God of War (2018) - XP system.

The game just isn't that fun until you have those weapons highly leveled up. Wasn't a problem in any other game in the series, but the combat was kinda boring until Kratos got powerful (imo).

Halo Reach - Loadouts/Armor Ability

I'd change a lot in Reach but an arena shooter with loadouts kinda defeats the purpose. Let me pick up all of those sweet weapons and lose the special armor skills attributed to each one.

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Phone crimes

These phone calls drive me nuts. I don't know why they thought it would be a good idea to phone me every minute to fight a criminal as a vigilante when the crux of the game is fighting criminals every two seconds. Why add the middle man with an annoying ring?

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Probably A LOT more I can think of. Most of my MAJOR issue with games are nitpicks to most people so idk why I'm drawing a blank now but I'll report back.

@scotty

Definitely keep going through Resident Evil VII before playing Village. There are some serious revelations with the supernatural happenings in that game. Even I needed a refresher on it despite already playing it a few times. I highly doubt there is much story continuation from RE7, but the sort of "cause" of that games events will connect pretty strongly to this new one.

@Phbz

4 bosses... Hmmm. I'll take it. I just hope they are good. I really didn't like RE7 boss battles.

Village is looking good. I feel like I've honestly seen too much from the preview and review footage but knowing it's a 15 hour game, that probably means I've seen little bits from the first hour.

I really enjoyed RE7 having played it twice. I watched Mike & Mike play it on the EZA Plays channel and I wasn't as impressed with how fast the game goes by. In hindsight, I feel like RE7 needed more meat on the bone so knowing RE Village has double the length, better puzzles, more varied enemies, two major locations, and extra modes is basically addressing some complaints people had with RE7 in the long run. That 15 hour length is such a sweet spot for a game like this.

Huber never mentions bosses. I strongly disliked the bosses in RE7, especially the chainsaw fight and Marguerite with the annoying bugs for a whole section of the game. So either the bosses are better or completely non-existent?

@yoshi

Yeah but we need some order for the criteria to make our forum GOTY award. God forbid we don’t allow ports or directors cuts of old games.

If we throw all logic out of the window, then Halo 3 on PC is my GOTY. New content, new maps, new modes, new graphical overhaul.

I am struggling to fill my final HM slot.

I've ordered 7 games that I am certain of GOTY nominations, but then if I look back at everything else I played in 2020 that isn't on my list. I don't know if they are worth a GOTY nod.

Based on the list for games in 2020, the only one's I haven't played but have interest in is: Minecraft Dungeons, DOOM Eternal, Resident Evil 3, and Sackboy. Definitely don't think I can play all of those. Might have to bump up a game to Honorable Mention status despite my gut feeling that it isn't award material.

Every other game from 2020 just looks amateur when we compare it to the GOTY Fast & Furious Crossroads!

So I recently discovered r/cringe (I'm not a reddit user but I'm slowly starting to follow some pages) and somebody posted this ridiculous scene from Star Wars Episode VI:

Youtube Video

You know... the weird CGI song and dance at Jabba's Palace!

For one, I haven't seen EP VI in so long that I forgot about this. So imagine how shocked I was when I saw how ridiculously dated and bad that CGI is. I've always known these muffed up versions of the original trilogy because those are the DVDs I had. I had the OG "Star Wars" on VHS but I probably only watched that once and no idea where it is now.

So somebody posted on that clip about this project called: Project 4K77

Youtube Video

Youtube Video

I love how 4K77 is just a cleanup and slight colour correction and that's it. I never knew the BD version was so high fidelity in areas it isn't needed and so dark, shitty, sharp, and covered in purple. I honestly don't even wanna watch a film from 1977 that looks like it's from 2035.

This is so cool to me! My partner somehow has never seen Star Wars so now is the perfect time to download these restorations and watch the originals for the first time in my life. I'll probably go with the 1080p DNR version. However, I don't feel comfortable using Usenet or any news sites, so I'll pour over some torrent sites that I'm sure have these versions by now.

I highly encourage you all to check out the FAQ. These people are doing God's work.

@capnbobamous

I had not come across that yet, but I'm still kinda looking into all of this.

Again, I automatically assume all (yes, all) social media guru's are sociopaths so I'm not surprised some are also psychopaths as well. I guess that is where all of the concerned UFC fans online are coming from when they say things like Fabia might murder Diego.

Honestly, this is tragic. But at the same time—I feel like most people have enough intelligence to not fall for scams. But then again, he probably has CTE or something. Who knows?

Not to buy into drama and gossip, but I just saw the news that UFC terminated Diego Sanchez's contract early, paid him out of his retirement fight with Cowboy, and all ties are cut. Essentially, UFC saw that his manager was likely about to try to sue them over long term medical problems and they just cleaned their hands and released him.

So then I went down this rabit hole and his manager, Joshua Fabia, is this "fitness guru" with no MMA credibility and is essentially a social media guru scammer type. He very clearly is a snake and has Sanchez brainwashed and I've only found out about this story today.

Like who suddenly sends a rogue email to the UFC asking for all of Sanchez's medical records for any reason other than a medical problem? A confused UFC then proceeds to ask if Sanchez has a medical issue in which his manager denies any medical problems. So essentially, they were trying to get all medical data to muster up a lawsuit. This dude Fabia is so obviously a weirdo.

That's a pretty sad way to end a long and respectable career. I saw a lot of people online seriously concerned for Sanchez like this Fabia guy is full blown cult leader, might try to kill him type vibes. I feel like most of these social media "guru's" are sociopath scammers with a warped sense of reality, but if anything he wants to steal money as opposed to wear Diego's skin.

Sad...

I'm not about to watch the whole MCU just for GSP in Falcon & Winter Soldier, but based on his performance, where do we stand on the possibility or plausibility of GSP becoming a modern day JCVD?

@el-shmiablo said in Vote for the forum's GOTY 2020!:

@dipset Jazzpunk?

JAZZPUNK!

But now all these Cloudpunk research has me interested in playing it...