If any of the games in the first image actually wind up being GOTY contenders I'm gonna laugh.

>>1034848 >The Game Awards >Already Jesus Christ, we're all getting old.

>>1034853 Wonder if we'll get a Lies DLC promo during the event?

Could we just get through Tuesday first before we make any long terms plans? For all we know, America could descend into civil war over what happens two days from now.

>I'll be working Thank fuck

>TGA Like I give a shit. I will watch my RSS feed for the game and DLC announcements and a cringe compilation on Rumble. >>1034866 Either way the USA is fucked. If Kamala "wins" it will be the end of the Republic and the Constitution (already riddled with holes as it is). If Trump wins the left will unleash their pet niggers and spics to riot and tear the place down, and there will be no peaceful transfer of power.

Blackpill you were just shilling pedoshit like two hours ago, go away

>>1034866 >>1034902 Literally (You) three hours ago. I'll admit, I never saw you mixing your LCP and blackpill personas before. Sloppy! It's like you know everybody knows you two are the same

>>1034928 BTFO

>>1034928 How does a piece of paper prove any of that?

>>1034928 Pwned

When will we get the news that Geoff has replaced the angel on the Game Awards trophy with a muscular Hideo Kojima wearing a toga and holding a miniature Metal Gear REX?

Is the first picture in the OP serious? Are these the only nominees, or are there other ones for the GOTY?

>>1034953 It's a joke, my neurodivergent friend

I hope Granblue Fantasy Relink wins something. At least best soundtrack for how great that shit is. I didn't expect something based on gachashit to be so enjoyable, but it was the best new game this year for me. Genuinely feels like a game from years ago in the best kind of way, but with much more fluid combat that you'd expect from current market. Not that there was much competition for GOTY anyway. Not even sure what a GOTY list would even consist of outside of Wukong, Relink, Metaphor, and maybe Helldivers but live service games are usually excluded from this and put in their own category. Maybe toss Veilguard in there because journalist nepotism wankery? >>1034951 I'd allow it, that sounds funny as fuck.

>Watching the oscars academmy awards: video game edition Why though

>>1034848 No way we'll have Concord or Dustborn as potential GOTYs, but they'll definitely try to push Veilguard as one.

>>1034957 >Not even sure what a GOTY list would even consist of outside of Wukong, Relink, Metaphor, and maybe Helldivers but live service games are usually excluded from this and put in their own category. Persona 3: Reload and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth have a chance of being nominated for GOTY. Both are published by a huge company, sold a lot of copies, and are considered to be good games by journos and the average player. If Metaphor is on the GOTY list, they might avoid putting Persona 3: Reload on there though. Or vice versa, since they are both similar games. It is still possible to see P3:R or Metaphor along with LaD:IW as GOTY nominees, because there have been times where two nominees were from the same developer/publisher. Out of those three I'd say Persona 3: Reload has the highest chance of being nominated. Sadly I don't think Stellar Blade has a chance of being nominated. >Maybe toss Veilguard in there because journalist nepotism wankery? That depends on how the game is received in the next month. If the poor sales continue and the distaste about the game continues to be expressed, they may not want to nominate Veilguard for something as big as GOTY and bring even more attention to it.

>>1034866 >>1034902 Well I mean if the US descends into civil war that shouldn't effect Japanese or Korean made vidya or at least one would hope.

>>1034988 (heil) I hope I'm wrong, but the USA is such a powder-keg ATM that any election is going to be contested and result in some kind of uprising. We used to be able to play vidya to escape, but then shit like Veilguard happens and we have trannies coming out to their parents mid-game.

>>1034848 >concord >dustborn >SW: outlaws >remaster II >veilguard I will genuinely kill someone for this shit

>>1034998 >but then shit like Veilguard happens and we have trannies coming out to their parents mid-game. What the fuck?

>>1035005 I think the game allows you to transition mid game

>>1035005 See >>1033277

>>1034988 >Well I mean if the US descends into civil war that shouldn't effect Japanese or Korean made vidya You goddamned dumbass, USA going into civil war would affect every single nation in the world, and it's allies would be affected negatively. Yes, vidya output would be affected greatly without US investement and consumer base.

>>1034917 I thought it was blackpill at first too but I think those two are just normal election anxiety, I'm seeing it even outside of 8moe. Though I'll admit I have no idea what <<1034928 is about

>>1035027 Yes and it'd be onoy better

>>1034988 >>1035027 >>1035076 I hope that if things do descend into global nuclear war, that it balances out by becoming one of the most retarded and funniest wars in history.

>First image You joke, but there's a nonzero change that at least one of those unironically gets nominated for Games for Change.

I'm not sure anything, apart from ER SotE (which is DLC), comes close to Metaphor this year. Surely it would rake the awards right?

>>1034848 Can't wait to see Synth's reaction this year.

>>1035393 <Tolerance stat <Terrible localization <Idealizing equity and gay socialist bullshit while villainizing meritocracy. <Any actual good fantasy bonds and/or romance are hijacked by stupid persona not-social-links so we can appeal to the personaniggers. <Feels like a incomplete game clearly made for a "complete edition" in a year or two. I hope it gets snubbed, though I know it's unlikely. Incredibly disappointed that it was no more than fantasy persona with some random nostalgia wankery for a few other Atlus franchises thrown in there. I know point 3 is more nuanced than that, too, but the aim is still to villainize the concept of meritocracy. I'd still side with Louis though even with his evil plans. >>1035554 Why do people take this clown seriously again? Dude clearly cares more about futa cock than making a good review. He's like if a /pol/ and /b/ obsessed schizo became a game reviewer and a good 85% of his reviews are said schizo ramblings and degenerate nonsense instead of making good points about the games he's reviewing. The only tolerable review I think he's made is his Starfield one but that's because he managed to aim his schizo bullshit at a good target for once. Since that shit was actually a major problem with the game. There's also no guarantee he'll still be around, or he'll even do the stream, after that strike he received possibly leading to more sometime soon. >>1034973 I mentally filter out remakes when it comes to lists like this. I keep forgetting the committee does not. As for Like a Dragon, yeah I can see that one getting nominated too, just forgot it existed after all the bullshit around the NG+ DLC. Thinking on it more, you can probably expect a few shit games to get in on virtue of having some sales volume or companies pulling favors, games like Dragon's Dogma 2 or Star Wars Outlaws. So, revised prediction list on my part, then. >Granblue Fantasy Relink >Black Myth Wukong >Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth >Metaphor Re:Fantazio >Persona 3 Reloaded >Helldivers 2 (assuming it doesn't get shoved into the live service games category) >Resident Evil 2 Remake >Dragon's Dogma 2 (maybe) >Dragon Age: Veilguard (maybe) >Star Wars: Outlaws (maybe) Anything else as a serious nominee contender?

>>1035647 Nice job conveniently forgetting about Space Marine 2, the only real contender for GotY

>>1035671 I forgot about it, honestly. I don't care much for 40k or GW in general after Age of Sigmar and all the related bullshit. Though now that you brought it to my attention, fuck GW, I hope they get nothing. Also realized I put RE2 Remake instead of Silent Hill 2 Remake, got the games confused since they're basically the same thing gameplay-wise with the camera changes and the paint everywhere, well, tissue paper everywhere in SH2's case but it does the same job.

>>1035647 >cares more about futa cock ???

>>1035647 >As for Like a Dragon, yeah I can see that one getting nominated too, just forgot it existed after all the bullshit around the NG+ DLC. I did as well until I did some quick research about what games were released this year. I was on the fence about buying/playing the game, but once I saw all that stuff about the censorship/DEI in the game, which was subsequently defended by the executive director, I decided that I would definitely never play it. That aside, maybe I'm not in the right circles, but it seems like no one is talking about the game. Sure, 9 months ago it had sold over 1 million worldwide, but it seems like it hasn't made as big of a splash as its predecessors. Which could possibly determine if it shows up as a GOTY nominee. >>1035671 >Space Marine 2 The game does have fans and has sold well enough. Many people would name it their personal GOTY too. But there's a slim chance it would appear on the Game Awards instead of a game from someone like Sony, Nintendo, etc. >>1035687 >Silent Hill 2 Remake This one will be up there as a contender. The Silent Hill name, and the fact that it is from Capcom, will bring it to the top easily.

>>1035706 Went on a massive tangent about Gerudo being futas and general bitching about a woman-only society in his Tears of the Kingdom review, alongside a bunch of other stupid shit like saying Tauro was only added for Big Black Cock/Blacked propaganda regarding Paya. Spent most of his review rambling about that kind of shit and when he did talk about the game itself it was him going "why should I try at any of the puzzles when shield+rocket beats everything" and similar statements showing his metamancy tendencies and other annoying philosophies.

>>1035647 >but the aim is still to villainize the concept of meritocracy No it doesn't as the game very much praises it at several points and the MC himself engages, with meritocracy.

>>1035730 lol. Did he really call them futas or 'izzat doublespeak for tranny? He has some of the most retarded takes imaginable and I wouldn't put it past him.

>>1035647 >Why do people take this clown seriously again? He does make good points, the schizo ramblings are just a minor part of his reviews and they're funny in an Alex Jones sort of way.

>>1035730 >sees tanned man <thinks of black cock >sees tanned woman <thinks of futa cock

>>1034848 Can't wait for Last of Us 2: The Remake win best family friendly section and best fighting game.

>>1035647 >>1035730 To put it in simple terms: I find him pretty funny. Of course he's not the best media critic, but I appreciate the way he frequently drops redpills, including JQ stuff (very rare for a modern-day jewtube channel). As for his ridiculous Zelda rant, that shit was mostly comical. He obviously wasn't that serious about it. (But yes, he does seem to have a thing for dickgirls to some extent.)

Why watch The Game Awards? Tuned in once, saw drag queens giving speeches, never watched the garbage again.

>>1036068 >Why watch The Game Awards? Game previews and debuts mostly.

>>1036069 I'll watch game previews and debuts separately, hours late's worth no politics.

>>1036071 Well there's also the possibility of something fun happening like >>1034853 >>1034863

>>1036068 Trailers for upcoming games, mainly. It's kind of replaced E3 in that sense. That and clownery like >>1036082 says, though the unmoderated variety is less likely to occur since they massively upped security after 2022. Instead you get clownery from the speakers instead like people going on way too long or saying stupid/cringe shit while trying to be hip with the kids. What were all the categories for the awards last year? Anyway? I'd like to make a full list of predictions for each category. >>1036066 It certainly doesn't sound like a fucking joke with how much he focuses on it in his reviews, just sounds like another case of the Dunkey defense of "It's a joke when I say it's a joke and it's serious when I say it's serious" flip-floppy bullshit. I also think his ""serious"" takes on gameplay are pretty garbage as he's the kind of guy who hyper-fixates on meta and finding that meta as soon as possible rather than messing with the entire toolbox a game provides. A lot of reviewers are bad about that, though, so it's not an exclusive problem he has. There's a specific term for that kind of player who's incredibly results-focused to the detriment of other things but I forget the exact name.

>>1037398 >What were all the categories for the awards last year? Anyway? I'd like to make a full list of predictions for each category. It looks like the categories for 2023 were: Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Audio Design, Best Performance [as in voice actor], Games for Impact, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game, Best Ongoing Game, Best Community Support, Best Mobile Game, Best VR/AR Game, Best Action Game, Best Action/Adventure Game, Best Role Playing Game, Best Fighting Game, Best Family Game, Best Sim/Strategy Game, Best Sports/Racing Game, Best Multiplayer Game, Innovation in Accessibility, Best Adaptation [media based on a video game], Most Anticipated Game, and Players' Voice. There were also a few based on esports (such as Best Game, Coach, Team, Event, and Athlete) and a Content Creator of the Year award. Who knows if they will add or take away some of these categories.

DLC and Expansions will now officially be counted as games now. You can expect a lot of attention towards Elden Ring

>The Geoff's Opinion Awards Don't care about this shite.

I'm still mildly annoyed about them snubbing pizza tower.

>>1040271 If only the gooks could squeeze out a Lies DLC they could be eligible too.

>>1040272 Honestly, everyone on social media pissing and shitting over the ads and the poor treatment of the devs when they were giving their speeches last year, but since some retard's favourite game or dlc may appear on screen they're back to clapping their hands in front of the screen.

Shouldn't the OP say when this is?

>>1040272 No one cares about the Awards, its all about the announcements.

>>1040347 And the weird shit like when that kid snuck on stage.

>>1040356 I doubt that'll ever happen again, especially after the Gamescom gaff. Although we'll see next month.

>>1040364 Just because someone won't sneak onto the stage again doesn't mean something else weird won't happen.

>>1034848 Geoff Keighley is attempting to trademark "Game Awards" with the US Patent Office: >>1040416

>Shilling TGA 2024 shills Shillception!

>>1040417 Is this a case of someone trying to see how much he can get away with?

>>1040419 OP shills TGA 2024 shills, bumps shill OP shilling shills, so we're three shill layers deep in the shilling dream, shilling a shill shilling shills for schillings,

>>1040364 Last year they implemented a huge array of guards around the stage and everyone has to be chaperoned on stage by some kind of guard. Geoff was scared shitless by this kid.

>>1040432 I don't really blame him, that shit is a security hazard.

>>1040432 >Geoff was scared shitless by this kid. For a brief moment Geoff probably thought the last words that he would ever hear was Joe Vargas sends his regards.

>>1040489 What was his name again?

>>1040432 And yet the GTA6 guy managed to get through somehow last year. And Geoff was not scared like in 2022 but angry instead.

>>1040510 >dsp in leather jacket heh

>>1040523 Damn somehow I missed that. I bet security will be even higher this year. All the same I hope he gets pranked on once again, this show lost all respect in my eyes once it became clear it's just a shill service where the highest bidder gets the most rewards and screentime.

>>1040558 Filename should include the "aight"

>>1040558 >>1040581 Truly, the gamer awards

NOMINATIONS ARE OFFICIALLY REVEALED TODAY AT 5 PM https://www.youtube.com/live/9blwxyOXuRI?si=mC7BkHhqtkM9Ziif Anyone want to restream this?

>>1040812 I hear people saying Black Myth and Stellar Blade are gonna be excluded in this wonder if it's true

>>1040813 it wont be not when their votes are whats needed to make goty

>>1040812 Where the fuck was Space Marine 2?

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>>1040837 >balatro Literally who just to not have stellar blade

>>1040838 I'm more insulted by Astro Bot and the shitty FF7 remake being there than the flavor of the month card game

>>1040841 Astro Bot is actually good though

>>1040837 >FOTM indieshit as GOTY It's not going to win it's insane even as a contender.

>>1040837 At least they didn't try to push Failguard.

>>1034848 Why does he do this to himself every single year? Is it the paycheck? Money laundering?

>>1040847 Just look at the GOTY nominations. The paycheck is undoubtedly cushy as fuck.

>>1040847 He gets to stuff tons of shekel in his pockets to simply shill games and the average brain of a gamer is smaller than a goldfish so they worship him like the second coming of Jesus. If i was in his shoes i would do the same.

>>1040847 I think Geoff thinks he's helping the industry. Also there's ego in there too as he wants to be the face of it. Geoff is one of those people who was always insecure about video games. He wanted everyone (read: his dad, college professors and Roger Ebert) to acknowledge his chosen career path is just as valid as movies or whatever. He's the type who thinks TLoU is the height of game art because it's just like the other thing and maybe then his dad will finally say he's right. These types of people tend to not really notice that gaming is something completely different with different standards for quality and it doesn't matter what the electronic old men think or that gaming has surpassed movies in cultural relevance almost a decade ago.

>>1040854 Just like last year I don't know who any of these people are.

Most anticipated game will most likely be carried entirely by shitskin normalfags wishing for their GTA slop.

>>1040854 Always amused this category manages to be filled with literally whos. I looked up a random guy and he's some kiddie Fortnite creator. Aren't these categories chosen by journos? If so why does it look like a shortlist by a Tiktok zoomer?

Last ones I'll be posting Second image shows who - according to the Game Awards website - is part of the jury that makes the majority of the actual decisions.

>>1040854 RABBIT BETTER WIN!

>>1040860 >PRIDE.COM is judging The Game Awards

>>1040860 I don't like IGN or PC Gamer but I at least get it, they're actual gaming outlets. Jeff Gerstmann and Kinda Funny? These are just e-celebs. I always maintain Greg Miller and the rest of Kinda Funny have extremely outsized influence for how small they actually are, their videos regularly don't break 10k views and almost never crack 100k. NPR? The fucking LA Times? Geoff what is this

>>1040837 Fucking Balatro? Really? Over Stellar Blade? Relink? Fucking Spess Mahreen (as much as I hate GW)? And countless other, better games. Something smells. >>1040861 Rabbit wins by default, all these other ones are literally whos and have far, FAR less reach. Feel like filler picks if you ask me, like the committee has no idea who would even be nominated for such a thing. Though in a fair world I'd expect the edgier rabbit Vtuber to be in the running but she's too unhinged for the committee.

>>1040864 >Rabbit wins by default >When 90% of the votes belong to niggers who absolutely despise anything eastern lol lmao even

>>1040866 >90% of the votes belong to niggers who absolutely despise anything eastern Literally only one game from the west is in the GotY category and it's the Indieshit one.

>>1040868 That's because AAA western games were so unbelievably shit this year even they couldn't vouch for them. Every other category is free for them to choose though. Notice how they have 0 eastern actors or models in performance category.

>>1040860 >>1040862 >>1040863 Besides Big Gay on the judges panel (pride.com), and the left-wing agitprop outlets, Polygon and The Verge are both Vox Media. It's basically the same voter.

>Best Community Support >Helldivers 2 >>1040838 Stellar Blade was nominated for Best Music and Best Action Game at least. But it's up against Wukong and 40k so a win is doubtful. >>1040846 It was only nominated in one category, the one for accessibility. I doubt anyone is surprised about that.

>>1040874 >It was only nominated in one category Lol they couldn't even get it in RPG? Wow what a fail.

>>1040864 >Though in a fair world I'd expect the edgier rabbit Vtuber to be in the running but she's too unhinged for the committee. >but she's too unhinged for the committee. No shit.

>>1040882 You can really tell the before and after pills clips of her.

>>1040860 >>1040862 If 16 jurists have 90% of the vote and pride.com is a jurist, at least 5.625% of that vote is how literally gay the game is. 'THE GAY AWARDS

>>1040888 >at least 5.625% of that vote is how literally gay the game is Clearly not enough to get Failguard into any of the categories that matter.

>>1040889 The queer people I know don't like Failgord, or at least the LGBT elements of it. The critiques I hear is it feels inauthentic, or its characters don't feel like they were written by members of the The Gay Community.

Okay this was just too funny not to post

>>1040861 >>1040858 >>1040864 Rabbit actually has the second least subscribers out of all of them And yet barring caseoh because who randomly popped up in my cooking feeds judging food I don't know any of em. >>1040905 Man none of those games deserve that title

>>1040863 Game Awards was this retarded before, why people tune in I don't know

>>1040862 >>1040905 Since pride.com's judging the Game Awards, which one of these best ongoing game nominees will pride.com vote for? Destiny 2's rainbow gay. Oryx is canonically transgender, and Micah-10 is transgender too. Osiris and Saint-14 gay each other, Mara Sov and Sjur Eido lesbian each other. Ana is lesbian with Camrin, and Devrim and Marc are a gay married couple. Suraya Hawthorne is bisexual, Eriana-3 was in a relationship with Wei Ning, Eramis was lesbian with Arthys, Awoken are non-binary, there's Maya Sundaresh and her wife Chioma Esi, and Jolyon and Uldren Sov. Diablo IV is Satanist, gays like that. Final Fantasy XIV has gay couples, and two guys can get gay married. Fortnite has Mazy for Rainbow Royale 2022, and Dreamer who's transgender. Queen Summer is a lesbian in the comics and lesbian dated in Rick and Morty. Korra is bisexual. Sylvie is a genderfluid girl version of Loki. Deadpool is confirmed to be pansexual, and Rick Sanchez is pansexual, and Loki the Marvel villain is genderfluid and bisexual in Disney+, and Chica is a Twitch streamer who's bisexual, and Meowsicles is bisexual. He uses the Rainbow Rider glider with the bisexual flag. Toni uses they/them pronouns and is non-binary, Echo is a lesbian with Inverted Echo and Spider-Gwen is implied in Across the Spider-Verse to be a trans woman. Helldivers 2 banned you off the Discord if you didn't want LGBT outfits.

>>1040860 >that jury lineup Elden Ring DLC will win simply because of the faggy consort radahn shit with miquella the twink

>>1040914 For the announcements, that's the only reason.

>>1040934 but rape is bad you think they'll vote for it to win knowing that

>>1040934 You realize the gay twink is the villain and a rapist, right?

>>1040837 <posting the misspelled version smh

>>1040935 What's likely to be announced? Anything from Valve? Maybe the Switch 2? New trailers for shit like GTA VI?

>>1040928 >Since pride.com's judging the Game Awards, which one of these best ongoing game nominees will pride.com vote for? <Big fuckin list of gay shit Jesus H. Christ, they're putting chemicals in the studios that turn the friggin games gay.

>>1040948 Helldivers 2 is definitely the least gay, though. For what it's worth. FFXIV is most likely to win on the gayness factor since the big gay vote must support the tranny-voiced mary sue that ruined the current expansion with terrible character and even worse VA. >>1040947 Monster Hunter Wilds shit, GTA 6 trailer of some kind, Bamco gets off their ass and announces another game in a franchise of theirs, probably a big Tales remaster related to their anniversary project, various fightan game news, maybe nintendo does some announcement related to the upcoming pokemon legends game since that's their next big product before the Switch 2 IIRC. Maybe Fromsoftware announces their next souls-esque title of Spellbound or whatever final name they'll settle on. Outside of that, your guess is as good as mine. Did Granblue:Relink get nominated for anything, by the way? I was kinda hoping it'd get something at least.

>>1040947 Volvo is working on HL3 but whether or not they'll announce it here is unclear. They did intend to announce Half-Life: Alyx at one of Geoff's shows so they owe him a serious favor, but there's nothing in the leaks to indicate they're announcing it soon. The Switch 2 probably won't be announced this year, it's believed they'll announce it next year as not to cannibalize the Switch's Christmas sales.

>>1040952 >Volvo is working on HL3 the graphics will be very boxy

>>1040928 >>1040934 >Elden Ring DLC will win simply because of the faggy consort radahn shit with miquella the twink That's faggy but it isn't a Best Ongoing Game nominee so pride can't vote for it in that category. The nominees are Destiny 2, Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XIV, Fortnite, and Helldivers 2. >>1040950 FFXIV is likely to win because of the transgender Wuk Lamat yeah.

>>1040958 VERY cute car, I approve

Game Awards are faggot shit, real men are eagerly awaiting for Comiket 106

Upon some more research. I have discovered that Relink did not get nominated for a single category. Sure, fucking Astrobot and Silent Hill 2 have a better OST, damn committee is deaf I swear to god. Granblue Fantasy VS: Rising got nominated for the fighting games category, though, which I find pretty funny as it's a 2023 release. Shame it's going to get crushed by the 3D Dragon Ball fightan though. Not that these awards are worth much, anyway. Frustrates me how these contests almost always devolve into nepotistic circlejerks. >>1040976 When is that again? January sometime?

>>1040947 Resident Evil 9, because Capcom doesn't know how to make games that aren't Resident Evil or Monster Hunter.

>>1040976 I'm gonna be an ass and compress this image. >>1040991 The East v. West tension is going to get worse because the West dropped the ball so hard with the rainbow mafia crap the East muscled its way in by not incorporating as much of the bullshit by default although they still sprinkle it in and it's going to be a while before the KKs shape up or the privates take them down. The Game Awards had no choice but to nominate the titles and you can see it with how the more 3DPD categories are all exclusively West whereas East always had a presence on realgaems noms. Now that I think of it, this year was actually super stellar for JRPGs and if I had a chance to sit down this year I might enjoy myself with jank like Reynatis.

>WoW STILL hasn't seen a single nomination since Legion lol lmao even

Get a load of this shit: https://archive.ph/S5R8p >HOW ARE WINNERS SELECTED? <Winners are determined by a blended vote between the voting jury (90%) and public fan voting (10%). Fans can vote for their favorite games on TheGameAwards.com. In China fans can vote on the winners via Bilibili. Fan voting closes on Wednesday, December 11 at 6 pm PT. >WHY DON’T FANS 100% SELECT THE WINNERS? <Creating a 100% fan vote presents several challenges. First, given that some games are exclusive to one platform, a public vote puts single-platform games at an inherent disadvantage over multi-platform titles. In addition, it is important that winners cannot be “socially engineered” in any way. We find that a blended vote is the most credible and authentic way to select winners. No, goy, you cannot choose the games you actually like, we have to decide for you!

>>1041001 https://thegameawards.com/voting-jury Here's the list of actual voting entities. Every single one of them is either directly funded by ✡Western governments✡ and/or is homosexual/minority/nonwhite-owned organization.

>>1041001 <First, given that some games are exclusive to one platform, a public vote puts single-platform games at an inherent disadvantage over multi-platform titles. This whole idea operates on the presumption that people will only vote for games they have played themselves. Which of course is not true at all with streaming and video sharing being as popular as it is. Someone could only own a Switch, but since his favorite youtuber played Wukong and it looked cool, he'd vote for it despite never purchasing a copy. Sure, a multiplatform game has the chance to reach more consumers, but in today's world purchases are not the only way consumers are interacting with vidya anymore. I dont have any concrete numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that the average consumer only buys maybe 5 or so games a year, but is knowledgeable about 10 or more. <In addition, it is important that winners cannot be “socially engineered” in any way. So letting the average consumers who play video games choose who they want to win is social engineering. But selecting a bunch of large corporations and journos who have clear social biases to vote for the winners is not engineering the results in any way? Geoff is probably worried a big social media star will influence the votes in some way, but how does he know if there is even a risk of that happening? <We find that a blended vote is the most credible and authentic way to select winners. A 90% jury and 10% public is not a blend. A vanilla cake with one chocolate chip on top is not a vanilla and chocolate cake. If Geoff and his sponsors were worried about the public vote being tainted by some social media stunt, an actual blend of jury and public votes would mitigate that issue and deter troublemakers. Make it 60/40 or something. The fact that it favors the jury so much indicates that he doesn't really want the public involved in voting but feels like he has to technically include it.

I knew 2024 was a bad year but this just cements it for sure. Holy fuck, why is Balatro a GOTY contender?

>>1040991 28th-30th December

>>1041013 Because there was honestly nothing fucking else this year and they can't have two Chiwanese games nominated so no Stellar Blade

>>1040976 That looks really good, kudos to the artist!

>>1041018 > Guyver

>>1041038 >>1041018 you know looking back alot of 90's movies were just anime done shittly

>>1041018 I see, I shall look forward to the funny doujins and maybe some 2hu news if ZUN feels like it. >>1041013 Because someone sucked/fucked someone, or classic case of know-a-guy-itis nepotism that plagues the ""indie"" scene amongst western devs. I refuse to believe a fucking CARD GAME that someone slapped together in a couple months could fit in that spot compared to the many potential nominees that got snubbed. >>1041020 Were you paying attention to the thread. Let me give you a list, excluding Stellar Blade since you pointed out it'd be excluded, though your listed reasons are wrong. It's not as many as prior years, but there are still plenty of good games that'd deserve a spot over Roguelike poker. >Space Marine 2 >Unicorn Overlord >Granblue Fantasy Relink >Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth >Helldivers 2 To name a few. It's not like there's been zero good games this year, just a very dry year. I half wonder if certain games having next to no or no nominations (like stellar blade being in music and action RPG when it could easily deserve a spot in GOTY or Art Direction) is some kind of deliberate academy decision. >>1040853 I honestly don't get this mentality, myself. Its a mentality that I've even seen taint a lot of reviewers, this bizarre take that videogames somehow are a bad medium for not being like hollywood or having stories fit for such, often ignoring gameplay entirely when judging games. I don't understand what makes ones think that these mediums are 1-to-1 or even close to that. A good story only gets you so far if the gameplay and interactivity doesn't carry it, you'll get a shit product if you're missing one or the other.

>>1041044 >Space Marine 2 I genuinely wonder why that isn't in. Is it because it came too close to Helldivers 2? Did it have no diversity?

>>1041047 No, it had plenty of diversity amongst the imperial guard with commanding women and varied races, and the skin tones of the smurfmarines. I think it was just snubbed for a similar reason to why the DBZ fightan is relegated to the fighting games category, popular amongst men and people the committee disagrees with. I'm just trying to figure out why Relink got snubbed entirely. They clearly aren't giving Cygames the middle finger since the fightan is right there. Guess they're mad Cygames spent more on advertising in baseball stadiums than bribing journos.

>>1041044 >I don't understand what makes ones think that these mediums are 1-to-1 or even close to that. It's simply because of a sense of inferiority. Regardless of the reason why these retards first became involved in video games, they're effectively deadset on the destruction of the media because they (Themselves) see video games as being an "inferior" form of art. No, no one ever actually said this, but that's how they FEEL. And so they are attempting to change everything about the media so that it is "accepted" by wider society and no longer feel insecure about it. The problem is that this state will never be reached. As I said, this is about THEM feeling insecure about video games. If you actually take a step back and look at the history of vidya beginning with it's rise in the 1970's, video games have always been taken "seriously" as a medium. Yes, there were a couple of asshats who like to ridicule gaming regardless, but those are the same idiots who like to ridicule people who are fans of sports. So you're never going to change the minds of those people because they see themselves as "too smart" to have fun. And that's where much of the issue comes from, that these people see themselves as "too smart" to sucumb to and engage in basic human desires. Except for sex, then that's "serious business" as long as it can be framed as "empowering". So they're constantly trying to prove to themselves that THEY have "progressed" enough, and will never be happy about things until they reach that impossibly high and completely unrealistic standard that they have set for themselves. And it's because of this line of thinking we get games like Dragon Gay, Niggerborn, And Concuck, because they will never "respect" themselves or see themselves as "serious" for liking games like Lollipop Chainsaw or EDF. Unless it's to be ironic. TL;DR, these idiots are goons in all but name.

>>1041038 >Guyver

>>1041070 Game Awards existing is one problem he can't solve.

>>1041072 Can't solve retards watching, can solve yourself watching by watching reveals separate.

>>1040854 >>1040855

>>1041177 Fuck you, Ironmouse is a lovely latina gremlin. Not you poster, but that shitty butthurt faggot.

>>1041178 Her character's got a nice rack, I'll give her that.

>>1041179 It just baffles me that not only moldy cheese whores but also attention whoring faggots shit on vtubers, in particular Iron Mouse which is a bubble baby or whatever it's called someone who can't go outside unless they want to die slowly and painfully. It doesn't mean I don't know many of them are just whores in an anime skin, but I enjoy seeing gremlins having fun with their gremlin ways.

>>1040837 wtf are you guys smoking, Balatro is much more original than Stellar Blade Granted the odd one out here is definitely DLC repackaged as an actual game. And Metaphor getting organically pushed as a goty. >>1040858 I watch barely any "content creators" and I can literally name at least ten of them who have more views/subscribers/actual importance in the gaming world. Literally could have name dropped the #FixTF2 if they wanted to push someone that actually mattered.

>>1041001 I was genuinely surprised The Onion was still capable of making actually funny skits. The one about which minority is to blame for the election results and the one with Skinheads vs. KKK were also humorous.

>>1041184 >wtf are you guys smoking The "not giving a shit about a shitty indie game made by a literal who dev" weed.

>>1041001 On one hand, bug men would bot the ever living shit out of the polls to make Wukong win everything. On the other hand, everything is blacked and pozzed. Enjoy your yearly slop goy. There's no winning.

>>1041184 >>1041193 Stellar Blade's a shitty game made by the literal who dev Shift Up. It's for cummies, not game of the year. The real game of the year nominees are shitty games too with budgets, it's "most expensive turd" nominations.

>DLC nominated for GOTY >Balatro got the nomination, literally a one-person develope KEK >The “best audio design” nomination for COD BO6 where they charge you for “premium audio” TOP KEK >Literal pity category for all the flops (Innovation in Accessibility) MEGA KEK >Multiversus in the Best Fighting Game ULTRA KEK >Kojimbo favorite holohoe Pekora nominated MONSTER KEK

>>1041196 >it's "most expensive turd" nominations. Which is why Balatro is even there in the first place.

>>1041181 I just never liked the double standard of hating twitch whores and then all of a sudden it's okay to be a twitch whore as long as you use an anime skin. It has and always will stink of fleecing to me. Fleecing gullible men.

>>1041202 I'm indiferent to twitch whores, they are just stupid. I'm just sick of these people getting upset someone else got better in their game. Never donated anything to anyone and will stay that way.

>>1041202 Also, before I forget. Vtubers actually play games and are invested in games. Usually.

So who won?

>>1041051 I thought Relink was still in beta? Cant believe its been out for a year now >>1040861 >>1040861 Video out, Rabbit doesnt even know why she's there. Clearly she needs to grow a beard if she wants any chance of winning https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=4aN3ypaPcwA

>>1041428 It was in dev for a long time and Cygames had to put it on hold for years after Platinum games fucked off to do live service shit. Cygames ended up hiring a good chunk of devs who left Platinum after the live service shit to come finish the game, oddly enough. Doesn't surprise me you missed it, but you should play it, it's pretty gud and no DRM so it's an easy pirate. >>1041428 I want the rabbit to win for the sheer comedy of it.

>>1041428 >Clearly she needs to grow a beard if she wants any chance of winning Or be a pajeet >TechnoGamerz >43m subs >the rest are under 20m Is that where Kamala's votes went to?

>>1041436 How embarrassing i got the name and release date confused with Gran Saga. >I want the rabbit to win for the sheer comedy of it. I just cant stomach the literal O face or any other variation of the faces here >>1040858 >>1041439 >Is that where Kamala's votes went to? What?

>>1041442 >What? He is making a presidential election joke.

balatro winning would be really funny

>>1041466 Who cares? This shit is a glorified ad

>>1041472 it is run by IGN who basically chooses who wins and who gives them the best deals for game promotion, but it would be really funny seeing all the people be confused