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don’t tell Lea
the one-and-only reason CrossCode takes the number one slot instead of the number two in my favorite games is that I consider Undertale more along the lines of “a thing that happened to me”sorry bb I still love you more than life
it’s just, like, y’know, it’s Undertale.
Undertale is also my the go-to for the games as art debate. It’s a truly rich narrative that can only take place within the context of a video game and is enhanced knowing the history of RPGs. You cannot recapture it in any other medium without genuinely losing something that elevates it. It’s the easiest and the most-credible thing I can point to and say “that is art that works and thrives specifically because it is a game”
going to the Wikipedia page and getting unreasonably offended and incensed in retrospect that it didn’t take any award home from The Annual Geoff Keighley Show nor was it even nominated for Best Narrative, let alone GOTY
this is my Citizen Kane snubbed at the Oscar’s moment. you’re telling me Fallout 4 was up there on the GOTY nominations in the Undertale year? even if this is fundamentally a clown show, I still have to ask, was your mind inhibited by some sort of ingested substance?
I might be misremembering stuff but I feel like back then award shows were even more of a big bois club then today. Meaning that if you arent AAA or REALLY popular you dont have a shot at winning.
I could see Undertale winning nominations if it was released today and as successful as back then. Even though I doubt it would win GOTY due to biases.
Undertale isnt in my top 10 but I will never be suprised to find it in someones top 10.
I also like the bit where you go on a spaghetti date with the silly skeleton man. that's the real art :)
serious tho, I wonder if deltarune will have even a fraction of the legacy. it's much harder to do that as this years long project, even one with the depth in character, world, and themes DR has. undertale just hits you like a truck, then you go back in and it hits you again; there are few games that have done metatextuality within games, and none that have done it as well as UT