You can find it here:
http://thegameawards.com/
Or on youtube.
I'll put my thoughts in a spoiler box in case somebody wants to watch the show with out knowing who won the nominations and what was revealed at the show. Editting as I watch:
Spoiler
Bullet Storm port featuring Duke Nukem? I want to play this. No matter how lame it's going to be.
I don't understand why an online show skips a part of the awards ceremony. I realize the Oscar's or the Golden Globes does it because it's televised and TV time costs money. Or something. Probably also that the audience and viewers fall asleep if the show is more than 2 hours. But it's online!
Anyway it feels weird that they would skip both VR and Fighting game awards.
What's even crazier is that they gave the best fighting game award to Street Fighter 5! Talk about taking a piss on the fighting game community. I'm not one who believes in video game industry corruption but seriously, Capcom has to have bought Keiley a fucking house for that win.
So Hideo Kojima is getting an Icon award. I don't really care, I guess he deserves it. But it just feels cheap. It's the second year in a row where Keiley is using Kojima as feature of the show. It's pandering, it feels fake and also overly personal. This doesn't feel like objective coverage, but like the owner of the show giving out personal favors in exchange for borrowing some star power to give the show value.
Maybe it's just because I didn't exactly love MGSV but I think way too much attention has been given to Kojima over the past couple years. MGSV was a mess from a directorial stand point. And much like No Man's Sky was, Kojima is being massively overhyped as a creator.
That said Death Stranding sure is looking cool and weird as fuck. Mads mikkelsen as a weird mutant robot baddie? Yes, please.
Warframe is still looking cool. I played it a bit a couple of years ago and liked it. Just got side tracked and never went back to it.
Inside one best art direction and best independent game. Well deserved I would say (Totally no Danish pride here!). All though I am surprised Inside won the independent game over The Witness. Hell I am surprised that the Witness wasn't nominated for art direction, that game is beautiful in its colors and minimalistic environments.
Guardians of the Galaxy Tell Tale game reveal? This already leaked but it will be cool to see how they pull this off. Tell Tale can do comedy so I hope they focus on the funnier parts of Guardians of the Galaxy.
That Schick Hydro advertisement/promotion spot was actually really clever. This is advetisement I can get behind.
DOOM won Best Action Game and I think that's the right choice. Best playing shooter this year in my opinion.
That Dragon, Cancer won games for impact. Watching the developer/father on the stage was hard. After playing that game, that award felt pretty real. Could have seen the award going to the Iranian revolution game as well. That was a good one.
Dauntless looks completely generic. Cool be a AAA, could be a cheap mobile game. No way to tell. A quick google suggests it's an action rpg from ex-bioware developers.
Boogie won trending gamer. That was pretty sweet, he's a cool guy. I was hoping Danny O'Dwyer won, but it's all about userbases and who votes.
Lawbreakers still looks cool but the question is still whether or not the industry needs yet another multiplayer online shooter. They've been talking about this thing for so long now and in the mean time Overwatch came out and took over everything.
Witcher 3: Blood and Wine won best RPG. That was expected. X-com 2 won best Strategy, I was expecting something more esoteric but I guess X-com was the more mainstream game.
Best performance went to Nolan North. Not surprised but annoyed. I haven't played all those games but I think the two voice actors in Firewatch created something special.
Prey is still looking good. Love the weird shadow enemies. They look menacing.
Kyle Bosman doing embarrassing VR stuff... ugh.
New Zelda footage. I don't know if it's my TV but every time I see this game it looks really saturated. Like somebody turned the brightness and contrast up way too high. The gameplay and combat looks fun though. Lots of variety.
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment looks okay I guess. I really wish they'd do actual shovel knight content though. I loved Shovel Knight. He's like a modern take on Mega Man.
Best Narrative went to Uncharted 4. Not surprised. They are among the best currently making those kinds of games.
Dishonored 2 won best Action Adventure, well deserved in my opinion.
That Mass Effect: Andromeda footage was a mixed bag. I liked the look of everything except the combat. That combat was clunky and lacked punch. There was no feeling of impact from those weapons.
Overwatch won Game of the Year. Eh, I couldn't get into it but I know a lot of other people loved it.
Not a bad show this year. Some weird winners but over all the show keeps improving.
Bullet Storm port featuring Duke Nukem? I want to play this. No matter how lame it's going to be.
I don't understand why an online show skips a part of the awards ceremony. I realize the Oscar's or the Golden Globes does it because it's televised and TV time costs money. Or something. Probably also that the audience and viewers fall asleep if the show is more than 2 hours. But it's online!
Anyway it feels weird that they would skip both VR and Fighting game awards.
What's even crazier is that they gave the best fighting game award to Street Fighter 5! Talk about taking a piss on the fighting game community. I'm not one who believes in video game industry corruption but seriously, Capcom has to have bought Keiley a fucking house for that win.
So Hideo Kojima is getting an Icon award. I don't really care, I guess he deserves it. But it just feels cheap. It's the second year in a row where Keiley is using Kojima as feature of the show. It's pandering, it feels fake and also overly personal. This doesn't feel like objective coverage, but like the owner of the show giving out personal favors in exchange for borrowing some star power to give the show value.
Maybe it's just because I didn't exactly love MGSV but I think way too much attention has been given to Kojima over the past couple years. MGSV was a mess from a directorial stand point. And much like No Man's Sky was, Kojima is being massively overhyped as a creator.
That said Death Stranding sure is looking cool and weird as fuck. Mads mikkelsen as a weird mutant robot baddie? Yes, please.
Warframe is still looking cool. I played it a bit a couple of years ago and liked it. Just got side tracked and never went back to it.
Inside one best art direction and best independent game. Well deserved I would say (Totally no Danish pride here!). All though I am surprised Inside won the independent game over The Witness. Hell I am surprised that the Witness wasn't nominated for art direction, that game is beautiful in its colors and minimalistic environments.
Guardians of the Galaxy Tell Tale game reveal? This already leaked but it will be cool to see how they pull this off. Tell Tale can do comedy so I hope they focus on the funnier parts of Guardians of the Galaxy.
That Schick Hydro advertisement/promotion spot was actually really clever. This is advetisement I can get behind.
DOOM won Best Action Game and I think that's the right choice. Best playing shooter this year in my opinion.
That Dragon, Cancer won games for impact. Watching the developer/father on the stage was hard. After playing that game, that award felt pretty real. Could have seen the award going to the Iranian revolution game as well. That was a good one.
Dauntless looks completely generic. Cool be a AAA, could be a cheap mobile game. No way to tell. A quick google suggests it's an action rpg from ex-bioware developers.
Boogie won trending gamer. That was pretty sweet, he's a cool guy. I was hoping Danny O'Dwyer won, but it's all about userbases and who votes.
Lawbreakers still looks cool but the question is still whether or not the industry needs yet another multiplayer online shooter. They've been talking about this thing for so long now and in the mean time Overwatch came out and took over everything.
Witcher 3: Blood and Wine won best RPG. That was expected. X-com 2 won best Strategy, I was expecting something more esoteric but I guess X-com was the more mainstream game.
Best performance went to Nolan North. Not surprised but annoyed. I haven't played all those games but I think the two voice actors in Firewatch created something special.
Prey is still looking good. Love the weird shadow enemies. They look menacing.
Kyle Bosman doing embarrassing VR stuff... ugh.
New Zelda footage. I don't know if it's my TV but every time I see this game it looks really saturated. Like somebody turned the brightness and contrast up way too high. The gameplay and combat looks fun though. Lots of variety.
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment looks okay I guess. I really wish they'd do actual shovel knight content though. I loved Shovel Knight. He's like a modern take on Mega Man.
Best Narrative went to Uncharted 4. Not surprised. They are among the best currently making those kinds of games.
Dishonored 2 won best Action Adventure, well deserved in my opinion.
That Mass Effect: Andromeda footage was a mixed bag. I liked the look of everything except the combat. That combat was clunky and lacked punch. There was no feeling of impact from those weapons.
Overwatch won Game of the Year. Eh, I couldn't get into it but I know a lot of other people loved it.
Not a bad show this year. Some weird winners but over all the show keeps improving.
This post has been edited by Apt: 02 December 2016 - 11:48 AM