Two more GOTYs on their way. How does Nintendo do it?

Two more GOTYs on their way. How does Nintendo do it?

Wont win GOTY because they're not First Person Shooters or Western RPG's. Welcome to Trumpland and mainstream gaming, and by "mainstream" I mean now Red-Neck gun lovers are now the majority of people buying video games, so the money is to cater to their taste and awards go to games that please them only.

OBSESSED

You can deny the truth all you want, doesn't make it untrue.

>Mario 5296783465
>weebshit
yeah no user

Oh look... I think I just proved my point. That was easy.

Isn't Nintendo excluded from game awards stuff anyway?

They care about making fun games

>391224597
This post has to be fake

When was the last time Final Fantasy won Game of the Year?

BotW will win GOTY.

Games journalists love loving LoZ, and finally they have a good game to throw awards at (instead of something like Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword) so you can be sure they won't miss this chance.

Plus, it's an open-world game, which is one of the tolerated Good Game Genres (along with wrpg and FPS, of course), so there's no barrier there.

Don't get me wrong, in a year without BotW, Horizon takes it easily. But BotW was pretty much agreed to be a better Horizon, so.

I remember splatoon winning best shooter so no

>inb4 Sup Forums autists say that botw is trash

the fun thing is, even if you personally don't think BotW is good, virtually every single gaming journalist, writer, blogger, and news outlet of any note whatsoever thought it was great.

Is there any other game this year that's received such unanimous praise? Remember that P5 and Nier are niche jap titles with gross anime titties, so they're not allowed to win anything.

BotW is awarded GOTY, free.

I really dont like platformers, I wish I could enjoy them so I could be as hype for this as everyone else seems to be,.

tfw thinking about selling my ps4 for a switch.

should I do it bros? I dont even touch my ps4 pro anymore and every ps4 weeb game that I have ever wanted to even remotely play is also on pc or coming to pc.

Odyssey has gotten its fair share of accolades, I could see it snubbing BOTW especially with it coming out closer to the Game Awards and being more fresh in everyone's minds while people have had time to ruminate on BOTW's flaws or downsides

Why did you get a PS4 if you werent interested in the games, just do it. Go where the games are, not where people are telling you has the most games in total, it means nothing if you dont actually like any of them.

You should do it in my opinion, then again I'm a nintenbro

Who is that cutie on the bottom?

I can't wait for a hat in time

I bought it along time ago when the pro first came out nigger. sony just keeps losing its weeb games to pc. Atelier, Fate extella, VNs, Neps.

More importantly, when was the last time a Final Fantasy game was actually good?

Mario odyssey ripped it off. shameful.

Atelier hasn't been very good in a while, and I think you forgot your quotations around "VNs". Fate exshilla and nep are trash.

He's partially right, though, because the "goty" is first and foremost a private even held in the west and sponsored by western companies, it gives an enormous bias to western games, to the point some games are chosen because they want it to win, and give it a bogus new categorie for that purpose (like that dead kid advertising last year)
Nintendo does have a big sympathie factor in the west though so they might not be as fucked as other Japanese companies. But still, the Goty are a joke.

that's a nice set of mug

Nia

That's Dromarch.

1997

I can easily see a scenario where Mario and Zelda split the vote and a game like Assassin's Creed or Horizon takes the goty.

I like the kitty. We need more cat people like this. I don't mind the other kind but I mean. Look at it. It's so FLUFFY.

>Horizon zero dawn
Aaaaaah fuck no. We're still talking about Zelda and a lot of other games in comparison. This game may be good but it's becomethe most forgettable. Like Christ, people still talk about persona and Neir automata and these are suppose to be the niche titles. Like damn.

>Assassin creed: origins
Despise the hate for Ubisoft and The AC series, I'm actual a fan of their games (and wish Ubisoft would stop fucking them up so badly) and Origins looks
like it'll be at least better than usual, I ain't see how that could ever beat a close as possible direct sequel to Mario 64/Sunshine.

I think so far, the story of BOTW and Horizon are of the weaker kind even if they're solid gameplay wise so AC might have a chance if the story can be really good along with the gameplay which even as a fan, is a stretch. Mario is notorious for being lite on story, even in its 64/Sunshine incarnations and formulaic like Zelda is though the dynamic with cappy and the sheer variety of worlds could see some new opportunisies on the story department. Than again perhaps it's gameplay would be able to overcome this need for story.

Robot loli > Shitia

I don't mind any of the characters, but this is true.

I liked BOTW and it's hands down what open worlds need to be and probably will be in a near future...

But, seeing the game get GOTYs while also being half finished is conflicting. I'd like to say it's the best game I've ever played but that's not true for the simple reason that it doesn't maintain the quality level found in the Gerudo desert in the entire game. If it had had little palaces/mini bosses like the great Koga's one + series of quests to help the local ruler in all the major places, it would have been the greatest game ever made, but that's not the case and it's painful to know that.

Meanwhile, I had a great great time on P5 on hard setting with nearly 130 hours of play and there's only parts of the story I would change in it, for the rest it was mechanically great and the bosses and palaces were really fun.
Innovation wise BOTW deserves its awards, but I'd prefer P5 to be the real GOTY.

Alright, what other genres can Nintendo release games of so they can completely sweep the field at any GOTY awards?

Also
>can't climb in shrines
>can't climb the divine beasts
>recycled recolored enemies everywhere
>90% of the quests are fetch quests
>korok seeds
>lose curiosity in all environmental puzzles because you know it's just a fucking korok seed

>can't climb in shrines
>can't climb the divine beasts
Why would you want the puzzles to become even more trivial?

to use the main new mechanic the whole game revolves around?

It's like they designed the shit shrines before they went "hey what if we let players climb anything?"
"but what about the 120 shrines we already designed?" "lol just make the walls umclimbable"

>the main new mechanic the whole game revolves around
You mean the runes?

not this time

So by your logic, the secret levels in Mario Sunshine must've been shit and pointless because they took away the main mechanic that the game revolves around?

>the secret levels

They're secret for that reason.
Shrines and the beasts are the whole meat of the game and they strip away the first mechanic the tutorial area introduces. Stop defending bad game design nintenbroter.