The Game Awards (Or Spike's VGA's) Tonight! (December 5th, 2014)

B.A._Baracus

Tonight is The Game Awards but as the thread title says it was known as Spike's VGA show for quite a few years.

Just thought I would create a thread as am sure people will be talking about it later on. You can watch it live on youtube, twitch, etc and it starts at 2am
GMT as it's held in Las Vegas.

http://www.thegameawards.com

Noteable games to be shown:
- 'Metal Gear Online' (or simply Metal Gear Solid 5's multiplayer)
- Street Fighter 5. Capcom made a mistake and revealed the title today but then took down the videos.

super_furry

Got my Doritos and Mountain Dew standing by.

richymcdermott

Want:

The Last Guardian
Spyro by Insomniac
Shenmue 3
Crash by Naughty Dog just to relive my ps1 days
Ape Escape
Kula World
Tombi 1 and 2 in hd remastered

CastorTroy

Time to dig up the Half Life 3 thread again?

Looks like will wait until tomorrow to watch it

rizzla

An episodic South Park game would be nice, they already have the engine.

I have a feeling alot of ports will be announced.

calex71

My heart would love a Fallout 4 and Borderlands 3 announcement but my head knows neither will happen at this.

But maybe some news on Dragons Dogma, I posted over in the other thread that capcom have registered a European trade mark for one.

Kylo Ren

calex71 wrote: »

My heart would love a Fallout 4 and Borderlands 3 announcement but my head knows neither will happen at this.

But maybe some news on Dragons Dogma, I posted over in the other thread that capcom have registered a European trade mark for one.

Skyrim was announced at the game awards so it's not entirely out of the realms of possibility.

tok9

richymcdermott wrote: »

Want:

The Last Guardian
Spyro by Insomniac
Shenmue 3
Crash by Naughty Dog just to relive my ps1 days
Ape Escape
Kula World
Tombi 1 and 2 in hd remastered

Just add Fallout 4 and Half Life 3 to that list.. at least take a few gambles would you. All the above are obviously going to be revealed

tok9

Keno wrote: »

Skyrim was announced at the game awards so it's not entirely out of the realms of possibility.

Bethesda have already said they aren't showing anything.

Kylo Ren

tok9 wrote: »

Bethesda have already said they aren't showing anything.

Show ends.

"Oh, just one more thing."

Head of Obsidian walks onto stage. Stream starts to lag with high spike in viewers.

"We know Bethesda said they weren't announcing anything, but we've been working on a sequel of our own"

97% of the worlds internet bandwidth is now being used to keep this stream up.

Alpha Protocol 2

The world economy collapses and never recovers.

ShadowHearth

Did they changed the name, because last years show was a train wreck?

CastorTroy

Pretty much, yeah. They're revamping so it's no longer associated with Spike, it's being funded by Geoff Keighly and it's pretty much being all organised/contributed to by the industry players like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Valve, EA, Ubisoft, etc.


Would love a Metroid announcement

B.A._Baracus

Here is the link to youtube when it starts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlLvCLP2h84

CastorTroy

Wonder if we'll get the 3 US console company heads on stage together, or even pics of them backstage. Though Reggie may be a bit confused wondering what happened the guys who were the heads this time last year.

Present the Game of the Year award and just before it announce "Super Smash Bros Allstars Battle Royale with...um...Master Chief"

tok9

I'm looking forward to seeing some trailers but I really hope this awards show actually goes well and is presented in a relatively respected manner.

I'm not expecting any grammy type event and I know there are already some excellent awards such as the Dice awards etc, but it's always nice to have a big celebration of something you love.

Just please... no mountain dew everywhere

B.A._Baracus

Ol' Reggie up first

B.A._Baracus

Twitch stream is surprisingly ahead of the youtube stream. Only about 30 seconds but weird. Would have put money on that Youtube would be more "live" so to speak.

Kylo Ren

Think of some of the levels the Japanese are going to make with Mario Maker. *shudder*

B.A._Baracus

Metal Gear Online already?

tok9

God damn you Metal Gear! That looks great but still no release date.

B.A._Baracus

Yeah. Didnt like the way he said "and we will be showing you more in the upcoming months" ...
Really think this is a Summer 2015 game now. Wouldnt be shocked to see it shipped with Ground Zeroes too :pac: Since by then it'll be classed as an 'old game'.
I always thought the idea was Ground Zeroes was basically a paid demo, but when The Phantom Pain came out you would get an option. Eg, pay more to have it included. But now... not so sure.

COYVB

Wow. This is embarrassingly bad

B.A._Baracus

COYVB wrote: »

Wow. This is embarrassingly bad

I've watched the VGA's "The Game Awards" for a couple of years now and they are always bad.
Not sure about ya'll but I only watch it to see trailers for new games. Even then they can be hit or miss.

But to be brutally honest I wanted to watch the show for the Metal Gear Online trailer. Seems like I am just watching it for the sake of it now :pac:

tok9

I know the previous ones by Spike were pretty terrible but I would mostly agree that as an awards show it isn't great.

A lot of awkward awards being randomly given out. "Oh you won this and this... now world premiere"

This has a long way to go before it could be seriously recognised as an important award event.

It's actually an awful lot closer to a mini E3 instead of an awards show.

B.A._Baracus

This is just boring, is't it?

tok9

It's way too long assuming they weren't lying about it being on the halfway mark a while ago. We're looking at a 4 hour show!

Still loved everything No Man's Sky related. That's going to be a soundtrack I love I reckon.

Mr E

Just watched some trailers..... 2015 will be Nintendo's year... Zelda looks incredible (now confirmed for next year) and new starfox too before that.

mystic86

no new trailer of Uncharted 4?!

Captain Chaos

mystic86 wrote: »

no new trailer of Uncharted 4?!

You might get that this evening from 6pm for the Sony Experience event.

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15068-Watch-The-PlayStation-Experience-Here---A-Whole-Weekend-of-PlayStation-Celebrations.html

EoinMcLovin

All the trailers

richymcdermott

All that Indie reveals , may need to make another my problem with indies 2.0 thread :L

tok9

I hope next year if this goes ahead again:

Remove that fan crowd from the front.. put them somewhere else if you want but not there.

All awards should be presented on the main stage. The absolute worst of these offences was Nintendo. Just announces it next to Reggie and didn't even have a bloody award.

Cut the show down to 2 hours and make it 70% awards, 30% announcements. Last night felt like the opposite. There was one part where a sony rep was on stage showing a few trailers and pluging PSX. Surely they could have just given out an award and plugged their own event too. No need to do a small presentation.

Probably a few things I missing but that would help a lot.

COYVB

It was garbage, albeit slightly better than when it was the spike TV awards.

Gaming award shows are pointless

rizzla

Watched the trailers.

Will be getting a Wii U shortly!

No Man's Sky trailer put a bit of a cooler on how hyped I was for that game, the pop in was terrible.

Venom

COYVB wrote: »

It was garbage, albeit slightly better than when it was the spike TV awards.

Gaming award shows are pointless

Yeah it was pretty awful and then some. Way to much time spent advertising games that are already out imho. What the hell was with that muppet DJ on the right of the stage all night?

Only award I agreed with was the one Total Biscuit got.

Robert ninja

Well that was a 2 hour long advertisement with plenty of cringe thrown in. Only a handful of cool things happened. New Witcher, cool. TB supporting a good cause, cool. Shovel Knights and indie doing this well, cool. I liked the bit about Sierra's origins, too. The rest was hot garbo, hosted by the dorito pope himself.