@Grumblevolcano Yeah, they were probably searching for a producer and a director in that time as well as waiting to see the results of the Mario movie.
With something like a Zelda movie, I ain't shocked they took their time looking for a producer and a director since this is a big task and a big franchise.
We might get a small teaser next year at a Direct or something like the Mario movie, I'm pretty sure of that.
Alan Wake has a Metascore of 94 on Xbox, so it's firmly in the 90+ club on one platform. I'd think it a bit thin on the gameplay compared to the other nominees that I've played, but it's got seriously impressive visuals and one hell of a narrative. That's the category it most deserves, I'd say.
Dave the Diver has predictably been nominated for best indie game, in spite of being made and published by Nexon, a Korean company that's about on a par with Bandai Namco in terms of revenue and market cap. The devs are even on record as saying that they're not an indie. It's not even an Ori situation, where you had an indie studio being published by Microsoft, but a fully owned subsidiary.
Cocoon has also managed to get nominated for best debut indie, in spite of Jeppe Carlsen having previously made Limbo and Inside! Sure, he's technically got a new studio and only some of the people who worked on those games came with him, but I don't think that's in the spirit of the award either.
Between those two, I'm guessing that indie just means "cute game made on a mid budget" these days.
Anyway, my picks:
GotY and everything else it got nominated for - TotK
RPG, Performance and Community Support - Baldur's Gate 3
Narrative and Audio Design - Alan Wake 2
Family and Multiplayer - SMBW
Impact and Mobile - Terra Nil
Fighting and Accessibility - Street Fighter 6
Indie - Cocoon
Debut Indie - Pizza Tower
Sim / Strategy - Fire Emblem Engage (no award for the story though!)
I'm happy Mario got so many nominations. I hope it at least wins best family; I would be ok if Pikmin won but I really don't want Disney to. Kind of surprised by 'best multiplayer' for Wonder but it's innovative I suppose.
I see for Mobile instead of always nominating Genshin they picked Honkai, a different HoYoverse game. 🥸
I completed forgot Hades II existed until I saw the most anticipated list but now I am in fact anticipating it.
Random category, but I vote IRONMOUSE for creator of the year. Mainly because I haven't heard of any of the others. 😝
Alan Wake got a ton of nominations! I know literally nothing about that game, I was just surprised to see it get as many nominations as Baldur's Gate (8).
Definitely some shockers in the nominations. Specifically, RE4. Then in the RPG category, I was surprised to see Lies of p In there and not octopath 2, not that I've played it. I just heard amazing things and I'm fairly certain lies wasn't too much of an rpg and more of a straight action game. Unless I'm mistaken.
Great selection of nominees. I think I would have swapped Resi 4 out for FFXVI in the GOTY category (largely because the former is a remake), but I won't complain.
Really happy for Super Mario Bros Wonder too. It's an absolutely fantastic game, but figured it'd be too "small scale" for a GOTY nomination & am very glad to be proven wrong.
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It kinda bugs me having RE4 there, because RE4 remake, no matter how good, doesn't need to exist for any reason. If you're gonna have a remake be GOTY, it should probably be something a bit bolder and more interesting than.
This will be very funny to have said when I look back at my favorite games I played this year, I fully admit. But I think it should be Street Fighter 6. Quite frankly, outside of occasionally watching Maximilian Dood, I don't watch fighting game stuff too much but I still heard way more about Street Fighter 6 than RE4 remake, all of which was at least as positive.
Also no matter how good it is, Alan Wake 2 immediately feels like its there because the various other contenders would be too interesting and not AAA-friendly enough. I'm surprised enough people even played it, I didn't think Alan Wake 2 was even THAT popular, like I'm sure it did well but I missed the hype for that almost entirely I guess.
looking at the game awards, there… honestly doesn’t seem to be a ton of variety. besides indie games and a few other studios, it’s mostly big names. just something i noticed.
now if you’ll excuse me, i need to have some Sonic Frontiers-flavored copium
I dunno.
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I've not looked through all the individual noms yet but the two immediate Ws for the Game Awards right now is that IronMouse has been nominated for content creator (I can't even remember a content creator I watched being nominated since I wanna say TotalBiscuit).
Also ADVANCE WARS GETS A NOMINATION HECK YEAH. Advance Wars 1 + 2 was a wonderful return to Intelligent Systems' best strategy series, and no amount of pretending its fine it didn't sell well because MAH GRAPHICS while Pokemon is just allowed to sell 20 million for their past couple of games will change that.
@Jalex_64 Starfield would be a controversial inclusion considering it had a more mixed reception compared to other releases like Mario Wonder, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy XVI, etc.
General consensus online seems to be that the game simply isn't deserving of a nomination.
True and that's obviously how it played out, which is great. I just felt the the marketing hype around Starfield and lack of Xbox representation would push them to include it, so I'm very happy to be proven wrong here
In my humble opinion I think The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom will be game of the year no doubt about that. Not much else really stands out. I haven’t really played the other ones listed To really have a opinion.
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Best Game Direction is usually reserved as "second place" to Game of the Year. TotK will win one and BGIII will win the other. It'll be a bloodbath between the two.
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@Magician Not really, since Best Game Direction's introduction in 2016 there's only been 2 years when the GotY winner didn't also win Best Game Direction:
2019 - Sekiro won GotY, Death Stranding won Best Game Direction
2021 - It Takes Two won GotY, Deathloop won Best Game Direction
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