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Nominees for GCA's Best of E3 award announced, Evolve gets 6 nominations
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It's a crock of shit.
Um..Look them up on youtube?
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
Evolve was great, I played a round with Major, Jeff, e, and Andrea and we had a blast. Well-deserved nominations for those guys.
Glad the judges liked Sunset!
Glad the judges liked Sunset!
Splatoon: From impressions, its a neat concept, but the actual execution is meh.
Bloodborne: No one got to play it, all they say was a hands of demo being played with god mode on
The Order: The only thing they let people play was that section they streamed. Sony and RAD are not doing the best job showing of this game.
yeah this too. Best action game category is all shooters.
UberTag
Member
Yay for double standards! Good thing no one will be called out for it.
I don't know about that. I for one am thrilled to see LEGO Batman 3 get the recognition it so richly deserves.
Sweet Ivy
Member
Evolve is sweet.
It's even fun to look at.
Compared to Titanfall I feel it's more original at its core; it's (much) more competitive and focuses on teamplay. Not that they should be put in direct competition, but just for the sake of it...
Moreover, It felt quite polished. It's going to be quite varied with the different character roles and the playing as the monster part. I had great vibes playing it, (for me) it feel much more intriguing that Titanfall did (oh, btw I did play and enjoyed Titanfall).
I could be wrong, but I believe these are all games that the critics played in an event a week or two before E3. So even though there might not have been a playable demo of No Man's Sky on the E3 showfloor, it still could have been playable at the critics event.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Can you link me to these impressions? It's mostly been positive from what I've seen, but I'm curious what the negative impressions have to say.
SatoAilDarko
Member
Lists are subjective. With that said Xenoblade Chronicles X not under best RPG is insane compared to some of the choices.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
At least they remembered that Splatoon exists.
It was during the IGN e3 stream, they were talking about splatoon, and they said that.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Hmm I'm surprised that Destiny didn't get nominated for best of show.
May need to give evolve a second look too.
May need to give evolve a second look too.
likely because it was unplayable to them. but odd that they didnt mention it in the disclaimer with other unplayable games.
They must have been able to play Bloodborne. It is nominated for Best RPG.
Fair enough, but the majority of impressions elsewhere appear to be pretty positive so keep that in mind as well
Every video impression/article I read about it all said that they watched someone else play it. No hands on time.
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
I'm assuming Bloodborne was eligible for game of the show, since it's in the best RPG nominations, yet they put Shadow of Mordor ahead of it. Alright then....
so they arbitrarily omitted some games for not being playable, and accepted others.
okay then.
Based Calla
Member
I played Evolve at Pax East, it really wasn't anything special, definitely not original. Did you play Left 4 Dead? Yes? You've played Evolve. No? Just buy L4D on Steam sale for like $2. Honestly if you didn't like L4D, you're probably not going to like that game.
UberTag
Member
Non-Nintendo developed Wii U exclusive? Yeah, they could care less. Then again, since when has any PlatinumGames title been received well at an E3 for any system?
I think what they did is not accept games that just came with pre recorded videos. MGSV, Witcher and Division all did that. People who saw no mans sky saw them play it, but never got hands on with it.
Right. A difficult action combat game like Bayo 2 might be too much for them. At least they remembered Splatoon
Steverulez
Member
Does Ori really count as an indie when its own by Microsoft (and published by them)? I mean it looks great, but a strange decision.
ShellyDeKiller
Member
Xenoblade?
I wanna say that they usually give the actual judges a controller for a sec just to run a dude around to make it count as "playable" even if they don't let them do a full demo. I feel like I've heard people talk about that happening before.
UberTag
Member
Why would the Western gaming media watch Nintendo's Treehouse coverage? It wasn't FOR them.
Either that or perhaps they kept a Fable Legends demo that was actually good hidden in a back room somewhere.
Some days, I really feel like this industry is in need of a reckoning. But then I go and buy half a dozen games on steam. Damn.
Xenoblade X had a 45 minute gameplay demo courtesy of Nintendo Treehouse and a separate 40 minute gameplay demo from IGN.
And it was amazing. And it still didn't get nominated for RPG. what.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Just because it's not self published doesn't mean that it's not indie. Are Paradox or Devolver not indie either?
People not letting those W101 reviews go. Bayo mechanically might be the simplest game I have played developed by platinum. It didn't have the almost sensory overload of Vanquish, nor the learning curve of revengeance. You don't learn to parry/block and play on normal, your fucked in revengeance.
Bayo is a simple game to get into.
Also, the W101 comment has no merit from me since I have not played it. But looking at it, I have no idea how I am supposed to play it. Will pick it up when i buy a wii U later.
ashecitism
Member
hah, you edited that in the title to get people rustled, didn't you?
I remember your comment from the GI thread
What's sad is that while this fact while this might get brought up by nintendo enthusiast press sites, the majority of western journalists simply do not give the least bit of a shit.
Did you see someone holding a controller and playing it? If not thats bizarre for the omission. Then again, I never played the original xenoblade, so I can't comment on it myself.
Honestly, nominations don't make sense. I remember being confused that TLOU was nominated 6 times in 2012 because everyone said they never played it. Just watched someone else playing it.
It was.
Steverulez
Member
Are they indie? I would think its an ambiguous area, I guess
Kobun Heat
Member
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.
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.
randomengine
Banned
It makes sense that the platforms with the most multiplats would get the awards since almost all the nominees were multiplats.
I would like to see a list of which platforms have more awards/noms based on exclusivity.