The Game Awards 2024 - December 12th

[Late Bloomer]

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

They did not include GSC

 

[Late Bloomer]

They did not include GSC

Stalker 2 didn't make the cutoff date. This is one of those yearly awards shows that doesn't actually include the entire year.

 

[Modron]

Well that gives Stalker 2 some extra time for "mods will fix it" before next year's award show.

 

[duskvile]

Is there The Most Anticipated Game category and what is list of these games?

 

[Late Bloomer]

Is there The Most Anticipated Game category and what is list of these games?

Edit
Thank you Elttharion. One of those days.

The website is down for me. Here are the nominees

Game of the Year​

Game of the Year is described as, “Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.” The nominees are as follows, in no particular order.

• Astro Bot
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Balatro
• Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Black Myth: Wukong

Best Game Direction​

• Astro Bot
• Balatro
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Metapahor: ReFantazio

Best Ongoing Game​

• Destiny 2
• Diablo 4
• Final Fantasy 14
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2

Best Art Direction​

• Astro Bot
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Neva

Best Mobile Game​

• AFK Journey
• Balatro
• Wuthering Waves
• Zenless Zone Zero
• Pokémon TCG Pocket

Best Narrative​

• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Like a Dragon: Infinte Wealth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Silent Hill 2

Best Performance​

• Briana White, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Hannah Telle, Life is Strange: Double Exposure
• Humberly Gonzalez, Star Wars Outlaws
• Luke Roberts, Silent Hill 2
• Melina Juergens, Senua’s Saga: Hellbade 2

Best Score & Music​

• Astro Bot
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Silent Hill 2
• Stellar Blade

Best Adaptation​

• Arcane
• Fallout
• Knuckles
• Like a Dragon: Yakuza
• Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft

Best Multiplayer​

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Helldivers 2
• Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
• Super Mario Party Jamboree
• Tekken 8

Best Independent Game​

• Animal Well
• Balatro
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Neva
• UFO 50

Most Anticipated Game​

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Grand Theft Auto 6
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
• Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Role-Playing Game​

• Dragon’s Dogma 2
• Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio

Content Creator​

• CaseOh
• Illojuan
• Techno Gamers
• TypicalGamer
• Usada Pekora

Best Action/Adventure​

• Astro Bot
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Silent Hill 2
• Star Wars Outlaws
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Best Action​

• Black Myth: Wukong
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Helldivers 2
• Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
• Stellar Blade

Best Fighting​

• Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
• Granblue Fantasy: Versus Rising
• Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection
• Multiversus
• Tekken 8

Innovation in Accessibility​

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Diablo 4
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Star Wars Outlaws

Best Family Game​

• Astro Bot
• Princess Peach Showtime
• Super Mario Party Jamboree
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• The Plucky Squire

Best Sim/Strategy Game​

• Age of Mythology Retold
• Frostpunk 2
• Kunitsu-Gami Path of the Goddess
• Manor Lords
• Unicorn Overlord

Best Sports/Racing​

• F1 24
• EA Sports FC25
• NBA 2K25
• Topspin 2K25
• WWE 2K24

 

[Elttharion]

?

Most Anticipated Game​

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Grand Theft Auto 6
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
• Monster Hunter Wilds

 

[NecroLord]

Oh God.
I nearly forgot about GTA 6...
Apparently it's going to take place in Vice City, but in the modern day as opposed to the 80s.
My money is on it being a buggy mess and very similar to GTA 5 in the gameplay department.
You should replay Vice City, by the way.
Best game in the series and one of the few worth playing, also GTA 3 and even the original titles.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

The GTA6 leaks from a while back already make it look vastly more ambitious than GTA5 ever was.

I also wonder if they’re going to do VR for the game. That leaked footage from a while back had one video that was just showing off a car’s interior, and the announcement of control you seemed to have over the interior was vastly greater than you’d need for a regular third or fight person game. The whole interior of the cars seem to be functional now. Chairs adjust like a normal car chair would, the steering wheel can be adjusted, you can move the mirrors, the widow visor works. It seems like they’re giving you a level of control over the inside of a car that only makes sense if you’re playing in VR with VR controls.

It’ll be interesting to see how that game turns out. The feeling I’ve gotten with GTA over the years is that it constantly railroading the player into following very specific points when going about a mission was because of Dan Houser...who was one of the bosses and wrote all the games. You’re going to follow the story exactly how Dan Houser wants you to follow the story he wrote. But Dan Houser left Rockstar in 2020. Red Dead Redemption 2 felt like two very different polar opposite games in one. One of them was this extremely open game where you could just kind of fuck around and do whatever you wanted with the mechanics they gave you, and the other was the most railroaded game Rockstar has ever made where even the most slight of deviations from the very specific invisible path they wanted you to follow could randomly end a mission and have you starting over. Those two games RDR2 was were constantly at war with each other, with Houser gone it could mean a positive change for the studio in the more free form direction that was in RDR2. Then again, it could just stay the same or get even worse...although the boss being the writer seems like it’s why they made you follow the story stuff so stringently.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Modders deserve recognition at The Game Awards, too
Where is all the fan work at The Game Awards?

https://www.polygon.com/game-awards-tga/483684/the-game-awards-tga-modder-nominations

To me, mods represent some of the best work happening in video games. I don’t just say this because these additions have allowed me to introduce anime boys to Stardew Valley

The idea that Nintendo intimidated Keighley out of celebrating fan creations isn’t entirely out of the question. The renowned Japanese developer and publisher has cultivated a reputation of being extremely litigious when it comes to fan-made projects and mods of its games.

Today, we have to make do with the nebulous category of “Best Community Support,” which appears to focus on the community managers of teams rather than the fan communities themselves.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

The GTA6 leaks from a while back already make it look vastly more ambitious than GTA5 ever was.

Would be cool if it had a lot more 'life sim' aspects than its predecessors.

 

[Late Bloomer]

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

The GTA6 leaks from a while back already make it look vastly more ambitious than GTA5 ever was.

Would be cool if it had a lot more 'life sim' aspects than its predecessors.

It looks like they’re going as “sim” as at least San Andreas. A lot of the leaked footage was showing off different animations for how your character does different things (like shooting a gun) depending on where your stats are.

The leaks also make it look like the game might be built around doing heist that at least look functionally similar to how robberies work in Payday. They at least seem to be something more that you can just initiate at certain locations, as opposed to the heist in GTA5 which are one off set piece missions. Like the leaked restaurant robbery where you’re running crowd control seems more like something you can just do in restaurants as opposed to a very specific mission.

It should also be more violent than GTA has been since entering the 360 era if what they were doing in RDR2 is any indication.

 

[Elttharion]

I played a bit of Balatro out of sheer curiosity and its fine I guess, shouldnt be nowhere near a goty nomination tho. Then again I am hard pressed to even name 10 games released this year so what do I know...

 

[Tyranicon]

I played a bit of Balatro out of sheer curiosity and its fine I guess, shouldnt be nowhere near a goty nomination tho. Then again I am hard pressed to even name 10 games released this year so what do I know...

I played it some more and warmed up to it. From a gameplay design perspective, I can see why someone would sing its praises.

Much better than the usual Game Awards fare.

 

[Svejk]

I guess I should be proud that Dragon's Dogma 2 even got nominated. Would love to see it win. It had more balls than Metaphor or a ultra samey Erdtree. And lol at Purple Veilguard.

 

[duskvile]

My most anticipated games: Bioshock 4,Thief, Judas, Dishonored III, Doom: Dark ages, Deus EX.

 

[Elttharion]

The Balatro dev is a funny dude

 

[Tyranicon]

Dude's a solodev who will probably make enough money on Balatro to sustain a life of debauchery for a good amount of years.

I look forward to even more wildly deranged poasts on twixxer.

 

[The Nameless One]

Meanwhile, Space Marine 2 was only nominated to a single fringe category while actiblizzard's Carl On Booty and snoy's Femblade II get all the attention? At least Monkeypox made it to the top due to sales, to the dismay of the usual suspects.

 

[duskvile]

Some think Control 2 will get announcement trailer. 2 candidates who will probably win GOTY are Astrobot and Black Myth: Wukong.

 

[NecroLord]

The GTA6 leaks from a while back already make it look vastly more ambitious than GTA5 ever was.

I also wonder if they’re going to do VR for the game. That leaked footage from a while back had one video that was just showing off a car’s interior, and the announcement of control you seemed to have over the interior was vastly greater than you’d need for a regular third or fight person game. The whole interior of the cars seem to be functional now. Chairs adjust like a normal car chair would, the steering wheel can be adjusted, you can move the mirrors, the widow visor works. It seems like they’re giving you a level of control over the inside of a car that only makes sense if you’re playing in VR with VR controls.

It’ll be interesting to see how that game turns out. The feeling I’ve gotten with GTA over the years is that it constantly railroading the player into following very specific points when going about a mission was because of Dan Houser...who was one of the bosses and wrote all the games. You’re going to follow the story exactly how Dan Houser wants you to follow the story he wrote. But Dan Houser left Rockstar in 2020. Red Dead Redemption 2 felt like two very different polar opposite games in one. One of them was this extremely open game where you could just kind of fuck around and do whatever you wanted with the mechanics they gave you, and the other was the most railroaded game Rockstar has ever made where even the most slight of deviations from the very specific invisible path they wanted you to follow could randomly end a mission and have you starting over. Those two games RDR2 was were constantly at war with each other, with Houser gone it could mean a positive change for the studio in the more free form direction that was in RDR2. Then again, it could just stay the same or get even worse...although the boss being the writer seems like it’s why they made you follow the story stuff so stringently.

Rockstar just does the same tired shit over and over and it has been doing it for years.
It was a bunch of mostly scottish and british people making fun of american culture (which was an "edgy and cool" thing to do while never fully understanding it) and what they thought were the failings of that culture.
You can see that clearly in GTA.
Especially Vice City (their best game, up there with Manhunt and GTA 3). Just listen to those radio stations, particularly VCR.

They were becoming scummy douchebags for a while now, but it was most evident during the GTA remaster shitshow a few years ago...

 

[Elttharion]

 

[Fedora Master]

I see two real games and a bunch of literally what's and chinkshit.

 

[Elttharion]

The only western game in either of the game of the year awards (the main award and the players choice one) is Balatro, a roguelite made by a solo canadian dev. Really makes you think huh.

I see two real games and a bunch of literally what's and chinkshit.

4 chink games and one jap. 3 of them gacha and one is a DLC. This is whats popular now.