but it is still quite the take.
Awful take lol. This game was talked about forever and did incredibly well, what're you even talking about?
You can't use the classic internet power play of calling people children and expect any of us to believe that you aren't salty.
That's my takeaway. With viewership presumably in the ballpark of seven figures TGA this year was educating some fools about a couple of real good games ;)
I watched this with five people as well and we all knew what it was. Uh oh, whose anecdotal experience wins here? I'll fight you to the death to find out, Kody who hails from the east coast.
im sure its a good game. But to think that its not niche...and that its a well known game that ppl are still talking about is just incorrect. If ur not reading about games on a daily basis. U dont know about this game.
and 4 mil is good. for like Splatoon. But a game thats available on PC/Xbox/PS4. thats like 1 percent of ppl that could buy it, did...right?
idk i dont really care. i didn't think calling Sekiro a game that wasn't big or was under the radar was going to be controversial. But then again. its from software. So maybe i shoulda knownt the dark souls ppl are always out in force.
and 4 mil is good. for like Splatoon. But a game thats available on PC/Xbox/PS4. thats like 1 percent of ppl that could buy it, did...right?
idk i dont really care. i didn't think calling Sekiro a game that wasn't big or was under the radar was going to be controversial. But then again. its from software. So maybe i shoulda knownt the dark souls ppl are always out in force.
It's funny, this is their post,
Yet this is what we're supposed to get out of it?
Maybe say that in the first place instead of some edgy shit post then calling us children.
I don't understand the video game press, how does Sekiro not win best action game but win best game?
It won best action adventure. Why there is differentiation between the two is beyond one's comprehension as to why something as stupid as labels exist.