Topic: The Game Awards 2023

@Vortexeo Maybe add System Shock Remake and Risk of Rain Returns into the mix. But yeah, should've been a category. Don't ask me to pick a game from those you listed because they're all killers.

We should ask Baldur's Gate III director Swen Vincke what he thinks his chances are at the TGAs.

@Vortexeo Yeah probably along those lines! I think Resi probably would've snagged it, but Prime and Dead Space are great contenders in fairness

EDIT - Prime is such a great blueprint for how a remaster should be done...imagine if Rockstar and Konami had applied the same level of love to RDR and MGS collection?

@Magician Yeah, BG3 absolutely swept the board at the Golden Joystick Awards. Zelda just picked up the one there.

Still, that's a 100% public vote, while TGA is 90% jury one, so things might turn out differently.

Going to revise my guesses based on the actual nominees.

Best Game Direction: Tears of the Kingdom
Best Narrative: Baldur's Gate III
Best Art Direction: Super Mario Bros Wonder
Best Score & Music: Hi-Fi Rush
Best Audio Design: Dead Space Remake
Games for Impact: A Space for the Unbound
Best Ongoing Game: Final Fantasy XIV
Best Indie Game: Dredge
Best Action Game: Remnant II
Best Action/Adventure Game: Tears of the Kingdom
Best Role Playing Game: Baldur's Gate III
Best Fighting Game: Street Fighter 6
Best Family Game: Super Mario Bros. Wonder (category should be renamed Best Nintendo Game, honestly)
Best Sports/Racing Game: Forza Motorsport
Best Sim/Strategy: Pikmin 4
Best Multiplayer Game: Baldur's Gate III (four-player online co-op, yo)
Best Debut Indie Game: Cocoon
Most Anticipated Game: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Game of the Year: Baldur's Gate III

Mmm, had to change a few. Not too far off though.

I want totk to win and I think it deserves to win but I’m assuming bg3 or maybe aw2 will win

My votes:

Game of the Year: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Best Game Direction: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Best Narrative: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Best Art Direction: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Best Score and Music: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Best Audio Design: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Best Performance: Yuri Lowenthal (Marvel’s Spider-Man 2)
Innovation in Accessibility: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Games for Impact: Venba
Best Ongoing: Fortnite
Best Community Support: No Man’s Sky
Best Independent Game: Dave the Diver
Best Indie Debut Game: Venba
Best Mobile Game: Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Best VR/AR: Resident Evil Village VR Mode
Best Action Game: Remnant 2
Best Action/Adventure: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Best RPG: Starfield
Best Fighting: Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Best Family: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Best Sim/Strategy: Pikmin 4
Best Sports/Racing: Forza Motorsport
Best Multiplayer: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Best Adaptation: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Most Anticipated Game: Tekken 8
Content Creator of the Year: Ironmouse
Best ESports Game: League of Legends
Best ESports Athlete: Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok
Best ESports Team: Evil Geniuses
Best ESports Coach: Yoon “Homme” Sung-Young
Best ESports Event: EVO 2023

I really hope Mario Movie wins adaptation. Although it wasn't exactly a masterpiece in plot or pacing, they should really take into account how freaking hard it is to even make a movie off of a series which is basically 'no-talking platformer with 0-dimensional plot' and somehow make it really fun as a movie.

i remember years ago when the Paramount channel on tv was formerly known as Spike TV aka TNN, that Geoff Keighley was a nobody on Gamehead/Gametrailers

Now, look at him now being the host of half good half bad vidyagame award shows online and him being the victim of doritos and mountain dew memes

I'm voting despite having played almost zero games from this year. Because its funny to do that.

I will say, I did vote for Baldur's Gate 3 for GOTY, out of a sense of "yeah, probably should win".

TBH I haven't actually played ALL of the games in the categories nor do I know any of the teams or coaches or players.

My predictions for some of the world premiere things are:

• GTA6 Teaser (will probably break twitter)
• Apollo Justice Trilogy Trailer (because we can’t pre order the game yet nor does it even have an eShop page so obviously they probably wanna open preorders with another trailer)
• Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin (Full-Blown Remake)
  — I assume this is what Tt Games has been working on, I just have a gut feeling (granted, it’s mixed with my bias towards this series)
• Final Fantasy VII REBIRTH (trailer shown due to winning MAG)
• Earthblade Trailer 2 (Celeste devs)
• Hades II Trailer
• Hollow Knig- No, you’re in denial, it’s not coming.
• Metroid Prime 4: Legacy (most likely to happen besides DLC for a game, Metroid is most suitable for a TGA announcement anyways, and it will show “For Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2” at the end card, and no one will elaborate on this.)
• Death Stranding II Trailer 2
• Dreams PC Port (it’s never gonna happen, this is my personal hollow knight silksong)
• Random Nintendo Switch Ad
• At least 5 first-person realistic walking simulators.
• Knuckles TV Show Teaser

@kkslider5552000 did you play the game you voted for?

So Round 1 of Players' Voice voting is starting tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see what games made it into the list.

@Grumblevolcano I already voted weeks ago. Is this just going over the results of the people who voted already?

@NintendoByNature No, Players' Voice is the 100% public vote category whose voting hasn't gone live yet.

• Round 1 - 30 nominees, people can vote for 10 of them, top 10 goes through
• Round 2 - 10 nominees, people can vote for 5 of them, top 5 goes through
• Round 3 - 5 nominees, people can vote for 1 of them, winner is announced during the show

@Grumblevolcano 1$ of in game currency if our game wins its the most rigged category by far

The round 1 nominees are live:

• Alan Wake 2
• Apex Legends
• Armored Core VI
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Counter-Strike 2
• Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
• Destiny 2
• Diablo IV
• FFXVI
• Fortnite
• Genshin Impact
• GTA Online
• Hi-Fi Rush
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Honkai Star Rail
• League of Legends
• Lies of P
• Spider-Man 2
• Minecraft
• Mortal Kombat 1
• No Man's Sky
• Octopath Traveler II
• RE4
• Jedi Survivor
• Starfield
• SF6
• SMB Wonder
• TotK
• Valorant
• Warframe

https://thegameawards.com/brackets/players-voice

Warframe will have a segment announcing the launch date for the Whisper in the Wall update.

And a built Sevagoth is the "official" Twitch drop for TGA.

Well, whoever said a Sonic game would win player's choice is definitely wrong since there is no Sonic in the list. Do we know how these 30 were chosen? Some are obvious and none of the games are shocking, but it still seems like a mildly arbitrary list of 30 games to vote from.