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Giant Bomb Has Chosen Its GOTY, But We're All Winners!

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    P.S., even your friendly reminders from Giant Bomb to sign up for the site again are great.
    Hey unbreakablevow,

    In seven days your Giant Bomb / Comic Vine subscription is set to expire. Thanks for being a member and
    getting us this far, but if you change your mind you can always visit
    https://auth.giantbomb.com/billing/ and sign back up. In the meantime, I've got the unpleasant
    duty of firing our make-up girl Terri.

    Just kidding. Terri doesn't exist. But if she did, she's obviously not doing her job very well.
    Hey unbreakablevow,

    We've got some good and bad news.

    The bad news is that your access to Giant Bomb / Comic Vine premium content is now over. The good news is that
    Terri the fictional make-up girl is doing a better job and we've decided to keep her on regardless of
    the cost. Luckily she accepts Brad bucks, the fictional currency of Whiskey Media.

    Sorry. Couldn't resist one last time to make you laugh.

    You can always sign back up at https://auth.giantbomb.com/billing/

    Brad bucks is a currency I want in my life

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    OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Are those recent or have they not changed their form letters from the Whiskey Media days

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Those are from this week, yeah

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    McHogerMcHoger Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    What makes a Vinny fan creepy

    I'm asking for a friend

    Has he ever posted the "We have Vinny" celebratory gif?

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    I don't know what that is

    I mean he dosen't

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    McHoger wrote: »
    Ceno wrote: »
    Apparently Vinny had to leave halfway through GOTY deliberations? That's what they're saying on GAF anyway.

    Fuck everything, if true.

    It would explain why Alex was sitting in.

    It was 5 or 6 people locked in a room for several hours, though. How would GAF know unless someone leaked it?

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    DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    So... Binary Domain is pretty great, and it's taught me that French robots are the best robots.

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    SwissLionSwissLion We are beside ourselves! Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    SwissLion wrote: »
    Even if I'd said "it was me!" when Lilly was grilling Ben? (fuck her by the way. She got left on the road)
    Or if I'd offered to kill duck? (poor fuckin' Kenny)
    You can be the one that kills Duck, but he and Katja are both dead by the end of the episode no matter what.

    And Doug/Carly always die in the argument outside the RV

    Fuck this game!

    Fuck all video games!

    I am sad forever.

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    Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Can I get mad at video games for a second

    One thing about GOTY dicussions that is infuriating me: people putting Persona 4 Golden up for GOTY

    it is a 4 year-old game

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    rfilyaw wrote: »
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    Javen wrote: »
    For like a year I thought 'Dave' and 'hardcore Dave' were two different people

    oh they are, man

    they are

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Can I get mad at video games for a second

    One thing about GOTY dicussions that is infuriating me: people putting Persona 4 Golden up for GOTY

    it is a 4 year-old game

    Just real quick:

    http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html?site=&cat=0&year=2012&numrev=0&sort=0&letter=&search=

    it is the best reviewed game of the year.

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Not saying that GOTY necessarily has to line up with review scores but y'know

    people aren't putting it up there for no reason.

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    Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I'm watching Polygon's GOTY discussions

    When that's brought up, Justin McElroy just goes "well did anyone play it when it came out in 2008? No? Great, then it counts as a 2012 game."

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    Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Also Spelunky beat XCOM in their GOTY so fuck'em

    i trusted those McElroy brothers

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Persona 4 got some pretty good accolades back in the 2008 GOTYs too, though.

    P4G is fair game just like OOT3D was fair game last year. In fact P4G is unquestionably the best Vita game available right now therefore that's at least one category that it wins without contest.

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    JarsJars Registered User regular
    I wish it wasn't on vita because no game is worth a $250 system on life support

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    no remakes no ports for goty

    we are trying to have a society here

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    In fact P4G is unquestionably the best Vita game available right now therefore that's at least one category that it wins without contest.

    oh yeah like that's real hard

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    Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    That almost seems unfair, in the case of overall game of the year

    Yeah, there's huge achievements in storytelling, gameplay, and immersion in Walking Dead, Far Cry 3, and Journey, but you guys I just played the Halo 1 remake on 360 and man that game's real great

    Not to over dramatize giving kinda meaningless awards to video games, but it really irks me

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    JarsJars Registered User regular
    apparently the vita has some good games. but sony is dumb and doesn't know how to sell the thing because it's $250 and they will not drop the price. meanwhile the 3ds is going down to uh $160?

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    ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    if you/they like it better than any other game that came out this year, then why does it matter?

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    if the halo 1 remake on 360 was legitimately better than walking dead, far cry 3, and journey by today's standards and not by nostalgic ones, then why should it be disqualified from GOTY deliberations?

    if persona 4 golden is the best gaming experience someone has had this year then that's that. if it still stands on its own two legs four years after its release then other games just need to do better

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    apparently the vita has some good games. but sony is dumb and doesn't know how to sell the thing because it's $250 and they will not drop the price. meanwhile the 3ds is going down to uh $160?

    don't forget the memory cards which basically make buying a vita with a playable game $3000

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    EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Didn't Vita have an Uncharted game?

    I mean

    if we're completely out of ideas for a Vita GOTY, Uncharted seems like a fair bet

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    okay the game of the year is chrono trigger every year

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Didn't Vita have an Uncharted game?

    I mean

    if we're completely out of ideas for a Vita GOTY, Uncharted seems like a fair bet

    apparently it wasn't anything special

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Jars wrote: »
    apparently the vita has some good games. but sony is dumb and doesn't know how to sell the thing because it's $250 and they will not drop the price. meanwhile the 3ds is going down to uh $160?

    If we make it through January and the Vita hasn't dropped to 200 I'll be surprised. They're kinda holding their bit right now for Christmas purchases but after that they're gonna need to lower it because the sales are just gonna dry up if they don't.

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Also the GOTYs I've been following so far have been Gametrailer's

    and spoiler alert, Journey and Walking Dead are fucking killing it, with slight advantage to Journey so far

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    not counting ports the vita GOTY is probably LBP vita

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    Jars wrote: »
    apparently the vita has some good games. but sony is dumb and doesn't know how to sell the thing because it's $250 and they will not drop the price. meanwhile the 3ds is going down to uh $160?

    If we make it through January and the Vita hasn't dropped to 200 I'll be surprised. They're kinda holding their bit right now for Christmas purchases but after that they're gonna need to lower it because the sales are just gonna dry up if they don't.

    also let me use sd cards or have someone make an sd card -> vita memory adapter

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    SimBen wrote: »
    Jars wrote: »
    apparently the vita has some good games. but sony is dumb and doesn't know how to sell the thing because it's $250 and they will not drop the price. meanwhile the 3ds is going down to uh $160?

    If we make it through January and the Vita hasn't dropped to 200 I'll be surprised. They're kinda holding their bit right now for Christmas purchases but after that they're gonna need to lower it because the sales are just gonna dry up if they don't.

    also let me use sd cards or have someone make an sd card -> vita memory adapter

    Yeah that's not gonna happen

    at least now you can get a bundle and get, say, Liberation and a 4GB card for the same price as a plain Vita

    so at least you can save your game right out of the box

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    why is sony so dumb about memory

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    why is sony so dumb about memory

    they can never remember their mistakes

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    JarsJars Registered User regular
    oh right vita storage is killing the vita even more than the price

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
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    In fact P4G is unquestionably the best Vita game available right now therefore that's at least one category that it wins without contest.

    oh yeah like that's real hard

    Okay then, it also has a legitimate shot at best RPG, its main competition being Xenoblade, Mass Effect 3, Guild Wars 2 and Borderlands 2

    if you don't count the last two as RPGs, Torchlight 2 and Diablo 3 come in

    if you don't count those two, Pokémon Black/White 2 and FFXIII-2

    if you don't count Pokémon, Tales of Graces

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    JarsJars Registered User regular
    pokemon is an rpg with 150 classes

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    or, y'know, 649

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    -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    plus formes

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    but it came out in 2008, as noted above
    does anyone treat star wars like it came out in the 90s even though that's when the special editions were released?

    no it's just a retool it doesn't count we're living in a society here

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I dunno

    they added enough new shit in P4G that I think it qualifies, personally

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