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Nominees for GCA's Best of E3 award announced, Evolve gets 6 nominations

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Quentyn

Member
Kobun Heat said:
First of all, I voted for Captain Toad.

Second of all, there's no double standards at play at all. The rule is, we say, "Can I play this?" and if they say yes and let us play it, it's eligible. If they say no, it's not eligible. I was able to play Bloodborne, I was not able to play Xenoblade. Pretty straightforward. Reasonable people can disagree on the merits of that rule, but it's applied universally.
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The 29 judging publications for the 2014 Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 are proud to announce this year's nominees, comprised of 47 products on display at E3 2014. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, July 1.

FAST FACTS:
Which game publisher and console picked up the most nods? Click here to find out with our fast fact breakdown by game, publisher and system.

Best of Show
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
- Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady/WBIE)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith/WBIE)
- No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Original Game
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
- Splatoon (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac/Microsoft Studios)

Best Console Game
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
- Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady/WBIE)
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith/WBIE)

Best Handheld Game
- Murasaki Baby (Ovosonico/Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (Atlus/Atlus)
- Super Smash Bros. for 3DS (Sora/Namco-Bandai/Nintendo)
- Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call (Square-Enix/Square-Enix)

Best PC Game
- Civilization: Beyond Earth (Firaxis/2K Games)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (Bioware/EA)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Hardware
- Alienware Alpha (Alienware)
- Oculus Rift (Oculus VR)
- PlayStation TV (Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Project Morpheus (Sony Computer Entertainment)

Best Action Game
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Action/Adventure Game
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
- Assassin's Creed Unity (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady/WBIE)
- Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac/Microsoft Studios)
- The Order: 1886 (Ready at Dawn/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Best RPG
- Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (Bioware/EA)
- Fable Legends (Lionhead/Microsoft Studios)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith/WBIE)
- Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (Atlus/Atlus)

Best Fighting Game
- Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- (Arc System Works/Aksys Games)
- Killer Instinct Season 2 (Iron Galaxy Studios/Microsoft Studios)
- Mortal Kombat X (NetherRealm Studios/WBIE)
- Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (Arc System Works/Atlus)
- Super Smash Bros Wii-U (Sora/Namco-Bandai/Nintendo)

Best Racing Game
- Driveclub (Evolution/Sony Computer Entertainment)
- Forza Horizon 2 (Playground Games/Microsoft Studios)
- The Crew (Ivory Tower/Reflections/Ubisoft)

Best Sports Game
- FIFA 15 (EA Canada/EA Sports)
- NHL 15 (EA Canada/EA Sports)
- Madden NFL 15 (Tiburon/EA Sports)

Best Strategy Game
- Civilization: Beyond Earth (Firaxis/2K Games)
- Grey Goo (Petroglyph/Grey Box)

Best Social/Casual
- Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes (Avalanche/Disney Interactive)
- Fantasia: Music Evolved (Harmonix/Disney Interactive)
- LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (TT Games/WBIE)
- Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Yoshi's Woolly World (Good-Feel/Nintendo)

Best Online Multiplayer
- Battlefield: Hardline (Visceral/EA)
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Splatoon (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Indie
- Axiom Verge (Tom Happ)
- CounterSpy (Dynamighty)
- Below (Capy Games)
- No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
- Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Game Studio)

Games With Multiple Nominations

Six Nominations:
Evolve

Four Nominations:
Destiny
Rainbow Six: Siege

Three Nominations:
Alien: Isolation
Batman: Arkham Knight
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
No Man's Sky

Two Nominations:
Civilization: Beyond Earth
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Far Cry 4
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
Splatoon
Sunset Overdrive


Publisher Breakdown
2K Games - 8 nominations
WBIE - 8 nominations
Ubisoft - 8 nominations
Sony Computer Entertainment - 7 nominations
EA - 6 nominations
Microsoft Studios - 6 nominations
Nintendo - 6 nominations
Activision - 5 nominations
Atlus - 3 nominations
Hello Games - 3 nominations
Sega - 3 nominations
Disney - 2 nominations

Nominee Breakdown by Platform
(Multiplatform games are counted in all appropriate platform tallies. Information based on announced platforms for each game/product as of 6/24/14.)

PlayStation 4: 26 Games
Xbox One: 25 Games
PC: 24 Games
PlayStation 3: 16 Games
Xbox 360: 15 Games
PlayStation Vita: 7 Games
Wii-U: 6 Games
Nintendo 3DS: 4 Games


Please note the following games were not made playable to Game Critics judges and therefore disqualified from award consideration: The Division; Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.


The winners will be announced next week.

http://gamecriticsawards.com/nominees.html
 
W

Wynnebeck

Banned
Best of Show
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
- Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady/WBIE)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith/WBIE)
- No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
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No Splatoon? No The Order: 1886? No Bloodborne?

........
 
UberTag

UberTag

Member
Looks like Evolve is going to clean up once again.
Multiplayer-only games are the way to go to get to the Western media's hearts.
Which multiplayer-only game shall take home the prize in 2015? How long until we see Titanfall 2?

Also, Electronic Arts is the greatest sports gaming publisher of all time. Just ask the journalists they pay to play their games. They'll tell you how great they are.
 
W

Wynnebeck

Banned
EhoaVash said:
no platformer category ?

is Evolve this year's Titanfall?
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I don't want to say it, but it seems like Evolve is the next "media darling" much like Titanfall was. I'm not going to say whether the game is deserving of it or not, but seeing the media hype train spinning up for it is a little disconcerting.
 
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sjay1994

Member
Was Arkham Knight that strong of a showing?

I loved Asylum, have mixed feelings of City and origins....

Knight looks beautiful, but all we saw was the batmobile acting like a tank.

Also, surprised by middle earth.
 
B

Blue Volt

Banned
Evolve is gonna end up exactly like Titanfall, a multiplayer shooter that wins all the awards that is most likely very fun and ends up not having a lot of longevity and people don't bother after a week.
 
S

sjay1994

Member
Wynnebeck said:
I don't want to say it, but it seems like Evolve is the next "media darling" much like Titanfall was. I'm not going to say whether the game is deserving of it or not, but seeing the media hype train spinning up for it is a little disconcerting.
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It sounds like a solid game, people at PAX says it plays like a solid game. However evolve only won Game informers best of E3.

Rainbow Six is the one thats winning everywhere.

Also, I think these are fair since now critics are actually voting for games they actually played, rather than what they saw someone else play.
 
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Miles Quaritch

Member
Wynnebeck said:
I don't want to say it, but it seems like Evolve is the next "media darling" much like Titanfall was. I'm not going to say whether the game is deserving of it or not, but seeing the media hype train spinning up for it is a little disconcerting.
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Seems pretty evenly split between Destiny and Evolve.

Although I'm not surprised to see how well Evolve has been received. It's a new game from the guys behind the magnificent Left 4 Dead...
 
C

Confused Cheeseburger

Member
Shadow of Mordor getting some love, excellent. Strangely coming out of a post-E3 catch up on all the live demos, Far Cry 4 has miraculously risen to my most anticipated of 2014.
 
G

gorfyako

Banned
I really hate how they do these things. If a game shows up in the "Best of Show" category, then it only makes sense that either it or another game that showed up in that category should win in whatever other category they're in, i.e.: It doesn't make sense for Destiny, Splatoon, or Sunset Overdrive to win in the "Best Original Game" category as Evolve and No Man's Sky are in that same category and are in "Best of Show". Unless they're saying that the winning game in the "Best Original Game" category is the most original game. Though in that case, they're then also going to be saying that the "Best Action Game" is the game that has the most action... ? And "Best Console Game" having games that appear on PC and "Best PC Game" having games that appear on consoles is also kinda annoying.

EDIT: What I'm basically saying is here's hoping Shadow of Mordor wins so I can further have hope for it.
 
A

Amazeballs

Member
Game critics judging trailers/non-gameplay? I guess you can call yourself anything in this medium. I hope no one's claimed the title of videogame pope.
 
S

sjay1994

Member
gorfyako said:
I really hate how they do these things. If a game shows up in the "Best of Show" category, then it only makes sense that either it or another game that showed up in that category should win in whatever other category they're in, i.e.: It doesn't make sense for Destiny, Splatoon, or Sunset Overdrive to win in the "Best Original Game" category as Evolve and No Man's Sky are in that same category and are in "Best of Show". Unless they're saying that the winning game in the "Best Original Game" category is the most original game. Though in that case, they're then also going to be saying that the "Best Action Game" is the game that has the most action... ? And "Best Console Game" having games that appear on PC and "Best PC Game" having games that appear on consoles is also kinda annoying.

EDIT: What I'm basically saying is here's hoping Shadow of Mordor wins so I can further have hope for it.
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Original game means "Best new IP".
 
M

majik13

Member
Quentyn said:
Best of Show
- Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
- Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady/WBIE)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith/WBIE)
- No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
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No Zelda U? Or do they not nominate early game teasers?
edit: looks like unplayable games are not qualified.

Quentyn said:
Best Action Game
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
- Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
- Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games)
- Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
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Come on, might as well call it "Best shooter bang bang game" Bayonetta should be in this list.
 
K

Kayant

Member
Oh so this is the judge's week thing that happened right?

Don't think Evolve would be so well received across the board.
 
B

balohna

Member
Is this judges week stuff? If so, any big announcements that came later (like at the conferences) will be missing.
 
UberTag

UberTag

Member
Buzzman said:
4 out of 5 games in the Best Original Game category are shooters.

sigh
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Still an original game in the eyes of Western media if the tried-and-true shooting mechanics are wrapped up in a new franchise package.
Why would we not want to shoot stuff? Isn't that what gaming's all about?
 
H

hawk2025

Member
Wait, Bloodborne was playable to certain people??

I thought it was shown hands-off only?


*hype/hope for early 2015 increases*
 
E

El-Suave

Member
TomShoe said:
Is Evolve that good? I'm not feeling it like I did Titanfall.
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Many people that saw it on the show floor liked it, but I take issue with multiplayer games being shown in the even more controlled environment that I think "judge's week" is. It's pretty easy to create a fun environment in such an intimate setting (that's how I imagine it at least) if your game is any good. That's an extra step removed from the average actual player experience.
 
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