VideoGame_Discussion

ryanflucas wrote:

These are now the DICE awards which are a different thing entirely from Geoff "Panty Raider" Keighley's awards show.

I always default to calling him Doritos Pope. I forgot about the panty raider thing.

Also happy cake day @Kommie

Archer wrote:

Thanks!

Kommie wrote:

Happy bday❤️❤️❤️❤️

Happy Birthday @Kommie

Happy birthmas!

Archer wrote:

It's probably not fair to mock him for stuff he did decades ago on G4, which was squarely aimed at the teenage boy demographic.

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On the other hand, this was cringe even back then so yeah. He can be panty raider forever.

I had a good enough time watching the awards. There were a number of reveals that got me excited, and I was really glad to see that they went for it with the Alan Wake musical number. The show is of course a 3 hour commercial presented as an awards show but that doesn't keep me from having some fun while it's on.

I also wish they’d stop with the Hellblade II foreplay already and just give us a frigging release date.

Remember how MS announced a Perfect Dark remake and a new Fable and nothing's been heard since?

Oh I member! Still waiting on that Avowed game too which is supposed to be the Elder Scrolls killer made by Obsidian.

They sold lots of gamepass subs on those future releases. Then fable got reset and disappeared.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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I guess I’m an odd duck as I only re-up my GP sub idk when these promised titles actually release. 🤷‍♂️

That’s one of the realities of a service like that. Smart consumers aren’t sitting on it. Lots do. If everyone did that no way it succeeds. I’m not saying businesses hope you don’t mind the empty promises- but it doesn’t hurt the bottom line if it takes longer than stated- starfield likely got a few extra months out of a few.

Yeah exactly. Like I make a list of games that release that I wanna play on GP then buy like a 3 month sub and likely don’t re-up unless another few games come out within that 3 month window. Play smarter. Not harder.

So the REAL game awards happened last night. The D.I.C.E. awards.

You can watch it here.
https://youtu.be/ALGaEzLBo3I

Or go straight to the spoilers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_Annual_D.I.C....

To my knowledge, no one at this awards ceremony was shown a WRAP IT UP sign after 10 seconds so that Hideo Kojima could blabber on for 8 minutes about nothing

Look at Spider-Man 2 nabbing all those awards they got snubbed on in The Hideo Kojima, I mean Jeff Kealey, I mean, The Game Awards.

But where's the award for best esports coach?

How many awards did Jeff K… I mean Alan Wake 2 win.

Diablo 4 won an award? WTF.

Archer wrote:

Best monetization of a $70 game? My guess.

Kommie wrote:

That would make sense. Or even how to ruin a franchise in 3 months.

But online game of the year, what a joke. Unless by online game of the year they mean how to peak at 7 million players and then drop below 40K after 3 months and never recover no matter what you do. Does that mean online game of the year now?

Kommie wrote:

I saw they now offer a mount bundle that costs more than the game.

Yeah that category/choice was strange to me too. I mean I enjoyed most of my time with Diablo 4 but like once I finished the story I didn’t wanna go back again and again like I did with Diablo 3. I would think best online game would go to something like Overwatch 2 or some nonsense like that. Or did that come out in 2022? I can’t keep up with these online games anymore.

Monster hunter Rise / Sunbreak ps5 was my online GotY. It was a port of the switch game though- not new.