Topic: The General Game Awards/Awards Show Thread

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika HA!!! YOUR JUMP!!!! HE SAID HE HAD MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS!!!

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Dude, it's jump, he's tried to get me to listen to Hardcore Metal.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Yea, I've had a theory that Rambler and jump are the same.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika who do you want to win an award.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I pick Xenoblade 3 (I'm gonna finally finish it tonight)

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I only got 5 hours left... Mio's long hair is brilliant

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Nah, you just wish you sound like me which is understandable since I am amazeballs after all.

I'd like to see XC3 or Stray win, though I certainly wouldn't begrudge GoW: Ragnarok or Elden Ring the win.

XC3 or Stray winning would probably set off the biggest "gamer" meltdown though, so they would be the funniest winners.

@RR529 If XC3 won I think it would be the Last of Us 2 controversy all over again. Probably not nearly as overblown, though.

Well the weather here in Ireland could apparently get so bad that I won't be able to head to school due to a snowstorm....I might have more time to watch TGA than I thought.

@Fizza What is your pfp and where can I get one!

Looks like Genshin Impact is going to be the winner of Players' Voice:

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

Seems to be if it wins then players will get free Primogems whatever those are.

@Grumblevolcano Isn't that sort of cheating for a gacha game?

@Grumblevolcano Considering how Genshin isn't even from 2022....yeah that makes me very mad. Throw a bone to Frontiers at least, that's probably been the most well-received Sonic game in recent memory in terms of fan reception!

To be fair to Genshin, it's not like it came out in 2020 and that was the end of it. Rather, it's a ongoing live-service game that is continually having new content added. The Game Awards acknowledges these kinds of games with their own category, for which it's also a nominee.

Bearing all that in mind though, I don't think it's had a particularly great 2022. Sumeru is a pretty bland region and it's even worse for grinding and talky quests. Mainly, though, the Players Voice award mostly comes down to the size of the fanbase and how well it can get motivated.

People have been actively rallying against Genshin winning ever since it got a huge lead overnight. Stray, God of War, and Sonic Frontiers all shot up so much in votes that Sonic began to go toe-to-toe with Genshin again, only for the website to be overloaded; now we can't even see the poll because the API crashed

I suspect they're hiding the numbers because there have been spikes in voting numbers that could pretty much only be explained by the use of automated voting bots.

Whoever wins now, it's going to be seen as illegitimate and worthless. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

I think Sonic Frontiers deserves to win it. Stray and GoW Ragnarok will win at least a few awards (e.g. Best Indie Game and Best Action Adventure Game respectively) meanwhile Elden Ring will likely win pretty much everything it's nominated for. Sonic Frontiers however wasn't nominated for anything.

I love sonic frontiers but tbh, they shouldn’t have put any ftp game in that list, Genshin is more accessible thing something like elden ring, and has waay more players, sonic fans didn’t need to attack Genshin the way they did tho, and now the site has overloaded due to Sonic bots, so that nice, now I’m. It gonna act like Genshin is stupid clean here, because they have there fair share of toxic things they do, but thanks to one stupid sonic fan the rest are gonna pay.

Sonic should have been in the music category, and they aren’t, for some reason. And like I said, if they had put something like Fortnite on the list, it again probably would have beaten everyone else out, same for Genshin, and again, there was no need to attack Genshin fans, and they have been hated on by many other community’s just for being anime and anime=Cringe, so I think Genshin players just kinda got sick of it tbh. Even having sonic sweep trend on twitter only to lose the lead hours later.

What a Mess.

I haven’t played that region yet, but my god have I heard how long the world quest is there, on top of that there character re runs were, iffy, I mean hu toa isn’t getting re run this year, and it to freakin got two re runs before her, somehow, and eula and shenhe need there’s soon, and don’t even get me started with yoimiya. But, I have been replaying it recently so I can save for hutoa, and despite the recent hate the new four stars have gotten, I love layla, she goes great with my shenhe.