Just by looking at the first 20min, it seems it is really good kids game. It should not get hate at all. Stupid award givers should. Also there should be category for kids games then.
@@_unknown_guy There is, it's called "Best family game". However, Astro Bot is so much more than just "a good kids game". Many adults I've seen that played this game adored it.
@@_unknown_guy Separating games by making it for "kids" seems pretty stupid though? Sure they may make the demography for younger people but games are meant for everyone to play regardless of their age... Just because people play games like god of war or souls games does not just automatically make them "older"...Tons of Kids play those games too. At the end of the day it's games dude... and everyone plays everything
@@npcimknot958 Asmongold always gets mad. Of course he hardly ever knows what he’s doing in games. He refuses to learn gameplay mechanics and plays every single game exactly alike. He struggles through so many games and if simply learned the gameplay mechanics through tutorials he chooses to ignore he’d have a better time. Love Asmon but watching him play anything other than WOW is torture
Sometimes, a game just has to be a game. No deeper meaning, no extreme challenge, no realistic graphics. Just good, solid fun. The very thing that made gaming great in the first place.
@MuhammadKharismawan so fake organized people complaining =controversial? By your logic if nazis hated a game because it goes against their values it's bad and controversial
@@MuhammadKharismawan Shouldn't be considering that about 95% of the gameplay mechanics of Astrobot are straight up copied from Nintendo games. It's a great game sure, but it's pretty much a Nintedo greatest hits compilation as far as gameplay goes and much of the level design.
Man...the character development of Asmongold throughout this 3hr trip was truly amazing!!! He started as very skeptical, toxic, highly critical, and antagonistic.....later became joyful, peaceful and having fun.........to being appreciative, supportful and happy! That's what games are about! You just gotta ATLEAST try it to like it ;)
Bro the game brings joy and entertainment he likes because it’s simple honestly it’s a good game but I don’t think it deserves the first place (my opinion of course)
🙄aight normies , nobody says ur game is bad but its nowhere near game of the year , and if i game that is pre loaded onto a console thats free manages to win goty , how god aweful were a majority of releases this year? (Except black myth) maybe its time to highten those standards a little bit
wukong is a whole cinematic / art / gaming experience. Astrobot is just a basic fun game like the 80s arcade. old fashion basic soundtrack, basic graphics, basic characters...it's the conventional fun game, but nothing special.
@@laifamily7804 Comparing it to an 80's arcade game is pretty dense. But then again so is prioritizing cinema and art over fun...If I want cinema I can go to a movie theater. If I want "art" I can go to an art museum. Wukong does not offer anyhing I haven't seen either...It's a traditional linear story game with zero replay-ability. Next time just keep your misguided entitled opinion to yourself.
It was absolutely insane the amount of people in his community that hated on the game, including himself. Meanwhile, the whole time he was playing it he was smiling from ear-to-ear. Instead of his regular raging while playing souls-likes. Genuinely made me happy to see. People should play it for themselves before judging.
@@TheButcher-w7z Also , you calling wukong a LINEAR game with zero replay ability is proof you haven't played the game at all and you're just regurgitating the same trash from IGN, etc..critics who also haven't played the game past chapter 1. Way to be a hater who never played the game
11:26 Ratchet from Ratchet & Clank 12:40 Rivet from Ratchet & Clank 23:52 Crash Bandicoot 30:58 Jak from Jak & Daxter 34:03 Snake from Metal Gear 35:12 Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear 42:58 Richter Belmont from Castlevania 46:38 The Hunter from Bloodborne 52:18 Alucard from Castlevania 1:01:25 Grey Wolf from Metal Gear 1:11:26 PaRappa the Rapper 1:12:48 Lammy from PaRappa 1:19:34 - 1:27:55 Ape Escape 1:27:00 Specter from Ape Escape 1:29:44 Asmon shows his computer repair skills 1:37:19 Daxter 1:37:24 Rivet's hammer 1:37:37 Specter's chair 1:38:24 Alucard's coffin 1:38:33 Grey Fox's katana 1:38:47 Aku from Crash 1:39:03 Psycho Mantis breaking the fourth wall and reading your memory card 1:39:36 Bloodborne Hunter's cleaver and gun 1:57:58 Yorda from Ico 2:01:02 Ico 2:12:17 Dante from Devil May Cry 2:14:35 Kain from Legacy of Kain 2:16:00 Raziel from Legacy of Kain 2:19:20 Deacon from Days Gone 2:30:39 Kena from Kena: Bridge of Spirits 2:38:51 Ellie from The Last of Us 2:41:08 Joel from The Last of Us 2:43:00 Clicker from The Last of Us 2:52:17 - 3:07:30 God of War 2:54:30 Kratos 2:55:43 Agrabodga 2:57:31 Thrud 2:58:37 Jormungandr 2:58:57 Thor 2:59:22 Freya's house (the turtle tree) 3:00:25 Freya 3:02:00 Brok 3:03:25 Mimir 3:05:25 Sidri 3:12:45 Shiba Inu from Humanity 3:14:10 Mister Mosquito 3:16:38 review
I like how he slowly went from "This game did not deserve game of the year, it probably doesn't even deserve my time, but I'll try it" to genuinely enjoying it and having fun. His reaction to the awards and his shock at astrobot winning was hilarious, the grin on Asmondgolds face as he progressed through the game grew larger. Ya, it's a great game, great fun.
nobody said it wasnt a great game, its just not goty material for a lot of people. its a fun nostalgic old school platformer, but thats it. its not groundbreaking, it didnt have epic moments thats wow worthy, it didnt provoke thought or touched hearts. it didnt make me finish the game and go "wow that was an experience". its a solid, great game. but it didnt deserve goty, and thats just my opinion.
@@lodsup exactly. its the best plataformer of the year, its one of the best games, for sure, solid, with lots of love and cute references, its probably the best modern 3d colactaton plataformers like banjoo we got since, probably a hat in time. but its just not game of the year.
honestly, im pretty okay with it winning goty. gotta remember gaming isnt just for us in our 30s. My daughter loves the game, might even be considered her introduction to games in the same sense mario or sonic was alot of ours
My son and I played it together and he loved it. He kept asking every time we rescued a special bot: dad did you play that game when you were my age? And I would pause the game and show him a clip of said character on RUclips. I would tell him about the game and if I enjoyed it. And then we rescued Spyro and then it hit me… I did the same thing with my dad when we played Sypiro on the PS1. I got emotional because the cycle is repeating now with me as the dad raising the next generation. Goddamn it it was a beautiful moment
@@mrk09988 That's so nice to read ! especially from someone who learned game by himself with no dad in sight. Spyro was my third game after tekken 3 and mario.
It's also a technical masterpiece. The physics engine. The particle effects. The DualSense controller integration (which is impossible to convey without experiencing it yourself) etc etc
@@LiLVaanxDafter watching him play wukong compared to watching him play this, he clearly wants to continue to make himself believe that he actually enjoyed Wukong more than this. The fact of the matter is that he absolutely didn’t. Wukong is certainly more his style, and he certainly it enjoyed the challenge of that game, but he was clearly enjoying this game from beginning to end. He went into Wukong expecting to really like it, and he confirmed his preconceptions. He went into Astro Bot expecting to hate it and he absolutely changed his opinion within the first 30 minutes.
33:15 I like this part. At first its just nothing, but then you later realize that its purpose is to redirect your eyes into where the bot was hanging.
It's not just that. It's to take cute or funny pictures with the in game camera you get later. The robot being there was an happy coincidence! Or was it? One can never tell with this game, so many secrets and surprises. I love this game so much.
This. As sarcastic as he is you know 100% hes having fun, just ilke the only other time he looked like he was genuine was dragon ball z Elden ren, bmw he was getting angry and stressed, toxic.. sure he enjoys those but like you say “ genuine fun’
Literally this People freaking out that a interactive movie with "hyper realistic graphics" didn't win GOTY Games are supposed to be fun, and he sure had fun here !
@Elion-c8t those are fun tho. Some of the best video games ever made are exactly what you described. Theres nothing wrong with being a part of cool setpieces. Lots of people like them. I'm one of them! There are far more of these games being made today than these movie games that yall complain about allllll the freaking time! Yall need to stfu about it already
Well hang on... we only have 1 AAAA game so far.. we should definitely wait until the next 9 come out before we say something like that...(not holding my breath)
@@YTwcher did you not see those leaves on the ground and their physics?! I was honestly pretty impressed by all the little details and polish in the game
I played AstroBot Rescue Mission on the PSVR, Astro's Playroom and AstroBot. The reasons this game deserves GOTY in my opinion are: >The amazing use of the DualSense controller overall. Try slowly walking along various surfaces, it feels different. I felt even the tiny mushrooms separately from the ground in like the first level. >It gets progressively harder and some of the Symbol bonus levels are a BE-ATCH. >It pays homage to classic and popular video game characters (with the special Bots) >When you play the game, the "overall feeling" you get is a good balance of good-natured fun and frustration >Frankly cinematic, dark fantasy, gore, zombie, survival, warfare games are exhausting, the older some if not most people get, like the real world is already hard as it is, sometimes you just don't want to further stress yourself out when gaming and just want something light and fun. > The subtle , referential humor is hilariously adorable if you know what you're looking at... >For older gamers, seeing some of the PS1 characters especially just hits a cord. > Astro's Playroom paid homage to the various PlayStation models over the years, Astro Bot is a love letter to most of PlayStation's greatest titles all over the years. >Other game studios lent their IPs to Team Asobi, who, like I mentioned, paid homage to said characters. > It's filled with heart. You know the people who designed each detail of each of the levels are really PlayStation fans. ...I have more reasons but I'll stop here. In addition: I grew up with The Journey To The West story in many forms. As someone with a background in 2D and 3D animation, I very much appreciated Black Myth Wukong - especially the cutscenes. It made me very emotional several times, especially when one understands the references to the source material. It is indeed a work of art and literature. It deserves all the nominations. Despite that, for the reasons mentioned above and more, Astro Bot deserves the GOTY Award. Sometimes, it's not about "realism". It's unanimously reminded gamers world wide about the pure JOY of gaming - it called back to the roots of what video games did for millions of us.
@@Mr.Cheeesse Astro Bot is fun because it's a kids game that appeals to anyone and everyone. Wukong is rich with lore and is very immersive with its story telling and mythology. The game isn't hard it's just fun.
did you need to eat shit to know it didn't taste good? Edit: i think the game is actually okay, but you get my point, at the end of the day its just a well polished yet still generic and unoriginal super mario clone that was made for the same purpose and audience as the emoji movie. aint nobody need to play it to know exactly what it is.
Yea, it is the advantage only Sony and Nintendo has because their game integrated with the controller, which the game itself does not depends solely on the content but their controller, can be considered as a factor unfair to other game developer
It's something you actually have to experience yourself to understand. How Astro translates the tactility of control and sound in your hands is its big innovation.
I played and platinumed this whole game with my 7 year old daughter. I can’t thank this game enough for the memories it gave me and my daughter. Then to come to the trials… I thought this game was a walk in the park so I helped my daughter through the harder parts for her which were easy. Till we found the trials… oh man it had me raging for weeks. This game and the team that made it deserve this win so much. I haven’t played a game in so long with good game play good graphics and amazing sound design not to mention how well they implemented the dual sense. F all the haters this game deserve the win.
The last time a game like Astro bot won goty was in 2008 which was Super Mario Galaxy and until then it was either an rpg game or a shooting, fighting game
the irony is most streamers who played astrobot, went in with 0 expectations or thought it was going to be garbage, most of them either loved the game or had a better opinion of it by the end. It's a game and you don't have to like it just like any piece of media.
It is a good game but it is not goty game. What's difference from Mario game beside it is made by SONY. What contribution does it did to the game industry/game community? Goty game should bring a new thing to the game industry and I don't think it fits goty title.
Ya. He loks like hes having fun vs other times hes getting more and more toxic and angry.. Only other time is dragon ball .. and that stream was so fun to watch.
You do realise it was just a joke, right? Just as the villain being Xbox and all the systems being Nintendo that Sony was going to destroy hypothetically in Astrobot? Kinda weird to call something an ad when the only device it can be played on was the device shown as the ad. Same goes for the robots he acquired, they were unrecognisable unless you knew the franchise. It's no ad, it's just paying homage. Astrobot is a good game, it was clear from the moment we saw the trailer. It stole 99% from different games and they're not hiding that fact... It was inspired in almost every way, just improved where possible and put together in a new jacket. No shame in that.
Astrobot has been stellar. I did 100% of it. The difficulty curve is perfect. It has some seriously difficult levels later on, the challenge levels. The music and everything is just so good. I voted it for GOTY and was happy to see it win.
When they got GOTY they thanked nintendo without saying nintendo first and foremost and there are some really good compilations comparing moments from the astro bot to nintendo games and animations.
Honestly astro bot winning might be the right answer to the gaming industry right now. Where it's not about graphics or big budget's. But just the joy of playing games.
But that contradicts the narrative that videogames are ART! To be a great art, it has to have a grand narrative, stunning visuals or creativity. Fun is not art
I thought this game was a joke, but I played 25 hours until yesterday and got the platinum trophy. The important thing is that I had fun with my child for the first time on the PlayStation. I used to play the Switch with my child in the living room, but I always played the PlayStation secretly in my room alone. I can't play Stellar Blade and The Last of Us 2 with my child. My child watched the game and took turns challenging the stages with me. I became closer to my child, and this game was very valuable to me.
I understand you can't play with him, but why playing "secretly" ? Seriously ? I always saw my cousins and others playing games with fights and blood it never traumatized me, most kids in my school were the same. You see far worse in tv all the time.
@Skrittles-1 Yes but how many games have actually made use of those features? And I disagree with it being an Odyssey knock off, I played Odyssey right after Astro Bot and the types of moves/motions were completely different. Also as far as comparisons with 3D Mario platformers go, I'd even say that Astro Bot takes much more inspiration from Mario Sunshine (which I played right before Astro Bot) and Mario Galaxy (personal favorite platformer). (Also not just the switch pro controller, the regular switch controllers also have motion sensors and such).
ye maybe bc astros playroom was made for people to see what ps5 controller can do and this game is sequel to that game so of course they will use ps5 controller to the max
This was a rare year where I had actually played all the GOTY nominees. I thought Rebirth should have taken it, but all of the games deserved it, except Elden Ring because DLC. Astro Bot winning didnt bother me at all as it ultimately doesnt matter, and the game is great.
@@Srstrix If you want to reduce it down to bare bones definitions, yes. But I think it's wildly different from the original and therefore able to counted as it's own thing.
@@Srstrix remake but from scratch with additional new content since they lost the old code, also the story is not completely 1 to 1 as well, leaving more room for new paths etc.
I think it's so interesting to have grown men, gamers, describe this game as "charming" and "precious." It's not an ad. It's a tribute to Sony PlayStation.
Spent the first 20 minutes making jokes and Mario references spent the last 3 hours actually enjoying it. ''Ok guys ok, yeah that was cool''. Hilarious.
I feel like this stream really healed the gaming community. Everyone here was ready to hate this and hated it a lot of the time but we all felt a lot better by the end that the Game Awards weren't rigged like we thought. I thank you Asmongold for taking your time to do this favor for us and have some fun along the way.
😂😂 no it didn't. Asmon is not that influential. And the game awards were absolutely rigged. Now go out and get you and your kids ps5 pro for Christmas to play this mid game
@@Harizuri0806 that is his opinion, but I and many others didn’t even have Wukong in the top 3. I had Metaphor at 1, Astrobot at 2, final fantasy at 3. For what it is Wukong is fun, but shallow. I don’t know why people are actually believing that it was even the runner up.
@Harizuri0806 Your pretty lame kid. This game was actually incredible. I smiled from beginning to end and watching doesn't do it justice. everything was so smooth and just fun
Haven't played Astrobot yet since I'm not a platformer person. But there were quite a lot of people, even streamers, who immediately said it was a game-of-the-year contender even the week it came out. That should have raised more eyebrows from folks discrediting Astrobot than the actual award itself. People just like to be upset that their opinion wasn't validated, rather than trying the game and/or accepting that not every game will be for them.
It's one sad irony that the year we get GotY on the best video game in the roster, everybody else is harping on it. Where were these haters when Elden Ring or God of War happened to TGA?
I didn't know it existed and I was confused with Astros playroom. Looks like a fun game and probably did deserve goty. For me shadow of erdtree was goty. Truly an incredible expansion, the size of a full game
@@ED-gw9rgmy running theory is that many gamers discredit family friendly games for not dealing with mature themes or being difficult. couldn’t be further from the truth
People saying that it straight up copying Nintendo, but Wukong also kinda copied a lot of elements from dark souls or God of the war. Why’s is nobody saying that? I mean of course wukong is a very decent game, but if copying is the only element in judgement, then Wukong also does that, but nobody says anything, which seems highly unfair to me.
I agree too Wukong is still mine and metaphor second astro is cool and all but if Mario Odyssey came out in 2024 will people say it's deserving goty?@@Harizuri0806
@@Harizuri0806he did. He expected the game to be garbage and inconceivable to have won goty. That perception changed. He still preferred Wukong (which honestly wasn’t even top 5), but he now recognizes that AstroBot is a legitimate winning-caliber game.
I’m a diehard fromsoft/souls/soulslike fan since in my teens, but I absolutely loved astro bot, 100% well deserved win. Dudes that are unnecessarily hating on astro bot now are just kinda sad.
We consider games like Wukong and Lies of P souls-like. They take direct inspiration from those games, but Astrobot can't do the same with Mario... such hypocrisy from so many.
Wukong isn't a souls like. Also most souls like games are always compared to FromSoft games and to this day no one else has come close to being able to replicate their magic. The Mario comparison here is because no platformers seem to ever innovate except for Mario (in recent years). Astrobot is a great game, but it doesn't do anything Mario Odyssey didn't do back in 2017 on hardware 25% as powerful. Mario is the king of platformers and every game of the same genre will forever be compared to it. It is what it is.
@keithtestaverde3712 you can say Wukong isn't a soul like I get it, but it still uses many elements found in them. (Wukong wouldn't exist if it wasn't for fromsoft, at least not in the form it is today). Also, saying that no one has managed the magic from fromsoft is an opinion.
@@user-nk1hw5zl5y People keep saying Wukong revolutionize something but can't say what it did revolutionize. At release, it was badly optimization for some system. People bring the sales but forget that China is also its main market It has a great graphic, good story (ofcourse, it is Journey of the West).
Don’t know why this has to divide people. We can obviously see Astrobot is heavily inspired by games like Mario and Donkey Kong. This is of course okay to a certain extent, we have so many games that inspire and make the entire industry better for it. I just think it’s a bit distasteful when you obviously set out to make a clone of a game. I don’t say Astrobot isn’t a great game. But definitely not the best game of 2024. It’s a fun kids game, they don’t bring anything new to the table of the gaming industry which is okay. Sometimes basic is best. But imagine if this continues to happen year after year. Obviously clones of popular franchises start winning game of the year awards. We lose innovation in the industry. I genuinely can’t say I cared about any of the other contenders for game of the year, even if the game was 20% worse and didn’t take all that “inspiration” from Mario I would have been okay with it winning. I just think it’s a bad example of what makes a game worthy of winning game of the year. For me this is the second worst game of the year winner of all time. Not by gameplay I’m sure I would love it. I also think exclusive games as game of the year is kind of silly but that’s not Astrobots fault that’s on the game awards
I was watching the stream for like 2h and i must say this was one of the most funny and genuine Streams i ever participated on Asmons Channel. No hating, no bad News, No Drama just Pure Gaming and Giggles. I never understood how people could endulge in Parasocial Environments but man this reminded me of my childhood, sitting next to my best friend playing playstation the whole afternoon. Nostalgia sometimes Hits hard.
He was like this in his Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe playthrough as well. It was highly entertaining and fun. Strongly recommend you check it out if you haven't already.
This is the premise of Twitch. Extremely lonely people pretending to sit next to their best friend while he/she plays a video game, but the only way to get your friend to acknowledge you is to ‘donate’ to him/her. It’s essentially a rent-a-friend service
I think part of what helped astrobot when is it was different then most games we got recently that focus on the movie graphics, cinematics, being a playable story. this was just one of those sit down relax have fun dont take it too serious kind of games that have been missing for some time.
honestly imo, a game like this winning the GOTY is kind of needed in a way. I saw someone else said in the comment that, game like this seems to be drowned under the abundance of other action rpg games out there, to the point that we expect games to look like or similar elden ring/black myth wukong to win GOTY. Imo, elden ring is the unique one, as in, bringing the souls like gameplay into an open world scale, which i have never seen before. But black myth wukong seems like the usual action RPG just with newer graphic and based on chinese culture (or myth, idk). Space Marine 2 & Helldivers 2 is the usual horde shooter game. we got plenty of this "realistic gritty games" that im honestly sick of it, like, good god brighten the games for fck sake lmao. Take Monster Hunter series for example, sure its an ARPG & in a way, its kind of grim, but the game vibes is pretty lighthearted & you have talking cats that walk on two fking feet, how cute is that!? I hope next year we will have much more variety in video games, hell, i hope there will be new lego games, anime games and more silly, creative & lighthearted games. Souls like, dark ARPG can chill out for goodness sake lol. Give us a game that can brighten our day and enjoy it together with friends/family, instead of another game that appeal to the hardcore, sweaty gamers.
Theres a tactility to playing Astro Bot that people are unlikely to understand unless they try it themselves. It's the only game I've ever seen where the insanely specifically utilized rumble is used to actually enhance the experience. So much would actually be lost in a transition to a PC port that I don't think it's worth it. The game absolutely deserved the GOTY win.
@@monalisa-bs4zsit could come to pc but they’d have to force the dualsense or rework many aspects of the game which would piss people off regardless. They heavily put the dualsense features into the core gameplay/level design. Reminds me of Wii and WiiU type games.
I don’t care what anyone says. It deserved it. My favorite games growing up were platformers like Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank and many others. I still play them every few years over any other game I could replay. This game reminded me just how damn fun games can be and there are so many ideas crammed into each level. Haters gonna hate
Buy a Nintendo switch bro! You''ll have Mario oddysey and Bowsers fury and much more Platformers at your disposal. Mario galaxy one of the greatest platformers ever made is on there too with Mario sunshine and 64 (special editon or something)
@ already have since day 1 brother! Funny enough, I never got around to Mario galaxy when I was a kid. Tried to recently get it in the 3D all stars pack but since Nintendo had the bright idea of making it limited time, they’re like $160 for a used copy in my area 😂
Gamers today are stupid with the generation Z gamers. Chinese mega corporations like Tancent release the same shit every year, mass produced copies of souls games like Wukong. And people think they're masterpieces. They gobble it up. But there was a time when companies in Japan and USA innovated.
Why does his face at the end while giving his take on the game look like "man I talked a lot of crap about this game and now look at me" lol. Better than Wukong? Obviously debatable but if you can't see why people like this game I don't know what to tell you. Maybe it's not your genre because you like hard games or more adult games, but as someone who played all of the nominees and loves both Sony and Nintendo, Astro Bot charmed the hell out of me from start to finish.
I was telling everyone this was my favorite game all year, never thought I’d Win goty, but also wasn’t surprised. It’s beautiful. Fun. Engaging. Entertaining. Difficult but not extremely difficult. It’s legit a perfect “game”. Loved seeing admins hate to pure enjoyment thru this.
Pocket pair: makes a game that is like Pokemon but puts their on spin on things and adds more to it Internet: this is revolutionary. Sony: makes a game that shares similarities with mario but with their on spin on things and they add their own characters to celebrate the 20 years of PlayStation where the content within the game is not grindy or repetitive. The Internet: this is just a mario ripoff.
I honestly thought Wukong would win GOTY but Astro Bot really caught me by surprise. But the game really doesn't deserve the hate, it's actually a really enjoyable fun game.
@YTwcher damn if you find those boring then you must be a simple CoD shooter or a NBA2K brainrot gamer. Gameplay is quite engaging, and if that's truly boring you should put subway surfers on while you play to help you stimulate your mind.
@OverTheTaco. Where did you get souls game from Astra Bot? We did play the same game right, cause like I just can't see where the hell you got it being a souls game clone from. Unless you are talking about Wukong, in which yes it is a dark souls, and a great one in that fact, I enjoyed Wukong greatly.
Thanks for playing. I remember Maximo were my favorite platforms. You remind me of a friend I had, David Blacketer. Hung his mouth open when he played games, animated when bad things happened, quiet during triumphs, and all around a total friend to game with.
Nope, it started as a demo for the Playstation camera, then it got another demo for PSVR, was fleshed out to a full PSVR game later, got a small release game for PS5 which integrated Dualsense features and was then blown up to the larger game we have now.
this game is amazing. can you even imagine how you would feel if you were a kid and this was the first game you played? i'm 40 and i can't stop smiling watching this.
Let's be honest, lots of games today have great superficial visuals (souls games, etc). But at heart, they are corridors or levels with limited gameplay. This game has actual gameplay and mechanics and physics. It's a game that oozes "I got designed painstakingly by smart people and high budget, and wasn't just mass produced". Baldur's Gate 3 is the only other game I can think of like that.
@@rockyshi9609then elaborate, instead of adding a comment that adds zero value to the discussion. Let me help you. Why do you think that this game won, other than it just being an extremely fun game?
@@Godsbackhand7 he means that sony sponsored the award show! I mean its a ps5 exclusive game so no pc and no xbox so millions of players can't even play it. Astobot is a little fun game nothing special but Solid award winning game? No surley not but they did win Goty so it is what it is.
To all the haters. Just pay attention to Asmon's face many times during that stream, when he is silent and starts to smile naturally. This is why Astrobot is so good to all people who played it. Even as a grown-up you go back to your gaming moments when you discovered games as a kid. Its THAT fun
Asmon smiled playing wukong too what's your point? Also not to mention where asmon still prefers wukong as his goty despite playing this game. Also to mention wukong won PLAYERS VOICE award, aka the goty thst was voted purely by gamers and not journalists that were paid
Game is the real goty honestly, it’s pure fun, I played both and I prefer Astro bot, it reminds me of when I was a little boy playing Mario 64 all time
he's smiled playing other games, what about if you don't like platformers and didn't play games as a kid? or you enjoy other genres? or ppl "remember their childhood games" through other games they enjoy playing?oh dear, there goes your dumb narrative eh.
I think people associate non mature themes in games with a lower quality experience and this is just not the case. It is just a pure fun experience, the way games should be. You can put the game down and come back to it days later and not lose a beat.
Astro Bot is a great game. I didn’t expect it to win, but I’m not mad it won, which is exactly what I think they were going for when they voted for it.
@@JamieWoods00746 There is literally zero politics in Astro Bot. There isn't even any dialogue, and it has games like Stellar Blade and Mr. Mosquito represented which do not align with whatever "woke" has become associated with nowadays
No. It’s an actual ad in order to show the player the PS5 and its controller’s features. That was the entire point of Astro’s Playroom. That demo was so liked Sony greenlit an entire game.
That`s why i love Asmongold, plays both games and gives a valid opinion. Not like majority of people who never played one or the other game and complain all the time..
I recently started it myself in the last few weeks and it's brought me nothing but joy. Once you play it for yourself you understand why it's special, if Nintendos platformers are continuously regarded as the greatest games of all time Astrobot surely had a case for goty. It's a beautifully made game that leaves everyone who plays it happier than they went in.
the god of war level was a love letter for the fans, i kinda see why people liked it, is not a bad game by anymeans, it's one of the best Mario-like outhere that's for sure.
I think astrobot recieving goty is not too surprising. Wukong might be great, but it is a pretty specific genre that isn't for everyone. Astrobot is more approachable and can be enjoyed by a wide variety of people. And the quality is definitly up there with other great platformern like mario odyssee.
@@thatmemeguy2520it’s funny too, since the game was definitely made for adults, but could also be enjoyed by kids. All of the games that were showcased in Astrobot were titles that go back two decades. Likely, only someone in their 30s would have any connection to all of those PlayStation games.
@@AxelordSMIJES That's an opinion sure, but Mario isn't the only 3D platformer. Are the latest first-person shooters just re-skins of Goldeneye or Wolfenstein, or another popular shooter?
Remember when games were just silly fun and exploration? This has the widest range of playability on the list, that's a GOTY for sure (if you own a PS5). Might get a ps5 after seeing this lol
I don't see buying a $500 console for 1 game as worth it, tbh. Astro Bot's got me interested, but I have to admit it would be a waste of money for me to buy a PS5 just for that game. The only other PS5 exclusive game that I'm interested in is FF16 and that's on PC. I'm not expecting them to put Astro Bot on PC, though. That would be weird, since that would be like when they ported Super Mario 3D World to the switch. It'll be a bit weird cuz of how many features are specifically for the device it initially released on, so if they port it, they'll most likely have to remove or adjust some of the special, device specific, controls. However, I do find it weird that they removed the touch screen features of Super Mario 3D World even though the switch has a touch screen. I understand not having those features for docked mode, but handheld mode can definitely use those features just fine. Weird. Anyways, good thing my Wii U still works. lol
I made a comment on the game awards video saying how he needed to play this and see for himself. I got a lot of hate for it. I'm glad Asmon and some others are understanding now. Sometimes you need to just need a game that's simply something to be enjoyed. No microtransactions, no insane difficulty, no agenda pandering, just a really great game that can make us feel like we picked up Mario /Crash Bandicoot/Spyro again for the first time.
the game is good, and shits on nintendogs which is always a plus, but is not game of the year material, its a kids game, standards are really low nowdays...
Calling Astrobot a Mario ripoff is like calling Hollow Night or anu other MetroidVania a Metroid ripoff. It's not correct in any significant way that should matter.
Correct me if I'm wrong, the only time platformer game winning goty is in the game awards 2021 which is it takes two. Mario Odyssey had a great chance to win in 2017 but get outshine by zelda botw, so I'm actually glad this year the game of the year goes to platformer and not action/rpg again. And to be reminder this game made by 60+ people and most of the employees is from japan, because team asobi is a part from japan studio that sony closing and this is actually the only chance for them to proving themselves to sony.
@@DARUMA_05 your Chinese writing is great, google did a good job. 其实吧，我们和你们是不同的。 你们处在那个媒体和商业环境中，就好像处在自家后院，说花园里的哪朵花好看，当然都可以接受。 但是今年我们只是来做客的，瞅了瞅这里的装饰设计，感觉不太喜欢。也许明年就溜达到其他地方去了，当然也可能继续来捣乱~ 这和游戏无关，游戏和制作者都是可爱的。我指的是这个评奖活动和它背后的评价体系。
@秋分-d8i 其实我也理解你和中国玩家的心情。 因为我其实是一个印尼人，去年2023年有一款印尼游戏首次入围GAMES FOR IMPACT类别的GOTY，游戏的名字是A SPACE FOR THE UNBOUND，当时所有印尼人都非常很高兴，因为印度尼西亚的游戏开发商终于受到了国外的关注，并可以在那里竞争。 但不幸的是，印尼开发商空手而归，没能获奖，而且我们当时的游戏输给了TCHIA游戏，该游戏有一个关于未成年儿童同性恋关系正常化的故事。 但幸运的是，当时的印尼人民并没有太在意，并试图放手，也许是因为没有人知道TCHIA游戏是什么样的，而且印尼的游戏媒体也没有真正炒作太多。 事实上，如果当时印尼媒体有勇气发声，我相信所有TGA社交媒体和游戏开发商TCHIA的社交媒体都会立即遭到印尼网友的攻击，因为我们大多数人民强烈拒绝WOKE议程，但似乎每个人都选择保持沉默并接受这一点......😔。
What I've noticed is that nearly everyone who played Astro loves it. And nearly everyone who hasn't is angry on the internet right now about it winning GOTY. Now if we just had a brain, so we could run these two thoughts simultaneously and see if we can derive any meaning or logic from it......
I love how when this video was first posted all the top comments were negative, but as people have had time to watch the video and gameplay it has changed to mostly positive comments
@@Vss077 Actually it goes back even further, the first "game" that featured the character astro bot was 'the playroom'. Which was a demo for the dualshock 4 & ps4 camera. 'The playroom vr' came after that, then 'astro bot: rescue mission' which was the first game that wasn't just a demo. Then we got 'astro's playroom' which was the free game that came with the ps5. and now this one.
Seeing the first 45 minutes of him straight up hating on it (which by the way his points were savage and completely valid) but then as it progressed, you get to see a smile on his face randomly from awe, his eyes lock in, he leans forward and starts saying things like "gotcha bitch!" and "I've got this I've got this I've got this" and "we are FARMING THE FUCK OUT THIS LETS GOOOO" After all these years watching Asmon play games, this was sincerely an absolute joy to watch. I was hating on the idea of it getting goty until now. (sort of, it's incredible but I can name 10 other games that deserve better) but seeing his opinions fade into enjoyment help tilt my views. CINEMA
@@volpe_sol Wukong was best this year. We all know it. The rest is just coping. Astrobot was fine, but not best. Best means "Most loved, most played, most updated, cutting edge, most exciting" that's what best means. Super Mario Galaxy was best when it came out, super Mario 64 was best when it came out, astrobot is not best for doing something both those games did 20 years ago without really adding anything new or challenging to the formula. I love retro Games, I've played them all, and to say that given the offerings this year that astrobot is best is wrong. It's not even a question.
This game 1000% deserves GOTY! It's a homage to how we grew up in the 90's & what games should be, just a solid fun game with no strings attached; how we use to play & enjoy games & astro bot proves that we want these games back
It's crazy how much AAA game studios lost their way, and the answer was right there all along. Nintendo never stopped making fun games, everyone else was like "let's make a movie you can play".
uhuh, except if you don't like platformers and/or enjoy playing other games, ya I know shocking but people do enjoy other games and are just fine with how things are now. Get over yourself.
it's not about good or bad, it just I never imagined a game that look and ooze such comfortable and relaxed could be a game of the year, it's so *SHOCKING* more than anything else as I always have the impression of it's being throned to something that Intense or fierce.
why not? if anything, its more common for indies and similar games to win, if not astrobot, it would've been balatro. and next year it will be hades 2(if it does full release next year).
Well this game is nostalgic, this game have formula that every body love. Kids, adults, old. Same as it’s predecessor like spyro, ape escape, banjo-kazooie, crash, croc, mario etc. wukong is good, but it’s not for everybody.
Absolutely not my style of a game (i'm 45), but man.. the quality of it is amazing. Literally flawless production. Would buy it for a grandkids no matter the price.
Being 45 doesn't mean a thing. I'm 41 and I love this game. Not every game has to be drab, edgy and "mature" and everyone wanting those games only is part of why gaming is so boring now. It's all the same stuff and the same thing 10 million times gets so damn boring.
I'm 46 but I'd play this, just because I like fun games, looks better damned. Though I'm a PC gamer so would have to wait to see if they release it on steam. The irony is that my 10 year old would probably turn her nose up at this because of it's looks though 😂
Ahhh that’s a good one.. and the people working on this didn’t seem toxic, seem really humble. Used all the creative juices.. and homage to all their IPs.. I agree Now release on pc, sony.. prove everyone wrong let a bunch of people experience this
It goes even deeper, that's because Sony Entertainment was in Japan in the past, then they moved their HQ to California... The team that made this game (Astro Bot) is "Team Asobi", they are the remains of "Studio Japan" which was closed in the process of moving to California. This sends a huge message to Sony that they should go back to their roots, which is basicly Japan and putting fun / creativity first.
Sony has forgotten why they were successful during the PS1 and PS2 days. Astro Bot is a good reminder but I doubt they will awake from their slumber. They're ready to churn out more games dead on arrival unfortunately.
This. People will never fucking admit this but after Demon's Souls and DS1, the souls formula just became stale. Even Wukong is just a copy of something like Jedi Survivor.
Now that I see the gameplay I dont mind this game winning GOTY anymore, this is what gaming was back in the day, just fun games to enjoy with fun characters like Crash, Spyro, Mario, Pacman, Megaman, Sonic, Jak, Sly Cooper and so much more. Great game and glad it won GOTY 😅
Astrobot is the most videogame-ass videogame in the past decade. I don't have a PS5, but from what I've seen of it, it exudes that whimsical fun that reminds me of why I loved gaming in the first place.
The worst part about Astro Bot winning goty is all the undeserved hate it’s gonna get now.
Just by looking at the first 20min, it seems it is really good kids game. It should not get hate at all. Stupid award givers should. Also there should be category for kids games then.
Simple fun games like this are so enjoyable to just zip through after you've done your first run through if you haven't collected everything
Crazy how true that is.
@@_unknown_guy There is, it's called "Best family game". However, Astro Bot is so much more than just "a good kids game". Many adults I've seen that played this game adored it.
@@_unknown_guy Separating games by making it for "kids" seems pretty stupid though? Sure they may make the demography for younger people but games are meant for everyone to play regardless of their age... Just because people play games like god of war or souls games does not just automatically make them "older"...Tons of Kids play those games too. At the end of the day it's games dude... and everyone plays everything
This video is the equivalent of the grinch embracing Christmas lmao
lmao true
On this wave
Great and really funny comment (:
This cracked me up because that is so accurate😭
Yo spot on! 🤣
the slow progression of Asmon enjoying the game was pretty entertaining.
He was sarcastic at the Start
Right almost like he was having fun all along but had to play the role that he signed up for like half the ppl who hate any game.
@@DeanT1987he’s actaully doing his job.. entertaining lol😂
Other times honestly he gets so mad he has to take a stress break.. that doesn’t sound fun
@@npcimknot958 Asmongold always gets mad. Of course he hardly ever knows what he’s doing in games. He refuses to learn gameplay mechanics and plays every single game exactly alike. He struggles through so many games and if simply learned the gameplay mechanics through tutorials he chooses to ignore he’d have a better time. Love Asmon but watching him play anything other than WOW is torture
He obviusly never play any Nintendo game. Just play the copy.
Bro went from a hater to brand ambassador
Sometimes, a game just has to be a game. No deeper meaning, no extreme challenge, no realistic graphics.
Just good, solid fun. The very thing that made gaming great in the first place.
That's what Wukong is, and more...
This game is an Ad though.
@@delericaheThe thijg is, wukong is a tad controversial compared to a robot platformer
@MuhammadKharismawan so fake organized people complaining =controversial? By your logic if nazis hated a game because it goes against their values it's bad and controversial
@@MuhammadKharismawan Shouldn't be considering that about 95% of the gameplay mechanics of Astrobot are straight up copied from Nintendo games. It's a great game sure, but it's pretty much a Nintedo greatest hits compilation as far as gameplay goes and much of the level design.
One can only hope that Sony learns something from the difference in public reception between Astro Bot and Concord
Bro you just said C*ncord I’m now traumatised 😭😭
Sony didn't develop Concord it was bought by sony
@@1Gogeta1 Yes, but it's a sign of what kind of games people actually want them to invest their money into
Behind the scenes at the Sony Board Meeting:
" So, In conclusion:
Steal/Copy from Blizzard: $$$📉
Steal/Copy from Nintendo: 📈$$$"
@@Kuddochan Let that be lesson then, besides Astrobot is phenomenal
Man...the character development of Asmongold throughout this 3hr trip was truly amazing!!! He started as very skeptical, toxic, highly critical, and antagonistic.....later became joyful, peaceful and having fun.........to being appreciative, supportful and happy!
That's what games are about! You just gotta ATLEAST try it to like it ;)
Astro Bot was too irresistible. Even us old craggy gamers are broken down by his charm
AstroGod. OG gamers would agree.
The game is funny, so can be goty?
As a player that usually enjoy dark games. Astro bot filled me with a kind of joy i didn't realize i missed.
;))))))))
"This won game of the year?" proceeds to play with a huge smile from ear to ear for 3 hours straight.
Bro the game brings joy and entertainment he likes because it’s simple honestly it’s a good game but I don’t think it deserves the first place (my opinion of course)
@@Estarossa9agree I think Mario Odyssey is a better game this game is wholesome cute good game but goty idk
@@FadiMARc every one have an opinion bro I never tried that game (Mario odyssey) and your right the game doesn’t deserve the goty
exactly what i thought too lmao
@@Estarossa9 try it it's great it's like this but cooler you can throw hats on monsters and control them even bowser
Some people might not agree with Astro Bot winning game of the year but that doesn't mean it's not a genuinely good game.
I agree
What is good about it?
@@kostiantynkhomenko6409 The game part.
@kostian :
It's fun and pleasant to play.
I think most of the people agree that it is a good game, just not good enough for a goty
Astrobot, Astrobald, Asmonbot, AsmonBald
Astrogot- 🔫⚰️
bro...
Cinema
Astrogyatt
Asmonbod
Don't think I've seen him ever smile like a little kid through a game as much as this.
That part
That’s the magic of Astrobot… it gives you that feeling of being 7 years old again playing your first platformer… and that is something truly special
I think thats simply it, the panel pg TGA are probably old guys and this game just remind them of games as the way it was. Games.
🙄aight normies , nobody says ur game is bad but its nowhere near game of the year , and if i game that is pre loaded onto a console thats free manages to win goty , how god aweful were a majority of releases this year? (Except black myth) maybe its time to highten those standards a little bit
@@oven723 Yo, "normie", do your research. The "free game" was Astros Playroom from 2020. This game, Astro Bot, is from 2024 and isnt free.
He said it's not better than Wukong at 3:16:40. But indeed it is a good game that makes him smile. That's it and I felt the same
I disagree, it's better than Wukong, and so is Rebirth, Wukong gets third place.
wukong is a whole cinematic / art / gaming experience. Astrobot is just a basic fun game like the 80s arcade. old fashion basic soundtrack, basic graphics, basic characters...it's the conventional fun game, but nothing special.
@@laifamily7804 Comparing it to an 80's arcade game is pretty dense. But then again so is prioritizing cinema and art over fun...If I want cinema I can go to a movie theater. If I want "art" I can go to an art museum. Wukong does not offer anyhing I haven't seen either...It's a traditional linear story game with zero replay-ability. Next time just keep your misguided entitled opinion to yourself.
It was absolutely insane the amount of people in his community that hated on the game, including himself. Meanwhile, the whole time he was playing it he was smiling from ear-to-ear. Instead of his regular raging while playing souls-likes. Genuinely made me happy to see. People should play it for themselves before judging.
@@TheButcher-w7z Also , you calling wukong a LINEAR game with zero replay ability is proof you haven't played the game at all and you're just regurgitating the same trash from IGN, etc..critics who also haven't played the game past chapter 1. Way to be a hater who never played the game
11:26 Ratchet from Ratchet & Clank
12:40 Rivet from Ratchet & Clank
23:52 Crash Bandicoot
30:58 Jak from Jak & Daxter
34:03 Snake from Metal Gear
35:12 Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear
42:58 Richter Belmont from Castlevania
46:38 The Hunter from Bloodborne
52:18 Alucard from Castlevania
1:01:25 Grey Wolf from Metal Gear
1:11:26 PaRappa the Rapper
1:12:48 Lammy from PaRappa
1:19:34 - 1:27:55 Ape Escape
1:27:00 Specter from Ape Escape
1:29:44 Asmon shows his computer repair skills
1:37:19 Daxter
1:37:24 Rivet's hammer
1:37:37 Specter's chair
1:38:24 Alucard's coffin
1:38:33 Grey Fox's katana
1:38:47 Aku from Crash
1:39:03 Psycho Mantis breaking the fourth wall and reading your memory card
1:39:36 Bloodborne Hunter's cleaver and gun
1:57:58 Yorda from Ico
2:01:02 Ico
2:12:17 Dante from Devil May Cry
2:14:35 Kain from Legacy of Kain
2:16:00 Raziel from Legacy of Kain
2:19:20 Deacon from Days Gone
2:30:39 Kena from Kena: Bridge of Spirits
2:38:51 Ellie from The Last of Us
2:41:08 Joel from The Last of Us
2:43:00 Clicker from The Last of Us
2:52:17 - 3:07:30 God of War
2:54:30 Kratos
2:55:43 Agrabodga
2:57:31 Thrud
2:58:37 Jormungandr
2:58:57 Thor
2:59:22 Freya's house (the turtle tree)
3:00:25 Freya
3:02:00 Brok
3:03:25 Mimir
3:05:25 Sidri
3:12:45 Shiba Inu from Humanity
3:14:10 Mister Mosquito
3:16:38 review
The Shiba is from Humanity and the bug is Mr. Mosquito. The one at 2:30 is Kena.
Kain and Raziel are from Legacy of Kain. They just released the remasters at least on steam.
Wow you have alot of free time
@@unrealdragonax1662 its sunday
@@Wonton-the-Sea-SnailSunday is church day, jesus needs you
I like how he slowly went from "This game did not deserve game of the year, it probably doesn't even deserve my time, but I'll try it" to genuinely enjoying it and having fun. His reaction to the awards and his shock at astrobot winning was hilarious, the grin on Asmondgolds face as he progressed through the game grew larger. Ya, it's a great game, great fun.
He will not play it again. I am 100% Same thing happened to Metaphor: ReFantazio
nobody said it wasnt a great game, its just not goty material for a lot of people. its a fun nostalgic old school platformer, but thats it. its not groundbreaking, it didnt have epic moments thats wow worthy, it didnt provoke thought or touched hearts. it didnt make me finish the game and go "wow that was an experience". its a solid, great game. but it didnt deserve goty, and thats just my opinion.
@@lodsup exactly. its the best plataformer of the year, its one of the best games, for sure, solid, with lots of love and cute references, its probably the best modern 3d colactaton plataformers like banjoo we got since, probably a hat in time.
but its just not game of the year.
@@tr909love He did play Matephor a lot, he played it by himself because he wants to enjoy it more
@@marcosdheleno why not lol
honestly, im pretty okay with it winning goty. gotta remember gaming isnt just for us in our 30s. My daughter loves the game, might even be considered her introduction to games in the same sense mario or sonic was alot of ours
My son and I played it together and he loved it.
He kept asking every time we rescued a special bot: dad did you play that game when you were my age?
And I would pause the game and show him a clip of said character on RUclips. I would tell him about the game and if I enjoyed it.
And then we rescued Spyro and then it hit me… I did the same thing with my dad when we played Sypiro on the PS1.
I got emotional because the cycle is repeating now with me as the dad raising the next generation.
Goddamn it it was a beautiful moment
@@mrk09988 That's so nice to read ! especially from someone who learned game by himself with no dad in sight. Spyro was my third game after tekken 3 and mario.
It's also a technical masterpiece. The physics engine. The particle effects. The DualSense controller integration (which is impossible to convey without experiencing it yourself) etc etc
I love platform games and this is genuinely top 3 platform games if all time it's that good
Nintendo game should have won GOTY every year then, since most of their games are family friendly
Beginning of the stream: "How did this win against Wukong"
End of the stream: Happiest smile on Asmongold's face in years.
I think you miss the part where he said not better than wukong. 3:16:40
@@LiLVaanxDafter watching him play wukong compared to watching him play this, he clearly wants to continue to make himself believe that he actually enjoyed Wukong more than this. The fact of the matter is that he absolutely didn’t. Wukong is certainly more his style, and he certainly it enjoyed the challenge of that game, but he was clearly enjoying this game from beginning to end. He went into Wukong expecting to really like it, and he confirmed his preconceptions. He went into Astro Bot expecting to hate it and he absolutely changed his opinion within the first 30 minutes.
33:15 I like this part. At first its just nothing, but then you later realize that its purpose is to redirect your eyes into where the bot was hanging.
It's not just that. It's to take cute or funny pictures with the in game camera you get later. The robot being there was an happy coincidence! Or was it? One can never tell with this game, so many secrets and surprises. I love this game so much.
It's so refreshing to see Asmon having a genuinely fun time playing a game!
This. As sarcastic as he is you know 100% hes having fun, just ilke the only other time he looked like he was genuine was dragon ball z
Elden ren, bmw he was getting angry and stressed, toxic.. sure he enjoys those but like you say “ genuine fun’
It was so great to see. He was trying hard to keep the fasade intact but in the end he just embraced the fun. Can't wait to see todays stream.
Literally this
People freaking out that a interactive movie with "hyper realistic graphics" didn't win GOTY
Games are supposed to be fun, and he sure had fun here !
@Elion-c8t those are fun tho. Some of the best video games ever made are exactly what you described. Theres nothing wrong with being a part of cool setpieces. Lots of people like them. I'm one of them! There are far more of these games being made today than these movie games that yall complain about allllll the freaking time! Yall need to stfu about it already
Of course Asmon had fun the game is for kids
This game has more animations than 10 AAAA games combined.
Well hang on... we only have 1 AAAA game so far.. we should definitely wait until the next 9 come out before we say something like that...(not holding my breath)
Let’s just pretend Skull and Bones never happened 😂
Lol, it really doesn't
Guess you gotta open your eyes a little more
@@YTwcher did you not see those leaves on the ground and their physics?! I was honestly pretty impressed by all the little details and polish in the game
@@An.Unsought.Thought atleast they made whole lvl for the 1 aaaa game in astro bot
I played AstroBot Rescue Mission on the PSVR, Astro's Playroom and AstroBot.
The reasons this game deserves GOTY in my opinion are:
>The amazing use of the DualSense controller overall. Try slowly walking along various surfaces, it feels different. I felt even the tiny mushrooms separately from the ground in like the first level.
>It gets progressively harder and some of the Symbol bonus levels are a BE-ATCH.
>It pays homage to classic and popular video game characters (with the special Bots)
>When you play the game, the "overall feeling" you get is a good balance of good-natured fun and frustration
>Frankly cinematic, dark fantasy, gore, zombie, survival, warfare games are exhausting, the older some if not most people get, like the real world is already hard as it is, sometimes you just don't want to further stress yourself out when gaming and just want something light and fun.
> The subtle , referential humor is hilariously adorable if you know what you're looking at...
>For older gamers, seeing some of the PS1 characters especially just hits a cord.
> Astro's Playroom paid homage to the various PlayStation models over the years, Astro Bot is a love letter to most of PlayStation's greatest titles all over the years.
>Other game studios lent their IPs to Team Asobi, who, like I mentioned, paid homage to said characters.
> It's filled with heart. You know the people who designed each detail of each of the levels are really PlayStation fans.
...I have more reasons but I'll stop here.
In addition: I grew up with The Journey To The West story in many forms. As someone with a background in 2D and 3D animation, I very much appreciated Black Myth Wukong - especially the cutscenes. It made me very emotional several times, especially when one understands the references to the source material. It is indeed a work of art and literature. It deserves all the nominations. Despite that, for the reasons mentioned above and more, Astro Bot deserves the GOTY Award. Sometimes, it's not about "realism". It's unanimously reminded gamers world wide about the pure JOY of gaming - it called back to the roots of what video games did for millions of us.
3:16:38 opinion about astrobot
Ty
Doing the lords work. Thank you.
He did like it then. Just not more than wukong might be his personal preference.
Thanks,that's what i came here for
@@Mr.Cheeesse Astro Bot is fun because it's a kids game that appeals to anyone and everyone.
Wukong is rich with lore and is very immersive with its story telling and mythology. The game isn't hard it's just fun.
Atleast he tried, not like bunch of influencers who mad but not even try to touch it lmao.
Why would I play something made for babies we already had on PS4 lol😂
@@TheRetrostorian bro think bro cooking with this opinion .
Tell me you aren't og gamer without telling me you're aren't an og player.@@TheRetrostorian
@@TheRetrostorianpoor guy
did you need to eat shit to know it didn't taste good?
Edit: i think the game is actually okay, but you get my point, at the end of the day its just a well polished yet still generic and unoriginal super mario clone that was made for the same purpose and audience as the emoji movie. aint nobody need to play it to know exactly what it is.
This game takes full advantage of the PlayStation 5 controller. People don't discuss that portion very often.
Yea, it is the advantage only Sony and Nintendo has because their game integrated with the controller, which the game itself does not depends solely on the content but their controller, can be considered as a factor unfair to other game developer
Playstation 5 has a use? Real?
It's something you actually have to experience yourself to understand. How Astro translates the tactility of control and sound in your hands is its big innovation.
Can’t believe a baby game won….but then again Sony money is nice
Well yes this game is essentially advertisement for their console
I played and platinumed this whole game with my 7 year old daughter. I can’t thank this game enough for the memories it gave me and my daughter. Then to come to the trials… I thought this game was a walk in the park so I helped my daughter through the harder parts for her which were easy. Till we found the trials… oh man it had me raging for weeks. This game and the team that made it deserve this win so much. I haven’t played a game in so long with good game play good graphics and amazing sound design not to mention how well they implemented the dual sense. F all the haters this game deserve the win.
I felt same with my granddaughter. So much fun.
This comment!
The last time a game like Astro bot won goty was in 2008 which was Super Mario Galaxy and until then it was either an rpg game or a shooting, fighting game
It Takes Two won in 2021.
@@ForeverMasterless
That's RPG + Shooting + Puzzle + platformer.
Game awards started in 2014 bro.
So It Takes Two doesn’t exist?
@vemundbergliTGA didn’t invent Game of the Year…
the irony is most streamers who played astrobot, went in with 0 expectations or thought it was going to be garbage, most of them either loved the game or had a better opinion of it by the end. It's a game and you don't have to like it just like any piece of media.
It is a good game but it is not goty game. What's difference from Mario game beside it is made by SONY. What contribution does it did to the game industry/game community? Goty game should bring a new thing to the game industry and I don't think it fits goty title.
I don't have ps5 nor i plan to buy it. And nice one, goty game is blocked behind exclusivity
@@syancode black myth wukong literally brings nothing new to the table, it's just another "fight this boss in a room and roll 100 times"
@@syancodeSo, according to you, which one of the other games brought something "new" to be worthy of the GOTY title?
@@luisfelipecorreaastudillo7720it's a rip off of super Mario
gotta love that while he is trying to just troll, there are moments where he can't contain the simple joy of fun
Ya. He loks like hes having fun vs other times hes getting more and more toxic and angry..
Only other time is dragon ball .. and that stream was so fun to watch.
@@Dorokill yeah he had a little fun, he was blown away by wukong though. And that's the difference. That's why astrobot didn't deserve the reward.
@@TheRetrostorian keep coping
@@standheaykic66 Which is what folks usually say when they're wrong and have no valid defense of their position so, I agree!
@@standheaykic66are you a Sony sponsor
Calling in an ad is really weird to me. Everyone who plays it already has a PS5.
It's a celebration
@@devilvocano420I have every game I’ve ever own on any device on it lmfao
@@devilvocano420 no one really cares. Just have fun playing games bro
@@loogie_sp youre right, im just trolling
And i dont have a ps :(
You do realise it was just a joke, right?
Just as the villain being Xbox and all the systems being Nintendo that Sony was going to destroy hypothetically in Astrobot?
Kinda weird to call something an ad when the only device it can be played on was the device shown as the ad. Same goes for the robots he acquired, they were unrecognisable unless you knew the franchise. It's no ad, it's just paying homage.
Astrobot is a good game, it was clear from the moment we saw the trailer. It stole 99% from different games and they're not hiding that fact... It was inspired in almost every way, just improved where possible and put together in a new jacket. No shame in that.
@@devilvocano420 oh I gotchu man. Sorry it's hard to read sarcasm because of how these
"Gamers" act towards their choice of plastic box. My bad
Astrobot has been stellar. I did 100% of it.
The difficulty curve is perfect. It has some seriously difficult levels later on, the challenge levels.
The music and everything is just so good. I voted it for GOTY and was happy to see it win.
Yes! (:
difficult???? some of the extra levels are insane difficult!
Ain't no way fr?
Hope they're hard then 😅
Your vote was invalid brother.
Even if no one would vote for AB, it would still win due to only 10% votes from community
I hope they add more challenge levels. Those are where us old timers can get sweaty.
When they got GOTY they thanked nintendo without saying nintendo first and foremost and there are some really good compilations comparing moments from the astro bot to nintendo games and animations.
Honestly astro bot winning might be the right answer to the gaming industry right now. Where it's not about graphics or big budget's. But just the joy of playing games.
Yeah, let's go back to NES era, where the joy of playing games without graphics and big budgets😊
Please I need a new mega man game can we go back to the mindset that gave us those.
then i choose touch the grass，which pure joy
But that contradicts the narrative that videogames are ART! To be a great art, it has to have a grand narrative, stunning visuals or creativity. Fun is not art
It’s the best thing to happen to gaming today. It’s THE game that you can plug in and play with anyone of any age and have a lot of fun
17:46 "i can tell its made for kids cause im not getting confused" im fuking dying is the truth
I thought this game was a joke, but I played 25 hours until yesterday and got the platinum trophy. The important thing is that I had fun with my child for the first time on the PlayStation. I used to play the Switch with my child in the living room, but I always played the PlayStation secretly in my room alone. I can't play Stellar Blade and The Last of Us 2 with my child. My child watched the game and took turns challenging the stages with me. I became closer to my child, and this game was very valuable to me.
I understand you can't play with him, but why playing "secretly" ? Seriously ?
I always saw my cousins and others playing games with fights and blood it never traumatized me, most kids in my school were the same. You see far worse in tv all the time.
You can literally do this with almost any game 😂 how does this make Astrobot special?
I was thinking that: This is a switch experience but supercharged.
Might you even remember the name of your child now? Or am I taking it a step too far?
@@jy1178You play Stellar Blade with your kid?
This game uses the ps5 controller to the max. People dont talk about that part very much
Yup, even gotta blow on it. True immersion right there.
It's not that special tbh. You get used to it
@Skrittles-1 Yes but how many games have actually made use of those features? And I disagree with it being an Odyssey knock off, I played Odyssey right after Astro Bot and the types of moves/motions were completely different. Also as far as comparisons with 3D Mario platformers go, I'd even say that Astro Bot takes much more inspiration from Mario Sunshine (which I played right before Astro Bot) and Mario Galaxy (personal favorite platformer).
(Also not just the switch pro controller, the regular switch controllers also have motion sensors and such).
ye maybe bc astros playroom was made for people to see what ps5 controller can do and this game is sequel to that game so of course they will use ps5 controller to the max
I made a video about that
This was a rare year where I had actually played all the GOTY nominees. I thought Rebirth should have taken it, but all of the games deserved it, except Elden Ring because DLC. Astro Bot winning didnt bother me at all as it ultimately doesnt matter, and the game is great.
I agree 👍
but is rebirth a actual new game? isnt it just a remake of a game that already existed?
Rebirth was a meh game
@@Srstrix If you want to reduce it down to bare bones definitions, yes. But I think it's wildly different from the original and therefore able to counted as it's own thing.
@@Srstrix remake but from scratch with additional new content since they lost the old code, also the story is not completely 1 to 1 as well, leaving more room for new paths etc.
I think it's so interesting to have grown men, gamers, describe this game as "charming" and "precious." It's not an ad. It's a tribute to Sony PlayStation.
Spent the first 20 minutes making jokes and Mario references spent the last 3 hours actually enjoying it. ''Ok guys ok, yeah that was cool''. Hilarious.
I feel like this stream really healed the gaming community. Everyone here was ready to hate this and hated it a lot of the time but we all felt a lot better by the end that the Game Awards weren't rigged like we thought. I thank you Asmongold for taking your time to do this favor for us and have some fun along the way.
😂😂 no it didn't. Asmon is not that influential. And the game awards were absolutely rigged. Now go out and get you and your kids ps5 pro for Christmas to play this mid game
Still doesn’t make it better than wukong, as Asmon said at the end….😮
@@Harizuri0806 that is his opinion, but I and many others didn’t even have Wukong in the top 3. I had Metaphor at 1, Astrobot at 2, final fantasy at 3. For what it is Wukong is fun, but shallow. I don’t know why people are actually believing that it was even the runner up.
@Harizuri0806 Your pretty lame kid. This game was actually incredible. I smiled from beginning to end and watching doesn't do it justice. everything was so smooth and just fun
Haven't played Astrobot yet since I'm not a platformer person. But there were quite a lot of people, even streamers, who immediately said it was a game-of-the-year contender even the week it came out. That should have raised more eyebrows from folks discrediting Astrobot than the actual award itself. People just like to be upset that their opinion wasn't validated, rather than trying the game and/or accepting that not every game will be for them.
也许大家只是不喜欢结果被媒体操弄的感觉，这甚至和更喜欢哪款游戏无关。
It's one sad irony that the year we get GotY on the best video game in the roster, everybody else is harping on it. Where were these haters when Elden Ring or God of War happened to TGA?
@@ED-gw9rg 这波讨论中，TGA的支持者，据我观察，有两个问题。
一类人喜欢把持不同意见的人定性为hater。拜托，一场商业活动，几个大公司捧场，一帮所谓的专业媒体来装模作样的给些评价。哄大家开心就好了，还真指望所有人都认同呀？如果借助媒体渠道和商业平台给出意见，大众无条件认同，并且主动打压不同意见者，这样的社会才有问题吧？
另一类人则直言玩家没有资格决定评审结果，因为玩家玩过的游戏有限也不够专业。这就带来了另一个问题，既然否定玩家的评价资格，那玩家也就没有必要认同你的评奖结果。然后就会造成玩家群体的分裂，又给潜在的竞争者创造了机会。未来我们将会看到一个更加多元的评价体系，这当然也不是坏事。
说回TGA，就我个人来说，从一开始对这个奖项就没有任何尊重，本来我也不该参与争论。目前还愿意在网上争论的人，大致是心里还对这个奖项存有一些幻想的。也许以后就没了，也没什么不好。
I didn't know it existed and I was confused with Astros playroom. Looks like a fun game and probably did deserve goty. For me shadow of erdtree was goty. Truly an incredible expansion, the size of a full game
@@ED-gw9rgmy running theory is that many gamers discredit family friendly games for not dealing with mature themes or being difficult. couldn’t be further from the truth
People saying that it straight up copying Nintendo, but Wukong also kinda copied a lot of elements from dark souls or God of the war. Why’s is nobody saying that? I mean of course wukong is a very decent game, but if copying is the only element in judgement, then Wukong also does that, but nobody says anything, which seems highly unfair to me.
On of my favorite things is Asmon actively fighting against liking the game and it gets harder and harder for him. 😆
asmon changing his mind on something is my favorite asmon content
When will we see part 2 of him playing this game? I genuinely wanna see him try completing challenge maps 😅
@@mckinleyostvig7135he didn’t tho😂he said wukong is still his goty
I agree too Wukong is still mine and metaphor second astro is cool and all but if Mario Odyssey came out in 2024 will people say it's deserving goty?@@Harizuri0806
@@Harizuri0806he did. He expected the game to be garbage and inconceivable to have won goty. That perception changed. He still preferred Wukong (which honestly wasn’t even top 5), but he now recognizes that AstroBot is a legitimate winning-caliber game.
A platformer winning goty has all the rpg nerds trippin. As a fan of both genres I can unbiasedly say.. based
Ikr... As an avid player of Dark Souls and Elden Ring I still smile when playing Spyro: Reignited Trilogy for allowing me to relive my childhood era.
@@kevinclement1533and maybe, though unlikely, it gets sony to revisit Sly (undo thieves in time...) and Jak and such
I’m a diehard fromsoft/souls/soulslike fan since in my teens, but I absolutely loved astro bot, 100% well deserved win. Dudes that are unnecessarily hating on astro bot now are just kinda sad.
We consider games like Wukong and Lies of P souls-like. They take direct inspiration from those games, but Astrobot can't do the same with Mario... such hypocrisy from so many.
Wukong isn't a souls like. Also most souls like games are always compared to FromSoft games and to this day no one else has come close to being able to replicate their magic. The Mario comparison here is because no platformers seem to ever innovate except for Mario (in recent years). Astrobot is a great game, but it doesn't do anything Mario Odyssey didn't do back in 2017 on hardware 25% as powerful. Mario is the king of platformers and every game of the same genre will forever be compared to it. It is what it is.
@keithtestaverde3712 you can say Wukong isn't a soul like I get it, but it still uses many elements found in them. (Wukong wouldn't exist if it wasn't for fromsoft, at least not in the form it is today). Also, saying that no one has managed the magic from fromsoft is an opinion.
@@user-nk1hw5zl5y People keep saying Wukong revolutionize something but can't say what it did revolutionize. At release, it was badly optimization for some system. People bring the sales but forget that China is also its main market
It has a great graphic, good story (ofcourse, it is Journey of the West).
wukong meatriders its just a soulslike thats cool. Nothing too deep.
Don’t know why this has to divide people. We can obviously see Astrobot is heavily inspired by games like Mario and Donkey Kong. This is of course okay to a certain extent, we have so many games that inspire and make the entire industry better for it. I just think it’s a bit distasteful when you obviously set out to make a clone of a game. I don’t say Astrobot isn’t a great game. But definitely not the best game of 2024. It’s a fun kids game, they don’t bring anything new to the table of the gaming industry which is okay. Sometimes basic is best. But imagine if this continues to happen year after year. Obviously clones of popular franchises start winning game of the year awards. We lose innovation in the industry. I genuinely can’t say I cared about any of the other contenders for game of the year, even if the game was 20% worse and didn’t take all that “inspiration” from Mario I would have been okay with it winning. I just think it’s a bad example of what makes a game worthy of winning game of the year. For me this is the second worst game of the year winner of all time. Not by gameplay I’m sure I would love it. I also think exclusive games as game of the year is kind of silly but that’s not Astrobots fault that’s on the game awards
This is such a nice cemetery for all the dead Playstation IPs.
I was watching the stream for like 2h and i must say this was one of the most funny and genuine Streams i ever participated on Asmons Channel. No hating, no bad News, No Drama just Pure Gaming and Giggles. I never understood how people could endulge in Parasocial Environments but man this reminded me of my childhood, sitting next to my best friend playing playstation the whole afternoon. Nostalgia sometimes Hits hard.
The only other time i saw him like this was dragon ball sparking.. like..wow..
He was like this in his Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe playthrough as well. It was highly entertaining and fun. Strongly recommend you check it out if you haven't already.
This is the premise of Twitch. Extremely lonely people pretending to sit next to their best friend while he/she plays a video game, but the only way to get your friend to acknowledge you is to ‘donate’ to him/her.
It’s essentially a rent-a-friend service
The games create the atmosphere.
Astrobot did it all.
@@kylerpointerify KEKW TRUE
I think part of what helped astrobot when is it was different then most games we got recently that focus on the movie graphics, cinematics, being a playable story. this was just one of those sit down relax have fun dont take it too serious kind of games that have been missing for some time.
The game looks incredible tho, it has the visuals it has the physics and particle effects, it looks like a 3d animated pixar movie
@@petebagwell6666the theme of the game is terrible tho
@@benjis1189 nah it cool
@@petebagwell6666i think it's bullshit that a mario game never won goty but moment Sony copies mario game it suddenly wins goty. Makes no sense.
* B U Y A GO T Y 😂😂😂
14:57 "Oh we got penguins up here!" Yeah Asmon those famous pink Florida penguins......
honestly imo, a game like this winning the GOTY is kind of needed in a way. I saw someone else said in the comment that, game like this seems to be drowned under the abundance of other action rpg games out there, to the point that we expect games to look like or similar elden ring/black myth wukong to win GOTY.
Imo, elden ring is the unique one, as in, bringing the souls like gameplay into an open world scale, which i have never seen before. But black myth wukong seems like the usual action RPG just with newer graphic and based on chinese culture (or myth, idk). Space Marine 2 & Helldivers 2 is the usual horde shooter game. we got plenty of this "realistic gritty games" that im honestly sick of it, like, good god brighten the games for fck sake lmao. Take Monster Hunter series for example, sure its an ARPG & in a way, its kind of grim, but the game vibes is pretty lighthearted & you have talking cats that walk on two fking feet, how cute is that!?
I hope next year we will have much more variety in video games, hell, i hope there will be new lego games, anime games and more silly, creative & lighthearted games. Souls like, dark ARPG can chill out for goodness sake lol. Give us a game that can brighten our day and enjoy it together with friends/family, instead of another game that appeal to the hardcore, sweaty gamers.
Theres a tactility to playing Astro Bot that people are unlikely to understand unless they try it themselves. It's the only game I've ever seen where the insanely specifically utilized rumble is used to actually enhance the experience. So much would actually be lost in a transition to a PC port that I don't think it's worth it. The game absolutely deserved the GOTY win.
Pc games can use any controllers. It’s just a good children’s game. Nothing long lasting or amazing like bg3 or witcher3.
Didn't deserve it. You get used to the dualsense after a while.
Nothing special in it
Also is a very mind-numbing, scripted experience. Not fun at all
@@monalisa-bs4zswhat's wrong with children's games winning GOTY? There was a time all of them were children's games.
@@monalisa-bs4zsit could come to pc but they’d have to force the dualsense or rework many aspects of the game which would piss people off regardless. They heavily put the dualsense features into the core gameplay/level design. Reminds me of Wii and WiiU type games.
@@monalisa-bs4zs It has less flaws than bg3 or witcher 3. It looks extremely polished with perfect gameplay.
I don’t care what anyone says. It deserved it. My favorite games growing up were platformers like Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank and many others. I still play them every few years over any other game I could replay. This game reminded me just how damn fun games can be and there are so many ideas crammed into each level. Haters gonna hate
Buy a Nintendo switch bro! You''ll have Mario oddysey and Bowsers fury and much more Platformers at your disposal. Mario galaxy one of the greatest platformers ever made is on there too with Mario sunshine and 64 (special editon or something)
@ already have since day 1 brother! Funny enough, I never got around to Mario galaxy when I was a kid. Tried to recently get it in the 3D all stars pack but since Nintendo had the bright idea of making it limited time, they’re like $160 for a used copy in my area 😂
Gamers today are stupid with the generation Z gamers.
Chinese mega corporations like Tancent release the same shit every year, mass produced copies of souls games like Wukong.
And people think they're masterpieces. They gobble it up. But there was a time when companies in Japan and USA innovated.
Why does his face at the end while giving his take on the game look like "man I talked a lot of crap about this game and now look at me" lol. Better than Wukong? Obviously debatable but if you can't see why people like this game I don't know what to tell you. Maybe it's not your genre because you like hard games or more adult games, but as someone who played all of the nominees and loves both Sony and Nintendo, Astro Bot charmed the hell out of me from start to finish.
I was telling everyone this was my favorite game all year, never thought I’d Win goty, but also wasn’t surprised. It’s beautiful. Fun. Engaging. Entertaining. Difficult but not extremely difficult. It’s legit a perfect “game”. Loved seeing admins hate to pure enjoyment thru this.
average 10 year old
@@MartyMcfly-b7ctalking about yourself ?
Pocket pair: makes a game that is like Pokemon but puts their on spin on things and adds more to it
Internet: this is revolutionary.
Sony: makes a game that shares similarities with mario but with their on spin on things and they add their own characters to celebrate the 20 years of PlayStation where the content within the game is not grindy or repetitive.
The Internet: this is just a mario ripoff.
Wukong and other Soulslikes can take inspiration from Dark Souls, but can't take inspiration from Mario I guess.
CONCORD WAS ROBBED😡😡😡😡😡😡
That game was never Robbed, because that game is dead
Nah. In my opinion I think concord should’ve won
4/10 rage bait.
The highest rated media since morbius
Jesus christ have you restarts never heard of a joke.
I honestly thought Wukong would win GOTY but Astro Bot really caught me by surprise. But the game really doesn't deserve the hate, it's actually a really enjoyable fun game.
Deserves all the hate it can get.
Mind-numbing, scripted experience.
Boring gimmicks.
@@YTwcherwho hurt you?
@YTwcher damn if you find those boring then you must be a simple CoD shooter or a NBA2K brainrot gamer.
Gameplay is quite engaging, and if that's truly boring you should put subway surfers on while you play to help you stimulate your mind.
@@astroroyal3903 Nah they just want the next souls clone
@OverTheTaco. Where did you get souls game from Astra Bot? We did play the same game right, cause like I just can't see where the hell you got it being a souls game clone from.
Unless you are talking about Wukong, in which yes it is a dark souls, and a great one in that fact, I enjoyed Wukong greatly.
Thanks for playing. I remember Maximo were my favorite platforms.
You remind me of a friend I had, David Blacketer. Hung his mouth open when he played games, animated when bad things happened, quiet during triumphs, and all around a total friend to game with.
3:17:03 To be fair, Astro did start as basically a demo for the dual shock. People just really liked it.
Nope, it started as a demo for the Playstation camera, then it got another demo for PSVR, was fleshed out to a full PSVR game later, got a small release game for PS5 which integrated Dualsense features and was then blown up to the larger game we have now.
@@jinpachinko6106and Astro's Playroom was an awesome nostalgia blast, with the worlds being about PS1, 2, 3, and 4...
this game is amazing. can you even imagine how you would feel if you were a kid and this was the first game you played? i'm 40 and i can't stop smiling watching this.
Let's be honest, lots of games today have great superficial visuals (souls games, etc).
But at heart, they are corridors or levels with limited gameplay.
This game has actual gameplay and mechanics and physics.
It's a game that oozes "I got designed painstakingly by smart people and high budget, and wasn't just mass produced".
Baldur's Gate 3 is the only other game I can think of like that.
This was easily the most enjoyable game for me this year from start to finish.
And that is why this game won GOTY. It’s just that fun
People who don't get it simply haven't played it.
I haven't smiled so big in years.
It's a good game, but I don't think it's the reason why it won the game of the year.
@@rockyshi9609then elaborate, instead of adding a comment that adds zero value to the discussion. Let me help you. Why do you think that this game won, other than it just being an extremely fun game?
@@Godsbackhand7 he means that sony sponsored the award show! I mean its a ps5 exclusive game so no pc and no xbox so millions of players can't even play it. Astobot is a little fun game nothing special but Solid award winning game? No surley not but they did win Goty so it is what it is.
It's actually pretty hilarious watching him go from "wtf is this crap?" Then slowly realizing this game is absolutely friggin awesome. 😂
To all the haters. Just pay attention to Asmon's face many times during that stream, when he is silent and starts to smile naturally.
This is why Astrobot is so good to all people who played it. Even as a grown-up you go back to your gaming moments when you discovered games as a kid. Its THAT fun
Asmon smiled playing wukong too what's your point? Also not to mention where asmon still prefers wukong as his goty despite playing this game. Also to mention wukong won PLAYERS VOICE award, aka the goty thst was voted purely by gamers and not journalists that were paid
Game is the real goty honestly, it’s pure fun, I played both and I prefer Astro bot, it reminds me of when I was a little boy playing Mario 64 all time
he's smiled playing other games, what about if you don't like platformers and didn't play games as a kid? or you enjoy other genres? or ppl "remember their childhood games" through other games they enjoy playing?oh dear, there goes your dumb narrative eh.
He even smiles when he playes Enotria.
15:00 asmongold's "look at all those chickens" moment
I think people associate non mature themes in games with a lower quality experience and this is just not the case. It is just a pure fun experience, the way games should be. You can put the game down and come back to it days later and not lose a beat.
Astro Bot is a great game. I didn’t expect it to win, but I’m not mad it won, which is exactly what I think they were going for when they voted for it.
Astro bot is a solid 6.5
It's woke.
@@JamieWoods00746bro Astro bot is not woke 😭
@@JamieWoods00746 There is literally zero politics in Astro Bot. There isn't even any dialogue, and it has games like Stellar Blade and Mr. Mosquito represented which do not align with whatever "woke" has become associated with nowadays
If you are tasteless yes
It’s not a ad…it’s a love letter
Absolutely
No. It’s an actual ad in order to show the player the PS5 and its controller’s features. That was the entire point of Astro’s Playroom. That demo was so liked Sony greenlit an entire game.
@@kylerpointerifynot an ad as much as a showcase. But Astro Bot is much more of a full game than Astro’s Playroom.
@ yes Astro Playroom.
@@kylerpointerifyBro, if you already playing Astrobot, then you don't need an ad for PS5 or it features
That`s why i love Asmongold, plays both games and gives a valid opinion. Not like majority of people who never played one or the other game and complain all the time..
asmongold has all kinds of opinions of games he never played or never will play 😆
@@topy706 step in the right direction then hhh
he did talk bad about it too much without ever even playing it, thats childish behaviour
@@Dan-hz4vf Many influencers are like this unfortunately, at least he went and buy it. Angry Joe just hated on Astro Bot without trying it.
@@Alex-rl7tp yea, it’s all rage bait, that’s what happens when you get paid to sit in front of a computer and push for views for higher payouts
I recently started it myself in the last few weeks and it's brought me nothing but joy. Once you play it for yourself you understand why it's special, if Nintendos platformers are continuously regarded as the greatest games of all time Astrobot surely had a case for goty. It's a beautifully made game that leaves everyone who plays it happier than they went in.
Astrobot is a great game. Wasn’t shocked at all when it won.
按这个标准，无限暖暖也可以伟大的游戏呢，虽然西方玩家可能没听说过~
其实我最期待的是明年以及之后几年，各大制作公司好好发力，拿出过硬的作品来说服玩家。今年这种端水游戏，实在无趣的紧。
@秋分-d8i it's not lmao
the god of war level was a love letter for the fans, i kinda see why people liked it, is not a bad game by anymeans, it's one of the best Mario-like outhere that's for sure.
"Mario-like"
BRO.. PLATFORMER 💀
@@Elion-c8top isn't a gamer
@@dangerousfelon honestly lol
It's better than mario
These Mario-likes are getting out of hand!
The seething hate comments of the BM:W fans getting drowned by emojis and being ignored is so fcking hilarious lmao
I think astrobot recieving goty is not too surprising. Wukong might be great, but it is a pretty specific genre that isn't for everyone. Astrobot is more approachable and can be enjoyed by a wide variety of people. And the quality is definitly up there with other great platformern like mario odyssee.
but according to people that haven't played it its now considered a "kids game"
@@thatmemeguy2520it’s funny too, since the game was definitely made for adults, but could also be enjoyed by kids. All of the games that were showcased in Astrobot were titles that go back two decades. Likely, only someone in their 30s would have any connection to all of those PlayStation games.
"Bro I'm playing an ad !"
Bro, you're playing a love letter to Playstation.
PLAYESTIERCOL 😂😂😂😂
Or a re-skin of every 3D Super Mario game ever made....
@@AxelordSMIJES That's an opinion sure, but Mario isn't the only 3D platformer. Are the latest first-person shooters just re-skins of Goldeneye or Wolfenstein, or another popular shooter?
Remember when games were just silly fun and exploration? This has the widest range of playability on the list, that's a GOTY for sure (if you own a PS5). Might get a ps5 after seeing this lol
Mario wonders had all that but didn't win goty, mario odyssey had all that but didn't win goty, but when SONY makes a mario game! Oh! It's goty!
I don't see buying a $500 console for 1 game as worth it, tbh. Astro Bot's got me interested, but I have to admit it would be a waste of money for me to buy a PS5 just for that game. The only other PS5 exclusive game that I'm interested in is FF16 and that's on PC. I'm not expecting them to put Astro Bot on PC, though. That would be weird, since that would be like when they ported Super Mario 3D World to the switch. It'll be a bit weird cuz of how many features are specifically for the device it initially released on, so if they port it, they'll most likely have to remove or adjust some of the special, device specific, controls. However, I do find it weird that they removed the touch screen features of Super Mario 3D World even though the switch has a touch screen. I understand not having those features for docked mode, but handheld mode can definitely use those features just fine. Weird. Anyways, good thing my Wii U still works. lol
@@PulseOfMeit’s okay bro relax dry your eyes! Wukong can still win goty china 😭😭😭
CRINGE
@@PulseOfMe Its a platformer. Stop being a stupid fanboy.
I made a comment on the game awards video saying how he needed to play this and see for himself. I got a lot of hate for it.
I'm glad Asmon and some others are understanding now. Sometimes you need to just need a game that's simply something to be enjoyed. No microtransactions, no insane difficulty, no agenda pandering, just a really great game that can make us feel like we picked up Mario /Crash Bandicoot/Spyro again for the first time.
Game still looks horrible with bad graphics and a terrible music choice though.
I'd rather watch paint dry then play Astro Bot
the game is good, and shits on nintendogs which is always a plus, but is not game of the year material, its a kids game, standards are really low nowdays...
@@Goremize that’s cool the rest of us are gonna keep having fun with the game. You can go back to playing “Chinese dark souls” now :-).
@@Goremizeof course the furry has bad opinions what a surprise
@@Goremizecongratulations you've achieved "loser with no taste" status.
Keep seething that your monkey souls-ripoff didn't win
One Astrobot is all it takes,
To fall in love when Gaming again........
I love how as he plays from being skeptic to thoroughly enjoying the game even doing the stupid easter egg
Games like this are so great because it’s a game designed around just making sure the player has fun
if you're 5 y/o then sure
@ not every game needs to be a sweat-fest, deep, complex, or dark. Sometimes it’s good to just kick back and have a good time man
@@cliverossfield16 you must be a kid if you think these games are only for kids lol. when you get older you'll understand.
@@Ecksplisit Worse, he's not a 5 year old, he a manchild
@@Ecksplisit how is astrobot better than elden ring or wukong?
Calling Astrobot a Mario ripoff is like calling Hollow Night or anu other MetroidVania a Metroid ripoff.
It's not correct in any significant way that should matter.
"Oh look it dont even load right" 0:54 LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO
Correct me if I'm wrong, the only time platformer game winning goty is in the game awards 2021 which is it takes two. Mario Odyssey had a great chance to win in 2017 but get outshine by zelda botw, so I'm actually glad this year the game of the year goes to platformer and not action/rpg again. And to be reminder this game made by 60+ people and most of the employees is from japan, because team asobi is a part from japan studio that sony closing and this is actually the only chance for them to proving themselves to sony.
你说的都对，但和年度奖无关。如果以游戏类别评奖，那卡牌游戏得奖的意义更大。如果以团队故事评奖，很多团队都有自己的故事。而且吧，大家基本也认同小机器人是个很有趣的游戏，只是这个年度奖项评选，失去了部分玩家的信任。
@秋分-d8i 老实说，昨天 GOTY 提名最强的是 3 款游戏，分别是 ASTRO BOT、METAPHOR 和 BALATRO（因为这三款游戏都比 GOTY 之前获得了 3 个奖项），而 WUKONG 只获得了 2 个奖项，而 ELDEN RING DLC 则没有得不到任何奖励。 因此，即使 ASTRO BOT 没有获胜，METAPHOR 或 BALATRO 也很有可能获胜。 但最终，无论谁今年赢得了 GOTY，在我看来，都应该获胜，因为对于玩它的玩家来说，每个人都有自己的理由。 就我个人而言，今年我的年度最佳游戏是 METAPHOR，但我可以理解为什么 ASTRO BOT 能够获胜。 同样，和前一年一样，我的GOTY 2023是ZELDA TOTK，但我可以理解为什么BALDUR'S GATE 3可以获胜，我的GOTY 2018是RDR 2，但我可以理解为什么GOW可以获胜。 我要告诉你的是，不要纠结于谁是赢家，因为只要你喜欢你喜欢的游戏，那么无论是输赢游戏，它仍然是你可以轻松玩的游戏选择🙏
I'm sorry if my Chinese is bad because I'm just using Google Translate 🙏😅
@@DARUMA_05 your Chinese writing is great, google did a good job.
其实吧，我们和你们是不同的。
你们处在那个媒体和商业环境中，就好像处在自家后院，说花园里的哪朵花好看，当然都可以接受。
但是今年我们只是来做客的，瞅了瞅这里的装饰设计，感觉不太喜欢。也许明年就溜达到其他地方去了，当然也可能继续来捣乱~
这和游戏无关，游戏和制作者都是可爱的。我指的是这个评奖活动和它背后的评价体系。
@秋分-d8i 其实我也理解你和中国玩家的心情。 因为我其实是一个印尼人，去年2023年有一款印尼游戏首次入围GAMES FOR IMPACT类别的GOTY，游戏的名字是A SPACE FOR THE UNBOUND，当时所有印尼人都非常很高兴，因为印度尼西亚的游戏开发商终于受到了国外的关注，并可以在那里竞争。 但不幸的是，印尼开发商空手而归，没能获奖，而且我们当时的游戏输给了TCHIA游戏，该游戏有一个关于未成年儿童同性恋关系正常化的故事。 但幸运的是，当时的印尼人民并没有太在意，并试图放手，也许是因为没有人知道TCHIA游戏是什么样的，而且印尼的游戏媒体也没有真正炒作太多。 事实上，如果当时印尼媒体有勇气发声，我相信所有TGA社交媒体和游戏开发商TCHIA的社交媒体都会立即遭到印尼网友的攻击，因为我们大多数人民强烈拒绝WOKE议程，但似乎每个人都选择保持沉默并接受这一点......😔。
The director of this game worked on Super Mario Galaxy too, apparently
What I've noticed is that nearly everyone who played Astro loves it.
And nearly everyone who hasn't is angry on the internet right now about it winning GOTY.
Now if we just had a brain, so we could run these two thoughts simultaneously and see if we can derive any meaning or logic from it......
This is exactly it. So much of the game is made better by everything the controller does which you can’t see in a video.
The world isn't black and white. There are plenty of people who have played the game, thinks it's good or just okay, but not GOTY worthy.
@@jy1178 same with other games like Black Myth, with invisible walls and crap.
Tbf, people may not be able to play it as buying a PlayStation in this economy is not easy. It looks amazing nonetheless, but still.
@@jy1178 Sure but I've been asking people non stop for a long time now and nobody has said "It's just ok". I basically said as much in my comment.
Seeing Asmongold enjoy himself playing Astrobot was a joy to watch. I'm glad he understands why a lot of people really like Astrobot
I love how when this video was first posted all the top comments were negative, but as people have had time to watch the video and gameplay it has changed to mostly positive comments
Astro bot was just a tech demo for PS5 first, so makes sense the full game is alsobuild around the PS5
correction: it was a PS4 VR game at first. then ps5 demo.
@Vss077 Oh the ps5 demo was the first time i heard about it, so my guess was the full game was inspired by the demo
@@CatsLilaSalem The vr version was really good too. It was kinda like moss if you've ever played or seen that but done done better.
@@Vss077 Actually it goes back even further, the first "game" that featured the character astro bot was 'the playroom'.
Which was a demo for the dualshock 4 & ps4 camera.
'The playroom vr' came after that, then 'astro bot: rescue mission' which was the first game that wasn't just a demo.
Then we got 'astro's playroom' which was the free game that came with the ps5.
and now this one.
@@kiliandjfilms oh true i forgot that one. though iirc it didnt rly had "content" or at least i didnt recognize that i could do much there
Astrobot, the Wukong killer and Elden slayer
You just had to really rubb it in didnt you
so amazing it wasnt even on the players voice nomination.
This comment is fucking amazing
@@scottjefferson4048player nominations had 3 gachas it's would turn into China awards category
Wu kong did win ultimate game of the year award from Golden Joystick award 2024 tho. Why people so sad 😂😂😂. Leave this mascot scheme alone guyd
If a person can't find joy in this game I just feel sorry for them
Seeing the first 45 minutes of him straight up hating on it (which by the way his points were savage and completely valid) but then as it progressed, you get to see a smile on his face randomly from awe, his eyes lock in, he leans forward and starts saying things like "gotcha bitch!" and "I've got this I've got this I've got this" and "we are FARMING THE FUCK OUT THIS LETS GOOOO"
After all these years watching Asmon play games, this was sincerely an absolute joy to watch. I was hating on the idea of it getting goty until now. (sort of, it's incredible but I can name 10 other games that deserve better) but seeing his opinions fade into enjoyment help tilt my views. CINEMA
Simple doesn't equal bad. Something that this generation fried on dopamine does not and will not understand.
This is too true.
But simple also doesn't equal best.
Simple also doesn't equal the best like the guy above me said
@@TheRetrostorian When has anyone said that though lol
@@volpe_sol Wukong was best this year. We all know it. The rest is just coping. Astrobot was fine, but not best. Best means "Most loved, most played, most updated, cutting edge, most exciting" that's what best means. Super Mario Galaxy was best when it came out, super Mario 64 was best when it came out, astrobot is not best for doing something both those games did 20 years ago without really adding anything new or challenging to the formula. I love retro Games, I've played them all, and to say that given the offerings this year that astrobot is best is wrong. It's not even a question.
This game 1000% deserves GOTY! It's a homage to how we grew up in the 90's & what games should be, just a solid fun game with no strings attached; how we use to play & enjoy games & astro bot proves that we want these games back
It's crazy how much AAA game studios lost their way, and the answer was right there all along. Nintendo never stopped making fun games, everyone else was like "let's make a movie you can play".
uhuh, except if you don't like platformers and/or enjoy playing other games, ya I know shocking but people do enjoy other games and are just fine with how things are now. Get over yourself.
@@voidox 'get over yourself', bro you're the one with the weird salty comment
@@Daniel-t5v4k you mad?
it's not about good or bad,
it just I never imagined a game that look and ooze such comfortable and relaxed could be a game of the year,
it's so *SHOCKING* more than anything else as I always have the impression of it's being throned to something that Intense or fierce.
why not? if anything, its more common for indies and similar games to win, if not astrobot, it would've been balatro. and next year it will be hades 2(if it does full release next year).
Well this game is nostalgic, this game have formula that every body love. Kids, adults, old. Same as it’s predecessor like spyro, ape escape, banjo-kazooie, crash, croc, mario etc. wukong is good, but it’s not for everybody.
This
Absolutely not my style of a game (i'm 45), but man.. the quality of it is amazing. Literally flawless production. Would buy it for a grandkids no matter the price.
Why not just say ‘the quality of this title is amazing’? No need for all the extra fluff
Being 45 doesn't mean a thing. I'm 41 and I love this game.
Not every game has to be drab, edgy and "mature" and everyone wanting those games only is part of why gaming is so boring now. It's all the same stuff and the same thing 10 million times gets so damn boring.
@@Gamesta100 i wasn't implying that it's bad, not at all.
I'm 46 but I'd play this, just because I like fun games, looks better damned. Though I'm a PC gamer so would have to wait to see if they release it on steam.
The irony is that my 10 year old would probably turn her nose up at this because of it's looks though 😂
Even if I was 80 and near death I'd play this game over Wukong.
because I want to have FUCKING FUN.
I think the best praise I heard from this game is that it's a celebration on who Sony was and not who they are.
Ahhh that’s a good one.. and the people working on this didn’t seem toxic, seem really humble. Used all the creative juices.. and homage to all their IPs..
I agree
Now release on pc, sony.. prove everyone wrong let a bunch of people experience this
It goes even deeper, that's because Sony Entertainment was in Japan in the past, then they moved their HQ to California...
The team that made this game (Astro Bot) is "Team Asobi", they are the remains of "Studio Japan" which was closed in the process of moving to California.
This sends a huge message to Sony that they should go back to their roots, which is basicly Japan and putting fun / creativity first.
Sony has forgotten why they were successful during the PS1 and PS2 days. Astro Bot is a good reminder but I doubt they will awake from their slumber.
They're ready to churn out more games dead on arrival unfortunately.
Yup, it's too bad I'll never play it because Sony won't let me lol
Plays endless Souls clones.
"It's just MaRiiOoO."
How about Super Mario Odyssey? This game looks so much same to me
@@taurz1718your not the brightest are you… that’s his point, you say that while playing the same souls clone as dark souls in 2011
This.
People will never fucking admit this but after Demon's Souls and DS1, the souls formula just became stale.
Even Wukong is just a copy of something like Jedi Survivor.
This is the most fun I've had watching a let's play in a long time. I usually turn it off before 20 minutes in
Now that I see the gameplay I dont mind this game winning GOTY anymore, this is what gaming was back in the day, just fun games to enjoy with fun characters like Crash, Spyro, Mario, Pacman, Megaman, Sonic, Jak, Sly Cooper and so much more. Great game and glad it won GOTY 😅
would be neat if it'd cause SONY to revive Jak and Sly (undoing thieved in time)
it’s a good game, just not GOTY
@@thevannmannna it definitely deserved the win
@@thevannmann maybe in your opinion but in mine it deserved GOTY and hopefully it inspires others to make great platformer games
Astrobot is the most videogame-ass videogame in the past decade. I don't have a PS5, but from what I've seen of it, it exudes that whimsical fun that reminds me of why I loved gaming in the first place.
i'm glad astro won, that will show producer what gamers really want. pure entertainment and no politics in games
Fun drinking game take a shot everytime Asmon says "that's pretty cool"
or Nintendo