Post

This article is so weird. If GTA6 would have released last year, would the argument have been E33 is clearly too niche as a JRPG to win against one of the biggest, if not the biggest release, of the decade? Like, yeah, no shit???? We aren‘t in 2018 anymore, the industry has changed

Capcom in general has been on fire this year. Releasing 4 new games, including one that is from a brand new IP, and all of them being really good. Compare that to one Rockstar that has been struggling to release ONE single game they've been preparing for years and needed all their studios to make.

What's that saying about parody needing clarity of intent, or else it's mistaken for that which it intends to criticize..? Is this a greater admonishment of TGA as more of an ad vehicle with popularity contests masquerading as awards in the background? THAT would be worth exploring further imho

Polygon out here winning Ragebait Rag of the Year. The inaccuracies in the article are just stunning. Licensed games are looked down upon by the jury? Lukewarm reception to Blood of Dawnwalker and Onimusha? Pokopia will struggle, despite Animal Crossing getting a nom a few years ago?

Polygon getting bodied in both the comments here and on their site. Great engagement bait tho. Also GTA VI is releasing after the cut off for the Game Awards' GOTY unless Geoff changes the end date to vote?

And between now and January it's packed. I don't typically buy many games but every day I'm like 'oh shit THATS coming out' I have a strong feeling the Duskbloods will be it for me but....there's so many. Mina the hollower. Forza 6. Resident evil. Dragon quest. On and on and on

This is embarassing, either retire as a videogame journalist, or learn that games beyond the AAA scene exist. But more importantly, preemptively declaring GTA6 the winner is just a sham, hope at least ur getting a fat rockstar check... you shouldnt be doing tricks on it like that for free yk!

Hate to break it to you, Lads, but your GOTY isn't about what AAA slop is being doled out at the trough, but what *you* think is *your* GOTY. Not sure why I'm the one telling you this.

You can take your GTA 6 and rot for all I care it isn't going to be as good as everyone keeps trying to say because everyone has been putting to much into it. It's going to be existing for like two weeks then the shine well rub off some when we realize it's just the same game as before just updated

I have an idea for this author why don’t they just make their own game of the year list and ignore everything else? Alan Wake 2 and Control were award favorites but you’re just going to skip over Control 2 for the sake of writing a clickbait article.

Mina the Hollower seemed universal beloved but you’re going to throw it under the bus because it didn’t sell a bajillion copies. This is brainrot behavior were you’re let numbers dictate the art instead of personal enjoyment.

Fuck you. There's so many good games this year, but the game that's a moral black hole to keep glazing is the automatic winner? Again, fuck you. Be a better person.

Bad take. Resident Evil 9 was well received, 007 got universal praise and sold great, Pokopia is the best reviewed Pokemon game in decades, Pragmata is a great new IP from Capcom. It’s not quite a glut but it’s ridiculous to call this a bad year for games

Just say you don't actually know games. There are already at least a few that could take home GOTY and there are SO MANY releasing in the next two months that could do the same. Everything isn't about GTA 6.

Tbf it'd take a cyberpunk 2077 level disaster for GTA VI to lose but I still think that this year has some amazing games that might end up more loved than GTA vi. Games such as RE requiem or Mina the Hollower. I guess we'll see after GTA vi comes out

GTA6 is going to flop and precipitate the (very overdue) crash of the AAA game industry not only can it NOT possibly live up to the hype they themselves have created, financially speaking, they are banking on 5x as many sales on opening week, on a more expensive product, in a cost-of-living crisis

While I agree with you on how GTA VI can't live to the hype, it's hard to conclude if it's going to be a financial failure. Considering how successful GTA online was, Take 2 and R* are probably banking on the success of GTA Online 2 when it comes to financials. Although that's just my best guess

I read the article, its a whole lot of nothing burger, not as bad as the title makes it sound, but it can be summed up as "Most games this year have been great but few go past an arbitrary number critic score, so that means nothing will beat a game no one has played" and thats really dumb

Oh cool, a migraine in the shape of an article title! GTA6 couldn't interest me less if it tried, and there have been, and are slated to be, SO MANY bangers this year. This is a farcical chunk of engagement bait. Do better.

Writing this in the same year we get Romeo is a Dead Man, Pragmata, Resident Evil 9, Dragon Quest 7 R, Splatoon Raiders, Star Fox, Pokopia, Tomodachi Life, Onimusha, Fatal Frame 2 R, Wolverine, Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave, Trails in the Sky 2nd Ch., a new Castlevania, and Ocarina of Time REMAKE smh

That is a good point, it is nice to remember that game of the year lists for actual gaming platforms like PC will be unimpacted by this nonsense Based on the reactions from everyone I know who has played it I am going to imagine Esoteric Ebb has a dark horse chance at game of the year this year

What a truly awful piece. You and your types are why gatekeeping was invented. Dozens of phenomenal games have released this year and moved the hearts of many and you're going to sit here and suggest that no one is even approaching SECOND PLACE? Fuck yourself, I mean it.

Playing blood of Dawnwalker now and personally think it’s underscored on metacritic. The time mechanic and combat are really well executed and the story is gripping.

Ah yes, we should all care about what gets nominated for an awards show that originated on Spike TV and is now just one big vapid commercial with tiny breaks for awards.

Why do we always put GTA as this sort of "absolute pinnacle" of video gaming? So many other games have more charm, effort, narrative and artistic merit in their pinky finger than GTA has in it's entire franchise. But no, our industry peaks at stealing cars and pumping hookers full of lead. #FuckGTA

Video games is the only medium were Avengers: Endgame would win the Oscar because it is popular, made billions and your uncle has seen it, rather than Parasite.

Well, there's nothing shiny about AAA games, that's for sure. Mewgenics, Big Walk, Esoteric Ebb, Mina the Hollower. Like ALWAYS, indie games are hitting strides AAA can only meekly replicate. Forza and Onimusha look sick though.

Completely disagree. I'm sure GTA VI will be a lot of fun, but I won't even be touching it for a while. There's so many other games coming out through the rest of the year that I'm far more interested in.

Maaaaan, shit like this makes me want to play GTA6 less than I already do. This is some serious rage bait. Like… tell me you play nothing but looter shooters w/o telling me. Damn. I can name at least five I already think of higher, and five that are yet to come out that probably will be. Ridiculous.

Didn't Deltarune chapter 5 drop a few months ago? Sorry about your bad car game or whatever. I'm going to go imagine the face of the author of this article being shoved into a brick wall.

I’m sorry but having GTA 6 being used at the monolith for games of the year is completely asinine. I don’t give a damn about GTA 6. Each game should be assessed on its own merits and weaknesses. Not all based on one fucking game with an absurd asking price. Fucking spare me this drivel.

Also, are we ignoring that this game isn’t even out yet? I don’t think any reviewer has had their hands on it. If it’s turning out to be such a great game then why shouldn’t it win. Imo it’s not a given though. Also I don’t think people are going to dismiss great games because they haven’t won goty

The secret is to throw as many buzzwords in a headline as possible. I think everyone as a whole should type gta6 in Google trends along with the word Epstein so they become #1 and #2 just to see what headlines look like :)

Theres straight masterpieces dropping left and right especially in the indie space that can and will absolutely solo gta6 in sheer quality and passion and all gta brings is good graphics, swindling basic features behind $100+ editions and inevitably greedy multiplayer. It's literally nothing special

Honestly, the headline alone is dumb enough to make you not want to read the article. How can you even write something like this when Big Walk came out this year?!?

If I ran a website about video games I would promote my own game of the year articles and only cover game announcements from the Keighleys.

I understand that opinions are subjective, yadayadayada. All of this is insane to write, then have an editor read it and say, "yes, we want this on our site." The "race for second place?" I'm sorry, is the implication that devs are so impotent they all think "our game is good...but not THAT good?"

Having this boner for Metacritic scores, as a games writer in this field, is a damning condemnation of your exposure to games that preclude your own biased views. And we see that with how dismissive you are of every game that doesn't fit into your own, personal requirements for a good game.

Excluding Big Walk and Orbitals because they're mp only. (Sorry, you only give this excuse to Big Walk. Orbitals is because it's...not as good in your eyes as Blood of the Dawnwalker...sure, whatever.) Excluding Forza because cars (better reasons like the extreme rubber banding but I digress.)

Hey, your whole idea of clicks driven bait headlines doesn't work if you piss people off because they don't care about what the rest of your words say enough to *click* Sheer idiocy.

What shadow??? Its one of the last releases of the year, & no one outside the press has even touched it yet! 007 Last Light, ResE Re9uiem, Mina the Hollower if you like retro, Big Walk, Mewgenics, Nioh 3, Onimusha JUST came out, it's an INSANE year???

GTAVI isn't a follow up to GTAV. It's a follow up to Red Dead Redemption 2, and seems to be cut from the same cloth. It's going to be incredible

Can't wait for the leak in like 5-10 years showing Rockstar paid you under the table for all this dick riding you're doing for them

hey yeah can you put this Oli Welsh on article probation for being off their fucking rocker? I mean yeah GTA is still huge even losing fans at record breaking levels bc of Rockstar but this is just wildly irresponsible journalism and out of touch. I can't believe this saw the light of day lmao

I totally remember GTA V getting perfect scores across the board even though their online mode was completely broken at launch time. It feels like some of these review sites are prepared to crown a game that hasn't even come out yet just because of the added hype.