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The Game Awards Nominees being announced [Update: Revealed - In OP]

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A mediocre-ass game like Shadow of Mordor being nominated for GOTY certainly is disappointing. Then again, this has been a year with no shortage of disappointments.
 
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Here's my prediction who'll win:

Best Online Experience
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Best Family Game
Tomodachi Life

Best Sports/Racing Game
Mario Kart 8

Best Role-Playing Game
Dragon Age: Inquisition

Best Fighting GameSuper Smash Bros. for 3DS

Best Action/Adventure
Bayonetta 2

Best Shooter
Wolfenstein: The New Order

Best Remaster
Grand Theft Auto V

Games For Change
Never Alone

Best Performance
Melissa Hutchison as Clementine, The Walking Dead: Season Two

Best Score/Soundtrack
Child of Light

Best Narrative
The Walking Dead: Season Two

Developer of the Year
Nintendo

Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Hearthstone

Best Independent Game
Shovel Knight

Game of the Year
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
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Xeroblade

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IF SPIKE WAS DOING THE VIDEO GAME AWARDS:


Best Online Experience
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Dark Souls II
Destiny
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Titanfall​

Best Family Game
Disney Infinity 2.0
Fantasia: Music Evolved
Destiny
Skylanders: Trap Team
Tomodachi Life​

Best Sports/Racing Game
Fifa '15
Forza Horizon 2
Mario Kart 8
Destiny
Trials Fusion​

Best Role-Playing Game
Bravely Default
Dark Souls II
Divinity: Original Sin
Destiny
South Park: The Stick of Truth​

Best Fighting Game
Killer Instinct: Season 2
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
Destiny
Ultra Street Fighter IV​

Best Action/Adventure
Alien: Isolation
Destiny
Bayonetta 2
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Sunset Overdrive​

Best Shooter
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Destiny
Far Cry 4
Titanfall
Wolfenstein: The New Order​

Best Remaster
Grand Theft Auto V
Pokémon: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
Destiny
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition​

Games for Change
Mountain
Never Alone
The Last of Us: Left Behind
Destiny
Valiant Hearts: The Great War​

Best Performance
Adam Harrington as Bigby Wolf, The Wolf Among Us
Peter Dinklage as Ghost, Destiny
Melissa Hutchison as Clementine, The Walking Dead: Season Two
Trey Parker as Various Voices, South Park: The Stick of Truth
Troy Baker as Talion, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor​

Best Score/Soundtrack
Alien: Isolation
Child of Light
Destiny
Sunset Overdrive
Transistor​

Best Narrative
South Park: The Stick of Truth
The Walking Dead: Season Two
The Wolf Among Us
Destiny
Wolfenstein: The New Order​

Developer of the Year
Blizzard Entertainment
Monolith Productions
Nintendo
Bungie
Telltale Games
Ubisoft Montreal​

Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Bravely Default
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Destiny Companion App
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
Threes!​

Best Independent Game
Broken Age: Act I
Monument Valley
Destiny Grimoire
Transistor
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
​

Game of the Year
Bayonetta 2
Dark Souls II
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Destiny duh!
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor​
 
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Goldenroad

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I know if probably came out "too late", but really it came out the same day as DA: I, so why is the JackBox Party Pack not one of the best "family games" of the year? It's way better than any game in that category. Personally, I'd put it on the overall GOTY nominees list, since it is the one game out of all of those that I'm willing to be people will be playing all the way through 2015.

I know it kind of came out a little by surprise, but really, did none of the gaming press get their hands on it prior to release? Why was the first time I heard about it on GAF? I have a feeling it will be on a lot of press GOTY lists this year, especially if people make those lists after the xmas season, since this is a game everyone will be playing with their friends and families around the holidays, I assume.
 
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Karsticles said:
That we have a "Best Performance" category at all is...an unfortunate turn of events for gaming.
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Why?

Voice acting is a big part of games and I don't see anything wrong with giving an award to good voice actors.

Why is it an unfortunate turn of events? You woud preffer all games to be mute?
 
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Delstius

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So platformer and strategy games aren't a thing anymore I guess ? I also thought that the best graphics were something the industry strived for too. Meanwhile, there's a best remaster category, okay whatever.

The whole list is still solid (and dull for most part imo) but there's some weird things here and there. Like Tomodachi Life being a family game, did someone even played the damn game ? Monolith Productions as one of the best dev for one game, maybe I'm missing something. The worst being the "Best Score/Soundtrack", just wtf.
The funnier is probably the best online experience, it almost feel like some bad pr/meme joke.
 
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Gaiaknight

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glad to see bayonetta 2 recognized for as GOTY material hope big name game sites follow this and atleast nominate it cause it deserves it.
 
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Karsticles said:
That we have a "Best Performance" category at all is...an unfortunate turn of events for gaming.
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It's a bad thing to acknowledge examples of great acting in a medium that's pretty much known for terrible storytelling besides a few exceptions? Also, glad to see an AC title get nominated again for best action adventure, don't think it'll take the award like last year though. Transistor for best soundtrack!
 
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*looks at "Best Soundtrack" and notices there's no Tropical Freeze*

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orthodoxy1095 said:
Mediocre by what metric?
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The metric of fun? The game is so stupidly easy that nothing feels meaningful. The Nemesis system doesn't really even come into play unless you're dying a lot, which you have to kind of go out of your way to do due to how exploitable the combat system is. The story is completely vapid, the characters boring, the side content is lacking in context, boring, repetitive, and rewardless, and the environments are probably the most barren the genre has ever seen. The combat is a big step down from Batman. The parkour is worse than Assassin's Creed, but you just don't have to do it as much (thankfully). I just don't see what all the fuss was about.

You really have to go out of your way to find the fun. Branding enemies to build up your own personal army is really the only cool thing about the game, but it also even further trivializes an already simple game. How this could be considered game of the year material by anyone is completely beyond me, but I realize now everyone shares my opinion.

Mezoly said:
Not by the opinion of most people.
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And that is what's so disheartening. If this can be considered among the best of what our medium has to offer... man.
 
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Stallion Dan

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Developer of the Year

Blizzard Entertainment
Monolith Productions
Nintendo
Telltale Games
Ubisoft Montreal


So some publishers get to shove all there developers as one entry? How is this remotely fair or practical? Does SSB count as Nintendo?
 
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Stallion Dan said:
Developer of the Year

Blizzard Entertainment
Monolith Productions
Nintendo
Telltale Games
Ubisoft Montreal


So some publishers get to shove all there developers as one entry? How is this remotely fair or practical? Does SSB count as Nintendo?
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People are really ignorant of how Nintendo works, so this is unsurprising.
 
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Skux

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Really great to see Hearthstone and Shadow of Mordor in the GotY categories.

HS for a non-AAA game being recognised for the amazing strategy game it is (and a turn-based one at that), and SoM for adding a whole new layer to what sandbox gaming can be.
 
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neogaffer1

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Zefah said:
The metric of fun? The game is so stupidly easy that nothing feels meaningful. The Nemesis system doesn't really even come into play unless you're dying a lot, which you have to kind of go out of your way to do due to how exploitable the combat system is. The story is completely vapid, the characters boring, the side content is lacking in context, boring, repetitive, and rewardless, and the environments are probably the most barren the genre has ever seen. The combat is a big step down from Batman. The parkour is worse than Assassin's Creed, but you just don't have to do it as much (thankfully). I just don't see what all the fuss was about.

You really have to go out of your way to find the fun. Branding enemies to build up your own personal army is really the only cool thing about the game, but it also even further trivializes an already simple game. How this could be considered game of the year material by anyone is completely beyond me, but I realize now everyone shares my opinion.



And that is what's so disheartening. If this can be considered among the best of what our medium has to offer... man.
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Did you play the first hour of the game and come to this conclusion or did you bother to play until the late game? Because that game gets incredibly difficult if you don't know what you're doing. Plus while the story is nothing special, the side content is way more enjoyable than in most open world games. I never bothered to do any of the side content in any other open world game (outside of the collectibles in DR3 because I didn't have any other launch games) but I went out of my way to try to complete everything on the map in SoM.

The combat is a big step down from Batman
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Oh, nevermind, you didn't even play the damn game at all. Because it's the exact same system from the Arkham games--I'm actually convinced WB made Rocksteady turn over their combat system code to Monolith for this game, because there's literally no difference between the two outside of some of the late game powers Talion gets.

Delstius said:
So platformer and strategy games aren't a thing anymore I guess ? I also thought that the best graphics were something the industry strived for too. Meanwhile, there's a best remaster category, okay whatever.

The whole list is still solid (and dull for most part imo) but there's some weird things here and there. Like Tomodachi Life being a family game, did someone even played the damn game ? Monolith Productions as one of the best dev for one game, maybe I'm missing something. The worst being the "Best Score/Soundtrack", just wtf.
The funnier is probably the best online experience, it almost feel like some bad pr/meme joke.
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Nemesis system is a massive game changer. If you look at the list, Telltale has their point and click-esque games, Nintendo has... Nintendoness, Blizzard did, what? Hearthstone and a WoW expansion? And Ubi Montreal is just a joke. It's arguable that the only big gaming innovation from that list is nemesis system from Monolith (I would've had Respawn up there instead of Ubi for the parkour in Titanfall, but I digress).
 
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Skux

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Dragon Age will get the GotY though. It's the closest thing we'll get to an "Oscar bait" game - big production, actually decent writing, and epic scope.
 
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neogaffer1

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Now that I think about it the fact no AAA annualized sludge made it to GOTY consideration makes me confident that the award show won't pander as much as it can to mainstream gamers who probably aren't even watching the show anyways.

RPGCrazied said:
I want to know the host(s), that can make or break the entire show for me.
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Jeff Gerstmann and Kyle Bosman.

I'm joking.
 
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Sify64

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Why is there no option to vote for Zelda Wii U on most anticipated game of 2015, while Uncharted 4 does which has showed even less?
 
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Aesthet1c

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Pretty awesome to see Bayonetta up for game of the year.

While I don't agree with every game in all the lists, overall it's some pretty solid nominations. Much better than it has been in previous years.
 
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neogaffer1

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Sify64 said:
Why is there no option to vote for Zelda Wii U on most anticipated game of 2015, while Uncharted 4 does which has showed even less?
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Because the amount of PS people who would vote for Uncharted is magnitudes higher than the amount of Nintendo people who would vote for Zelda.
 
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Sify64

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neogaffer1 said:
Because the amount of PS people who would vote for Uncharted is magnitudes higher than the amount of Nintendo people who would vote for Zelda.
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Well, if we take a look at the GAF's Best of E3 2014 Awards... Zelda Wii U won in votes. Of course, I understand it is a limited sample but that does show that there a lot more fans of the franchise than you think.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=838628&highlight=gaf+s+best+of+e3+2014

Btw... how does Bloodborne fit into this then?
 
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Tropical Freeze should be on best soundtrack, as is well expressed at this point.

It should also be on the GOTY list though. I'd put it and Sunset Overdrive over Shadow of Mordor at least (which is still a great game). The nemesis system is interesting but I have greater appreciation for the superb design of Tropical Freeze and the fluid and satisfying traversal in Sunset Overdrive.

Do hope to play Bayonetta 2 at some point. Would be cool to see it take GOTY.
Surface of Me said:
So glad SO got a nod for Soundtrack, it's amazing. Been listening to it nonstop the past couple of days.
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It deserves a lot more credit than it gets. I think part of the problem may be its presentation in the game though, as part of the music slowly bleeds in depending on the activity on screen so it ends up coming across in pieces. Its really great though. I think there is also more appreciation for soundtracks made for the game versus ones with a more licensing.

Little Big Planet was another that had a really great soundtrack with a lot of licensed music.
 
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