#goty 2019

[ladymariayuri]

Are u ok man

[spitblaze]

if you're wondering why my brain has a stranglehold on octopath traveler of all things: me too. i have no idea how this happened. my hyperfixations are unpredictable and hit like oncoming freight trains and ive stopped trying to pretend i understand how/why outside of like one or two common threads

[waywardsalt]

Persona 5 Royal for Game Of The Year 2023

[rivaiin]

started the descent dlc for the first time ever and i had a bit of a hard time pinpointing it but renns va had me like

[tigerlyla-of-metinna]

I'm doing a tag game!

What are your 3 historical gaming moment?

Anything related to videogames: be it achieving the highest score in the arcade, defeating that final boss after 100 tries, winning a PS5 in a raffle, getting a photo or autograph of a VA, cosplaying a videogame character... anything!

Then tag 5 people (minimum) and let's reminisce. Spread some positivity!

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Here are my 3 personal best (in no particular order)

1.Tekken 3

The first time I truly enjoyed playing a fighting game (I still hate playing PvP in fighting games cuz an actual human is way better at it than me) was when I finally approached a real Tekken pro. A big arcade opened up in my city and I was the only girl who went there every weekend and buy 30 tokens (Php 90.00) to feed the various machines. I saw this tall college dude play King and I was mesmerized watching him pull all of Kings grapples. After several months, I watched him from behind, playing Tekken 3 until I muster up the courage to ask him how he pulled off all his moves. The college dud pulled a piece of paper and pen and began to write down all of Kings' combos and grabs, and gave it to me! Since then I have practiced on every Tekken 3 machine, pulled off all Kings' impressive grapples to a growing audience who couldn't believe their eyes that this little highschool girl is playing Tekken 3 and beating it! Oh and I became good at the games that I reduced my 30 tokens to 5.

2. Resident Evil 2 (PS1)

This game came with the console my mom gave me. First time I popped the disc in and chose Leon S Kennedy on normal mode, I was piled upon by zombies and died. That game over screen traumatized me and I did not pick up RE for months! When I did gave it a second chance, I notice there was a 3rd mode: ARRANGED. It made the game ridiculously easy by giving me all the weapons, and so I plowed through Raccoon City with my machine gun and rocket launcher. It was fun until it wasn't. I decided to play the game on Normal, got eaten and died, then powered through it. Finally beat the game on Normal and Hard. Also went for the S Rank and bonus content. Now I love all horror and survival horror games (Silent Hill, Outlast, Evil Within, etc). It became my favorite genre.

3. The Witcher 3

Had it not for this game, I wouldn't have made The Nilfgaardian Collection or started digital art. I think it was December 2019 (or 16 I dunno, it was Xmas), my brother gave me two choices: TW3 or FF15. I wanted FF15 cuz I have always been a fan of Final Fantasy and TW3 was hyped to the heavens. I wanted to know if the hype was justified and so I got TW3 GOTY edition. The hype... was well deserved! I was hooked, I plat the game, I decided to make fanarts of my fave character (Emhyr) and gave myself a goal: to have the biggest collection of Emhyr and Nilfgaard pics and be known as that crazy chick with an unhealthy obsession to Emhyr and his Nilfgaardian empire. Thus cemented the Nilfgaardian Collection in the fandom!

I taggeth @bittersweetbark, @alphagravy, @rotatingremains, @regis-favorite-raven, @oblakovka, @smehur, @laurikarauchscat, @jawanaka, @traumschwinge, @valandhirwriter

[sapphire-weapon]

I guess I'm just doubtful bc RE9 (from what I've seen so far, and I do wanna preface that it's nothing substantial yet) feels more like a continuation after RE6 than RE8. Not in its story or anything, I know it'll probably be a separate thing, and that's honestly the best way to go. In a game structure way. As in, 'we're going back to what RE always was'. I do wonder where they will go with it. Whether it'll feel in any way connected to RE7 and RE8, or it'll just be somewhat of a standalone game.

And the thing is, I feel like either of those options feels risky. Specifically because they chose to make RE8 a direct continuation to RE7. Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass here lmao. I do wonder what they'll do in terms of gameplay too, mostly because RE4R was so amazing. Would be pretty sucky if the original title's gameplay turns out feeling less advanced than one of the remake!

But yeah. Honestly I wouldn't be having all these doubts if RE9 wasn't in development for that long, either. It all boils down to that issue in the end of the day.

here's something to consider:

at the time that RE9 entered development, RE7 was plateauing on sales, hovering at around the 3-4 million mark, which is WELL BELOW average for an RE mainline title, and was not considered for GOTY

since then:

RE2make was nominated for GOTY in 2019 and has since become the highest-selling RE title of all time

RE8 was nominated for GOTY in 2021

RE4make broke records for the fastest-selling RE title ever released and was not only nominated for GOTY, but was the fourth highest-rated game on metacritic in 2023 (losing out only to baldur's gate 3, tears of the kingdom, and metroid prime remastered)

it's also helpful to note that RE8 was pretty obviously built as a beta test/blueprint for RE4make

so when RE9's director says they're going to take RE back to what it always was, my take on that was that they, after a long session of hand-wringing back and forth trying to decide on what to do after RE7's release was lukewarm at best, decided to try to make RE9 a mix of RE2 and RE4, which are the two highest-regarded titles in the series and have now twice-over brought capcom massive success, both financially and critically.

my best guess for RE9 is that

when it started production, that was when co-op team shooters had seen a huge re-emergence in the form of overwatch and destiny, and so capcom's initial thought was to try to capitalize on that. that's probably where the initial idea of a leon and jill co-op game came from. remember, that's what andy reported that the game originally was.

but then they changed that when they saw what happened with RE2make, RE8, and RE4make.

and so what's caused such massive, massive delays in production was a complete restructuring of the project, and now instead of a co-op, we may very well be getting a dual scenario system closer to RE2. and if not two scenarios, a switching back and forth between leon and jill, sort of like how RE8 handed off to chris about 3/4 of the way through.

the most optimistic take on this is that RE9 will be what RE2make should have been and will have not only a full zapping system, but an improved one that will not only affect gameplay between campaigns but also possibly story sections.

the more realistic/pessimistic take is that they've been trying to make RE9 into what RE2make should've been and have been failing at it spectacularly, and they're now just trying to cobble together something that at least passes the bar of being both complete and playable.

i could be wrong.

but that's my best guess.

we'll see what happens.

[quaddmgd]

Figured I'll make my own GOTY list for each year since 1993 (I haven't played nothing from 1992 and the list would look much worse with missing years)

Anyway, I'm not happy with it, but some of my choices are the only games I played from the year they came out. Then there were years where so many great games were released, it was hard to choose (i.e. between HL2, Halo 2 and MGS3)

1993 - Doom 1994 - System Shock 1995 - Tekken 2 1996 - Quake 1997 - Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 1998 - Half-Life 1999 - Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver / Silent Hill 2000 - Perfect Dark 2001 - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 2002 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2003 - Prince of Persia: Sands of Time 2004 - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 2005 - Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening 2006 - Bully 2007 - Halo 3 2008 - Mirror's Edge 2009 - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 2010 - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker 2011 - Batman: Arkham City 2012 - Far Cry 3 2013 - Grand Theft Auto V 2014 - Wolfenstein: The New Order 2015 - Yakuza 0 2016 - DOOM 2017 - RUINER 2018 - Red Dead Redemption 2 2019 - Days Gone 2020 - Black Mesa 2021 - Cruelty Squad 2022 - SIGNALIS

So hard to choose between Soul Reaver and Silent Hill. One captivates with its story and switching between realms, is a technical masterpiece, but is notoriously unfinished. The other one doesn't suit me that much genre-wise, but amazes me with its depth, soundtrack and scare factor even to this day.

[theclubhero-blog]

Baldur’s Gate 3 vendeu “quase o dobro” de Divinity: Original Sin 2

Por Vinicius Torres Oliveira

Fundador daLarian Studios destacou que o aclamado RPG teve um desempenho além do esperado

É claro que a notícia da participação da Larian Studios na GDC 2024 foi a revelação de que a empresa não irá produzir um DLC para Baldur’s Gate 3 e nem trabalhar na sequência do RPG. Contudo, em meio à repercussão desta bomba, o CEO da companhia, Swen Vicke, falou sobre outra coisa bem relevante do RPG: suas vendas.

Em fevereiro, o título havia superado a incrível marca de dez milhões de jogadores, e agora o executivo indicou que este número pode estar muito maior, superando as próprias expectativas.

“Está quase o dobro Divinity: Original Sin 2 agora, então está se saindo muito bem, já que Divinity: Original Sin 2 foi muito bem-sucedido. Portanto, ultrapassou o que esperávamos”, disse.

Os dados exatos de Divinity 2 nunca foram revelados pela Larian, porém é possível fazer uma breve conjectura aqui. O primeiro jogo, segundo o póprio Vicke em apresentação na GDC 2019, chegou a 2,5 milhões de cópias. No ano passado, ele comentou que o segundo teve “o triplo” disso. Ou seja, cerca de 7,5 milhões. Multiplicado por dois… 15 milhões para Baldur’s Gate 3?

O sucesso do game não é pra menos. O título fez “a limpa” nos prêmios de fim de ano, levando não apenas o famoso GOTY do The Game Awards, mas também seu título de melhor do ano pela premiação da DICE. Além disso, Baldur’s Gate 3 é o Jogo do Ano do GDC Awards 2024! Para a surpresa de absolutamente ninguém, ele leva mais um troféu bem sigfnicativo para casa.

Se você quiser fazer parte desta estatística, o RPG está disponível para PS5, Xbox Series e PC.

[chrismcshell]

as we all know, my 2022 Game of the Year was The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006). and now i am pleased to announce my GOTY for 2023: Death Stranding (2019)

[operationrainfall]

2022 oprainfall Awards: Game of the Year (GOTY)

GAME OF THE YEAR (GOTY) Previous Winners 2012: Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) 2013: Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS) 2014: Super Smash Bros. (Wii U) 2015: Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U) 2016: Hyperdimension Neptunia V-II (Multi) 2017: Persona 5 (PS4) 2018: Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Multi) 2019: Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch) 2021: Shin Megami Tensei V (Switch) It’s finally time to crown the oprainfall…

[ladymariayuri]

i had a weirdass dream about sekiro last night... ive never touched that game in my life. what do you think it means

it means you have to download the game of the year 2019 sekiro: shadows die twice by fromsoftware while it's 50% off at 30$

[disserta-games]

Há 1 ano atrás eu era uma pessoa que se você viesse me falar sobre jogos souls like eu diria que eram jogos ruins, que eram excessivamente difíceis, que eu não teria competência pra jogar e por fim eu fugiria de você. Até que uns poucos meses após o lançamento de Elden Ring um amigo me ofereceu o jogo emprestado pois naquele mês ele não teria tempo pra jogar devido a uma viagem, eu pensei "Sei que é ruim, mas vou só testar esse negócio para no fim do ano poder dizer que God Of War Ragnarok é o goty com mais propriedade".

Comecei Elden morrendo de medo da dificuldade, então fui de mago pois me disseram que era apelão (e realmente é) e para minha surpresa até que estava gostando do jogo e me divertindo, porém, depois de umas duas semanas aconteceu do dono do jogo o pedir de volta, então foi o jeito dropar e devolver.

Agora vamos começar a falar do grande protagonista dessa história que é Bloodborne. Eu já tinha começado o jogo uma vez em 2017 e outra em 2019, em ambas joguei por volta de 1 hora e faltava morrer de raiva daquele jogo ruim em que eu ficava andando perdido por uma cidade e morrendo toda hora pra uns lobisomens e caras, era mais um souls like chato. Apesar disso eu sempre guardava uma curiosidade sobre esse jogo pois no Twitter sempre que eu via as pessoas falando de Bloodborne era com um amor tão grande que me fazia refletir "algo de especial tem nesse troço".

Até que chegou o fatídico dia em que numa bela noite eu estava mexendo no celular e chegou uma mensagem no grupo da Promotec com uma oferta de Bloodborne no precinho e agindo totalmente por impulso eu acabei comprando.

Apesar de ter comprado o game, o lançamento de God Of War Ragnarok estava próximo então quando ele chegou apenas o guardei na estante e só após platinar o God decidi o encarar. O fato de eu ter curtido o pouco que joguei do Elden Ring me dava um pouco de esperança de conseguir gostar (e foi meio o que me fez comprar também), mas ainda sim a esperança era pouca.

Como eu já esperava joguei uns 40 minutos e só passei raiva, fechei o jogo e fui jogar outra coisa, porém, no dia seguinte uma voz na minha cabeça tava dizendo "tenta só mais uma vez" então lá fui eu novamente e dessa vez aconteceu... Joguei por umas 3 horas seguidas e estava finalmente me divertindo, continuava andando perdido pela tal cidade, mas agora com um sentimento de curiosidade em explorar aquele local, também comecei a usar algo que tinha aprendido no Elden que é que as vezes a melhor solução é simplesmente sair correndo e por fim fui começando a me sentir desafiado (de um jeito bom) ao enfrentar os inimigos.

Agora preciso citar dois chefes do início do jogo que foram muito marcantes para mim: Padre Gascoigne e a Fera Sedenta de Sangue. Eu fui destroçado, espancado e humilhado por essa dupla dezenas de vezes, demorando alguns dias em cada um deles, mas foi com eles que "aprendi" a jogar o game pois peguei o jeito das esquivas, dos momentos certos de atacar, um pouco do parry e da noção de que em Bloodborne você tem que ser um pouco mais agressivo, afinal você é O Caçador! Com eles também descobri mais sobre a sensação maravilhosa e gostosa de felicidade após derrotar aquele boss que você tanto sofreu.

E assim o vício estava instaurado, jogava Bloodborne todos os dias, no trabalho eu ficava pensando em Bloodborne, quando estava estudando me esforçava pra bater as metas do dia logo para poder ir jogar Bloodborne, ficava escutando as trilhas sonoras (que são primorosas inclusive), vendo vídeos sobre o jogo e sobre a lore, comprei a dlc (que foi uma das melhores dlcs que já joguei na vida) e etc.

Falando da DLC, preciso enfatizar o quão maravilhosa ela é, tendo os melhores chefes do jogo e muita lore importantíssima. A luta contra Ludwig no momento em que ele entra na segunda forma usando a espada do luar sagrado e a trilha sonora muda foi um momento em que fiquei em estado de euforia e é um boss que jamais esquecerei, sendo o meu favorito do jogo, além disso temos a belíssima luta contra a Lady Maria, o Órfão de Kos que pra mim foi o chefe mais difícil do game, as melhores armas e etc. The Old Hunters é uma DLC perfeita!

Outro destaque que preciso fazer é em relação a galera do Twitter. Sempre que eu comentava algo sobre o jogo, postava uma luta contra chefe ou pedia alguma ajuda o pessoal aparecia em peso, comentando muito, ajudando e mostrando muito carinho para com esse game, comecei a interagir diariamente e fazer amizade com várias pessoas que eu mal conhecia antes e acredito muito que essa união com a galera me fez gostar ainda mais de Bloodborne.

Por fim, recentemente zerei o jogo e até o platinei. Foi uma jornada extremamente maravilhosa e divertida e que meio que mudou minha mentalidade, pois no fim do jogo quando chegava em um boss fácil eu ficava triste e quando era muito difícil me dava um prazer imenso pelo desafio. Eu antes nunca imaginaria zerar e muito menos platinar um jogo desses, mas aconteceu e Bloodborne virou um dos meus jogos favoritos da vida e agora pretendo conhecer todo o resto dos souls likes, inclusive já comprei Elden Ring e iniciei um novo save jogando de Samurai pois o medo que eu tinha lá atrás que me fez começar de mago já não existe, quero mais é superar grandes desafios.

[devilmaycry3dantesawakening]

as much as i adore hi-fi rush it’s very strange to be seeing so many mainstream outlets calling it an early GOTY contender when it feels like character action games have gotten so snuffed for things like that in the past. nowhere did i see DMC5 get that level of love back in 2019 (and i don’t think it got a single major GOTY nomination) despite easily being the best action game ever made.

[contrary55]

For the love of god make your own damn decisions on what games are good make you own GotY list it will mean so much more than the oscar bait games constantly winning nominations and awards.

I have my own list going back to 1996 and it looks nothing like mainstream choices of because my opinion and taste in games is unique to me and different from literally any one else here is my list

1996: Quake

1997: Fallout

1998: Fallout 2

1999: System Shock 2

2000: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2

2001: Halo: Combat Evolved

2002: Resident Evil Remake

2003: SSX3

2004: Halo 2

2005: Need For Speed: Most Wanted

2006: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

2007: Mass Effect

2008: Dead Space

2009: Dragon Age: Origins

2010: Mass Effect 2

2011: Dark Souls

2012: Mass Effect 3

2013: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

2014: Dragon Age: Inquisition

2015: Soma

2016: Dark Souls 3

2017: Prey

2018: Pathfinder: Kingmaker

2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

2020: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2

2021: Halo Infinite

2022: Elden Ring

The Game Awards thoughts, I could say more but I don't want to allocate too much time to thinking about a damn awards show of all things. Go play the games you love, fuck the mainstream media etc.

[stormfr0nt]

Devil May Cry 5 - Game Of The Year

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