I really don't like the idea of Sony owning Kadokawa, and this is solely based on how they killed Funimation and only allowing Crunchyroll to be the dumpster fire it currently is.
Counterpoint towards Jon's point about Elden Ring being a sequel. While massive in scope and having changes to the gameplay, the dlc is still locked in the original game as an area you have to go to after meeting cerrtain requirements. Withcer 3 Blood and Wine (which indeed was nominated another year) and Future Reedemed are examples of expansions that can be bought and played seperately from the main game. Shadow of the Eerdtree is not
I get what you mean. Let me try a countercounterpoint! I'm pretty sure they did that instead of a sequel because you need to learn the game first to be able to get enjoyment from the DLC. That said, with very very minor tweaks they could turn it into a separate distribution and it just becomes a technicality at that point. And there's tons of examples from previous generations where you had a sequel that you could buy separately but it was clearly intended to be played after the first iteration and would have benefited from being a DLC instead (Golden Sun 2 and Uncharted come to mind). Also, if DS3 was robbed RPG of the year because of a Witcher 3 DLC, I think From Software deserve to be the robbers this time :P
Game awards given to best gaming experience. Just because shadow of the erdtree requires base game, it doesn't stop being a one of the greatest gaming experience of the year. Game whether expansion, or remake is irrelevant. But if you think that it is not one of the greatest experience of the year, that can be said for any game. Honestly gaming community is so annoying. Constantly coming with new rules and boundaries.
@@MonkeyVoices i am not from software but all their dlcs have been like this. They just add more to the existing game and yeah it probably would be hard to sell it standalone as their dlcs always tend to be quite difficult
@@Zoroark539 And SOTE is a game. Don't create new rules and definitions from your ass: "A video game,[a] also known as a computer game or just a game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset."
Let's hope that acquisition doesn't go through. From Soft getting bought is bad enough but Sony getting a monopoly on the anime market is the worst part. Especially a company like them, which has proven time and time again that they don't care about what they own, just how much money it makes them. Can't wait to find out what the anime version of "Concord" will be....
Sony not allowing Crunchii VAs to GET THEIR OWN FAN MAIL THAT’S DELIVERED TO THEM *WHICH IS A LEGAL OFFENSE* should show the big problem. And that’s been going on since BEFORE the Funimation buyout and merger which was HORRENDOUS for all anime distribution. The scariest part however is that… a Bandai Namco buyout would be entirely within the realm of possibility as it would be outside of US law. And it would be Sony putting a bullet in the brains of the Anime Games industry.
@56ty_ I like to quote a certain man named Jason Schrier in response to being asked what a certain thing meant for the games industry. “Imagine the games industry is a big snake, and it just encountered Sephiroth.” AAA is dying, Indie is thriving, and Nintendo is somewhere in-between. A collapse of Microsoft and Sony both is evident. We merely can hasten it by sending the correct messages here and voting more with our wallets like we did with Concord.
I also don’t want Sony to have a big monopoly over one of the biggest anime franchises and studios magna and live novels Kadokawa guys it not going to be a good things
The Topic of the Game Awards is just complicated. So, first of all, there actually wasn't a rule change, DLCs and Expansions were always elligible for all awards, they just clarified it this year because this is the first time the jury actually voted an Expansion into the highest category. But last year, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty was nominated for best narrative, and in 2016, The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine won Best RPG (Which also had World of Warcraft Legion nominated, also an expansion), it just happens pretty rarely. I think the consensus should just be that there should be a seperate DLC/Expansion category and maybe give it as much importance as the Best Game Direction Award to have it stand alongside the GOTY Award, that would probably be the best solution here. But the category does not exist yet and if the entire jury voted for Elden Ring SotE, I guess it's.. fine. I definitely think it's important to discuss this and criticise it, but some of the extreme hate I see sometimes is also extremely stupid, especially when some of those people mock Balatros Nomination in the same breath as "Why is this Card Game nominated". I think the categories need some work in general, I also think there should be a seperate Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance, having just 5 Spaces available for Actors, when there are SO. MANY. outstanding acting performances each year is just a bit sad. And yeah, some omissions are always frustrating, but I think they do at least a pretty decent job highlighting a variety of games each year.. with the exception of 2020 xD. Anyway, Lots of things to still criticise and improve about the Game Awards, but I still like them and think they have improved a lot since their first showings. I just REALLY hope they give the Developers their time on stage back this year, that was actually the most annoying thing last year.
2024 was very much the year AA and indie games thrived, and the Game Awards nominations just doesn't represent that. Also, Sony acquiring Kadokawa, thus, us losing Acquire, Mages and Spike Chunsoft will be a HUGE loss
Personally I think dlcs should have a separate category. If they wanted it to be a new game they shouldve made it one, calling any dlc a GOTY cause of a technicallity of it being 'like a new game' just feels off, even if it's true. So a separation makes it still get aknowledged without having that off feeling that its not right.
i feel people have also forgotten that if sony buys kadokawa, the mystery dungeon series would be sony exclusive meaning no more pokemon mystery dungeon
It was pointed out by someone else but I'll reiterate, aquire may have developed some HD-2D games but they aren't owned by them. The Asano team is still in-house square enix, they just bring on other companies to help develop their own IPs and projects. This doesn't affect ownership, but yeah it may affect what companies Team Asano can go to for development support
Erdtree shouldn't have been eligible for nomination. If it were released standalone then fair enough but considering you need a game from two years ago and you also need to have met a certain criteria (beaten Mohg) in order to unlock the content then it's just taking up a spot that another game could've had. They should have a DLC/expansion category.
it's also not what i would enough content to be a sequel. just like the other big souls dlcs it adds a new area and toys to fight new bosses with. the fundamental combat is not any different
Balatro is this year’s indie darling that gets that GOTY nomination and Stellar Blade is too sexy for American journos. Kinda surprised Wukong got in, but it DID have a major presence at TGA 2023
27:40 Vivian has always been trans woman. Nintendo made that character trans from the start. It was the english localization that thought it was too much for the kids raiting so they removed the mentions of that. It wasn't a huge step for nintendo, it was huge step by the localization team.
I love you guys, but the whiplash of going from critiquing The Game Awards for focusing on the most mainstream widely recognized games over more deserving nicher options to critiquing the Game Awards for not nominating Paper Mario for Games for Impact due to its inclusion of a single trans side-character is a little wild
if Erdtree was a sequel it would be called too similar and wouldn’t have gotten the amazing scores it got, also to play it you have to finish Elden Ring so only the people who loved Elden Ring have played it, hence the amazing scores
Just baffled as to why they don't simply make a DLC/expansion category instead. Seems like an easy way to have your cake and eat it too, and allows plenty of great DLC to get some spotlight while not stepping on the toes of wholly new games. I get that there's some blurring of the lines in terms of sequels and DLC (SMTV:V comes to mind), but ultimately I think it's pretty easy to make a cut and dry distinction; if it requires me to first buy a separate base game then it shouldn't be considered for standalone GOTY.
I think if Kadokawa is acquired i think FromSoftware would only survive. However i think Acquire and Spike Chunsoft could become independent but its unlikely. The TGA are always fixed its more like the the Fomo awards i want to know who are actually on this committee
I like and still play Multiversus. I also like Rivals of Aether 2. As a Platform Fighter fan, I'm just happy that these games exist. I'd even include NASB2 as well.
I don’t care if the elden ring DLC brought a new area and new mechanics. It’s still DLC that is locked behind and a part of an existing game that released before 2024. If it was also sold as a single thing like xenoblade chronicles 2 torna, then I would give the thumb up. Should not have been even considered in the first place and should have its own DLC/expansion category.
I know people are going to cheer for FromSoft and honestly if Microsoft was able to absorb ABK in the time it did I don't think this is actually much of a reach to begin with, but Sony effectively gets a whole monopoly on the anime industry if this happens and considering how stuff like Crunchyroll has been handled, there's a double edged sword to all this in a sense But you know, I'm in this for Bloodborne 2 and Bloodborne Kart so there's that too
Unicorn Overlord and Stellar Blade missing from a lot of awards is really surprising. Both were incredible games that i thought deserved more recognition
I’ve watched them all and I think I’m gonna start skipping them. Been really disappointed the last few years and as a Nintendo fan, I won’t get anything from the show.
I really hope this doesnt happen because i think it would be really bad not just for games but really for anime mostly. Idk how anti monopoly laws are in japan if they even have any but like I would imagine there would be pushback from the government
From what I’ve read from ppl who play Souls games The Eldin ring dlc has requirements in the main game to even start so it shouldn’t be seen as separate from it. If Miles Morales required you to beat the original Spider-Man to play or TTOK Was a post-credits add-on for BOTW I’d feel the same I'm sure there are like a dozen games more deserving of that slot than a DLC so even if it doesn't win it still robs other games of their chance
1:54 - free market capitalism tends towards monopolisation of industries (you can only have so much growth/competition when resources are inherently limited) x
In my opinion DLCs shouldn't be able to get nominated in the same categories as regular games do. I have a simple and clear-cut reason for that: They are not their own product. In the example of Shadow of the Erdtree: I'm not able to play this creative work without also having to buy Elden Ring itself. So when Shadow of the Erdtree was released this year, you are either not able to play it or just as a "Elden Ring + Shadow of the Erdtree" kind of thing. This to me would mean, that the candidate to nominate would be exactly that: The main game + the DLC and then suddenly you can't nominate it anymore, because more than 50% of it was released back in 2022. The situation would be different for me, if Shadow of the Erdtree would have been released both as a DLC for Elden Ring and as a standalone title. The Xenoblade Chronicles 2 expansion Torna - The Golden Country would be a different matter because of this reasoning, as it was released as a standalone title (if I'm not mistaken). So to summarise my opinion: DLCs shouldn't be nominated in the same categories as full releases, if they are tied to another release, which usually is the case.
I was all for acquisition then I saw the developers who made Mario and Luigi Brothership are apart of said acquisition and now I don’t want Sony to buy it. Sony should buy pocketpair instead then they’ll have a company who can make games to rival Pokemon.
Castlevania Nocturne came out this year. Why isn't that in Best Adaptation? Granted, it wouldn't stand a chance against Arcane and Fallout but it was much better than the Knuckles show.
Astro Bot, Balatro, FF7 Rebirth, and Metaphor are all nominations I agree with and I believe are deserving. Wukong and Elden Ring however I don't think should be there. No shade to Wukong as it's certainly a good game but I don't think it's GOTY nominee level, and Shadow of the Erdtree just shouldn't be there. Period. DLC should not be nominated for GOTY, especially if it requires playing another game to experience. One thing that wasn't brought up that I believe is worth noting, I believe Briana White as Aerith in FF7 Rebirth is the first time an actor for a dub has ever been nominated for Best Performance, which will hopefully set a new standard and allow actors for English dubs of originally non-English games to be nominated in the future as well, as there have been amazing performances from them in the past that have been snubbed.
They do a ton of work with the english cast so to me it doesn't feel like their just dubbing over japanese casts' performances. And with how non japanese the world of ff7 is it def feels like the en cast is the default pick kinda like mgs or kingdom hearts
Multiversus not only has been nominated twice, already won best fighting game in 2022! As a Beta!! You all are right that this jury doesn't play fighting games at all if Multiversus won over KOF XV.
The problem with Dragon's Dogma is that people haven't forgotten it. Whether or not it was justified, it got a lot of backlash for the micro transactions and the people who stuck with it will tell you the game drops in quality in the later half. It's funny, the biggest haters of it are the ones who were so hyped for it.
Honestly I thought this was a great year for gaming but seeing this list kinda makes me think otherwise. Stuff like MVC collection as best fighter is a joke. Honestly the game awards has always been a joke
I just realized something during the Best Fighting Game category. If Elden Ring DLC got nominated for GOTY then why didn't the Mortal Kombat 1 expansion get nominated for best fighting game? I don't say this as a fan of the game (I'm really not) or have even played the expansion. But I feel like it would be more deserving at getting another chance for best fighting game rather than Multiversus and the MvC collection. It'll probably still lose Tekken 8 but I just noticed, if DLC could get nominated for GOTY, then DLC should be nominated to other categories too.
It’s not a big blow to Nintendo if Sony buys kadokawa because Nintendo is rapidly expanding anyway, so they aren’t as reliant on third-party development as they used to
I don't think they changed the rules last minute. I highly recommend watching Source Gaming's most recent video on the matter, as PhantomZ2 does a great job explaining why in that video.
One thing I want to point out is that Sony acquiring Kadokawa would not be a monopoly over anime but, they would have a fair stronger position in producing an anime. When an anime gets made, there is a few organizations who form a group to fund the anime called the production committee. This is the group that appears in the last still or on the title drop in the opening. It is going to be typically be made up of the source material owner, the TV station or streaming service, a music company, a toy or merchandise manufacturer, maybe the game publisher and for the smallest piece of the pie, the animation studio. Sometimes, if the creator is big enough, their studio is also a part of the committee like Bird Studio (Akira Toriyama) or Lucky Land Communicattons (Hirohiko Araki) but, usually they are consulting through the source material owner. The splits are not equal with usually the TV station or music company providing the majority of funding and thus the biggest share of revenue. The thing Sony is acquiring with Kadokawa is mostly the source material owner. While the source material owner typically is not funding the most, they are still important in how the show can be used. By Sony owning both the music company and the source owner, they control the money and the material which means they get far more leverage. While Kadokawa isn't necessarily the biggest manga producer, (that would be Shueisha or Shogakukan), they do have enough of the big ones and many of the low budget trendy titles that this would squeeze a lot of anime studios which could mean worse rates, tighter schedules and scenarios where Sony gets defacto ownership of an anime studio's pipeline (ignoring the studios they would own). However, there are still enough companies in the anime sphere that would prevent a monopoly scenario, especial when the Shonen Jump series are mostly free either company. If they acquired Square Enix or Bandai Namco on top of that though, Sony would indeed be in a monopoly position with Square Enix's Gangan Comics/MangaUp covering enough marketshare in the source material side on the lower end market or Bandai Namco's merchandising in combination with Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly Sunrise) becoming a massive anime studio fusion with A-1 Pictures/Cloverworks and Dogakobo that prevents other studios from competing except for the scraps Sony gives out.
I’m fine with DLC like Elden Ring & Xenoblade being considered for GOTY, but personally think there should be a Best DLC category. I do count them in my personal top 10 favourite games of the year list.
11:54 This. I could theoretically adjust to seeing “sequel worthy DLC” up for GotY, but when it’s so transparently biased to offer a second bite at the Apple to a game that practically pipelined to win it’s own year already, it reeks of favoritism.
If Sony ends up getting Fromsoft in any way, then that studio has about one to two games left before they bleed talent, and it'll be a shell of their former selves. Just don't really trust any of the large console makers at this point. AAA(another A for Ubislop lol) games cost too much for publishers to allow too much creative freedom with their studios. Hope I'm wrong in that but they haven't been proving that otherwise. If Sony ends up with the monopoly on anime and manga, then the battle on the high seas is going to intensify as the current way they handle Curnchyroll is awful. Also not looking forward to how they'll slowly dictate what creatives are allowed to make.
So Microsoft owning Mojang, Bethesda, Activision, Blizzard and King is okay but Sony owning Kadokawa is not? I see this acquisition as an absolute win for gamers. PlayStation has been sorely lacking developers in Japan, let’s be real Gran Turismo isn’t really a “Japanese” game and Astro Bot has mainstream appeal. I want more games like Danganronpa and Zero Escape, I loved the Badman games by Acquire Corp. Sony already has a working relationship with most of these developers… Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne were PlayStation exclusives and on Acquire’s side we have Rain, Akiba’s Trip, Akiba’s Beat and like I already mentioned, all the Badman games exclusive to PlayStation consoles. Companies like Kadokawa or Square Enix are a perfect fit for Sony.
Hope Sony doesn’t get Kadokawa because they already have too much of a hold on anime. I wish Prince of Persia the Lost Crown got nominated for Game of the Year. It’s really sad that more people didn’t give it a chance. I hope that it wins best action/adventure game for the developers. It absolutely stomps all the other games in that category.
Sony or aka aniplex has publish acquire games . But they 100 percent a studio would get shut down and spikechunsoft would just become danagaropa and fighting game factory
I think a lof things said in this video ignores what I saw this year and I disagree with a lot of what was said. Still, I respect and appreciate the work snd sharing their ideas and views. My hot takes: John Eric Bentley was snubbed for a second time. His performance in both Remake and Rebirth deserved nominations. Rebirth deserves a nomination in Art Direction. It is a beautiful game and provides some story telling through the art in it.
Agreed like aerith's VA is good no doubt but characters like barret or even tifa had way more emotional scenes and wider performances. Hell redxiii should be up there this guy out here doing two seperate performances for a single character. If it doesn't music then this will just further prove how much of a sham and recency bias plays into these awards
I hope it doesn't go through, but if it does somehow and Sony tries to shut down Acquire and Spike Chunsoft, I hope Nintendo would step in and snag those two up...
You say "snubs" but there can only be 6. The only surprise in the 6 nominations were Shadow of the Erdtree and Balatro. For both of those, you guys explained why they're there.
I think the game awards always tries to throw in one indie nomination. I don’t think that nomination will ever win, but they do always try to put one in. I don’t think there was one last year tho.
if half-life 3 gets announced and ends up being as bad as concord it would still win most anticipated game and that should tell you why that category shouldn't exist
-So the general thing for me is that The Game Awards needs to redo its categories and clearly its panel, bc both are clearly made up by/of people who don't know games forreal. -I also understand what you guys are saying about games that are released too late in the year getting snubbed but...that's just the way award shows work unfortunately. There HAS to be a cutoff date and unfortunately Brothership is right at a month before the awards. That's just too close to be seriously considered. -As far as the Elden Ring DLC of it all, I agree with many of the comments here and in the live audience that if the DLC requires purchasing and playing through the base game to access it it should not be nominated as its own thing. Put them in their own separate DLC category (maybe replace Game Direction with that lol) but not in any main categories.
The Sony thing seems wholly anime related since they already took steps in acquiring Crunchyroll awhile back. I don’t get the sense it’s a video game property thing. That would be probably be collateral damage for once.
There we're a lot of great dlcs in the past that we're good if not better than their respective games. for example xenoblade 3 where a lot of people seem to think the dlc was better than the main game. xenoblade 3 was in the game of the year nominees, so why wouldn't that dlc be considered? It seems like they wen't out of their way to make an exception for elden ring when there were so many great games this year I would consider better than elden ring dlc. Pure bias imo
I hate to break this to you, but the reason Xenoblade 3 didn't get nominated last year is because nobody played it. Geoff didn't change the rules this year because he pretty much doesn't make any rules. He lets people vote how they want to vote. Phantom Liberty got nominated for Best Narrative last year.
This merger would be a major death blow to the Japanese animation and anime distribution system in Japan and North America. That would probably collapse the mainstream industry. As for gaming… I still want Xbox split up. We do not need Sony owning Spike Chunsoft, Acquire and especially FromSoftware. Sony would probably fire many of these devs, resulting in less devs, games and indie games getting Japanese publisher deals. Sony also has been awful in Japan with gaming; their only studios left are Team Asobi making Astrobot and Polyphony Digital making Gran Turismo. Gaming needs more 3rd party studios and competition, not less. And Japan’s lack of a true indie industry means it all relies on bigger publishers and developers, and that consolidation is very bad for everyone.
Curious when you lads will also talk about Xbox… would love for this to be a one stop shop of overall-positive gaming talk and they’re just as valid as a player and fanbase :)
I think if they should not include dlc as goty contender, then indies should not be able to be nominated for goty as well and just stay in its own category. I mean balatro?! Yes it a great game but compared to many others that def deserve a nomination. I truly hope ff7 or wukong gets it. Hell, I haven’t played Astro bot but I’ll root for it! Prince of Persia is so underrated I hope it wins something!
Indie games are standalone games unlike DLC like SotE, for one. For two, indie games can absolutely deserve nomination for GOTY. Hades 1 was nominated in 2020 and it blows away multiple games it was nominated with that year and several nominees in the years since.
This is one of the reasons why I stopped watching The Game Awards. It's all just a spectacle and showing off other games that don't pertain to the games that were picked for Best Game of the Year. It's a whole lot of nothing, at times.
I get the point of the discussion and it's nice to hear the gang's impressions on these various games... but I agree with Steph Sterling. These are The Game Advertisements, not The Game Awards. They're a sham and only worth watching for potential memes. It's a shame that, like with review scores, people put so much emphasis on this blatantly corporate event. TGA has only gained prominence because E3's long, protracted demise has allowed it to become the premier event for debuting new trailers. Frankly, I'm glad Nintendo's seemed to have less and less of a presence there as the years have gone on. Honestly, my hope is that GVG will use its platform to elevate things like the BAFTA game awards or the DICE awards (which are peer-based nominations!). They're not perfect (no awards system is), but they tend to have more diversity in their nominations and winners compared to The Game Advertisements. I'd love to watch some discussions about the BAFTA and/or DICE nominations when those get released.
since i am out of the loop, why doesn't echoes of wisdom count as a family game? like is there something that happens that make it not be family friendly? obviously not a game i have played nor am i a parent, but to me it does seem fit for family game
Its one of those "the categories are unclear" situations bc I would assume a family game has to be a multiplayer game that is "fun for the whole family". EoW is single player, plus several characters do threaten to execute Zelda early on in EoW so its also not THAT family friendly lol
I’m mixed on the Eldtree nomination. On the one hand, I don’t think it should be nominated as it’s not a new game and I think it could have bad consequences for the future. However, it could lead to higher quality DLC being produced in the future and it does give recognition to DLC of that kind (like Torna for XC2 or Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2). We’ll wait and see if it has any repercussions on the future of the games industry, but I’m slightly on the more negative side of it Edit: on the potential Kadokawa acquisition, if Spike Chunsoft was shut down because of it I’d be sad as a Danganronpa fan. Those visuals novels were awesome
I don't know about you guys, but I don't want Sony to have a monopoly over anime production and distribution.
I also don’t want Sony to have a big monopoly over one of the biggest anime franchises and magna and live novels Kadokawa guys
Exactly. Thank you. They censor enough as it is
Same
And Sony could send Mario and Luigi into another hiatus, I hope this acquisition doesn’t go through
I was already worried, but after seeing how many light novels Kadokawa is the publisher for I'm even more worried.
I really don't like the idea of Sony owning Kadokawa, and this is solely based on how they killed Funimation and only allowing Crunchyroll to be the dumpster fire it currently is.
Agreed. *LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO RIGHTSTUF!*
Absolutely. We just need to look at how they censor games, manga, and anime. Let alone destroying Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Rightstuf
@@LightspeedsEveryday, I miss RightStuf. Would literally order from them every week. Crunchyroll ruined it.
Counterpoint towards Jon's point about Elden Ring being a sequel. While massive in scope and having changes to the gameplay, the dlc is still locked in the original game as an area you have to go to after meeting cerrtain requirements. Withcer 3 Blood and Wine (which indeed was nominated another year) and Future Reedemed are examples of expansions that can be bought and played seperately from the main game. Shadow of the Eerdtree is not
I get what you mean. Let me try a countercounterpoint!
I'm pretty sure they did that instead of a sequel because you need to learn the game first to be able to get enjoyment from the DLC.
That said, with very very minor tweaks they could turn it into a separate distribution and it just becomes a technicality at that point.
And there's tons of examples from previous generations where you had a sequel that you could buy separately but it was clearly intended to be played after the first iteration and would have benefited from being a DLC instead (Golden Sun 2 and Uncharted come to mind).
Also, if DS3 was robbed RPG of the year because of a Witcher 3 DLC, I think From Software deserve to be the robbers this time :P
Game awards given to best gaming experience. Just because shadow of the erdtree requires base game, it doesn't stop being a one of the greatest gaming experience of the year. Game whether expansion, or remake is irrelevant. But if you think that it is not one of the greatest experience of the year, that can be said for any game. Honestly gaming community is so annoying. Constantly coming with new rules and boundaries.
@@MonkeyVoices i am not from software but all their dlcs have been like this. They just add more to the existing game and yeah it probably would be hard to sell it standalone as their dlcs always tend to be quite difficult
@@hododod246 then the award should be called experience of the year. SOTE was good but DLC, remakes and remasters should have their own category
@@Zoroark539 And SOTE is a game. Don't create new rules and definitions from your ass:
"A video game,[a] also known as a computer game or just a game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset."
Let's hope that acquisition doesn't go through. From Soft getting bought is bad enough but Sony getting a monopoly on the anime market is the worst part. Especially a company like them, which has proven time and time again that they don't care about what they own, just how much money it makes them. Can't wait to find out what the anime version of "Concord" will be....
Sony not allowing Crunchii VAs to GET THEIR OWN FAN MAIL THAT’S DELIVERED TO THEM *WHICH IS A LEGAL OFFENSE* should show the big problem. And that’s been going on since BEFORE the Funimation buyout and merger which was HORRENDOUS for all anime distribution.
The scariest part however is that… a Bandai Namco buyout would be entirely within the realm of possibility as it would be outside of US law. And it would be Sony putting a bullet in the brains of the Anime Games industry.
The good part is this is probably a desperation move before a big collapse. The industry would be better without modern Sony
@56ty_ I like to quote a certain man named Jason Schrier in response to being asked what a certain thing meant for the games industry.
“Imagine the games industry is a big snake, and it just encountered Sephiroth.”
AAA is dying, Indie is thriving, and Nintendo is somewhere in-between. A collapse of Microsoft and Sony both is evident. We merely can hasten it by sending the correct messages here and voting more with our wallets like we did with Concord.
Can't wait until they tell fromsoft to make a live service shooter, it fails, then they close down fromsoft....
Literally every company prioritizes money bru.
DLC should be stand alone, like Torna the Golden Country. Elden Ring's DLC is not stand alone. You can't even do it without beating an optional boss.
I also don’t want Sony to have a big monopoly over one of the biggest anime franchises and studios magna and live novels Kadokawa guys it not going to be a good things
The Topic of the Game Awards is just complicated. So, first of all, there actually wasn't a rule change, DLCs and Expansions were always elligible for all awards, they just clarified it this year because this is the first time the jury actually voted an Expansion into the highest category. But last year, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty was nominated for best narrative, and in 2016, The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine won Best RPG (Which also had World of Warcraft Legion nominated, also an expansion), it just happens pretty rarely. I think the consensus should just be that there should be a seperate DLC/Expansion category and maybe give it as much importance as the Best Game Direction Award to have it stand alongside the GOTY Award, that would probably be the best solution here. But the category does not exist yet and if the entire jury voted for Elden Ring SotE, I guess it's.. fine. I definitely think it's important to discuss this and criticise it, but some of the extreme hate I see sometimes is also extremely stupid, especially when some of those people mock Balatros Nomination in the same breath as "Why is this Card Game nominated".
I think the categories need some work in general, I also think there should be a seperate Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance, having just 5 Spaces available for Actors, when there are SO. MANY. outstanding acting performances each year is just a bit sad. And yeah, some omissions are always frustrating, but I think they do at least a pretty decent job highlighting a variety of games each year.. with the exception of 2020 xD.
Anyway, Lots of things to still criticise and improve about the Game Awards, but I still like them and think they have improved a lot since their first showings. I just REALLY hope they give the Developers their time on stage back this year, that was actually the most annoying thing last year.
Well reasoned, and we’ll said!
2024 was very much the year AA and indie games thrived, and the Game Awards nominations just doesn't represent that. Also, Sony acquiring Kadokawa, thus, us losing Acquire, Mages and Spike Chunsoft will be a HUGE loss
Personally I think dlcs should have a separate category. If they wanted it to be a new game they shouldve made it one, calling any dlc a GOTY cause of a technicallity of it being 'like a new game' just feels off, even if it's true. So a separation makes it still get aknowledged without having that off feeling that its not right.
Did not hear about this possible acquisition until now, really hope it does not happen.
i feel people have also forgotten that if sony buys kadokawa, the mystery dungeon series would be sony exclusive meaning no more pokemon mystery dungeon
shows i didn't watch the video sorry
losing Aquire means also losing Octopath Traveler or any of those 2D-HD games...
Square can still make them. They didn't do DQ3 and that's the best HD-2D game yet.
Not entirely, Team Asano of SE are the original devs, same brains as Bravely Default/Second/Default 2. It would be merely locking out the help.
It was pointed out by someone else but I'll reiterate, aquire may have developed some HD-2D games but they aren't owned by them. The Asano team is still in-house square enix, they just bring on other companies to help develop their own IPs and projects. This doesn't affect ownership, but yeah it may affect what companies Team Asano can go to for development support
Square would still own the IP, they would just need to either find a new development studio or renegotiatethe deal with Sony
Erdtree shouldn't have been eligible for nomination. If it were released standalone then fair enough but considering you need a game from two years ago and you also need to have met a certain criteria (beaten Mohg) in order to unlock the content then it's just taking up a spot that another game could've had. They should have a DLC/expansion category.
it's also not what i would enough content to be a sequel. just like the other big souls dlcs it adds a new area and toys to fight new bosses with. the fundamental combat is not any different
Unicorn Overlord and Stellar Blade deserved to be nominated over Urd Tree and Balatro.
Infinite Wealth over Metaphor. I can’t name one way Meta is better. Maybe soundtrack
Balatro is this year’s indie darling that gets that GOTY nomination and Stellar Blade is too sexy for American journos. Kinda surprised Wukong got in, but it DID have a major presence at TGA 2023
Balatro does technically have higher critic reviews than both of those.
@@dasboy1ify who cares. Most critics are 🤡
@@Ozzy_08x yeah like stray the one year. I enjoy Balatro but like vampire survivors. It’s nice for 30 mins then onto something else
27:40 Vivian has always been trans woman. Nintendo made that character trans from the start. It was the english localization that thought it was too much for the kids raiting so they removed the mentions of that.
It wasn't a huge step for nintendo, it was huge step by the localization team.
2:32 FromSoft does own Elden Ring IP
I love you guys, but the whiplash of going from critiquing The Game Awards for focusing on the most mainstream widely recognized games over more deserving nicher options to critiquing the Game Awards for not nominating Paper Mario for Games for Impact due to its inclusion of a single trans side-character is a little wild
Geoff really lubing himself up for that Elden Ring punisher, ain’t he? 😂
if Erdtree was a sequel it would be called too similar and wouldn’t have gotten the amazing scores it got, also to play it you have to finish Elden Ring so only the people who loved Elden Ring have played it, hence the amazing scores
If Sony owns Spike Chunsoft, that could be the end of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
It's vile to see DLC steal the spot that belonged to Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
Just baffled as to why they don't simply make a DLC/expansion category instead. Seems like an easy way to have your cake and eat it too, and allows plenty of great DLC to get some spotlight while not stepping on the toes of wholly new games.
I get that there's some blurring of the lines in terms of sequels and DLC (SMTV:V comes to mind), but ultimately I think it's pretty easy to make a cut and dry distinction; if it requires me to first buy a separate base game then it shouldn't be considered for standalone GOTY.
I think if Kadokawa is acquired i think FromSoftware would only survive. However i think Acquire and Spike Chunsoft could become independent but its unlikely. The TGA are always fixed its more like the the Fomo awards i want to know who are actually on this committee
I realize I’m in the minority, but Sony owning Spike Chunsoft hurts me more than FromSoftware.
0:28 This is bad news then. Especially with what they did. Multiples times...
1:28 I agree.
Next year's Best Family Game nomination: "Metroid Prime 4: Beyond" =)
😂 lol
That would be hilarious lol
Kadokawa acquisition by someone like Sony is a disaster, for multiple media industries. What an awful, awful piece if news to find out.
I like and still play Multiversus. I also like Rivals of Aether 2.
As a Platform Fighter fan, I'm just happy that these games exist. I'd even include NASB2 as well.
reminder that the real game award shows are BAFTA, DICE and GDCA
It's a shame they aren't as hyped as The Game Awards.
I don’t care if the elden ring DLC brought a new area and new mechanics. It’s still DLC that is locked behind and a part of an existing game that released before 2024. If it was also sold as a single thing like xenoblade chronicles 2 torna, then I would give the thumb up. Should not have been even considered in the first place and should have its own DLC/expansion category.
My favorite cats for was adaptation it’s like “Look at all these great adaptations! and Knuckles”
I know people are going to cheer for FromSoft and honestly if Microsoft was able to absorb ABK in the time it did I don't think this is actually much of a reach to begin with, but Sony effectively gets a whole monopoly on the anime industry if this happens and considering how stuff like Crunchyroll has been handled, there's a double edged sword to all this in a sense
But you know, I'm in this for Bloodborne 2 and Bloodborne Kart so there's that too
Unicorn Overlord and Stellar Blade missing from a lot of awards is really surprising. Both were incredible games that i thought deserved more recognition
My special shout-out to Unicorn Overlord. Game journalists once again missing obvious contestants.
I can't wait to see who interrupt Geoffrey this year 👏👏👏
Less categories just means more time for world premiers and celebrity guests speaking. I think the game awards is a joke, honestly.
and cutting off devs mid through their speech.
@@sparkypack pretty sure this year they won't even get to speak lmao
@@Nekomania haha.. It's gonna be all just Geoff and Kojima. 😄
@sparkypack i'm just surprised kojima even likes him 🤣
The Keighly Awards are a joke
I’ve watched them all and I think I’m gonna start skipping them. Been really disappointed the last few years and as a Nintendo fan, I won’t get anything from the show.
Saaame. The last time I popped off watching TGA was when Sephiroth tried to kill Jump Man.
I really hope this doesnt happen because i think it would be really bad not just for games but really for anime mostly. Idk how anti monopoly laws are in japan if they even have any but like I would imagine there would be pushback from the government
From what I’ve read from ppl who play Souls games The Eldin ring dlc has requirements in the main game to even start so it shouldn’t be seen as separate from it.
If Miles Morales required you to beat the original Spider-Man to play or TTOK Was a post-credits add-on for BOTW I’d feel the same
I'm sure there are like a dozen games more deserving of that slot than a DLC so even if it doesn't win it still robs other games of their chance
1:54 - free market capitalism tends towards monopolisation of industries (you can only have so much growth/competition when resources are inherently limited) x
In my opinion DLCs shouldn't be able to get nominated in the same categories as regular games do. I have a simple and clear-cut reason for that:
They are not their own product.
In the example of Shadow of the Erdtree: I'm not able to play this creative work without also having to buy Elden Ring itself. So when Shadow of the Erdtree was released this year, you are either not able to play it or just as a "Elden Ring + Shadow of the Erdtree" kind of thing. This to me would mean, that the candidate to nominate would be exactly that: The main game + the DLC and then suddenly you can't nominate it anymore, because more than 50% of it was released back in 2022.
The situation would be different for me, if Shadow of the Erdtree would have been released both as a DLC for Elden Ring and as a standalone title. The Xenoblade Chronicles 2 expansion Torna - The Golden Country would be a different matter because of this reasoning, as it was released as a standalone title (if I'm not mistaken).
So to summarise my opinion: DLCs shouldn't be nominated in the same categories as full releases, if they are tied to another release, which usually is the case.
I was all for acquisition then I saw the developers who made Mario and Luigi Brothership are apart of said acquisition and now I don’t want Sony to buy it. Sony should buy pocketpair instead then they’ll have a company who can make games to rival Pokemon.
They already bought the rights for anime and merchandise for palworld . I don’t want them buying the company outright
At least let them buy the Palworld IP or buy 30% of it like how Nintendo owns 30% of the pokemon IP.
I honestly don't want Sony to have more acquisitions. They've tried to ruin Eastern games, manga, and anime for years
How have they ruined Eastern games? And no don’t mention Concord we know that one was a dumpster fire and a half.
@LuigiMaster4 the closing of Japan studios? Consolidation of both Crunchyroll and Funimation? Sony had been more globally/Western focus for years now
Castlevania Nocturne came out this year. Why isn't that in Best Adaptation? Granted, it wouldn't stand a chance against Arcane and Fallout but it was much better than the Knuckles show.
Astro Bot, Balatro, FF7 Rebirth, and Metaphor are all nominations I agree with and I believe are deserving. Wukong and Elden Ring however I don't think should be there. No shade to Wukong as it's certainly a good game but I don't think it's GOTY nominee level, and Shadow of the Erdtree just shouldn't be there. Period. DLC should not be nominated for GOTY, especially if it requires playing another game to experience.
One thing that wasn't brought up that I believe is worth noting, I believe Briana White as Aerith in FF7 Rebirth is the first time an actor for a dub has ever been nominated for Best Performance, which will hopefully set a new standard and allow actors for English dubs of originally non-English games to be nominated in the future as well, as there have been amazing performances from them in the past that have been snubbed.
I see this as well.
They do a ton of work with the english cast so to me it doesn't feel like their just dubbing over japanese casts' performances. And with how non japanese the world of ff7 is it def feels like the en cast is the default pick kinda like mgs or kingdom hearts
That thumbnail is slightly misleading, considering Bloodborne is already Sony's own IP
Multiversus not only has been nominated twice, already won best fighting game in 2022! As a Beta!! You all are right that this jury doesn't play fighting games at all if Multiversus won over KOF XV.
No Persona 3 Reload or Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance included
The problem with Dragon's Dogma is that people haven't forgotten it. Whether or not it was justified, it got a lot of backlash for the micro transactions and the people who stuck with it will tell you the game drops in quality in the later half.
It's funny, the biggest haters of it are the ones who were so hyped for it.
Honestly I thought this was a great year for gaming but seeing this list kinda makes me think otherwise. Stuff like MVC collection as best fighter is a joke. Honestly the game awards has always been a joke
I just realized something during the Best Fighting Game category. If Elden Ring DLC got nominated for GOTY then why didn't the Mortal Kombat 1 expansion get nominated for best fighting game? I don't say this as a fan of the game (I'm really not) or have even played the expansion. But I feel like it would be more deserving at getting another chance for best fighting game rather than Multiversus and the MvC collection. It'll probably still lose Tekken 8 but I just noticed, if DLC could get nominated for GOTY, then DLC should be nominated to other categories too.
It’s not a big blow to Nintendo if Sony buys kadokawa because Nintendo is rapidly expanding anyway, so they aren’t as reliant on third-party development as they used to
I don't think they changed the rules last minute. I highly recommend watching Source Gaming's most recent video on the matter, as PhantomZ2 does a great job explaining why in that video.
One thing I want to point out is that Sony acquiring Kadokawa would not be a monopoly over anime but, they would have a fair stronger position in producing an anime. When an anime gets made, there is a few organizations who form a group to fund the anime called the production committee. This is the group that appears in the last still or on the title drop in the opening. It is going to be typically be made up of the source material owner, the TV station or streaming service, a music company, a toy or merchandise manufacturer, maybe the game publisher and for the smallest piece of the pie, the animation studio. Sometimes, if the creator is big enough, their studio is also a part of the committee like Bird Studio (Akira Toriyama) or Lucky Land Communicattons (Hirohiko Araki) but, usually they are consulting through the source material owner. The splits are not equal with usually the TV station or music company providing the majority of funding and thus the biggest share of revenue. The thing Sony is acquiring with Kadokawa is mostly the source material owner. While the source material owner typically is not funding the most, they are still important in how the show can be used. By Sony owning both the music company and the source owner, they control the money and the material which means they get far more leverage. While Kadokawa isn't necessarily the biggest manga producer, (that would be Shueisha or Shogakukan), they do have enough of the big ones and many of the low budget trendy titles that this would squeeze a lot of anime studios which could mean worse rates, tighter schedules and scenarios where Sony gets defacto ownership of an anime studio's pipeline (ignoring the studios they would own). However, there are still enough companies in the anime sphere that would prevent a monopoly scenario, especial when the Shonen Jump series are mostly free either company. If they acquired Square Enix or Bandai Namco on top of that though, Sony would indeed be in a monopoly position with Square Enix's Gangan Comics/MangaUp covering enough marketshare in the source material side on the lower end market or Bandai Namco's merchandising in combination with Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly Sunrise) becoming a massive anime studio fusion with A-1 Pictures/Cloverworks and Dogakobo that prevents other studios from competing except for the scraps Sony gives out.
I’m fine with DLC like Elden Ring & Xenoblade being considered for GOTY, but personally think there should be a Best DLC category.
I do count them in my personal top 10 favourite games of the year list.
11:54 This. I could theoretically adjust to seeing “sequel worthy DLC” up for GotY, but when it’s so transparently biased to offer a second bite at the Apple to a game that practically pipelined to win it’s own year already, it reeks of favoritism.
If the Kadokawa merger happens, man, Sony gets so much of the anime industry in their hands, holy sh*t.
Totally don't understand this year's nominated games. Unicorn Overlord definitely needs more better treatment.
100% agree!
32:40 personally, my currently most anticipated game is The Midnight Walk and KH4 whenever that gets another trailer
AstroBot GOTY!!!
If Sony ends up getting Fromsoft in any way, then that studio has about one to two games left before they bleed talent, and it'll be a shell of their former selves. Just don't really trust any of the large console makers at this point. AAA(another A for Ubislop lol) games cost too much for publishers to allow too much creative freedom with their studios. Hope I'm wrong in that but they haven't been proving that otherwise.
If Sony ends up with the monopoly on anime and manga, then the battle on the high seas is going to intensify as the current way they handle Curnchyroll is awful. Also not looking forward to how they'll slowly dictate what creatives are allowed to make.
Surprised Echos of wisdom Wisdom isnt even in the conversation. That was my personal most fun goty
So Microsoft owning Mojang, Bethesda, Activision, Blizzard and King is okay but Sony owning Kadokawa is not? I see this acquisition as an absolute win for gamers. PlayStation has been sorely lacking developers in Japan, let’s be real Gran Turismo isn’t really a “Japanese” game and Astro Bot has mainstream appeal. I want more games like Danganronpa and Zero Escape, I loved the Badman games by Acquire Corp.
Sony already has a working relationship with most of these developers… Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne were PlayStation exclusives and on Acquire’s side we have Rain, Akiba’s Trip, Akiba’s Beat and like I already mentioned, all the Badman games exclusive to PlayStation consoles. Companies like Kadokawa or Square Enix are a perfect fit for Sony.
C'mon dude, you can't be serious
Hope Sony doesn’t get Kadokawa because they already have too much of a hold on anime. I wish Prince of Persia the Lost Crown got nominated for Game of the Year. It’s really sad that more people didn’t give it a chance. I hope that it wins best action/adventure game for the developers. It absolutely stomps all the other games in that category.
But if Sony buys Anime games, what will happen to Nintendo Direct’s shovelware announcements?! 😱
The more acquisitions, the faster Sony will go bankrupt. At this point I think it would be for the better
I’m waiting for the Armored Core 6 DLC game. Or AC7. DO IT, FROM
Sony or aka aniplex has publish acquire games . But they 100 percent a studio would get shut down and spikechunsoft would just become danagaropa and fighting game factory
Imagine Sony caring about a game like Mystery Dungeon or Rain Code.
I think a lof things said in this video ignores what I saw this year and I disagree with a lot of what was said. Still, I respect and appreciate the work snd sharing their ideas and views.
My hot takes:
John Eric Bentley was snubbed for a second time. His performance in both Remake and Rebirth deserved nominations.
Rebirth deserves a nomination in Art Direction. It is a beautiful game and provides some story telling through the art in it.
Agreed like aerith's VA is good no doubt but characters like barret or even tifa had way more emotional scenes and wider performances. Hell redxiii should be up there this guy out here doing two seperate performances for a single character.
If it doesn't music then this will just further prove how much of a sham and recency bias plays into these awards
I hope it doesn't go through, but if it does somehow and Sony tries to shut down Acquire and Spike Chunsoft, I hope Nintendo would step in and snag those two up...
1000xResist robbed
You say "snubs" but there can only be 6. The only surprise in the 6 nominations were Shadow of the Erdtree and Balatro. For both of those, you guys explained why they're there.
I think the game awards always tries to throw in one indie nomination. I don’t think that nomination will ever win, but they do always try to put one in. I don’t think there was one last year tho.
@@ContrastCopyit takes two won in 2021
DLC's should have their own category, then again I'm glad I dont give a damn about the ad awards, kinda pity those who do
if half-life 3 gets announced and ends up being as bad as concord it would still win most anticipated game and that should tell you why that category shouldn't exist
-So the general thing for me is that The Game Awards needs to redo its categories and clearly its panel, bc both are clearly made up by/of people who don't know games forreal.
-I also understand what you guys are saying about games that are released too late in the year getting snubbed but...that's just the way award shows work unfortunately. There HAS to be a cutoff date and unfortunately Brothership is right at a month before the awards. That's just too close to be seriously considered.
-As far as the Elden Ring DLC of it all, I agree with many of the comments here and in the live audience that if the DLC requires purchasing and playing through the base game to access it it should not be nominated as its own thing. Put them in their own separate DLC category (maybe replace Game Direction with that lol) but not in any main categories.
No persona 3 reload is legit criminal. These dudes do not play games
The Sony thing seems wholly anime related since they already took steps in acquiring Crunchyroll awhile back. I don’t get the sense it’s a video game property thing. That would be probably be collateral damage for once.
There we're a lot of great dlcs in the past that we're good if not better than their respective games. for example xenoblade 3 where a lot of people seem to think the dlc was better than the main game. xenoblade 3 was in the game of the year nominees, so why wouldn't that dlc be considered? It seems like they wen't out of their way to make an exception for elden ring when there were so many great games this year I would consider better than elden ring dlc. Pure bias imo
I have 3 words to say about Content Creator of the Year:
Konpeko! Konpeko! Konpeko!
What’s the name of the Xenoblade track used at the beginning of this video?
I hate to break this to you, but the reason Xenoblade 3 didn't get nominated last year is because nobody played it. Geoff didn't change the rules this year because he pretty much doesn't make any rules. He lets people vote how they want to vote. Phantom Liberty got nominated for Best Narrative last year.
This merger would be a major death blow to the Japanese animation and anime distribution system in Japan and North America. That would probably collapse the mainstream industry.
As for gaming… I still want Xbox split up. We do not need Sony owning Spike Chunsoft, Acquire and especially FromSoftware. Sony would probably fire many of these devs, resulting in less devs, games and indie games getting Japanese publisher deals. Sony also has been awful in Japan with gaming; their only studios left are Team Asobi making Astrobot and Polyphony Digital making Gran Turismo.
Gaming needs more 3rd party studios and competition, not less. And Japan’s lack of a true indie industry means it all relies on bigger publishers and developers, and that consolidation is very bad for everyone.
Does a game have to "innovative" for it to be GOTY? Absolutely not. It's just the best games of the year.
It would be great of Sony buys fromsoftware and make their games to playstation exclusive.
Rocking the FFX Tidus necklace. Love it.
Curious when you lads will also talk about Xbox… would love for this to be a one stop shop of overall-positive gaming talk and they’re just as valid as a player and fanbase :)
I think if they should not include dlc as goty contender, then indies should not be able to be nominated for goty as well and just stay in its own category. I mean balatro?! Yes it a great game but compared to many others that def deserve a nomination. I truly hope ff7 or wukong gets it. Hell, I haven’t played Astro bot but I’ll root for it! Prince of Persia is so underrated I hope it wins something!
Indie games are standalone games unlike DLC like SotE, for one. For two, indie games can absolutely deserve nomination for GOTY. Hades 1 was nominated in 2020 and it blows away multiple games it was nominated with that year and several nominees in the years since.
This video had live audience? When it was recorded?
Spike Chunsoft published Exist Archive and last I checked, that's a PS4 exclusive.
Weren't the Danganronpa games originally PS exclusive as well?
This is one of the reasons why I stopped watching The Game Awards. It's all just a spectacle and showing off other games that don't pertain to the games that were picked for Best Game of the Year. It's a whole lot of nothing, at times.
they are going to turn pokemon mystery dungeon into the new rare😰
I get the point of the discussion and it's nice to hear the gang's impressions on these various games... but I agree with Steph Sterling. These are The Game Advertisements, not The Game Awards. They're a sham and only worth watching for potential memes. It's a shame that, like with review scores, people put so much emphasis on this blatantly corporate event. TGA has only gained prominence because E3's long, protracted demise has allowed it to become the premier event for debuting new trailers. Frankly, I'm glad Nintendo's seemed to have less and less of a presence there as the years have gone on.
Honestly, my hope is that GVG will use its platform to elevate things like the BAFTA game awards or the DICE awards (which are peer-based nominations!). They're not perfect (no awards system is), but they tend to have more diversity in their nominations and winners compared to The Game Advertisements. I'd love to watch some discussions about the BAFTA and/or DICE nominations when those get released.
Elden Ring rights are actually from software now, bandai have sold to them.
Meh Kadokawa was keeping it’s older anime locked behind vault anyway they had no interest in renewing the licenses for the west.
since i am out of the loop, why doesn't echoes of wisdom count as a family game? like is there something that happens that make it not be family friendly? obviously not a game i have played nor am i a parent, but to me it does seem fit for family game
Its one of those "the categories are unclear" situations bc I would assume a family game has to be a multiplayer game that is "fun for the whole family". EoW is single player, plus several characters do threaten to execute Zelda early on in EoW so its also not THAT family friendly lol
I will cry at the loss of those studios
If sony does get kadokawa im done im not playing any games developed by them or anime/manga
No love for Another Crab's Treasure. I feel it at least deserved something.
You really shouldn't have been talking kadokawa if you don't know anything you're talking about.
I’m mixed on the Eldtree nomination. On the one hand, I don’t think it should be nominated as it’s not a new game and I think it could have bad consequences for the future. However, it could lead to higher quality DLC being produced in the future and it does give recognition to DLC of that kind (like Torna for XC2 or Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2). We’ll wait and see if it has any repercussions on the future of the games industry, but I’m slightly on the more negative side of it
Edit: on the potential Kadokawa acquisition, if Spike Chunsoft was shut down because of it I’d be sad as a Danganronpa fan. Those visuals novels were awesome
#HololiveMentionInGVG FA↘️HA↗️HA↗️HA↗️
I can't wait for some WORLD PREMIERE on stream. XD