Isn't that the case annually though ? panelists include members from various studios and teams. Not sure why it's such an issue this year in particular
MULTI Game Of The Year 2018 - Summary and Website Lists
- Thread starter Chandoo
- Start date
They do and that's a good thing, but studios that worked on titles in the running for GotY should definitely be excluded imo. Imagine having the directors and actors from nominees in the best motion picture category as part of the Oscar judges panelIsn't that the case annually though ? panelists include members from various studios and teams. Not sure why it's such an issue this year in particular
God of War wins Game of the Year at Game Developers Choice Awards
Beats out Red Dead Redemption 2, which had seven nominations
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63276074/god_of_war_differences__0000_pensive.0.jpg)
The 19th annual Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony was held Wednesday night at the 2019 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sony Santa Monica’s God of Wartook home the coveted Game of the Year prize. It beat out Red Dead Redemption 2, which received the most nominations this year, as well as Marvel’s Spider Man, Return of the Obra Dinn, and Celeste.
This year’s nominees were announced in January. The slate is chosen each year by video game developers from around the world. The full list of winners is included below.
Each year during GDC, the Game Developers Choice Awards also takes time to honor notable figures in the industry with two very special honors. The Lifetime Achievement Award was given this year to Amy Hennig, whose career in the industry began in the Atari era. She has since become famous for her work as creative director and writer of the Uncharted series. On hand to receive the Pioneer Award was veteran game developer Rieko Kodama, whose own 30-plus-year career includes classic titles such as Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd, and Skies of Arcadia.
“The Game Developers Choice Awards represent the most refined games of the year, and the sheer variety of games honored tonight showed that games can still represent wholly new and unique creative visions,” said Katie Stern, general manager of GDC, in a news release.
“A number of independently developed titles like Celeste, Gris and Florence helped prove how internal or deeply personal turmoil can make for massively appealing games for millions of fans. While games like God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 capture our imagination with poignant moments juxtaposed against epic tales of staggering scale and technical prowess. We embrace and accept all these amazingly creative works, and we’re proud to recognize these nominees and winners alike for the imagination and hard work that brought them here.”
You can watch an archive of the event on Twitch.
Best Audio
Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Best Debut
Florence (Mountains)
Best Design
Into the Breach (Subset Games)
Best Mobile Game
Florence (Mountains)
Innovation Award
Nintendo Labo (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Narrative
Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope/3909)
Best Technology
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
Best Visual Art
Gris (Nomada Studio/Devolver Digital)
Best VR/AR Game
Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Audience Award
Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Game of the Year
God of War (SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pioneer Award
Rieko Kodama
Lifetime Achievement Award
Amy Hennig
Beats out Red Dead Redemption 2, which had seven nominations
The 19th annual Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony was held Wednesday night at the 2019 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sony Santa Monica’s God of Wartook home the coveted Game of the Year prize. It beat out Red Dead Redemption 2, which received the most nominations this year, as well as Marvel’s Spider Man, Return of the Obra Dinn, and Celeste.
This year’s nominees were announced in January. The slate is chosen each year by video game developers from around the world. The full list of winners is included below.
Each year during GDC, the Game Developers Choice Awards also takes time to honor notable figures in the industry with two very special honors. The Lifetime Achievement Award was given this year to Amy Hennig, whose career in the industry began in the Atari era. She has since become famous for her work as creative director and writer of the Uncharted series. On hand to receive the Pioneer Award was veteran game developer Rieko Kodama, whose own 30-plus-year career includes classic titles such as Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd, and Skies of Arcadia.
“The Game Developers Choice Awards represent the most refined games of the year, and the sheer variety of games honored tonight showed that games can still represent wholly new and unique creative visions,” said Katie Stern, general manager of GDC, in a news release.
“A number of independently developed titles like Celeste, Gris and Florence helped prove how internal or deeply personal turmoil can make for massively appealing games for millions of fans. While games like God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 capture our imagination with poignant moments juxtaposed against epic tales of staggering scale and technical prowess. We embrace and accept all these amazingly creative works, and we’re proud to recognize these nominees and winners alike for the imagination and hard work that brought them here.”
You can watch an archive of the event on Twitch.
Best Audio
Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Best Debut
Florence (Mountains)
Best Design
Into the Breach (Subset Games)
Best Mobile Game
Florence (Mountains)
Innovation Award
Nintendo Labo (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Narrative
Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope/3909)
Best Technology
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
Best Visual Art
Gris (Nomada Studio/Devolver Digital)
Best VR/AR Game
Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Audience Award
Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Game of the Year
God of War (SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pioneer Award
Rieko Kodama
Lifetime Achievement Award
Amy Hennig
God of War (2018) is arguably one of the best series reinventions, second only to Resident Evil 4.
What does Rockstar have to do to get an Oscar GoTY around here :hah:
Pretty solid picks all of them. Indies taking the Narrative, Design and Audio awards is very impressive. Tim Schafer killed it. He was a great host.
Astro Bot am cry [MENTION=218]CerebralTiger[/MENTION]
Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Pretty solid picks all of them. Indies taking the Narrative, Design and Audio awards is very impressive. Tim Schafer killed it. He was a great host.
Astro Bot am cry [MENTION=218]CerebralTiger[/MENTION]
Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Astro Bot is VR's Mario, even when it comes to awards lol.
Though the game that won i.e. Beat Saber, also deserves it. It appeals to a wider audience. I had a few friends try both games on PSVR, and they were more impressed by Beat Saber.
Last edited:
WIIIIIIIIIIIISE FROM YO GWAAAAAAAAAAAVE !
God of War has also swept up the prestigious BAFTA gaming awards. 5 wins including best game, best performance, best music, audio achievement and best narrative:
http://www.bafta.org/games/awards/bafta-games-awards-nominations-winners-2019
God of War has also swept up the prestigious BAFTA gaming awards. 5 wins including best game, best performance, best music, audio achievement and best narrative:
http://www.bafta.org/games/awards/bafta-games-awards-nominations-winners-2019
BAFTA usually wraps up the GoTY proceedings. All in all an unsurprising outcome even on the Metacritic certified tally. Rockstar can't catch a break.
Overall GoTY winner tally, God of War surpasses Breadth of the Wild but falls way short of the Game of the Generation. It's upto The Last of Us Part 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 to take that crown away from Witcher 3.
2015 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 257
2018 - God of War - 197
2017 - Legend of Zelda: Breadth of the Wild - 189
2016 - Uncharted 4 - 165
2014 - Dragon Age Inquisition - 134
Overall GoTY winner tally, God of War surpasses Breadth of the Wild but falls way short of the Game of the Generation. It's upto The Last of Us Part 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 to take that crown away from Witcher 3.
2015 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 257
2018 - God of War - 197
2017 - Legend of Zelda: Breadth of the Wild - 189
2016 - Uncharted 4 - 165
2014 - Dragon Age Inquisition - 134
So GoW wins on the Metacritic certified tally as well?
Breath of the Wild remains the game to have the highest Metacritic certified GoTY tally. Looking forward to Sekiro taking that crown /s
Last edited:
Yes. It was 35 compared to RDR2's 31. Not much of a victory but a victory nonetheless.
Sekiro will get robbedLooking forward to Sekiro taking that crown /s
Bloodborne was From's highest rated game, yet it got sidelined by TW3. I don't see the situation being any different for Sekiro, with RE2 dominating GoTY awards based on the existing 2019 release calendar.
More like crushed, and rightly so :hah:
And before that it was Dark Souls 2 which got sidelined by Mordor and Inquisition lol
While we are discussing games that got sidelined, one has to mention Nioh, Bayonetta, Bayonetta 2 and consequently DMC5 as well. These games seldom dominate the GoTY awards anymore unless the year is lackluster and they're the only ones battling it out.
Last edited:
Look forward to more crushing defeat for From Soft in the 2019 GoTY thread :hah:
I'm more looking forward to the Tamil emo boys getting crushed in the GoTY thread lol
We have disabled traderscore and are working on a fix. There was a bug with the plugin | Click for Discord
- No one is chatting at the moment.
-
faraany3k:
Just finished Diablo 4 season in hurry to play Fallout 4 but gamepass released another banger in the form of Star Wars on April 25th. Gamepass is a steal man. -
Necrokiller:
There are no such thing as "bad design" bro, its all "artistic vision" nowEternalBlizzard said:Is it just me or people lately seem to defend every bad game design decision made by the devs and try to give bullshit reasons for that? Or perhaps it's because I'm on reddit and discord
-
EternalBlizzard:
Is it just me or people lately seem to defend every bad game design decision made by the devs and try to give bullshit reasons for that? Or perhaps it's because I'm on reddit and discord -
faraany3k:
Add 20 years into your age. Congrats you are in Playstation 8 era. Probably a VR streaming headset in a form of glasses.
-
S Shehryar89:Hi any repair shop for Nintendo Switch in Isb/ Rwp? The console is not charging. Anybody? Who can help in this regard.
faraany3k:
Just finished Diablo 4 season in hurry to play Fallout 4 but gamepass released another banger in...