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Dulfite said:

Did not see that fighter category going that way. I thought Brawl had it in the bag.

I thought Guilty Gear would have 70% of the votes lol. Brawl just looks so generic to me.



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Good year. I loved Ratchet, Dread, Deathloop, Psycho and Demon. Deathloop in particular hasn't gotten enough attention, it was something else.



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Machina said:

Next article - Best Action Game of 2021

I was a little surprised the winner here performed better in this genre than its other genre, but I suppose the competition wasn't quite as high in this category.

It wasn't completely one-sided though - in the end the gap between first and second was just over 12%.

Two high profile game leaving no room for an indie like Death's Door. It is a good problem to have too many good games



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Machina said:

Best RPG of 2021 is next. 

The top three were all incredibly close here - 1st achieved 15.76%, 2nd place got 15.28%, and 3rd wasn't far behind on 14.11%.

Surprisingly it's not the closest result this year; that one is still to come.

Surprised MonHun ended in this category, but it is the age old question what qualifies as RPG. I would've put MonHun as action game. In either case, all contestants were more than worthy, so the close results are no surprise.



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Mnementh said:
Machina said:

Best RPG of 2021 is next. 

The top three were all incredibly close here - 1st achieved 15.76%, 2nd place got 15.28%, and 3rd wasn't far behind on 14.11%.

Surprisingly it's not the closest result this year; that one is still to come.

Surprised MonHun ended in this category, but it is the age old question what qualifies as RPG. I would've put MonHun as action game. In either case, all contestants were more than worthy, so the close results are no surprise.

Google says it's an ARPG. There are certain RPG elements, it's just not what most people would think of first when thinking about RPGs. Apparently Astral Chain is also an RPG.



Kakadu18 said:
Mnementh said:

Surprised MonHun ended in this category, but it is the age old question what qualifies as RPG. I would've put MonHun as action game. In either case, all contestants were more than worthy, so the close results are no surprise.

Google says it's an ARPG. There are certain RPG elements, it's just not what most people would think of first when thinking about RPGs. Apparently Astral Chain is also an RPG.

Well, we could put Borderlands as an RPG, it has Skill-Trees

Many genres incorporated some light RPG elements. Well, one of these days I may write a thread about RPGs, starting with a definition. And then everyone can disagree how I define it.



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Kakadu18 said:
Mnementh said:

Surprised MonHun ended in this category, but it is the age old question what qualifies as RPG. I would've put MonHun as action game. In either case, all contestants were more than worthy, so the close results are no surprise.

Google says it's an ARPG. There are certain RPG elements, it's just not what most people would think of first when thinking about RPGs. Apparently Astral Chain is also an RPG.

I would never put Astral Chain in the RPG category. Not sure what I'd classify the police work section as but the core gameplay is hack and slash (with the likes of DMC, Bayo and God of War)



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Machina said:

Best Adventure Game of 2021

Some quite varied voting here, with the top 4 all getting over 10% of the overall vote (and the 5th only just shy of it). Only one game managed to breach the 20% mark though...

Which game was 5th?



Machina said:
Kakadu18 said:

Which game was 5th?

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12 Minutes, although it performed better in the Puzzle category.

Heard some good (and some bad) things about that game.