dave is ok
aztek is ok
Gone Home is the only game that gives you less value than seeing a movie in a theater
They gave TLOU a 7.5, and put it at 4 on their list? Strange.
Gone Home wasn't my favorite game of the year, and I think that games like Stanley Parable and Papers Please are better than it, but it's nice to see a mainstream website financed by Microsoft give a small game it's biggest award.
Is Gone Home worth playing if you already know the twist? Most of the conversation I heard around this game was about how impressed people were with how ordinary it was. No ghosts, death, etc despite the game acting like those things might happen. I must have heard "subverts your expectations" in regards to the game a hundred times. Anyway, I never bothered to pick it up because I figured once you knew what to expect it wouldn't be that interesting and I don't anticipate 90s nostalgia winning me over. But it has been getting a lot of praise during the goty cycle
It's like they just want to be THAT publication that didn't choose The Last of Us as their GOTY.
You didn't expect them to give it to a more deserving game that was on a Sony platform did you? At least this one lets them keep some semblance of impartiality.
Looking at their list as a whole...
a tie for 4th place? Really?
Exactly. The game has a bold message but other then that, I felt gipped paying full price for it. :/
Please. I agree with the sentiment of Microsoft's lack of first party being sucky but to use "M$" is just makes you look dumb.Ask that to M$.
You didn't expect them to give it to a more deserving game that was on a Sony platform did you? At least this one lets them keep some semblance of impartiality.
Looking at their list as a whole...
a tie for 4th place? Really?
The game has an interesting idea, but man, as a game it's not good. I almost slept. It's like Dear Esther done wrong
They gave TLOU a 7.5, and put it at 4 on their list? Strange.
Gone Home wasn't my favorite game of the year, and I think that games like Stanley Parable and Papers Please are better than it, but it's nice to see a mainstream website financed by Microsoft give a small game it's biggest award.
I assume that's due to the fact the list might have been determined through some kind of internal voting process, otherwise it sounds pretty dumb yeah.Also, I'm really glad to see Teraway on a list. Such a charming and fun game. Interesting that 4th place was a tie though.
Brian Altano's impression of Arthur Gies is swirling in my head.
Is Gone Home worth playing if you already know the twist? Most of the conversation I heard around this game was about how impressed people were with how ordinary it was. No ghosts, death, etc despite the game acting like those things might happen. I must have heard "subverts your expectations" in regards to the game a hundred times. Anyway, I never bothered to pick it up because I figured once you knew what to expect it wouldn't be that interesting and I don't anticipate 90s nostalgia winning me over. But it has been getting a lot of praise during the goty cycle
Well, if they liked Gone Home more than The Last of Us, then I'd say GH deserves it more than TLOU in their eyes.
If this was done by polling their editors, a tie can happen mathematically.
They seriously are looking for attention, of course none of the games that everybody thought was going to be GOTY was their GOTY.
I did like Gone Home, it´s like Beyond but done right with none of the bullshit of David Cage about how a story should be interactive and all that crap.
The answer is no. I came in expecting horror. The game knew that and used my expectations to make me slowly creep through the house in mounting fear and tension fueled along by carefully placed red herrings and my own faulty assumptions. It did it so well (in my case, at least) that it made me laugh at myself when I finally realized what was happening.
If you come in knowing the "twist," your experience would be drastically different. It would just be a boring, gated, ham-fisted story about growing up different in Anytown, USA.
The game has literally no replay value and the experience is really a one-off thing. It was good for what it was, but I strongly believe, judging by the past trend of Polygon articles, that the subject matter of a young lesbian coming into her own and finding freedom of sorts has more than a little to do with the choice.
So they should have followed the norm and chosen what everyone else did?
If this was done by polling their editors, a tie can happen mathematically.
I assume that's due to the fact the list might have been determined through some kind of internal voting process, otherwise it sounds pretty dumb yeah.
It was really good, especially if you happened to like Riot Girl bands (or just alternative stuff in general), but it was never GOTY. Especially as it initially launched at £14.99. A travesty for a < 2 hour game with no replay value.
They said that TLOU was an average game and yet it´s one of the best games of the year on their list.
Where´s the criteria? oh wait, yeah, maybe in February after the DLC for TLOU gets released and they update their review because reasons.
Or it's like they thought Gone Home was their game of the year
I never got that talking about a twist. Nor were my expectations subverted. The "twist" was the first thing I learned from the first few bits of information you gather. It's still a ghost story, just not in the literal sense. For me it was that you know exactly what happened five minutes in, and then you slowly find out how we got where we are now.Is Gone Home worth playing if you already know the twist? Most of the conversation I heard around this game was about how impressed people were with how ordinary it was. No ghosts, death, etc despite the game acting like those things might happen. I must have heard "subverts your expectations" in regards to the game a hundred times. Anyway, I never bothered to pick it up because I figured once you knew what to expect it wouldn't be that interesting and I don't anticipate 90s nostalgia winning me over. But it has been getting a lot of praise during the goty cycle
They didn't give TLOU a 7.5. One reviewer did. The GOTY list is presumably a vote by all of them.
I almost spit out my coffee. Holy shit.I wonder what it'll be in February.