Astro Bot Blasts Past Elden Ring, Currently 2024's Highest-Rated Release

Deserved for Astro Bot! Shadow of the Erdtree was overrated by a pretty incredible margin for what was a 7/10 DLC.

I would really like to see AstroBot win the game of the year award. Sure, the Elden Ring DLC was awesome, but the game had its recognition and deservedly so last year, so it would be fair for another game to get a chance at this years award. I think the idea of a DLC winning Game of the Year is crazy though.. When The Last of Us Part 2 won the award a few years ago, by this years thinking, the game could have had a second bite at the award when the Grounded DLC was released, and that is just plain ridiculous thinking. What next, NG+ taking the award? 😅

Unrelated but y’all need to play UFO 50 if it ever gets on PlayStation. It is so creative, ambitious, fun and well made. The fact that Black Myth Wukong got a direction nomination over it is actually criminal.

@Deoxyr1bose I wish it was out on Playstation it sounds great. Heck, Animal Well, Lorelei, Prince of Persia etc were all better options.

Balatro better. (i still need to play Astro Bot and it looks wonderful)

Astro Bot is my pick for GOTY from all the games nominated, but my GOTY is Sonic x Shadow Generations. Still mad it got 0 nominations.

Astrobot is the 5th game in the series that uses alot of Nintendo's previous ideas and Elden ring DLC should not be up for game of the year.

I loved Astro Bot from start to finish. It's a reminder that games are meant to be fun and few games are as fun as Astro Bot is. Superb. 100% my game of the year

Well deserved for Astro Bot and i honestly don't care that much if the game didn't win GotY at TGA.

But at least Astro Bot already proved to SIE higher ups that they doesn't always need to chase live service trend or spend hundreds of millions to create a well received and beloved game who also sold well.

@trev666 What are these "Nintendo ideas" that Astro Bot used and why Nintendo didn't copyright it so they can used it to sue Sony, just like they did with Palworld?

@MeanBeanEgg I’d say that remasters in general shouldn’t be up for these things but there’s a high chance that a DLC will win… so why not.

@Deoxyr1bose Yeah, UFO50 is definitely one of the best games released this year.

Astro Bot fully deserves that rating as well, for me personally it was a better platformer than Mario has been for years, just sheer joy to play.

@trev666 Astrobot is the 5th game in the series

There's been 2 tech demos and two games, get it right atleast.

It's a really fun game so I totally get it! I couldn't stop smiling while playing it, except for that one super difficult level, then I was not smiling, at all. Overall great game! Highly recommended.

@UltimateOtaku91

the playroom
the playroom VR
astrobot rescue mission
astros playroom
astrobot

get it right at least

As much as not into Elden Ring eh Astro Bot to me just isn't it even as a platformer fan I hate it and what it offers, like Rift Apart I hate what it stands for for either studios.

As if remakes aren't a sign IP/branding over quality/actual design, emotionally stupidity comes to mind and whatever nonsense ways for people to get what their bad messaging is.

Akimbot is just as Ratchet/Jak inspired boring. As 5th gen inspired Indies are. Empty, basics, no stand out, can't even match their inspiration because not skilled and that's fine. But when B and AA grades are more reachable for inspiration too and they make bland games still that's when I get annoyed I can do research and be inspired to not copy paste but get ideas from seeing what other games do. That's why I get annoyed.

If a nostalgia milking game gets a level design award I know people are a joke there. You want old games tribute level design to be a sign of a level design award, what sorto message does that give journalists a bad one.

I am broad in my genres playing and 2024 sucks. I beat 20 old games and one modern one being Splatoon 2. I beat platformers of 6th gen, shooters of 7th gen, and many more.

When I seek mechanics I am very critical for a reason and why modern gaming bores me. As if Diofield was weak while Valkyrie Elysium was fun. Aka 2 Square 2022 titles that probably didn't sell well, I cared about and both showed fair design. Diofield being weak to do anything good in the tactics genre besides it fair first impressions while Valkyria Chronicles 4 from 2018 shows Diofield up of even if not as good as 1 from 2010 has tasks and balance of its design, it makes Diofield look dull, besides it's real time elements the boring spamming attacks and 2 character switch ups the bets part of the game and the only depth it does of change up which is hilarious how dull and downhill it goes, the bonuses/tasks/grind were pathetic and repetitive. Plantinumed like intended but bland.

So yes I am very critical of platformers, shooters and racing the past trends with better competition in the past for mechanical depth. Where competition these days is lazy. Playing 20 year old games for research of better game design is not nostalgia I never played them before. It's just better design then those who don't go back or didn't play AA/AAA left behind games with better ideas.

How the creative were supposed to make me go oh it's still worth a PS5 when to me I hate them even more then the other audience ones they push so much that bored me and I skipped on PS4 becaude their niche onesa re all I liked on PS4 so less and hating them on PS5 I have no reason for the console and their lazy game design. So it annoying me with their weak creativity though is very easy to do for them it seems.

The cameos in Playroom was fine, the PlayStation products is fine but I didn't want more nostalgia/museum milking from Sony, Nintendo does it but I feel it fits the gameplay, Won't goes let's shove it it and it it's so weak. I have no interest in Mario Odyssey or most big Nintendo IPs I care for their niche ones and was a PS/Xbox starter Nintendo later, but I feel the 2D segments fit, not just nostalgia milking, Astro Bot is weak, so to me this game sucks, the extent of level designs are bland, cosmetics versus abilities for them or execution of things in levels.

@trev666 So still only two Astro Bot games in the series, and three tech demos.

Of all the scores that make sense this year, Metaphor isn't one of them. Crazy that it scored higher than Rebirth. A great game don't get me wrong but it's got far too much holding it back for me.

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I'd play a museum collection title of Atari 50 instead of I did for the Jaguar/Lynx games and fair history coverage besides research outside the game then what story they want to push.

Or a advergaming racing game, the desitis original but it's a car museum of a brand. Like a Astro's Playroom in a way brand but not too far id my point.

So how they are used it, is lacking depth of ideas and the nostalgia museum aspects it has. It's just terrible. I hate Indies being inspired in lazy ways why would I a AAA Sony product.

Nostalgia is a thing they have been targeting with games/merch and badly and this is even more desperate then the last times doing it.

So Indies skills being lower is understandable but I want better besides their low skills, I have low skills then they have yet they don't try hard enough or are modern design bland of emptiness of ideas so basic.

For them it's harsh I know because of their talent/team size but they could prototype something a bit more. When 1 mechanic is exciting even for how simple I don't mind even if I am picky still about them.

Like my Foamstars mode ideas no matter how average they still use the mechanics well then 2 modes tweaked yet found in other games, points or Biomutant ones of the past. I say them for a reason. Lacking ideas, weak ideas, basic ideas for people to understand and not exciting or pushing the creativity of the medium and their skills aren't really being tested just trend following or weak to push further with their ideas. Money or casual design so boring and forgettable. 9th gen is so forgettable of game design.

I don't expect vehicles or much change up that's a bit too far but some AA/B grades of the past impress me more then the AAs/popular remembered titles that peotare inspired by.

That Astro Bot was nostalgically ripping off and trying to play tribute too too closely which is why I hate it. Put originality further in there then some moments of that and reskins/recreations so unnecessary.

It's like recreating a real life city then a playground feel to it or a fictional one/level in other games, I don't care for them, I need them do better. Stop playing tribute the lazy way Sony/Asobi.

I'd take a game inspired differently or more so a non Inspired game because I'm sick to death of heavily inspired weak game that can't push their creativity further or a Ford Racing type museum advergaming title over Astro Bot and those are even lower quality but how they handle content is better.

@Cloud39472 I kinda agree, whilst I enjoyed the game I do feel it's visuals, dungeon design, and time restricts let it down. Some of the music used as well was just down right annoying and even the enemy designs (apart from the humans) were a bit bland. The story and game mechanics saved it for me.

I’m surprised how many children must have PS5’s.

That said, I don’t consider the other titles mainstream blockbusters, but rather a little niche in nature.

@trev666

Only Nintendo should be allowed a GOTY contender in the 3D platformer space.

Also, 3 of those games are tech demos and while they're as good as full fledged games, they're still tech demos.

I would say it's not that hard to find someone who doesn't like 3D platformers nor Soulslikes.

Well deserved Astro Bot.
Hoping for some story DLC in 2025.