The Game Awards

The Game Awards just ended. Unfortunately, Legends of Runeterra lost on the Best Mobile Game category to Among Us. There weren't any big surprises when it comes to the winners. The Last of Us Part II got the Game of the Year award and several others, Hades got the Best Indie Game and Best Action Game award and Ori and the Will of the Wisps didn't get a single award which really upsets me. That game really deserved at least the Best Action/Adventure award. Did anyone else watch the show? Did anything surprise you or there were any announcements that you liked? I didn't really pay too much attention. I was just listening to the audio while tinkering with some deck ideas in HS.

I watched it, and rather than disappointed I felt dissatisfied because the winners were about as expected with TLOU2 winning most of it and I was hoping that other games would at least take a bit more of the awards. It felt like TLOU2 only deserved about 2 of the awards which were the Best Voice Acting and the Best Innovation which made complete sense as the game was a good technical game just not a very good game overall. I wished Legends of Runeterra would have won the Best Mobile Game but no surprise Among Us won that category without much of a challenge (though I think it's not right to nominate a game that's not released in 2020 but oh well). I'm very very very happy that Hades won a few awards at least because I loved that game so much and I think that it had a good chance to win the GOTY despite being an indie game. Overall, this year's awards felt a bit underwhelming but that's just my opinion.

For the announcements, I'm sad that there's no Elden Ring announcement (I swear that game does not exist). I'm a bit weirded out by the sheer amount of co-op zombie shooters that got announced but they all seemed pretty good so I'm hyped for that. Ruined King which was Riot's RPG game finally got a trailer and I'm hoping it's a good game. The Smash Ultimate announcement was amazing and I got baited for half a second when Sephiroth "stabbed" Mario.

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It seems silly that Among Us was even on the list, considering it came out in 2018. Did the mobile version come out this year? That must be it.

Anyway, I'm glad Hades won something; that game is amazing.

Actually, Among Us came out earlier on mobile than on PC, I can vouch for that as I was one of the few people who played it before 2020 so why it got nominated is a mystery to me. But since it did get nominated, I think it deserved winning those categories.

These awards are very much like the oscars, its almost always something that have massive developmental funds advantage compared to others and usually the winners are games which I personally don't have as much fun playing. Its always going to be subjective anyway at the end, so no point holding our breath on it.

Last of us 2 for example drags way too long, and its largely a somewhat linear experience. Its famous for its narrative, which I wouldn't deny is among the top, but then suffers from the fact that you're not really playing a game so much as watching a film. In comparison, games like Kingdom come: Deliverance is hardly ever going to be on the top of the list and yet I've just blown like 300 hours on it because it was a fun, even funny, game to play.

Right now, Cyberpunk 2077 is probably going to sweep the awards for next year and yet I am probably one of the few people on earth playing Oxygen not included (DLC came out just days before cyberpunk) instead.

Its not even entertaining to watch these award shows to be honest. The best award shows, in my opinion, will always be the ones that crown the losers in the field, which is why I find the razzies much more interesting than oscars in general. (not sure if video games has raspberry awards)

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Ruined King which was Riot's RPG game finally got a trailer and I'm hoping it's a good game.

Have you played Battlechasers: Nightwar? It's on Steam, and it's made by the same developers. Some people are concerned this is basically BCN: League Edition, a reskin of their previous game. I'm not worried, because BCN was really good, but it's still something to think about.

No, I have not. I'll certainly check it out at least before Ruined King is released so I get a better sense of the game. Thanks for the game recommendation

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I watched it, and rather than disappointed I felt dissatisfied because the winners were about as expected with TLOU2 winning most of it and I was hoping that other games would at least take a bit more of the awards. It felt like TLOU2 only deserved about 2 of the awards which were the Best Voice Acting and the Best Innovation which made complete sense as the game was a good technical game just not a very good game overall. I wished Legends of Runeterra would have won the Best Mobile Game but no surprise Among Us won that category without much of a challenge (though I think it's not right to nominate a game that's not released in 2020 but oh well). I'm very very very happy that Hades won a few awards at least because I loved that game so much and I think that it had a good chance to win the GOTY despite being an indie game. Overall, this year's awards felt a bit underwhelming but that's just my opinion.

For the announcements, I'm sad that there's no Elden Ring announcement (I swear that game does not exist). I'm a bit weirded out by the sheer amount of co-op zombie shooters that got announced but they all seemed pretty good so I'm hyped for that. Ruined King which was Riot's RPG game finally got a trailer and I'm hoping it's a good game. The Smash Ultimate announcement was amazing and I got baited for half a second when Sephiroth "stabbed" Mario.

I would be really happy if Hades had won the GotY. I'm a huge fan of indie games (i'll always choose to play Terraria, Grim Dawn or The Binding of Isaac over any AAA game) and roguelites and it was a good surprise to see a game of the genre getting so close to the top.

I feel like Ori and the Will of the Wisps suffered from the same problem as Hollow Knight did a few years ago. An amazing game that came out very early in the year and ended up overshadowed by stuff that came out later. Cuphead came out late in the same year and got all the attention. I'm not saying that Cuphead is bad but Hollow Knight deserved more recognition. Ori II also came out very early this year and has been left behind in the wake of all the other titans that were released later.

The fact TLoU2 won anything at all just made the game awards lose any credibility it ever had