Some people are frustrated that such a small simple game (solo dev) is nominated instead of a more traditional 3rd person story driven game. Just check out the past winners, basically all in the same genre (Action-adventure) except for Overwatch (Waifu sim).
My opinion? I think it is a good thing that Balatro was nominated and I hope more like it get nominated. Though Wukong should probably win this year if it's as good as people say.
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This guy had a good take on it:
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Good game gets nominated, slop enjoyers most affected
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Better than the usual soulslop
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Is it a really fun game? Then good.
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Yes. Has that major "just one more hand" feeling and also a lot of the highscore challenges you've got nobody but yourself to blame if you don't get it
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Deserved. Indie darlings beating the 8-figure development AAA gameslop is based
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Name one β (1) good game that came out this year. I'll wait.
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Hentai Master 8
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The one I heard lamented was Nine Sols, but I don't know anything about it except they loved it.
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If it's good then it should win, I would vote for The Binding of Isaac if it gets released in current year.
SOTE has no business being there, despite my love for it.
As for Wudong, people criticized it for having good boss fights, but everything in-between is mid, so eh.
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It's a really fun game, simple as. Half the challenge is fighting your own greed to set up bigger numbers down the line. I think I get why old people love going to the casino so much, the numbers and sounds are very satisfying.
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AAA sweatshop monkeys aren't people
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I just bought balatro a few weeks ago, beat the first campaign or whatever on my second try and haven't picked it back up.
I know there's tons more to unlock but game of the year it isn't. Truly speaks to the garbage quality 2024 had for vidya games
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Try the challenge modes if you play it again. I think playing with the other decks doesn't change up the game that much but the challenge modes keep it fresh.
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It's a mobile game that identifies as a PC/console game. It's cool, but I don't think it should be nominated. Same with elden ring. Should put dlc's into the "ongoing game" category.
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gonna take the grumpy old man position here and say there should be some skill involved in art that is classified as great. Like sure vampire survivors is fun, but it's just a dopamine farm that could have been made by a couple 12 year olds. Balatro is slightly better but still just an interesting take on card games, nothing anyone will remember in 5 years. The real question is why are we so desperate for GOTYs and these are our options, even DLCs had to be added. The gaming industry is what the movie industry was in the 70s, or maybe the 20s. too much money and no one knows what to do with it
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I think making balatro required skill. Sure if you gave a mediocre programmer the specs they might be able to make it but knowing what to make is half the battle.
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Do you have a better idea
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Admittedly I haven't played it, but I heard Blackmith Wukong is good.
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Card games are for fat, sweaty nerds.
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If you can't pay2win it's not a real card game
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It's not a real card game.
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There's always a token indie game in the GotY nominations. None of them have ever won.
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I finally got around to.Balatro when it came.out on Android recently. It's a great phone game, but I can't imagine playing it through more than once on anything else.
Tbh I thought the exact same about vampire survivor and that won awards
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Look. I get it. Balatro is a good game. I own it, and have beat it.
But I'm not OMFG HECKIN' ADDICTED 24/7 MAKING HANDS ALL DAY ERRY DAY
It's a solid A out of 5, but I fail to see how it won GOTY. Nevertheless, goyslop lost and I'm ok with that.
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What was goty for you?
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You will never be a real imposter. You have no sabotage, you have no vent, you have no kill button. You are a noob crewmate twisted by sus and amogus into a crude mockery of Among Us's perfection.
All the "Red sus" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back impostors and crew mates alike mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your "crew mates " laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind sabotaged doors.
Impostors are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed impostors to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even transimpostors who "pass" look uncanny and unnatural to an impostor. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk impostor home with you, he'll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected User Interface.
You will never be sus. You wrench out a fake act of suspicion every single morning and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the tasks piling up creeping up like weeds, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll buy a rope, do your tasks, eject yourself from the Skeld, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your crewmates will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They'll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth occupation, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a crew mate is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a single bone that is unmistakably a crewmate's.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back
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