The Game Awards 2021 - December 9th

[Infinitron]

The Wrath of the righteous snub does really seem intentional. I know it was disappointing to a lot of Codexers, but regardless of that it’s certainly on par or better than the games that did get nominated.

The Game Awards as an event has never really been intended for that sort of game. It's like how there's a certain recognizable type of movie that's often called "Oscar bait". Wrath of the Righteous isn't that.

Deathloop is just plain boring.

I know zero about this game and see a ton of hype around it. Is it a game made by and for black people?

It's old school console in its premise i.e. you have to kill a number of people and have a limited number of lives to do it; if you lose your lives, you start over. Time passes whenever you load another area and if you don't kill everyone you're required to within the time limit, you start over. No quicksaving or loading to a previous save (unless you're manually backing them up). In order to make casuals/normies/journos not rage quit over this, there's only one difficulty level and most enemies are brain dead (see video posted, though they have allegedly improved it) so it is not old school console at all when it comes to difficulty. The main character is a black guy because Black Panther made a billion dollars, proving that predominantly white audiences won't avoid something just because it has a black main character. Journos like it for these reasons.

I truly believe that game journos are in campaign mode for Deathloop because they want to save Arkane from being shut down.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The Wrath of the Righteous snub does really seem intentional. I know it was disappointing to a lot of Codexers, but regardless of that it’s certainly on par or better than the games that did get nominated.

It's PC-exclusive, I think the only other PC-exclusive games on the entire list are indie games.

 

[Roguey]

The Game Awards has never really been intended for that sort of game. It's how like there's a certain type of movie that that's often called "Oscar bait".

2014:
Dragon Age: Inquisition – BioWare
Bravely Default – Silicon Studio and Square Enix
Dark Souls II – FromSoftware
Divinity: Original Sin – Larian Studios
South Park: The Stick of Truth – Obsidian Entertainment and South Park Digital Studios
2015:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red
Bloodborne – FromSoftware
Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios
Pillars of Eternity – Obsidian Entertainment
Undertale – Toby Fox
2016:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine – CD Projekt Red
Dark Souls III – FromSoftware
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Eidos Montréal
World of Warcraft: Legion – Blizzard Entertainment
Xenoblade Chronicles X – Monolith Soft
2017:
Persona 5 – P-Studio/Atlus
Divinity: Original Sin II – Larian Studios
Final Fantasy XV – Square Enix
Nier: Automata – PlatinumGames/Square Enix
South Park: The Fractured But Whole – Ubisoft San Francisco/Ubisoft
2018:
Monster Hunter: World – Capcomdouble-dagger
Dragon Quest XI – Square Enix
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Level-5/Bandai Namco Entertainment
Octopath Traveler – Square Enix/Acquire/Nintendo
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – Obsidian Entertainment
2019:
Disco Elysium – ZA/UMdouble-dagger
Final Fantasy XIV – Square Enix
Kingdom Hearts III – Square Enix
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne – Capcom
The Outer Worlds – Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division
2020:
Final Fantasy VII Remake – Square Enixdouble-dagger
Genshin Impact – miHoYo
Persona 5 Royal – Atlus/Sega
Wasteland 3 – inXile Entertainment/Deep Silver
Yakuza: Like a Dragon – Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega

A snub is a snub. Owlcat isn't cool enough to join the club, when even Obsidian, inXile and Larian can make it.

 

[Grimlorn]

Yeah imagine giving the woke crowd exactly what they want and still getting snubbed. I'm sure they'll learn their lesson. :D

Who am I kidding, they'll just go even further in their next game to appease them.

 

[Wunderbar]

WotR is just too small and niche for Dorito Pope to care. It has less than 30 reviews on Metacritic.

 

[purupuru]

People say WotR is niche but its steam peak player number is more than Deathloop and It Takes Two combined. I think it's just the journals being oblivious, as they always are.

 

[Dodo1610]

WOTR was left out since it has neither a console version/Coop/big publisher/famous IP. So not a whole lot of journalists have not played or at least heard of it so it wasn't nominated.


Though Elden Ring releases next year so BG3 has no chance to win RPG or Game of the Year next year either, spoor Swen.


Ratchet and Clank is the true GOTY, it's "riveting"

 

[Jaedar]

WOTR was left out since it has neither a console version/Coop/big publisher/famous IP. So not a whole lot of journalists have played or at least heard of it so it wasn't nominated.

I mean sure, but wasteland 3 got in and I'm pretty sure that is just as janky. I guess it has a bigger publisher behind it, but still.

People say WotR is niche but its steam peak player number is more than Deathloop and It Takes Two combined. I think it's just the journals being oblivious, as they always are.

Journalists see a deep 100 hour experience and go "wow, there's no way I'll recoup the time/money it takes to play and review that from clicks" and then run for the hills.

 

[Riskbreaker]

People say WotR is niche but its steam peak player number is more than Deathloop and It Takes Two combined. I think it's just the journals being oblivious, as they always are.

Journalists see a deep 100 hour experience and go "wow, there's no way I'll recoup the time/money it takes to play and review that from clicks" and then run for the hills.

Contra such short, shallow games like SMT 5 or Monster Hunter? Pretty much every single nominee in the RPG category requires considerable time investment.

 

[Dodo1610]

SMT5 is only on that list because Persona 5's breakout success even the older Persona titles were mostly ignored by them

 

[Roguey]

WOTR was left out since it has neither a console version/Coop/big publisher/famous IP. So not a whole lot of journalists have not played or at least heard of it so it wasn't nominated.

Disco Elysium qualified for none of those in 2019 (didn't even get a console version until this year) and it was not only nominated but won in 2019. The judge panel must hate Russia or have an axe to grind against Pathfinder.

 

[ferratilis]

It's an honor NOT to be nominated for Game Awards. Imagine the name of your game being ranked among such turds as Dragon Age Inquisition and Last of Us 2.

These are the only awards that matter, and they will go to Pathfinder this year, as well:

Based Ruskies don't care about creepy Geoff, it's the RPG crowd that matters.

 

[Spukrian]

Let me make a prediction: It Takes Two will win.

 

[Fedora Master]

It's an honor NOT to be nominated for Game Awards. Imagine the name of your game being ranked among such turds as Dragon Age Inquisition and Last of Us 2.

These are the only awards that matter, and they will go to Pathfinder this year, as well:

Based Ruskies don't care about creepy Geoff, it's the RPG crowd that matters.

And Wrath does absolutely not deserve them.

 

[Catacombs]

Who made the Codex medal?

 

[mediocrepoet]

That list is like some sort of bad joke. I was looking for the punchline but I couldn't find it.

Also: Best Esports coach? What? Ridiculous.

 

[ferratilis]

Who made the Codex medal?

I don't know, it's on the Steam page for Kingmaker. Maybe Infinitron knows?

 

[Zlaja]

An average immersive sim is still an immersive sim

Please, just stop using that bullshit term. It's retarded and says really little about the games in question. How exactly are games like Deus Ex or Ss2 more immersive then say...Ultima Underworld or Daggerfall, anyway? I don't care how long this term has been used, it was stupid from day 1 and needs to die.

Is it a game made by and for black people?

It's made by white cucks, and it's for lazy casuals and game journalists.

 

[Infinitron]

Penny Arcade endorses Infinitron's strategy gaming forum split:

 

[anvi]

Presstitutes Hahah

 

[Reever]

What a garbage ass year.

 

[Roguey]

Please, just stop using that bullshit term. It's retarded and says really little about the games in question. How exactly are games like Deus Ex or Ss2 more immersive then say...Ultima Underworld or Daggerfall, anyway? I don't care how long this term has been used, it was stupid from day 1 and needs to die.

It's a term coined by Looking Glass devs in reference to a specific design philosophy. Ultima Underworld is also an immersive sim.

 

[Sarathiour]

Okay, here are my predictions :

Spoiler

Game of the Year
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Metroid Dread (Mercury Steam/Nintendo)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Best Game Direction
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)

What a shit year.

Best Ongoing
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward/Raven/Activision)
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online (SQUARE ENIX)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)

Best Indie
12 Minutes (Luis Antonio/Annapurna Interactive)
Death’s Door (Acid Nerve/Devolver Digital)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital)
Loop Hero (Four Quarters/Devolver Digital)

Best Debut Indie
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Sable (Shedworks/Raw Fury)
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)
The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers)
Valheim (Iron Gate/Coffee Stain)

Best Narrative
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/SQUARE ENIX)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Art Direction
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)

Best Score and Music
Cyberpunk 2077 (Marcin Przybylowicz, Piotr T. Adamczyk, Composers)
Deathloop (Tom Salta, Composer)
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 (Keiichi Okabe, Composer)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Richard Jacques, Composer)
The Artful Escape (Johnny Galvatron & Josh Abrahams, Composers)

Best Audio Design
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

No idea lol

Best Performance
Erika Mori as Alex Chen, Life is Strange: True Colors
Giancarlo Esposito as Anton Castillo, Far Cry 6
Jason E. Kelley as Colt Vahn, Deathloop
Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village
Ozioma Akagha as Julianna Blake, Deathloop



Games for Impact
Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games/Skybound Games)
Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox Games)
Chicory (Greg Lobanow, Alexis dean-Jones, Lena Raine, Madeline Berger, A Shell in the Pit/Finji)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/SQUARE ENIX)
No Longer Home (Humble Grove, Hana Lee, Cel Davison, Adrienne Lombardo, Eli Rainsberry/Fellow Traveler)

What even the fuck is this ?

Best Community Support
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online (SQUARE ENIX)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Pretty sure all of this is actually some sort of elaborate joke

Best Mobile Game, Presented by Verizon
Fantasian (Mistwalker)
Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)
League of Legends: Wild Rift (Riot Games)
MARVEL Future Revolution (Netmarble)
Pokemon Unite (TiMi Studios/The Pokemon Company)



Best VR/AR
Hitman 3 (IO Interactive)
I Expect You To Die 2 (Schell Games)
Lone Echo II (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
Resident Evil 4 (Armature Studio/Capcom/Oculus Studios)
Sniper Elite VR (Coatsink/Just Add Water/Rebellion Developments)

idk and idc

Best Action
Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock/WB Games)
Chivalry II (Torn Banner Studios/Tripwire Interactive)
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

Wow, it was really THAT shitty ?

Best Action/Adventure
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
Metroid Dread (Mercury Steam/Nintendo)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Best Role Playing
Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)
Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
Scarlet Nexus (Bandai Namco)
Shin Megami Tensei V (Atlus/Sega)
Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco)

Best Fighting
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles (CyberConnect2/Sega)
Guilty Gear -Strive- (Arc System Works)
Melty Blood: Type Lumina (French-Bread/Delightworks)
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Ludosity/Fair Play Labs/GameMill)
Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown (Sega)

Best Family
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Mario Party Superstars (NDcube/Nintendo)
New Pokémon Snap (Bandai Namco/The Pokémon Company/Nintendo)
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo)
WarioWare: Get It Together! (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

gay

Best Sports/Racing
F1 2021 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
FIFA 22 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
Hot Wheels Unleashed (Milestone)
Riders Republic (Ubisoft Annecy/Ubisoft)

Best Sim/Strategy
Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
Evil Genius 2: World Domination (Rebellion Developments)
Humankind (Amplitude Studios/Sega)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios)

Or flight simulator again, who know

Best Multiplayer
Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock/WB Games)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Knockout City (Velan Studios/EA)
Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
New World (Amazon Games)
Valheim (Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain)

Wait, seriously ?

Most Anticipated, Presented by Prime Gaming
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)

"It's the dark souls of anticipated game", according to our expert

Innovation in Accessibility, Presented by Chevrolet
Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Creative Bytes Studios/Falling Squirrel)

Content Creator of the Year
Dream
Fuslie
Gaules
Ibai
TheGrefg

I don't even know what is it abourt.

Best Esports Game, Presented by Grubhub
Call of Duty (Activision)
CS:GO (Valve)
DOTA2 (Valve)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete
Chris “Simp” Lehr
Heo “ShowMaker” Su
Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
Tyson “TenZ” Ngo

Best Esports Team
Atlanta FaZe (COD)
DWG KIA (LOL)
Natus Vincere (CS:GO)
Sentinels (Valorant)
Team Spirit (DOTA2)

Best Esports Coach
Airat “Silent” Gaziev
Andrey “ENGH” Sholokhov
Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi
James “Crowder” Crowder
Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun

Best Esports Event
2021 League of Legends World Championship
PGL Major Stockholm 2021
PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020
The International 2021
Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters

No

 

[vortex]

New gameplay predictions: Dragon age 4, Bioshock 4, Ken's Levine new game, Starfield, maybe Bloodborne 2 announcement
What do you think?

 

[The_Mask]

For best team and best player it's Team Spirit and "Collapse". That boy won Team Spirit 18 million bucks by playing Magnus this last TI.