FFXIV & FFXVI nominated for two categories at the 'Game of the Year Awards' each.

[SieyaM]

I guess I am missing something with XVI, because I did not find the narrative all that engaging. None of the characters surprised me and without characters that felt like they had purpose beyond the plot it left the story to just kind of drag them along with it. I felt more like the plot was driving the characters rather than the characters driving the plot.

[LilFlowers]

I don't wanna hate on XVI but at the same time I've been at like 95% completion for months and can barely find the motivation to finish it. Wheres the mini games wheres the fan service any time an old school sounding FF jingle plays it just feels jarring and strange. The new Like a Dragon Gaiden has felt more like an Action/RPG hybrid with more build variety from customizing my Kiryu than FF is lol. Okay so you're not gonna give us an airship, can we at least get the boat? No.. o-okay then. How about a chocobo race or some kind of arena that isn't a virtual reality simulation? No? O-okay sorry for asking. Will finish it soon and move on until DLC. It's a solid 7 or 8 out of 10 game don't get me wrong but I swear they're making western games as censored and safe as possible so that it's less work making changes to release in China, it was M rated and even the brothel girls looking straight out of a renaissance fair and not one of those fun ones either.

[SieyaM]

I don't wanna hate on XVI but at the same time I've been at like 95% completion for months and can barely find the motivation to finish it. Wheres the mini games wheres the fan service any time an old school sounding FF jingle plays it just feels jarring and strange. The new Like a Dragon Gaiden has felt more like an Action/RPG hybrid with more build variety from customizing my Kiryu than FF is lol. Okay so you're not gonna give us an airship, can we at least get the boat? No.. o-okay then. How about a chocobo race or some kind of arena that isn't a virtual reality simulation? No? O-okay sorry for asking. Will finish it soon and move on until DLC. It's a solid 7 or 8 out of 10 game don't get me wrong but I swear they're making western games as censored and safe as possible so that it's less work making changes to release in China, it was M rated and even the brothel girls looking straight out of a renaissance fair and not one of those fun ones either.

I honestly feel like they went too hard on the "mature" themes and it ended up kind of missing the mark and falling flat for me. The sex and swearing seem to just be thrown in because why not, it serves little purpose and I feel Clive most of all is a kind of caricature of masculinity. He's the most grunty, growly sweary man and he's such a man because of it.

[keichirou]

here for the " We should show appreciation for everything the devs do for us" nonsense

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Their definition of community support is:
"Recognizing a game for outstanding community support, transparency and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates/patches."

FFXIV is literally none of that lol.

Fellas, this is bait.

[strawberrycake]

Funny enough as someone whos playing WoW, their playerbase finds the endgame activities boring and consistent every patch, yet these open world activities are actually fun and engaging stuff to do for character progression weekly, coming off from a perspective of a FFXIV andy like myself.

So yeah I prefer if FFXIV copied current WoWs endgame

*looks at the current response to the new patch and raid* huh

[RitsukoSonoda]

Souls-likes are considered action-RPG's, so Lies of P is also considered an action-RPG.

Souls likes tend to have far more RPG elements than FFXIV and FFXVI as well. In fact FFXIV and FFXVI have had so many RPG elements removed from them they don't look like RPGs when placed next to other RPGs or even some games that don't identify themselves as RPGs in the first place.

TBH the only nomination I agree with is Best music and Score. Music is one of the few things SE has steadily improved on over time.

[Shougun]

I really enjoyed the music in FFXVI and thought the story was quite good (Clive had an incredible delivery), although for narrative and a lot of other categories (lol) I think BG3 absolutely wrecked the stratosphere on multiple elements bringing an insanely high value proposition (and as a company will probably punch out a few more patches and even a definitive edition before it's all said and done). Would put FFXIV in the music section too though, for similar reasons as FFXVI.

I would like a better definition of community support. Because No Man's Sky's patch after patch of free content is pretty incredible and an ARR redemption arc that is worth the 1 hour long internet historian video of a watch. FFXIV has great community out reach when it comes to pre-planned things (live letters, etc), and I strongly believe they read and are aware of a lot of feedback (whether they agree and why for is a different thing), but naturally outside of arranged procedures they don't really talk to us.

If simply responding to players in the forum is valued then I'd give it to WoW, but if taking player feedback was important I'd give it to FFXIV. WoW's recent showcase I think might be showing a shift in the way they handle that, so if they keep literal talking points with listening to feedback.. may go back to them.

Alternatively because why not give the whole show to Larian, Larian made BG3 with constant direct and pre-planned feedback with players. Taking feedback, responding to it, etc.

Definitely feel FFXIV is in a good best on going place. I don't know much about the other games except CP2077, which has improved recently certainly, but FFXIV has a longer track record by far (and to me meets 'on going'). Though then I'd be surprised No Man's Sky isn't there.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Meh...

Armored Core 6 only got 1 nomination.

However they appear to have went out of their way to shoehorn Alan Wake 2 into as many categories as possible.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I'm the opposite- I like XIV's music so much that I really expected to like XVI's way more. The fight/boss themes are genuinely great (Bahamut and Pheonix's are my favs), but outside them the only track that made me stop and really listen was Sanbreque's overworld theme.

"Well your opinion is incorrect!"

Just kidding. Im actually the opposite with this one as well, I appreciate a lot of FFXIV's music and theres many catchy songs and boss themes but the ost is all over the place and many hits and misses with me. Which makes sense considering this is an MMO and variety is key but Im more of a traditional rpg guy thay values consistency than variety in music so Im not a huuuuge fan of Soken's (and others) works in this game, but I love FFXVI since its the first where hes able to have a more consistent sound with a few of the usual over the top bells and whistle tracks in eikon themes.