Thread 723561091

Your 2025 GOTY nominees, sir.

>>723561091 (OP)
ahem

>>723561241
literally me

>>723561091 (OP)
So I'm assuming Silksong and Expedition 33 are gonna get passed up for awards for Hades 2 and Ghost of Yotei due to game journalists?

tick tock

>>723561426
no it's due to them being shitty indie streamer games

>>723561091 (OP)
For me its ng4

>>723561091 (OP)
hands down the best game I played this year

I know it will never win anything because it lacks mainstream appeal, but this is my undisputed goty.

>>723561091 (OP)
Yotei and silent hill f probably not getting nominated. I think it'll be split fiction and death stranding 2

Forgetting someone?

>>723561803
It's fun but man do you quickly figure out optimal combos for weapons and just blitz through everything

>>723561091 (OP)
id drop yotei for Death Stranding 2. its still playstation exclusive, and has the Geoff bonus

>>723561091 (OP)
>critics choose the winner
>therefore Hades 2 has it in the bag
You frogs can cry all day and won't change the inevitable.

>>723562129
Maybe I'm just bad, but its been challenging enough for me on hard (formerly regular) mode.

>>723562282
Critics name whatever game has the most fags as goty. Hades has it locked.

>>723561091 (OP)
Hey what the fuck? You faggot, you're not supposed to use an image with Hades 2 and silksong in it. Get with the program. Or are you a jeet that doesn't want to see expedition 33 win? You hate white people?

>>723562342
Also why Last of Us 2 won every award in 2020

>>723561503
Nice, very nice. Now let's look at last year's results.

>>723562282
It's not on ps5 so it's not happening

>>723562287
Moving hard to regular post first few patches was so bizarre. I came in straight from nioh and had a lot of fun. The combat is meaty but by the spider boss you just feel like you have everything figured out. If they're still updating with content they should consider a dlc or something with more weapons.

>>723561091 (OP)
>"GOTY" awards
>no GOTY nominated
Curious how this keeps happening every year

>>723562465
>highest reviewed game won over the most "popular" choice on social media
>highest reviewed game this year is Hades 2, zero contest
>reviewers are the voters
Hades 2 it is

>>723561091 (OP)
nobody played ghost of trannei

>>723562505
You're definitely better than me then. Bosses have consistently been difficult for me, the unique ones at least.

>>723561503
Make a high bet for yotei in music category sony always pays for awards

>>723561091 (OP)
Death Stranding 2 is better than all of them

>>723562607
If you don't think it's not gonna be e33 you might be retarded. Even silksong has a better chance at winning

>>723561091 (OP)
>blocks your path

>>723561091 (OP)
DS2 is my favorite game this year, but its gameplay loop aggressively filters normies to win any big awards, so Ive made peace with it. I just hope E33 doesnt win, i hate when normies get their way.

>>723561091 (OP)
E33 and that's it.

>>723562019
This is the only game worth a shit this year and it's basically a remake.

>>723563312
E33 is cringe and the combat system is basically paper Mario.

>>723563498
>basically paper Mario
when did this become a bad thing?

Nintardos pretending anyone ever gave a shit about kirby star ride will always be the funniest larp

E33 will win solely because the story and I didn't like the story.

>>723563536
Since it's not 2001 anymore?

I would say the same shit about silksong. Its a well made game but it's just another Metroidvania.

>>723561091 (OP)
I can't imagine which would disgust me more: Bananza winning or Hades 2 winning. Luckily E33 or Silent Hill f will kill them both, and if they don't, Silksong probably will.

>>723563097
I think for TGA at least it's coming out too late, if you mean personally then sure whatever

>>723561782
Truth nuke

>>723563916
My hope is that bananza or Kirby air riders win.

At least their trying something new instead using the same gameplay mechanics that Nintendo themselves created more then 2 decades ago.

>>723564275
Destructible environment isn't new. If a novel gimmick is all it takes for GOTY then the award is even more of a joke than ever

>>723564275
so funny how people be sucking massive penis for indie games yet half the time it's either roguelike shit or barely catching up to what the old guard did in the 80s and 90s.

>>723564502
No shit and platformers were a thing before donkey Kong and Mario bros.

>>723564502
>If a novel gimmick
Novel gimmick?? shut the fuck up nigga. You're just jealous that other games have been retarded enough to not have the coding skills needed to program destructible environments. I actually want intractability in my games fucker

>>723561091 (OP)
replace hades with kojimbo's magnum opus

>>723564624
Speaking of forgettable platformers, if a novel gimmick was the key factor, Balatro was fucking robbed.

>>723564502
...........as opposed to what anon? A paper mario-persona ripoff is better off winning??? fucking really?

>>723564719
I didn't call for a clown. You got the wrong address, kid.

>>723561503
Based on the reviews of Silksong, most players forced themselves to enjoy it.

>>723564869
why does the gaming community insist upon really shaky narratives made for themselves? What causes this behavior?

>>723564719
Doesn't even have physics. Objects just float like minecraft

>>723562282
Capcom really made Wilds solely for game critics.

>>723565069
Who the fuck even are these game critics? Why are they critics? And can they show their faces?

>>723564609
They aren't talented enough to copy recent shit from 6th and 7th gen.

>>723561091 (OP)
is this the grimmest year on record?

>>723564794
At least its memorable and well executed and reinvigorated its genre. Whether or not you personally like said genre? Matters less than spit, anon, but if you want another nothing game like Astrobot winning, so be it. However I feel GOTY is something that should actually have staying power with the audience and stand out. Doing something "new" is adorable, but we all know which of these games will still be remembered and regularly talked about in 10 years, and it ain't fuckin Bananza.

>>723565235
Honestly? yeah. Silksong was great but in 2017 there were way better games. So that made silksong into a bit of a nothing burger that year because way better things came out.

>>723565235
That'd be last year for sure.

>>723565190
Devs could really learn a thing or two about physics and math. Would be a really good skill set to have.

>>723564942
I mean, did you read the steam reviews for Silksong? I only played E33 and did a 100%, not forcing myself to enjoy a game.

>>723564609
>or barely catching up to what the old guard did in the 80s and 90s
And not even beating them.

>>723565269
Astro just won because it was Sony slop

>>723562282
Sequels don't win GOTY unless they look like overbudgeted AAA dreck. Clair Obscur will dominate Hades 2.

>>723565356
2025 is like barely at all better than last year

>>723565569
Barely better is still better. Last year was a complete joke. The lowest bar possible and yeah this year clears it.

>>723565739
2024 was honestly such a brainrotted and mechanical year. Humanity has fallen to levels I could never think to see.

>>723565739
This year had better aesthetics I guess though

>>723561610
Did you play ragebound?

>>723565429
Its not only a lack of talent but the type of people these companies have to deal with these days.

Nintendo has said multiple times that the best game developers are usually the ones who don't play videogames to begin with. Maybe that's them filtering these backstabbing bug men.

>>723565739
2024 feels like the ultimate year of detachment from life, history, and legacy. Fucking disgusting

>>723566230
I did. It was fun. I know it won't win a damn thing but it was one of the more enjoyable little action games I played this year, even if the girl segments could be a bit tedious at times

>>723561091 (OP)
Mario Kart World, BF6 and NG4 are leagues above any of the slop you posted

>>723566484
>BF6
If they got rid of the online requirements I might've agreed

>>723565269
>At least its memorable and well executed and reinvigorated its genre.
>hon hon hon pierre
>we will take le jarporc
>and paint it like le uncharté

>>723565567
Nigga even a motherfucking DLC won goty when journos needed to cock block actual GOTY game that went against their narrative.

>>723562969
holy esl

>>723566484
no... no they're not
none of these games are """""leagues above""""" anything else
it's over, and the sooner you accept that, the easier it will be

>DS2 (most probably)
>Silksong
>E33
only these matter. hadesfags are delusional

>>723566907
Nigger, you dumb?

>>723561091 (OP)
Fucking hell what a shit year. Silent Hill f would've been considered a 6/10 dime a dozen game 20 years ago.

>>723561091 (OP)
I have played none of these.

>>723561091 (OP)
I want either silksong or bananza to win so a platformer get GOTY two years in a row

>>723567190
platformers are the fucking best honestly

>>723561091 (OP)
Split Fiction and Death Stranding 2 will be in over Yotei and SHf

Silksong's not gonna get it because it squashed a lot of good will with excessive difficulty

2025 was the year of the Female Protagonist
based

>>723561091 (OP)
Lmao
Not a single person on earth gives a genuine shit about ghost of yotei

>>723567596
Fuck off nigger. Women deserve less than animals

>>723561091 (OP)
I’ve played 4/6 of these and I enjoyed every one. I’m very happy with games this year and doomers can’t convince me this was a bad year.

>>723567908
Here's the thing, its more like some good games IN A SEA OF SHIIIIIITTTTTTTT

>>723566347
Ex-employees have said there's geniuses working at Nintendo, they only hire the best of the best.

>>723568746
kek why are they ex-employees?

>>723568826
Some couldn't handle the pressure

do audiences even get any say in who is winning it?

>>723562282
Remember when god of war won over RDR2?

>>723561091 (OP)
Bonanza is there solely so Nintendo doesn't feel snubbed.
What a shit Nintenyear.

>>723568951
>After the nominees are selected, the winner is chosen by a combined vote between the jury (90%) and public voting (10%).
Why of course, they've voted with their wallets :^)

E33 won, months ago, and part of this board has been in more denial about it than some of the characters in E33.

>>723569062
I agree, if a shit game like GoW won, the equivalent of E33 of its year, surely Hades 2 (the equivalent of RDR2) doesn't stand a chance.

>>723567040
>hadesfags are delusional
>says ds2 will win
>when the original already lost

>>723569282
that’s not what I meant fag and you know that

its e33 hands down because it btfod the AAA slop industry the hardest of any release this year

>>723561091 (OP)
Necesse

I forced myself to finish Silksong and Hades 2 and did not like either of them. I think I'll just stick to emulating PS2 games.

>>723569062
Ironically I think that happened because a lot of journos got friends with Sony employees. I don't think that will happen next year with GTA 6 though, if it's actually a good game. Sounds pretty much guaranteed to be the goty 2026

>>723569792
rdr2 lost because while being a superior game in all ways it was still a pain in the ass to play with slow as molasses animations

>>723569714
Watcha emulating. Downloading Radiata Stories at the moment.

>>723570087
If bad gameplay was a deterrent to winning GOTY then a lot of games wouldn't have won

>>723561091 (OP)
Ask me in three years when I can buy them for under 10 and 20 bucks. Fully Digital Vidya Ecosystem, bitch, I buy shit at my own pace.

>>723561091 (OP)
i haven't played any of these and i don't feel like i've missed out

It's going to be so funny to see Hades 2 stealing a big slice of GOTY awards from Excrement 33 mouth: IGN and Gamespot awards, the only individual journo awards which matter, have Hades 2 already locked with their 10s scores, while Excrementfags are going to cry and piss themselves when their videos announcements drop. Another arrogant fandom takes a big L, Rebirthfags were last year.

>>723571214
what exactly causes arrogant fandom fruitcake behavior anyways? People need to learn to stop being hysterical over everything. Very pussy shit

>>723570808
Groovy.

>jakshit
shan't grace that with a reply

>>723562282
It's not critics it's INDUSTRY people.
It'll be E33 because they want to show they're not paid off, but E33 has ex ubi devs so they're not out of the loop

>>723561091 (OP)
Every game here is woke.

E33 is already locked GOTY
t. will be voting for silksong anyway

>>723571605
nani?

>>723569062
God of war was better

There was and still is no hype around Hades 2. Sorry, that's what you get for giving it a years long open beta.

>>723565480
Nothing wrong with that, except Silksong is about as hard as Super Mario World or something. It's good it exists to raise the standards, cause you guys are struggling.

I really cant see anything other than Ex33 winning at the Geoff awards but I didnt expect Astro Bot to win last year so what do I know.

>>723571746
I’m happy I just bought the game at launch in its completed state.

>>723561503
It can’t win GOTY, it has no nigger worship, trannies, or faggots.

>>723562282
Everyone knows this means nothing and you keep pretending it does. Shinobi 2025 is a 4/10 game.

>>723571857
I think it's cool and innovative to see games take a 5/10 score. That's how you know it's something TRULEY proactive and thoughtful. This is how we can get real progress

It's definitely e33 this year since there is no snoy game to suborn, or maybe silksong, since it was awaited so long

>>723569062
As long as we're going over their history.
>2016
The indie game INSIDE was nominated for fucking goty. There was hype around it, but it was complete shit. The oddest nominee in their history.
>2017
Nu-Wolfenstein won best action game over Nioh and Cuphead.
>2019
Disco Elysium won best indie over Baba Is You and Outer Wilds.
>2020
This one is breathtaking. Hades won best action game over Nioh 2, Streets of Rage 4, and Doom Eternal.

I'm telling you guys, Clair Obscur is made from the same astroturfed woke mould as Hades and Disco Elysium. It and Hades 2 are going to clean up.

>>723561091 (OP)

My TOP10 of games released in 2025 would be:

1 - AC Shadows
2 - Ghost of Yotei
3 - Avowed
4 - Silent Hill F
5 - Hundred Line
6 - Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
7 - Cronos: The New Dawn
8 - Split Fiction
9 - Citizen Sleeper 2
10 - Hades II

However, the best game i played all year was Dustborn, but that was released last year. Overall a great year for games.

Silksong > Silent Hill f > E33 > DS2 >>> Elden Ring Fortnite >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mario Kart World > Monster Hunter Wilds

>>723561091 (OP)
>Silent Hill f is worthy of a GOTY nomination
surely no one is that delusional, right?

>>723561591
>no it's due to them being shitty indie streamer games

>>723561091 (OP)
fucking grim

Yotei was just a worse AC Shadows with way less content.

>>723561091 (OP)
Top row is all getting in.
Bottom row is questionable. I think DK is in so Nintendo is represented. But I don't see Yotei making it over KCD2 nor Silent Hill F over Death Stranding 2.

>>723561091 (OP)
>all females and DK (black)
hmmmm Im noticing

>>723571214
screencapping this thank you

>>723574709
well you make an excellent point...

I don't care what wins GOTY but hades 2 should win best OST

>>723575254
ok guess what dipshit? Here's my point. Streamers are mindless drones that love social approval so they create narratives and delusions only they like. The detachment they have with the audience is something else sometimes which is why hey love to stream the most normie/safe shit ever.

>>723575342
you sure bud?
https://youtu.be/iI9ThkzE1rQ?si=N4TA5BQlP8O0KmHV

>>723575443
Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjiYUgx74rU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m94IhgcfXOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPpluHawUHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf5GVsrAlCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OVWM3Nkxc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJ4KrlQrxg

>>723575370
yeah like E33

Bananza is going to win
E33 was too much of an ego bruise to the powers that be to win
Hades 2 is the same shit gameplay of Hades 1 but without a billion dollars invested into marketing so its not gonna cut it
silksong had plenty of hype but its ultimately DLC for an indie game and unlike ToTK its not a nintendo game
ghosts of yotei and silent hill F just don't seem popular enough to even be on the GotY radar

Granted I think bananza will win mainly because its nintendo and everyone goes easy on the + its the safest most milquetoast platformer nintendo has released to date and the industry wants that kind of thing at the forefront to keep the AAA slop engine rolling.

>>723576031
>safest most milquetoast platformer nintendo has released


WHAT THE FUCK DOES SAFE MEAN ANYMORE!?!?!?!?!??!?!? HOLY FUCK WHAT DO YOU FUCKERS WANT!?!??!?!?!?

>>723575676
>that 1.0 reveal trailer music
>Prometheus theme
Easily best of the year

>>723574284
haha what a faggot

>>723561091 (OP)
Aren't you forgetting someone?

>>723576031
Just like echoes of wisdom won last year right retard

>>723576296
.....you guys have bizarre tastes in music >>723576338
literally whomst?

>>723576375
what's funny is that I think 2024 is the first ever year where I think a Mario Party game was easily GOTY.

>>723574803
true but the snoys on vee will never admit it

>>723576338
The guns feel amazing to use especially with the advanced reload but the level design and bosses could be improved a lot.

>Blue Prince has a 92 and wide journo dick sucking
>not even mentioned
It won't win anything but not being nominated would be a huge snub

>>723576479
imagine still being a fucking snoy in the lord year 2025.

PS is completely fucking dead to me and really since 2020 honestly.

I really wish Sega and Atari didn't massively fuck up their console lines mannnn

>>723576537
what the fuck even was that game? And why the fuck was it rated highly?

>>723576596
>Atari
wow you must be old...

>>723576596
you hear that? FUCKING ENDYIMON?!?!? fucking shill

>>723562969
>If you don't think it's not gonna be e33 you might be retarded
Nice self-own.

>>723576537
If Silksong and Hades 2 hadn't come out it would've been the indie darling of the year.

>>723576732
No I'm a zoomer actually who has a brain and isn't terminally detached from reality and myhistory. I also honor my ancestors and legacy and I think new things are putrid filth and evil.

>>723576862
seems totally reasonable

>>723576537
Simply not that good of a game
>>723576702
It's an RNG puzzle game resource manager but it's also an industry plant with how fast it spread. It's a good enough game but the resource management side has a lot of friction with the puzzles so it's frustrating. game shadow dropped and suddenly everyone and their mother knew or played it and glazed it quite hard

>>723561426
Expedition 33 will win GOTY and Silksong is over rated and doesn't deserve big awards

>>723577095
why is everything so fucking astroturfed today???? GOODNESS DAMN

>>723561091 (OP)
Remove one between Yotei and F and add ZA

>>723576387
You can go back to your orchesttal garbage with female vocals.

>>723577095
>It's an RNG puzzle game resource manager

why the fuck are we not allowed to play normal games anymore? Why is it always the most weirdest shit possible?

>>723577348
wow look at this fruitcake

>>723577095
the game definitely came across as an industrial plant. Never heard of it or any hype, just dropped and there were daily threads on /v/ for a couple weeks and tons of praise from journos.

>>723572601
A better man typed this

>>723577095
people like you are so stupid

>>723576387
What makes it bizarre?

>>723577381
they have to find a niche otherwise they can't secure publisher funding
>>723577579
Yeah, the puzzles were interesting but surprisingly few people actually seemed to say anything about the RNG mechanics at all like some puzzles needing books you may or may not have

>>723577381
>literally hundreds of thousands of games come out that are just like what everyone expects
>sometimes something very different comes out and instead of finding it neat people get annoyed about it
Retards like you are why video games are the way they are
I can tell you're ESL btw

>>723561091 (OP)
Silksong is the only one there that improves on its predecessor in every way.

>>723577348
So these are the types of shit eating faggots who glaze Hades 2. Makes sense.

>>723576537
when will they release the fucking patch with the missing content?

>>723578119
lmao so you actually would still rather play DK64 compared to DKB??? lmao

>>723578036
it's called having "appeal" not whatever dysfunctionality blue prince is

>>723561091 (OP)
Expedition 33 and is not even close.

>>723578576
It clearly did appeal to people just not you.

>>723561091 (OP)
GOY was underwhelming
SHF was ok

Replace them with KCD 2 and death stranding 2

>>723561091 (OP)
Pokémon legends Z-a

>>723562969
Guess I'm not retarded since I don't think it'll be parryshart 33

>>723565567
>TLOU2 was a sequel that changed nothing about the first game's gameplay
>Astrobot's most memorable levels are exact remakes of the same levels from the VR Astrobot game
>Witcher 3 won
>Baldur's Gate 3 won
>the only times well-reviewed sequels lost were when Ragnarok lost to ELDEN RING and TOTK lost to fucking Baldur's Gate 3
Keep coping faggot. Dogshit like e33 winning won't change the fact that you're a failure irl.

>>723569062
One of their best decisions honestly

>>723571581
>It's not critics it's INDUSTRY people
Geoff's jury is literally made up entirely of reviewers and journos you retarded moron. The only group that does industry awards is Dice.

>>723561091 (OP)
Look, I'm a normal man, okay? I'm just a fat divorcee, I don't play games, I desperately want to be white, and so I NEED expedition 33 to win so I can celebrate in my favorite livechats, with my actual real bros like endymion, and grummz, and smashjt and critical drinker. I NEED to cheer for the French son of that ubisoft exec as he joins the ranks of greats like Miyazaki and Kojima, as one of the greatest artists of all time. Because THAT'S what's going to make all of my pain and my struggle and all the months and years I've spent watching podcasts about how the west has fallen and how gaming is dead worth it. I NEED this, do you understand? I can't win in real life, so just get it through your brown fucking skull that I NEED to win at the game awards.

>>723580432
real question but, who really should be the official counsel of video games anyway? Who is the group or party we should get the best opinions from anyway?

>>723562282
Why does /v/ fear Mel?

>>723569062
The Game Awards always has a Sony bias.
Look TLOU Part 2 and Astro Bot

>>723581136
B B B B B BUT MY NINTENDO BONUS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>723581101
she just aint feminine enough. Hot but kinda repulsive

>>723581136
No Nintendo game has deserved to win GOTY since BOTW 7 years ago. Nothing but mediocrity from them ever since.

>>723581045
lmao how is E33 at all saving the west? It's not exactly a western game. And not american first but French slop instead LMAO. GTA is more pro-America than this

>>723581329
What are you fucking talking about? Smash Ultimate? Metroid Dread? TotK and Mario Wonder? Pikmin 4? Xenoblade 3?

Snoy has only made movie games since basically fucking 2012 lmao

>>723561503
all three of these games are good

>>723569062
RDR2's gameplay is unironically worse than God of Wars and both are movie games

>>723581473
Please tell me which of those games should have won in their year. I'll wait.

>>723561091 (OP)
Megabonk clears hard

>>723582391
Metroid dread got hella robbed because of fucking "It takes two (black cocks)".

BG3 and TotK though was a really close race though I will admit. Besides, BotW already won so why not give it to something else at least?

>anons thinking E33 will win
in a competition decided by professional critics do you think the game that flipped the current AAA market the bird will win?

>>723577095
>industry plant
It had a Next Fest demo in 2024, which is more than Expedition 33 had to be "spread so fast".

>>723569282
e33 is way better than troonades 2 though

>>723582625
Yes because it's a feel good story if they win. Journos love e33 because it's a movie game by a small team.

>>723582529
WOW you are a tendie huh?

>>723583084
well what the fuck are you mate? tell me fucker.

>>723561241
>2024

The Game of the Year is here and it's not even close.

>>723561503
E33 was so shit but I expect it will win the title, carried by the votes of normies who haven't actually played the game but just assume it's a masterpiece because of the astroturfing and because there is nothing great that has emerged this year to be emotionally invested in.

Silksong, Silent Hill, Hades 2 and even DK Bananza are okay but none of these games should be GOTY-tier. It's been a slop year

indies won

I don't understand why a game like Bananza would be in the conversation for GOTY and not something like Wuchan, Khazan or Hell Is Us. What gives? In what way Bananza is a better game than Wuchang?

Doritos Pope's awards are 90% corporate judges. the ugliests & gayest & tranniest game aka Hades 2 will have a lock because Wall Street loves ugly gay trannies so much they force companies to promote them or no free monies for you

>>723585015
Nintendies would be outraged if they didn't at least get a nomination.

>>723585015
i bought Bananza and didn't buy Wuchang
why? because Bananza is something i haven't played before

>>723561503
How can I bet on GoY? It will be the surprise winner I just know it.

>>723585015
They need a nintendo product of tendies go allah akbar.

>>723585015
It's the only unique game on the list

Donkey Kong Bananza and Hollow Knight Silksong deserve to win.
Because gameplay is king. What are video games without gameplay, if not slop?