c00797 No.13943330
I think it's about that time of year. What is your personal Game of the Year? For me Divinity Original sin 2 is the only right answer. Mario Odessey was also nice but no other game had as much content or was as well made as OS2.
39c362 No.13943346
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Nex Machina
It's so fast, varied and smooth that it puts Sonic to shame
21d6f3 No.13943350
I liked the new Mario game. Also splatoon 2.
c7a86e No.13943356
>>13943330
I really liked original sin 2 but act 3 and 4 were a letdown. I don't feel it deserves any awards but it's a good game overall.
c00797 No.13943368
>>13943356
I am slightly a slight completionist so by the time I got to act 3 I already had over 100 hours of gameplay with my friends so even if you just consider the first 2 acts alone, that is a huge game.
abd816 No.13943461
Nioh gets my vote. Hits all the right strings.
355483 No.13943491
>>13943330
SJW city, that you can admittedly gas, was pretty big bummer, and "choose an ending after killing last boss" didn't win any points with me either.
But overall DOS2 is one of the best games this decade, it's just there too many good games this decade overall.
I personally settle for tomato, it's literally perfect, might as well be my GOAT.
6cecd4 No.13943545
Nier Automata. Fuck it, it'll do.
ff0db1 No.13943704
Nioh. It's a good game but most of the entertainment for me came from watching Dark Soul babbies complaining about it doesn't play like Dark Souls.
ec26b6 No.13943707
It's Cuphead, the only really original game.
9dc78f No.13943711
>>13943330
What is it you like most about DOS:2? I'm at the final boss fight and while I did enjoy it I can't see myself playing it again for a long time (but that may be because I ran it through over the course of 2 weeks)
de36cb No.13943722
A tie between Ruiner and Nex Machina. I fucking love top down shooters.
a34255 No.13943727
>>13943711
i also really enjoyed it, but also burned myself out since I spent like 100% of my free time on it.
232db5 No.13943774
Haven't played Divinity 2 yet but so far I'm really leaning towards Hollow Knight. Expected nothing and was ultimately blown away. In fact it's one of the few games I actually took time to do the achievements on just because I wanted more.
95bb72 No.13943802
I don't think I've played anything else that's come out this year. Doesn't matter though, because while the first game was a rocky start this is the most fun I've had playing a Total War game since Medieval 2. Not even bothered by the DLC, aside from the bullshit blood pack.
cd868c No.13943931
A toss up between these two games.
7db566 No.13944013
Nier: Autofellatio and (if expansions for games count) XCOM 2: War of the (((Chosen))) since those two were the only ones I actually brought/played this year. I had more enjoyment out of watching shitty anime than video games this year. I think I'm growing out of them.
e3165e No.13944038
Rainbow Six: Siege is the only game I've liked since 10 years or so.
I cry at night
60017d No.13944047
It's gotta be Cuphead. If only for that god awful tutorial gameplay
623af8 No.13944055
It was a generous year for weebs but I'd say this one.
7db566 No.13944056
>>13944038
How do you like the new seasons, anon? Don't you love OC donut steel Ops and recoiless weapons? Who am I kidding? Siege is dying.
3910ab No.13944065
Before some faggot gets in here and starts spewing that garbage BOTW and Persona 5 are not GOTY material, get out you fucking redditors.
>>13943330
This, Odyssey or Nier
d6007d No.13944092
Who gives a fuck? Whether it's "official" or personal goty means jack shit.
fc7f9b No.13944112
>>13943802
I gotta somewhat agree with you, it didn't seem as complex at first but the sheer variety of fucked up factions make it interesting. For sure my favourite PC game this year.
Overall I think Mario may be my favourite, though there's a few games I still need to get to this year.
41b23e No.13944215
Persona 5, I guess. Not sure if it counts because it was technically released last year, but didn't hit American shores until 2017.
Futaba is best girl btw.
3910ab No.13944232
d6007d No.13944262
>>13944065
>Before some faggot gets in here and starts spewing that garbage BOTW and Persona 5 are not GOTY material, get out you fucking redditors.
Considering you care what an autistic fuck somewhere in the world thinks his meaningless goty is, ii sounds like you're the reddit.
But it's old news, /v/ is filled with underage faggots.
49ae4d No.13944624
>>13943491
If you lived in a world where you could fuck whatever you wanted and not worry about STDs because of magic armor, I am pretty sure most people would go full lizard fucker too.
abd816 No.13944637
I have a top 4.
THIS IS MY GAME, IT WAS MADE FOR ME TIER
1 - Nioh
I can't believe it's not dark souls - Samurai Warriors edition isn't a hard game to describe. It's dark souls, with more stylish and punishing combat, a mission-based progression, and diablo loot. Is it better than DaS and consorts ? Not really, the level design's kind of shit outside of a select few maps, and the randomized loot just removes a lot of what makes the formula work. It's take it or leave it, really, and boy do I take it.
Everything from the Sengoku setting and cool yôkai to the invitation to fuck around in sub-missions caters pretty much exactly to what I like in video games. Nioh presents a good alternative to invasions that are more fitting to a PvE game. Onmyo magic can get fucking retarded in its crippling of enemies, but ties into the combat system so you're not just here spamming R1. Overall, a game I can't stop playing, with the promise to stay that way for a very long time.
YEAH LET'S NOT KID OURSELVES TIER
2 - Super Mario Odyssey
Odyssey is kind of jarring at first. As could be expected of a mario game, the gameplay feels incredibly smooth and organic, the aesthetics are vibrant and joyful, and the OST is one to sing along with. It's the content that's strange. The world is divided into more than a dozen kingdoms, and while some appear up to par with 64 and Sunshine, a lot feel tiny. To boot, you're not completing set broader challenges taking place in the levels, you're just collecting moons lying around. And a lot of those are easy. Like, insultingly easy.
The hook that lets you look past that is that the game is full of surprises. It really works on its travel theme with constant discovery. But ultimately the story is kind of short, and you fuck around in the levels, collecting every moon in sight, each one thankfully entailing more challenge and complexity than the ones literally just lying around. That is the moment when Odyssey gets real. You look at your moon collection, thinking you've looked pretty much everywhere. And then the game tells you "That's cute, but you've collected only a third of moons on this level. Hop to it, bitch."
A normal game gives you a set goal and lets you find ways to solve it. Odyssey gives you a world filled to the brim with shit to do on an unprecedented scale. Every new recovery requiring more and more observation and dexterity to find and get to until you're doing really autistic shit. It's essentially secret hunting in a conventional game, only here it's 80% of the time you're going to spend. It expects you to like playing video games for the sake of it. It's the joy of gaming in a distilled form.
It must be noted that the lack of a spooky level is some bullshit.
3 - Breath of the Wild
We all know the story. Perfect scores, unbelievable uproar, so it's /v/'s job to go against the grain and heroically stand up against the normalfags and proclaim it's shit. Yeah, no, not gonna happen. I do have a few reservations. Do I want this to be the new standard for Zelda ? No, I don't. It's completely different in nature, so much it can be considered a new IP being sold on the Zelda name. Is it flawless in execution ? No, some areas are definitely subpar and the season pass can honestly fuck right off.
But despite the baggage, it is plain and simple intellectual dishonesty to think Breath of the Wild is anything else than Nintendo brutally schooling the western industry on the subjects of open world and emergent gameplay. Having to employ every possible means against the cold to get to the summit of a mountain, only to be presented with a huge dragon boss flying around the different summits of a mountain range, and being told "good luck killing it" is the quintessence of adventure. Anyone trying to pass it off as being Skyrim is lazier than a nigger on welfare.
abd816 No.13944639
>>13944637
A MAN LIKE ME…HASN'T RUN OUT OF TEARS? TIER
4 - Shin Yomawari (Yomawari Midnight Shadows)
Yomawari 1 was a violent, but simple game. You are a little girl. Your dog gets killed. You go home and tell your sister your dog ran away. Sister goes alone into the night to find him. She isn't coming back. You have to face the night, and the night is no place for you. It mostly worked because of nice japanese ghosts designs and a sad, but simple story about an elementary school kid coming to understand death and the cruelty of the world. The gameplay was a tense die-and-retry, where you escaped ghosts just in the nick of time or died. After you were done with the story, you could explore town and see all kinds of optional events and hallucinations.
Yomawari 2 is largely the same deal, but bigger and more complex. Ghosts are much more varied, as are the strategies against them. The town is bigger, and you can revisit the old one post-game. There is, however, a key difference - the story.
Alright, so you know how you like subtle horror in games? Well Shin Yomawari grabs you by the neck, pins you to the ground, and bashes your face in. The setpieces, like the mansion, use every trick in the spooky book. The story is absolutely not fucking around. It starts with a little girl killing herself, and from then on it's a wild ride into the depths of despair, from which there are no miraculous getaways.
Two sizeable caveats. One - Translated by NISA. No memes, but an americanized and generally quite insipid script. At the very least it gets the story across, though some phrases seem like they couldn't possibly come out of little girls. Thankfully the Japanese script is here, and is written entirely in kana. Elementary school girls and all. Two - Bosses can get fucking annoying more than scary, and the final boss is one frustrating piece of shit, only made worse by unskippable cutscenes.
936fdc No.13944668
Sonic Mania
Yakuza 0 is retroactively my 2015 GOTY
119997 No.13944719
So many to pick from this year. I'll stick with Nier. Other than that, its meaningless.
>>13944065
Someone already picked that.
1a404d No.13945028
Between these four. It was a good year for weeb games.
e2c05a No.13945052
>>13945028
>yakuza
>weeb game
a95f8f No.13945079
>already a yakuza fan, excited for zero
>blows my already high expectations out of the water
game was just fucking fantastic
7f6b87 No.13945087
Another vote for yakuza 0. Can't wait for 6 and kiwami 2.
46eb6a No.13945088
>>13943330
Does Yakuza Kiwami count because other than that the only new game I've played this year is Project Diva Future Tone and Ghost Recon Wildlands.
9f5b45 No.13945109
Nier: Automata
Emil and Ending E made me cry.
24ac7e No.13945112
>>13943774
Same for me. I originally stayed away from it because I thought it was just a random game trying to get the shovel knight audience, and it turned out completely different.
I just found out there's a third free update coming some time that will likely have new areas and a fourth update (maybe paid) that lets you play as hornet, and I haven't even played the new stuff from grim troop so I'm going to wait for it all and replay it.
1a404d No.13945137
>>13945052
Manly weeb games are still weeb games.
e2c05a No.13945152
>>13945137
It is straight up not anime.
b50161 No.13945166
Said it last thread and I'll say it again. More or less arranged from top left to bottom right in the order I'd rank them. There are a few games I think could be contenders but I haven't gotten around to them yet.
>>13944215
No
119997 No.13945181
>>13945137
I don't see any burly men pummeling each other with the ancient art of Akuma baka ken at school while edgy losers cutting themselves in that game. Bad news about your assumption right here.
36f0cf No.13945568
>>13945112
Hornet update will be free, I'm pretty sure it was a Kickstarter goal that got met. Hadn't heard about any updates after the third free one, I'll have to check into it.
As a complete package I don't think there's much that comes close in terms of design. A lot of games have done exceptional in terms of certain aspects, like Cupheads soundtrack or Mario's gameplay, but every facet of HK is just done so consistently well that it's hard to believe it was made by amateurs.
24ac7e No.13945604
>>13945568
>Hornet update will be free
News to me. I was reading that the third update (next one) will be free but after that there aren't guarantees of free updates.
674c18 No.13946612
I'm not going to try to argue that it's in any way objectively the best game to come out this year, but I knew exactly what to expect going into it - and it delivered on or exceeded my expectations in every single way.
That's rare these days.
c39864 No.13946678
>>13943330
Just bought this today. What am I in for?
46eb6a No.13946695
>>13946678
Skeleton playthrough is the only playthrough that matters
24ac7e No.13946703
>>13946687
>dialogue
I didn't know video game journalists post on /v/.
c39864 No.13946705
>>13946695
I read you can also be a cannibal elf. What's the deal? Is this finally a game where elves aren't faggots?
46eb6a No.13946720
>>13946705
Elves eat things to gain their memories, I never played that class but my friend seemed to like that race.
24ac7e No.13946777
>>13946750
I skip wordshit and turn off voice acting, journalist-kun, because I play games for the trigger warning gameplay.
c8f82e No.13946802
I haven't picked up a "new" game in a while
10215d No.13946806
Dark Souls 3. I'm behind on gaming, so it's new to me, it'll do for a GOTY.
I'm going to enjoy eventually playing Witcher 3.
24ac7e No.13946840
>>13946788
>crpgs are about story and dialogue
t. video game journalist
24ac7e No.13946867
>>13946856
>dialogue
Go back to polygon, journalist.
And D:OS2 was shit because Larian went after the casuals big time by making it story focused and multiplayer focused, instead of improving the solid combat system they had in the first game.
24ac7e No.13946896
>>13946886
>video game "writing"
>video game writing
>video game writing
You're not serious are you?
24ac7e No.13946912
>>13946907
>video game writing
Write another article about how hard Cuphead is.
24ac7e No.13946924
>>13946920
Exactly, D:OS2 had shit gameplay, which is why it was a bad game.
24ac7e No.13946950
>>13946943
Gameplay is the only reason to play a video game unless you're a journalist and D:OS2 had gameplay that was a downgrade from the first game.
376c01 No.13946952
>>13944056
i hope they listen to the retarded fanbase and remove friendly fire so i can be free from this once and for all
84bc31 No.13946960
>DOS 2 has shitty dialogue
>DOS 2 has shit gameplay
????????????
I can understand for DOS 1 but 2? Are you seriously getting triggered over the occasional shitty one-liners?
24ac7e No.13946964
>>13946960
People read the text?
cbf5b3 No.13946975
>>13946960
DOS1's dialogue was unplayably bad compared to DOS2. Jesus christ, it sounds like a bad Saturday morning cartoon, but not even in the fun way.
84bc31 No.13946985
>>13946974
But do you have anything to back up your claim that the dialogue is bad in DOS 2?
cbf5b3 No.13947005
>>13946996
Nobody tell him.
cbf5b3 No.13947015
>>13947011
Regardless of what you think of the sequel's dialogue, you'd have to be fucking high to think DOS1's dialogue was better in any way.
84bc31 No.13947017
>>13946996
>>13947011
If we are thinking of the same murder scene then I can't.
I fucking can't
24ac7e No.13947034
>>13946996
>>13947011
>>13947030
>video game journalist once again effortlessly makes a fool of himself and reveals that he hasn't even played a game
84bc31 No.13947051
>>13947034
Its even worse since he either didn't even look at the OP image or doesn't know roman numerals.
cbf5b3 No.13947053
>>13947047
>being an actual retard
24ac7e No.13947065
>>13947061
>I was just pretending to be retarded
84bc31 No.13947070
Ebin at this point. Ignore.
cbf5b3 No.13947073
>>13947061
>Says the faggot playing watered down crpgs made for controllers.
It's a PC game. Jesus, you really are as stupid as a journalist, aren't you?
016a85 No.13947128
Nier: Automata and I'm not even a nierfag.
016a85 No.13947211
>>13943722
>Ruiner
I can't understand what people see in this game, you can cheese the first two (or three, don't remember) bosses like a retard and then get that stupid difficulty spike in the next one because you wouldn't bother "playing right" since the game doesn't encourage you to do that. Also, if I remember it right all the telegraphed boss movements needed some inhuman reflex or basically didn't exist and their counters were just broken, you literally could strike the boss like 4 times and in some random time he would block your attack, no indication, no clues.
Also, IMO, the whole hub thing is retarded I thought the point of this twitchy games is going straight to action. I know you can say the hub is like a quiet time, like the apartment is in Hotline Miami, but that would self deception, the designers literally scratched their itch for "open world features" and put a place for their side quests.
016a85 No.13947255
>>13947211
Also, the girl's intentions are quite obvious from the start, kind of ruining any expectation for a good twist, but that's more like an afterthought since writing quality is not something you care much in run 'n' gun games.
107bff No.13947354
c00797 No.13947432
>>13946678
Hundreds of hours of Fun faggotry. Play it with a friend if you can. You can literally just send someone your files and play it with them since the game has no DRM.
24ac7e No.13947676
>>13947432
>You can literally just send someone your files and play it with them since the game has no DRM.
You can do the same thing with literally every single steam game because they are all cracked hours upon release.
472cc7 No.13948167
>>13946975
>>13946960
>>13943330
How is the loot situation is DOS II? Is it still the awfully retarded randomization that nearly forced you to save scum and rob everyone to not be under geared? Maybe I had shit luck, but most containers in DOS I were empty during my playthrough.
b0d26a No.13950425
>>13943330
No Bellegar no game of the year.
>>13948167
I pretty much ignored gear and was able to play through fine
ff0db1 No.13951290
>>13950425
You can't do that on high difficulty because of the retarded gear score scaling that's tied with hit rates for some reason.
d6b506 No.13952970
>>13943330
Was anything censored in Divinity 2? After what they did with I'm having a hard time justifying buying it. I don't need to know the story of the censored first game right?
559518 No.13952986
DOS2 was pretty good but I'd vote for Nier, it just had a much harded emotional impact on me, I felt like shit for like 2 or 3 days after that ending
559518 No.13952996
>>13952970
Arx, a city near the end of the game, is full of SJW bullshit, you literally cannot walk 50 meters without running into faggot marrige. But up to that point it's 100% SJW free, even the female outfits don't look like burkas anymore, which they did in the first game.
84bc31 No.13953007
>>13952970
Nothing I am aware of. You can bone a bunch of shit and romance some stuff, there was even a skele telling you your dick is small in one cave.
84bc31 No.13953015
>>13952996
Thats not actually censoring. Its just gay shit. Good thing you can gas 'em.
14a3b4 No.13953020
Was the best game i played this year in the sense that it constantly had me coming back for more,even when i was fucking angry at party or character wipes,also i didn't play anything from this year so,tough shit for 2017.
177d64 No.13953506
>>13952970
Not censored but buged and broken. There are quests which didn't conclude and end properly. There are many places, npcs and items which are quest-tied, but since the devs runned out of time their quest weren't inserted.
Divinity: original Sin 2 is a game of the year for me too, but i wouldn't recommand it to buy! Wait for the Enchanted Edition! The devs don't do dlcs or major fixes. The real full game with many extra, bug fix, plus quest and expansion size content will be come out in an Enchanted Edition.
Tl;dr: Pirate it!
9f2431 No.13953525
Mine was Cuphead by default because it's the only game I bought that came out this year, if Autotomato didn't have Denuvo I would've bought it. Also what were you all replying to.
7516d7 No.13953568
Don't have one, this year pretty much only had mediocre games at best (which is admittedly better than the last few years, but still shit). I guess I had fun with pic related
9c61c5 No.13953803
>>13946960
>DOS 1
I just bought that game at $7 at walmart, it came with classic and enchant editions, which one is better?
e2c05a No.13953825
>>13953818
I need more morgana r63
b650b0 No.13954211
d6007d No.13954238
>>13953803
EE has more content but a lot of NO FUN ALLOWED balancing.
d79ad6 No.13954304
>>13943330
The new Mario game looks cool. Can't say newer games interest me too much though.
I'm getting too old.
e7ec13 No.13954334
One of the main reasons why I played videogames were for the art, too bad that even a good bit ofjapanese games have terrible art direction now since all of the white western artists they ripped off of are dying off and the older generation is nearing its end. Sega always had great artists but Sammy fucked them hard. Nintendo's shit always adheres to a set model. Videogames are so goddamn samey nowadays it's depressing. Cemented culture kills growth since there'm no room for roots, and I can blame kikes and commies for that.
f408a2 No.13954367
>>13954289
I can never take this picture seriously with his left hand holding a muzzle flash.
ac0e09 No.13954379
>>13954367
That's an imp's fireball.
56f9a9 No.13954439
Nier a tomato for me. Divinity 2 was great for act 1 and 2 but 3 and 4 were just so fucking shit it really soured the game for me. Even gassing fag city isn't enough to save that shit show of an act.
Nioh is okay but I only just pirated it so it's still too early. Breath of the goyim was occasionally comfy but so many bad design choices made it the boring trash everyone who isn't a nintoddler expected it to be. I hope normalfags have realized open world games are boring trash but that would be expecting too much from them.
0f06d0 No.13954443
>>13954238
>NO FUN ALLOWED balancing.
tell me more
d6b506 No.13954445
>>13954334
>One of the main reasons why I played videogames were for the art
Why don't you just jewgle some pretty pictures then?
11a2f9 No.13957315
>>13954367
>not the backwards mag
b0d58b No.13957563
>>13954443
Not him, but in DivOS2 people turned enemies into chickens and caused damage when enemies moved.
Devs nerfed it, because muh balance in a single player (or coop) game.
>>13946678
>snake girl
Expect to fuck lizard women. Bonus points if you're undead.
>>13954334
Yeah I enjoy them less and less. I'm also worried about anime and manga. LNs are people inspired by manga, inspired by videogames. Old art is going to die out as everyone only draws the simple stuff now.
Before shit was original or inspired by mythology or other such things. Now they will be inspired by generic, cliche anime. Or god forbid, light novels.
Allthough the latter is unlikely given how replaceable everything is, and how it's forgotten.
Honestly the art is my biggest fear, allthough I'm tired of "Otaku in vidya world" and still hate anything set in highschool.
e85aa9 No.13957573
>>13957563
>Expect to fuck lizard women
D:OS2 has the best monstergirls.
b0d58b No.13957686
>>13957573
Slugs, undead (male), lizards, elves, humans, was there anything I missed?
Oh
>kissing a spider
88be88 No.13957806
>>13946705
elves are pretty standard hippie stlye, leaves n shit. but they also turn into tree and eat people. its a pretty decent twist on an otherwise tired concept of tolkien evles.
Mechanically in-game they're great if you're running a full party. Eating body parts can sometimes result in new spells and an extra action point is invaluable at times
ea201e No.13957808
>>13957686
>Slugs
did the whole slug wedding proposal lead to anything?
ff0db1 No.13958732
>>13954443
They removed or nerfed all the fun and unintended combinations like fire shield + immolation + cluster spores which gives you huge fire shield hp and while killing everything around you.