Game Awards

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Originally Posted by Xion136

...uhm, Kingdom Hearts 3 has a great soundtrack, and DMC has some great music as well? Both give Shadowbringers a run for it's money, and quite honestly here the real travesty is Death Stranding being in every goddamn category.

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I take back what I said.


This...this is the real headscratcher.

Please keep in mind that the nominees are chosen predominantly by gaming-related media outlets from around the world.

As in gaming press. As in gaming journalists.

I think that should in no uncertain terms set everyone's expectations as low as humanly possible n_n

However, the show is still worth watching for the world premieres, I suppose it can be treated like a mini-E3 in that regard.

/Looks at all the Death Strandings. Wow. It hasn't been a great year for gaming. Glad I have FFXIV.

We lost Best Ongoing Game to Fortnite, guys. Not surprised but still disappointed.

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Originally Posted by SilverObi

We lost Best Ongoing Game to Fortnite, guys. Not surprised but still disappointed.

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Even the community poll picked FF14. There seems to be a real disconnect somewhere. Really makes you wonder.

*does the Fortnite dance*

C'mon did anyone really think XIV had a chance? It's like having a non Miyazaki anime next to Star Wars at the theaters. Everyone knows who the tickets are gonna go to.

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Originally Posted by Gula

*does the Fortnite dance*

C'mon did anyone really think XIV had a chance? It's like having a non Miyazaki anime next to Star Wars at the theaters. Everyone knows who the tickets are gonna go to.

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FFXIV is nothing to scoff at, though. This is arguably the best mmo on the market right now. But I agree Fortnite is monstrously popular

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Originally Posted by REPROBEAN_CHILD

FFXIV is nothing to scoff at, though. This is arguably the best mmo on the market right now. But I agree Fortnite is a monstrously popular

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Yes exactly. I love XIV, truly I do. Seeing that trailer before the announcement made me misty eyed, because memories of that summer hype and hearing fans at the event cheering loud.

But against Fortnite? Yeah. Journalists will look to the more shiny, $$$ thing.

I'm probably overlooking something, but the following games are those that I enjoyed the most this year:

- Resident Evil 2 Remake
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Death Stranding winning so many awards is incredibly suspicious. Though there's always been a weird cult surrounding Kojima, the guy hosting the Game Awards has a cameo within the game itself and pretentious, 'artsy' games tend to be praised highly by critics only to fall flat with regular people.

A number of negative reviews over on Metacritic were also nuked recently, which is worthy of concern given that nothing was done to eliminate the flood of '10/10' reviews from fanatics seeking to inflate the score.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Death Stranding winning so many awards is incredibly suspicious. Though there's always been a weird cult surrounding Kojima, the guy hosting the Game Awards has a cameo within the game itself and pretentious, 'artsy' games tend to be praised highly by critics only to fall flat with regular people.

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Nominated, but not won. I believe it was only best soundrack, to which XIV was robbed by not having a chance. The main theme alone for ShB is award worthy in itself.