Game Awards 2023

[Caldwin]

The Game Awards | 10th Anniversary - December 12, 2024

Celebrate the best in video games and see what's next - Live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

thegameawards.com

Not that I care much about award programs in general, but I wanted to show some support for BG3.

There's a lot of categories, so I'm just going to give my thoughts on GotY and let the conversation go from there.

1. Alan Wake 2
I haven't played this. To be honest, I hadn't even heard of it until I saw the nomination.

2. Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Honestly, it's a great game and deserves the nomination. I love 2D Mario and I love how they mixed things up with this. Still, it is a very short game. I completed it in just a few days. Hard to hold it up as the pinnacle. I definitely think it's a good third place.

3. Tears of the Kingdom
I really wanted to vote for this. Zelda is my number one favorite franchise of all time. For most of the year this was my choice for GotY. But then the next entry came out.

4. Baldur's Gate 3
This really does deserve all the praise it gets. I mean, two things to take away from this: I of all people let it beat out a Zelda game for GotY and other game studios seriously came out basically saying to not expect this to become a new standard because they can't live up to it. Yeah, this one took my vote.

5. Resident Evil 4
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to vote for a remake as GotY. I have played previous versions, but not this one. But still, just out of principle, I'm not voting for a remake for GotY.

6. Spiderman 2
I actually do want to play this. It looks good and I've heard good things. But past that... I can't say anything.

I also voted for Astarions voice actor for best voice acting. Seriously, if you haven't yet, check out Baldur's Gate 3.

 

[Haze Arquebus]

Surprised AC6 didn't get into the GOTY running, feel like Mario and Spidey 2 are kinda too recent, Alan Wake REALLY too recent since it dropped like a week before the voting started??

Figure a lot of the big categories will be a 3-way fight between BG3, Spidey 2, and RE4 to be the big show-sweeper. I'm usually fairly meh on the whole thing save for a handful of categories, but this one as a whole feels so much more boring than usual, so even more than normal, I'm just in it for the trailers and seeing if the Muppets do anything fun again.

 

[Caldwin]

I really get the feeling BG3 is going to be the shoo-in for all the categories it's nominated in.

 

[Caldwin]

The Game Awards 2023: Complete Winners List

Going into Thursday's awards, Alan Wake 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 had the most nominations, each earning eight nods.

variety.com

To the surprise of no one, Baldur's Gate 3 won GotY. Also happy to see Neil Newbon won Best Performance.

And other games won other categories.

 

[Zamuel]

I was mostly ignoring the game awards but my brother showed me this:

Those 5 franchises coming back is great to see (though Streets of Rage did recently get a sequel).

 

[Confuzor]

Agreed! That trailer was my largest pop-off of the whole event!

Just JSR or Crazy Taxi alone would have elicited joyous glee from me, but both!? Alongside Golden Axe, Shinobi and Streets of Rage? Happy birthday to me!!!

(It really was my birthday yesterday)

 

[Zamuel]

Happy birthday. Since I got Streets of Rage 4 for my birthday, I'm eyeing a 3D SoR cautiously but the announcement of everything else is shoving those worries aside. Especially since I'm actually looking forward to a 3D Golden Axe.

 

[Haze Arquebus]

Lmao, Hi-Fi Rush and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk both got Sega scrambling to necro JSR.

 

[Videomaster21XX]

With life as it is, and this year being utter <censored> I've played Resident Evil 4 remake, and a chunk of Star Wars Jedi Survivor, and I haven't beaten it yet so... yeah I don't even know anything about most of these games to really care.

Heck sadly most of them are just games I doubt I'll ever care to play.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Saw a meme that said Spider-Man 2 didn't win anything. Really? Aw.

 

[Caldwin]

I can't wait until the 25th. I put Spiderman 2 on my Christmas list, so I can't really just buy it until then. But I'll definitely be playing it one way or another. But man...the waiting!