The Game Awards 2024 - December 12th

[I eat frozen vegetables]

What did the americans produce this year? Oh yeah, Concord

It's one hell of year when none of the games are from America, the majority are from Japan, AND there's a Chinese game in there.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

It's one hell of year when none of the games are from America

A most auspicious year. To many more to come!))

 

[Dopparn]

SMT V Vengenace not being a top nominee for Best Score and Music tells you everything about the fucking integrity of this shit show.

6 nominations for Metaphor, 0 nominations for Persona 3 Reload or SMVV. It's like they just based it on metacritic score or something.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I was curious and looked it up the accessibility award at their homepage:

Accessibility in Dragon Age: The Veilguard embraces a “play as you like” philosophy. There are over a dozen combat and exploration settings like preventing death, adjustable parry timing, granular aim assist, and glint visibility/distance for collectables.


Accessibility SFX adds audio cues for visual mechanics such as attack indicators, target lock-on, and conversation wheels, while Glint Ping SFX provides spatial audio cues to assist with object locations. No critical information is conveyed through sound alone, with fully visualized combat cues and customizable subtitles. Accessibility for hearing loss also includes a mono audio mode with a left/right panning slider for players who have more hearing loss in one ear than the other.


Additional considerations include hold-to-tap settings, arachnophobia-friendly adjustments, highly configurable HUD, simulation sickness options, and memory/learning assists such as world & local maps being available at all times and a codex including a lore glossary.

Amazing, who would have thought that one day we'd get difficulty settings, HUD toggles, and audio modes in our video games?

It’s a video game being nominated for a video game award because it has a setting where you don’t really need to play the game. The innovation is astounding.

Although nothing listed there is new or something Dragon Age came up with. An invincibility setting, lock-on, and visual attack indicators aren’t new. This kind of just feels like the awards show throwing Veilguard a bone.

 

[Catacombs]

Winner: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

No need to watch it.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Winner: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

No need to watch it.

There is still plenty of reasons to watch.

 

[Ezekiel]

Winner: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

No need to watch it.

There is still plenty of reasons to watch.

I never watch award shows. If anything worthwhile is revealed, it will be snipped and talked about later. Even if gaming weren't so dire that it makes more sense to do awards every three years, I still wouldn't care. Most consumers, vast majority, of any medium don't actually care at all, demonstrated by the Oscars only making big news in years and years after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Doesn't matter. If you need that encouragement, you're probably not a truly talented filmmaker, actor or person involved in the making of games anyway.

 

[Butter]

What did the americans produce this year? Oh yeah, Concord

Weeb shit and a card game. Lmao.

 

[Tehdagah]

What did the americans produce this year? Oh yeah, Concord

Fortnite should win GOTY every year, it's only fair.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

That's actually a pretty decent list. I'm positively surprised they included Wukong and Stellar Blade while completely ingoring Veilguard, respect. Maybe not all hope is lost after all.

Yeah, I’m actually a little surprised they were able to help themselves and not nominate Dragon Age: The Veilguard for some major award given its game journalist picking stuff, and it was so many of them gave it ten out of ten and talked about it like it was the greatest thing BioWare ever did.

 

[Late Bloomer]

I never watch award shows. If anything worthwhile is revealed, it will be snipped and talked about later. Even if gaming weren't so dire that it makes more sense to do awards every three years, I still wouldn't care. Most consumers, vast majority, of any medium don't actually care at all, demonstrated by the Oscars only making big news in years and years after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Doesn't matter. If you need that encouragement, you're probably not a truly talented filmmaker, actor or person involved in the making of games anyway.

Oh, I am not watching in the hopes something worthwhile will appear. Just pure, unfiltered cringe. Clown world on full display.

 

[Gerrard]

What did the americans produce this year? Oh yeah, Concord

Fortnite should win GOTY every year, it's only fair.

I wonder if it was a woman that destroyed your mind.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Our good friends at Polygon™ want to let everyone know that Black Myth Wukong rated low for a game to get nominated for GotY at the Game Awards Show.

Black Myth: Wukong is one of the lowest-rated Game of the Year nominees in Game Awards history

https://www.polygon.com/game-awards...-wukong-game-awards-goty-nominee-lowest-rated

Shortly after The Game Awards creator and host Geoff Keighley announced the nominees for this year’s installment, amateur analysts online discovered Black Myth: Wukong is one of the lowest-rated games to be nominated for Game of the Year in the show’s 10-year history with an 81 on Metacritic and an 82 on Opencritic.

Black Myth: Wukong has been a centerpiece of the culture war within gaming after IGN investigated allegations of sexism at developer Game Science in Nov. 2023, speaking to several women in the Chinese gaming industry about “misogynistic remarks” by men at the studio, including CEO Feng Ji.

 

[gooseman]

card game, fromslop dlc, games from about 40 years ago in 2024 (no man's sky and csgo, oh, sorry, cs2, same fucking thing), overhyped pre-alpha early access game (manor lords), artfag awardbait games only chosen so they can go "oh, we don't just shill the most popular industry games, we also have all these beautiful indie games!"
about what i'd expect from shill awards
who cares, no good games will be covered

 

[Late Bloomer]

no good games will be covered

like what?

 

[gooseman]

wouldn't we all like to know

 

[Baron Dupek]

indies need their own category, they are not real games.

Black Myth: Wukong has been a centerpiece of the culture war within gaming after IGN investigated allegations of sexism at developer Game Science in Nov. 2023, speaking to several women in the Chinese gaming industry about “misogynistic remarks” by men at the studio, including CEO Feng Ji.

like western studios (like Blizzard) are different?
nah

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Don't let the awards distract you from the fact that Usada Pekora bought a fucking monkey.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Apparently Balatro is really good. Haven't bothered to try it yet, anyone?

 

[Catacombs]

Apparently Balatro is really good. Haven't bothered to try it yet, anyone?

It's good... and addictive.

 

[gooseman]

Apparently Balatro is really good. Haven't bothered to try it yet, anyone?

Yeah I got curious and downloaded it. It's something like binding of isaac with just the powercreep and no gameplay. It's a fun game for a few hours and I get why casual phone users would play it so much, but not something that should get a ton of awards, even if you consider the cripple-A competition.
or maybe I'm in denial about humanity being slaves to skinnerboxes

 

[Tyranicon]

2024 sucked for good games.

 

[Fargus]

Apparently Balatro is really good. Haven't bothered to try it yet, anyone?

Some shit solitaire roguelike that likely outperformed at least few recent AA(A) slops. Dayum.

 

[Late Bloomer]

https://www.smashjt.com/post/leaked-message-from-geoff-keighley-exposes-the-game-awards-true-agenda

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

The only worth vote in that shit show.

Also i'm doing my part