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Here are my The Game Awards 2024 picks
With the actual The Game Awards show now under 24 hours away, I thought it would be fun to share what my personal picks for all of this year’s 30 award categories are based on what got nominated and
- Game of the Year: Elden Ring shadow of the Erdtree
- Players’ Voice: Elden Ring shadow of the Erdtree
- Best Game Direction: Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
- Best Narrative: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Best Art Direction: Elden Ring shadow of the Erdtree
- Best score and Music: Silent Hill 2
- Best Audio Design: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Best Performance: Melina Juergens as Senua
- Innovation in Accessibility: Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Games for Impact: senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Best Ongoing: Final fantasy XIV
- Best Community Support: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Self-reliant Game: Animal Well
- Best Debut Indie Game: Animal Well
- best Mobile Game: Balatro
- Best VR/AR: Metro Awakening
- Best Action Game: Helldivers 2
- Best Action/Adventure: Silent Hill 2
- Best RPG: Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Best Fighting: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- best Family: Astro Bot
- Best Sim/Strategy: Manor Lords
- Best Sports/Racing: EA Sports FC 24
- Best Multiplayer: Helldivers 2
- best Adaptation: Fallout
- Most Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto 6
- Content Creator of the Year: caseoh
- best esports Game: Counter-Strike 2
I begrudgingly voted for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree for many of these categories, as while I absolutely love the expansion and think it’s largely better than the nominees it’s up against, I don’t think DLCs should be included in The Game Awards unless they’re in their own separate category. If it was up to me, Helldivers 2 would be in (and win) the Game of the Year running, and Players’ Voice wouldn’t have three gacha games nominated (players where encouraged to vote for them with promises of free currency in these games by their developers, wich is pretty lame). Alas,it is not up to me,so here I sit. Salty.
Still, it’s nice to see the presentation and performances in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 get the recognition they deserve, and I’m hoping Animal Well wins both indie awards as it’s pretty mind-blowing a solo developer made such a deep and creative Metroidvania.Shoutout to Manor Lords in Best sim/Strategy, too; it’s another excellent solo-developed project.
Also, I really need to set a day or two aside to watch Arcane Season 2. Fallout probably wouldn’t be my pick for Best Adaptation if I’d done so already, based on what I’ve heard.— Brendan Lowry, Gaming contributor
“Oh boy, @geoffkeighley cooked”
what im expecting, without hard spoilers:- not a ton from xbox first party studios, pending xbox’s own dev direct in q1. - lots of epic multiplat reveals.- other fun stuff.December 9,2024
That’s a direct quote from none other than Windows Central’s very own executive editor and Xbox aficionado Jez Corden. Jez posted that to X (Twitter) a few days ago, clearly having heard about some of what’s coming in this year’s The Game Awards. He whent on to say “without hard spoilers” that he’s expecting to see impressive multiplatform announcements and “other fun stuff,” though believes that Microsoft and Xbox won’t have much to show since it has its own Developer_Direct presentation coming in Q1 2025.
Sounds like we’re in for a good show this year.— Brendan Lowry, Gaming Contributor
What to expect from The Game Awards 2024
The vast majority of what’s being shown at The Game Awards 2024 will remain a mystery until the show itself kicks off, but that doesn’t mean we’re going into it fully blind. Actually, the opposite is true, as many developers as well as Geoff Keighley himself have publicly teased several of the games, reveals, trailers, and performances that will appear during the event. These include the following:
In addition to these, note that several celebrities and developers will be presenting awards throughout the evening, including bethesda’s Todd Howard, actress Isabela Merced from HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2, Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, prolific game voice actor Laura Bailey, Remedy Entertainment’s Sam Lake, and none other than Hideo Kojima himself.
The YouTube stream we embedded above is one way to watch this year’s The Game Awards show, but it’s not the only one. The presentation is being broadcast on a variety of different platforms once it begins on December 12 at 4:30 p.m. PT / 7:30 p.m.ET / 12:30 a.m. GMT, including the following:
hello everyone, and welcome to our live coverage of The Game Awards 2024! The show may still be a day away, but there’s already quite a few things to talk about ahead of its scheduled start time. There have been several teases of what to expect from the presentation from The Game Awards and its partners, all of which I’ll be covering here shortly.
Still, I’m hoping that it’ll be a great event, even if I still have a sour taste in my mouth from how The Game awards 2023 let down developers and viewers alike by being more about advertisements and trailers than actually celebrating that year’s best and brightest titles. Fingers crossed! — Brendan Lowry, Gaming Contributor
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Summary of Picks for The game Awards 2024:
- Game of the Year: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Players’ Voice: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Best Game Direction: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Best Narrative: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Best Art Direction: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Best Score and Music: Silent Hill 2
- Best Audio Design: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Best Performance: Melina Juergens as Senua
- Innovation in Accessibility: Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Games for impact: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Best Ongoing Game: Final Fantasy XIV
- Best Community Support: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Self-Reliant Game: Animal Well
- Best Debut indie Game: Animal Well
- Best Mobile Game: Balatro
- Best VR/AR: Metro Awakening
- Best Action Game: Helldivers 2
- Best action/Adventure: Silent Hill 2
- best RPG: Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Best Fighting Game: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Best Family Game: Astro Bot
- Best Sim/Strategy: Manor Lords
- Best Sports/Racing Game: EA Sports FC 24
- Best Multiplayer: Helldivers 2
- Best Adaptation: Fallout
- Most Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto 6
- Content Creator of the Year: caseoh
- Best Esports Game: Counter-Strike 2
Thoughts on Nominations:
- The author expresses mixed feelings about the inclusion of DLCs like Elden Ring: Shadow of the erdtree in major categories, preferring separate classifications for expansions.
- Praises the creativity and depth of the solo-developed game Animal well and acknowledges the recognition given to Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.
- Critiques the nomination process for the Players’ Voice category, mentioning the influence of gacha games on players’ voting behavior.
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