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General and Gaming => Modern Video Games => Topic started by: kamikazekeeg on November 18, 2020, 05:32:04 pm
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Just for kicks, figured I'd post the Game Awards listings and we can see if we like it or if we'd add or changing things. I'm kinda surprised Hades was so well received, like it's a fantastic game, but its up there just as much as I think Last of Us 2 is. Overall, it's a list that makes sense, fighting game category is probably stretching things with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, but the rest makes sense.
https://thegameawards.com/nominees
For me, just based on this list (As I'm still waiting on Cyberpunk 2077 which could be my proper GOTY and I haven't beaten Demon's Souls or even played Miles Morales), this is how I put my winners. Not gonna do every category, just the ones that stand out for me.
Game of the Year:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Best Art Direction:
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Best Score and Music: (This is a super stacked category, all of these games are fighting for a position, I might have to really think about it lol)
Doom Eternal (Mick Gordon)
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Nobuo Uematsu, Masahi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki)
Hades (Darren Korb)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker)
Best Performance: (I may not be in love with this game, but both of their performances were incredibly good.)
Ashley Johnson as Ellie, The Last of Us Part II
Laura Bailey as Abby, The Last of Us Part II
Best Indie:
Hades
Best Action/Adventure:
Ghost of Tsushima
Best Role-Playing:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Best Sports/Racing
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
Debut Game: (They really shouldn't count Early Access games for this category, because while Phasmaphobia is a popular streamer game right now, this game is such an absolute buggy mess lol)
Carrion
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Hmm... I had actually forgotten about this. Here's my picks in some categories from what they have listed:
GOTY:
Ghost of Tsushima
Best Music:
FF7 Remake
Best Action:
Streets of Rage 4
Interesting to see eSports categories take off.
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Ah man, I clicked on this hoping oldgamerz had done another long detailed game awards thread- he usually goes all out with gifs and colored text.
Hades is my game of the year, followed by Doom Eternal.
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GOTY:
The Last of Us 2
I know this game was divisive for fans but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The environments and character models were top notch, story was emotional and
conflicted. The combat wasn't revolutionary but why fix something that ain't broke?
Best Narrative:
The Last of Us 2
Best Art Direction:
Ghost of Tsushima
Best Game Direction:
Hades
Best Perfomance:
Ashley Johnson as Ellie
Best Score and Music:
The Last of Us 2
Best Ongoing:
Fortnite
Best Indie:
Hades
Anyway, those are my predictions. It will be interesting because there were a lot of excellent games this year
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Ah man, I clicked on this hoping oldgamerz had done another long detailed game awards thread- he usually goes all out with gifs and colored text.
You're thinking of marvelvscapcom2 (https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,10543.msg173419.html#msg173419).
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Here is a full list of every category and nominations.https://www.cgmagonline.com/2020/11/18/video-game-awards-announce-2020-nominees/ (https://www.cgmagonline.com/2020/11/18/video-game-awards-announce-2020-nominees/)
Game of the Year
Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
Best Game Direction
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
Best Narrative
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroki Iwaki, Sachie Hirano)
Best Art Direction
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios)
Best Score and Music
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker)
Best Audio Design
Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
Best Performance
Logan Cunningham as Hades, Hades
Games for Impact
DONT KNOW THESE GAMES! lol
Best Ongoing
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Best Indie
Hades (Supergiant Games)
Best Mobile
Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
Best Community Support
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Innovation in Accessibility
Watch Dogs Legion (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
Best VR/AR
Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
Best Action
Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
Best Action/Adventure
Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)
Best Role Playing
Persona 5 Royal (Atlus, P Studios)
Best Fighting
DONT KNOW THESE GAMES!
Best Family
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
Best Sim/Strategy
Crusader Kings III (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox)
Best Sports/Racing
FIFA 21 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports)
Best Multiplayer
Among Us (InnerSloth)
Best Debut Game
DONT KNOW THESE GAMES!
Content Creator of the Year, Presented by Adobe
TimtheTatman
Best Esports Game
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Best Esports Athlete
Matthieu “ZywOo” Herbaut / CS:GO
Best Esports Team
Team Secret / DOTA2
Best Esports Event
Meh
Best Esports Host
Meh
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I haven't played most of these games, and I know nothing about eSports.
I handed a few votes to The Last of Us Part 2 to give it a well-deserved boost.
And to trigger the haters.
Everything else I just voted by box art. Does it look relevant to the category? Yes? It gets my vote.
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Ah man, I clicked on this hoping oldgamerz had done another long detailed game awards thread- he usually goes all out with gifs and colored text.
You're thinking of marvelvscapcom2 (https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,10543.msg173419.html#msg173419).
You are 100% correct. My mistake. What happened to that guy? Is he still active? He was my secret santa last year and sent me a really nice message. I hope he is doing well.
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I believe he had some things to figure out/solve, so he took a break. I'm sure he's doing fine.
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For GoTY I'm leaning into Ghost of Tsushima if Cyberpunk doesn't dethrone it. Didn't play myself but saw my SO playing it and it looks top notch. I mostly just sat around and gawked at the attention to Japanese culture, history, and terrain.
I feel like CDPR is a lot of people's darling dev company right now though so I think it could steal a last minute win. Meanwhile, I'm still here licking my wounds that there's no Media option. Really they got rid of all the face classes. I still ordered the game, but ouch it's a lot less classes than they initially promised.
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For GoTY I'm leaning into Ghost of Tsushima if Cyberpunk doesn't dethrone it. I feel like CDPR is a lot of people's darling dev company right now though so I think it could steal a last minute win.
The cut-off date for The Game Awards nominations was November 20, 2020. Cyberpunk 2077 will be eligible at next year's show.
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A thing on the side of the actual awards...technically the thing most people are interested in...are the game announcements and teases, so what do folks think will show up this year? Nintendo is probably a guarantee, but what they'll bring, could actually be a couple different things.
I think at the top, would be a Smash Bros DLC announcement. Minecraft Steve was released back in October, so it could be time to tease the next character. Bayonetta 3 makes sense being that it was originally teased here 3 years ago...god it's been far too long...But who knows with that game at this point. And third, I think we can get something Zelda, but probably not Breath of the Wild 2. I think they save BOTW2 for a big blow out in spring, so I'm going with Hyrule Warriors DLC announcement or maybe something else like a new remake or remaster of something for next years 35th Zelda anniversary. Have that release in the spring with a possible Breath of the Wild 2 release at the end of year. It would kill me if they announce another remake in the Link's Awakening art style, I just don't want to see that ever again.
Other things, I feel like we should be seeing something for Elden Ring eventually, it would be great hype to show off something for that with all the Demon's Souls hype going on right now, and it's just been a long while since we've heard anything on it.
And of course there could always be something that is a complete surprise and I'm all for being blown away like that. Feel like Sony in particular could push for something since they are riding on PS5 hype right now.
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Changing my Best Soundtrack to Astro's Playroom. Having spent more time with it.... just phenomenal.
As for announcements, I'm hoping to see the following as I always do...
- A new Uncharted game.
- A Dino Crisis reboot.
- A dark and gritty Ninja Turtles.
- Shenmue 4 with an ending. Let's finish it Suzuki...
So as those are all kind of a tall ask with the exception of maybe Uncharted (given rumors), I'm assuming disappointment.
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Microsoft apparently has an announcement for the show, which could honestly be anything at this point with how crazy Microsoft has been lately such as buying Zenimax. Apparently there have been strong rumors for a Perfect Dark reboot of some sort. I'm hoping for something else Rare related like Banjo-Kazooie getting the fancy remake treatment that Spyro and Crash got, or finally getting Banjo-Threeie. I'd also be interested in a new Killer Instinct, not because I'm the biggest fan, it is a cool game, I'd just get a lot of entertainment value from it by watching other people enjoy it lol
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Microsoft apparently has an announcement for the show,
They bought the IP gaming rights for Paw Patrol. They're on a roll.
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I'm in such a predicament. I haven't been able to play a majority of the nominations due to being on a stricter budget this year, so I missed out on so many games. The thing is though, I'm 90% sure I'm instead getting a majority of these games around Christmas due to my family basically saying to me, "Hey I got the games you wanted". Going based on just my personal tastes and experiences in the past, my GOTY would probably be Final Fantasy VII Remake. I didn't grow up with the original in any way, but Square Enix is probably my favorite developer. That, and I played quite a bit of the demo, and it was very very good. Looking forward to playing the full game in just a few weeks.
As far as announcements go I'm not going to go in expecting too much based on how last year went. I'd love to be surprised, though. Reading through this thread I'm seeing posts talking about how Microsoft has an announcement, which is VERY interesting. We only have a full day left to go before it's the day of. See you guys after the show.
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Not really important to the show itself, but the pre-show is gonna have some live music from Lyn Inaizumi who did the singing for Persona 5 music, which is great as while I didn't super love the game itself, it's visual style and music are top notch. Pearl Jam seems like they are going to be there too, not sure if they are doing actual music or not, not super sure why they would be there otherwise except to maybe give out an award for the music category.
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And Nintendo just straight up announced that a new Smash character will be revealed tonight, so that's pretty cool. Genuinely have no idea who they could add at this point.
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Crash Bandicoot?
Probably not.
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Crash Bandicoot?
Probably not.
I think Crash is a strong possibility, maybe not here, I could see them doing another Nintendo character for this one (Not sure who I would actually want to see from Nintendo at this point, other than like Urbosa from Zelda), but with 4 more slots left in the character pack, I could see it happening.
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Urbosa actually crossed my mind when I made my post; I honestly think she would be a nice choice. The announcement being a Nintendo character makes sense, I mean, there's still plenty to choose from.
We'll see.
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Holy crap, Sephiroth in Smash. I was actually struggling to think of villains I'd like to see show up, but Sephiroth is a damn good one lol
New Perfect Dark game announced, that's pretty cool, I hope it works out, though it's apparently pretty early in development. hopefully it's way better than their last reboot of the series lol
Back 4 Blood looks really cool, it's just straight up Left 4 Dead, made by the same studio, just not with Valve, but they are very clearly making this because there is no new Left 4 Dead. This looks super cool because it seems like they are taking abit of their work from Evolve to work it into this with the giant monster zombie.
A brand new Evil Dead game is a surprise, it's a 4 player co-op game of some sort. Not what I would expect for an Evil Dead thing, mixing different eras of the series as it has young Ash from Evil Dead 2, the girl from the tv show, the blonde friend from Evil Dead 1, and the knight from Army of Darkness as characters, which is pretty neat.
Ughh, what a useless trailer for Mass Effect lol It was already announced to be coming, so a trailer that showed almost nothing to reiterate it, especially with it likely being years out from release, it's really not what I want to see, especially as the last reveal of the show.
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The Last of Us: Part II (https://files.catbox.moe/6t6d73.mp4)
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Yeah The Last of Us Part 2 sweeping was pretty expected. It's a good game, though I still enjoyed my time with Final Fantasy 7 Remake more.
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Sephiroth is in smash... Honestly didn't care about the rest after that, hate to say it. I'm super stoked to see the presentation next thursday and hopefully download him then too.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo6yee4XUAEpT2c.jpg)
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The new trailer for It Takes Two was the best thing in the show. Looks like a ton of fun.
Returnal looks fun too.