Hades Takes Game Of The Year At 10th Annual New York Game Awards

Wow one of them didn't go for TLOU2. Well done

"Nintendo games weren't widely nominated here, with the exception of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and that took the award for Best Kids Game."

When tf has a kid played Animal Crossing that wasn't from their parents?

@Entrr_username It's a game for all ages (as demonstrated by the adverts) In fact most Animal Crossing players are in their 20s and 30s: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/09/most_animal_crossing_new_horizons_players_are_in_their_20s_and_30s

Seems a bit misinformed and ignorant giving "best kids game" to a game mostly played by adults and aimed at everyone.

Katsuya Eguchi, series creator and one of the developers said of the target audience of the game: “Every person who has a family, friends, boy friend or girl friend, who wants to play merrily with them. And, people who love to play freely, taking good care of their own personalities"

Most kids just play games like Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, Call of Duty and Overwatch according to my niece. She knows hardly anyone else who plays Animal Crossing and says most young people just play games they see a lot on YouTube.

Quick question, is this available physical or download only?

I have been playing alot I made it to the final boss only do die, Its amazing the music the gamplay the characters (Hipnos is my fav btw) its all great 10/10 If you haven't played it you should get it, and if you want to wait for a sale they have thos every now and then. also if this gets a physical I have to buy it agien I just would have to.

Also do you guys think I should use aim assist or turn it off?

@RedRaven723 download only.

@Snatcher thought as much. Thanks.

Gave it a chance! And i must confess, the game blew me away with awesomeness!! Every death and return present something new for the protagonist to talk about. Great story and fluid gameplay. Repetition means nothing when you're playing, it's the best thing to have happened to the game if to say, some may find it off putting. However, you will always comeback stronger than before from each reruns.

Don't worry hypnos will crack you up😁

Glad they cleared that up! I thought animal crossing was a kids game.

@Rpg-lover I know so death was never so bad It is allways fun to get to talk to somwon else every time you die, so I never felt like I lost everything, plus I get to see my boy hypnos says somthing funny.

Nintendo is an institution so these types of awards usually throw out just a token recognition of Nintendo’s latest mastery

@Lord Wrong:

Katsuya Eguchi, series creator and one of the developers said of the target audience of the game: “Every person who has a family, friends, boy friend or girl friend, who wants to play merrily with them. And, people who love to play freely, taking good care of their own personalities"

Don't get me wrong, Hades is undoubtedly a really good game, but it doesn't deserve to win all of them awards, especially not with some of the competition involved.

@Snatcher 😁😁😁😁.. we can never go wrong with hypnos cracking us up😁

Very well deserved if you ask me. Hades is a blast and really pushes Dead Cells all the way as best roguelike on Switch.

@E1000 I’m about 200 hours into Dead Cells and have to agree that it’s the better game. But not by much.

@The_Pixel_King I haven't put to much time into dead cells I played it on PS Now I still need to get it on the switch.

So I sense that dead cells vs hades is coming in the comments but I can't be sure goodnight yall. (For me anyway)

The game deserves it, but never heard of New York Game Awards.

good! it definitely deserves it unlike the rigged of us 2

@Lord certainly appeals to kids but I'm in my 40s and love the series. I started when I was younger and stuck with it, like so many of the good Nintendo properties. I mean, running about as a cartoon plumber in a cartoon cart is (arguably) childish but I love it

I’ve been listening to Stephen Fry’s Mythos, Heroes and Troy on audiobook, they really make you appreciate just how well versed the writers at Supergiant are not only in the original content of the Greek myths but in the themes that they’ve drawn on to write the narrative and interactions in the game. The story of Zagreus as told by Hades wouldn’t be out of place alongside Homer and Ovid, and that’s really saying something.

@Rosona

Maybe they are making up for the way Hades was robbed at the vgas when they gave everything to that whack @** tlou2

@KIRO

So does GTA & games like call of duty
& ghosts of tsushima. Heck, pretty much all the people I know playing Animal Crossing are and well into their twenties and some even 40's. Where is it's like Elementary School looking at or listening to who's playing games like GTA and Call of Duty LOL

@Snatcher Good night my brother!

@E1000 hades is fun because of the variety with boons. Dead cells is also fun. I got it yesterday

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kudos huzzah hooray
Well deserved. This game, for its genre and video games in general, is a masterpiece. From the writing(having 10k+ lines written) to the art(I dont know if I can look at other greek mythos the same). Eurydice is my reason for loving this game. Beautiful melodic Eurydice.

@gameboy1975 heh. Yeah, there's some truth in that for sure!

Finally! Its about time a games award ceremony recognizes a game for being a good game rather than praising a great story or pretty graphics. They have separate categories for that stuff.

Aren't the vast mjority of Animal Crossing players adults?

Richly deserved awards for Hades, if you ask me.

I would say the writing, art, and voicework are absolutely divine, and the gameplay is as satisfying and addicting as any other roguelike I've played, Dead Cells included. For me, it was Supergiant's extra work, the sheer volume of quality writing and acting and the variety of in-game storylines that keep the game so compelling after so many runs. That polish gave Hades the edge over Dead Cells, Enter the Gungeon, and other vastly entertaining games.

I have over 50 clear runthroughs and the game just keeps tempting me back!

Animal Crossing best kids game, when the kids have moved on and the parents are hooked.

Hades definitely deserves the love. Looks like it won best game, music, writing, indie and acting.

For anyone curious, GoT won best world
Alyx won best VR game (probably no surprise there lol)
Genshin won best mobile game
and FF7R won best remake

Also looks like the journalism award went to the story about naughty dog's crunch practices

Where's the physical version?

@Pod

It seems to be that way . Most of the people that I've come across are for sure. I legit have yet to personally find a kid actually playing Animal Crossing. The people that I know or have come across have been anywhere from mid 20's to even like 50 years old or so.

@gameboy1975
Roughly the same experience for me. ^^
And that's throughout the entire lifespan of the series.

For a game where you can basically beat it by spamming the splash dash I’m aghast at this constant adulation.