We could have a full indie lineup this year, but nepoawards will probably still nominate crap like pokemon, death stranding and MH wildspost predictions
>>724710210All dog shit
>>724710210It's funny how most of these games are playable via gamepass, and yet Microsoft image is still in the shitter. I think they just want their game division to die off. Imagine the sperg shilling if this all free on PSN.kek.
>>724710210Yeah, imagine still pretending “indie” means “good.” Half these so-called “indies” are just pixel-art nostalgia traps made by six guys who think adding depression to a platformer is innovation.Death Stranding 2 is literally art, by the way. Kojima’s doing what every indie dev wishes they could: making people feel something other than “wow, I can double-jump.” You call it “nepoawards,” I call it “recognizing actual craftsmanship instead of Tumblr-tier sprite games about trauma and frogs.”Pokémon deserves GOTY just for giving millions of people more joy than whatever minimalist roguelite you think “deserves recognition.” Sorry your avant-garde farming sim didn’t get invited to the party, champ.
>>724710582>Death Stranding 2 is literally art, by the way.too bad he forgot how to make an actual video game along the way. Also titles in the OP are indie just in name only.
>>724710210This will be the GOTY noms:>Clair Obscur Exp 33>Death Stranding 2>DK Bananza>Hades 2>Silksong>Split Fiction
>>724710672Yeah, “forgot how to make a video game” is what people say when a story doesn’t have a skill tree every five minutes. Kojima’s out here exploring themes of isolation, connection, and digital decay while you’re mad there’s too much walking. Sorry he didn’t add a grappling hook and a crafting system made of loot boxes to keep your gamer serotonin flowing. And calling those indies “fake” because they had funding is hilarious. What, you want devs to starve in a garage to prove authenticity? The second an indie team gets a publisher, people start acting like they sold their soul to Microsoft. Newsflash: making a living doesn’t erase artistic intent.Keep coping though, I’m sure your favorite “real indie” game about depression and cubes will finally save gaming next year.
>>724710405It doesn't help that they're all lower price games anyway, and Gamepass has recently hiked its prices. You can get Silksong or Blue Prince for cheaper than a month sub to Gamepass, and neither of them are short games
>>724710210MH Wilds would actually be a really good candidate to represent the kind of year 2025 was.
>>724710210>blue princetopkek
>>724710210I don't think Sf and e33 are indieMaybe AA
>>724710582crap bait
>>724710210Blue Prince deserves GOTY but too many retards got filtered so it doesn't stand much of a chanceE33 is easily the favourite
>>724710772>t. capitalist consoomer scuyour taste is downright horrid. You can fool your pleb normie friends with that bs, and trigger braided /v/ retards, but you have no actual insight to offer about vidya and I'm not going to get trapped in a stupid argument with you, I have too much experience on this cespool to avoid that shit. Keep being deluded.
>>724710210silksong should get it but the difficulty was to high for the average retardse33 will win despite it not deserving it.. but its the closest to aping aaa games in terms of visuals and design so it gets goty
>>724710210The Roguelike element of Blue Prince feels really lazy, like they blatantly didn't have the skill to make an engaging mansion style map that was actually cohesive in it's design so they just let the player access rooms and "build the map" themselves and then marketed it as a positive.
Silksong should win desu
>>724711134my thoughts exactly, hope we get a sekiro moment again though,where the most difficult game of the lineup wins and mogs the rest
>>724710210It's the game awards so Expedition 33 will win because it's the most cinematic, has the most developed story of the list, is accessible easy on low difficulty without being a cakewalk or annoying on high difficulty, and it's French which the pseudo intellectuals who decide this crap love. It's also been hyped up as the Western equivalent to FF7.
>>724710210Death Stranding 2 absolutely does deserve to be a GOTY contender. Also not mentioning Hell is Us. Fuck you.
E33 wonned
>>724710210>there's "people" that think the game with the zesty nigger is gotylmao
>>724711604Didnt everyone forget about DS2
>>724710210Blue prince > Silksong > E33 > Hades 2I didn't play split fiction
>>724711736you didn't play any of them you piece of shit.Watching streamers ≠ playing video games.
>>724710210Expedition 33 is the only good game there. All the rest are boring and tedious.
My problem with Blue Prince is despite finally getting sanctum ending is that I feel like this would have been WAY faster if it wasn't a roguelike.The roguelike elements just felt like it was wasting my time the entire way.
>>724710210Holy zoomer dogshit
>>724712164It's essentially throwing RNG elements into what is meant to be a puzzle game which should strictly be about logic and agency. If there was a reward for best marketing scheme of the Year Blue Prince should absolutely win because they've essentially just skipped over many of the elements of the best puzzle games, marketed it as a feature and get praised for it.
>>724712630>>724712164game would have been better if there was no retarded stamina systemand that you can just fuck around with the layout of the house later on
>>724712164Yeah Blue Prince did not benefit in the slightest bit from the rougelike elements and it literally only makes the game worse.
>>724710210Pokemon is not getting a GotY nomination no matter which way you slice it, fucking Avowed, Outer Worlds 2 and Borderlands 4 have better chances.
>>724712164without the RNG part the game would literally have nothing of novelty to offer, and even as it is now it has nothing of quality to offer. Shilled piece of crap game.
>>724712968why
>>724712164>>724712737I unironically hope nintendo patents roguelike mechanics so devs stop relying on the algorhythm to design the game for them.
>>724713017If it wasn't a roguelike and the house was just one big massive rubricks cube that you were free to shift around whenever it would have been betterWould have been way more novel
>>724713046It's not top 6 by any metric, not even game journos', E33 and HK are shoe-ins, the rest will probably be GoY, DS2, bananza and either Hades or KCD2.
>>724710210It's all gay, feminist shit.
>>724713146Isn't blue prince essentially a full game version of the final dungeon from skyward sword? That worked just fine with no roguelike elements.
>>724713208E33 is a plant game , it's horrible and it's going to win the celebrities award.
it's not about what's "right" it's about what the millennial journo judges like and they like hades and bing bing wahoo games. so it's going to be hades 2 or donkey kong
>>724710210Donkey Kong Bananza and Death Stranding 2 will be the AAAsloppa representatives.
>>724710210Looked up the trailer for expedition 33 and it looked like UE cinematic qte slop.Silksong was good.Blue Prince is one of the worst games I've ever played and people who like it should be scorned.Have never heard of the other two.
>>724713620the only decent opinion in this thread.
>>724713549it would be funny, to show the absolute state of AAA
>>724710210Pokemon is not getting a nomination, come the fuck on. The nominees will be>E33>Silksong>Hades 2>DK Bananza>Death Stranding 2>Ghost of YoteiI assume E33 will take it.
>>724710210the games industry is dead if slop like this counts as goty
>>724714040post your picks or stfu
>>724710210>ubisoft producer>pretty sure cherry don't have any influence that's not just clout from the first game>schrier's buddy>supergiant lol>hazelight lmao>>>muh nepotismdeveloper "independence" is an issue orthogonal to game's quality, but some people sure love to bring that nonsense up, as if everybody below ubisoft in size qualifies for pity points as "the little guy"i don't even think making use of your connections and resources to make and push your shit is immoral or whatever, but i've fucking had it with MUH INDIE label that's applied to everything and anything, especially by idiots who don't know that crony- doesn't mean nepo-yeah dorito pope always reserves a spot for kojumbo, but guess fucking what? it's retards like OP who keep giving his show attention and validation>tl;drkill yourself
Expedition is so far ahead it's not even funny. Wuchang kinda competes gameplay wise but everything else in expedition mogs hard
>>724710210based indiechad
>>724710210Blue Prince and Hades 2 don't deserve recognition as GOTY nominees at all
>>724713291You didn't play it.
>>724711029I liked Blue Prince until I lost full day's progress because I got stuck in the casino and couldn't exit. I had played for nearly an hour. Just can't be arsed redoing whatever it is I did.
>>724714598>ubisoft producerWhat the fuck are you talking about?
>>724710210Europe gonna win another goty, it's that easy, east making horny slop, USA just making regular slop.
>>724713291E33 is literally probably the best game released this past decade. You genuinely, unironically have not played it.
>>724716414Shits itself in act 3 so nah
>>724710210>advertising telemarketingDon't buy an ad, buy rope.
>>724716414fucking lol zoomers are a failed generation
>>724710210>GOTY 2025 LineupFixed your image for you.
>>724717038you just hate everything popular and good
>>724716812>>724717038You haven't played it.
>>724717119>good
