Topic: The General Game Awards/Awards Show Thread

I'm too busy Actually Playing Video Games to keep up with esports and "content creators" tbh.

Anywho, in terms of 2022 games I've spent any significant amount of time playing, Kirby and the Forgotten Land was probably the most consistently enjoyable. Elden Ring was cool but the endgame got too samey and I ended up getting exhausted. Bloody Spell came out of Early Access in January and that was okay but it's about as jank as you would expect from a mid-budget Chinese character action game. Rune Factory 5 would have been a contender if its engine wasn't cobbled together with chewed gum and damp twigs.

Really glad Xenoblade 3 got nominated for GOTY, never would expected this outcome from the series being so niche, but it's getting the recognition it deserves. Elden Ring or GoW are obviously winning but it means a lot that Xenoblade was nominated in the first place.

One thing I find surprising is that Sonic Frontiers wasn't nominated for best OST/score.

I didn't realize when typing this that Yasunori Mitsuda was the specific person being credited (maybe because the previous two games I associate more with ACE). I have no opinion on the specific soundtracks but I am all in on giving Yasunori Mitsuda an award.

Mitsuda deserves a kiss on the cheek.

Let's not forget that Yasunori Mitsuda even went so far as to have custom flutes made:

https://www.pockettactics.com/xenoblade-chronicles-3/flutes

That's a genius level move. Just listening to the off-seer theme still makes me tear up a bit.

Hell yea for Xenoblade chronicles 3!

speaking of music, it really stood out how not award worthy Metroid Dread's music was when last year they did the big orchestra medley for all the GOTY contenders and the song they chose for Dread is the one originally from Super Metroid. Because its the most memorable song in the game.

Like what is even the most memorable song that's actually new in that game? The lava area? The final boss theme because you're gonna hear it over and over again from dying? I'd say being chased by the E.M.M.I., but mostly just how it starts when you're found.

Less than 2 weeks to go until the Elden Ring in SPACE awards.

Just setting expectations

Nooo Doom patrol season 4 comes out on the same day. Should I watch one of the best superhero shows or something that will probably have Sterling K Brown in an amoung us costume?

How many new IP will be shown with a CG trailer? I'm gonna try to count how many, because they are the most useless things in the world.

Who gets excited by a thing they don't know, with gameplay not shown? Who are these people? Do they exist? Are they real? Does anyone even remember most of what they premiered last year? So many question, so little time that will be given to actual awards.

@kkslider5552000 every time a CG trailer plays take a drink

I don't drink but if I did that would be a serious hazard to my health.

@kkslider5552000 I meant water or soft drink of choice.

@Kermit1Pineapple yeah because soft drinks aren’t hazardous to you health. On no I sound like Jump

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

@Kermit1Pineapple he’s lying he wouldn’t get banned in the before us dumbest way possible

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

@Kermit1Pineapple still alt accounts aren’t usually a good idea