never even heard of this, tbh.
Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024
Submitted 4 months ago by zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.polygon.com/game-awards-tga/495359/game-of-the-year-2024-tgas-winner
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Nima@leminal.space 4 months ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 months ago
It’s Mario Galaxy at home on PS5.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It was good of Sony to bribe enough people to bring it to your attention.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 4 months ago
I’m hoping this lights a fire under devs’ asses and reminds them that the platformer genre exists. I’ve played a few recent indie platformers that were decent but I’d love to see the genre get some love from bigger studios (other than Nintendo).
The only recent one I can think of that fits that bill is Yooka Laylee and that game was doodoo.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Damn, is this game that good?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
As a game? Astrobot is a VERY solid and polished platformer.
But mostly it is the nostalgia and target demographic. If you ever had a PS1 or PS2 growing up then you will have insane amounts of nostalgia for all the costumes and easter eggs while not realizing most are from the late PS3/early PS4 anyway.
So… it is basically a modern Nintendo game. Others do platforming and level design better. But only this has the excessive amount of references to nu-God of War and rare reference to Jumping Flash that makes your heart remember the happy times.
RiQuY@lemm.ee 4 months ago
PS5 exclusive, no idea how that won a GOTY award.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It won by being a well-made, fun game. That’s really all there is. Exclusivity limits audience but it doesn’t affect quality.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just bought it used for $45. Started 5 hours ago, now time to sleep, then play again.
It is a better super Mario game. The difficulty is a bit higher I think, there’s some platforming where I thought like “ain’t no way some of my friends would get this first try”
I love it,
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How does it compare to something like Sackboy?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have not played it myself but what I’ve seen of it looks at the very least polished and made with care. That being said there just wasn’t that much competition this year. The industry is overshadowed with mass layoffs and a smaller budget pool. And yes, of course some good games released, but nothing in the ballpark of a Baldur’s Gate 3 or GTA 5.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 months ago
John Linneman from digital foundry said the game reminded him of why he loves games after all the AAA slop and UE5 games they’ve been through. Up there in quality with the Mario games.
jerakor@startrek.website 4 months ago
It’s a 100% perfect addition to THE core combat light puzzle platformer games. It also has an age range of 0-99 by both having cute jokes and references that would appeal to older folks while never being even remotely offensive.
Also yea, what else was there? Closest was make Wukong which primarily crushed the market because it again proved that the new or smaller studios can absolutely give a better AAA experience than the big studios these days by focusing on delivering a game not a storefront
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I have played Astro’s Playroom, and it is fun, especially the boss fights.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I dunno. I did play a VR version with that character and it was very creative and fun.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I know it’s a game journalism circlejerk so I shouldn’t have expectations but I’m still disappointed by this year’s choices overall.
Maven@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Damn :/ I was rooting for Balatro
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Balatro is really fun until it pisses you off because of a bullshit draw and you stop playing for months…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
It’s fun until you close the shop and realize what the boss is and can’t reopen the shop lol.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Will Astro’s Playroom or Astro Bot run on an emulator yet?
I would consider buying one or both of them if ported to PC, but somehow I suspect that’s unlikely to happen.
ieightpi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wish I could play it without a ps5
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Steam in 3 years.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 months ago
You can emulate Mario Galaxy.
60fpsrefugee@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Bro, if it comes to pc and we mod the heck out of it, putting in PC parts, it would be glorious.