It begins
Geoff to react the ending of Harakiri live on stage in honour of Tatsuya Nakadai’s passing.
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It’s always fun when this list comes out and I realize once again that I barely played anything released this year, whoops.
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Calling Sonic ×worlds a family-game is, uh, idk which family those people have in mind …. not every family-member is praying to the Lord of Golden Axe while they Crazy Taxi to the next Samba de Amigo RP session.
Also loving the Zombie-award:
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No Nikki nom for best ongoing smdh
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how is nikki not up for anything pfft. ridiculous that dawntrail got nominated even though all the devs have been talking about is how to make it better and nikki didnt even though its THE BEST EVER
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I love Dawntrail—it’s among my favorite XIV expansions—but by no means does it deserve nomination, unless perhaps we’re talking about an award for “best halting grasp toward improvements in a long-standing formula,” which I don’t think is quite the spirit this award should embody
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Recency bias probably plays a huge part.
marvel rivals came out at the same time as nikki
Anti-Chinese bias also likely plays a big part.
i won. i am GOTY
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congarts on winning
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marvel rivals is chinese lol. i guarantee you its because nobody involved with the nominations knows what nikki is because it looks like a game for girls
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I mean… probably because they didn’t pay enough?
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fuck, this is how I find out nakadai died? goddammit.
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I know this shouldn’t bother me, I know all these award shows are just because they want to have an expensive party with executives from specific companies, but
The Golden Joystick awards, another allegedly prestigious award for games, announced their 2025 winners, which includes a “Best Game Trailer” category that they gave to GTA6. The GTA6 trailer shows, at best, 3 shots of gameplay lasting half a second each. Meanwhile Ananta has put out multiple trailers this year which a) are also fake as fuck, but b) do include footage of the actual game (it’s another arena brawler) that you will actually be able to play. But it has a giant robot and a girl with rabbit ears, and I guess you’re not allowed to give games like that awards.
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You give them excessive ad slots instead.
I think if we’re at the stage of giving trailers awards we’re really just marketing the marketing
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