When will people realize that virtually all video games conventions & awards are effectively (third-party) advertisement agencies... You pay, you play, simple.
I mean not really? I believe there are more than 5 mobile games that has a booth in Gamescom this year, so out of all of them (like 10~15), they nominate the best 5 to have a contest and create engagement. So just because you pay to get a booth there it doesn't mean you will get nominated, it's just the scope of this awards is only for the games that is there at Gamescom.
Could be that company behind Silver Palace "well spent" their funds to put game there. Now part of the players spam comments "why it's here" while other part start googling what this game about.
Paid nominations and they need to be there on the location to be nominated, hence why some games arent nominated like Wuwa. Its basically an Ad for Silver palace
I still cant play it so I dont really care if its good? Ill leave a 5 star review when I get my hands on it. I dont think a game that most people cant play deserves the best mobile game from an objective point of view.
So from what I read, these games will submit gameplay footage, which will be evaluated by jury.
IMO this is flawed - imagine judging them based on whatever videos they submit instead of playing it hands on (though I understand it might take some time)
People really didn't learn shit about how easy it is for someone to just make a CGI video that looks good and make it pass as gameplay? This is the most flawed system for an award I have seen wtf
This is the stupidest shit I've read. The idea of video game award show is already bad, but judging the game from a video instead of actually playing them is a billion times worse. Did they already forgot how massive the discrepancy between Cyberpunk 2077 early trailers and the actual release?
It's playable at the booths. So this is the [Best game you can play at Gamescom's booth this year] list. I have experience with ZZZ demo before and I don't think they will change it, but I wonder if they will bring a new demo for Genshin this year, with Snezhnaya and the new shooting gamemode.
At the very least I do note most of the ones who got nominated have playable betas. I also do note that gacha games weren't the only ones pulling this stunt (Highguard IIRC), and that the awards did actually move to prevent gacha titles from participating because otherwise they'll dominate all the time. :X
who knows - either they simply did not enter (they actually need to pay money) ... or might be that the requirements being asked is not met (they need to submit a detailed gameplay footage). If what we see during the livestream is nothing but another 2-minute trailer and there's no booth for people to play it then that's basically it (they don't have gameplay to show)
Nah, I think Ananta is still far away from release. WWM is there, they are both Netease games. Netease thinks it's a waste of money when it's far from release. While Silver Palace just ended their 2nd CBT and they are near to be release.
In fact, the awards in these kind of conventions almost always go to unreleased games. It is the other games being the exceptions, somewhat understandable due to the nature of being a long term service like games
Given what happened to the Japan region I kind of expected this.
The powercreep argument is overrated considering ZZZ is also quite guilty of it. A lot of the flak it's receiving is agenda based too. Eh, it already got there and was in ZZZ's place previously, so nevermind.
Reasonable, but only if people still continue to use said best 1.0 support in the game. (Spoiler: not exactly, contrast Bennett from Genshin, she got outmoded the moment Rupture hit.)
Mobile play has been rough for season 3. Especially the recent weekly addition called Operation bagel which is can really make the game chug for mobile.
I love HSR but the game is toxic as hell. The powercreep and the fact with every update you need to build a new team because old characters become almost useless. And not only that but new content requieres specific mechanics from characters in the current banner and old character with that mechanic are too outdated to work.
You need to pull 4 characters for a team and their respective light cones because signature LC are significantly better than any option.
Yeah HSR used to be my favorite gacha and I was a whale but I usually like spending in games because I like the characters, not because I feel forced to get the extra copies and the LC and the premium teammates etc... was baited a few times and decided no more, the game keeps getting more and more predatory.
I still play HSR and the balance in that game is the most dogshit thing I've ever experienced. You can get the character, their weapons and their teammates and there's a 50/50 chance they'll be worthless in less than a year. That's what happened to my Herta and Aglaea, the two dps characters I invested in during 3.x
HSR has such good characters but they become useless so fast ToT. In Arknights there is a noticeable powercreep but you can still use any old operator you like to use in new content and is not like you need to build an entire team to keep up. In HSR in other hard... powercreep is too fast it feels asphyxiating.
Still I play HSR but I totally ignore some content like Arbitration or The hardest floors of the MOC, PF and AS. It's so stressful seeing my heavily invested teams being absolute dogshit on those modes
Not like HSR would even deserve the spot with bare-minimum updates, atrocious powercreep and brain-numbing gameplay. It's not a game anymore, it's visual novel that updates once every 6 weeks. I pray they put The Herta in their next game so I can E6 her again and hopefully this time she wont become obsolete half a year later.
Silver Palace don't count as it hasn't came out. I haven't really heard anything much of Where Winds Meet. Zenless has a great 3.X, but did suffer in poor plot in 2.X
So for me it is either Endfield or Genshin. I say it is Genshin. Endfield is niche enough that not many play it. And Genshin's Nod Krai season was really good.
I haven't really heard anything much of Where Winds Meet
A decent wuxia game. Gameplay similar to all the other 3d gacha games in terms of open world exploration, mini-games and storytelling but you have 1 customizable MC and combat tries to mimic Sekiro - heavily parry-based. You have several weapon sets and mystic skills that you can equip similar to Wolf's prosthetics. There's a cosmetic gacha and an MTX shop with additional costumes, plenty of cheap ones. I will go into detail on the game's issues, but personally I prefer this game over stuff like WuWa because parry-based combat is much more engaging to me while boss fights tend to be fun or challenging. I hate the VFX vomit or cutscene-like gameplay that a lot of gacha games end up with, but no such issue with this combat.
A lot of social systems and an actual multiplayer - group fights similar to FFXIV's trials (5 and 10man), PvP and GvG. Plenty of other activities that work in multiplayer too, most of the open world exploration, events, additional social systems like marriage, all that kind of jazz.
As for faults, there are some huge glaring issues. Translation is horrible and it will have you scatching your head plenty of times, even when trying to figure out what buff supports which weapon skill and such. I joke often that it was translated by Grok with little to no supervision. Game's engine can sometimes look like it's fueled by developers' dreams and hopes to keep it all together and there are occasional visual hiccups like disappearing buildings or LOD issues. It may run like shit on console. UI and UX are absolutely terrible and learning to navigate them is a skill on its own. Doesn't help that game doesn't teach you all that well how to upgrade your stuff while leveling.
Why is this chainsaw madwoman from Fortnite advertising for a niche game like Endfield? Is there going to be a collab soon? Would we finally be getting a limited physical striker wielding chainsaw?
ZZZ has seen steady growth starting from 2.7, so here you do not even need to take 3.x and beyond - just the last two episodes of season 2.
Nevertheless, yes - competing with GI here is difficult.
I saw the tweet from Gachasmack, and while it does make sense that SP is there because it's presenting itself, I still find it kinda phony.
There's really very little feedback on this game, the devs can very easily showcase a trailer that sells more than it promises. Not saying SP is a bad game, but in general things like these are just not very honest to me.
Those awards are never honest anyway. Even TGA is a clown circus everyone feels forced to participate in due to how much money and attention it can garner but one shouldn't take the results as sacred gaming texts.
LOL, the people that are mad at this list are so funny. It's the list of best Mobile games that are presented at this year's Gamescom's avenue, so it make perfect sense silver palace is on there. This happened last year too and some people are still surprised.
I don't know, aside from SP which is not released yet I've played all these games, and personally, my opinion would be: Genshin 6 and 7 patch is very strong but the game already get its award, so i don't know if it gonna get again. ZZZ is good but the 2.x kinda bad, though the later 2.x and 3.x is better, the game also haven't got an award yet so it can be a contender. En field, i don't think i would choose it, from game play to story, it kinda lost its soul from original Arknight.
The one i would choose is WWM. The game is very good with story, lore and even gameplay. The only thing i would criticize is that after clearing the PVE contents( which is very good if you like wuxia), the game would eventually become heavy pvp focused. So you either clear all contents as veterans and login every once in a while when new content hit or becomes a sweaty pvp player ( which, ironically, just as similar as these gacha games)
In reality PvP has always been more reliable to sustain the playerbase compared to any PvE endgame, even raids. At least it's not like PvP is mandatory in any way, you can completely ignore it and just have fun with the world casually like I do.
Silver Palace!? Correct if I’m wrong but that game hadn’t even released yet, no? And looking at it’s graphic, I don’t think it will perform that well on mobile, unless the devs can pull some tricks up their sleeve.
I didn't.
But that's because I didn't even know this event took place last year, I don't care about it enough to keep up with its news. Awards like this one are all rigged and have no value.
1) We have no confirmation of how it will work on the average mobile device, which varies from region to region.
2) ts isn't even releases yet. This simply means that no true player could've nominated it. The mobile gaming community, therefore played no role here. It was def paid.
I’m sorry it’s objectively Genshin
I know some of yall hate genshin for not having a few QoL
But Nodkrai story in my opinion is better than some 70$ AAA game stories I have experienced and the moon map in the last patch just tops it all
Sorry if I offended anyone by simply saying this lol
Nod-Krai also ended on some very high notes. The Frost Moon map was EPIC, and the way they handled the new Elemental Reactions by turning them into buffs for older, underappreciated characters was another big plus.
Whether it gets this award or not, I've already experienced a lotta Ws as a Genshin player so I can't complain.
Silver Palace ain't even out yet are you fucking kidding me. Also can we stop nominating old mobile games for this category and showcase more new releases like holy shit.
Specifically for mobile? Between Genshin and AKE methink. I don't play WWM so I can't comment and Silver Palace is also still in beta. ZZZ is dogshit on mobile. Both Genshin and AKE (only played to 1.0 though) are very well-optimized in mobile compared to ZZZ.
Presumably these titles will be playable at Gamescom and will be judged accordingly.
This of it less like a GoTY award that can go to any game every released within the last year, but more like a film festival award where that award can go to anything that's shown there.
The award show is paid entry for attending games only.
This looks all over the place. I'd estimate that 30-40% of all the nominated games across all categories are still months away from releasing. Voting starts on the 26th and the award show is just 2 days later?
Anyways, I bet that some clueless judges on the panel are going to make the mistake of voting for Endfield.
I feel like where winds meet in the category is such a funny thing in middle of like all 2D anime games. And suddenly bam, you get to experience a dramatized version of famine, political assassination, economic conspiracy that happen in real history during early Song dynasty 🤣
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u/Mortgage-Present This is a cry for help 8d ago
What in the world is silver palace doing here