K&AJones

I actually meant it to be COD in the Best Action....and besides throughout the years you can almost bet seeing BF or/and COD in the GOTY and Best Action constantly...just a bit odd they are not and nice to see something different.

Music

Golden Joystick Awards 2016

fumanstan

Damn, there's been 34 years of Golden Joystick awards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Joystick_Award

james2025a

And great seeing the first winners. All games I grew up playing in England on my Sinclair spectrum. Ultimate was the best game company for years...by far.

In fact, looking at the winners through the years it's a pretty damn accurate look at my gaming life and the games and systems I have played through since 1983.

nickdawgy

Missed a few.

mattysemo247

Hopefully we see some cool announcement trailers tonight. I would assume we'll see a Destiny 2 teaser soon. Not sure if they would do that tonight or wait until PSX this weekend.

OldBoy

is being televised on Spike or something?

fumanstan

Like? And what would you remove?

http://thegameawards.com/watch/

Seems like it's all via online streams.

mattysemo247

Halo Wars 2 season pass is free right now. I'm guessing some promotion with the awards?

Decker

I looked on the website and it's not even available for purchase, just as part to the Ultimate Edition bundle

mattysemo247

I got it using the link

https://slickdeals.net/f/9480379-hal...ox-one-pc-free

Decker

It was live when I clicked your link. Purchase didn't go through and the site got pulled. Must have been a glitch. Almost certainly will be pulled for those who grabbed it.

fumanstan

Overwatch wins Game of the Year

Dan

http://www.glixel.com/news/inside-ge...empire-w453290

DaveNinja

Excellent!

slop101

That's too bad, I found Overwatch to be profoundly boring.

Decker

Of course the next thing he should do is take a selfie with a dozen people that nobody outside of the video game industry recognizes.

Rival11

No that I really care about these types of shows but...how was infinite warfare not listed for best action game?

While I loved titanfall 2, the campaign is not better than infinite warfare and I'm having a hard time believing that battlefields campaign was better as well.

I somewhat get the hate people have for COD but let's not get pretentious.

slop101

Having played all three campaigns, and having enjoyed each one, I'd say;
Titanfall 2 > > Battlefield 1 > CoD Infinite

The Questyen

All three are AAA massive budget action games. How does an awards show liking one over the other make them pretentious? This type of usage of that word is why no one takes it seriously anymore.

fumanstan

It's not that surprising either, of the listed nominees Infinite Warfare was rated lower then all of them critically, and it was media outlets that submitted nominations. By metacritic using the highest number per platform.

Battlefield 1 - 88
Doom - 87
Gears of War 4 - 95
Overwatch - 91
Titanfall 2 - 89

Infinite Warfare was 78.

OldBoy

That's awesome that DOOM got 2. Including best action game. Hope that means a sequel...

Rival11

I'm just saying in general, maybe if I said "Let's not get out of hand"?? Of course some of this is matter of opinion as well - I thought infinite warfare played tight, was the most visually impressive and had the best voice acting and mechanics. Basically, at the very least it should have been included.

Decker

Sequels in games, just like movies, are predicated on sales and grosses, not on awards. That's why Spotlight 2 isn't in production.

Music

I don't know... I don't think DOOM is the kind of game that gets sequels...