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Fallout 4 wins GOTY at DICE Awards 2016

Overrated game receives award it probably doesn't deserve how surprising. Also why does ROTR keep getting awards for story and acting, I mean don't get me wrong I like the game but come on the acting for Lara is so bad and the writing is just Hollywood schlock.
 
Some of these winners and nominees are baffling, truly.


I don't really care about these kind of things, but games like Just Cause 3 being nominated for Outstanding Technical Achievement is just bizarre and devaluates this entire ordeal.
 
bananafactory said:
Man I'm 40 hours in and haven't even toyed with the settlement stuff yet. That's really impressive.

But yeah I agree, the game's not the most polished and the quests aren't usually terribly engaging but the world is just so fucking dense and gorgeous that I could wander around looting and fighting and exploring forever
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I've even noticed a lot of skeleton placements in certain hard to reach areas that tell their own little stories. A skeleton in a bed and next to it is a chair surrounded by empty beer bottles with a 10mm pistol on the ground next to the bed, next room over has an empty crib.. I like the little things like that. The game it littered with stuff like that. I find all of that more interesting then anything the main story of the game.

The settlement stuff I would almost wait to get into as an endgame thing since by the end you have way more things to build with and will have saved up enough stuff to build some decent stuff with.
 
Spinifex said:
Adventure Games have a pretty clear definition to me (and I would think most people) these days. Life is Strange, Tales from the Borderlands, Until Dawn, Kings Quest. These are all adventure games.
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While I agree (and I'd add "walking simulators" like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture in there), DICE's definition is obviously including the good old Action/Adventure genre in there, which was always used as a catch-all for the games that never quite fit in any others (stealth games, survival horror, open world games, etc).

Anyway, eeeeeehhhhhh. Fallout 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider nominated for story? Fallout Shelter winning Mobile GOTY? And Fallout 4 as the overall GOTY? Again, eeeeehhhhh.

Edit: Oh wow, I missed the character award. Lara Croft? Really?!
 
Outstanding achievement in character went to someone other than Inspector Jenks?

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So sad to see Fallout 4 with RPG of the year, much less GOTY when Bethesda stripped out as many RPG elements in the game as they could.
 
LookAtMeGo said:
I've even noticed a lot of skeleton placements in certain hard to reach areas that tell their own little stories. A skeleton in a bed and next to it is a chair surrounded by empty beer bottles with a 10mm pistol on the ground next to the bed, next room over has an empty crib.. I like the little things like that. The game it littered with stuff like that. I find all of that more interesting then anything the main story of the game.

The settlement stuff I would almost wait to get into as an endgame thing since by the end you have way more things to build with and will have saved up enough stuff to build some decent stuff with.
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I took this screenshot pretty early in the game

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It's something that a huge amount of people will probably never see or notice, but it adds a nice touch to the world. Like hey, there's people here and they do have to find ways to entertain themselves
 
Bloodborne was my personal favourite but I like Fallout 4 as well. It has it's flaws but I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as some people make it out to be.
 
The fact that Fallout 4 of all games won multiple awards is disheartening.
SlimySnake said:
Thank god it wasnt Witcher 3. Gameplay won over story. Sanity prevails.
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Nice attempt at an edgy first post but the gameplay for Fallout 4 was nothing incredible, even compared to past Bethesda games. At best it was serviceable.
 
Woo, we won 3 awards! Just woke up and saw the news :)

Still sad that I couldn't be there - got struck by a high fever a day before my flight... Is there a recording available anywhere yet?
 
bananafactory said:
I took this screenshot pretty early in the game



It's something that a huge amount of people will probably never see or notice, but it adds a nice touch to the world. Like hey, there's people here and they do have to find ways to entertain themselves
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Haha cool. Never seen that. Thats what I'm talking about. I think thats one of my favorite parts of TLoU is reading notes about and following the story of Ish and his little city in the sewers. Fallout 4 has that kind of stuff all over the world. Its actually insane how many little side stories there are to discover in this game. And none of it has any bearing on the actual story at all or is even tied to any quests.

The thing I love the most about Bethesdas games is how fun they are to explore and they are in the top of their game on that front in Fallout 4.
 
LookAtMeGo said:
Haha cool. Never seen that. Thats what I'm talking about. I think thats one of my favorite parts of TLoU is reading notes about and following the story of Ish and his little city in the sewers. Fallout 4 has that kind of stuff all over the world. Its actually insane how many little side sories there are to discover in this game. And none of it has any bearing on the actual story at all or is even tied to any quests.

The thing I love the most about Bethesdas games is how fun they are to explore and they are in the top of their game on that front in Fallout 4.
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Yup. I remember in Skyrim I would just ignore all my quests and go wander around through the mountains, stumble upon a cave, run into all sorts of crazy shit and emerge 2 hours later with an awesome experience. These games have always been about creating my own stories more than enjoying the preset ones.

I do kind of miss the flexibility of something like Morrowind - I remember you used to be able to kill any NPC, and if you did it carefully at night no one would even notice. The first thing I did was kill a vendor, loot/sell his entire house and redecorate it as my own. No one was the wiser! Now it seems guards and stuff are instantly alerted when you do something bad, and certain characters/NPCs can never be killed
 
SJRB said:
Some of these winners and nominees are baffling, truly.


I don't really care about these kind of things, but games like Just Cause 3 being nominated for Outstanding Technical Achievement is just bizarre and devaluates this entire ordeal.
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I had to double take on that one lol. Probably the worst goty voting I've seen for this round.
 
bananafactory said:
Yup. I remember in Skyrim I would just ignore all my quests and go wander around through the mountains, stumble upon a cave, run into all sorts of crazy shit and emerge 2 hours later with an awesome experience. These games have always been about creating my own stories more than enjoying the preset ones.

I do kind of miss the flexibility of something like Morrowind - I remember you used to be able to kill any NPC, and if you did it carefully at night no one would even notice. The first thing I did was kill a vendor, loot/sell his entire house and redecorate it as my own. No one was the wiser! Now it seems guards and stuff are instantly alerted when you do something bad, and certain characters/NPCs can never be killed
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Yeah I totally agree. There is some magic that has been lost since Morrowind.
 
PES 2016 isn't even nominated in the sports category when it should've been the winner.

Well at least Witcher 3 didn't win best game, so there's that I guess.
 
I die a little inside when F4 wins any awards. It's not a TERRIBLE game but it's quite unremarkable.

Also, why is it that every time there is a character category, Geralt is nominated instead of Ciri? Ciri is the best character in that game.
 
We had on handheld in 2015;

- STEINS;GATE
- Superbeat
- Paper Jam (2016 for NA)
- Persona 4: Dancing All Night
- Trails of Cold Steel
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
- Stretchmo
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

and more

and fucking helldivers won?
 
Enter the Dragon Punch said:
We had on handheld in 2015;

- STEINS;GATE
- Superbeat
- Paper Jam (2016 for NA)
- Persona 4: Dancing All Night
- Trails of Cold Steel
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
- Stretchmo
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

and more

and fucking helldivers won?
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Are you surprised? Look at the POS that won GOTY.
 
Enter the Dragon Punch said:
We had on handheld in 2015;

- STEINS;GATE
- Superbeat
- Paper Jam (2016 for NA)
- Persona 4: Dancing All Night
- Trails of Cold Steel
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
- Stretchmo
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

and more

and fucking helldivers won?
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Of all the odd category winners, that one stood out to me the most.
 
Disagree with Fallout Shelter as that was an ad disguised as a game.

Very odd choice.

Lara Croft GO is the better game.
 
Curious to know if each winner was the biggest seller in each category. Is this the case, did Helldivers sell more than MH4U though?
 
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