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Who won mobile game of the year? Please tell me it was Monster Hunter...

go90....

 

[twothunder]

Witcher 3 winning was expected but deserved I guess.
Glad to see Splatoon win an award though.

Anti-climatic end. Wanted one last big announcement but... nope

 

[pizzaparty]

Wish Jif Keighley would stop looking at the floor so much when he is speaking.

 

[Frog-fu]

I enjoyed it.

 

[RevolverRoden]

MGSV Chapter 3 dream is dead, guys

I actually feel bad for the Never be game over guys.
GAME OVER

 

[Kinyou]

The Game Awards, sponsored by, among many other brands, Xbox, presented at the Microsoft theater in LA.
Did you really expect a PlayStation first party exclusive to be awarded?

Hell, with the amount of Star Wars Battelfront shilling going on, I'm surprised they didn't give that game at least 3 awards.

Goes without saying, though, it was worth watching for all the middle fingers pointed at Konami. #FuckKonami

How do you explain the lack of Xbox exclusives winning? Is it so hard to believe that Witcher 3 is a highly acclaimed game? This won't be the last goty award it gets.

 

[iMax]

The Game Awards, sponsored by, among many other brands, Xbox, presented at the Microsoft theater in LA.
Did you really expect a PlayStation first party exclusive to be awarded?

Hell, with the amount of Star Wars Battelfront shilling going on, I'm surprised they didn't give that game at least 3 awards.

Goes without saying, though, it was worth watching for all the middle fingers pointed at Konami. #FuckKonami

It's jury voted not voted by some sentient theatre god.

 

[Pachimari]

Best shooter?

I missed it sorry.

 

[Bornstellar]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Legit LOL'd.

 

[superNESjoe]

How was that the show closing surprise?

 

[Karak]

Seems a bit harsh.

I thought the show was good. It's definitely starting to build a nice foundation and considering this is only the second year it's definitely going to continue to get better.

Its him. He seems like lately its all about getting attention on himself rather than anything else.

 

[Papercuts]

I wish I was as drunk as Jade was right now.

 

[jett]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Time to elect a new pope, cuz the current one just got straight murdered.

 

[Head.spawn]

Damn, you've got a huge point there.

Yeah, I mean Xbox practically won every single category.

 

[QuantumSquid]

That "performance" at the end there was pretty bad but everything else was great. Very cool of Keighley to devote an entire segment to Iwata, he's certainly turned his reputation around since the Dorito pope days.

 

[outunderthestars]

Really enjoyed the show, hated a large number of the comments in this thread.

 

[Plywood]

That was a great show.

 

[ViciousDS]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Shots fired everywhere tonight!!!

 

[Nzyme32]

Wait, where's the great surprise?

Psychonauts is massive, even though it is just crowd funding. Wanted it for so many years, as much as Shenmue 3

 

[dickroach]

Deadmau5 is the new Nintendoland fireworks

hahaha I forgot about that. it was almost that bad.

 

[Byronic Hero]

That ending.

Lol

You're right, it was so flaccid.

 

[Stinkles]

I love Chvrches, but I thought that performance was fucking awful. Either that, or there was something fucked up with the sound on the technical side, but my favorite song of the year did not sound good.

It was amazingly Muse-style perfect in the room so I'm surprised.

 

[Memento]

Worst VGA/VGX/TGA ever. Seriously bad.

 

[ultraJosh]

Probably best presentation for the show so far but also the most lackluster world premiers. Still pretty entertaining to watch though.

Edit: Oh and Uncharted looks AMAZING.

 

[Aaronrules380]

This is Nintendo's fault, how?

Seriously. It was Keighley who said we'd see new Nintendo stuff. He's the one to blame for wasting our fucking time

 

[zoozilla]

Like pretty much every year, this had some good moments surrounded by really bad stuff.

Like every show before this, the Game Awards still suffer from a lack of focus. You can have a pure awards show or a pure promotional thing, but mixing the two will always be weird.

It's a tough problem to solve, though, since it seems most people watching the awards want to see game reveals even though at this point there are a dozen other venues for that stuff.

I feel like Geoff wants to focus on the awards, but is ham-stringed by a need to do promotional stuff for the funding.

 

[ArjanN]

Still laughing at Jade Raymond coming in like a rock star on some "I don't need your award show, your award show needs me" high. Kiefer feeling real pain after those shots.

GAF has such thin skin, that was like the mildest jab ever.

 

[Zomba13]

all that end performance made me want to do is watch the amazing music performance from last year.

Koji Kondo + imagine dragons

Yeah. Definitely ended on a flat note compared to last year.

 

[JeffZero]

Solid show. I'd give the edge to last year's, but it's fine. Good times, thanks Geoff (and all who helped).

 

[Chamber]

I just want to relive that Jade Raymond moment. I hope someone posts it up on youtube.

EDIT - Forgot I can just rewind.

 

[Loxley]

I'd say overall that was an improvement over last year's show right up until when Jade came out on stage, things were just sort of downhill after that.

But oh well, things are definitely getting better from my perspective.

 

[careksims]

THAT WAS IT?! All for nothing LOL! Oh man that was so cringe and bad. I was expecting more music from that guy too...

 

[LookAtMeGo]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Jim not get an invite or something? Got beef with Greg Miller?

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

Deadmau5 is the new Nintendoland fireworks

Pretty much. Why don't these guys realize you have to end the show with something people care about.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Someone stole all of Life is Strange awards, we got a picture of the suspect

Again, well deserved. Best $5(?) you're liable to ever spend on a game, it had me hooked from start to finish.

 

[GeoramA]

Decent show. Witcher 3 winning, Telltale Batman, and Jade making an ass out of herself were the highlights for me.

 

[Dweebo]

Thought it good this year, minus the obvious marketing stunts.

 

[lowhighkang_LHK]

So much advertising, but obviously short of self funding somebody gotta pay for things. Neccessary evil.

 

[psynergylover]

Done in 15 minutes. Had to contribute something to all of this.

damn I laughed so hard at this I woke up my mother!!!

 

[James93]

This terrible show brought to you by EA, drugs, the pre game that was better than the show, and a dj phoning it in.

 

[Javin98]

Well, it was a decent conference, but nothing special at all. 1 minute of new Uncharted 4 footage? Guess ND is saving it for PSX. Far Cry Primal trailer was nice, but it wasn't really gameplay... Oh, well, looks like Stefanie Joosten's performance is my favorite part of the show.

 

[~Kinggi~]

im so drunk right now i love it

 

[diaspora]

All of those world premieres were kinda disappointing. Nothing good there.

 

[SlickVic]

Stay salty MGSV avatar.

Last year Bayonetta 2 had to win and won a mediocre action game.
This year one of the best RPGs ever created won. Deal with it.

I see people toss the word 'generic' around quite a bit on GAF and I question if they really know the meaning of the world. I'm guessing it's a more trendy way to say 'overrated' nowadays.

 

[LordBaztion]

Konami trying to get to the GA

 

[DNAbro]

Well that was uhh okay. The awards portion was fine but jesus that end was bad.


Also boooooooooooo Undertale didn't win anything.

 

[UltraGunner]

5/10 needed more Go90 ads

 

[Skux]

Best shooter?

Best shooter was Jade Raymond with those shots fired at Kiefer Sutherland.

 

[Floody]

Kinda sad that the best announcement (well the only ones I remember) was a Crowd Funded game and a new character in Uncharted 4.

 

[Doffen]

The Game Awards, sponsored by, among many other brands, Xbox, presented at the Microsoft theater in LA.
Did you really expect a PlayStation first party exclusive to be awarded?

Hell, with the amount of Star Wars Battelfront shilling going on, I'm surprised they didn't give that game at least 3 awards.

Goes without saying, though, it was worth watching for all the middle fingers pointed at Konami. #FuckKonami

You heard it here first folks. Microsoft gave TGA their theater just so Bloodborne wouldn't win goty.

Spoiler

Ori should have won.