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2020 Game Awards Thoughts

Posted by Drawsputin - December 11th, 2020

I feel the Game Awards have gone the way of the Academy Awards. Where there is a disconnect between what customers and the general public likes, and what journalists and critics like.


Even though The Trash of Us Part Poo won Game of the Year, I was super happy to see Ghost of Tsushima win the Player's Voice Award; the only award that matters IMO.


It really shows the passion and fun gamers had with Ghost of Tsushima....and how much they HATE Neil Druckmann. Druckmann's The Ass of Us Farts Too probably would have won both awards, if he didn't act so smug and unprofessional. Compare the TWEETS by Druckmann and the Hades dev when asking fans to vote. Druckmann deleted the tweet and apologized, but the damage was done.


Even if you enjoyed The Last Jedi of Us Part 2 and think it deserved to win 1 or 2 awards, there's no way it deserved to win 7 NOMINATIONS. Including:


  • Game of the Year
  • Best Game Direction
  • Best Action Adventure
  • Best Narrative
  • Best Audio Design
  • Innovation in Accessibility
  • Best Performance ( 2 Nominations for Ellie and Abby )


Majority of gamers agree games like Doom Legacy, Hades, Animal Crossing, FF7: Remake, and Ghost of Tsushima got robbed this year. It didn't feel earned; like the awards were bought for by Sony and Naughty Dog.The Last of Abby Anal Part 2 is so divisive, it scared a lot of fans from buying it; like me. Plus, besides the pretty graphics, it did very little to innovate on the gameplay of the original game.


Besides my complaints about The Joel Golf Meme Part 2, the Game Awards still feels like they rush through a lot of nominations; some of them happened during the pre-show! they really need to fix that. Plus, award shows really don't feel as exciting without a live crowd. I understand it's all for COVID safety concerns, but it's just not the same when everybody is hosting through web cams.


But what did you guys think of the Doritos Pope Awards 2020? Did The Last Angry Woman Part 2 deserve to win so many awards?


Were there any interesting highlights or trailers you liked? I thought the teaser for the Ark: The Animated Series looked really interesting. I was surprised to see the Dead Space devs are making a new horror game called The Callisto Protocol. The trailer for It Takes Two made me laugh HARD.


And yes, I did notice that robot bunny girl for Rocket League: Season 2.

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Imperfect-XIII

I liked the trailers for The Callisto Protocol, Open Roads, Season, Ark 2, Evil West, and Scarlet Nexus.

Sephiroth announced for Smash Ultimate was also an eye-opening surprise.

Drawsputin

Season and Open Roads had beautiful animations styles, which I hope are reflected in actual gameplay, whenever they showcase it. Evil West looks fun; always happy to see more Western-theme games besides Red Dead.

Including Sephiroth in Smash was worth that really dark Mario moment. It made me go, "HOLYSHIT!" O__O'

TheSketchyArtist

I wasn't interested in watching the awards, I made a similar comparison at one point when the oscars were sucking up to Disney/Pixar back when there were other better animated films at the time. It dodged a bullet completely when Spiderverse won the oscar before it went back to square one. The game awards show itself. While I did look up on what was revealed, nothing out of the ordinary caught my interest. Some of the results I wasn't surprised on.

I think the biggest sin that had happened was the fact that Last of us II got the prize rather than Doom(which was quite better) was the fact that another 'sword fighter' got into the Smash game over a blue puppet that controls the stars. Let alone that the majority of the game titles that won(with the exception of Animal Crossing and Among Us) mostly focused on the 'realistic' looking games.

Drawsputin

Yeah, the Oscars animation category is practically the Disney / Pixar award. I am still pissed that Klaus, the best animated film of the 2019, lost to Toy Story 4.

Doom and Animal Crossing deserved more awards, just because they came out right as lockdowns were happening during the Pandemic, and they helped a lot of people pass the time while stuck at home.

And yeah, there's always a bias towards "realistic", cinematic games; as though having the most realistic graphics make them better than stylized games. And because critics and the industry wants games to be more and more like Hollywood movies.

TescoGreenBeans

The ARK: Animated Series trailer is amazing, but when I see it and see that I'm supposed to view it with the game in mind, it simply falls flat for me.

Don't get me wrong; ARK's a bloody brilliant game. Its like Rust but with slightly better AI. But that doest change the fact most of the game aint some long, exciting adventure filled with life-or-death encounters, action and having to work your way around the other players' interests and energy fuelled rage; its running around a large map as you smash blocks and *mobile* blocks of flesh with advanced AnPrim technology until you *modernize* and can get raped in the ass by a bigger group of transcended Anprims

TescoGreenBeans

And no, I am NOT salty about my hundred or so hours of progress being wiped away in one particular afternoon.

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