• Aquilae [he/him, they/them]
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    22 hours ago

    Why do people even care about goty

    Fucking Astrobot won (fun game don't get me wrong, but bruh) this has obviously just become a joke

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    1 day ago

    Idk why anybody puts any stock into this stuff. I mean, Astrobot won GotY, which don't get me wrong, Astrobot is a cool game with some really good uses of the PS4 graphics capabilities, efficiencies, and hardware, but it really just served as the wake to the graveyard of PS Exclusives.

    It's been pretty clear that the whole thing has been mostly industry payola from the beginning.

    • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      The way I see it there's millions of people who would unironically fight in wars to defend their favorite console, game or genre. Anyone reasonable can tell that Astrobot won more or less because the game awards are just an expensive form of advertisement. However, you've got a legion of people who are pissed off that their favorite game didn't win GotY.

      Add politics to the mix and you understand some people get over it and others never will. Haven't seen Athlus or Balatro fans seething with hatred because their game didn't win GotY. Wukong was at least nominated, but that won't stop soft porn fans from complaining that Stellar Blade didn't win.

      • Rose@lemmy.zip
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        17 hours ago

        I voted for Astro Bot because I'm not interested in poker, anime, sexism, and the idea of DLC as a GOTY.

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      Astrobot is a cool game with some really good uses of the PS4 graphics capabilities, efficiencies, and hardware

      I think that's the problem is show how good PS4 is but the game was released for PS5

      /s

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    I can't believe that the people nominated us for the Jacking Off Major Media Publications Award of the Year, and we didn't win. What gives?

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    This dev sounds ridiculously arrogant, like I think I heard he pre-wrote his acceptance speech two years before the game was even out? That would be arrogant even for Miyazaki and Elden Ring, when it was pretty much a shoehorn.

    • Parzivus [any]
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      1 day ago

      I use Chinese forums occasionally, Wukong was wildly popular over there and considered a shoe-in for the win. Astrobot was okay but a lot of the appeal is just "I recognize that reference!" and the story is non-existent.

      Personally I would've given it to Balatro or Wukong, but GotY basically always goes to a Japanese or Western AAA game so they were both out from the beginning

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    I came for nothing

    Exactly, you should've retained your vital essence volcel-judge

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      Hear me out, what if they added a Balatro mode to the game? Then I think it would have a shot.

  • regul [any]
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    2 days ago

    If you wanted to win you should have made a better game.

  • YEP [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    I thought gamers hated this game bc china

      • YEP [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        Meme of guy looking at two buttons sweating.

        I thought the game was pretty good, shame the devs have brainworms.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      1 day ago

      I've seen Chinese folks actually defend the depiction of women in the game in that they're portrayed as strong and with agency, but that that aspect was ignored by racist journalists

      • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]
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        1 day ago

        I haven't played the game but I think that user was referring to the company itself, which has one or more employees saying inappropriate things about women.

        • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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          1 day ago

          Iirc the dev uses some internet language which uses a word that is either regular vulgar or misogynist vulgar depending on context (closest parallel: the c-word in the USA vs Australia)

          • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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            1 day ago

            Those were clear misogynist incel edgy “humor”. Maybe excusable if they’re edgy middle school kids, but these are grown up tech bros who have their brains rotted by g*mer culture, and clearly have let the internet praises over the past few years gotten to their heads.