Persona 5

>Persona 5
>2017

japs don't count

>An early access game is candidate for GOTY

It was released in North America, along with the vast majority of the planet, in February of 2017.

VGA is an American award show. It gives awards to games released in America in 2017. This game was released in 2017 in America, so it is a nominee for this American award show.

comes out next month anime retard.

wait, people told me 2017 was a great year for gaming. What is this?

That can't be the only choices can it?
There's been a lot of really good games that came out this year and one of those isn't even released.

>PUBG and Horizon
>when Original Sin 2 and Automata released the same year.
Game Awards are a joke and are hosted by hacks with no taste.

>Original Sin 2 and Automata
>good games

Best Sports/Racing Game
>FIFA 2018
>PES 2018
>Forza 7
>NBA 2K18

>No Mario kart

>Horizon
>GOTY nominee

So it's still not officially out yet then.

>FF15 for best RPG
>2017

How are you even supposed to judge it when it hasn't even been finished, non-anime retard?

Horizon is a SJW's wet dream. Of course, it's a nominee

>2 playstation games
>2 nintendo games
>1 pc game
>pc has 3 billion games
>consoles combined have 10k games
really makes you think

But Automata is terrible, especially compared to Horizon. Better gameplay, more interesting enemies, more coherent story.
>b-but muh philosophy
Read Waiting for Godot during the loading screens of Horizon and you can skip Automata entirely.

I understand people who dislike Nier, but when you compare it to shit like Horizon and say it's better you lose all credibility
Might as well finish your post with [THIS IS BAIT]

Literally this.
PUBG, despite it's vast popularity, has not yet been released. There's also a point that award shows seem to traditionally follow is that you don't nominate something that hasn't been released yet. Early access sorta counts I guess, nothing early access has ever hit this levels of popular. Here's a big thing with this game:
>a majority of the copies sold are to China
>the game has CS:GO-style crates and keys, with cosmetics and skin (but really doesn't have as high a skill ceiling or as varied of gameplay, with massive amounts of community made content like maps and gamemodes, so that might hurt it long run)
>offers a relatively unique experience (well initially, it was really just the only functioning battle royale game)
And most importantly
>has a large player-base and is incredibly popular with streamers
The last point is why it keeps growing for starters. it's popular, that's all. To say why it succeeded, you need to think about other PC multiplayer games like it that are this huge,
>Overwatch
>CS:GO
>DotA 2
>TF2
>LoL
>Hearthstone
>Overwatch
>Rocket League

You notice a big trend here
>basically all of the game-play altering content, if any, is free
>large player base
>seemingly noticeable design, easy to pick out from a crowd (for the most part)
>cosmetics which do absolutely nothing but get treated like a ridiculously huge deal, and can be worth large amounts of money, due to rarity, or price
>well known developers
>community market and trading where in game cosmetics with no effect on gameplay sell for astronomical prices
>continued multiplayer support, large non-or-slightly declining player-base, massive amounts of player-base growth
>multiplayer only
>seems to have a lot of opportunities for "those moments", for lack of a better word (when you get super crazy gameplay stuff in a match that's worth retelling to people I guess)
>perfect for streaming

Not universal to all mentioned, but it's got the right recipe to work.

this

>Game of the Year
>Not a single PC Game except for fucking PUBG
HAHAHAHAHA PC FATS BTFO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MASTER RACE MY FUCKING ASS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

No, Horizion isn't better than anything actually. It's hot fucking garbage.

Persona 5 is als on PC
Same for Zelda.

I think 2017, more than most years, have exposed just how young the average Sup Forums user is these days

So much praise for P5, a rehashed P3/P4, and for Automara, baby's first interaction with superficial philosophy.

The story was lame, the gameplay and enemy design were great.

Well implemented 3rd person shooter with crazy weapons trumps button masher with gun attachment any day.

The only good game there is Persona 5.

WHERE THE FUCK IS DRAGON QUEST 11

>Horizon
>well implemented anything
how about you follow my advice and do the [THIS IS BAIT] thing

Is persona 5 that good?

That's just, like, your opinion, man. Just so long as you understand that your opinion is wrong.

How old are you

>unfinished emulator
>emulator

Emulators do not count.
Also, you need to recall that emulation only just virtually recreates the fucking hardware and software for the the game on a PC, so technically speaking you're still playing the game on a PS3/4, or a Wii U.

You also need to physically own Persona 5 because no one is distributing the files, plus the emulation is stable but not easy to deal with, because you need a lot of extra shit to properly do it, plus a tanky computer.

TL;DR stop being a stupid baity fuck, no one cares if you can emulate it, everything eventually will be emulated except for the Xbox.

To their credit, they've added so much content post-release I can't fault them too much
Plus
The cut-off is November 2016 to November 2017.

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Thank you for admitting that you have no arguments.

Good answers would be Mario or Persona 5.

But we all know it's a popularity contest, so PUBG will win.

>n-no o-one c-cares that >you can emulate
you f-fattie

>giving a shit about the game oscars

No

>Odyssey
>BotW
Wew lads

>Divinity isn't on the list
>PUBG is
>A game that hasn't even released yet

I do not understand

user...

PUGB is winning this

hahahaha

And Persona was released in 20-6

Keep being mad

What did he mean by this?

You can't refute an opinion with arguments be that opinion truthful or just bait.
You're saying you believe anything on Horizon was well implemented, I don't.
I'm just calling you out on the bait since with all the games in the world you could pick you decided to go for the almost universally hated, at least on Sup Forums, when making the comparison

>Persona 5 GOTY
Stay delusional. PUBG is going to take it without a doubt. I bought the game and played only 5 hours. Hate it, but PUGB has feats far beyond all those games nominated.

emulation is shit, dude

What about games that launch after the show in the same year you dumb fuck.

>they'll fix the numerous glitches/bugs in one month
Hahahaha

What the fuck is the GOTY convo?

None of my post displayed anger, I'm not mad.

Persona was released in 2017 in the US, so the're going to put it on an American Award Show in 2017. Normal people don't import a game in their non-native language to play it a year early.

The japanese game market is irrelevant to the west.

Another term for ''bandwagon''

But it was directed by a straight ASIAN male, not a white one. Cut him some slack

to be fair DOS2 was fairly weak compared to the first one

I think it's stranger that FFXV is a category. You can debate about P5, but FFXV definitely released last year.

I cannot believe Cup Head, Hollow Knight, and Sonic Mania arn't up for game of the Year.
I can't believe Hollow Knight has only one nomination.
I can't believe Horizon Zero Dawn is nomnated for GOTY
I can't believe an Early access game with mixed reception it's entire development is getting GOTY
I can't believe there is an actual hype award.
I can't believe there is an 'ongoing games award'
I hope jefff keelee gives out an award to Kojima again for no reason other then he helped jerk Kojima off.
I can't believe I didn't get a free game for voting.
Possibility of Burch winning everything.
WHY are people shilling such a mediocre and okay game as Horizon???

>the almost universally hated, at least on Sup Forums

>implying Sup Forums's opinions on games matter in the slightest
>implying it's automatically bait if you go against the omnipotent shadow council that is Sup Forums's asinine opinion
case in point, Sup Forums shits all over Undertale too

>534 likes
Wow social media is a fucked place.

>Persona as a contender
Even though it probably won't win, it still feels good desu

FFXV came out a week before the awards. Games that come out in November doesn’t count either, but they are counted for the next year award.

That's because Undertale's shit

Personally, I would have swapped Horizon for Divinity. But that's just me.

...

Man I'd love for Horizon to win just to see the shitposting that would happen here.

Cuphead should've been nominated for GotY
Pyre and Hollow Knight should've been nominated for more
PREY too. Fucking hell, they put it in the wrong category too.
>Action Game: For the best game in the action genre focused on combat.
>Immersive Sim
>focused on combat
Idiots

Persona 5 was a great game, but desu, there were not many games released this year.

Our boy Goro made this possible

Then why is player unknown in the VGA's???

It was a straight improvement in most areas. The only thing that 2 could have done better was the armor system but that's easy enough to deal with.

I thought that BoTW had this in the bag, but then Odyssey came out.

P5 is about as good at it gets for a RPG, but RPGs never win shit.

meme all you want, it's still true

>You also need to physically own Persona 5 because no one is distributing the files
you didn't even look mate

>mad because an unfinished game is going to win goty
Stay mad you cuck

In other words, you don't actually play anything, you just parrot Sup Forums's supposed majority opinion.

no, I've played it

Yeah except mainline SMT is a thing, so no, Persona 5 is not as good as it gets.
Also like Breath of Fire and older Ultima games.
Persona 5 is great, but it would be about the only thing to ever win a GVA because of it's quality and popularity. But that in no regards makes it as good as it gets.

>not a single one of these games absolutely floored me
>early access games and dlc's can be nominated and can win
>multiplayer only games can and have won game of the year
What's the point of paying attention to this shit anymore? The only game I have ever rooted for was doom 2016, and it lost to fucking overwatch. Love or hate nudoom, most can agree that overwatch should barely even count. This shit is garbage and doesn't matter at all. Objectively shit games still release GOTY editions. What's the point of the title if everyone can have it?

>he believes their lies

Persona 5 or Odyssey deserve it the most, but it's a popularity contest so PUBG or Zelda is going to win. PUBG being a buggy fucking mess that isn't even released yet and Zelda being one of the most overrated games of the past 5 years.

>le PUBG is buggy meme

stop this shit.

Kek, I'm bothered because VGA's just makes shit up for choice awards. They barely have any regard for category fixation in terms of maintained rules, and is blatantly more backed by corporations instead of an accredited industry, even more so than the Oscars.
Stay retarded you slippy Jap. Enjoy you Mountain Dewrittos.

It doesn't matter which game wins GOTY, this board is gonna crash and burn anyways.

Face it. The entire award is bought by the Chinese. There is a fucking category for best Chinese game. What the actual fuck?

Zelda's good at least in terms of balancing out a lot of major problems with open world gaming, I think it could deserve credit for that. That being said, Mario should win, and is far better than it's choiced competition.

Seriously, GOTY awards are an ethnocentric sham, pay them no heed.

It’s been like this for years faggot.

Reminder that the voting ballot is so heavily weighted towards the professional jury that unless literally everybody voting voted for the same game it would be unlikely to actually affect any of the real awards.

The only Game Award prizes that actually are affected by public voting are stupid social shit like eSports and youtube attention whore awards.

I actually almost forgot about that category, and yet I remember laughing at it when I passed it.

You think i don't know?

the (ideal) purpose of annual game awards, besides ruining box art on reprints, is to represent the innovation in technology and ideas of that year. it's unfair to include persona 5 with that, because even if most of the world hadn't played it yet, it was a complete product when it released in september 2016. it doesn't represent what video games were in 2017 just because it took a while to get localized.

Sony always wins baby

BOTW just suffers so much mediocrity in everything but the exploration. Persona 5 is one of the best RPG's in a long fucking time and Odyssey actually innovated heavily and interestingly on a series that's been having to innovate consistently for 30+ years now.

Yeah Just like all the other games Scammer Unknown has worked on in the past.

>horizon
how much did sony pay them to include that?

Persona really isn't, it's just really popular. Not saying it's bad, but encase you really aren't aware, look into other current Atlus RPG's.

>Mario was a contender before it actually came out

Fuck off.
As someone who likes Nier you're absolutely full of shit to claim it's worthy of being GOTY. It's an incredibly simple hack and slasher that you only acclaim to the extent that you do because you jumped on the bandwagon. Anyone with any common sense whatsoever would see the retardation in proclaiming something like that GOTY because it's so fucking barebones in every respect. Posts like this prove the disgusting bias Sup Forums has for Japanese games regardless of quality.

If you like persona you probably have really bad autism.

Aren't most games directed by straight men?

The same reason they shilled Persona 5?