Genuinely how the FUCK did this happen in hindsight?
>>750191082 award shows are just marketing psyops
>>750191082>How did a popular game win the game popularity award?
>>750191082Same way Astroturf won GOTY
>>750191082At the time I thought ME3 was kind of letdown but still bought DAI on release like a good little hopeful cuck. After running around and doing MMO quests in the Hinterlands and marveling at all the ugly companions I had already accepted that Bioware was just shit now.
>>750191082Ea handed money to the award show
>>750191082there was nothing else particularly good that year 2014 was one of the weakest years in gaming history
>>750191314this, the only one worse was probably 2016 or 18i think the only games i bought in 2014 were FNAF 1 and 2
>>750191082Celeste was a runner up, don't you remember?
>>750191082money hatting which happens for most GotYs. see all snoy games.
>>750191358didn't that have smash ultimate?
>>750191314>dark souls II>bayo 2>shovel knight>mario kart 8feel like any of these would've been better
>>750191082>faggot age inqueeristion
>>750191082Go on the TGA page and check out how the voting works.>Winners are determined by a blended vote between the voting jury (90%) and public fan voting (10%).Well, who are the voting jury? It's basically mainstream media.https://thegameawards.com/voting-juryNow, you have to understand, this list you see here today is actually a massive improvement over what the jury was like back in the earlier editions. Half of the jury back then was composed of non-vidya woke "news" outlets, many of which were explicitly LGBT themed. It was overwhelmingly stacked in favor of woke games.
>2014>12 fucking years agoI still remember anons here making fun of that ugly elf character like yesterday, where the fuck did time go?
EA paid them a pretty pennyThat easy
>>750192009So, you want to ride the bull?
>>750191082Awards are fake and gay.
>>750191082You don't remember two years ago when Sony paid for a Concord GOTY and had to pivot to Astrobot because Concord was only live for two weeks?
>>750191082Video games back then were worse than what we have today
>>750192208>But my overrated dumbed down Xbox 360 game from 2009Holy fuck, I'm so glad the AAA slop era is over
>>750191082what was the 2014 game of the year according to (You)?
>>750191687You're right but TGA isn't actually for gamers. It's a wankfest for gaming media and they eat up cinematic movie experience vidya.
>>750192294Dark Souls 2.
>>750191082it was pretty good the dragon fights were kino
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>>750192294Mario Kart 8, I guess?
>>7501910822014 was like the first year when DEI and SJW propaganda went into overdrive in gaming so they were blatant with their industry planting here. It went on super blatantly until like 2018. I wasn't gaming much around those years and didn't see it taking root, but when i came back to the scene in 2020 i was surprised to see a lot of 6/10 games getting all these crazy nominations and being lauded as the second coming of christ or something. Then people starting catching on and rebelling.
>>750192294Asseto Corsa or Endless Legend
>>750191264Astrobot was a legitimately good game, so I can't hate on it winning much. Definitely felt like trolling Bob and Bub to victory though. >>750191082It sold a lot, so a lot of people played it. I will even give it credit for having a fun multiplayer dungeon clearing game mode. The actual main game was a GIGANTIC piece of shit.
>>750192294FNAF
>>750191082Overwatch won GOTY over Dark Souls 3 that's the way bigger crime
>>750192548It's all about whos putting money on Geoffs pocket.
>>750191283>MMO questsThe maps also felt like MMO locations with how compressed everything was.
>>750191082Same way this happened. He just loves cocks that much.
>>750191082When I played it, I liked it. I think many people did. Sure, it had issues but it was fun. Other BioWare games I replayed at least once after finishing, just to make different choices and see how the story unfolds, but as I created a character for a second playthrough I was like "Nah, I don't want to play through it again." Might have been something like that for others. Seemed good and fun but with no staying power.
>>750191240i literally never heard a single person mention it back in 14
>>750191082It was a mostly good game that only included some of the collectibles tropes but zones felt empty after you completed them because nothing respawned so eventually every zone became a waste land but the story was neat the red lyrium shit was really fucking cool tooThen Veilguard torpedod all the lore that was interesting
>>750194250My second playthrough was on a "what if I use the tapestry to create the worst world possible", didn't work in making things bleak, just had less content to play throughSo my third I took horrible options for main quests but still good completion of side quests and that did make me feel the impact of earlier games
>>750191082Why do you even believe that awards are legitimate in any way? Award shows are always about industry leaders throwing money at a spectacle where they fellate each other in front of a retarded audience of chimps.
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>>750192135imagine the timeline if concord won goty
>>750191082It’s genuinely weird that it was as successful as it was because the game was incredibly mediocre.
ITT: a bunch of no life faggots regurgitate the opinions they got from youtube about a game they never intended to play
>>750196454You lost.
Inquisition was a good game that just happened to have some fag characters, unlike Veilguard which was explicitly created to push the faggot agenda.
>>750192294From OP's list, Shadow of Mordor.Still livid that the Nemesis System hasn't been in anything else.
>>75019108290% of the game awards vote is weighted towards game journoloids.How many times do I have to spell it out before you retards get it?
