Game awards 2025

[Danieru-Emanyueru]

Have you all already watched the show? What are your opinions? Are you satisfied or disappointed?

 

[Tortuga]

I didn't watch it, but it was terrible

 

[Questless Knight]

Did not watch. I have better things to do in my life than watch bunch of wankers sit and blow each other off.

 

[Zeo]

Didnt see it yet, but what are the odds that they started to talk about stuff no one cares like if it was the best thing ever

 

[Saichii_Alba]

Nope, but I’m still disappointed anyways . I just wanted Kingdom Hearts news but I got nothing

Still the Mega Man new game looks nice

 

[Elwiwi]

I didn't watch it, besides the 2 awards ( maybe 3 ) I agree on the winners . The games announced I don't really care about most of them at least for now

 

[Kamako]

Alot of the new trailers were fine, the promo for a new Divinity title was a stand-out. There were some small bits that got right under my skin though.

After a trailer for a reasonably cool looking game with a pop-punk soundtrack, it cut back to one of the hosts, and she read off the teleprompter: "Wow, if you aren't excited about that, then maybe you're the problem". And I just thought: Who was that for? Who was that supposed to land with? Who did they test that line on before including it in the show who was like "HAHAHAHA OH WOW great job guys, great line". Like wtf? Maybe that kind of stuff doesn't bother anyone else, but it completely soured my initial feelings towards the game they'd just been promoting.

 

[GundamJehutyKai]

hard to be disappointed when expectations are so low... at least for the actual awards section. They always try to raise it up but it always ends as a farce.

I guess there were a few cool announcements. New ace combat caught my interest as did a new megaman game.

 

[tselinoyarsk]

The awards ceremony itself was fine. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 deserves a lot of appreciation and even Game of the Year, but I was a little surprised that Death Stranding 2 didn't win a single award.

As for game reveals, it's another story... It seemed like a lot of people online (that I could see) had high expectations and ~90% of what people mentioned wasn't revealed at TGA. So I'm sure a lot of people are walking away from this show simply feeling disappointed.

 

[bjork]

I didn't watch it but I did read people's reactions in the other thread that was just made like three days ago

The Game Awards

I'ma be honest, I don't care about the awards at all. What I care about are the trailers for upcoming games! Here's my wishlist: Square Enix- Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer, and a teaser for the third part of Final Fantasy 7 remake. Namco Bandai- Ace Combat 8 and a teaser for the next mainline Tales...

retrogametalk.com

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I'm a bit out of the loop in general, so this is me genuinely asking and not a dig at anyone:
I've seen a few people say they were surprised Death Stranding 2 didn't win any awards.
Is that just because they expected Koijma in general to win something, or was DS2 actually really good?
Asking because I don't really hear or see many people talking about it. Feels like it just kinda came and went to me with little fanfare.

*for reference, I didn't watch the show and wasn't interested by any of the new announcements.

 

[tselinoyarsk]

Is that just because they expected Koijma in general to win something, or was DS2 actually really good?

For me personally, I would have thought that Death Stranding 2 would've have at least won the award for Best Art Direction over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is running on UE5 and looks the part.

Don't get me wrong, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a beautiful looking game and honestly it's not really a big deal to me because I'd argue that art is subjective.

 

[aquova]

It was exactly as it was every year, they try to make a big deal about the even, but end up feeling a bit lackluster. I actually though that it was a bit more interesting than past years at least

 

[Andromeda_The Fallen]

Every new game trailer was uninteresting, I couldn't care less about awards.

 

[Alarond]

The only thing I've been asking for 5 years is: WHO IS PAYING THIS? This is not E3 anymore. E3 was organized by an Association of Game Publishers, when they decided the best games, they established the rules for the voting, whatever they were.

He who pays is in charge, and when he who pays these prizes, is hiding, it is because OBVIOUSLY the prizes are corrupt by nature. Are you really pretending to tell me, a simple guy who is nobody but is the only face of these deliberately presumptuous named awards... does the job in a "fair" manner?

Fuck you: DO THE JOB IN A CREDIBLE WAY.

And treat the awards as what they are: awards. Not a fucking excuse to scam people, including developers itself.

 

[Soma_Shotgun]

For my timezone, it went from 1:30-5 AM. Woke up at 4 and watched from there while also skimming through the stuff I've missed. Glad I've seen the Mega Man 12 reveal live. As a huge Mega Man fan it kinda made me walk away really happy.

Otherwise pretty uneventful. Bunch of games that look like slop or just uninteresting. Also E33 won pretty much everything as expected since nothing really came out this year. This was a really lackluster year in terms of game releases. Also Jeff and Kojima might have had a break up lol. Glad KCD2 and especially DS2 did not win anything.

 

[Da Joker Da Joker Da Joker's icon]

No

 

[Boofytan]

I'm happy for the mega man fans

 

[BiriCross]

No, i didn't watch the Game Awards.
Because I don't care.

 

[Hypogastrium]

the new yakuza korean game looked neat, the new divinity looks interesting and the new star wars old republic has the original designer attached, so that looks interesting too. otherwise the rest of the games look boring and like they have little to no depth.

 

[Alarond]

Otherwise pretty uneventful. Bunch of games that look like slop or just uninteresting. Also E33 won pretty much everything as expected since nothing really came out this year.

Well... apart from Switch 2, its new Nintendo games, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Monster Hunter Wilds, Elden Ring Nightreign, Like a Dragon: Hawaii, Battlefield 6, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Civilization VII, Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, Borderlands 4, Hollow Knight: Silksong...

Also Jeff and Kojima might have had a break up lol. Glad KCD2 and especially DS2 did not win anything.

Kojima probably cheated him.

 

[PhaseJump]

It was cringe bullshit like every other year. Doritopope should be arrested and deported back to Canada forever so he can suffer like the rest of us.

 

[Hypogastrium]

Well... apart from Switch 2, its new Nintendo games, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Monster Hunter Wilds, Elden Ring Nightreign, Like a Dragon: Hawaii, Battlefield 6, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Civilization VII, Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, Borderlands 4, Hollow Knight: Silksong...

nintendo has no new ideas and just rehash their older games and water them down. the switch 2 having so little difference from the first switch with so few exclusives that it doesn't match its asking price. too many of those games are sequels or play so similar to other games that it makes for a bleak sight for progress in video games where this has been going on for over 5 years.

 

[Alarond]

nintendo has no new ideas and just rehash their older games and water them down. the switch 2 having so little difference from the first switch with so few exclusives that it doesn't match its asking price. too many of those games are sequels or play so similar to other games that it makes for a bleak sight for progress in video games where this has been going on for over 5 years.

As far as I remember, people demand sequels of known franchises from Nintendo.
In fact, people are demanding a new F-Zero since 22 years ago.
The problem of Nintendo is... they have too many franchises since, at least, from the Gamecube days.
For example: Donkey Kong did not have a new full 3D game since DK64 until Bonanza, this year.

Some classic series like 1080, Pilotwings or Wave Race are simply parked.

Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, Pikmin, Metroid, Starfox, Kirby, Zelda, Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, and many more... and then The Mario series: Mario Kart, Mario RPG subseries, Mario Sports subseries, Mario 2D and Mario 3D series, Luigi's Mansion, Yoshi, Wario, Peach... everyone there has his own subseries.

It's totally impossible for Nintendo to do everything.

 

[moonbits]

Cool games, cool trailers, enjoyed the announcements.

A new Ace Combat makes me a happy man. Got plenty of games to look forward.

The muppets weren't funny on this one.

I did have a bunch of laughs, Geoff being forced to promote Chinese games with a deadpan stare.