They came with the facts damn, also shouted out hades, raji and a short hike so they're real

literally everything i wanted to see was in the preshow. idk why i wasted my thursday night sitting thru the rest

kotaku.com/games-made-under-crunch-conditions-don-t-deserve-best-1845863225?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=kotaku

Probably wrote that article on an Apple computer

Literally watched the entire thing waiting for the smash reveal not knowing I missed it

All I see is salt tbh

op has every single win now, i think

Seeing all these sweaty neckbeards like Angry Joe crying about TLOU2 winning made me laugh

its called best game direction and its for creative parts of the game

the award isnt called "best studio practices"

Even more laughable than that is the notion that Hollywood thinks games should be like TLOU2

Hollywood storytelling is better reflected in super safe forgettable storytelling that can be seen in Ghosts of Tsushima or Ass Creed or RDR 2. Its extremely rare you see a story that takes the kind of risks and goes as far as they do as what was seen in TLOU2.

Also if the standards for making good games without crunch is Hades, then I would probably never play a video game again.

ayo

hades is a great game tho

I'm sure its a fun little 2d game, but games that are as ambitious and groundbreaking as Cyberpunk 2077 or TLOU2 cannot be made without crunch.

I mean they can.

But they would take longer to make

Studios should realize that and properly manage their team and set expectations to their stockholders that the games will take longer to make.

Crunch f***ing sucks and it should have no place in gaming

This is a very ignorant take

What? A game doesnt have photorealistic graphics, a multi-million dollar budget and actors on it? Must be f***ing garbage!

I have a job

Will be a better game than TLOU2

Kind of like the people mad Hades got nominated because it has a different art style

MGS3 did it as well

I liked TLOU2 but the "play as Abby" parts were the absolute worse (not counting the sky bridge parts, that was pretty cool). I didn't care about her crew at all and when Ellie offed them all I felt nothing lol. Also f*** her dad and the rest of the Fireflies. They were all a******s and got what they deserved.

never played it so i cant speak on that

And watch dogs

I mean I enjoy Among Us and Raft and Don’t Starve Together but the games I’m really looking to play at the end of the day are the ones that really push the standards of scale and immersion in gaming
It’s impossible to do that without crunch

Its very possible, zelda botw, one of the most immersive games oat and arguably the most immersive open world was developed without crunch, in fact they delayed it twice. Also, there's plenty of indies that do it. Undertale is the biggest example, one of the most immersive games oat imo for its main mechanic which is being able to talk your way out of battle which can change drastically the story.
We all should be grateful to games like celeste, cave story, undertale, raji, hades, spelunky, binding of isaac, super hot for showing the industry you dont need crunching or high budgets to deliver amazing games. Imo you should try the games ive listed before saying s*** like this cause it comes off as disrespectful to indie developers who do a hell of a job

Well I’ve tried BOTW and after about 8-9 hours, got pretty bored of it and stopped.

I haven’t tried the other ones but Hades and Celeste I’ve seen gameplay of and they don’t really appeal to me. They just seem like glorified mobile games honestly