Thanks for your super intetesting opinion which is obviously more valuable than ours. The GotY picks of us low-budget ignorant peasants, you ask? Definitely Nioh 2 or Demon's Souls Remake (cuz our jury sits all year). The best games of 2020 otherwise were FFVIIR, Maneater, Mortal Shell, Hellpoint, Wasteland 3, Ori and Ghosts. All deserve recognition in some capacity, for revolution OR iteration upon existing formulas. We actually did really like Ghosts but do believe a case can be made fo...
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I understand the story in Nioh 2 lacks a depiction of the requisite daddy issues or moral finger wagging to appeal to certain western audiences, but @phoenixwing western-centric show or not, Nioh most certainly is the better game, which is (or should be) the point surely. This probably isn't the place to lay out the special merits of soulsborne gameplay, nor the aloof and "cosmocentric" narrative tendencies of "japanese" [style] games (see our website for lengthy discu...
Me, baffled the American made samurai game is nominated for goty but not the infinitely superior nioh 2
Excellent game forsure! Perhaps the truest successor of DS1 in terms of cadence and that chunky armored sensation of combat.
Certainly have a massive backlog! But after dabbling in a few, the feeling dawns: nothing kicks like a soulslike. Trying to finish your average open-world action game after Souls is like having to drink lite beer after a peyote bender. Just a bit underwhelming.
Oh yeah, load times are always under 5 seconds, I usually count 3. Messed around also with Nioh 2 on ps5, just the ps4 version playing backwards compatible, which loads likewise in under 5 seconds. Runs very well in the high framerate/variable resolution mode.
I think we are operating with different concepts of what makes a game good; we argue that mechanically-systemically and as gestures of world-building (integral aspects of what, we argue, make a game great), DeS (original or remake) is without peer.
Though your point on originality is well-reasoned and we appreciate your perspective. In the sense of "groundbreaking or "revolutionary" or "most successful critically-comercially" there are certainly ot...
@billybrain "imo" is a nice way to preface a paragraph, but we do not argue that souls is merely "subjectievly" better, and utterly deny that "subjective" measures are the only ones that exist to judge art. While we may or may not "enjoy" or "have fun with" the same things (distinctions a game like DeS proves are kinda silly), we argue that mechanically-systemically & as gestures of world-building, Miyazaki games have no peer. Souls is lik...
It is absolutely!
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In our opinion, there are prob more examples than not of the most popular/profitable things being the most amorphous, effortless & worst! Fortnite, opiates, military-industrial complex, two and a half men?
Our usage of "best" pertains here not to sales, but to the integrity of the work! DeS is an astounding game and feat of world building, even amongst Miyazaki's other games. Hard to feel that (for example) on your 80th shrine in BotW, shaking your contro...
In our opinion DeS was better than every single game you list back when it sold very few copies on ps3. Wii sports? Common buddy. Crack cocaine probably sells better every year than every game on earth, don't make it good.
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No problem at all buddy we are all laymen in the end! Cheers
Nice picks can see the way to that