4Player Podcast #667 - The 2020 Awards Show (Part 3)
4Player Podcast
Nick Henderson
4.8 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The past year has been anything but normal but we press on as usual with our annual awards show. Unlike in years past, we are eliminating runner-ups and honorable mentions in favor of a coordinated effort that eliminates any overlap between our choices. That means more games are honored in each category! In part 3, we discuss the following categories:
- Best Debut
- Best Looking Game
- Best World / Level Design
- Best Storytelling
This episode includes a short sample from Krispy's favorite soundtrack of the year: Kentucky Route Zero
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to part three of the Four Player 2020 award show. |
| 0:04.1 | In the interest of accessibility, we have decided to split this episode into five parts. |
| 0:08.4 | In this segment, we're going to discuss our choices for best debut, |
| 0:11.8 | best looking game, best world slash level design, and best storytelling. |
| 0:16.7 | Once this episode is over, you can move on to the next episode for more awards, |
| 0:20.2 | and be sure to check out the community top 10 list over at 4Playnetwork.com. |
| 0:24.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome back to the show, everybody. We still got more awards to go over. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm not crying. |
| 0:45.4 | We're going to start this segment with Best Debut, New IP. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm going to continue to compose myself. |
| 0:50.1 | Brad, you get... My award for Best New IP slash debut is Monster Train. |
| 0:55.0 | This is one of my favorite games in the year. |
| 0:57.0 | We've talked about it some already. |
| 1:00.0 | Let me just say this. |
| 1:01.0 | When I think about this topic, I think of like, oh, this is, you know, maybe a first new game from maybe a new studio. |
| 1:07.0 | It doesn't always have to be. |
| 1:09.0 | I've never played anything from this studio before. I was super skeptical of this game because I'm like a hardcore Slay the Spire fan and people are telling me, hey, this is just like Slay the Spire. If you like Slay the Spire, you should like this. And I'm like, fuck you. You don't know what I like. You know, Slay the Spire special. You can't just copy it or whatever Granted, this game doesn't copy Slay the Spire |
| 1:27.2 | But they were right |
| 1:28.0 | It is fucking great |
| 1:29.9 | And I want to see You can't just copy it or whatever. Granted, this game doesn't copy Slate Aspire, but they were right. |
| 1:28.1 | It is fucking great. |
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