The Game Awards 2024 Players' Voice Nominees Have Been Revealed - Zelda, Sonic And More

I’m not sure I even like ten of those…

No mario & luigi brothership? I would have voted for that.
My all time favorite rpg ever, its almost perfect.

@The-Chosen-one have you not played any other RPGs? Genuine question.

@N00BiSH
Yes i have, but still i stand with my opinion.
What i love about this game, is the goofiness, the bro attacks etc, the character animations. But it can change (ask me again in two weeks lol)

In some parts it can feel repetitive also with the "story" but thats with most turned based rpgs.
The style of octopath traveler is what i like (battle system wise) but the downside there was the longgg quests lol.

Normally i game on my high end gaming pc, but with this game, my pc is collecting dust. Really addictive.

All the game awards has done this year is highlight how few really fun games have come out, and barely any of them have been full triple A games.

I’ve enjoyed Zelda and FF7R this year, but my favourite game has been Eiyuden and pretty much everything else has been remakes or just old games.

I don’t think I’m the target audience for the gaming awards.

The only ten I would choose are these:
1. Black Myth: Wukong
2. Stellar Blade
3. Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
4. Metaphor: Refantazio
5. Astro Bot
6. Ys X Nordic
7. Sonic X Shadow Generations
8. Silent Hill 2
9. Persona 3 Reload
10. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

I haven't bought any of these either. Where's the category for games that waited three years to go on heavy discount and then another two to be dug out of my backlog this year? It's either that or Dadish 3D, the undisputed winner of the award for 3D-est Dadish game.

My initial response would be FF VII rebirth as it's carved in my memory as one of the greatest games and I really enjoyed rebirth. However imo they butchered one if the biggest moments in game history with that game. Haven't played the new Zelda yet.

My favourite this year is astrobot. It was just pure joy playing that game and it really took me back to the N64 and PSone days. Made me feel like a kid again.

For me:
1. The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom
2. Balatro
3. Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
4. No Man's Sky

Sorry I can't pick from the others to make a top 10.

where is dustborn? LMFAO

Semi-hot take here but I don't think this category should be viable for games with 3 or more nominations. It just feels redundant if a game wins a number of awards alongside this one. It just feels no different from GOTY if the usual nominees are there. People are always complaining about how certain games don't get nominated enough. Let those games have a chance.

@N00BiSH It's a FANTASTIC game, what do you mean with that? I love RPGs, I've been playing them since I was a kid with games like Shinning Force 2 and Chrono Trigger, so you can imagine it's my favorite genre, and I absolutely adore Mario & Luigi Brothership, I've had so much fun with it. It's definitely one of the best Mario RPGs there are.
What problems do you have with the game? Serious question.

No Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown? No Unicorn Overlord? No Paper Mario: TTYD? No Mario & Luigi Brothersip? No Dragon Quest 3? REALLY?

It seems they didn't want to have many Switch games on the list...
Zelda and Silent Hill 2 are fantastic games though, so I vote for those.

My personal game of the year, UFO 50, is not in this list.

Of those games in the list, the only one I've actually played is Zelda (though I did play the original Sonic Generations when it was new in 2011)

When Zelda Echoes of Wisdom came out, it was kind of awkward because I was so invested into UFO 50, I just wanted to do nothing but play it - but as a Zelda fan, I needed to also play the new Zelda, of course! So I was sort of hopping between them both, I wanted to play both of them so badly...

Then when I finished Zelda, I immediately felt relieved because it meant I could go back to UFO 50 without distractions.

And now several months post release, Zelda has mostly left my mind and yet I'm still obsessing over UFO 50 even though I've beaten both of them haha.

Makes me feel kind of bad as a huge Zelda fan though. I feel like I'm not giving Echoes of Wisdom the adoration it deserves, but to be quite honest, it was a little bit underwhelming as Zelda games go. And UFO 50 is such a huge labour of love that deserves all the respect in the world for achieving what it managed to achieve.

So yeah. Sorry to Zelda but.... as far as my personal gaming world is concerned, there was a much more significant and much more interesting game release than Zelda this year.

...Oh and tbh i'm not all that interested in The Game Awards anyway, so whatevs.

It’s GAAS all the way down.

What a list... Can't believe Fortnite is on it, for one. But hey, I don't really care about the Game Awards in the first place.

Man, can't wait for me and the sonic fandom to lose to Genshin Impact again 🙃.

@the_beaver I've voiced a lot of my issues with Brothership on this site's forum thread, but basically, the game, while fine on its own, fails to understand what made its series great to begin in a multitude of areas; it's atrociously paced, the writing isn't particularly strong or funny, the art direction has some misteps that absolutely should be considered, there are a lot of questionable changes in the design(e.g. everything to do with Luigi), and overall, it's just not the strong return to form it thinks it is.

Of course I have nothing against people who genuinely love the game - more power to them - but as a longtime fan of M&L, I can't help but be disappointed with Acquire's effort.

Why they even still bother with this award after the Sonic/Genshin fiasco in 2022 is a mystery to me.

Wow. Who picks the player choice nominees, and why didn't they play some of this year's best games?
Like 33% of these games didn't even come out this year. What bizarro world are we living in?
UFO50, Unicorn Overlord, GBF Relink, Animal Well, Prince of Persia, about a trillion indie darlings on Steam...the list of 2024 bangers not represented here is astounding.

My top 3 in this order

3.Sonic x Shadow Generations
2. Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
1. Shiren the Wanderer: Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island. (Too bad that isn't on here, I'd make 10000 burner accounts to vote for it)

@the_beaver
Lol your reaction is almost like you wrote how i feel about this game.
I (40yrs) play this game almost everyday and grew up with the oldskool rpgs haha.
This game scratches every itch about what i want in an rpg game.

I voted for Astro Bot, Genshin Impact, Echoes of Wisdom, and Stellar Blade.

Ah, a 100 percent fan voted award, perfect. A chance to throw my support behind the best game I played this year by far in Unicorn Overlord. Alas, it appears to be absent entirely as an option, shame. At least I have what's important, my own memories of such a fantastic experience none-the-less. Echoes of Wisdom a worthy second place, meanwhile