The Game Awards 2015

[Junko]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO4bELTs0p0

http://thegameawards.com/nominees/

• Date: December 3rd, 2015, 6pm
• Where: The Microsoft Theatre in LA
  • Streams: go90, PSN, Xbox Live, Wii U, Steam, Twitch, YouTube, IGN, Polygon, GameSpot, Kotaku, NicoNico and MLG

Jury Voted Nominees

• Game of the Year
  • Bloodborne / From Software (PS4)
  • Fallout 4 / Bethesda Game Studios (PS4, XBO, PC)
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain / Kojima Productions (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Super Mario Maker / Nintendo (Wii U)
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt / CD Projekt Red (PS4, XBO, PC)
• Developer of the Year
  • Bethesda Softworks
  • CD Projekt Red
  • From Software
  • Kojima Productions
  • Nintendo
• Best Indie Game
  • Axiom Verge / Tom Happ (PS4, PC)
  • Her Story / Sam Barlow (PC)
  • Ori and the Blind Forest / Moon Studios (XBO, PC)
  • Rocket League / Psyonix (PS4, PC)
  • Undertale / tobyfox (PC)
• Best Mobile/Handheld Game
  • Downwell / Moppin (iOS)
  • Fallout Shelter / Bethesda Game Studios (iOS, Android)
  • Lara Croft GO / Square Enix Montréal (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
  • Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate / Capcom (3DS)
  • Pac-Man 256 / Hipster Whale (iOS, Android)
• Best Narrative
  • Her Story
  • Life is Strange / DONTNOD Entertainment (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Tales from the Borderlands / Telltale Games (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • Until Dawn / Supermassive Games (PS4)
• Best Score/Soundtrack
  • Fallout 4
  • Halo 5: Guardians / 343 Industries (XBO)
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • Ori and the Blind Forest
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Best Performance
  • Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
  • Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
  • Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
  • Mark Hamill as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)
  • Viva Seifert (Her Story)
• Best Shooter
  • Call of Duty Black Ops 3 / Treyarch (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Destiny: The Taken King / Bungie (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360)
  • Halo 5: Guardians
  • Splatoon / Nintendo (Wii U)
  • Star Wars Battlefront / EA DICE (PS4, XBO, PC)
• Best Role-Playing Game
  • Bloodborne
  • Fallout 4
  • Pillars of Eternity / Obsidian Entertainment (PC)
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • Undertale
• Best Family Game
  • Disney Infinity 3.0 / Avalanche Studios (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, Wii U, PC)
  • LEGO Dimensions / Traveller's Tales (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, Wii U)
  • Skylanders: Superchargers / Vicarious Visions (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, Wii U)
  • Splatoon
  • Super Mario Maker
• Best Sports Game
  • FIFA 16 / EA Canada (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Forza Motorsport 6 / Turn 10 Studios (XBO)
  • NBA 2K16 / Visual Concepts (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 / PES Productions (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Rocket League
• Best Multiplayer
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
  • Destiny: The Taken King
  • Halo 5: Guardians
  • Rocket League
  • Splatoon
• Best Art Direction
  • Batman: Arkham Knight / Rocksteady Studios (PS4, XBO, PC)
  • Bloodborne
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • Ori and the Blind Forest
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Edited November 13, 2015 by Kyoko Kirigiri

[Ryannumber1gamer]

It is unbelievably sad that there's only one legitimate handheld game and the rest are F2P Mobile Nonsense. 

[Wraith]

It is unbelievably sad that there's only one legitimate handheld game and the rest are F2P Mobile Nonsense. 

Except not all mobile games are like that. Almost none of the games on the list are like that. 

Handhelds barely put anything worth mentioning out this year so be glad they have a 3DS game there at all.

Edited November 13, 2015 by Wraith

[Junko]

It is unbelievably sad that there's only one legitimate handheld game and the rest are F2P Mobile Nonsense. 

Heard you were talking shit about Lara Croft GO

[Jacky]

downwell and Fallout shelter are legit good, wtf are you talking about (this is Downwell) are you just judging them off automatically just because they released on mobile?

[Ryannumber1gamer]

I was referring more to the fact the Handhelds are being grouped in with Mobile games instead of having it's own section.

[Junko]

I was referring more to the fact the Handhelds are being grouped in with Mobile games instead of having it's own section.

They're cut from the same cloth really.

[Wraith]

I was referring more to the fact the Handhelds are being grouped in with Mobile games instead of having it's own section.

That doesn't really make sense either.

Mobile = on the go. Handheld games are mobile games.

And like I said handhelds really didn't have shit on them this year so they don't really need their only category even if they were their own thing.

[FriendBot]

Undertale better win something or else I'm gonna gift like no man has gifted before.

and it ain't gonna be pretty

[Kaze no Klonoa]

Damn it, made my thread too late.

Anyway, I can 100% assure you that Best Independent Game is going to be a serious bloodbath over Rocket League and Undertale. Seriously, whichever one wins is going to cause a massiveeeee fit. That'll be fun to watch.

The Best Mobile/Handheld game selection looks alright, but I will be absolutely bewildered if either Fallout Shelter or Pac-Man 256 get the award, seeing as they are free-to-play games that suffered from some serious design flaws with the F2P restriction placed in.

Undertale unfortunately has very little chance in the Best RPG category (With it being hit with Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3), but I hope it gets at least one award. Strange that both Undertale and Bloodborne didn't get awards for Best Soundtrack, which is an absolute let-down. The Witcher 3 and Ori are the only games on there I felt like actually had a memorable soundtrack.

Anyway, we should make a bingo card template for the award choices sometime soon, that'd be freaking fun

[Junko]

Fan's Choice Nominees

• eSports Game of the Year
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare / Sledgehammer Games (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Valve (PC)
  • DotA 2 / Valve (PC)
  • Hearthstone / Blizzard (PC, iOS, Android)
  • League of Legends / Riot Games (PC)
• Best Fan Creation
  • GTA V - Targets / Hoodoo Operator
  • Portal Stories: Mel / Prism Studios
  • Real GTA / Corridor Digital
  • Twitch Plays Dark Souls / Twitch Community
• Trending Gamer
  • Chris "Montecristo" Mykles
  • Greg Miller
  • Markiplier
  • PewDiePie
  • TotalBiscuit
• eSports Team of the Year
  • Evil Geniuses
  • FNATIC
  • Optic Gaming
  • SK Telecom T1
  • Team SoloMid
• eSports Player of the Year
  • Kenny "Kennys" Schrub / CS:GO (Team EnVyUs)
  • Lee "Faker" Sang-Hyeok / LoL (SK Telecom T1)
  • Olof "Olofmeister" Kajbjer / CS:GO (FNATIC)
  • Peter "PPD" Dager / DotA (Evil Geniuses)
  • Syed Sumail "Suma1l" Hassan / DotA (Evil Geniuses)
• Most Anticipated Game
  • Horizon: Zero Dawn / Guerilla Games (PS4)
  • No Man's Sky / Hello Games (PS4, PC)
  • Quantum Break / Remedy Entertainment (XBO)
  • The Last Guardian / genDESIGN (PS4)
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief's End / Naughty Dog (PS4)

[Kaze no Klonoa]

Fan's Choice Nominees

• eSports Game of the Year
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare / Sledgehammer Games (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Valve (PC)
  • DotA 2 / Valve (PC)
  • Hearthstone / Blizzard (PC, iOS, Android)
  • League of Legends / Riot Games (PC)
• Best Fan Creation
  • GTA V - Targets / Hoodoo Operator
  • Portal Stories: Mel / Prism Studios
  • Real GTA / Corridor Digital
  • Twitch Plays Dark Souls / Twitch Community
• Trending Gamer
  • Chris "Montecristo" Mykles
  • Greg Miller
  • Markiplier
  • PewDiePie
  • TotalBiscuit
• eSports Team of the Year
  • Evil Geniuses
  • FNATIC
  • Optic Gaming
  • SK Telecom T1
  • Team SoloMid
• eSports Player of the Year
  • Kenny "Kennys" Schrub / CS:GO (Team EnVyUs)
  • Lee "Faker" Sang-Hyeok / LoL (SK Telecom T1)
  • Olof "Olofmeister" Kajbjer / CS:GO (FNATIC)
  • Peter "PPD" Dager / DotA (Evil Geniuses)
  • Syed Sumail "Suma1l" Hassan / DotA (Evil Geniuses)
• Most Anticipated Game
  • Horizon: Zero Dawn / Guerilla Games (PS4)
  • No Man's Sky / Hello Games (PS4, PC)
  • Quantum Break / Remedy Entertainment (XBO)
  • The Last Guardian / genDESIGN (PS4)
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief's End / Naughty Dog (PS4)

The Trending Game award is always the weirdest one to me. PewDiePie, Markiplier and TotalBiscuit were all in the last one, so what are they doing here again?

Edited November 13, 2015 by Kaze no Klonoa

[PSI Wind]

>No Zelda U or Star Fox

O-Okay

[Junko]

>No Zelda U or Star Fox

O-Okay

A lot of people are shitting on Star Fox right now so, that's self-explanatory. As for Zelda? Idk, fuck you that's why

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Fan's Choice Nominees

• eSports Game of the Year
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare / Sledgehammer Games (PS4, XBO, PS3, 360, PC)
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Valve (PC)
  • DotA 2 / Valve (PC)
  • Hearthstone / Blizzard (PC, iOS, Android)
  • League of Legends / Riot Games (PC)
• Best Fan Creation
  • GTA V - Targets / Hoodoo Operator
  • Portal Stories: Mel / Prism Studios
  • Real GTA / Corridor Digital
  • Twitch Plays Dark Souls / Twitch Community
• Trending Gamer
  • Chris "Montecristo" Mykles
  • Greg Miller
  • Markiplier
  • PewDiePie
  • TotalBiscuit
• eSports Team of the Year
  • Evil Geniuses
  • FNATIC
  • Optic Gaming
  • SK Telecom T1
  • Team SoloMid
• eSports Player of the Year
  • Kenny "Kennys" Schrub / CS:GO (Team EnVyUs)
  • Lee "Faker" Sang-Hyeok / LoL (SK Telecom T1)
  • Olof "Olofmeister" Kajbjer / CS:GO (FNATIC)
  • Peter "PPD" Dager / DotA (Evil Geniuses)
  • Syed Sumail "Suma1l" Hassan / DotA (Evil Geniuses)
• Most Anticipated Game
  • Horizon: Zero Dawn / Guerilla Games (PS4)
  • No Man's Sky / Hello Games (PS4, PC)
  • Quantum Break / Remedy Entertainment (XBO)
  • The Last Guardian / genDESIGN (PS4)
  • Uncharted 4: A Thief's End / Naughty Dog (PS4)

Lets have a go at it then.

Esports Game: Doesn't give a shit about ESports, and none of these are particularly interesting to me.

Best Fan Creation: While I haven't tried any of these, I do like have a category dedicated to fan creations as with the recent mess with Take Two basically threatening modders, it's nice to see fan creations being given some recongition.

Trending Gamer: I guess TotalBiscuit, since he's my favourite out of the choices and on another note and completely opinion moment: screw Pewdiepie and his overrated videos.

Favourite ESports Team: lolno

Favourite ESports Player: lolno

Most Anticipated Game: Either Uncharted 4, No Man's Sky or Horizon, in that order.

 

[Junko]

Why not, so I voted for:

• eSports Game of the Year - League of Legends
• Best Fan Creation - Twitch Plays Dark Souls
• Trending Gamer - Greg Miller
• eSports Player of the Year - N/A
• Most Anticipated Game - Horizon: Zero Dawn

[Marcello]

Iwata tribute teased for The Game Awards, Nintendo will apparently have stuff to show 

The Game Awards producer Geoff Keighley just wrapped up a Q&A about the event on Periscope a short while ago. There wasn’t a whole lot of Nintendo-specific information shared, but Keighley did seem to tease something special.

Although he didn’t say it explicitly, Keighley strongly hinted that The Game Awards will honor late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in some way. He indicated that he didn’t want to talk too much about it so that the moment wouldn’t be ruined, and everyone can appreciate it together. It does sound like a tribute is planned.

Also, I didn’t catch this myself, but Keighley apparently said that Nintendo will have some new stuff to show at The Game Awards. More footage of Zelda Wii U would certainly be nice!

http://nintendoeverything.com/iwata-tribute-teased-for-the-game-awards-nintendo-will-apparently-have-stuff-to-show/

Come on, Zelda U! 

[The Deleter]

'Nother heads up: The Game Awards 2015 stream will be hosted live on Motobug tomorrow, so if you want to drop in with the rest of SSMB and watch it all together when it happens, be sure to try and make it!

http://taima.tv/r/Motobug

[Junko]

Game of the Year

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt / CD Projekt RED

Developer of the Year

• CD Projekt RED

Best Independent Game

• Rocket League / Psyonix

Best Mobile/Handheld Game

• Lara Croft GO / Square Enix

Best Narrative

• Her Story / [written by] Sam Barlow

Best Soundtrack

• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain / [composed by] Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett and Daniel James

Best Performance

• Viva Seifert / Her Story

Games for Changes

• Life is Strange / Dontnod Entertainment

Best Shooter

• Splatoon / Nintendo

Best Action/Adventure

• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain / KojiPro

Best Role-Playing Game

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt / CD Projekt RED

Best Fighting Game

• Mortal Kombat X / NetherRealm Studios

Best Family Game

• Super Mario Maker / Nintendo

Best Sports/Racing Game

• Rocket League / Psyonix

Best Multiplayer

• Splatoon / Nintendo

Best Art Direction

• Ori and the Blind Forest / Moon Studios

eSports Game of the Year

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Valve Corporation

Best Fan Creation

• Portal Stories: Mel / Prism Studios

Trending Gamer

• Greg Miller

eSports Team of the Year

• OpTiC Gaming

eSports Player of the Year

• nV KennyS / Kenny Schrub

Most Anticipated Game

• No Man's Sky / Hello Games

[Phos]

I cannot remember a single original track from MGS V aside from the main theme, which is memorably bad.  Might as well have just given the award to Midge Ure.  Undertale not nominated for goty, narrative, or soundtrack.  Seems legit.  

And FWIW, giving out awards by genre is dumb because you'll frequently wind up in this situation where only one game in a given category is nominated for GotY meaning it either gets the genre award be default or paints the genre award as consolation prize.  

And even divorced of spike, this show continues to be a thinly veiled excuse to get eyes on trailers outside of E3, at least we had Nintendo class it up a bit.  

Edited December 4, 2015 by Phos

[Candescence]

Any summary of the announcements and non-award stuff showcased?

Pleasantly surprised that Splatoon won best shooter AND best multiplayer, but Undertale won nothing? Fucking bullshit.

Edited December 4, 2015 by Candescence

[Marcello]

Keighley calling out Konami for not letting Kojima come was pretty cool. Drunk Jade Raymond was really funny.

[Chooch]

Pleasantly surprised that Splatoon won best shooter AND best multiplayer, but Undertale won nothing? Fucking bullshit.

Dare I say not everyone thought that Undertale was as mind blowing and amazing as you did? Rocket League is a really fucking fun game with tons of replay value and Psyonix are fantastic developers that work hard to improve their game with community feedback. Their first game, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars was also fun but I guarantee no one knew who the hell they were before Rocket League.

Normally I wouldn't respond to something like this, but this is a widespread sentiment that I've seen all over the internet and I'm quite honestly tired of seeing it. It's not "bullshit" and "rigged" because Undertale didn't win anything. It was up against stiff competition and if you ask me personally it was one of the weaker games in every category it was nominated for.

You know what else didn't win a single damn thing at The Game Awards last night? Bloodborne*. Fucking Bloodborne* didn't win anything and that game is several times more well known and popular than Undertale despite how loud the latter's fanbase is.

*You can obviously replace Bloodborne with Fallout 4 and it still make sense

[DarkDefeater]

Not only is there no Zelda or Star Fox Wii-u like mentioned, but there also is no Xenoblade X. Yeah, more reason for me not to take these things seriously.

[Marcello]

I think I'd have been more annoyed if they had shown Xenoblade X than nothing. The game has been out for ages in Japan and is out in a few days in the west. I've seen enough of it.

Nintendo won multiple awards last night and they even had an Iwata tribute. Not taking The Game Awards seriously because Nintendo decided to not show anything is strange.