Today we will discuss which games should win our award for "Best Shooter", "Strongest Anti-SJW Stance", and who should receive our "Gamers Are Dead" award for the worst piece of Gaming Journalism!
Please consider what you would like to argue should be the winning item for each of the passing categories.
Additionally, consider who you would like to nominate as your electors. You may choose 3 electors to cast votes for you on your behalf. Persuade them as necessary. You may choose yourself once. The top 12 most nominated electors will assemble as our electoral tribunal, and will vote on the final categories. Feel free to message me directly with your nomination, or comment your nominations publicly. The electors are allowed to vote their own conscience.
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For best shooter, I nominate Kyle Rittenhouse as he managed to take down multiple pedophiles all while conserving ammo and using advanced movement techniques to minimize damage taken.
Oh uh that's not what that meant? Oh well then Doom Eternal for being about the only AAA game it seems that just made a game with total ignorance of politics.
Will have to look around for the others as I don't remember what all came out. 2020 has been a busy year for "journalism."
Yeah, outside.win is going to be the big FPS in the next few years.
I don't think its feasible to find the Worst Game Journo piece in a year with Corona, BLM Riots, Last of Us 2 and Cyberpunk. Just too much shit, nominate the entire year.
This article posted by Hypothesis kind of stands out as particularly awful. At this point, you're not interested in the game, you're just banging the identity politics drum. I can believe there are worse, but it's a prime example.
Edit: maybe we should just nominate all of Polygon.
For "Strongest Anti-SJW Stance" I nominate ARMA 3. An expansion for it came out this year so that kind of qualifies, and I like it a lot as a game, for reasons I could go on about for a bit if anyone cares, but for "Anti-SJW", it's got no female models in it. It is as far towards the sim side as FPS games get so it takes realism seriously, and it's audience is almost exclusively male, and the people who actually do the things depicted are pretty much exclusively male, so they never put women in it, despite the SJW brownie points they'd presumably have won, and the 0 sales it would have gotten them. The artists and animators spent their time doing stuff that mattered to the people who actually play the game instead.
The only alternative I can think of is Kingdom Come for the developer telling SJWs that no, he will not include blacks in a game about medieval Europe. It's also a few years old at this point, and I never tried the "A Woman's Lot" DLC, so it's possible they caved.
For Best Shooter, Project Wingman. A love letter to a niche genre, executed with soul and creativity.
https://youtu.be/vLwa4I7k6WM
I would almost disagree with this, but then I saw the category list again, and there isn't a better category for this to fall under. I wouldn't normally consider a dogfight flight simulator a shooter.
I was thinking about putting it in the sim category, but it really isn't a simulator. There's no basic flight management whatsoever, and the missiles/weapons are completely different from how they work irl.
Got a link to some gameplay?
It's basically Ace Combat, by a guy who was tired of waiting for another Ace Combat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzpwugUMDBM
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For Best Shooter, I would nominate BPM, Bullets per Minute, it's a "rogue like shooter with rhythm elements". Very creative and fun.
https://youtu.be/V684o6wBaSQ
Incel review of TLOU2 from PCGamer has to win worst article IMO.
As for best shooter, someone already made the Rittenhouse joke. No idea what to nominate, I'll have to think.
May not be have been released this year, but KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE for anti-sjw stance.
It happened in 2021, but I'm putting Tophat here.
God damnit. Okay.
Just wanna post that I've personally enjoyed Nightmare Reaper alot this year.
And why is that?
Gameplay It's one of those new wave of retro shooters that's come out after Dusk, it's a rouge-like shooter where you go through multiple themed levels, leveling up skills to help you and finding weapons and explosives to help you beat the level. You get to keep one weapon you find between levels giving you some choice in how you survive but enough randomness that each area and level feels fresh, even if you're going through a mine themed bunch of levels for instance.
Ep 2 introduced the grapple hook and now has added verticality and bigger maps meaning you can get hurt more often.
it got an Episode 2 this year so it can be up for best Shooter even if it's not finished.