Game Awards

[purgatori]

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.

Even as someone who regards Kojima as a genius, I think Death Stranding was a fiasco of a game, and that it was only spared the sort of opprobrium that most games would attract if they amounted to nothing more than wearisome treks across empty landscapes because of the Kojima brand. Fortnite's win is easy to understand: it's by no means a good game, but it managed to steal the crown in a burgeoning genre populated by competitors who weren't/aren't even capable of making semi-competent products. Death Stranding, though? I suspect that it's strictly the critics' darling, and so how it won the popular vote—if popular vote it was—is beyond me. I would have thought that the halo granted by people actively willing themselves to somehow enjoy the game would have faded by now.

[Duskane]

Bit funny losing to fortnite when yoshi said "dont have to worry about fortnite due to different genre and audience"

[Gula]

Bit funny losing to fortnite when yoshi said "dont have to worry about fortnite due to different genre and audience"

They explain the votes are 90% journalists, 10% fans on the TGA website.

Edit: Added image.

[Infindox]

I'm not mad as mad at the fact XIV lost but rather it and the other choices (which actually have pretty decent years) lost to Fortnite.
No one was happy about it. Watched a clip from a streamer that showed no one clapping but a lot of applause can be heard.
But yeah, money talks and game journalism sucks. What's new?

[MitsukiKimura]

Fortnite has an audience of children for its player base. I honestly think this award ceremony is a complete joke. Most of these games I’ve never heard of. 90% Jury decision and 10% player vote? I didn’t even bother to watch it and I’m glad I didn’t.

[Duskane]

Most things related to video game journalism is a joke award shows like this are no different

[SturmChurro]

They explain the votes are 90% journalists, 10% fans on the TGA website.

Edit: Added image.

Gaming journos don't even know how to play games, so I can see why we got some of the picks we did.

[Niyuka]

Instead of the "righteous anger" at FFXIV not winning anything, have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps this may be justified?

FFXIV has grown incredibly stale in terms of content cycle. Its primary relevance years ago was that it was rebuilt on the ruins of a failed project, something that used to be rare (although by now several games have had such a revival, so the story is now old and not important anymore).
Fortnite is probably the most important game of the world right now, in terms of what it achieved, and how it has transcended past simply being a game, to being one of the most important leisure activities for young people. It also maintains its hold on an extremely fickle market (young players), drew in more new gamers than any other title since, MAYBE, WoW, in which shadow FFXIV continues to stand.
Last but not least, FFXIV has not seen any big headlines for multiple years now, with the good game journalist criticisms of Shadowbringers being the sole exception. Other than that, its just a small game happily chugging along a completely predictable, conservative content plan year after year. Maybe after 6 years thats simply not award-worthy?

[MitsukiKimura]

Instead of the "righteous anger" at FFXIV not winning anything, have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps this may be justified?

FFXIV has grown incredibly stale in terms of content cycle. Its primary relevance years ago was that it was rebuilt on the ruins of a failed project, something that used to be rare (although by now several games have had such a revival, so the story is now old and not important anymore).
Fortnite is probably the most important game of the world right now, in terms of what it achieved, and how it has transcended past simply being a game, to being one of the most important leisure activities for young people. It also maintains its hold on an extremely fickle market (young players), drew in more new gamers than any other title since, MAYBE, WoW, in which shadow FFXIV continues to stand.
Last but not least, FFXIV has not seen any big headlines for multiple years now, with the good game journalist criticisms of Shadowbringers being the sole exception. Other than that, its just a small game happily chugging along a completely predictable, conservative content plan year after year. Maybe after 6 years thats simply not award-worthy?

It did receive the people's choice awards and to be honest I think that's better than receiving an award which gaming journalists such as IGN and other ones with such bad reputation they'll play an hour and slap a 89 rating on it.

[monk-dps]

All rewards shows are blargh in my opinion. It feels like high school all over agai nwith these things, people, places or things being rewarded cause the -kool- kids like them and not being fairly judged and rewarded like they should. Cause again, Death Stranding shouldn't be in there as it JUST came out. Like... I feel like that being there is proof enough that these things are nothing but a wank fest :c. I can't believe I live in a world where video game awards are the same and pointless like the -stars- awards. T.T