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Game Developer Choice Awards (GDC) nominees announced
- Thread starter Nirolak
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ashecitism
Member
Looks as expected from a first glance.
I'm expecting some friction over the Handheld/Mobile category given it consists of 12 mobile games.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
That was actually what stood out to me from all of this the most. The lack of dedicated handheld games is telling.
InsaneTiger
Member
Fallout 4 deserves to win nothing.
tearsintherain
Member
Not really sure Fallout 4 belongs in any category (and I like the game), but I am really glad they seperated out GOTY and New Innovative Game, wish more GOTY awards would do that.
I going to mention this.
how the hell.. no 3DS games?? I mean, MH4U production values are huge, more than the mobile games listed, I wonder why the decision to not chose any 3DS game
Isn't Steamworld Heist only on 3DS for now?
Pretty much this.
Large Professor
Member
AlphaBear is a great game.
The Witcher 3 deserves all the wins in the categories it is nominated in (I'd be fine with it not winning Visual Design, that's a tough category).
Fallout 4 receiving that many heavy nominations is baffling. It being nominated for "Best Technology" is downright insulting (where is The Order 1886?).
Fallout 4 receiving that many heavy nominations is baffling. It being nominated for "Best Technology" is downright insulting (where is The Order 1886?).
SOMA hasn't moved a tremendously huge number of copies and this is a mass developer vote.
It's essentially an industry poll on what they thought the best games were, so if not many of them were playing 3DS games, they presumably wouldn't vote for them.
You are correct. I thought it was out on mobile already for some reason.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Mario Maker for the innovation award? I haven't played it but isn't it just build your level type of game? Is there something else I missed?
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
sure thing
Developers are likely to vote on more than visual technology. The primary selling point of their engine is data management, which isn't a great consumer facing point, but could impress industry veterans.
sir_bumble_bee
Member
Yeah, no 3DS games is really weird, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate was robbed
The made a FUN game out of creating your own level. That is the HARD shit, much much harder than it sound.
Mario Maker in the innovation award?!?!? Really?!?!??
For a good reason, i mean are we really ignoring an entire year of 3ds and vita games?
For a good reason, i mean are we really ignoring an entire year of 3ds and vita games?
If it were a popularity contest, the nominees for game of the year would be Black Ops 3, Star Wars Battlefront, Batman Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, and Madden.
I agree that fallout 4 really shouldn't be nominated for GOTY though.
Zombegoast
Member
Best Design:
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Da fuck?
Because games only get reconnizged by quantity of sales not quality.
Look at handheld as it's missing MH4U or but microstransaction f2p games are nominated.
Best Technology:
Fallout 4
Just Cause 3
I hope they mean technical mess
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Da fuck?
Because games only get reconnizged by quantity of sales not quality.
Look at handheld as it's missing MH4U or but microstransaction f2p games are nominated.
Best Technology:
Fallout 4
Just Cause 3
I hope they mean technical mess
Hero Prinny
Member
fallout 4 doesn't deserve any nominations honestly speaking, its such a safe sequel that its sad. Its like it got those nominations just because of its name.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
The nomination process started mid-December when Xenoblade X had only been out in English for a week or so. It's the big reason why I didn't nominate anything - several of the games I expect will be my favorites of 2015 came out super late in the year (Xenoblade X, Summon Night 5, Trails of Cold Steel) so I haven't had time to evaluate them properly.
it essentially shows that the voters don't play dedicated handhelds anymore, I wonder where the industry is going towards with these declines.
the most difficult part in programming is the planning phase, and MM has an incredible design to make a designing process fun that shows the good planning they had, that alone is a mountain of innovation.
LordBaztion
Member
There are no dedicated handheld exclusive games in the mobile/handheld category. wow
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Justiiiice SERVED.
Barry Burton
Member
December release for such a huge game is a tough ask, especially with all of the other games to check out or get caught up on. I haven't even started it yet.
Bits N Pieces
Member
Great to see Ori up for a few awards 
Regardless of whether it looks good or bad, it seems to be very much the same engine as before. I could definitely see it winning at any time in the last 10 years, not any more.
Maybe it means like best in game technology, as in there's a robot butler in the game so that's like a pretty cool piece of technology. I want a robot butler.