Thread 724543736

Yeah, that happened

deserved win

The KWAB award.

Better than Expedition 33

>>724543736 (OP)
absolutely deserved it too

>>724543736 (OP)
Better than any Mario game thoughbeit

>>724543736 (OP)
and it was great.
most modern developers are too incompetent to match that games level of refinement.

astro bot
i am astro bot

slow year

>>724543736 (OP)
SOVLful game

>>724543736 (OP)
yeah a fun game won
how fucked up is that

>>724543736 (OP)
based. another deserved win coming up.

>>724543736 (OP)
And it deserved it. If it were released this year, it likely would've won, too.

pretty sure it just took Concord's place which Sony already paid for

>>724545451
It didn't take Concord's spot, but it did win because of Concord

this game just steams shit from other platformers and does nothing original so I don't get why it won but i guess last year was pretty abysmal

>>724543736 (OP)
There weren't better options that year t b h

>>724545767
It was a Sony studio successfully making a fun game for change without sitting through dreadful cutscenes. It has no lasting power though.

>>724545767
as opposed to all that grand innovation other GOTY winners had?

So why did so many people get upset about this again?
Was there some other big game from last year I'm forgetting that people were expecting to win like when BG3 won almost everything in 2023? Because I remember 2024 being weak as fuck for non-indie vidya, but Astro Bot was good (also Metaphor but lmao that's not a GOTY game).

>>724547041
balatro should've won if that's your criteria

>>724547109
There was some championing for Wukong, Rebirth, and maybe some Metaphor. Astro Bot was simply the most well put together and polished game of the bunch. /v/ is too cynical for a game like this because it's aimed as a family game.

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>>724545238
Kys sloppers

>>724547109
It's a great game but people don't know how to react to bing bing wahoo games "winning GOTY" since it always goes to some AAA dad simulator TPS slop. If literally anything else of note was released that year (2024 was fucking destitute when it came to big releases) it definitely wouldn't have won.

>>724547109
Because it's just the typical Sony bias. If Wukong was made by Sony that shit would have won instead. I'm not sure if all of the critics/websites are so chummy with Sony but the bias has been apparent forever

>>724547518
sorry you nintendo bing bing wahoo game has never won

>>724547818
Wukong and Stellar Blade deserved it way more than Robot Mario.
If this was something like w hypothetical LittleBigPlanet 2025 I'd be cool with it but Astro Bot is just a basic bitch platformer.

>>724543736 (OP)
You're now remembering manually that PS4's Dad of War was also awarded GotY

>>724543736 (OP)
Balatro was robbed so hard

>>724543736 (OP)
I liked it well enough but not as much as everyone else seemed to.
Balatro should've won.

>>724547990
Ah yes, the coveted Pride.com and polygon awards

>>724543736 (OP)
Has there ever been a GOTY where actual GOTY was even nominated?

>>724547109
I think from what I've seen the most amount of people were going for Wukong. Some Rebirth fans were pretty set on it winning I think but that's mostly a loud (extreme) minority.
Based on stuff like reviews and articles I think the second pick from the journos doing the actual voting would have been Metaphor.

>>724547360
It's not my criteria, just calling out the retarded notion that it's somehow a less deserving winner because it does "nothing original". Most GOTY winners have done nothing original.

>>724543736 (OP)
no one talks about this or baldy's gate 3 any more

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>>724548515
I forgot Wukong even existed until this thread

>>724543925
This, fun game.

>>724543736 (OP)
Should have been Metaphor but part of the reason it was Astrobot was to encourage Sony to not only fund American developers to make expensive AAA slop. The industry needs more Last Guardian, Gravity Rush, Little Big Planet, Dreams so it was an apology to Japan Studio and a plea to Sony’s execs to stop fixating on spreadsheets and Hollywood

>>724549201
Metaphor was fucking shit

Rebirth won GOTY though.
It also sold millions.

I think it's funny obnoxious rebirth schizos spent a year telling everyone it was going to win GOTY and when it didn't they announced GOTY is bullshit and nobody cares about it and have been reminding us how much they don't care about GOTY every day since

>>724548443
yes the one when zelda won you faggots flooded the entire board

>>724548762
one of those games that came and went fast, nothing remarkable
stellar blade was unironically the better action game last year

>>724547518
your monkey slop is not getting goty this year, tendie
keep seething

>>724549256
I think every game in the line up technically sold millions.

>>724547109
Such a blatant brand advertisement winning is bound to draw eyes no matter its quality

>>724543736 (OP)
Could be worse

>>724549507
It was the biggest game of the year

I ended up putting like 50 hours into Astro Butt, great game

>>724549854
damn, the only thing more offensive than their choice of winner is Hearthstone being nominated.

Showed this game to a friend, it was so similar to Mario that he genuinely could not believe Nintendo didn't sue them for this.

>>724543736 (OP)
garbage slop but there was literally nothing released that year so it won by default.

>>724549854
lmfao oh yeah....

>>724549854
Whenever zoomer trannies try gas this awards show up I think back to Geoff Keighley scolding Reggie Fils-Aimé for Nintendo not making games like Dragon Age Inquisition

Rebirthbros...

>>724545767
it's because sony needed a PR win after catastrophically shitting the bed with concord

I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if concord was initially supposed to win the title, remember how the sony execs unironically thought it'd be their own version of star wars?

>>724549854
this is exactly why astrobot winning goty is nonsensical because tropical freeze released in 2014 and got exactly zero nomination, not even for best ost

Sony gets awards for always doing faggot shit and then they get the award for copying Nintendo. I'm happy at least that all the critics/websites went bankrupt and most of them lost their jobs

>>724550513
Don't even remind me of that shit

There's plenty of games that won GOTY that didn't deserve it.

>>724543736 (OP)
never have I seen a "goty" forgotten so quickly

>>724549507
It was big in china, but game awards isn't a chinese show.

>>724550256
shadow of the erdtree blows anything released that year out of the water
but the no DLC autists won. enough people cried that it had no chance to win.
if they rebranded it as a stand alone it would have won easily. it has enough content and quality to be considered a whole game, it really just is word nitpicking

>>724551012
dont worry, seething rebirth fans will always be here to remind you

>>724551130
It was bigger than every other nominated game even if you exclude China

>>724549854
>3 Wii U exclusives
and people insist it didn’t have games

>>724549854
2014 was the worst year for video games

>>724551012
I mean it's objectively a nothing game

no one is going to list astrobot as one of the greatest or most influential games of all time

>>724549854
that winning over DaS2 is laughable

>>724543736 (OP)
2024 was the shittiest gaming year next to 2014. Not looking forward to 2035.

>ripoff sunshine/galaxy
>get award
No fucking shit m8

>>724552017
THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS

>>724544085
That's not hard though

>>724548259
Better games have deserved it literally every fucking year, that's never been how the VGA have ever worked

>>724552058
nice balance though

>>724543736 (OP)
I forgot this existed

It was a shit winner but the other options were worse

>>724543736 (OP)
good game that got better with the free post launch dlc levels

>2 million sales
that has to be the worst performing goty ever

>>724547109
It's just a hair above remakes/remasters in terms of soullessness. Just copy platformers from 15 years ago and fill it with nostalgia pandering references for people to onions out to.

What's the point of the game awards anyway?

>>724552465
>exclusive to a console with an infamously shit library
If anything I'm surprised it's that high

>>724552560
just like any other awards show, it serves absolutely no purpose at all except for an in group to jerk each other off.

>>724543736 (OP)
it was probably the second best game there of the Keighly award nominees after balatro

but it was also maybe only the 4th or 5th best 3D Platformer released that year. I thought it was pretty disappointing to be honest - every game that studio makes is slightly worse than the one before it. It's like they burned all their ideas and novelty on their earliest games and have nothing left

>>724552594
the playstation 5 attach rates are hilarious

they really only play fifa and genshin

>>724552465
it's best game overall of the year not most popular - that's player's choice and why it's 90% gacha shit

>>724550513
As a donkey kong fag and enjoyer of platformers, tropical freeze was wildly overrated. It relies way too much on setpieces.

>>724552560
It’s a platform with a good amount of eyes on it so it’s useful for studios to promote their games. Both upcoming announcements and current ones receiving a potential boost.
For this place it is just another excuse to shitpost and whine about games

>>724553082
I mean they didn't make any games for people to buy for their console. I dunno what they were expecting

>>724553082
Can't buy games that don't exist

>>724543925
fpbp

>>724553082
Spending just shifted to live service content add ons. Sony are having their most profitable generation ever and with the next xbox being a $1300 niche product the PS6 and PS6 portable will likely be the most successful console ever from any manufacturer

>>724543925
FPBP... kind of. Metaphor was better but I did like Astrobot.

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>>724547518
Hello Nintendo bro.

>>724554229
>the PS6 and PS6 portable will likely be the most successful console ever from any manufacturer
lmao

>>724554354
if you don' think sony paid for concord you win then you're fucking delusional - i don't care about your consolewar faggotry - im a pc gamer

>>724554229
>Spending just shifted to live service content add ons
They have to spend 100-400 million to make games and they don't sell that's obviously not a good thing.

>Sony are having their most profitable generation ever and with the next xbox being a $1300 niche product the PS6 and PS6 portable will likely be the most successful console ever from any manufacturer
Anon just like at what's coming for NS2 day 1, 007 and RE9 for example. You know all the holiday sales and everyone buying NS2? They're not even gonna buy PS5. PS6 will be even worse for Sony because NS2 will get all the live service crap too.

>>724554794
Xbox market share will all go to Sony since pre built PCs aren’t appealing to the PC audience and it will be priced too high to compete in the console space. That’s potentially an extra 30 million sales. Then the PS6 portable version will take 10 to 15 million sales off the Switch 2 by being a direct competitor, Switch 2 will have peaked by 2028 when Sony is just getting started. It will sell over 150 million and be more monetized than PS2 and PS4 with digital sales.

>>724556064
>Xbox market share will all go to Sony
Hopelessly naive. PC gets everything Playstation and they can pirate everything. If someone bought hundreds/thousands of games PC basically ends up the only realistic option

>That’s potentially an extra 30 million sales
Xbox series sold 20-30 million tops and the idea they all would love to buy Playstation is completely delusional.

>Then the PS6 portable version will take 10 to 15 million sales off the Switch 2
Even more delusional. You know it's underpowered right? Only 4 CPU cores and won't have any exclusives. Even Sony fanboys won't buy this thing unless they're retarded

>Switch 2 will have peaked by 2028 when Sony is just getting started. It will sell over 150 million and be more monetized than PS2 and PS4 with digital sales
PS4 had way more advantages than PS5 did and it didn't come anywhere close to PS2. Nintendo is just way bigger than Playstation is now

>game bad because....... it's on PS5
Pathetic

No, I'm not a snoy, I'm a PCfag and I'm willing to wait 15 years to emulate it. I will never buy c*nsoles anymore
kys tendies

>>724556446
Game is bad because it's a mediocre csualized mascots platformer with 0 stakes. Its the equivalent of making a Lego game Game of the Year.

>>724556446
no one said the game was bad ranjeet, it's just completely unremarkable

90% of its gameplay ideas and level themes are lifted straight out of mario games from ten years ago and its gameplay is insanely shallow and easy (yes even for bing bing wahoo standards)

>>724556874
>90% of its gameplay ideas and level themes are lifted straight out of mario games from ten years ago
And yet when Galaxy 2 does it it's K I N O

Look, the game looks fucking great, I'll assume that it's just dishonest butthurt. At the very least it seems better than the monkey game which gets shilled here constantly

>Sonys biggest success in over a decade
>cost a fraction of all their failures
>won goty award
>Instead of making a sequel sony puts more money into multiplay slop that will fail

>>724557017
and by "shilled" you mean you posting that idiotic pipe video for the umpteenth time

>>724557181
>you posting that idiotic pipe video
Is this the part where you call me Eric?

>>724557017
>the monkey game which gets shilled here constantly
You're joking, right?

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>>724543736 (OP)
started calling the game Astro Turf because of this
absolutely no one played it and its only notability is shallow references to other games

>>724557017
>And yet when Galaxy 2 does it it's K I N O
>when a mario game from ten years ago lfts ideas from a mario game from ten years ago
I'm sure there's some sort of point being made here but I'm not brown so I don't get it