The GAs are for mainstream audiences. I'm fine with that. There should be an award show that's more for the people than just for a small minority who is taking themselves too seriously.
True but lets be real Palworld has just taken specific almost near identical systems from other games and smacked them together doing as little changes as possable. Dont get me wrong i love the game and hate what Nintendo is trying to do to it but it does not deserve an award.
@Shiftry87 lmao, your describing just about any game in the industry... it's called competition. Pocket Pair was willing to do what Nintendo was unwilling, and it was a big W.
Star wars Outlaws being nominated is (one of) the giant red flag indicating it's just rigged, and they are just licking boots. It was a objectively a bad game on multiple level and better games could have been selected.
It's not some minor DLC. It's an expansion pack which is BIGGER than most of the games mentioned. Would you call Diablo 4's expansion and DLC? That's what you're doing with Elden Ring's expansion.
@@mirokuaec I ANYONE with audience would make an attempt with fair player feedback, that would break that political facade. They made it look good this year but was foul again, where different criteria were used. Lucky for me, I had no beef in this horserace like last year, so I was happy to see Larian made that speech and hoped to hear more from my favorite titles or find something new.
Black Myth Wukong was not only robbed, it was stacked against them with 30 years of nostalgia and borrowed IPs, and a Remake and DLC of very high profile games
The Remake is not a big of a deal because it is so different from the original from gameplay to graphics and systems. It's not that bad because it is a total different game. The indie is the one that bugs me honestly
look i now it had a huge steam numbers but honestly it wasnt really that special a game. personally when i found out asto bot was the winner i thought it was the second best game of the year. the true disgrace is that Animal well was not even nominated let alone won.
Gamers already know if a game is good and don't need the GOTY label. Normies need that label, grandma buying jimmy and jane games for Christmas need the label.
Normies know, too. We know how to read and type into a search engine. I stopped buying games a decade ago . I still play , weekly. I won't buy a new console any longer . I stopped at the xbox1 I have had for eons
Exactly. If I want to buy a game I often browse the channels of other Gamers and get their opinions directly (and watch gameplay and watch out for rainbow flags in the product) before buying anything these days
Not just Japanese. Chinese games (even Asian in general) are booming like crazy! And they deserve it! Some are really well executed and done like Wukon or ZZZ.
Chinese games have been killing it too, so far everything that's not American is better and it sucks because you know it's entirely the "modern audience" mindset our developers have
I mean they have a player choice award which is community based and it consists of 3 gachas, 1 dlc and wukong. Wtf is that? We can argue all we want but it is impossible to be perfect and people will always complain. Oh game critics are political but community is popularity contest. Be happy with what you like and we can stop judging anyone else.
@@zombiezone2010oh come on did he hit a nail on you it's true they don't even vote good or bad the community your talking about are the costumers and consumers they can judge if it's trash game or not what delusion did you come from, and you are here literally saying to lick someone foot be a dog about it like you are happy about it I don't even need to confirm if you say yes and also we can judge it duh I ain't wasting money on trash games of course, your just avoiding a problem with a clear solution nobody is blindy liking a game if it's not that fun you going to let a critic that came from someone who just likes it for self insert ew.
@@Comrade_the_1st did i say blindly like a gane based on what people said? U like a game based on your personal perference and u don't have to judge other people preference. Am i telling you to lick other people's foot and are you having comprehension problem? So whatever outcome it happens u think im telling people to lick other people butthole? Wtf is this logic
@@zombiezone2010 Well yeah, when it comes to luxury purchases for the sake of entertainment, a popularity contest IS what this Award Show is supposed to be. This isn't an election or vote on policy or something with meaning where the position matters, it is quite literally a popularity contest. It's what it is supposed to be. And you're saying that's not a good thing? Critics and reviewers do not know any better than you or I what makes a good, engaging, fun or high quality game. It's purely subjective, there can be no expertise in matters of preference and opinion.
@@smithynoir9980 game award has a popularity category called players choice award. Most people only buys the game they like to see and if it is good they will give it goty. What makes you think that most normal people are better than critics? I can guarantee a lot of them did not even try other games in the category except black myth wukong because of its mass appeal and popularity.
games aren't even stagnant right now, they are just extremely underdeveloped and riddled with micro transactions. why make a good game if selling skins makes more money. people need to chill as much as these companies do. we just want a cool game we can celebrate.
Bad take. Don't accept bad games with political agendas and ghey stuff. Gaming is stagnant. No game since space marine 2 has been good and even then that wasn't enough content to justify the price.
Why having a game awards if only critics can determined who wins and not the public, there is no excuse to say on why gamers can’t choose who gets this award. Saying a critic as a jury can choose a game but the player cannot is like saying that critics are better than us and honestly F all those people. You don’t need to play video games for a living to have an opinion.
The answer is simple : take a look at the current choices. One standalone game, one hefty DLC, and three gatcha games. All chosen by previous votes of round-based eliminations. That was the public's choice
Do not forget Geoff added the "Game Changer" award to TGA this year and gave the award to a Tencent Director. No mention whatsoever that the person was from Tencent during the awards either.
I skipped the GA's, because of the voting: 10% fans and 90% Media So Stupid - GOTY is for Fans, not for the Media and their Agendas. Can't fix Stupid Black Myth WuKong was my GOTY of the Year - something they can't take away from me!
Geoff's goal of turning the Games Awards into the Grammy's IS inherently a bad thing. The Grammy's are extremely political. Aiming to be like anything from Hollywood and the traditional entertainment industry is always, without fail, going to be toxic and corrupted of it's original or intended point.
It's like going to the PS store on ur console with the games ranked automaticly "best sold games" and looking at those games and think: some games shouldn't be up there
Pretty sure it was being blocked. Geoff wants his show to be all about stuff that strike Hollywood's ego. Veilguard is too much gameplay less cinematics for his taste. I guess he could say Veilguard is too 'video gamey'.
I believe there are parts of it that have been bought but if you compare the games to that of metacritic they are mostly all highest rated games except for outliers like black myth and starwars. So if going by user scores the game that should not been they was Wukung it should have gone to Like a Dragon and Astrobot rightfully won goty.
The game awards don't even really matter, anyone with a brain knew the choices were getting controlled by political motivations, as a gamer of twenty years now I'm surprised people still care about these so-called awards, the true reward for the game is a player base lasting more than a decade.
I recall many people just tune in only for trailers and announcements, sadly VGA absorbed E3 or old ECTS jobs. People would need to stop on purpose and on mass not watching this show for companies to show games elsewhere.
@@stewarde17 My comment specifically left out talk about the bonuses because I view that entire portion of it as entirely ridiculous and beyond broken, no one's bonus should be held by a vote of popularity, it should be decided by the work they put into the project, also did you even read my comment and actually think about it or did you skim it and become mad through some preconceived notion of yours ?
this channel just keeps grabbing the transcripts of a few different creators and rehashes the hell out of it.. how am i getting these vids as a suggestion?
Erm but baldurs gate 3 won over gow or spiderman last few year? I don't get the paid by sony argument. So why the fuck gow ragnarok and spiderman 2 didnt get goty? By that logic fromsoft should sue wukong and all other copycats.
So by your own words, gamer awards are just a long, pre-Christmas commercial. Important to nobody but the devs, and virtually useless to gamers. I agree. Who, other than devs and CEOs even cares?
Whoever was in charge for the Game Awards has got to be the same group of people that were in charge of the Balon D'or ceremony because both this year was mired in heavy controversy due to hurt egos.
The players should decide the GOTY and not a hurry of critics. In the movies, yes, cos the viewers are mainly spectators, but in the games the players are immersing themselves in them.
I don't think the fans' votes should count too much in these awards shows, since only a very small amount of people have played all the listed games to be able to make an unbiased vote, so everything would nail down to a popularity contest. The jury has, at least supposedly, played each nominated game before voting.
The main issue with these "award" shows is that usually only works that either adhere to the critics views or have some level of philosophical/societal message or both get awards. It's exceedingly hard for games that just want their players to have a good time and do so competently to win any award. Usually, the only way is if they literally have success or innovation to become a standard in the industry like Doom, Baldur's Gate 3 or Elden Ring but anything less than that and it's next to impossible to get even a nomination. I didn't watch the game awards this year but last year I was fuming that Pizza Tower didn't get a single nomination and it had massive success with an overwhelmingly positive rating on Steam. Then, you get divisive games that communities love and hate or just hate online but that get nominations while other games that are unanimously beloved are ignored. It's the same way with movies. What gers the award? The movie talking about social problems, the tragedy, the allegory, the action flick or the comedy? Yeah, good luck unless they do some of the above.
this is why e3 and the game awards both existing at the same time was a good thing. Now all that corporate interest and PR has shifted to TGA and now it's a poisoned well.
2:40 I definitely bought the game after the game awards. I bought it on Xbox to play with a friend, then bought it again this year when they added mod support to PC. I didn’t wanna wait for console. My biggest takeaway from Baldurs gate 3 was…. In your face Final Fantasy. For years you have been trying to come up with the perfect action combat system that will trick western gamers in to liking your game. Then Baldurs gate 3 comes out; with the most basic combat system, choosing to focus on role playing and sells 20 million. Your 20 year plan of trying to reach a wider fan base has failed Square Enix. I hope it was worth it.
At the ceremony, Geoff Keighley said "there are going to be changes in the future going forward." Whether those changes will be good or bad, we will see, but something about it doesn't feel right. To me at least.
"Game of the year" is an absolute sham and should be ignored by every gamer and gaming related person, creator and site. It has nothing to do with gaming, games and most importantly - gamers. It's a show of activists who try to tell to gamers what they must like, what they must play, how they must see things and what they must accept. Anything else is one "phobe" or other and any game that doesn't follow their carefully crafted woke line gets ignored. They should receive the same treatment they give to gamers and normal games - complete silence and ignoring, no attendance, no accolades. Even better, gamers can start to hold their own ceremony and boost that up.
They may give GOTY to Astro Bot, Swen can talk shit as much as he wants but the fact remains that Black Myth Wukong sold more than Baldur's Gate 3 and Astro Bot combined and had more concurrent players on Steam than BG3 with more positive reviews on Steam. We all know Black Myth Wukong is the better game. Game Awards just won't admit it probably because Wukong focused on being a game and not some message they rejected when SBI wanted a hand in it. Game Science has every right to feel disappointed by these awards. They created a master piece, even though it wasn't the best optimized game, it was still one of the best games I've played in the past few years.
When an event that's supposedly about AWARDS, give so little time and importance to them, but instead focus almost entirely on game announcements, trailers and ads, you know the awards are just a cheap excuse for the event exist. Heck, you can sum up all the time they give to all the awards put together, and it would be shorter than the longest trailer they show on this event, they even give a LOT of "awards" before the main show begins, and they don't give any physical award to most of them. 😮💨 Besides, I'm sick and tired of these Hollywood stars, showing up to present a game they don't give to craps about, because in most cases they don't effing care about games at all, but because this industry moves more money than every other entertainment industry put together, they are there for the cash, not for the passion.
Afaik, these awards have always been a joke, they first winner of the GOTY was a boring game, I remember I bought DAI since I loved Origins, but it bored me and I dropped it, over 10 years ago.
10% of the actual people that play, the gamers...Get to vote on anything. The rest by "industry" people, that it's becoming more and more apparent have specific agenda's. That's why this event means nothing to me, I stopped watching or caring some time ago. And it's only getting worse, and I'm saddened for the amazing artists who create our games.
I remember when I was a kid in the early 2000s and the first batches of game awards shows were a thing. Even back then they were a joke. An advertisement. Even a kid could tell that. Who the hell needs to be told these things are just ploys to move products and politics? What shocking "news."
Frustration, Exactly how I feel with so many Woke inside games we love. Over the years I'm soending less and less money on games and replaying old games, and I think 2025 can be a year that I'll buy nothing...
1:54 "Why do you even care?" Because I do. Sorry for not being you who don't, but I'm me, thus I do. Awards can kinda tell the industry what direction to go in some ways, even if it's not drastic or obvious.
nah, it doesn t matter at all. Only matters a game of the year when it is already a good game. They can nominate and make Concord game of the year and nobody would care. Gamers are well informed. Games awards are a joke that only matter to non gamers that buy zero games.
Oh give me a break, shadow of the erdtree was longer and better than 99 percent of this years releases. Blood and wine won best rpg the year it came out. It’s not like elden ring won twice, and expansions like shadow, or mh ice borne and sunbreak, the Witcher blood and wine, are obviously more than just dlc. I don’t think necessarily it should have won, which it didn’t, but being offended by the nomination is stupid. I would be more offended that there are companies out there making “dlc” that piss all over entire games, and demand better of other companies releasing aaa titles.
I play videogames since more than 30 years ago. I never gave a f*ck about the GOTY awards. Neither this year. It will never drive my hand when I choose a game to buy. If I would make a game I would reject the nomination. But money isn't drive me either. This is f*cked up.
What even is the game show. I don't watch it. Its pure politics and favoritism. They don't represent the gaming sphere, they represent the wallets of the "jury"
I agree there is an agenda to the nominees and winners, but look at the Golden Joysticks: Black Myth won GoTY. Why? Because their system is 100% user votes, and that gives countries with disproportionate population sizes an advantage. It's good, but not GOTY good. Just look at the hot garbage that was the Player's Choice Nominees from TGA... Genshin, Wuthering Waves AND Honkai Stairrail on the same level as SoTE and BMW? Sad AF.
Like these awards mean anything, really. It doesn't, the devs should snub these awards then see which sides lose more when that happens. As a gamers awards doesnt mean anything either , win or lose. TLD R who cares.
I think it also cause harm to the winner as well. Why? Let me explain. Actually, why don’t I just said one word that define winner GOTY. Shareholders. These bastards will come after the winner making deals and asking shares. Now it sounds like a good thing because it does, but there’s also a horrible Shareholders out there as well. Blackrock and SBI. Heck, god knows how many more corpos out there that are sketchy. My experiences with shareholders are not very good so I won’t trust any of them. But they are also part of the reason why Video Games stay alive. But still, I don’t trust them.
It's just The Oscars, but for games. How many times have we seen summer blockbusters that set world records for ticket sales, and scored near perfect viewer scores, but don't even get NOMINATED for best picture; whil some drama with a FRACTION of the viewership wins the award because the academy is pretentious desperately needs to be taken seriously? It's the same thing. These are freaking VIDEO GAMES, and they're ignoring the voice of the players. Which I suppose makes sense, because if you look at the sales figures of some of these games, they clearly weren't listening when they made them in the first place. It's just their usual MO: make something nobody wants, make sure there's some heavy-handed social message, sit back and deflect any and all criticism as "you're just saying that because your *ist."
Honestly at this point developers should be embarrassed for their participation trophies. You're essentially being told that you're a weirdo Drama class kid.
Wukong was amazing. But it was extremely hard. Astrobot is a fun game that can be completed by almost everyone. It was basically Sony’s take on a Mario game.
I've never seen a video on astrobot, never seen even one streamer play astrobot, I literally never even heard of astrobot and I watch people plays games on twitch and YT every day. Yet I've seen hundreds of reviews,videos and streams of WuKong.
Yes plenty streamers that played starfield and the day before yet would not consider them game of the year. Plus there plethora of astrobot streams pop up in my suggested.
@@j.l.5966 that would because it is. It sequel to that game. Astrobot is basically playstation mascot ie mario. They even had extra content in the first game for countdown to second.
Shit turned into just another Oscars, but for gaming. nothing meaningful in it anymore.
this shit was beyong rigged, aint no way playstations mascot game won that many awards
@@dviceix have you tried it?
@@stewarde17have you tried wukong?
The GAs are for mainstream audiences. I'm fine with that. There should be an award show that's more for the people than just for a small minority who is taking themselves too seriously.
Palworld broke records but didn’t even get a mention. That’s how I know it’s a joke
True but lets be real Palworld has just taken specific almost near identical systems from other games and smacked them together doing as little changes as possable. Dont get me wrong i love the game and hate what Nintendo is trying to do to it but it does not deserve an award.
YEah. Why that?
@@Shiftry87 you mean they innervated by putting various ideas from different genres into one game... way to try undersell them
There is other games i dont remember if they were nominated in previous years like Cuphead or Diver Dave, Lethal Company, etc
@Shiftry87 lmao, your describing just about any game in the industry... it's called competition. Pocket Pair was willing to do what Nintendo was unwilling, and it was a big W.
Star wars Outlaws being nominated is (one of) the giant red flag indicating it's just rigged, and they are just licking boots.
It was a objectively a bad game on multiple level and better games could have been selected.
i love Elden Ring, but a DLC nomination as GOTY is just ridiculous
It's a sequel that poses as DLC. It should be considered an Expansion.
@@AkiRa22084 and this "expansion" is boring and bring 0 innovation to already mediocre game.
@@Kerojey now now grandpa, its past your bed time, lets go to bed
@@KABLAMMATS I just have standards, grandson
It's not some minor DLC. It's an expansion pack which is BIGGER than most of the games mentioned. Would you call Diablo 4's expansion and DLC? That's what you're doing with Elden Ring's expansion.
If only someone can only make an independent game awards that's really catered to real gamers.
Asmon did say he wanted to do an shame awards lol
@@mirokuaecApparently, it's coming out pretty soon. It's going to be peak Cinema.
@@mirokuaec I ANYONE with audience would make an attempt with fair player feedback, that would break that political facade. They made it look good this year but was foul again, where different criteria were used. Lucky for me, I had no beef in this horserace like last year, so I was happy to see Larian made that speech and hoped to hear more from my favorite titles or find something new.
@@mirokuaec asmon is the joe Rogan of gaming.
Stuttering Craig from Side Scrollers is trying to do that I believe.
Black Myth Wukong was not only robbed, it was stacked against them with 30 years of nostalgia and borrowed IPs, and a Remake and DLC of very high profile games
Everything stacked against it. Just wait till Trump is sworn in as President and slaps 60% to 100% tariffs on it.
The Remake is not a big of a deal because it is so different from the original from gameplay to graphics and systems.
It's not that bad because it is a total different game.
The indie is the one that bugs me honestly
look i now it had a huge steam numbers but honestly it wasnt really that special a game. personally when i found out asto bot was the winner i thought it was the second best game of the year. the true disgrace is that Animal well was not even nominated let alone won.
Final Fantasy is not a remake it’s more of a continuation of the original story
They did Black myth wukong dirty just like they did to RDR2
Gamers already know if a game is good and don't need the GOTY label. Normies need that label, grandma buying jimmy and jane games for Christmas need the label.
Normies know, too. We know how to read and type into a search engine.
I stopped buying games a decade ago . I still play , weekly. I won't buy a new console any longer . I stopped at the xbox1 I have had for eons
Exactly why normies are brainwashed into thinking the last of us 2 is good while everyone else knows it’s garbage 😂
When your're right you're right👍
Exactly.
If I want to buy a game I often browse the channels of other Gamers and get their opinions directly (and watch gameplay and watch out for rainbow flags in the product) before buying anything these days
I've been noticing a lot of Japanese games are getting W after W and a lot of American games are getting L after L because of woke stuff.
Not just Japanese. Chinese games (even Asian in general) are booming like crazy! And they deserve it! Some are really well executed and done like Wukon or ZZZ.
Chinese games have been killing it too, so far everything that's not American is better and it sucks because you know it's entirely the "modern audience" mindset our developers have
let just say it the games industry has become a Hollywood echo chamber
Game Awards has always from day one been about politics and had nothing to do with community voting and what is actually good or bad
I mean they have a player choice award which is community based and it consists of 3 gachas, 1 dlc and wukong. Wtf is that?
We can argue all we want but it is impossible to be perfect and people will always complain. Oh game critics are political but community is popularity contest. Be happy with what you like and we can stop judging anyone else.
@@zombiezone2010oh come on did he hit a nail on you it's true they don't even vote good or bad the community your talking about are the costumers and consumers they can judge if it's trash game or not what delusion did you come from, and you are here literally saying to lick someone foot be a dog about it like you are happy about it I don't even need to confirm if you say yes and also we can judge it duh I ain't wasting money on trash games of course, your just avoiding a problem with a clear solution nobody is blindy liking a game if it's not that fun you going to let a critic that came from someone who just likes it for self insert ew.
@@Comrade_the_1st did i say blindly like a gane based on what people said? U like a game based on your personal perference and u don't have to judge other people preference. Am i telling you to lick other people's foot and are you having comprehension problem? So whatever outcome it happens u think im telling people to lick other people butthole? Wtf is this logic
@@zombiezone2010 Well yeah, when it comes to luxury purchases for the sake of entertainment, a popularity contest IS what this Award Show is supposed to be. This isn't an election or vote on policy or something with meaning where the position matters, it is quite literally a popularity contest. It's what it is supposed to be. And you're saying that's not a good thing?
Critics and reviewers do not know any better than you or I what makes a good, engaging, fun or high quality game. It's purely subjective, there can be no expertise in matters of preference and opinion.
@@smithynoir9980 game award has a popularity category called players choice award. Most people only buys the game they like to see and if it is good they will give it goty. What makes you think that most normal people are better than critics? I can guarantee a lot of them did not even try other games in the category except black myth wukong because of its mass appeal and popularity.
games aren't even stagnant right now, they are just extremely underdeveloped and riddled with micro transactions. why make a good game if selling skins makes more money. people need to chill as much as these companies do. we just want a cool game we can celebrate.
Bad take.
Don't accept bad games with political agendas and ghey stuff.
Gaming is stagnant. No game since space marine 2 has been good and even then that wasn't enough content to justify the price.
and theres Rebirth which is FULL OF CONTENT with zero microtransactions or DLC. yet you all still complain
the lost generation
@@ThepurposeofTime Its still not on pc yet.
@@ys3606 next month, the trailer is out now
Why having a game awards if only critics can determined who wins and not the public, there is no excuse to say on why gamers can’t choose who gets this award. Saying a critic as a jury can choose a game but the player cannot is like saying that critics are better than us and honestly F all those people. You don’t need to play video games for a living to have an opinion.
The answer is simple : take a look at the current choices.
One standalone game, one hefty DLC, and three gatcha games. All chosen by previous votes of round-based eliminations.
That was the public's choice
Do not forget Geoff added the "Game Changer" award to TGA this year and gave the award to a Tencent Director. No mention whatsoever that the person was from Tencent during the awards either.
I skipped the GA's, because of the voting: 10% fans and 90% Media So Stupid - GOTY is for Fans, not for the Media and their Agendas. Can't fix Stupid Black Myth WuKong was my GOTY of the Year - something they can't take away from me!
Man the clip of Chris Roberts and Mark Hamill at the game awards in 2015 doesn’t age well on any level.
Geoff's goal of turning the Games Awards into the Grammy's IS inherently a bad thing. The Grammy's are extremely political. Aiming to be like anything from Hollywood and the traditional entertainment industry is always, without fail, going to be toxic and corrupted of it's original or intended point.
I haven't cared about gamer awards for a long time.
It's like going to the PS store on ur console with the games ranked automaticly "best sold games" and looking at those games and think: some games shouldn't be up there
Gamers do not need award shows.
The industry needs award shows.
The host of this industry show is a poser.
DLC and remake should only be in their own category.
In the end, only sales matters. Stop paying attention to them.
I love Elden RIng, but THAT NOMINATION WAS STUPID, SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPEN, YOU CAN"T PUT DLCs AS A FULL GOTY GAME, fuck the game awards.
Its like releasing a free update to a game made 20 years ago, and the update patch is GOTY but the actual game itself isn't
I boycotted the awards this year. After last year's I was done.
game awards is like hollywood. Pointless, self serving and in the end they all despise their audiences.
4:54 .
DA Veilguard was not being blocked .
More than likely it was Stellar Blade
Pretty sure it was being blocked. Geoff wants his show to be all about stuff that strike Hollywood's ego. Veilguard is too much gameplay less cinematics for his taste. I guess he could say Veilguard is too 'video gamey'.
The game awards have been bought and paid for. for as long as i can remember so i dont give a damn
Been that way since E3
I believe there are parts of it that have been bought but if you compare the games to that of metacritic they are mostly all highest rated games except for outliers like black myth and starwars. So if going by user scores the game that should not been they was Wukung it should have gone to Like a Dragon and Astrobot rightfully won goty.
"Why do you care?"
"Why do they care? They obviously do."
Game Awards are a joke
Just like Ukraine.
The game awards don't even really matter, anyone with a brain knew the choices were getting controlled by political motivations, as a gamer of twenty years now I'm surprised people still care about these so-called awards, the true reward for the game is a player base lasting more than a decade.
did even watch the video they do matter because people get bonuses depending on the outcome.
I recall many people just tune in only for trailers and announcements, sadly VGA absorbed E3 or old ECTS jobs. People would need to stop on purpose and on mass not watching this show for companies to show games elsewhere.
@@stewarde17 My comment specifically left out talk about the bonuses because I view that entire portion of it as entirely ridiculous and beyond broken, no one's bonus should be held by a vote of popularity, it should be decided by the work they put into the project, also did you even read my comment and actually think about it or did you skim it and become mad through some preconceived notion of yours ?
I don't even watch the game awards anymore. It's not for us. Just for rich people. Like the Grammy's.
this channel just keeps grabbing the transcripts of a few different creators and rehashes the hell out of it.. how am i getting these vids as a suggestion?
It's just a "Kiss And Lick Sony ass" ceremony ... Astro Bot getting Game of the Year ? Nintendo should just sue them for copying Super Mario
Erm but baldurs gate 3 won over gow or spiderman last few year? I don't get the paid by sony argument.
So why the fuck gow ragnarok and spiderman 2 didnt get goty?
By that logic fromsoft should sue wukong and all other copycats.
last mainline 3D mario came out in 2017, at least we got a good 3D platformer
And Atlus should sue nintendo for copying SMT.
For what? Being a generic platformer? Bet you think Nintendo's case against PocketPair is justified too.
@@zombiezone2010 Wukong isn't even a souls like, and if Baldur's Gate won it's only because if not they would be too obvious
whats the samurai game they show at 6:46? i want to buy it, thank you
Looks like Sekiro
Looks like Nioh.... Dunno if it's the first or the second game.
Rise of ronin, made by team ninja... thats why it looks like nioh
@@thatlonzoguy thank you sir !
So by your own words, gamer awards are just a long, pre-Christmas commercial. Important to nobody but the devs, and virtually useless to gamers. I agree. Who, other than devs and CEOs even cares?
Well also streamers because they can farm it for content. Lol
She called Belatro "Batro" and tried to convice us it's "so much more." How much can her words actually mean, ya know?
As fans, we need to start our own game awards
When is the last time you saw a movie because they got nominated in Oscars??
Everything Everywhere All at Once
90% of "industry professionals"is because THEY CAN BE EASILY BOUGHT!
6:15 It should be at least 50% jury and 50% player's choice. That's only fair. Players keep the industry ALIVE.
Whoever was in charge for the Game Awards has got to be the same group of people that were in charge of the Balon D'or ceremony because both this year was mired in heavy controversy due to hurt egos.
The players should decide the GOTY and not a hurry of critics. In the movies, yes, cos the viewers are mainly spectators, but in the games the players are immersing themselves in them.
Nah. GOTY was always just an industry circle jerk. Good games will float to the top, this is how it works.
I don't think the fans' votes should count too much in these awards shows, since only a very small amount of people have played all the listed games to be able to make an unbiased vote, so everything would nail down to a popularity contest. The jury has, at least supposedly, played each nominated game before voting.
They should have done a separate category called best supporting game content for all DLC/mod's.
The main issue with these "award" shows is that usually only works that either adhere to the critics views or have some level of philosophical/societal message or both get awards.
It's exceedingly hard for games that just want their players to have a good time and do so competently to win any award.
Usually, the only way is if they literally have success or innovation to become a standard in the industry like Doom, Baldur's Gate 3 or Elden Ring but anything less than that and it's next to impossible to get even a nomination.
I didn't watch the game awards this year but last year I was fuming that Pizza Tower didn't get a single nomination and it had massive success with an overwhelmingly positive rating on Steam.
Then, you get divisive games that communities love and hate or just hate online but that get nominations while other games that are unanimously beloved are ignored.
It's the same way with movies. What gers the award? The movie talking about social problems, the tragedy, the allegory, the action flick or the comedy? Yeah, good luck unless they do some of the above.
this is why e3 and the game awards both existing at the same time was a good thing. Now all that corporate interest and PR has shifted to TGA and now it's a poisoned well.
I believe that the Elden Ring DLC pushed out Palworld as a Game of the Year nominee solely because of the Nintendo Lawsuit
Astro bot seems like a good game overall, but it's not qualified for this high standing. The show basically destroyed their remaining reputation.
2:40 I definitely bought the game after the game awards. I bought it on Xbox to play with a friend, then bought it again this year when they added mod support to PC. I didn’t wanna wait for console.
My biggest takeaway from Baldurs gate 3 was…. In your face Final Fantasy. For years you have been trying to come up with the perfect action combat system that will trick western gamers in to liking your game. Then Baldurs gate 3 comes out; with the most basic combat system, choosing to focus on role playing and sells 20 million. Your 20 year plan of trying to reach a wider fan base has failed Square Enix. I hope it was worth it.
At the ceremony, Geoff Keighley said "there are going to be changes in the future going forward."
Whether those changes will be good or bad, we will see, but something about it doesn't feel right. To me at least.
"Game of the year" is an absolute sham and should be ignored by every gamer and gaming related person, creator and site. It has nothing to do with gaming, games and most importantly - gamers. It's a show of activists who try to tell to gamers what they must like, what they must play, how they must see things and what they must accept. Anything else is one "phobe" or other and any game that doesn't follow their carefully crafted woke line gets ignored. They should receive the same treatment they give to gamers and normal games - complete silence and ignoring, no attendance, no accolades. Even better, gamers can start to hold their own ceremony and boost that up.
They may give GOTY to Astro Bot, Swen can talk shit as much as he wants but the fact remains that Black Myth Wukong sold more than Baldur's Gate 3 and Astro Bot combined and had more concurrent players on Steam than BG3 with more positive reviews on Steam.
We all know Black Myth Wukong is the better game. Game Awards just won't admit it probably because Wukong focused on being a game and not some message they rejected when SBI wanted a hand in it. Game Science has every right to feel disappointed by these awards. They created a master piece, even though it wasn't the best optimized game, it was still one of the best games I've played in the past few years.
They def gotta be more transparent with the votes, like. No percentage? like wtf?
When an event that's supposedly about AWARDS, give so little time and importance to them, but instead focus almost entirely on game announcements, trailers and ads, you know the awards are just a cheap excuse for the event exist.
Heck, you can sum up all the time they give to all the awards put together, and it would be shorter than the longest trailer they show on this event, they even give a LOT of "awards" before the main show begins, and they don't give any physical award to most of them. 😮💨
Besides, I'm sick and tired of these Hollywood stars, showing up to present a game they don't give to craps about, because in most cases they don't effing care about games at all, but because this industry moves more money than every other entertainment industry put together, they are there for the cash, not for the passion.
Afaik, these awards have always been a joke, they first winner of the GOTY was a boring game, I remember I bought DAI since I loved Origins, but it bored me and I dropped it, over 10 years ago.
10% of the actual people that play, the gamers...Get to vote on anything. The rest by "industry" people, that it's becoming more and more apparent have specific agenda's. That's why this event means nothing to me, I stopped watching or caring some time ago. And it's only getting worse, and I'm saddened for the amazing artists who create our games.
Sorry she is wrong i will never play a game if i don't like it , i don't care if it's gets game of the year
Fact
I remember when I was a kid in the early 2000s and the first batches of game awards shows were a thing. Even back then they were a joke. An advertisement. Even a kid could tell that.
Who the hell needs to be told these things are just ploys to move products and politics? What shocking "news."
If you're trying to drive the future of the industry, the only voice that matters is the customer. They forget that gamer equals customer.
Astrobot 94 critic 92 user, Balatro 90 critic 8.2 user, blackmyth 81 critic 8.3 user, Metapor 94 critic 8.8 user, Like a Dragon 89 critic 8.5 user, FF7 Rebith 92 critic 8.9 user, space marine 2 82 critic 8.1 user, Erdtree 94 critic 8.1 user. by your logic Wukong should never been nominated
I own wukong and stellar blade and did not look back.
Frustration, Exactly how I feel with so many Woke inside games we love. Over the years I'm soending less and less money on games and replaying old games, and I think 2025 can be a year that I'll buy nothing...
I am honestly surprised they didn’t nominate concord
Bunch of AAA developers patting themselves on the back as always
and frustration turns into rage, and them layoffs
I'll just keep voting with my wallet, well see how these awards look next year.
I think the last time I cared about Game of the Year was when Game Informer was still in print lmfao
Game awards and games journalists don't represent gamers anymore. So yes, they succeeded in turning the game awards into the Oscars.
I was hoping that it changed but how naive I was. I realized too late what it really was.
1:54 "Why do you even care?"
Because I do. Sorry for not being you who don't, but I'm me, thus I do. Awards can kinda tell the industry what direction to go in some ways, even if it's not drastic or obvious.
No real gamer watched the game awards
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Metaphor:ReFantazio should have won, but not everyone plays JRPGs. Only real gamers do 😂
I didn't even play Baldur's Gate 3 I'm 100% sure it was better than astrobot🤦
Black Myth Wukong won players voice so that to me, means it’s the real GOTY.
this is pretty much the only obvious proof anyone should need....
The artificial voice is very obvious at times.
nah, it doesn t matter at all. Only matters a game of the year when it is already a good game. They can nominate and make Concord game of the year and nobody would care. Gamers are well informed. Games awards are a joke that only matter to non gamers that buy zero games.
Oh give me a break, shadow of the erdtree was longer and better than 99 percent of this years releases. Blood and wine won best rpg the year it came out. It’s not like elden ring won twice, and expansions like shadow, or mh ice borne and sunbreak, the Witcher blood and wine, are obviously more than just dlc. I don’t think necessarily it should have won, which it didn’t, but being offended by the nomination is stupid. I would be more offended that there are companies out there making “dlc” that piss all over entire games, and demand better of other companies releasing aaa titles.
I play videogames since more than 30 years ago. I never gave a f*ck about the GOTY awards. Neither this year. It will never drive my hand when I choose a game to buy. If I would make a game I would reject the nomination. But money isn't drive me either. This is f*cked up.
to be fair if it was fan awards it turn into a chinese bot awards just as the fan vote award did.
black myth only made it cuz gamers voted it in hard we all know if it wasnt for gamers it wouldnt be there
half right if it was not for the Chinese gamers it would not be there.
Warframe not being nominated for best ongoing game is a FUCKING TRAVESTY.
I mainly watch the game awards for the new game announcements and trailers.
Game awards feels like elections in Russia. You can vote but we all know who have bigger chance of winning :)
What even is the game show. I don't watch it. Its pure politics and favoritism. They don't represent the gaming sphere, they represent the wallets of the "jury"
I agree there is an agenda to the nominees and winners, but look at the Golden Joysticks: Black Myth won GoTY. Why? Because their system is 100% user votes, and that gives countries with disproportionate population sizes an advantage. It's good, but not GOTY good. Just look at the hot garbage that was the Player's Choice Nominees from TGA... Genshin, Wuthering Waves AND Honkai Stairrail on the same level as SoTE and BMW? Sad AF.
Like these awards mean anything, really. It doesn't, the devs should snub these awards then see which sides lose more when that happens. As a gamers awards doesnt mean anything either , win or lose. TLD R who cares.
Hahaha Dragon age for a nomination, yeah right
Dragon Age is probably a 6/10 game, at best...but if Elden Ring can get nominated, why not? Apparently, the bar is really low anyway.
Award shows are crap these days. I don't care anymore. I don't watch any of those.
I think it also cause harm to the winner as well. Why? Let me explain. Actually, why don’t I just said one word that define winner GOTY. Shareholders. These bastards will come after the winner making deals and asking shares. Now it sounds like a good thing because it does, but there’s also a horrible Shareholders out there as well. Blackrock and SBI. Heck, god knows how many more corpos out there that are sketchy. My experiences with shareholders are not very good so I won’t trust any of them. But they are also part of the reason why Video Games stay alive. But still, I don’t trust them.
It's just The Oscars, but for games. How many times have we seen summer blockbusters that set world records for ticket sales, and scored near perfect viewer scores, but don't even get NOMINATED for best picture; whil some drama with a FRACTION of the viewership wins the award because the academy is pretentious desperately needs to be taken seriously?
It's the same thing. These are freaking VIDEO GAMES, and they're ignoring the voice of the players. Which I suppose makes sense, because if you look at the sales figures of some of these games, they clearly weren't listening when they made them in the first place. It's just their usual MO: make something nobody wants, make sure there's some heavy-handed social message, sit back and deflect any and all criticism as "you're just saying that because your *ist."
I disagree they ignore the emoninal and focus on the substance Astrobot has highest user score of the year btw on Metacritic
Real game awards are on steam - just looking at the numbers...
Honestly at this point developers should be embarrassed for their participation trophies. You're essentially being told that you're a weirdo Drama class kid.
Game awards are garbage now.
Stalker 2 guys, make it happen.. asking for a friend.
Wukong was amazing. But it was extremely hard. Astrobot is a fun game that can be completed by almost everyone. It was basically Sony’s take on a Mario game.
Since when the heck has TGA even "represented" the video game players, LMAO? It's the new E3. This video is mad that Wukong doesn't win, does it?
Last years game awards was just as bad of not worse
"Im a good person. I voted for DEI."
I've never seen a video on astrobot, never seen even one streamer play astrobot, I literally never even heard of astrobot and I watch people plays games on twitch and YT every day. Yet I've seen hundreds of reviews,videos and streams of WuKong.
Yes plenty streamers that played starfield and the day before yet would not consider them game of the year. Plus there plethora of astrobot streams pop up in my suggested.
Never heard of astrobot either. Sounds like that free game that came with the ps5 years ago.
@@j.l.5966 that would because it is. It sequel to that game. Astrobot is basically playstation mascot ie mario. They even had extra content in the first game for countdown to second.
8 minutes full of valuable information.
i see it like this always listen and question why others have that view never listen to only the echo chamber