Ahh.. My indie game..They are really stretching what the word indie means here
>>725972730Indie lost its meaning years ago, nowadays means small team and that's it
>>725972730Damn, another loss incoming.
>>725972730>indie gotyis merely to give goty to a corporate product
>>725973114Imagine how demoralizing it'd be to lose to Hades like, 90 minutes ahead of time; if you lose Best Indie, you've effectively lost GOTY.
>>725973114>woke journalists like woke gamewhoa
>>725972730That's pretty gross when you know how much money the director has as an individual combined with now much Kepler was able to fund them with NetEase money. On the other hand, they are probably scraping the barrel for nominees. Some great games came out that would never get nominated by journos, this crap is probably one of the only games they played this year.
>>725973114hades 2 dropped last year, doesnt count
>>725972730Can you define it?>>725973114If critics vote and fewer critics reviewed hades, seems like it's doomed. e33's a lock, thanks for proving it.
post her holes, i dont care
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>>725972730Nepobaby QTE trash for normalfags who hate video games.
>>725974749those types of games win awards. that doesn't bother you, right? that expedition 33 is going to win a bunch of awards you don't care about?
>>725974570>and fewer critics reviewed hadesWhy would they review some games and not others? It's their job.
>>725974690GIVE IT TO ME BABY
>>725972730who gives a shit? fuck you and fuck gotty (of all flavors)
How the fuck is E33 an indie game? Is this the kind of "indie" that includes games like Fortnite and DotA 2?
>>725974749this game wasn't worth the 8 year wait
>>725974570>Can you define it?Not OP, and I can define it, but why bother? If a game developed by fucking Nexon gets nominated as an "indie," then the term is meaningless. Geoff Keighley, that fucking hack, defended it by essentially saying, "Indie means whatever you want it to mean."
>>725972730Indie GOTY should be one of those PS1 looking boomer FPS not a game that looks like Elden Ring
>>725974886I can't tell you why, but the review count is right there.
I'm happy they're mogging all trash from this year. Silktrannies would mald for years to come and it would be glorious.
>>725974945Because development and publishing are two completely separate things. I shouldn't have to explain this to a board of people who ostensibly know about video games.
>>725975023Elden Ring looks like PS1 trash compared to E33.
>>72597506833 DEVS33 MILLION33 MONTHS
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>>725972730It's much more indie than Dave the Diver ever was.
>>725975068There's no enmity between these two games or their fanbases, jeet shit stirrer :)
Indie just means not from one of the big traditional companies like EA or ubisoft or snoy or Nintendo and so on.
>>725974690>>725975180
>>725975223Flash game bug that looks the same as the previous one is so bad. E33 is simply the better game and fence sitters like you are cucks.
>>725974959>Not OP, and I can define itplease do
>>725975352?
>>725972730Indie is what you feel.
>>725975292It means independent, as in funded independently and not with help from external sources like publishers, but indie games can and do often have publishers. It's the funding that's differentiates indie games from AAA.
>>725974570>If critics vote and fewer critics reviewed hades, seems like it's doomed. e33's a lock, thanks for proving it.What a fucking retarded logic.
>>725975223There are no allies in GOTY. Stop being a pussy and fight for the top or you'll end up like the TotKfags.
>>725975602>What a fucking retarded logic.kek esl
>>725974570>quantity of reviews > quality of reviewsOh, in that case, DK's sweeping, considering it has nearly double the reviews, no mixes, and only mere decimals difference in score.>>725974146Early access has never been considered a game's official release. Hence why it's nominated at the Golden Joystick Awards, and inevitably at the Game Awards.
>>725972730It deserves the nomination. It's avant-garde
>>725975528>It's the funding that's differentiates indie games from AAA.Then E33 shouldn't get the designation of "indie" anyway. The dude's a nepobaby who went into making the game with a (((very generous amount of money))) to fund it. Like, we've known this shit for months.
>412 people (403 professional roles, 9 thanks) with 502 credits.Firmly in AA range.
I pretentious huff fart sniffers who latch onto this piece of crap. GOTY awards is a sham.
>>725975367Development is done by an individual, group of people, or company that exists outside of the major studio system. It is irrespective of budget size, graphical fidelity, or even size of the team. If a guy working at EA solo develops a game, he hasn't made an indie game (see also: Dave the Diver). If through crowdfunding I have a bigger budget than a Rockstar game (see: Star Citizen), I do still have an indie game. It's also irrespective of publishing, the way distribution and production on a film are separate.
>>725975738But its overall score is lower. By your logic, E33 should beat DK for the same reasons you suggested Hades would beat E33. Maybe suggesting who will win based off of very similar review scores was always fucking retarded?
>>725973114anyone who thinks hades is better in any way or shape or form is delusional retard that should rope. p.s didn't play either, but even I know E33 is superior in every single aspect.
This is like when European expats go to third world countries and buy up their expensive land and houses.
>>725975858A generous amount of money from whom?
>>725975860>every qa tester is a dev bro
>>725972730Why are people get riled up about GOTY's anyways?
>>725976132It's a sham and that's all E33jeets could talk about since their discussion dried up months ago.
>>725976132E33cultists are the Rebirthcultists of 2025: a group absolutely obsessed by awards due to their insecurity.
>>725976280They're one of the many insecure winners since TW3 and BG3 troons. Idk what is it with Euroboos and their likeliness to rub something insignificant onto everyone's faces. Not even tendies were this volatile when BOTW won hell God of Soi snoys were more respectful towards sore losers like RDR2fags.
>>725975992>very similar review scoresHades 2's 95 is in no way "similar" to a 91-92. That's a significant gap.More specifically, if you go by OpenCritic, Hades 2 is the 12th highest rated game ever, whereas E33 is 34th
>>725972730Zzz ass game put my ass to sleep>>725976132Sheep slaves care, "muh heckin game is better then yours" nigger tier logic
>>725972730this UE slop is not indie
>>725975647Why? I played and liked the game, it getting an award won't retroactively make my experience better or worse. The only reason I want it to win is because it will make annoying people upset, which is funny. Both e33 and skong were already financially successful and both sets of devs already want to make more games. There's no world where fans of either game are in a bad spot, regardless of who gets what award.>>725975941Hey that's correct, I agree with you. You're right that the descriptor gets thrown around a lot but I think sandfall qualifies.
>>725976936>better then
>>725972730A small 300 devs studio
with a small budget of 50 million dollars
>>725976830Your own image says 92 but you can't even leave it at that, you have to say "91-92" because you think it'll sound worse. It's been delightful talking with you anon. I'll remember your posts on the night of the awards.
>more seething over this game
>>725972730They don't want to piss off the rest of the industry by giving it GOTY but also don't want to piss off gamers by not giving it a big award.
>>725976132a popular game might get an award and that bothers contrarians. /v/ likes a thing until it passes a certain threshold of being talked about, at which point any attempt to discuss that thing becomes bogged down in endless shitposting.
At this point they should just make an Original IP game of the year so that they can just give it to somebody who can bribe them. By definition indie game of the year should come from a group of people who can't afford bribes.
>>725977212>Original IP GOTY>Remaster GOTY>Remake GOTY>Sequel GOTY>Sports game GOTY>Fortnite update GOTY>Hoyoverse GOTY
>>725977178How does it being indie disqualify it from goty? Balatro was nominated for goty last year.
>>725977095>spam threads>A-ANOTHER THREAD SEETHING ABOUT MY FAVORITE GAME?!?!? O-OBSESSED!!!Buy an ad
Nepobaby Obscur Gentrification33
>>725972730But it is an indie game? It was made by indians.
>>725975464I'm afraid so, my sweetie...>unzips tootsie snoofler
>>725977357It doesn't. I'm just telling you how it's going to go down.Clair Obscur wins indie game of the year.Some shit like Split Fiction wins game of the year.
>>725977731>the melt down that this would causeDon't give me hope, my cock can only get so hard
>just a small indie game made by a passionate indie studio>look inside>millions of dolllars involved, outsourced work, ceo is a trustfund baby from one of the wealthiest families in franceam i noticing too hard
>>725978365Small passionate team beat out the big guy is a more interesting story than moderately funded team with lots of resources and asset use beat out the big guy.I don't think people realize just how much Clair Obscur leans into Unreal 5's featureset either.It don't matter though. It's a solid ass game.
>>725973114>Fagdes 2
>>725975464>Owowow
>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a 2025 role-playing video game developed by French studio Sandfall Interactive and published by Kepler Interactive.The fuck kinda indie is this supposed to be?
>>725977095it's gonna get better the closer we get to december
>>725978365>ceo is a trustfund baby from one of the wealthiest families in francewas there ever any proof of this or is it still just "hey there's a rich guy in france with the same last name as the director of e33"?
>>725976132Same reason console fags fighting about which corpo sold more consoles, absolute loser behaviour, typical for these beta numales
>stretching the definition wider than a faggot's asshole so that it can beat silksonglmao the corruption is real
>>725977178It's not an indie game. It doesn't belong in the fucking nominations. The organizers are being bribed, there is no other explanation.
>billionaire funding it>A list celebrities starring>indie
>>725979316>its not true until i have his dna sample>being a assistant director as your internship on AAA games day 1 is totally normal>celebrities to voice act and do interviews for press to glaze your game is totally normal !>no you dont understand they just have the same name, they aren't related !
>>725981307so, no?
>>725972730This game is GOTY. Not just Indie GOTY.
>>725972730>indie>asset flip>aislopFUCK YEAH
