The Game Awards: Expansions, DLC, Remakes, Remasters All Eligible for All Categories

Kokoloko

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I wouldnt give DLC game of the yea, as great as the game is. I wouldnt give stuff like Destiny DLC or FF14 DLC the main game awards either
 

Kokoloko

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TotK was a DLC anyways. Shadow of the Erdtree has more new content than that shit did.

Follow up story and many many new mechanics added to TOTK. Its not dlc.

Sequels just have to be follow on or new stories. Theres no pact that sequels have to be completely different or be very different. Especially if they were successful before
 

Vertigo

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Follow up story and many many new mechanics added to TOTK. Its not dlc.

Sequels just have to be follow on or new stories. Theres no pact that sequels have to be completely different or be very different. Especially if they were successful before

Plenty of expansions add and continue or create new stories. Plenty of expansions have way bigger sweeping evolutions to gameplay, which Totk had not much of unless you consider a trash loot system like fuse.

Nintendo gets away with lack of criticism because it’s Nintendo and can literally sell their consumers cardboard.

There is nothing done in Totk that couldn’t have been an expansion but the reality is the switch isn’t the tech for it.
 
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Vertigo

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Was there always a mega man reboot known about or did it just get revealed in this secret level trailer for Amazon…. Like wtf

 

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Does anyone even watch it anymore because of the awards? Last year they skipped one of the most successful titles. I'm excited to see what happens this year. My personal GOTY, Stellar Blade, should at least be nominated in the Soundtrack and Action Game categories. But I wouldn't be surprised if it gets completely ignored, for well-known reasons.
 

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Does anyone even watch it anymore because of the awards? Last year they skipped one of the most successful titles. I'm excited to see what happens this year. My personal GOTY, Stellar Blade, should at least be nominated in the Soundtrack and Action Game categories. But I wouldn't be surprised if it gets completely ignored, for well-known reasons.
I don’t watch it because the fillers, ads, and bullshit talk.
Several years already.
It was painful to watch even drinking a lot of beer.

I just look at the announced trailers on forums.
 

rofif

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I never got shadow of the erdtree. It is too tryhard to me. It's like a game made for streamers
 

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@rofif In some ways it's worse than the base game and in some better. Overall it's a great experience but FF7 rebirth and AstroBot are better than Erdtree imo. I think this elevates AstroBot even further if it beats out the likes of FF7, Metaphor and now Elden Ring.
 

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This plays right into the industry's hand. Remakes and DLC expansions are the norm but they shouldn't be.
 
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Say1nMan

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DLCs have no business being in GOTY nomination. This clearly has Elden Ring: Erdtree written all over it because there isn't enough other expansions released this year to have its own catergorie.
 
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Follow up story and many many new mechanics added to TOTK. Its not dlc.

Sequels just have to be follow on or new stories. Theres no pact that sequels have to be completely different or be very different. Especially if they were successful before

It didn’t.


Are you high this early?

You guys are making it abundantly clear you haven't played Shadow of the Erdtree.
 

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You guys are making it abundantly clear you haven't played Shadow of the Erdtree.
TotK is not a DLC lol
I don’t need to play anything to know it.

If it was not Baldur Gate 3 O should vote TotK as GOTY 2023… it is was not just an amazing sequel but an incredible game by itself.

And I was on side that BotW was a bit overrated… TotK is much better than BotW that is really unfair to compare them.
 
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peter42O

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Considering the fact that Keighley is massive PlayStation fanboy, you would think that he would just have a separate category for dlc/expansions AND a separate category for remakes/remasters. Maybe he wants to give Elden Ring expansion a win since he got the premiere of Elden Ring back at SGF in 2021.

If you makes you guys feel better, even I as the Xbox fan would vote for Astro Bot, Stellar Blade and Rebirth over Elden Ring's expansion. Fuck Elden Ring!!!
 

Zzero

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Plenty of expansions add and continue or create new stories. Plenty of expansions have way bigger sweeping evolutions to gameplay, which Totk had not much of unless you consider a trash loot system like fuse.

Nintendo gets away with lack of criticism because it’s Nintendo and can literally sell their consumers cardboard.

There is nothing done in Totk that couldn’t have been an expansion but the reality is the switch isn’t the tech for it.
It switched game engines. "Expansion" my ass.