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The Game Awards 2019 - All Nominees Revealed
- Thread starter vestan
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I think it has more to do with Gears 5 being great, but not remarkable. Very few people had faults with it, but no one loved it enough to go to bat for it. Death Stranding has some reviewers that clearly don't like it, but for everyone of those people there's at least 1 that think it's incredible.
Given that online is a substantial part of the multiplayer experience, Smash failing there completely would probably disqualify it from the running.
Will watch like always
Have played considerably fewer of the top games this year than in years past.
Will try to keep an open mind about things
Have played considerably fewer of the top games this year than in years past.
Will try to keep an open mind about things
I think the problem is assuming the there can't be any deviation from the stated process if Geoff really wants to Behind the scenes, especially depending on how the jury decides (if it's a blind voting process then Geoff could for instance rig the vote and nobody would be able to know for sure unless all participants shared their votes)
I agree with this. I wasn't ever trying to imply that Geoff did anything wrong here, rather that because the game has been divisive (much of it due to Kojima himself at times) it could end up causing Geoff some unwelcome side effects. But I guess anyone in this position is probably used to it anyway :)
I went ahead and voted for the stuff I played this year that I think deserves it:
- Death Stranding
- Luigi's Mansion 3
- Smash Ultimate
- Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Resident Evil 2
- Death Stranding
- Luigi's Mansion 3
- Smash Ultimate
- Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Resident Evil 2
Don't know or care if it had anything to do with the nominations, but saying we should ban anyone questioning how many nominations a game that *has the head of TGA in it* seems a bit suspect
I think GOTY will come down to 3 games: Sekiro, Death Stranding, and Resident Evil 2.
- SSBU is fantastic, but also an iterative improvement of an existing formula and it came out in that no man's period where it was on my Top 5 last year, not this year.
- Outer Worlds is getting consensus good scores, but probably too niche and not as much hype had it been released by Bethesda.
- Control I think hasn't been played by enough and performance issues will drag down people's scores - hard to give GOTY to a game that didn't run well on many consoles when it was released.
Of the 3 that are left, each has their strengths and weaknesses for voting.
- Sekiro is my personal heavy favorite - not to win, just saying its my favorite game this year that I've played, but difficultly turned some people off and may have caused some voters to miss it.
- Resident Evil 2 I thought was great and truly scary, but its a remake, and not an entirely original game.
- Death Stranding, is original to say the least, but also divisive to say the least.
There will be a strong counter-narrative to whoever wins it. If its Death Stranding, a lot of people are going to feel like this is Kojima-worship/hype of a "boring" game. If its RE2, people are going to complain about a remake winning an award. If its Sekiro, people will say its a lifetime achievement award and not as good as some other From games.
I'm not sure how the voting works, but I guess I'm going to predict Death Stranding if everyone just gets a single vote and its a tally. I think the people that like it, love it and they'll pick it over everything else. Whereas the people that don't like it will split the votes between the 5 remaining games. If 2nd and 3rd choices factor in to how GOTY is decided I think it will be RE2 or Sekiro, because I think they'll be in most voters top 2 or 3, whereas voters on this list will either rank DS as their #1 or as their least favorite on the list.
- SSBU is fantastic, but also an iterative improvement of an existing formula and it came out in that no man's period where it was on my Top 5 last year, not this year.
- Outer Worlds is getting consensus good scores, but probably too niche and not as much hype had it been released by Bethesda.
- Control I think hasn't been played by enough and performance issues will drag down people's scores - hard to give GOTY to a game that didn't run well on many consoles when it was released.
Of the 3 that are left, each has their strengths and weaknesses for voting.
- Sekiro is my personal heavy favorite - not to win, just saying its my favorite game this year that I've played, but difficultly turned some people off and may have caused some voters to miss it.
- Resident Evil 2 I thought was great and truly scary, but its a remake, and not an entirely original game.
- Death Stranding, is original to say the least, but also divisive to say the least.
There will be a strong counter-narrative to whoever wins it. If its Death Stranding, a lot of people are going to feel like this is Kojima-worship/hype of a "boring" game. If its RE2, people are going to complain about a remake winning an award. If its Sekiro, people will say its a lifetime achievement award and not as good as some other From games.
I'm not sure how the voting works, but I guess I'm going to predict Death Stranding if everyone just gets a single vote and its a tally. I think the people that like it, love it and they'll pick it over everything else. Whereas the people that don't like it will split the votes between the 5 remaining games. If 2nd and 3rd choices factor in to how GOTY is decided I think it will be RE2 or Sekiro, because I think they'll be in most voters top 2 or 3, whereas voters on this list will either rank DS as their #1 or as their least favorite on the list.
To be fair, it has a good online multiplayer system. The problem is that said system doesn't fucking work.
Outlets probably don't even remember it came out this year.
I completely forgot about the Power Rangers snub. It really deserved it
Nah you were looking for a pathetic reason why your favourite game was not nominated and now you look like an idiot.
Welcome to 2019 when the vast majority of the multiplayer IS ONLINE.
Depending on how the vote is conducted he could easily misrepresent the actual votes without anyone necessarily knowing
FFXIV shadowbringers not being nominated for GOTY is a crime against humanity
i can understand why but still
fucking bullshit
i can understand why but still
fucking bullshit
Smaaaaash ! :D
Great list.
Would have personally swaped The Outer Worlds with either DMC 5 or Astral Chain, but still happy that Obsidian got that nomination !
I think that Resident Evil 2 will take the crown. But they are all wondeful games. It was a great year for gaming.
I voted Smash anywhere I could tho :p
Great list.
Would have personally swaped The Outer Worlds with either DMC 5 or Astral Chain, but still happy that Obsidian got that nomination !
I think that Resident Evil 2 will take the crown. But they are all wondeful games. It was a great year for gaming.
I voted Smash anywhere I could tho :p
I haven't played KH3 yet, is it that bad? I was never a huge fan of the original games (though I beat both) and was wondering if I should dive in without having played any spinoffs
Hot damn Shadowbringers made it in but LOL didn't get nominated for best narrative and OST. It's literally the two best things about the expansion. Devil May Cry V not being nominated for game of the year is a crime.
No Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order is insane to me, unless it was a date cut off. I really love Control and Death Stranding but Fallen Order is my number one this year.
I know, I'm just saying that if Nintendo didn't spend $20 on their online service, it actually would be a great online multiplayer game.
Fair enough. I say stick this in the OP to avoid a lot of coming discussions over Geoff/DS.
Keighley isn't literally counting these votes in his basement, dude.
You're basically accusing him of fraud, without any evidence besides you not knowing how awards shows work.
Not being in for OST is a crime
I get narrative though. You need to look at FF14 as a whole as you can't just see and get Shadowbringers on its own without the rest. or maybe I am thinking too much into it
People's intense defense of it here is what's doing that for me, but from where I stand it's really hard to tell if it's just Kojima bias. Why? Reviews were polarizing as hell and after watching a couple hours of gameplay, it just looks....boring and aimless. Like people said about BOTW: "Would people be as hyped on this if it weren't a Zelda title?" - I have to ask "would people be defending this as much if it weren't a Kojima title?"
Honestly I really want to try it but I can't justify spending 80 bucks on it if I don't know I'll like it. I wish every game had a demo...
Gears 5 not nominated for GoTY is silly even though it probably would not have one. Certainly one of the best games of the year. Of the current list it is the Outer Worlds for me, with RE2 a close second.
What a garbage year: 3 games are nominated for goty who has less than 87 on metacritic, two of them even below 84.
Astral Chain,Link of the awakening and DMC V not nominated for Goty.
Smash nominated even though they are from the previous year, remember that XV and XC2 has no nominations either, not even in soundtrack department.
Astral Chain,Link of the awakening and DMC V not nominated for Goty.
Smash nominated even though they are from the previous year, remember that XV and XC2 has no nominations either, not even in soundtrack department.
User warned: Platform warring
I feel like the poll is just going to be a measure of how much the Nintendo fanboys run ERA. Because Smash is probably going to run away with it.
I called a Death Stranding nomination in all of these categories.
As far as wins, I think it has Game/Art Direction, Score/Music, Audio Design and Performance in the bag.
man you're really hurt over this lol, its kind of funny. I still think Smash should be replaced with DMCV but it is what it is lol
Wow. You're actually suggesting this as remotely possible. Jesus.
