The game awards begins roughly ~11 hours from now. what announcements are you hoping for?
The disappointment in my brother’s eyes when Half Life 3 isn’t announced…
… and mine too :(
Fucking REAL.
Like every other year until it or the next thing
Hopium administered
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Truly, lol. He was disappointed because he thought the MegaMan reveal was talking about Gordon Freeman.
Megaman hasn’t even done anything wrong (yet)… but we HATES IT!
It wasn’t MegaMan Legends, and therefore I do not care. Capcom can stay losing with my wallet.
Ya, whole show was kind of a let down, TankRat, from the Beginning no less, was the only one that really cought my eye. Oh well, at least Expedition 33 got its due & EVERYTHING ELSE SOMEHOW.
I really should play it already, if even the notoriously AAA subordinate Jeffy K. had to acknowledge those French people’s game so hard.
Just a shame my rig isn’t up to the task. :(
Todd Howard flayed alive on live televison.
I’ve never cared for it - the entire show’s awards and announcements could be YouTube Shorts that I can pick and choose to watch, and I’d get exactly the same thing out of it.
I wait a day and then check for a megathread with bullet points, then see if there is anything of interest to me.
I’m not really excited about anything because I don’t care much for AAA but it‘s funny to me that a show like the Game Awards was never about the awards but just an excuse to show some world premier trailers.
They keep telling us how this is a celebration of this year while trailers for games in the coming years take center stage. It feels more like the most cynical funeral of old games while the new ones get coronated with their announcements.
And I know this is comment isn‘t deep or profound to anybody who ever watched the Game Awards but I just find it comical every year.
On the other hand, winning an award from this show has a tangible effect on game sales, so it’s nice when a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 can beat the mainstays like The Legend of Zelda and earn that bump for themselves.
It‘s definitely clever to wrap the Award show into a Superbowl type of event for the gaming industry. It ensures there will be a lot of eyes on award winners. But they still have to share the attention with the new shiny things that are being advertised so it‘s always a little awkward. It‘s bizarre but part of the experience and let‘s be honest, most of don‘t care about popularity contests. We tune in for the trailers.
The awards are done by the big studios anyway, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft etc, thats the jury, it always has a bias. Anything else only wins something if its so popular that it has to. It’s just a AAA circle jerk mostly.
But its not about the awards anyway, its about advertising.
The jury is composed of the review outlets, not the studios. It does have a bias toward larger games, because the outlets reviewing games have an incentive to more reliably cover the games that most of their audience will be interested in, but it’s not because Sony’s voting for themselves to win.
Not exactly no, they are directly involved in the process. They pick which outlets can vote, so you immediately have conflict of interest.
As a fair awards show, its fucking awful, but as we know, thats just the facade to selling people new products. It’s just advertising, hyped up.
Also media publications are often biased anyway as their entire business relies on exposure, which is infinitely harder to get if you are critical of games. Nobody is gonna slap a 5/10 on their product.
Not to mention its always games with money behind them, there’s lots of actual quality games released that never get a mention, let alone a nomination, because they simply werent published by a big company. They have fucking DLC nominated instead of games if the big guys didnt release anything that year.
It’s just a big advertising show yeah. Like E3 but with all the soul and community sucked out of it. I dont know why anyone cares.
I just want to see some more exceptionalism from Flute Guy.
The real reason to watch
My wife and I was laughing at that a while back. He’s great.
Oh hell yeah, we get to see him go ham on some Clair Obscur music.
Always a highlight of the show. I hope he never cuts his hair.
Half Life 3
Half-Life Alyx 2
Wouldn’t be way out of left field with the new headset they already announced
It would be because Valve said they are not in the process of making a new VR game.
Right after bloodborne 2
Its gonna happen bro
We know HL3 is happening, and if you trust Jeff Grubb (you probably should), we know nothing is happening with Bloodborne right now.
For me lies of p is peak of the genre and I want another game from that studio. I’ve never actually managed to finish another souls/soulslike.
I’ve been expecting it the last couple of games showcases where there were rumors too. I will say the new hardware launch makes the rumors more compelling, but I will literally not believe it until I see it. I’m fully expecting the event to end on a dumb note and to say “that’s it!?” like the last couple of times I got my hopes up
I want to believe…
Crowbcat compilation. Tbh I didn’t know they were still doing that Game Awards
Half life 3
Absolutely nothing.
The same thing I’ve been waiting for since 2003. A new F-Zero
Did you play BS F-Zero? It was only available as a streaming service in Japan in the 90s, but someone managed to put a rom together a couple years ago. It mostly just feels like a remix of the first game, but it’s still some new content
https://www.consolegame.org/games-v2/snes/snes-bs-f-zero-japan-4091
I didn’t know that was a thing, nice
1999, and a new Vib Ribbon for me.
You and me both, buddy…
I’m looking forward to the podcasts that’ll make fun of it.
Looking for to be sleeping, I really don’t give a shit about that.
Personally I’m hoping for
- Larian’s next game announcement
- info on Light no Fire
- anything by fromsoftware
- a new final fantasy game that isn’t based on ff7
- the new bioshock game that was rumored for years now
Same for FF but also no tactical shite either, turn based is fine but the damn chessboard shit was enough during the 3DS era, so many great stories ruined by the gameplay.
I haven’t played the tactics games yet (Ivalice right?) but you just broke my heart. I love tactics games man, and I feel like there’s not a lot of them outside of the Fire Emblem series. I haven’t gotten around to many to be fair though.
I suspect Larian will take their sweet time.
Bioshock sounds like it’s in development hell; I’d be suspicious of that.
Larian’s next game is the teased statue that Keighley tweeted, so they’ll have something to announce tonight. The only thing they said it isn’t is Divinity: Original Sin 3, but it could be a different Divinity RPG, or a looter like the old-school Divinities, or a new Dragon Commander, or a new spin-off entirely. They’re also a multi-project studio now.
Oh that’s awesome. Yeah, I see the rumors now:
Selfishly, I hope their other half’a working on a sci fi game. Or a cyberpunk one?
Shadowrun? Gods, that IP would be perfect for Larian.
I’d very much like to see them do a sci-fi setting, like Starfield, but as a turn-based CRPG (with more thought and heart put into it).
Yeah, please no Starfield. I love space opera, I love Oblivion and Fallout, jank and all, but the Starfield I got through was so boring.
I’d rather them continue GOTG. I’m not a Marvel person, but the GOTG game was great.
Starfield was undoubtedly inspired by Interstellar and such, which is extremely my style, but even though it had some ideas here and there, the execution was what bothered me, and that’s why I’d like to see Larian’s take on the same kind of setting.
Nah, Larian will jump the gun, release too early and have another bug infested game. They need to reduce their scope, actually take their time and make a great RPG. BG3 was too much for them, a smaller more refined experience would have been amazing, they shouldn’t chase “bigger is better”.
BG3 turned out well, though?
Ignoring all the problems, sure. You could get through it, but there were lots of bugs and inconsistencies. I played again recently after all the patches and while it was much better, it still had it’s fair share of issues. The overall game, lore and story is very good, though I think DOS combat is far superior for a video game than DnD.
Sqenix can’t make good games anymore, I am sorry.
SilksongNothing, life is meaninglessnow you can wait for the silksong dlc though
Yep, 6-8 years to go!
I heard it’s likely we’re gonna see some KOTOR on there.
Close enough
