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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by chloyster@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

Hey y'all. Figured I'd make a thread for this. Discuss anything about the game awards and it's announcements here!

Links to the show:

YouTube

Twitch

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[-] communication@beehaw.org 16 points 11 months ago

Oh my goodness Light No Fire looks so good. I really hope they've learned the right lessons from No Man's Sky, because that trailer looked like everything I want from a game.

[-] j_p_@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

As a huge fan of No Man's Sky (maybe my favourite game), this is the game that really got my attention. It looks stunning.

[-] ChildEater@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 10 months ago

I have some faith in Hello Games. I think being skeptical is absolutely the right call, but from what I can tell Sean seems like a decent guy that just got way too excited and started promising the world to people.

The worst part of the NMS incident is that other companies have started doing the same thing deliberately.

[-] Poopfeast420@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Since Sean Murray went right back to promising everything, it doesn't look like it. Although from the reception it looks like gamers haven't either.

[-] communication@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

I actually didn't get that sense this time. Certainly the trailer left a lot to the imagination, and that's letting me imagine impossible features that weren't shown. But I thought Murray was very tame in his explanation. He didn't really promise anything beyond a giant procedural world with multiplayer, and we know they can deliver on that. Everything else might suck. I get why people are skeptical about this, but I'm feeling confident that the final product will match what was shown here.

[-] Poopfeast420@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Saying they'll create (fantasy) earth seems like a lot, to me that's not just some random rock in space, but who knows.

[-] Hisnitch@beehaw.org 15 points 11 months ago

Spider man won no awards and Balders Gate took the win. Pleasently surprised on both accounts.

[-] ConstableJelly@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Did you...hate Spider-Man 2 for some reason? (Haven't played it myself yet)

[-] Hisnitch@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

What? No! I'm just surprised that Spider-man 2 didn't win anything at all. Even Alan Wake 2 won stuff and the game had only been out for less then a month before the nominees were announced.

[-] ConstableJelly@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Haha ok, just curious. You said pleasantly surprised on both counts, which I took to mean you were happy it didn't win any awards.

I'm super excited about playing Spider-Man 2 (as well as Alan Wake 2), but I'm also a patient gamer so just keeping an eye out for even a little bit of a sale.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I was also surprised but I think it coming out really recently and being a single console exclusive massively hurt its chances.

[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago

No silk song news 😭😭😭

Overall good show though. Sooooo excited for world of goo 2. New kojima game I'm hyped for as well.

My personal goty was re4 remake so kinda sad but I'm not surprised. This year was too stacked

[-] Crankpork@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

Old Gods of Asgard live was amazing, and Alan Wake 2 NG+ next Monday, which is huge (for reasons I won't explain, y'alls will just have to play the game).

I had other things to say but I'm too excited about that, so I'm going to bed.

[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

Definitely excited for pony Island 2! Inscryption is one of my faves of the last few years

[-] knokelmaat@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Holy shit I didn't know that was one of the anouncements! Pony Island was so good, perfect length and amazingly immersive story wise. Inscription I really liked too but somehow I fell off after a few hours, still gathering dust on my PS5.

[-] sub_@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

Brothers Remake, now with 2 more brothers and you need to use your toes to control them!!

[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Extremely excited for Rise of the Golden Idol. Loved the first one, and one of the few games my SO enjoyed playing

[-] knokelmaat@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Last Sentinel had a really cool visual style (the half faced android mother thing got my attention).

Kojima's scary shenanigans looked interesting too :)

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I really dislike that it's game news outlets that get the vote, because they're just plain gonna have a different outlook on games than people who don't have to engage with ones they both do and don't like as a job, and it really shows in the kind of games that get picked (shorter main storylines, narrative-driven), and the ones that don't (sandboxes, open-world games, strategy, simulation games, etc).

And that's only even when it's not a selection of the 5 most well-known games, since just like the Academy Awards, not all of them have even played all the games they're voting on.

[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well typically the outlet convenes with a bunch of people who have played a wide variety of games, so I feel they have a pretty good pool of minds to pull from.

Also I don't think it's a bad system compared to having it be all user voted. Golden joysticks already exist for 100% public vote, and that can be easily influenced by bots and the like. Also half of the games nominated for game of the year this year were open world games that were not short. I mean I don't think many expected in January a crpg would win in a year a Zelda game came out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

I was wondering what Sydnee was up to. Havent seen her post much on youtube in a couple years.

[-] antranaut@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Getting such a high pace of announcements...

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