Board 8 > Giant Bomb 2017: Official Brad Appreciation Topic

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Worst time of year for this!
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https://twitter.com/bradshoemaker/status/934954610124496896
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Oh shit is Dan gonna be the enemy this time?

This week's Beastcast he seems to reaaaaaally hate that it's getting traction.

Abby seems down on it too, for all the wrong reasons.
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Also this is gonna be the third year in a row where Dan wants his happy cheery music in Best Music and is gonna get shut down.

Nobody but him is gonna fight for Odyssey there, lol.
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Glory to Bradkind.
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brad is an agent of chaos
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Nier is going all the way to the top three
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when I finished Automata last week my first reaction was "this is the MGS2 of this generation" so Dan is being dumb
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I really need to beat Nier before the podcasts
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ninkendo posted...

when I finished Automata last week my first reaction was "this is the MGS2 of this generation" so Dan is being dumb

2B not a cool enough dude for Dan
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somehow everyone's votes are going to veto eachother out and everyone picks Destiny 2 as a compromise

Brad in for the long con
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LapisLazuli posted...

Also this is gonna be the third year in a row where Dan wants his happy cheery music in Best Music and is gonna get shut down.

Nobody but him is gonna fight for Odyssey there, lol.

To be serious though you're really underestimating Odyssey for music. Everyone loves it. That could easily be top three. It will be tight this year though.

Oh and if PUBG is ineligible which it likely will be based on all they've said, GOTY is looking like the unlikely match of Nier vs. Mario. Didn't see that one coming.
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For Best Music I would hope Ben and Alex come prepared to at least push Persona 5 to the one award it deserves
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I think Mario wins regardless of PUBG's eligibility. It's the only game that everyone on the staff has strong positive feelings for.
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i can see a world where Jeff, Brad, and Vinny all decide to get behind Nier just to spite Dan
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in this year of amazing games where each one of them has at least one thing they're super passionate about, i really don't see mario winning. it'll be #2 at best. dan, its biggest fan, will 99% have it as his #3 behind zelda and pubg. no one is passionate for it the way some of them are for pubg, for zelda, and for nier. jeff made it point a last year that he'd rather reward stuff that people are in love with rather than games most, if not everybody, "merely" likes. it'd be the safest, most by committee winner, and i think jeff won't be for that. this ain't 2014!

only way i can see mario winning is if they all get tired arguing whether or not nier deserves to be over zelda and mario or if pubg should be considered at all.

which hey may be a real possibility!

but also hell yeah the fact that fucking nier automata having a shot at the top at all in this excellent year is just very good. love mgs but goddamn brad's burn is nuclear. dan sucks at making arguments, which is made all the more apparent come goty time, and he's going to run up against mr. filibuster shoemaker himself when nier gets brought up, not to mention alex, ben, jason, and probably vinny and jeff too.

gonna be up to abby, but i can see her conceding this because it's still her first time and she might be burnt out by that point!
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I think you're underestimating how much they all like Mario (and overestimating how much some of them like Zelda!)

This doesn't seem like a case of "well I guess no one hates it". They all genuinely seem to really like Odyssey based on their conversations on the podcasts over the past month.
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I also feel like we're overestimating PUBG's spot here. A lot of them fell off of it after they won and are never playing it again

in words that made me want to vomit Abby said she would rather play Destiny 2 over PUBG
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the one thing working in Mario's favour is that it came out like 6 weeks before deliberations, so Jeff hasn't had the opportunity to pull the "I got what I wanted out of that game and now I never want to touch it again" card that he plays every year.
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ninkendo posted...

Abby said she would rather play Destiny 2 over PUBG

abby knows what's up
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I got what I wanted out of Destiny 2 and now I never want to touch it again.
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curse of osiris next week get hype
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I think Horizon Zero Dawn is gonna be top 3 on Jeff's list, where it ends up on the site's list is beyond me, but I feel confident with predicting that placement on Jeff's list
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all i've heard about the new destiny dlc is how underwhelming it is and how nobody is playing it anymore. the first two dlcs for destiny 1 were pretty bad too
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all I know is it's #1 on Rorie's list

but he's not really part of this
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being underwhelmed is the whole reason I play destiny in the first place
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SgtSphynx posted...

I think Horizon Zero Dawn is gonna be top 3 on Jeff's list, where it ends up on the site's list is beyond me, but I feel confident with predicting that placement on Jeff's list

I wouldn't be so sure. Every time that game's come up in the past few months, all Jeff ever says is how much he hates the post-credits scene and how he never wants to play it again
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sounds like jeff got what he wanted out of horizon
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Nier Automata spoilers.

I think we're gonna see deleting your save in Automata come up for best moment arguments after Jeff sneaked it in to conversation without actually spoiling it, and I don't know if there's gonna be anyone there who knows that they already did that in the first game.
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I think Peter Brown mentioned that when he was discussing the ending on the Bombcast after Nier came out.

I doubt anyone retained that info, though.
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yeah peter let that shit out of the bag like it just some casual conversation piece

that guy is the real villain
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We've had some real bad spoiler moments in GB history.

I quit playing Final Fantasy Type-0 7 hours in and sold it because some guest woman was heading the Quick Look and spoiled the entirety of the plot with zero warning in the first minute of the quick look.

I was so pissed off.
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fwiw when peter dropped that bomb i was even more excited to finish automata

embrace the spoilers
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LapisLazuli posted...

We've had some real bad spoiler moments in GB history.

I quit playing Final Fantasy Type-0 7 hours in and sold it because some guest woman was heading the Quick Look and spoiled the entirety of the plot with zero warning in the first minute of the quick look.

I was so pissed off.

lmao I remember this because I NEVER read the comments on Quick Looks, but somehow did for this one and thanked my lucky stars.
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to be fair I've completley forgotten everything she said so whenever I do play Type-0 it won't be a big deal
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Peter Brown is going to be even more of a villain when he's the only person to give Xenoblade 2 a middling review!

Anyway, Mario seems like the game everybody can agree on. Dan and possibly Abby will try to block Nier, Jeff will try to block Zelda, PUBG may not even count, but I can't see anybody trying to block Mario.
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iiicon posted...

the one thing working in Mario's favour is that it came out like 6 weeks before deliberations, so Jeff hasn't had the opportunity to pull the "I got what I wanted out of that game and now I never want to touch it again" card that he plays every year.

this is hilarious, I love these
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All right ultimate final prediction:

1-Super Mario Odyssey
2-Nier
3-Zelda
4-Cuphead
5-Horizon
6-Destiny 2
7-Wolfenstein 2
8-Night in the Woods
9-Steamworld Dig 2
10-Pyre

However, I've never been correct about what game wins Giant Bomb goty #1. Pretty sure this year though, because Mario has the enthusiasm, and everyone generally loves it, and there are not many obvious arguments against it.

Nier has the enthusiasm but too many problems that even Alex readily agrees with (environments, gameplay, length).

Zelda definitely 3rd I think, Dan will save energy for Mario, and Jeff and Ben really dislike it, and there are too many easy arguments against it (even though IMO it's maybe best game of all time).

Fairly confident about Cuphead 4th. The rest, meh, did my best.

I really hope Nier doesn't win, because I always feel embarrassed when games win goty for mostly story alone, makes me feel embarrassed for games as a medium, like they're "just another storytelling medium but worse".
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I think PUBG gets a Top 5 slot (assuming it counts). Even if everyone stopped playing it, they still raved about it for months.

Also going to predict Super Mario Odyssey takes the top spot.
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I could see Cuphead getting 3rd or even 2nd depending on how vicious a potential Nier vs. Zelda battle could get.
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I would love to see Nier or Cuphead at number one

fuck a dumb mario
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i distinctly remember ben and abby saying they really enjoyed mario but it didn't really stick with them. ben's got nier in his heart and abby's got night in the woods. it's very easy for me to imagine jeff, brad, and vinny saying "it's great but it's another one of those" for mario.

alex might surprise and support it getting high up in the list because he's that sad boy who just wants the happy games to be rewarded. but i think if he feels it in the air that nier might have a shot at #1, he knows inside his soul that he has to do everything to get it there.

jason also likes it, but i wouldn't be surprised if he also ends up throwing his support for nier if the momentum is there! it's either that or nioh that'll be his personal goty!

jan says he really likes mario, but i don't think he'll be making much impact this year. next year, sure, when he's all settled in.

that leaves dan, and he will be torn between backing it, zelda, or pubg. and again, he is not good at arguing. he can be wily with throwing support behind a cause, but he just can't be the one leading the charge. and that will doom mario... to at worst #3 on the overall list.

zelda, even though no one really comes close to dan's love for it, will get the "respect" support for reinventing/returning zelda to its roots. them old guys who've seen it all love that shit.
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Predix

Abby blocks nier from doing well in these awards.
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iiicon posted...

the one thing working in Mario's favour is that it came out like 6 weeks before deliberations, so Jeff hasn't had the opportunity to pull the "I got what I wanted out of that game and now I never want to touch it again" card that he plays every year.

Jeff is getting there!
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all aboard the nier train
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Looking forward to seeing what Brad's Nier trump card is.
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Oh man they're actually doing a live HQ game on the Bombcast.
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PUBG: officially considered for 2017 GOTY.
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added to the list just to say their piece and then take it off
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