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The Game Awards 2016 Thread: Kojima Time Featuring The Kojimas

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Hierophant

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man no wonder you don't go to gaf to get up to date trends on youth culture because seems most people here are old ass men who listen to dadrock and see any semblance of actually dressing good (see watch dogs 2) as trying too hard and being too cringey
 
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Mass Effect

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disappeared said:
shavebot ought to have had his turn at the mic

🎵 🎤 Shave and a haircut, two bits,
cow and a milkmaid, six tits 🎤 🎵
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god damn it, why is this funny?

Endangered said:
Oh and another thing. Calling people racist in this thread because they don't like music you like.... grow up. I hated the first music act. And not because the group had a black guy in it. But because I personally thought it was terrible music.
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you must be new to the internet
 
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MyleMan1010

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Boogie2988 winning trending gamer made the show worth it to me. That dude works so hard and deserves all the good things that happen to him. Seeing him succeed truly makes me happy. Congrats!
 
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Quote

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Hierophant said:
man no wonder you don't go to gaf to get up to date trends on youth culture because seems most people here are old ass men who listen to dadrock and see any semblance of actually dressing good (see watch dogs 2) as trying too hard and being too cringey
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what is dadrock and does not knowing make me young or old
 
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Sam Bishop

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blame space said:
this is what gaming is
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It isn't. It's admirable that there's an effort to try to corral enthusiasm and honor in the same program, but this isn't the person to do it. Someone asked what Geoff's appeal is, and it's that he's around. He's been, to his credit, about trying to build a serious attempt to go for the glorification of the industry in the same way the Oscars or Emmys are for their respective mediums for a while. That's admirable and deserves praise.

The problem is that we don't want to see that. As he's said, that's what DICE and BAFTA are doing, and they can do so with minimal pomp. What Geoff wants is the stature of these awards, and he keeps. fucking. trying to do it with tie-ins and sponsored events. The production and the quality of what he's trying to do is great, and I know he wants to buck the old memes and stigma, but you can't pair seriousness and commerciality if you want things to appear rote and proper and elegant. The Oscars ceremony is a bunch of rich assholes patting themselves on the back, sure, but they don't intercut corporate bits in the show.

I get that people like his passion - I like his passion - but it's to build his brand and establish this, somehow, as a metric for merit when the industry already does that, without the pomp and flash, and to be perfectly honest, getting the public into voting for things robs the entire process of its merit-based objectivity. DICE and GDC already serve that purpose, albeit with varying levels of exposure for smaller developers.

This is a showpiece for HIM, and, as someone who has dealt with this guy at multiple points in my career, I can happily tell him to fuck off. Spectacle is not something to aspire to, it's an insider circle-jerk, and whatever attempts to publicize or aggrandize or push the craft into a spotlight isn't needed. We recognize our own, we celebrate and collaborate and share our accomplishments constantly, and an overly-expensive attempt to somehow pair new trailers or gameplay with rewards that have not been decided upon by the people who make games
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is an affront to the idea of a black tie awards show in the vein of the Oscars or Emmys.

Make no mistake: those awards are an insular, institutionalized popularity contest. But if we want to have a proper awards show that celebrates the industry, we do it in a serious way that actually breaks down why these games get the awards. Not because of public votes, because there's a transparent and open discussion of the means by a committee of people who make games and have PLAYED all of the games at least to their logical ends in consideration and why they chose their choices, with public options to vote in something else.

THAT is how we change and make adult the considerations for recognition of this truly amazing medium that we not just passively watch, but partake in. Not lavish productions by someone who says he ventures much when he's sitting on a massive IMAX fortune and forsook his ability to get in and talk about a game's development (we now have Danny O'Dwyer, who isn't a dick, thankyouverymuch), and returns things to decorum and discussion among the people that are defining the entertainment we all enjoy.
 
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orthodoxy1095

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Mario007 said:
How many cinematic action adventure games did we have this year?
1
How many online shooters did we have this year?
4
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I see you clearly missed my entire point, but das coo'.

You're missing some cinematic action games in your count there anyways friend-o. Might want to check out Rise of the Tomb Raider, Gears of War 4, Quantum Break to get yourself started.
 
RedAssedApe

RedAssedApe

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on the bright said we got new titanfall and battlefield commercials featuring linkin park and smashing pumpkins (with songs from decades past)

lol
 
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ggx2ac

Member
Mass Effect said:
This plus passive-aggressive comments about what is "real" music with a hint of diet racism, and sociopathic posts about mocking a father and his dead son and a man struggling with his weight despite working his absolute hardest to lose it.

Gaming-side was on a roll tonight
of stupidity
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I only got to watch the game awards after it was over so I didn't follow the thread.

All I have to say is wtf is wrong with people?
Have sympathy for the man who lost his son at a very young age. Have empathy for the guy who struggles to lose weight.

No one is ever going to have a perfect life, it's called the human condition.

And also, everyone has their own taste in music but please don't attribute "real" music to skin colour. Musical performance takes talent and it'd be sad if someone told me that Billy Stewart's Summertime wasn't "real" music because he's black.
 
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cryptosporidium

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I was fucking screaming of laughter with that first musical act. "Im a bag of dicks" made me fucking lose it holy shit that was funny. other rap group was bloody awful and Im not sure whether it was the sound engineer or my TV but the Doom music was terrible quality though the songs they played are awesome.
 
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Wensih

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Iscariot said:
I'm speaking of draw systems many of those games employ, not the "energy" or whatever metric they might use to gate. The cosmetics are random drops, that's the part I find problematic.
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The way you generalized this in your original post placed Overwatch with the worst of the microtransactions in mobile games. Loot crates and micro-transaction systems that don't affect gameplay systems, e.g. buying items that allow you to reduce timers to either proceed or play or buying items that allows you to win against other players online, aren't something I consider a "gotcha mobile game." In fact, they're rather benign.

Nikana said:
I don't buy it. OverWatch had plenty of time to make more content available at launch that excuse is just not going to work for me.

Blizzard is an extremely large company with the resources to develop more content than almost any other developer on the planet. They didn't have a campaign or even lore to create. They only had to worry about maps and characters and it's still underperformed.
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Here's another controversial opinion, but maybe we should quit the corporate bullshit lingo of "content," having more "content" isn't a barometer for quality.
 
eerik9000

eerik9000

Member
Skimmed through the show.

Didn't they say weeks ago that the "exclusive reveals" would focus on "real gameplay" this year? Only gameplay I saw was Zelda and Mass Effect, others were just in-engine/cinematic trailers or outright pre-rendered CGI.

Huh?
 
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Big Nikus

Member
Sam Bishop said:
It isn't. It's admirable that there's an effort to try to corral enthusiasm and honor in the same program, but this isn't the person to do it. Someone asked what Geoff's appeal is, and it's that he's around. He's been, to his credit, about trying to build a serious attempt to go for the glorification of the industry in the same way the Oscars or Emmys are for their respective mediums for a while. That's admirable and deserves praise.

The problem is that we don't want to see that. As he's said, that's what DICE and BAFTA are doing, and they can do so with minimal pomp. What Geoff wants is the stature of these awards, and he keeps. fucking. trying to do it with tie-ins and sponsored events. The production and the quality of what he's trying to do is great, and I know he wants to buck the old memes and stigma, but you can't pair seriousness and commerciality if you want things to appear rote and proper and elegant. The Oscars ceremony is a bunch of rich assholes patting themselves on the back, sure, but they don't intercut corporate bits in the show.

I get that people like his passion - I like his passion - but it's to build his brand and establish this, somehow, as a metric for merit when the industry already does that, without the pomp and flash, and to be perfectly honest, getting the public into voting for things robs the entire process of its merit-based objectivity. DICE and GDC already serve that purpose, albeit with varying levels of exposure for smaller developers.

This is a showpiece for HIM, and, as someone who has dealt with this guy at multiple points in my career, I can happily tell him to fuck off. Spectacle is not something to aspire to, it's an insider circle-jerk, and whatever attempts to publicize or aggrandize or push the craft into a spotlight isn't needed. We recognize our own, we celebrate and collaborate and share our accomplishments constantly, and an overly-expensive attempt to somehow pair new trailers or gameplay with rewards that have not been decided upon by the people who make games
​
is an affront to the idea of a black tie awards show in the vein of the Oscars or Emmys.

Make no mistake: those awards are an insular, institutionalized popularity contest. But if we want to have a proper awards show that celebrates the industry, we do it in a serious way that actually breaks down why these games get the awards. Not because of public votes, because there's a transparent and open discussion of the means by a committee of people who make games and have PLAYED all of the games at least to their logical ends in consideration and why they chose their choices, with public options to vote in something else.

THAT is how we change and make adult the considerations for recognition of this truly amazing medium that we not just passively watch, but partake in. Not lavish productions by someone who says he ventures much when he's sitting on a massive IMAX fortune and forsook his ability to get in and talk about a game's development (we now have Danny O'Dwyer, who isn't a dick, thankyouverymuch), and returns things to decorum and discussion among the people that are defining the entertainment we all enjoy.
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I enjoyed the show but this is a great post.
 
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Pachimari

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I just woke up. Is there a summary anywhere as to what was announced?

I saw the trailers for Death Stranding and Zelda already. Was Guardians of the Galaxy announced? What else did we get besides the Shovel Knight DLC and Rocket League expansion?
 
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Steroyd

Member
Dear lord the level of #Fuckonami between Geoff giving the award to Kojima and the new Death Stranding trailer was incredible.
 
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Psychoward

Banned
BernardoOne said:
Uncharted 4 has a much worse microtransaction system yet nobody seems to complain about that. Not to mention Overwatch's micros are some of the most innofensive you could find, being cosmetics only and fully earnable with regular gameplay.
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Yeah it's really odd that OW gets shit on so much for its microtransactions when they really are handled better than literally all of its competitors. They can all be earned through normal gameplay, they're solely cosmetic, they can't be bought directly with real money so people can't just buy their way to their favorite skin or whatever yet they can be directly bought with in game currency so you can still get what you want most. Additionally while there are dupes they contribute to your in game currency. And then all the heroes, maps and game modes are free of charge to everyone.

Rainbow 6 siege locks its heroes/operators (plus a shit load of cosmetics) behind a grind if you're not willing to pay

Uncharted 4 locks its weapons, perks and mysticals (plus a shit load of cosmetics) behind a grind + rng if you're not willing to pay

Titanfall 2 has cosmetics that can't be earned through normal gameplay and need to be bought

COD IW has a paid season pass along with a terrible loot/weapon system that favors paying

Battlefield 1 has a paid season pass along with an RNG unlock system for its cosmetics

Battlefront has a paid season pass

DOOM has a paid season pass


Think I got pretty much every major mp shooter released in the past year or so? Edit: forgot gears 4 but I've never played it so I can't comment on it but gears 3 had a season pass along with tons of camos that could only be bought with real money
 
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-Plasma Reus-

Service guarantees member status
Remember when there was a thread about Keighley saying he wanted this one to be different and people were praising him for it?

Looks like some of you fell for the Keighley scam again.
 
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Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
You know I love Mick Gordon and the Doom Sountrack was amazing, but nobody is talking about how badly he butchered the Quake 2 song he played in the middle of the set.

The Mick Gordon version starts here.

The original.

I know Sonic Mayhem were involved and playing on stage with him, but man that new version sounded terribad.
 
GlamFM

GlamFM

Banned
Is there an archive somewhere I can watch?

The audio track on the official one has been muted (at least in Germany).
 
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Robiin

Member
GlamFM said:
Is there an archive somewhere I can watch?

The audio track on the official one has been muted (at least in Germany).
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It got cut while I was watching. Spent minutes trying to figure out why there was no sound all of a sudden and eventually I refreshed the page to find the message about copyright. There seems to be nowhere to watch it right now?

EDIT: Seems like I have to watch it with the Kinda Funny guys talking over it.....
 
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xplicitone

Member
VGAs was pretty much what I expected. I love the positive vibes.

Best part of the show for me were the speeches such as cancer, and how games bring us joy and happiness and an escape. Great job Geoff Keighley!

Now i need to hurry up and play games like Uncharted and Witcher.
 
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nephilimdj

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hqEz4h0.jpg


Nice google, whole vid is muted
 
Airola

Airola

Member
Just starting to watch this.
(The official video has a copyright claim and doesn't have any audio......... wow..... I'm watching IGN's video)



Just saw the intro video.
Holy hell that was hyper corny. Almost wanted to stop watching the whole thing.
Almost as cringy as the 'famous' "I am a gamer" video or whatever it was. This was just a bigger budget version of the same thing. Awful.

EDIT:
ok, it wasn't the intro video. I skipped to around 30 minutes because someone said that time in the comments and I thought it was the beginning. But that was the time for the sappy Kojima thing. And for the awful video before that.
EDIT2:
Oh, it WAS the intro, was it?
There just seems to be some pre-show before that for 20 minutes or so.
Missed that stuff completely. Need to rewind.
 
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