Topic: The Game Awards 2019

Trying to put some sort of sports award equivalent in the middle of a video game award show is just weird.

It definitely feels like some kind of sponsored deal. I can't imagine Keighley sat there thinking; ''You know what, we need to award the best eSports coach!''

Oh well, I'm mainly watching for the game reveals anyway. I do hope A Way Out wins something, just because I want to see the dev with Keighley on stage once more.

God of War did everything right. This is the GOTY we deserve.

I would love Octopath Traveler to win the Art Direction award over the likes of Red Dead. That prize should mean something, not just be a reward for winning the graphical arms race. Think Octopath has an outside shout at the best score gong, too. Dragon Quest XI ought to stroll home with the Best RPG prize, though - in fact, I'm slightly disappointed it wasn't in the running for GOTY (though it wouldn't beat the heavyweights of GOW, Spider-Man or RDR2).

I think Monster Hunter World will get Best RPG.

I still don't understand how MH is suddenly an RPG. Yeah I know @Octane pointed out that Capcom now says it is. But if MH is an RPG, then so is Bayonetta, DMC, Spider-man, GoW, heck even Forza Horizon 4.

@subpopz it's not just about the graphics, though, I mean RDR2 really paves new ground for control schemes.............
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bwahhahahahaha....sorry. I tried.

@NEStalgia It's Japanese, so that raises the chance of it being an RPG by 83%.

God of War, Spider-Man, etc. all have leveling, isn't that why they call it action-adventure with RPG elements? The term RPG is kinda stupid anyway; it used to mean literally role-playing game, but that's nearly every game in which you play as a character (so kinda everything except most sports and racing games I guess).

I don't really care to be honest. As with everything in life, as soon as you try to put everything in boxes and give them definitions, you'll end up in this exception loophole that doesn't end, so we like to pretend it doesn't exist, but there's always a giant grey area.

Less than 2 weeks to go.

One of the rumored world premieres is Rocksteady's new game Superman: World's Finest.

If you somehow don't know who Rocksteady is, they developed the Batman Arkham series of games.

Obsidian is supposed to unveil the first game since their acquisition. I have never played anything from them, but have heard such good things that I hope it goes well just because I know their reputation and want their fans to feel hyped for their next project.

Hoping for some Bayonetta 3 news or maybe a teaser for Metroid if Nintendo wants to wow us again.

I'm a firm believer that both are 2020 games. Why? Because Metroid Prime HD Collection seems like the best game to release in 2019 to build hype for MP4. Personally, I assume we'll finally see Star Fox Racing...or whatever Retro Studios has been working on.

The Superman rumors popping up again are intriguing but all I really want is something on Borderlands 3. It's one of my favorite franchises and they've been quiet way too long (outside of BL2VR). There will probably be 1 or 2 megatons stuff no one saw coming, some release dates and some solid indies to get excited about. I think mertroid in some form is a safe bet also. Wish it was 3 hours long but will try to watch as much as I can.

@PikPi The Obsidian game will be published by Private Division, not Microsoft. I think that all the games they were working on at the time of the acquisition are still being handled by third parties.

Nintendo have revealed things at the last 2 Game Awards, haven't they?

Wasn't last year when we first saw the Zelda DLC?

@Dezzy Yes we've had this:
2014 - New Mario Maker trailer and first BotW gameplay
2016 - First gameplay of new area in BotW
2017 - First major info on BotW Champions Ballad DLC (out same day), Bayonetta 1+2, Bayonetta 3

Also given Nintendo doesn't have much presence this year for the awards themselves, they kind of need to be present in the reveals.

Cool, so Nintendo will probably show something.

I assume Fire Emblem, given that it's coming out in a few months and we've still seen almost nothing.

I've heard some think that Skyward Sword remake will be revealed this year at game awards.

@RandomName

They denied it existed within the last week. Seems a weird thing to do if it's getting announced next week. They would've just said nothing if that was the case.

@XenoKidRex

I guess it's possible they would deny something just so it remains a surprise.

Can't imagine Nintendo really doing that though. I don't remember the 3DS reveal at all.

@Dezzy They didn’t deny the game’s existence, they just said “we do not have any plans to announce SS at this time”. This is supposed to be vague and neither confirms nor denies the development of SS HD.