GOTY

ITT: Your GOTY so far. Also alternatively post what you think will be GOTY.

I'm heading towards the end of playthrough B, and I heavily doubt that I will continue. Game is pretty lame, to be quite honest. Hopefully there is a patch that includes worthwhile enemies.

I'm really enjoying it, more than BotW even. Oh well different strokes.

For what it's worth, Automata is a close second so far.

you already posted it

nioh comes in second.

Frozen Synapse 2

All other games have become irrelevant 2bh

Nier is great but here's the real GOTY, because overall polish and a new tier of graphics that not even PC mustards can compete with (inb4 someone unironically posts crysis in a pathetic attempt at rebuttal)

Well. Play through C, and see if you like it then. That's when the game becomes goty material

Just wait til route C lol

Automata for me so far.
But RE7 and BotW were both phenomenal as well. Have yet to play Persona 5. And I want to check out Horizon and play my copy of Yakuza 0.

This year has been nuts.

Really need to pick up Nioh again, was enjoying it but then BotW came out so I switched and haven't came back to it yet.

>it gets good 20 hours in

user...

>play the game 30 hours before it becomes really good

I guess nier gets a free pass

My brother's thinking of getting that for my PS4, I'll have to try it out when he does.

>30 hours
user, route A and B combined take less than 10 hours if you take your time

It's a pretty long game, and it came out at a bad time so I don't really blame you.

>almost to the part where the story turns
>going to quit
>quitting any game before the ending

After so many mediocre years this year has finally got me back into gaming desu, it's great.

Route A/B is a solid 20ish hours if youre doing sidequests

T. Bought game at launch and put 10 hours in the first day

At least finish ending B before you make up your mind, there's so major plot twists there.

After that, make up your mind if you want to continue

Im at 23 hours with route B just after the amusement park so i dont know what you're talking about.

Still doesn't explain why its ok for a game to force you to playthrough almost the same thing twice before it gets good.

It's definitely a strange design decision but at least your playing it from a different perspective and some things are changed/new sidequests added.

Launch guy here

Im agreeing with you, people are telling you "it gets good 20 hours in " as if thats a really good sales pitch lol

Its a decent enough game, but if youre not feeling it then take a break and do other stuff, thats what I did.

Seconded, this is the most complete, polished open-world to date.

>"it gets good 20 hours in"
isnt meant to be a sales pitch, route c is meant to be a huge shakeup in the characters lives and the war in general, it loses impact if it happens too early.

I noticed something similar with kingdom hearts just the other day, before the first boss Soras mom calls him down to dinner and Riku mentions his own parents. they're dead jim, like so fucking dead, and nobody cares.

honestly every time I find the game a bit lame I just continue a little bit and it hits you with something amazing.

Its nice but its not GOTY so far...

I'm of the opinion the games overall direction is pretty poor, honestly. Even if the plot and lore is good on paper.

The underlying story couldve been told in a much more interesting and compelling way, but for the most part you just have a clusterfuck of events but nothing actually happenijg until the final stretch. I cant convince myself that game is pushing things forward, especially with how the first game did the same thing much better.

Hollow Knight

>What I think will be GOTY

Zelda or Nier.

Zelda was so good that it's made me a little annoyed at every game that isn't Zelda.

I keep walking into walls expecting them to be climbable and have perfect collsion detection.

The first Gravity Rush was basically my ideal game in a lot of ways, the concept, presentation, music etc. were all like someone plucked them right from a list of things I want and love. It had its flaws of course, but I loved it.

My expectations for 2 were insane, I don't think I've hoped for and been hyped for so many specific things or possible things from one game before. 2 ended up addressing pretty much every flaw the first had, while maintaining the core concept and presentation and music and more that made me love the first, essentially being the same game but better in every way, and I fucking loved it even more.

It's literally perfect

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This is an amazing year

But yeah, Automata tops it for me.

I'm having an issue with the combat. Mostly it seems that I can just hold down X or Y and combos just come out when I'm really into percisions and anti-button mashing. Granted I just got done with the dual goliath fight so maybe I haven't delved too deep into the game to find certain weapons with the correct movesets that I'll like or maybe there's something in the settings I overlooked.

Playing on hard by the way.

BotW.

Not a single game released on PC is exciting for me this year.

Any recommendations?
>inb4 Nier
If I can't pirate it, then is worthless.

no, combat is all button mash and avoid the bullet hells.

The first 20 hours of the game was the prologue. Route C takes place afterward and is the true story of the game.

It wouldn't be a Yoko Taro game otherwise

At this point it's made it's money, if people want to miss out, that's thier business I guess.

For Honor

Battletech

So far Nioh is my personal GOTY.
Expecting BotW to get most GOTY awards of the games released so far.

Alright.
I'll bite.

What makes the open world so "good"?

I hear a lot of folks from Zelda saying that the physics and the exploration of BOTW is really good. When I played Witcher 3, the writing on the side quests made them pretty decent. I also liked how I could come back later to see results.
What does Horizon have?

In a year with no Nier, GR2 wpuld have been my GotY.

I haven't played Zelda yet though.

it slowly introduces mechanics and concepts that come together at the end of the game. No one would care about ending E were it standalone, and the perspective shifts and shifts between mech and ground fighting would put people off were it not for route B.
Also, in a linear game, you couldn't have sidequests.

Drakengard games were bad even after 20 hours.

We can say that all we want and its technically true, but that dosent stop it from being wasteful as fuck

Automata for me as well, with P5 a close second. Realistically there's no way for either games to win GOTY as they're both relatively niche titles compared to huge releases like Zelda or RDR2.

You can kill things easier with the right combos and such but you get a lot of milage out of mashin and dodging. It's an RPG before it's an action game, for better or worse.

OP here I agree, overall Zelda is almost certain to win most of the GOTY awards.

Plenty linear games have sidequest, like Dishonored.

I have to say P5, though I haven't finished either of them yet.

DoD3 has a significant change in the last couple of branches.

DoD1 is pretty much the same the whole way through.

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well, that and automata is a pretty mediocre hack n slash for most people.

Not him but I disagree.

People dislike the first part of Steins;Gate for the same reason, but you really need to establish the status quo before you shake it up or it just comes off as MY HOME TOWN WAS DESTROYED WHILE I WAS GONE OH NO WHO CARES

>P5.
Nah.
As a normie, it's not appealing because of the cliche writing and the fact that it's mostly a visual novel. Soundtrack and UI is great, but not enough.
I'm 4 hours in though. Maybe it'll get better.

Ending E was the only time the game actually pulled itself together to truly express its thenes instead of talking aeound it. I honestly found myself thinking "finally his game gets to the point"

But Ending D was better for the charscters themselves, I dont care about E beyond the initial battle.

So far as mechanics goes, it easily couldve been you bouncing between 9S and 2B while cutting A2 entirely since she barely has a reason to be there

Automata for me once the crack is out

Atmosphere, moving through the ruins of civilization, even random mobs can be deadly on highest difficulty so theres a bit of dread in it.

So far it's between Breath of the Wild and Persona 5. I'll be starting Automata and Nioh soon. This has been a really good year so far. The only game that didn't really impress me was Gravity Rush 2 and I still moderately enjoyed it. I guess RE7 was a little forgettable too but the VR mode helped it feel different. Really excited to see how Fire Emblem Echoes turns out next month.

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Persona 5 beats Nier for me for a simple reason: I haven't played Nier yet

I feel like Zelda will win most GOTY awards from publications and such mostly because it has more mainstream appeal, but early 2017 has been amazing for vidya

>Atmosphere.
Huh. Game doesn't look atmospheric to me. Especially considering that the main character in the e3 trailer talked about every thing.

The status quo was already established in the first hours of Ending A, and Ending B does nothing but build up 9Ss charscter which couldve easily been done during A

Which is why I call it wasteful. If they could already bounce so eadily between 9S and A2 in C/D then theres no reason you couldnt do it in A/B, its just artificial extension. 2B barely has chsracterization anyway so theres not much to conflict against.

It probably won't sway your opinion in any way but turning on auto advance makes it feel less like a VN since a lot of the game is voiced.

>Hollow Knight

>bro you gotta play it until you beat it
>bro you beat it that means you liked it enough to beat it
kys yourself

How would you know about how good a game is if you haven't played it? And besides, even if a crack did come out you wouldn't be able to participate in the games greatest moment

If the new Mario game is a slam dunk, 2017 might be one of gaming's strongest years ever.

Yakuza 0

it's a real shame it came out in the same year as automata

NieR

Horizon looks pretty shitty dude. I'd have Crysis over bloom, lens flare, cinematic bars and manjaw,

Nier: Automata is probably my GOTY. I bought the Japan release and went in completely unspoiled and fucking loved it.

Playing P5 now and really liking that too. Could've been my GOTY last year.

horizon zero dawn has good graphi-

i didnt say that second implication at all though. i'm of the opinion that you should get the full story before you say the story is shit however.

I really can't enjoy a game if it shoves too much story in my face. That's why I couldn't get into Nier or Zelda or Horizon.

Indie master race if you ask me.

I completely disagree. The game uses the first arc as a cute little anime story about fighting robots to really give you a sense of the world and the people who inhabit it before pulling the rug out from underneath you. The start of route C would lack impact if what proceeded was simply a prologue.

I can accept that you don't feel the same way, but I cannot agree that it was a mistake to do it like this.

>having Automata as your GOTY

Minor spoilers. Just a webm of me fighting three enemies during 2B storyline

ACfag is that you? I'm pretty sure I've seen this list before as well.

here we go.

Nier is trash

>Games that aren't out yet

Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8 made me ir8 but I guess that's just f8

>only playing games he can pirate

Anyone else wondering why PC gaming is dead and consoles own the market?

>ACfag
Can I get a rundown on this meme?

How long did you take making this Bait?
If this isn't Bait and your actual opinion, then jesus christ you NEED to kill yourself

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How new?

god i hated the sky worms

It wouldn't matter. Even if Hollow Knight was the only 90+ game released the entire year, some other mediocre AAA title like Horizen would take GOTY because indie games get ignored.

that ones new to me, good job.

more OC

but that's game of the generation

seeI hope you realize that people have legit reasons for disliking Horizon.

right on cue

Thanks for dropping a still from a tech demo someone made years ago, that no machine at the time could play.

Mustards are so predictable.

>playing games the same year they release

To really get into how the story shouldve been (in my opionion) Id have to get into spoilers, but I'd rather be considerate to others in this thread.

But in brief, I notice how the first Nier got its point across quite easily in just route A/B. So seeing Automata drag itself through 40 hours of content ranging from good to meh, all for one Ending, that while being good, is almost completely detached from the rest of the game while delivering the real points of the story more effectively than anything else, leaves me scratching my head.

>saying that when undertale was the undisputed GOTY of '15.

too expensive