Topic: The Game Awards 2015

That sounds brilliant, why did I miss it?

@SpookyMeths: Gasoline, eh? Pokemon Oil and Natural Gas versions confirmed for 2016, 7th Gen is here!

So is Ori on the indie list becuase moon is an indie studio. I mean beyond that its a microsoft first party game.

Undertale I think will win best Indie game (I'm hoping it does. It's probably my favorite game this year), and I think Super Mario Maker has a chance at best family game, but not game of the year.

Gasoline? I thought it was Mountain Dew.

It's also the nominee that I know the least about. I guess if you're really into that style of RPG it's going to be the best thing since Earthbound. I'm not into that sort of RPG so I didn't give it a second look. Haven't played it and only realised it was being hyped at all while reading the nominations today. So my views on this are definitely subjective.

I'm really into arcade style games, racing games, platformers and games with great art direction. Rocket League covers two of those pretty well as a kind of cross between Splatoon and Mario Kart. Ori and the Blind Forest covers the other two better than Nintendo does sometimes. Axiom Verge I haven't played either but I'm going to get it eventually, why not? It's the 2D Metroid we haven't had in a while.

In the same way that Bayonetta isn't a first party Nintendo game. I think people need to stop getting so caught up on what independent games are and aren't. Really they're nothing more than small games made by small teams with small budgets. If you want to be caught up in who made deals with who you'll start saying a game was "indie" on one platform but not another. Which makes no sense.

Basically, these big award shows define "indie" as smaller than a AAA title.

...Well, it's a good thing we've got gasoline, now isn't it?

@skywake:

But Bayonetta isn't owned by Nintendo it cant be first party. Microsoft literally owns the Ori IP.

Sooo this is tomorrow~. I'll definitely be tuning in . I'm not expecting any particularly awesome reveals, but if we get more info on current announcements, I'll be happy.

Confused the date, thought it was today for a little lol

Nor would I call Bayonetta an indie game.

If they're doing the twitch stream again this year are we going to be able to watch it as soon as it's over? I'm gonna be busy during the show unfortunately and this is the first time I'm actually looking forward to the show. Just my luck.

It's at 3AM where I live, so it's going to be a long night..

So when is this? I'm EST. o.o
I'm probably not going to watch it, but be around if there's any news. I don't expect much, though.

I'm lucky it starts at 9 pm for me, it's just when I have no more responsibilities, and before I need to get some sleep.

The official website has a countdown clock.

http://thegameawards.com/

Just over 32 hours to go.

Mobile/handheld game of the year is the pits. Don't know why they even bother, as they clearly have no interest in portable titles.

And 4/5 devs up for Developer of the Year only put out 1 game this year, so I'm not seeing how that makes it different from Game of the Year...

@SpookyMeths: It's a stupid award. Also note that the Developer of the Year nominees are the developers of the Game of the Year nominees.

So...anyone going to bring up the fact that Shaq is going to be there for some reason?(My guess would be it's for Shaq Fu 2 or something...whatever happened to that?)

@SpookyMeths: well with the lack of creativity, anti-consumer policies and lack of overall quality that plagues this industry ATM I find it hard to take any game award ceremony seriously, as I can count on one hand the number of games that genuinely deserve awards from this year or any year of the past 5 years. Not to mention the obvious point of the hype-culture and popularity contests summed up by the so-called 'console wars' worsen any attempts to fairly award a 'Game of the Year' or a 'publisher of the year' as it's no longer which title deserves to win but rather which popular title can win this award so that we don't p*** off the keyword warriors.

But hey, at least it's not the BAFTA's, where the 3DS quite literally does not exist/count even for the specific 'handheld GOTY' category for the last 3 years and it'll be 4 this year when it receives no nominations. Again.

@TheLastLugia Wait, seriously? The 3DS is just completely ignored?...Well that's a load of bull.