The Game Awards 2019

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4axLHMNXzu8

Full list of nominees
https://thegameawards.com/nominees

Zero-Cool

Death Stranding with the most nominations and you know what, rightly so. Poor DS though, of it wins, out will be put down to bring Geoff's best friend even though it's user voting. Out of the GOTY list, it should win imo.

It is ridiculous however that Mads and Norman got performance nods. Both good but Troy Baker gave one of his best performances imo. If they weren't Hollywood names, he would have been there. From the performance category, hoping Ashley takes it.

Retr0gamer

I think you mean ace combat 7 when you talk about what should win.

Doctor Nick

You're both wrong. Sekiro Game of the Year for sure.

CastorTroy

As with all awards like these, how many people have played all the games in the categories they're voting in?

Do have to laugh at how Nintendo basically get a category to themselves with Best Family Game.

JimBurnley

Well deserved nominations for Control, excellent game.

Where the f### is Days Gone though? Bizarre

hellsing101

JimBurnley wrote: »

Well deserved nominations for Control, excellent game.

Where the f### is Days Gone though? Bizarre

It got fairly mediocre critic reviews so that's probably why it didn't make the cut. Most of these awards shows are a pile of ****e, they will give awards to the most woke game or games by the big companies they don't want to offend.

Arcadeheroes

Have not played Death Stranding yet so I cannot form my own opinion whether or not it should win GOTY but judging by by the review scores I have read , from the positives to the negatives the majority of the people all have said the same thing that the game is a slog to play with an repetitive mission structure , incoherent story with drag out moments players have to endure to see some of the games best highlights.

Again I have not played it , but I think there are other games in the category that are more engaging and well balanced as a videogame that should win it over DS. Sekiro is my personal pick for GOTY.

Zero-Cool

The thing about Death Stranding is the majority of negative things i see online are from people who haven't played it or journalists. From people who actually played it, it's getting a much more positive response but will always have an asterisk beside it because if you like it, you're a kojima fanboy apparently as there's no way a game about delivering packages could be good.

It's probably the best game I've played in a few years (Days Gone is still my goty 2019 just because of how much i love it) but a lot of people won't give it a chance which is a shame.

Retr0gamer

Nominations are kind of rubbish as usual. Just a list of the biggest games of the year rather than the actual best ones. Outer Wilds is the only one there that I'd consider game of the year material.

Would love to see an awards event with a more curated list but probably not going to happen due to the state of games journalism. It's filled with excitable 20 something year olds because of how badly paid it is and they're only interested in the latest big blockbusters. It's basically the equivalent of a film awards event where the films are chosen by people how have only seen the latest blockbusters/marvel films.

hellsing101

Zero-Cool wrote: »

The thing about Death Stranding is the majority of negative things i see online are from people who haven't played it or journalists. From people who actually played it, it's getting a much more positive response but will always have an asterisk beside it because if you like it, you're a kojima fanboy apparently as there's no way a game about delivering packages could be good.

It's probably the best game I've played in a few years (Days Gone is still my goty 2019 just because of how much i love it) but a lot of people won't give it a chance which is a shame.

Death Stranding will always be a niche game. From a technical standpoint its made exceptionally well and the attention to detail is superb. What it does it does well but the game play loop can be pretty boring for most people. Personally the only category I would nominate it for would be narrative and I cant imagine this would be nominated for as many categories if it wasn't a Kojima game and all the hype that entails. The game commits the worst sin a game can commit and that is being boring (for the majority of gamers). If it was shorter then it wouldn't be as bad but at lot of people will bow out before the end because the game play is dull.

Potential-Monke

hellsing101 wrote: »

The game commits the worst sin a game can commit and that is being boring (for the majority of gamers). If it was shorter then it wouldn't be as bad but at lot of people will bow out before the end because the game play is dull.

I'm only a few hours in, but I'm leaning towards this. I'm gonna give it another go Monday during the day (working 12 hours today and tomorrow so won't have the mental capacity for it tonight/tomorrow night), but I can see myself trading it in unless something amazing happens in the next go. And I already agree that it would have been a far better game with less nothing happening and a more defined playthrough, more akin to an interactive narrative with some gameplay elements (like TLoU).

As for the awards, fan voting will never work because not everyone will have played all the games. I have yet to play ANY Zelda game, so hearing people say it would be GOTD material makes it harder for me to vote because I don't want to do it an injustice simply because I haven't played it.

Totally disagree with anyone saying Dark Souls (or its ilk) is GOTD though... Just, no.

YouSavedMyLife

Honestly don't care who wins what. Only good thing about the awards are new trailers. Elden Ring plssssssss

Gunmonkey

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Honestly don't care who wins what. Only good thing about the awards are new trailers. Elden Ring plssssssss

True, keep forgetting there will be some nice stuff cropping up. Wonder if Nintendo will have another Bayonetta 3 vid like two years ago, since weve had 0 info since then of the game!

Zero-Cool

I got Control today and can see what all the nominations are about, ****ing awesome game.

Optimalprimerib

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Nominations are kind of rubbish as usual. Just a list of the biggest games of the year rather than the actual best ones. Outer Wilds is the only one there that I'd consider game of the year material.

Would love to see an awards event with a more curated list but probably not going to happen due to the state of games journalism. It's filled with excitable 20 something year olds because of how badly paid it is and they're only interested in the latest big blockbusters. It's basically the equivalent of a film awards event where the films are chosen by people how have only seen the latest blockbusters/marvel films.

You are asking for the impossible here. You hate everything.

Zero-Cool

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

You are asking for the impossible here. You hate everything.

You haven't heard of Ace Combat 7???

Potential-Monke

Zero-Cool wrote: »

You haven't heard of Ace Combat 7???

Or Dark Souls!

Zero-Cool

What premier's ye looking for at this? Would love a new Batman reveal.

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1200864465186521088?s=19

goon_magee

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I got Control today and can see what all the nominations are about, ****ing awesome game.

Tempted to pick it up myself, absolutely love Remedy's work. Been trying to get into something post Death Stranding but nothing stacks up, feeling like Control could be the one to get me out of the rut.

Zero-Cool

goon_magee wrote: »

Tempted to pick it up myself, absolutely love Remedy's work. Been trying to get into something post Death Stranding but nothing stacks up, feeling like Control could be the one to get me out of the rut.

I had low expectations for it, thought it might be a generic run and gun but it's definitely one of my top games this year. Completed the other night and was an absolute joy. Also, was a lovely change of pace to death stranding

Arcadeheroes

Zero-Cool wrote: »

What premier's ye looking for at this? Would love a new Batman reveal.

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1200864465186521088?s=19

Capcom said they have one unannounced game which all signs are pointing to Resident evil 3 remake. Cant wait ! XD

CastorTroy

Batman/Rocksteady game
Metroid
Zelda

I'd say will get at least 1 of those. For Metroid, it mightn't be Prime 4.

Less than 2 weeks to go. Doesn't seem that long since was thinking it was ages away.

TitianGerm

CastorTroy wrote: »

Batman/Rocksteady game
Metroid
Zelda

I'd say will get at least 1 of those. For Metroid, it mightn't be Prime 4.

Less than 2 weeks to go. Doesn't seem that long since was thinking it was ages away.

Have Nintendo ever announced a game at the Game awards?

nix

TitianGerm wrote: »

Have Nintendo ever announced a game at the Game awards?

They done the kickass Joker reveal for Smash bros last year, so id say its definitely possible. Heck, they could have done more last year, i just cant recall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52M3EfVZTGo

panevthe3rd

TitianGerm wrote: »

Have Nintendo ever announced a game at the Game awards?

I think they announced Bayonetta 3 at it. Sure it was Reggie.

CastorTroy

Yeah, Bayonetta 3 was announced as well as the ports of the first 2.
So would be a good place to announce Prime HD trilogy if they had a trailer for Prime 4.
May even get a Bayonetta 3 trailer.

super_furry

I feel if we do get a Prime HD trilogy it'll be one of those.....and it's available now announcements.

Don't know if there'll really be as much Nintendo stuff as in the past. Reggie and Keighly were tight.

Potential-Monke

You know what I'd love? A new IP. I was ok with remasters and re-releases, but I'm getting sick of them now. Wish they'd spend more time on new IP's, or at least a re-imagining.

Mr E

'Around' 10 new games to be announced.

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/12/the_game_awards_to_feature_around_10_new_games_and_much_more

TitianGerm

Mr E wrote: »

'Around' 10 new games to be announced.

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/12/the_game_awards_to_feature_around_10_new_games_and_much_more

Hopefully we see a bit more of Elden Ring.

ERG89

Mr E wrote: »

'Around' 10 new games to be announced.

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/12/the_game_awards_to_feature_around_10_new_games_and_much_more

Looking forward to those 9.7 announcements.
Seriously I assume at least one of these games might be announced beforehand & the reveal trailer will be shown at the show.

corcaigh07

One of the games could be Untitled Goose Game officially announcing for XB1 and PS4, achievements/trophies have been found for the game online.

goon_magee

Resident Evil 3 is a given at this stage for one of their unannounced games. I expect a gameplay reveal trailer along with a release date for Q1/Q2 next year. I also think that will probably be about as big as it gets as far as new game announcements go; we already know about all the big hitters still to come for the remainder of this gen, and I don't really see Sony or MS dropping reveals for any next gen titles so I would imagine the majority of new reveals will be indies and/or remakes/remasters.

CastorTroy

Wonder if the State of Play a couple Days before will reveal anything planned for The Game Awards

Arcadeheroes

There was a listing that Bayonetta and Vanquish were coming to consoles 4k 60fps , I wonder will that be an announcement at the VGA or State of Play .

Zero-Cool

Whether it's the awards or state of play, my 3 big hopes are a new Batman, new or remastered Tony hawk's and most of all, a remaster of Mafia 1.

Edit: how could i forget the Mass Effect Trilogy remaster!

nix

So this is on tomorrow, 20:30 ET, so that will make it what, 01:30am start for us?

How long did it go on for last year? I don't recall it going on until all hours last year

Zero-Cool

New FF VII trailer confirmed for tonight.

https://twitter.com/finalfantasyvii/status/1205172462939328513?s=19

johnny_ultimate

The Game Advertisements (also: some awards)

Zero-Cool

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The Game Advertisements (also: some awards)

I'm basically treating this as a winter E3.

Gamer Bhoy 89

Hoping Death Stranding wins GOTY. It was definitely mine, anyway.

TitianGerm

FF7 Remake

https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1205306759998345216?s=19

New Xbox - Series X

https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1205310507080548353?s=19

Hellblade 2

https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1205311157730308096?s=19

Godfall

https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1205313514274865153?s=19

Something new from PUBG guys

https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1205317294995296257?s=19

Sons of the Forest

https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1205321796330721280?s=19

Doctor Nick

Sekiro got GOTY. **** yeah. Well deserved.

Can't believe there was no Elden Ring trailer or release date. Honestly, at this stage I can't see it coming out on current gen systems.

Jerichoholic

That Fast/Furious game looks absolutely terrible. How did they get that on there?

Oh yeah, lots of money and nothing else.

Cool to see Skyrim is coming to ESO

panevthe3rd

Was really hoping for a Batman announcement of some type.

CatInABox

Serious lack of love for Outer Wilds in those awards. Highly Disappointing.

Zero-Cool

List of winners

Category Winner
Game of the Year Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Best Game Direction Death Stranding
Best Narrative Disco Elysium
Best Action Game Devil May Cry 5
Best Action/Adventure Game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Best Role Playing Game Disco Elysium
Best Fighting Game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Best Family Game Luigi's Mansion 3
Best Strategy Game Fire Emblem Three Houses
Best Sports/Racing Game Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled
Best Multiplayer Apex Legends
Best Performance Mads Mikkelsen as Cliff, Death Stranding
Best Independent Game Disco Elysium
Fresh Indie Developer Studio ZA/UM - Disco Elysium
Best Art Direction Control
Best Score/Music Death Stranding
Best Audio Design Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Games for Impact Gris
Best Ongoing Game Fortnite
Best Mobile Game Call of Duty Mobile
Best VR/AR Game Beat Saber
Best Community Support Destiny 2
Content Creator of the Year Shroud
Best Esports Game League of Legends
Best Esports Player Kyle "Bugha" Giersforf
Best Esports Team G2 Esports
Best Esports Coach Danny “Zonic” Sorensen
Best Esports Event League of Legends World Championship 2019
Best Esports Host Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere

Zero-Cool

Disco Elsyium getting lots of love. Thought it was pc only but see it's coming to ps and xbox in 2020. Sekiro lads must have been surprised at that, happy out for them and an extra nudge for me to pick it up.

Rob2D

Delighted for Sekiro.

Wolf Among Us 2 had a trailer shown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb55ycOwGFA