Stories are about conveying the journeys, life events, struggles, joys and conflicting emotions of complex characters. They don’t need to have similar experiences as me, or from the same culture or moral code as I am for me to understand what they go through and enjoy the experience.

It could be a story of a whole upside down moral system in another culture, and I’m still capable of understanding and empathizing or at least valuing the journeys they had and the interesting decisions they made under the impact of all that’s been happening to them.

That said, you don’t need to relate to every character to appreciate their journey. You just need to witness their experience and understand that it’s their journey with all its decisions, morality and emotions and value it for what it is.

There hasn’t been any reports on Pragmata being cancelled. They delayed it indifferently and showed glimpse of gameplay just few months ago.

Anything from Hideo Kojima, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy (mainline series) and AAA PlayStation Studios single player story driven games.

Mass Effect

Of course the should be considered for GOTY. They are a game built from the ground up. Whether they made changes or not, if it’s a great game, then it deserves it. Maybe the original version was great but didn’t win at the time. It’s great to give it another chance.

Video Game Awards are about awarding great work, not drawing arbitrary lines to discredit it. And many games are either too old or the remakes were too big of a leap that they look/feel like a brand new game to most current gamers.