The game awards begins roughly ~11 hours from now. what announcements are you hoping for?

    • Thatuserguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      I’ve been expecting it the last couple of games showcases where there were rumors too. I will say the new hardware launch makes the rumors more compelling, but I will literally not believe it until I see it. I’m fully expecting the event to end on a dumb note and to say “that’s it!?” like the last couple of times I got my hopes up

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    22 days ago

    I’m not really excited about anything because I don’t care much for AAA but it‘s funny to me that a show like the Game Awards was never about the awards but just an excuse to show some world premier trailers.

    They keep telling us how this is a celebration of this year while trailers for games in the coming years take center stage. It feels more like the most cynical funeral of old games while the new ones get coronated with their announcements.

    And I know this is comment isn‘t deep or profound to anybody who ever watched the Game Awards but I just find it comical every year.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      22 days ago

      On the other hand, winning an award from this show has a tangible effect on game sales, so it’s nice when a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 can beat the mainstays like The Legend of Zelda and earn that bump for themselves.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        It‘s definitely clever to wrap the Award show into a Superbowl type of event for the gaming industry. It ensures there will be a lot of eyes on award winners. But they still have to share the attention with the new shiny things that are being advertised so it‘s always a little awkward. It‘s bizarre but part of the experience and let‘s be honest, most of don‘t care about popularity contests. We tune in for the trailers.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        1·
        22 days ago

        The awards are done by the big studios anyway, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft etc, thats the jury, it always has a bias. Anything else only wins something if its so popular that it has to. It’s just a AAA circle jerk mostly.

        But its not about the awards anyway, its about advertising.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          22 days ago

          The jury is composed of the review outlets, not the studios. It does have a bias toward larger games, because the outlets reviewing games have an incentive to more reliably cover the games that most of their audience will be interested in, but it’s not because Sony’s voting for themselves to win.

          • warm@kbin.earth
            5·
            22 days ago

            Not exactly no, they are directly involved in the process. They pick which outlets can vote, so you immediately have conflict of interest.

            As a fair awards show, its fucking awful, but as we know, thats just the facade to selling people new products. It’s just advertising, hyped up.

            Also media publications are often biased anyway as their entire business relies on exposure, which is infinitely harder to get if you are critical of games. Nobody is gonna slap a 5/10 on their product.

            Not to mention its always games with money behind them, there’s lots of actual quality games released that never get a mention, let alone a nomination, because they simply werent published by a big company. They have fucking DLC nominated instead of games if the big guys didnt release anything that year.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      5·
      22 days ago

      It’s just a big advertising show yeah. Like E3 but with all the soul and community sucked out of it. I dont know why anyone cares.

            • TheTux@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              21 days ago

              Ya, whole show was kind of a let down, TankRat, from the Beginning no less, was the only one that really cought my eye. Oh well, at least Expedition 33 got its due & EVERYTHING ELSE SOMEHOW.

              I really should play it already, if even the notoriously AAA subordinate Jeffy K. had to acknowledge those French people’s game so hard.

              Just a shame my rig isn’t up to the task. :(

  • simple@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    14·
    22 days ago

    Personally I’m hoping for

    • Larian’s next game announcement
    • info on Light no Fire
    • anything by fromsoftware
    • a new final fantasy game that isn’t based on ff7
    • the new bioshock game that was rumored for years now
    • Goretantath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      22 days ago

      Same for FF but also no tactical shite either, turn based is fine but the damn chessboard shit was enough during the 3DS era, so many great stories ruined by the gameplay.

      • Naho_Zako@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        I haven’t played the tactics games yet (Ivalice right?) but you just broke my heart. I love tactics games man, and I feel like there’s not a lot of them outside of the Fire Emblem series. I haven’t gotten around to many to be fair though.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I suspect Larian will take their sweet time.

      Bioshock sounds like it’s in development hell; I’d be suspicious of that.

      • warm@kbin.earth
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        22 days ago

        Nah, Larian will jump the gun, release too early and have another bug infested game. They need to reduce their scope, actually take their time and make a great RPG. BG3 was too much for them, a smaller more refined experience would have been amazing, they shouldn’t chase “bigger is better”.

          • warm@kbin.earth
            1·
            22 days ago

            Ignoring all the problems, sure. You could get through it, but there were lots of bugs and inconsistencies. I played again recently after all the patches and while it was much better, it still had it’s fair share of issues. The overall game, lore and story is very good, though I think DOS combat is far superior for a video game than DnD.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Larian’s next game is the teased statue that Keighley tweeted, so they’ll have something to announce tonight. The only thing they said it isn’t is Divinity: Original Sin 3, but it could be a different Divinity RPG, or a looter like the old-school Divinities, or a new Dragon Commander, or a new spin-off entirely. They’re also a multi-project studio now.

    • IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      yup, firaxis went all-in on the licensed slop sadly. don’t think we’re getting that teased sequel to from the deep anytime soon

  • MoreZombies@quokk.auEnglish
    9·
    22 days ago

    I’ve never cared for it - the entire show’s awards and announcements could be YouTube Shorts that I can pick and choose to watch, and I’d get exactly the same thing out of it.

    I wait a day and then check for a megathread with bullet points, then see if there is anything of interest to me.

  • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    22 days ago

    Larian

    Fromsoft

    Nintendo

    Those are probably the only developers in the AAA world that are not selling money printing skinner boxes but the games are still fun.

    Indie devs don’t have money to advertise on that shitty show.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      I guess that depends on where your cutoff is for AAA, but if you’re including FromSoft, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II just came out this year at a similar level of budget and production value. And I know people have their issues with Unreal, but it really has raised the bar for what a “AA” might be capable of. The likes of Avowed, The Outer Worlds 2, The Alters, Split Fiction, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 this year (and games like The Thaumaturge last year) are all what we would have expected out of a AAA game in the not-too-distant past, most of which comes down to scope, where a lot of AAAs are arguably doing too much.

      • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        I haven’t played any of those yet but isn’t the subject what we’re looking forward to seeing at the Game Awards? I’m not sure if those studios are rumored to be announcing anything on the show.

        I’m gonna have to toss a going between Expedition 33 and KCD2. They both seem like my type of game

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          Well, you said those were the only AAA devs that weren’t making money printing skinner boxes, and we had plenty of counter examples just this year. Obsidian put out 2 or 3 games this year, depending on how you count, and it wouldn’t be crazy for them to have an announcement for a game coming next year.

          Absolutely give those two games a try; they’re high on the TGA’s lists for a reason.