Topic: The Game Awards 2025

Do you think Nintendo will show anything during the event

@FawfulsFury no. Maybe something really small, like Mario Galaxy movie teaser

Honestly I'm kinda hoping neither Mario Kart nor Crossworlds win Best Sports/Racing tonight.
The last thing anyone who's a fan of either game needs is more fuel to the fire.

I mean... Mario Kart World will be in the game news for years regardless and Sonic Crossworlds could use some positive advertisement (such as winning an award) to fuel more sales and thus better longevity of multiplayer.

I would be very happy if either of those won rather than Generic Sports Game 202X Edition. I'm showing my bias but that's the whole problem with that award category... silly Kart game with Mario characters defying physics and going in a circle is not the same genre as 'simulation game of real life sports and real life human sport players and associations'.

I'm hoping CrossWorlds wins so Sonic gets an award in general, Mario's got his fair share of awards and that will likely continue in the near future provided 3D Mario doesn't release the same year as GTA6 but Sonic hasn't won an award at the Game Awards yet.

Donkey Kong won the Family game award as expected, and that's probably it for the Nintendo interest.

From here on in, it's the Clair Obscur awards.

I've only been half paying attention to much of it, but so far my only thought about it worth typing is the fun coincidence that I have in fact been playing the original Tomb Raider for the first time lately.

@kkslider5552000 The new Tomb Raiders are definitely a top announcements. I hope they come to Switch 2.

Man that players voice award really threw me off lol. I've never even heard of Wuthering Waves.

Super popular F2P mobile game. Genshin competitor basically. I think players got free in-game currency for it winning

NEW MEGAMAN GAME THAT ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD THIS TIME, WE'RE SO BACK!

WAIT WHAT

mega man not until 2027 sadly. But looks good

In spite of what I said before, Mario Kart World somehow managed to pick up an award, for a second piece of Nintendo silverware.

It might have had a mixed reception but there's clearly a lot of the games media out there who are playing and enjoying it, still.

The Game of the Year Orchestra was fantastic, especially with it ending with Breaking Through from Bananza.

(could've been better if it had Deltarune music but I digress)

@FishyS Ahhhh man that would explain it. Makes sense why fan votes don't dictate the rest of the show 😅

whispers half of them didn't play a 2nd racing game this year

As always, this has nothing to do with Mario Kart World, it could be the best or worst game in the series, this would still be true.

Show actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, there weren't as many ads and there were some good game showings, though a good portion of them were for 2027 or even later...

Though one thing that really annoyed me was the fact that they skimmed through so many awards and didn't even give the devs a chance to show appreciation, let alone accept the award but they would give 5+ minutes to some random ad or insert of the most uninspired game.

While there can only be one "Game of the Year," this truly felt like the "Year of the Games." All the nominees were fantastic, and while I'm sad my personally GotY didn't win, that just goes to show the quality of games on offer this year.

Yep, that's the Game Awards alright.