Haha. I had the exact same thought. Sounds like it's all but guaranteed to be GTA.
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Polygon: Why Spike is hitting the reset button on its video game awards
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This must have been a really rough year of NeoGAF for Shawn Elliot, your opinion on the game is certainly not underrepresented amongst the hardcore.
I thought the level design was good enough for a shooter. Sure, they're just pretty combat arenas, but I thought they were well designed and allowed for a nice bit of creativity with the tools available to you (tears, skyrails, vigor combos). Yeah, the game was held back by the ability to only carry two weapons and digging through trash for items/money is a mechanic that probably should have been left behind with Bioshock 2, but I definitely had fun experimenting with different weapon/vigor combos and riding the Skyrails like a rollercoaster in combat, it had a nice fluidity to it that I really enjoyed.
CrackPebbles
Member
The last thing I want is more awards, just make it another e3, make it an hour of announcements and at the last second shit out a game of the year award nobody will care about, thats how you will appeal to me at least.
bigboss370
Member
the thing i loved the most about TLoU is that the combat situations were dynamic. My brother had a totally different experience playing through the game than I did.
BoboBrazil
Member
Sounds like a good place to announce GTA5 for PS4.
MrGreencastle
Member
Sounds great. I'll be tuning in to the livestream. All it ever needed to be is E3 with awards, really.
Good luck!
Clearly December has some announcement appeal, the industry likes awards and game enthusiasts want to be entertained. There are just so many audiences to please that's it's hard to make a product out of that. The people in charge seem to be giving it an honest effort. Even if it's great I'm sure some of the hate will continue unabated.
I just want some decent news. Award shows/GotY rankings aren't meaningful enough to keep my attention.
Clearly December has some announcement appeal, the industry likes awards and game enthusiasts want to be entertained. There are just so many audiences to please that's it's hard to make a product out of that. The people in charge seem to be giving it an honest effort. Even if it's great I'm sure some of the hate will continue unabated.
I just want some decent news. Award shows/GotY rankings aren't meaningful enough to keep my attention.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Nope maybe if the MP wasnt a complete mess.
Saucycarpdog
Member
To be fair I actually really liked TLOU
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
Did i read that right? ALL of R*North? Isn't that like 200+ people easy??
Fuckin GOTY for sure unless R* got some Kanye level "immaletyoufinish" shit planned...
This is probably one of the most satisfying conversations to have with friends/other players after beating the game and putting a good 80+ hours into the multiplayer.
Brick or Bottle?
Quiet and Slow or Distracting loud?
Dangerous Melee or Precision shooting?
When i told my boss who bought the game about a week and a half after release that you could run up on fools after pegging them in the head with a brick and one shot them with ANY melee weapon he was like "no fuckin way. I might have to go back a few chapters to save ammo now..."
Such a great fuckin game.
Fuckin GOTY for sure unless R* got some Kanye level "immaletyoufinish" shit planned...
This is probably one of the most satisfying conversations to have with friends/other players after beating the game and putting a good 80+ hours into the multiplayer.
Brick or Bottle?
Quiet and Slow or Distracting loud?
Dangerous Melee or Precision shooting?
When i told my boss who bought the game about a week and a half after release that you could run up on fools after pegging them in the head with a brick and one shot them with ANY melee weapon he was like "no fuckin way. I might have to go back a few chapters to save ammo now..."
Such a great fuckin game.
MrGreencastle
Member
GTA V will get GOTY. The Last of Us should get it, and Mario deserves it, but never stood a chance.
BoboBrazil
Member
I enjoyed GTA5 more, but Last of Us was great. Definitely top 2 games of the year.
If GTA5 wins It will mean viewers voted and thats because everyone has a copy of GTA5...
Not everyone owns a ps3 and that is why TLOU should win more reasons for you to buy a ps3 and play the game.
I swear if GTA5 wins tomorrow I will never watch that show. I dont care how much it sold or how better it was its still GTA and not a GOTY material sorry. Blowing stuff up and stealing cars is not GOTY.
I will be butthurt because gaming is a hobby of mine and Playing both GTA5 and TLOU its quiet easy to see the better game.
Not everyone owns a ps3 and that is why TLOU should win more reasons for you to buy a ps3 and play the game.
I swear if GTA5 wins tomorrow I will never watch that show. I dont care how much it sold or how better it was its still GTA and not a GOTY material sorry. Blowing stuff up and stealing cars is not GOTY.
I will be butthurt because gaming is a hobby of mine and Playing both GTA5 and TLOU its quiet easy to see the better game.
BoboBrazil
Member
You really must not have played GTA5 much then. The acting, the music, how every little detail is there in the world. The heists and missions are fantastic. They've successfully created a living breathing world in a game where npcs actually act like real people and not mindless drones. Also it's the first GTA game in 5 years and definitely should be eligible for an award(although these awards are meaningless).
You've got to be kidding. The NPCs act like "real people"?
TheUnsunghero26
Member
Solid reason.
Yep. GTA is kind of the "obvious" winner, so i'm holding out hope that it won't win. Give it to something more unique.
15 minute gameplay segments actually turns me off from watching live. Some of those games are bound to be ones I'm not that interested in, plus watching a dev/PR playing a game for 15 minutes isn't that interesting. Extended demos during e3 press conferences are always a low point for me.
Hopefully there won't be too many of them
Good point - presumably game trailers will be recording this and putting the video up immediately afterwards so we can watch in high quality (and skip the boring bits)? Or maybe they might have to wait until after the spike highlights are broadcast?
Hopefully there won't be too many of them
Good point - presumably game trailers will be recording this and putting the video up immediately afterwards so we can watch in high quality (and skip the boring bits)? Or maybe they might have to wait until after the spike highlights are broadcast?
The Silver
Member
You give an award to something that you think is the best, not to make some stupid point or push an agenda.
If a game is the 1000th sequel in a series and it happens to be better than everything else then give it that damn award.
I personally liked Last of Us more.
thisisalan
Member
I found last year's VGAs to be quite watchable and reasonably mature, especially in comparison to the year before. Let's hope this year is an evolution of that. From Geoff's statements, it sounds like that's at least the direction they're hoping to head in.
Even though I feel it's the best game up, I honestly want Mario U to win only to upstage everyone and so I can laugh at the chaos that ensues. But you know, I think it says something about this industry that the best designed game up on that list is probably the biggest underdog.
AHA-Lambda
Member
This sounds like a really good big change to me, hope it comes together 
Last year was much better, so I've got hopes.
Last year was much better, so I've got hopes.
We'll still have Reggie ; D
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
So from that stealth comment. GTA5 wins GOTY.... Not completely disappointed but I still feel like it's another regular age old popular ip winning against a new one. Sucks but congrats I guess. I'm horribly conflicted because Rockstar is my number one favorite studio and Naughty Dog isn't but I still feel like TLOU really deserves it.
Fried Food
Banned
regardless of what they do gamers will find enough fault for them to question its very existence.
Did you hear Tangerine Dreams GTAV score? It's by far the best music in the game.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Gee, I wonder what game won GOTY
wapplew
Member
As much as I want TLOU win GOTY, I hope they can give it to Mario.
Give every developer a reminder of game at it's root, gameplay, level design, fun.
Also it's about time to give Japanese developers some encouragement.
For TLOU, I'll seriously disappoint if they don't get both best voice acting and music.
Give every developer a reminder of game at it's root, gameplay, level design, fun.
Also it's about time to give Japanese developers some encouragement.
For TLOU, I'll seriously disappoint if they don't get both best voice acting and music.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Your vote didn't matter. The user votes only counted for the "Most Anticipated" category.
Ahh that's right, how I got this confused, I'll never know. Either way I'm still voting for TLoU lol. Destiny was the one I voted for in that poll.
That's Fucking great.
I'll try to double dip so I can see what they decided to cut out for the Monday broadcast.
I'm surprised at how many different websites they are going to push this on which is a very smart move on their part. It just won't be on Gametrailer or Spike as I originally thought. Getting it on sites as diverse as Hulu, Comedy Central, MTV and BET is smart.
The one thing that concerns me about the technical aspects is that they are attempting to stream on so many consumption devices. I have my doubts they have figured out all the technical hurdles.
lazybones18
Banned
So....should Spike hit the reset button again? Or just pull the plug already?
I personally didn't think this was as bad as past VGAs. But it didn't make a lot of sense. I mean, the whole point of this new format, was to bring more legitimacy to the award show. To make it more about the games, and not the spectacle it had become.
And while it was certainly dialed back, it felt very clumsy and awkward and Joel McHale (which again I actually do like a lot) throwing out all the crass humor at the wrong times (interrupting interviews with the devs). It just seemed to defeat the purpose of the tone Geoff was going for.
Pull plug. Let someone else do something more tasteful. Be done with it.