The Game Awards 2022 | Winners and Recap

[PooPooBlast]

12 hours ago, DrBloodmoney said:

God of War Ragnarok for Best Music and Score

(Great game, and deserved the Audio Design Award for foley and vocals for sure.... but... the score in Ragnarok was forgettable as hell, and easily the weakest score across the whole franchise!)

Duuuuude tell me about it. I'm currently playing GoW Ragnarok and it rightfully deserved things like best narrative, action, etc but soundtrack?? In the same category as Metal Hellsinger too?!!

 

PUH-lease!

 

[Beyondthegrave07]

1 hour ago, Slava said:

@DrBloodmoney @Beyondthegrave07

 

I think Stray was just the one most of the voting jury played.

 

The nominees are decided by the voting jury that consists of game journalists and gaming media personalities. Then they pick the winners. Their votes account for 90% of overall votes (10% is what's left for the regular voters).

 

You can see the list of who's in the jury here:

https://thegameawards.com/voting-jury

 

The indie category is not specialised (unlike esports categories), so anyone can pick the one they played and liked. I assume fewer people played Neon White or Sifu, while Stray attracted more people because it's the most inoffensive, easy to understand 3rd person game. And it has a cat as the main character. Edit: it's also pretty short which may have mattered as well.

 

Basically, the most popular one wins.

 

I expected that Stray would win both indie categories based on this thought.

Personally,  just find this as a terrible way of voting. They should have a panel of journalists who specialize in the indie scene and wouldn't let popularity sway them, but I digress. Nothing we can really do to prevent it.

[Sora9427]

Personally i didn't watch it, it was so obvious Elden was gonna get GOTY and GOW a ton of prizes too, which i guess it's deserved? I really find this year pretty stale to think about great titles to compete and put a challenge but maybe it's just me, i only played 3 games released this year (Elden, Sophie 2 and Shadow Warrior 3) so i can't say much. Out of this Elden is deserved, even if personally my Goty,and i guess i'm the only one, it's Sophie 2, i simply loved that game like it wasn't for a while! Sad it wasn't even a Nominee in the RPG category...

 

Even if i guess the chategories are basiclaly the commercial titles, i wondered how Bayonetta 3 that seems to me the same game as the other 2 previously (Actually worst i listened the new voice, it's reallly not the same), won the Action category then i checked the nominee and understood why i guess. 

 

Anyway, not much excitment for the new announcement either, i'll keep an eye on DS2, Remnant 2 and Hades 2 since i'm interested and have (Hades aside) all the First titles in the series to play. The Only really thing that caught my attention was the Forspoken annuoncement Demo! Game looks great and interest me for quite a while, i'm glad they release a Demo and so i can first hand judge if it's wort personally to get it right away or not!

Happy for the Horizon DLC too, i have sitll to play FW, but currently i'm enjoying a good bit Zero Dawn so i expect the same with the sequel! 

 

I'm Glad OW 2 didn't won the Multiplayer prize, it's such a mess right now it would have been undeserved. Genshin got Robbed for Mobile title, it went to such a commercial title only ebcause it's marvel it should have been either Genshin or Tower of Fantasy that i see a lot around too. 

For OnGoing game i can find acceptable FF XIV, i know it's a great MMO constantly updated so it's fair if it won in place of Genshin.

Edited December 9, 2022 by Sora9427

[EcoShifter]

The announcements were fairly good. Not as excited overall because there wasn't anything from my top most wanted. Though Judas is looking like a welcomed surprise.

 

Some of the awards are fair, but the popularity-based voting system still needs to be addressed better. I don't think I should be able to predict nearly all categories simply by assessing the popularity per. Beside the categories I have little knowledge on, like "Best Community Support", during the show I was able to narrow down all categories to 1 or 2 things at most before the awards were given. Pfft.

 

Christopher probably deserved the performance award, but his lengthy speech was among, if not, the longest segments of the show. Nice speech, but a bit too long. Even the show's host vaguely(?) referenced it in the hope that later speeches would be shorter.

 

I see the Players Voice category is absent here (which partly makes sense as it's isolated from the main 31 categories, though still part of TGA). Not the only category I heavily disagree with—I'm on the same boat for Stray winning both indie awards—but a 2020 game [Genshin Impact] winning a non-ongoing category which consist of nothing but 2022 games [God of War: Ragnorok, Elden Ring, Sonic Frontiers, Stray] is a disappointing waste, especially when it's already won awards in previous years, robbed other deserving games that came out this year and will only have this counted year for the spotlight, and a major factor to its win being driven by the 50,000,000+ playerbase's expectations or cause-and-effect relationship with receiving the over-extremely desired in-game premium currency (known and heavily used to unlock the game's characters), which given the consistent context of the past basically makes this indirect bribery on the developers' part. Of the three rounds it wasn't even the leading game in round 1 or 2; there was another, which honestly should have won. The only category GI potentially deserved to win legitimately is "Best ongoing", but if Final Fantasy XIV is the better ongoing game then GI should have taken the lost this year in TGA.

 

edit:

And history repeats itself — miHoYo does it again, awarding the playerbase with free Primogems for winning an award at TGA.

Edited December 16, 2022 by EcoShifter

[SelectiveGamer]

I have to admit that I actually thoroughly enjoyed the show this year. More so than shows in years past.

 

Yes not all of the reveal were for me (obviously) but they were still pretty well done I think for the most part. But it was enjoyable so I suppose that's all that really matters.

 

As for that thing that happened at then... honestly... they are just lucky that nothing more dangerous ended up happening. Hopefully they can increase their security from now on.

[SnakeSound222]

Super excited to see a living Horus in the HFW DLC!

 

Genshin winning Player's Choice is stupid because it's not a 2022 game and people voted for it only to receive in-game currency, not because they liked it enough. 

 

Elden Ring was a decent but pretty disappointing game and a step down after masterpieces like DS3 and Bloodborne. It didn't deserve to win as many awards as it did. My issues with the game were the bosses being lackluster overall and poor enemy (not level) scaling. Also I don't really see how it was so "revolutionary". All the examples I see are things that other games already have or take like 5 seconds at most to do. Plague Tale and GOW were much more deserving, both of those games were amazing. It's a shame that Plague Tale didn't win anything, but it's not surprising considering its competition.