I agree, I'd love for it to get a GOTY nom and just some love in general. I don't see it winning a lot though, but it being recognized would be nice.
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The Game Awards nominees to be revealed next Wednesday
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Half-Life: Alyx
Dreams
FF7 Remake
The Last of Us Part 2
Ghost of Tsushima
Animal Crossing
Hades
Demon's Souls
Dreams
FF7 Remake
The Last of Us Part 2
Ghost of Tsushima
Animal Crossing
Hades
Demon's Souls
Its my goty. Certainly should be getting awards for soundtrack as well.
My predictions for awards. I'm just guessing, but these are what seem most likely to me. I think GOTY is a tossup between TLOU, AC, and Hades personally. I could easily see them doing what they've done in years past and give the best Direction to TLOU and GOTY to one of the other games.
Unlike last year I think Hades is pretty much a lock for Indie Game of the year. I could see it go on a tear like Disco did last year.
Unlike last year I think Hades is pretty much a lock for Indie Game of the year. I could see it go on a tear like Disco did last year.
- Game of the Year - The Last of Us Part II
- Best Direction - The Last of Us Part II
- Best Ongoing Game - Destiny 2
- Best Narrative - The Last of Us Part II
- Best Art Direction - Ori 2 or Ghost of Tsushima
- Best Score/Music - Hades (Darren Korb)
- Best Indie game - Hades
- Best Family (Nintendo) game - Animal Crossing
- Best Strategy - Crusader Kings 3
- Best Action - Doom Eternal
- Best Action/Adventure game - Ghost of Tsushima
- Best RPG - FF7 Remake
- Best Performance - Ashley Johnson
Yea.... But if they have a best RPG category maybe it can be nominated there since outside of FFVII I don't remember this year having that many RPGs.
It would be nice to see Crash 4 nominated for best art direction and best family game. Geoff seems to have a special place in his heart for the IP.
GOTY nominations that are a lock IMO
The Last of Us Part II
Hades
Animal Crossing
Most Likely GOTY Nominations:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Half-Life Alyx
Ghost of Tsushima
Wildcard GOTY Nominations:
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales
Demon's Souls Remake
Doom Eternal
The Last of Us Part II
Hades
Animal Crossing
Most Likely GOTY Nominations:
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Half-Life Alyx
Ghost of Tsushima
Wildcard GOTY Nominations:
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales
Demon's Souls Remake
Doom Eternal
Having played very few games this year I'm in the give it to TLoU Part 2 camp for the tears from braindead bigots.
Personally, I didn't rate the original The Last of Us that highly.
I thought that The Last of Us 2 was dramatically improved over the original, and could have been in the runnings.
But if Half-Life: Alyx doesn't win Game of the Year, it's because not enough people played Half-Life: Alyx.
I can see Animal Crossing getting a lot of votes due to the pandemic, but I had a lot of issues with it.
I don't like how the game is structured at all, and think it's worse than many of the earlier entries in a lot of ways.
I've been thinking about making a topic to discuss that for a while now.
I thought that The Last of Us 2 was dramatically improved over the original, and could have been in the runnings.
But if Half-Life: Alyx doesn't win Game of the Year, it's because not enough people played Half-Life: Alyx.
I can see Animal Crossing getting a lot of votes due to the pandemic, but I had a lot of issues with it.
I don't like how the game is structured at all, and think it's worse than many of the earlier entries in a lot of ways.
I've been thinking about making a topic to discuss that for a while now.
I definitely want it to win best soundtrack at least!
Interested to see in which category they will put Among Us since it's not a 2020 game. Community support/on going game?
Last of Us 2
FF VII:R
Hades
Animal Crossing
Dreams
Half Life
And the winner will be: Last of Us 2
Well, at least that is my prediction.
FF VII:R
Hades
Animal Crossing
Dreams
Half Life
And the winner will be: Last of Us 2
Well, at least that is my prediction.
I don't know about that, the AC audience might be huge, but they probably don't care all that much about Game Awards whereas TLOU2 fans obviously do.
Yeah, pretty much expecting these although I could see Fall Guys or Dreams being a wildcard spoiling someone's party, probably at the expense of Hades or Ghost of Tsushima.
It's going to be an interesting year; GOTY surely has to go to either TLOU2 or AC:NH, but they couldn't be more different. (Among us doesn't get included in the votes because it's actually an old game, right?). I guess I would lean towards it being TLOU because basically every year is won by the biggest third person action game, with only one exception in overwatch since 2014.
If TLOU loses to Animal crossing, there's going to be a hilarious amount of salt.
If TLOU loses to Animal crossing, there's going to be a hilarious amount of salt.
Thinking this as well. It really was the perfect game at the perfect(ly awful) time. I still play it daily.
Yeah Ghost of Tsushima absolutely deserves an award. Remarkably beautiful game.
Echoing what others have said about Crash 4 as well. The art direction is phenomenal. Gorgeous game.
That's the dream at this point. Soundtrack was as good as it ever was.
Microsoft Flight Sim is totally deserving of the nomination for GOTY. The problem though is the same problem that FE3H had last year where it's in a genre that TGA doesn't usually nominate for the overall GOTY category. Typically they nominate games in the action/shooter, action-adventure or RPG genres for the big prize while sometimes nominating a game from a different genre when it's a megaton success (ex. Smash Bros in 2019 as the 1 fighting game to get a GOTY nom).
Since no one is really talking about the other categories, I'll fireball my predictions for a few of the other categories this year:
Best Art Direction:
Since no one is really talking about the other categories, I'll fireball my predictions for a few of the other categories this year:
Best Art Direction:
- Dreams (A game that's all about creating your own art)
- Hades (Lots of stylish and hot mythical Greek Figures)
- Ghosts of Tsushima (game looks super pretty and has that classic black and white samurai film mode)
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (The champion for this award in 2015 is back and looks better and nicer than ever).
- Spiritfarer (Lovely artwork in this game and has some fantastic animation in it too. Personally rooting for this or Hades for this award)
- Animal Crossing New Horizons (DING DING DING)
- Astro's Playroom
- Bugsnax
- Crash 4 It's About Time
- Paper Mario: The Origami King
- Granblue Fantasy Versus (one of the favorites to win since it's the only non indie, full fledged fighter to release in 2020)
- Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath/Ultimate (Huge expansion and the other favorite, or even more so, to win this award)
- My Hero's One Justice 2 (the WTF Jump Force Nomination this year)
- Street Fighter 5 Championship Edition
- Them's Fightin' Herds (ok, a wishful thinking nomination on my part, but dang this game deserves it with its top tier online play, amazing story mode and boppin' OST).
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I sincerely hope Half Life Alyx gets some attention here. So many dismiss it because VR is a relatively small install base, and less folks are able to play it and that's a shame, but it deserves the attention. It's one of the coolest videogame experiences I've ever played, and definitely a VR killer app.
TLoU2 will likely win GotY and deservedly so.
TLoU2 will likely win GotY and deservedly so.
Nah. I think Dreams and Spiritfarer will get nomination love in best art direction and the latter should get a best indie nom. World of Horror however I'm not so sure about :(
Makes sense. GoW Ragnorok is basically a lock to win it though with fan votes.
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