The Game Awards nominees revealed: MEA gets ZERO nominations

I would disagree because of TES series. Pretty much everyone has unique stories about skyrim (usually due to a comedy of errors).  BotW was only an amazing zelda/nintendo game not an amazing game. If you view it outside the lens of Nintendo games it doesn't hold up as well. Its still really fun and well designed but I think divinity 2 will beat a lot of the games when it comes to rpg elements.

Lol, I'll butt in here, but I've no idea what you two are smoking out there. 

The game that did move sandbox/OW games forward and was horrendously overlooked ( that big enough word? astronomically?) is Mount and Blade ( series).

"Freedom" in either Zelda or Skyrim is extremely shallow...go ahead and run in whatever direction. Zelda has physics and far more interaction with the world, Skyrim has more quests/npcs and locations...but it's only a "choice" of do it now, do it later, or don't do it all.

In M&B character build, world and factions, economy, dynamic events, reputation and relationships...are all closely connected and interact with one another. You can have drastically different experience, who will be your friend or rival, if you change only one of it's "building blocks".

You're right I completely forgot about mount and blade existing because A: I never played it and B: its pretty outdated. From what I understand of it is that its character driven with little story. Most games are about a good story not RPing a character in the world that's given to you. That said though, I have a new game to play xD

It's especially useful when it comes to Sundance stuff. If it was the best pick at Sundance, I know not to see it, because it'll probably be paint-drying-ly boring. 

When all previous entries not only was nominated for awards, but won many of them, including RPG of the Year/Best Writing/GOTY, that sort of sets a standard and expectations....things that ALL businesses adhere to. If the New England Patriots, Duke/UNC/Kentuky NCAA Basketball teams, Alabama NCAA Football and Golden State Warriors do not win a championships this season, it would be a disappointment to the fans/owners/staff and it would be considered a failed season? Why? Because all those mentioned teams have in the past years set a standard that they are championship calibur teams and that is the new expectation. However a team like the Cleveland Browns, who hasn't made the playoffs in ages, simply making the playoff is considered a highly successful season despite not winning the championship while the Patriots just making the playoffs is considered the norm and nothing really to celebrate.

So when the past 3 ME titles, all received industry recognition (through awards) to include GOTY, it is kind of expected that MEA is held to the same standard, wouldn't you agree? And when MEA fails to live up to that standard, isn't that an obvious diversion from the standard that has been set by ME1, ME2, and ME3? 

Again, you can hedge on this and blow it off all you want because you know this isn't the most positive look for MEA and of course you enjoyed the game so by default, you are going to defend it. But defend it all you want and ignore the who awards all you want because there is nothing that I can or will do to convince you. All I will say is what I have always said, that from a PR and Marketing perspective, these are things that publishers care about and things they look at (including sales and review scores) when making decisions to green light sequel projects such as MEA2. 

Now Overwatch is the king!

Friggin MacCready of Fallout 4 has more naughty tumblr/rule34 content than the Andromeda characters. And a lot of people hated that mofo. Just wow. Oh and don't bring Paladin Danse into the picture, never thought i'd see the day where a male companion has more artwork than the females. Also never thought i'd see the day Bethesda companions would get more artwork than Bioware's. And a lot of it is legit quality. Look at these portraits of Danse and Nick.




We get nothing like that for Andromeda comps. There's not even one of rule34 of Liam, that's how you know he really is the most hated ha.

Try again.

So people who disagree are offended? 

What a strange thing to be worried about.

it's about inspiring your audience to their own creative endeavours, lol.
And common, this is BSN, there are way weird-er things going on about in romance discussion threads.

NieR: Automata should win best score hands down.