Mario Golf: Super Rush Wins DICE's Sports Game Of The Year Award

I should go back to the game. I played for a few weeks after launch and moved on. Congrats for the hole in one Nintendo! Is the multiplayer still active?

It must have been a pretty slow year.

LOL this game? Was the rest just outright garbage?

Not to say this is a bad game but it's a far cry over the quality the series used to have. That's sad. Oh well. Congrats Nintendo!

Well when your competition is madden, it isn’t hard to win

@Yosher Yeah, basically. FIFA and NBA 2K are just MTX distribution platforms at this point. Rider's Republic got decent reviews, but no one played it.

@Silly_G Nintendo will probably get it next year too thanks to Switch Sports or Strikers.

Imagine if they released a new 1080.

Yep, keep imagining.
Although Strikers is making a comeback............

@Wilforce exactly what I came to say

Not much competition to lose to there Mario but well done.

Good to see unite is still doing well. Definitely meant for a phone though since aiming is endlessly better on it than on switch.

Interesting, I thought it was pretty lifeless.

Been playing this since launce, awesome golf game that's easy to get into...

@judaspete did it sell so badly (I figured i would wait for the first sale to buy it, and that was within the month, so that might have been a hint).. Nice game though, although it's predecessor Steep had more charm with mythical mountain stories...

@Mario_is_a_Pratt In my experience the multiplayer is still active, but mostly only for button controls. If I choose motion controls I wait and wait for other randoms to be added to the room. But this is for ranked. In the regular online multiplayer (the multiplayer that's been available since launch) I don't know because I always choose ranked.
I play it every week or two and still like it a lot.
It's so funny- I've still never even started the single player game mode. I'm sure I'll like it, but I always just jump into online multiplayer.

I mean it was a decent outing of Mario Golf once the DLC came, but I don't think it was award winning quality. Still, fair play, well done.

(Man, I wouldn't mind the Ratchet and Clank games on the Switch)

Because of its low MetaCritic score, I was going to skip this, but since it won an award at a big award show, as with Mario Tennnis Aces before it, it goes on the wish list!

Wow, it certainly won an award for me last year: Biggest Disappointment of 2021. Maybe they got the category confused.

Metroid Dread wasn't nominated for any of these Dice awards? Weird.

@BTB20 That was my reaction!

@BTB20 Yes it was nominated in action game of the year and lost to Halo Infinite .

@BTB20 Only one and that's action game of the year which was won by Halo Infinite.

I've played a good deal of this game and have never once felt like I was experiencing game-of-the-year fun. It's not bad, but I wish Nintendo wouldn't receive this type of negative reinforcement, particularly with regard to the game being incomplete when it released. Sheesh.

@120frames-please Same here. I only play motion controls, and I'm rarely matched against a human opponent. And yet there's still that silly three-minute wait.

What is DICE and why should we care about their list?

@Specter_of-the_OLED Oh I missed that. Right.

@Pascalkw It's a developer conference so it's awarded from a development perspective rather than just a player/journalist.

I think with the Speed Golf, Battle Golf, Cross Country Golf. Golf Boss Battles. They've done quite a lot of new ideas in Super Rush for a genre that's rather stagnant.

What does DICE stand for?

@Burning_Spear I forgive Nintendo for releasing Mario Golf incomplete at launch.
1. Before launch they announced free DLC with extra courses (and coming soon).
2. Mario Golf feels like a good summer game (for those of us above the equator).
3. Sept-Dec already had a busy release schedule (WarioWare, Dread, SMT V, the new Mario Party, Big Brain, etc.).

I do agree, though. Glad it got nominated, but not sure it should have won.

@Freek @AzzyC @Wilforce Strikers may also have some competition with Switch Sports!

Are we getting Sports Story in 2022???

Weak year for sport games. Mario Golf is terrible.

@Tandy255 I played Switch Sports demo, and it´s too weak game. The old Kinect Sports is better than Switch Sports. Wii Sports Resort is much better than this game. The gameplay is still too superfluous, no skill involved. Unfortunatly, cause i was too happy with this game. It´s not in my wish list anymore.

"Family Game of the Year
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise
Cozy Grove
Mario Party Superstars
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - WINNER
Warioware: Get it Together"

Weird.
For me: Warioware Get it Together is the winner.

Cool.

I enjoyed this game, when it first came out the fiancée and I would play it all the time online, with her mom and sister. I still play it on occasion, though not nearly as much as I did last year.

I'm convinced It takes two would not have won this if it hadn't won actual Goty, people just realize it's worth now.

Also is Ratchet and Clank two player? It won family game but if it is co-op I didn't know haha

I thought it was really poor. I enjoyed playing through story mode, but it felt very quick and ended abruptly. I've then found very little reason to revisit. Golf games should be pick up and play fun, but this really, really wasn't. It's not a terrible game... but this award says a whole lot more about the competition than it does Mario Golf.

@Tandy255 "Free DLC" is double-talk for, "We couldn't finish the game on time but want the revenue now so pay us full now and we'll deliver the rest later." It's the new way the gaming industry treats us like suckers. The real-world analogy: I went out for lunch yesterday, bought a cup of soup. They said they had no bread or crackers but they would send them today.

How did this top Riders Republic??

@Burning_Spear For most games, I would agree. For Mario Golf, waiting for fall (when the final update was released), it would have been overshadowed by other releases.

By announcing the DLC before launch, at least consumers could decide to buy it or wait for reviews of the DLC. It isn’t ideal, but I appreciate the open communication.

@Dr_Lugae Thanks! That makes sense.

@Silly_G it was. 2021 ,because of lockdowns, was development hell. That is why we got so many ports of old games. Really bad year for gaming but one easily forgotten going forward.