Well Sup Forums, is it GOTY in your mind?

Well Sup Forums, is it GOTY in your mind?

no, platinum games are all the same boring, repetitive shit.

Had it been any year between 2013-2016, hell yes, but this year was too good for games. One of the best but not goty.

no

Np
>poor, repetitive combat against enemies that are too easy
>difficulties are poorly balanced, and difficulty crashes once you get the right chips on every single difficult anyway
>bosses besides like 3 of them fucking suck
>minigames are shallow as fuck and easy, the shootemup sections are so tedious and unfun it's almost insulting
>hacking sucks, it's abrupt as fuck and annoying to play through
>banter is weak
>only 9S and 2B is even close to fleshed out
>the fun routes (C onwards) are the shortest
>story isn't anything special

Main problem that it is at best mediocre with everything it tries to do. Instead of balancing the RPG elements with gameplay, they spend time on shitty minigames. Fine, minigames are after all part of nier, but does it kill them to make them more interesting?

Yeah probably. It's definitely the game I enjoyed the most this year and the one I will look back on most fondly in the years to come.

Too many other good choices this year.

>t. nintendo cocksucker

>musou game
>goty
are you just teasing the dude

It's a good game but not up there with the big boys this year.

Any of these games would've easily gotten GOTY if they came out during the DA:I year

He should be proud

you are probably bad at the games

What, I don't even own a switch. Nier is mediocre though, I can list many PS and PC games better this year imo

don't kid yourself, they're not nearly as difficult as you think they are.

Man, I don't think you actually like videogames if you really thought Nier and couple Nintendo games are all that came out this year.

BUT NINTENDOO

i havent played any other games this year but I'm still confident that DOS 2 is the GotY

Nintendo is living rent free in your head. And apparently they are having a grand old time in there.

Unironically yes.

literally all the same person


sad, but expected of ninten$hits

Nier is just boring fap bait that everyone praises as being deep because it makes you use your brain for a minute, also betas want their waifu to be happy so they arent allowed to say anything bad about it

Don't worry PUBGs will win and everyone will be mad.

So far yeah, but I haven't played P5 yet.

Yes, as good as Persona is, it's just perfecting a formula (and mainline SMT is better). Likewise for Odyssey. Zelda is open world shit. I have no doubts Automata will remain the most memorable this year.

God bless Yoko Taro. Too good for this world

>everyone I don't like is samefag

Nier deserves GotD not just GotY

Like MGS3 was last decade's

Yoko taro is a treasure.

Yeah, Original Sin 2 is great

>Getting this kind of response in 2017

Not GOTY for me, but I'd sure as hell pick it over fucking PUBG.

It's the only fair choice so this way everyone will be equally mad.

FUCK VGA
FUCK GEOFF
FUCK MAINSTREAM """"GAMERZ""""

NIER AUTOMATA IS GOTY.
ANYONE WHO THINKS OTHERWISE IS A MASSIVE BRAINLET

YOKO TARO IS TOO PURE FOR THIS WORLD...

Who cares, videogames are silly things.

If PUBG doesn't win then this shit is rigged. I've never even played it but just going based off the numbers, it makes sense for it to win without a doubt.
Either that or Mario maybe.
Anything but BOTW.

imagine being literally this disabled

>Yoko Taro
>platinum games

If it was completely public vote PUBG would 100% win. But since it's a journalist jury has 90% say in it and the audience has a "10%" say how the fuck does that even work it's much more likely either Mario, Zelda or HZD to win.

...

oh sorry, i didn't realize taro personally developed this entire game from start to finish with his own two hands. guess that platinum games logo was just a glitch.

What games are you talking about? Serious question, I'm also tempted to agree with the others about only Nintendo fans arguing about how spectacular the year was, but who knows. I might've forgotten about good shit from other companies.

I gotta say it was fucking disgusting seeing 10/10 reviews for Zelda all around. Overrated as fuck.

>Persona 5
>Yakuza 0
>D:OS2
>Hollow Knight
>Prey
All better than Nier Automata, which is also overrated as fuck

Honestly yes, only game this year that genuinely surprised me and felt like it was a labour of love instead of a soulless cash grab. Sad part is, it was even that great a game, just a lot better than most of the other shit. Yes botw and Mario are decent as well but Nier still made me smile far more.

As long as it's not Zelda I'm good.
It's weird how the audience score is only 10.... Doesn't seem like that would make a difference for determining GOTY. Maybe for other small categories I guess. How does it even work anyway, does each judge have a certain amount of voted or what?

Hahahahaha you would rather have PUBG win?

And protip: It's between zelda and PUBG, and depending on how much influence tencent has

50% of the playerbase is from China and they don't get free access to the Internet.

Apology accepted. Don't worry, it's a common mistake.

Hell yea. If anything, Mario could win too and I'd be satisfied.
BOTW was just grossly overrated. I liked the game and enjoyed it for the month I played it. Still, I think it could've been a lot better in a lot of different aspects. All the downsides add up so I just can't see how people could give the game a 10.
The thing is, the majority of players didn't regard it as a 10. It was mostly the media outlets.

I want PUBG to win so that people stop caring about the VGAs

Buddy, you should play more videogames, we got tons of good shit this year. I'll leave Mario and Zelda and Nier out for this list since we already know those
>Persona 5
>Yakuza 0
>RE7
>Prey
>Injustice 2
>Cuphead
>Original Sin 2
>South Park
>Nioh
>Gravity Rush 2
>Pyre
>Evil Within 2
>Hollow Knight
>Danganronpa V3
>Tekken 7
And that's leaving out a lot of normie bait like W2, AC:O, CoD, For Honor and so on. And there's still XB2 and UNIELest coming. If you really love this hobby then you have played at least most of those games on that list.

>nobody said nintendo
lol

Also I left out a shit ton of smaller releases since you'd call me a weebfuck or nu-male cuck, and there were lots of great rereleases too but those don't really count. We won't have a year like this in a long time.

Those are indeed some pretty interesting, promising games. I'm usually not so worried on keeping up with every new release since it seems almost impossible to go through the entire backlog of good games from the past 5 years already.

I'm currently playing Gravity Rush 2 and loving it, though. Had to push it to the top of the backlog since the servers are dying prematurely next January. Thank you Sony, nice to see that PSN became a paid service to offer us value like that.

>the entire backlog of good games from the past 5 years already
That list should be smaller than the amount of good games released this year alone. Goddamn have we had a long dry season.

I'm quite the weeb, so it'd have been OK if you had posted that shit too.

>Cuphead
>RE VII
>Persona 5
>Nioh

I wanted Near Tomato to win too but even excluding Bing Bing Wahoodessey and Breath of the Wild, there are a lot of other damn good contenders this year.

No, it's still a very good game tho

Alright, cheez. I already went over the normie weeb aka Persona 5 and Yakuza and also Danganronpa.
>Miku
>Yakuza Kiwami
>Tales of Berseria
>DQ
>Digimon
>Atelier
>Senran
>Pyuo Pyuo Tetris
>Psycho-Pass
>Akibas Beat
>Fire Emblem Echoes
>GG Rev2
>Monster Hunter Stories
>Etriand Odyssey 5
>hack//G.U. Last Recode
Granted lots of have come out in nipland in 2016 but we got them only now.

Nier Automata is not a shit tier game, but it's also very far from GOTY or even "slightly above average." Its soundtrack is good and the ass means it appeals to the blacks on this board, but half of the story isn't even in the game, the gameplay is repetitive, all but two or three bosses are completely unmemorable (and many are recycled), 9S is pandering to soyboys and all of the sidequests are Skyrim tier "kill X of Y" or "collect Z items".

This was a great year for vidya and not because of Automata.

Yes, GOTY until the next Nier directed by Tabata comes.

>Terrible combat
>Criminally underdeveloped characters and story
>GOTY
The only thing that was actually great about automata was the soundtrack.

>complains about blacks
>posts #1 blacked girl

you posted the meme again you're hilarious

give yourself a pat on the back for O R I G I N A L I T Y

It's quite easy to tell you didn't play it considering how many of the side quests didn't even involve either killing X of Y or collect any items.
>little girl in the desert quest
>treasure hunting in the desert
>pacifist robots quest
>racing bot quest
>Pascal's quests
>finding a bot's sword
>operator side quests
And so on.
But it's okay to pretend you played a game on Sup Forums cause everyone does it.

Pirating his goty as we speak. It better be fucking good.

Even if we remove PUBG I would still say that Divinity deserves that slot more. Only if remove both PUBG and Horizon ZD maybe and just maybe Nier is worth mentioning

>It's quite easy to tell you didn't play it
Try again sweetie.

There were some exceptions but most weren't like that. Heck even the operator side quests were "find me a picture of this flower", treasure hunting in the desert was another fetch quest, you're not exactly proving your point very well.

>if you don't worship this game you didn't play it
ah, so it's Bloodborne disease.

shit pc support had to fucking refund it which was more fucking tedious
nigger can just go fuck himself with his under developed shitstain of a game

>terrible combat
Compared to what? DMC3?

Any other Platinum game basically

>Bloodborne disease
Bloodborne was actually GOTY though. And I've a reason to be wary in this board considering how many "played" NieR, P5 and BoTW and yet don't know the first thing about the game.

>Persona 5
>Yakuza 0
>this year

It is one of the best games of the year hands down so it will probably win.

This list is actually pretty cool. I was expecting some Neptunia-level shit. I find Compile Hearts games cute, but unbearable.

This reminds me that Ys 8 also came out this year, although it'll be a while until they release a fix for that horrible translation job.

Was anyone else surprised when the game had an ACTUAL happy ending for just about every character minus Emil?

>ah, so it's Bloodborne disease.
I'd say this about Zelda. Bloodborne couldn't possibly disappoint anyone who knew what to expect from previous Souls games.

As an unrelated note, it's kinda interesting how no one even considers Horizon: Zero Dawn as a contender for game of the year. That game probably felt underwhelming for everyone.

>hurr durr look at me, me import games from japan, stupid eops!
When was the last time you shaved that neckbeard user?

Japanese release dates don't matter when they were released this year on the west. This is a western awards show, so they count the release date when they were able to play it.

Nope, since Taro said before the release he wanted to try his hand at a happy ending

yes

haha right that guy is such a virgin. where's the upvote button on this site btw?

I'm not convinced it's even a game.

>if you're not fat and unkept like me you belong to reddit!
It's time to go back to r/incels. Acting superior just because you imported couple games is retarded.

Yes, very much so. have always preached games to be worthless, and yet he made me admit that I held them to a higher regard than that.

No. Nier and Persona 5 are the biggest fucking pleb litmus tests on this fucking board.

Literally, only brainlet pseudo-weebs like those 2 games in particular. Both are extremely meiocre. Persona 5 is like a 5/10 (not trying to be funny) and Nier is like 6.5/10.

Nier
>Unispired, phoned-in platinum combat
>Awful RPG elements
>Awful world design
>Looks like trash while running poorly (on console and PC alike)
>Anime-tier story masking some simpleton Philosophy 101 concepts Taro regurgiated that pseudo-weebs considered "deep" because they're actual retards that either got a STEM degree or went to community college and have never read a real fucking book
>Managed to be short as fuck yet cobbled together reasons to replay it, and for some reason Nier-fags defend this to the death like it was some profound artistic choice and not a artistic choice made in response to having a short-ass game

Persona 5
>Literally just Persona 3 and 4 rehashed
>Zero real improvements (No Persona-fags, bringing back guns and negations aren't "real improvements")
>10 years since P4, yet it's still shit
>B-tier technical design like Atelier or Nepetunia (developed for PS3 with awful graphics, tons of loading screens, and a general lack of effort)
>Awful story that gets praised by brainlets, even though it was a fucking retarded ass-pull story they came up with quickly after they lost all their original Persona 5 progress in 2011 to the Tsunami/Earthquake

(You) wanted this right?

Would anyone give nearly as much of a shit about Yoko Taro if he didn't wear that mask?
Legit wondering

it's my game of the lifetime

All Taro games after DoD1 have a semblance of "happy" endings at least for main characters. In first Nier's case there was an ending E planned where Kaine managed to asspull Nier back into reality and you can read it in Grimoire Nier, in DoD3 the Intoners are sealed and Mikhail survives.

user, numbers on PUBG have grown because of the chinese playerbase who only play the game to farm lootboxes to sell them for steam bucks.
its not because the game is good, its because they can make a profit out of it.

Yeah, but E also felt the most off in Nier Automata. Ending C seemed the most right. Ending D had no real reason to happen, by extension nor did ending E.

Why did A2 try to "save" 9S anyway?

she had 2B's memories in her

And she barely knew the purposes of the Pod, what's your point? Why should A2 care about someone else's memories?

Is Emil the onle "main" character on Nier:A that doesn't get a happy ending?

>Yeah, but E also felt the most off in Nier Automata
No, it's a logical conclusion of both Nier games.
Replicants, androids and machines refused to follow pre-determined design.
Then machines created by androids (Pods) gradually gain self-consciousness and refuse to follow their own design as well.
>Ending C seemed the most right.
Thankfully it's non-canon because it's retarded and invalidates last thousands of years of machine evolution.

A2 had probably the shittiest development out of all the characters, and all of them had nowhere near enough time to develop along the game.

Do you think video games are silly things?
>Yes.
>No.

>asstomata
>masterpiece

>and mainline SMT is better
SON OF MAN

Maybe leave Sup Forums sometimes. Most players do see it as that good