It can't stand on its own. You need another game for you to even be able to play it. If you can't buy a DLC, and play it without the base game then it could, but by definition DLC is not MAIN content. Red Dead Redemption had that Zombie DLC that was standalone, and could be played for instance. You would have had to change the entire market, and gaming industry in a DLC for this to be even something to consider, and even then make a fn' DLC category.
@@DickDickstein Yeah that's actually a good point. Because you NEED to play a big portion of the base Elden Ring in order to play the DLC. While other games that I mentioned you don't need to do so, so yeah in that sense, the DLC doesn't stand on it's own, because you need to play what came before to experience it. Interesting.
The thing is, the JOURNALISTS haven't played all of the games nominated (corporations aren't people. IGN is not one guy that played all the games). Hell, the journalists haven't played a crap ton of games that they snubbed for nomination. So they're opinion holds as much weight as a gamer that didn't play all the games nominated.
You do have people like the Jeff Gerstmann Show in the jury that are just a one man show from what I saw...if you check other juries you could most likely find more that are the case. But yeah having big labels like Rolling Stones, Variety, LA Times or even The Atlantic (I actually dig The Atlantic but like wtf? Videogames? Since when?)...having all of these labels it's easy to understand why many eyebrows go up. Plus I'm betting we going to have a bunch of Hollywood bullshit that is incredibly unwelcome if you ask me. Game Developers should present the Game Awards, not Hollywood people
If the Dlc have multiple layer of content that almost as long as the main game and expanded upon its story, it could.
Yeah, the DLC can stand on it's own easily, and at least in my book it definitely deserves at least a nomination for GOTY this year
It can't stand on its own. You need another game for you to even be able to play it. If you can't buy a DLC, and play it without the base game then it could, but by definition DLC is not MAIN content. Red Dead Redemption had that Zombie DLC that was standalone, and could be played for instance.
You would have had to change the entire market, and gaming industry in a DLC for this to be even something to consider, and even then make a fn' DLC category.
@@DickDickstein Yeah that's actually a good point. Because you NEED to play a big portion of the base Elden Ring in order to play the DLC. While other games that I mentioned you don't need to do so, so yeah in that sense, the DLC doesn't stand on it's own, because you need to play what came before to experience it. Interesting.
The thing is, the JOURNALISTS haven't played all of the games nominated (corporations aren't people. IGN is not one guy that played all the games). Hell, the journalists haven't played a crap ton of games that they snubbed for nomination. So they're opinion holds as much weight as a gamer that didn't play all the games nominated.
You do have people like the Jeff Gerstmann Show in the jury that are just a one man show from what I saw...if you check other juries you could most likely find more that are the case. But yeah having big labels like Rolling Stones, Variety, LA Times or even The Atlantic (I actually dig The Atlantic but like wtf? Videogames? Since when?)...having all of these labels it's easy to understand why many eyebrows go up. Plus I'm betting we going to have a bunch of Hollywood bullshit that is incredibly unwelcome if you ask me. Game Developers should present the Game Awards, not Hollywood people