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[NeverYouMind]

nope...

Souls and Elden Ring games are what I thought 3D Zelda would be like. The reality is disappointing as I always preferred combat and bosses over puzzles and goofy characters in this franchise.

 

[Deft Beck]

Here are my predictions [skipping the esports/content creator stuff]:

Spoiler: Predictions

• Game of the Year -- Baldur's Gate
• Best Game Direction -- Alan Wake 2
• Best Adaptation -- The Last Of Us (HBO)
• Best Narrative -- Alan Wake 2
• Best Art Direction -- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Best Score and Music -- Hi-Fi Rush
• Best Audio Design -- Hi-Fi Rush
• Best Performance -- Melanie Liburd, Alan Wake 2
• Innovation in Accessibility -- Forza Motorsport
• Games for Impact -- A Space for the Unbound
• Best Ongoing Game -- Apex Legends [weird that Cyberpunk is in here]
• Best Community Support -- Final Fantasy XIV
• Best Independent Game -- Sea of Stars
• Best Debut Indie Game -- Pizza Tower
• Best Mobile Game -- Honkai: Star Rail
• Best VR/AR Game -- Horizon Call of the Mountain
• Best Action Game -- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Best Action/Adventure Game -- Marvel's Spider-Man 2
• Best RPG -- Baldur's Gate 3
• Best Fighting Game -- Street Fighter 6
• Best Family Game -- Super Mario Wonder
• Best Sim/Strategy Game -- Fire Emblem Engage
• Best Sports/Racing -- Forza Motorsport
• Best Multiplayer -- Party Animals
• Most Anticipated Game: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

 

[RPS37]

Cocoon?

 

[Daneel Elijah]

What time?

4hour 49 minutes. The ost are out of sinc so I think that it is the music boarded.

 

[Punished Miku]

4hour 49 minutes. The ost are out of sinc so I think that it is the music boarded.

ahh weird. I think you're right actually.

 

[MasterCornholio]

What did they expect?
We all know that the game awards itself is brand ambassadors head-quarters. For the other brand.

I dont think you know how TGA works to be fair.

 

[SublimeCorruptor]

Best Sim/Strategy Game-
1 strategy game.
1 city builder.
3 tactics games.
What a joke these awards and media outlets are. Just give tactics games their own category.

 

[STARSBarry]

Best Community Support
Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Ah yes Destiny 2, tottaly deserving to be up there just after firing half of said team.

Destiny 2’s Best Community Support Nomination Is A Dark Joke

When it came to the Best Community Support category, things took a bit of a turn. On the list was Destiny 2, a game that had appeared a few times before, and even won it once. But this time the nomination felt like gallows humor.

www.forbes.com

"Gafner is referring to 2019 when Destiny 2 actually did win the Best Community Support award, but instead of anyone from the community team accepting, then-Destiny bosses Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy got the stage. Separately, he’s also indicating that the community team was reprimanded for celebrating the win. Ben Platnick, who previously worked in VFX at Bungie, chimed in to say that any team that celebrated something was given similar scrutiny."


Also

Best Score and Music
Alan Wake 2, Composer Petri Alanko (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games Publishing)
Baldur’s Gate 3, Composer Borislav Slavov (Larian Studios)
Final Fantasy XVI, Composer Masayoshi Soken (Square Enix)
Hi-Fi Rush, Audio Director Shuichi Kobori (Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Composed by Nintendo Sound Team (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

This really does show how utter BS these awards are, it missed the cutoff last year, because it launched late November.



I have played the above games, and I am sorry but for all the things Darktide does wrong (and there are many) the soundtrack deserves recognition, it is phenomenal compared to the above choices, are the judges fucking deaf?

To put it in context



Every horde is a joy, you don't know which song your going to get until you get the low slow build up and you know a horde is on its way.

 

[Pelta88]

If you need a reminder of the pre release hype... The first 5 minutes are comedic gold. The comparisons between over hype to pretending they knew, in advance, that the game would be lacklustre is stunning.