Game Awards 2024 Predictions?

[crantheman]

With the game awards less than two months away, I've been thinking about possible contenders for Game Of The Year. Previous year's winners went like this:

2014 - Dragon Age: Inquisition
2015 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
2016 - Overwatch
2017 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2018 - God of War
2019 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
2020 - The Last of Us Part II
2021 - It Takes Two
2022 - Elden Ring
2023 - Baldur’s Gate 3

The biggest contenders for GOTY most likely will be between FF7 Rebirth, Black Myth Wukong, Astro Bot, and Metaphor ReFantazio (Altas had such a huge year with this and Persona 3 Reload). Personally, I believe Black Myth Wukong is the most deserving for game of the year (It's the only game I've completed out of the games I listed, so I have a bit of bias). It's a fantastic love letter to Journey To The West backed by great gameplay, a great story, and a world filled with gorgeous detail. In addition, the game was developed by a small team of 60, and I always like rooting for the underdogs.

How about you guys? What would you like to see fighting for the GOTY spot this year?

 

[Corpocore]

I think Astrobot definitely has a chance to win, one of the best 3D platformers I've ever played. Team Asobi just doesn't miss.

 

[Andrew]

I have never felt so out of the loop, yet Wukong seems to be the current media darling (note that I don’t say this as an insult) so that’s my anticipated winner. What I’ve played of Metaphor rules, though I’m not sure if it’s gonna have the same impact that P5 did.

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

there isn't a Best DLC category or anything so my prediction is that they're going to put the Elden Ring DLC in the outright GOTY category and people will get understandably mad about it lol

 

[KeplerElectronics]

2014 - Dragon Age: Inquisition
2015 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
2016 - Overwatch
2017 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2018 - God of War
2019 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
2020 - The Last of Us Part II
2021 - It Takes Two
2022 - Elden Ring
2023 - Baldur’s Gate 3

I was going to agree with Andrew that I feel out of the loop, then I reread the list of past winners and realized the only one I've played from this list is BotW. I've always been out of the loop on these games, this year is no exception. I legit have no clue what games came out this year that might get it.

My personal GOTY nominations are almost always indie, this year it's probably Selaco or Animal Well. If the To The Moon Beach Episode was longer it'd probably be in contention as well, but it's both incredibly short and pretty much requires playing the first three games and minisodes to properly enjoy.

 

[crantheman]

What I’ve played of Metaphor rules, though I’m not sure if it’s gonna have the same impact that P5 did.

As much praise Metaphor ReFantazio has gotten, Persona 5 was a HUGE phenomenon when it came out. I remember being in high school and all the nerds and gamers in my school were talking about the game. One guy brought his PS4 into school just to play some of the game during lunch, and had a huge crowd watching behind him. The game is also the reason I love acid jazz/jazz fusion in general. I'm not sure if Metaphor could ever reach the impact of Persona 5, no matter how good the game may be.

 

[crantheman]

My personal GOTY nominations are almost always indie, this year it's probably Selaco or Animal Well.

As much as I'd love indie games to get more attention, sadly it's usually the big AAA titles that get the attention at the Game Awards.

(Although I think Hades won a ton of awards during the 2020 show if I'm correct)

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

there isn't a Best DLC category or anything so my prediction is that they're going to put the Elden Ring DLC in the outright GOTY category and people will get understandably mad about it lol

they call me the gamer psychic

 

[Kit]

Tiddlywinks GOTY 2024

 

[Term]

my pick never gets nominated for The Big One anyway so I'm officially on board with Crab

let's go elden ring babyyyyy

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

don't call it being on board with me lol, I will be mad if it actually wins

way too many great new games this year, snubbing any of them for a DLC sucks no matter how good it is. Destiny 2 and WoW got expansions this year too and people seem to really like the Alan Wake 2 DLC, if there was any year to just give this stuff a category it's this one

but then again these are the awards that called a game by Nexon an indie game and Sifu a fighting game, so what can you expect. being an embarrassment isn't new for them lmao

 

[Term]

idk I don't take it too seriously, it might as well at least be funny lol

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

Nominations are out, Unicorn Overlord isn't nominated for Best Art Direction so the whole thing is fraudulent, really

they should give Balatro GOTY, it's a great game and also it's the one people would get most mad about

 

[Term]

I think people would get more mad about the Elden Ring DLC taking it

also Multiversus. major lmao at it being nominated a 2nd time for an award it already won before, especially since the whole game is dogwater

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

yeah but people getting mad about the elden ring dlc winning is fine because that is not a game

the silent hill 2 remake being up for best narrative is probably the one that annoys me the most. i don't normally go "a remake shouldn't be up for awards" like some people do, but that game's whole marketing cycle was just them going "we didn't change anything about the story, please trust us". nobody should be winning awards for copying someone's 23 year old homework lol

 

[GlitchyPSI]

balatro being nominated the way it was is such a crazy sight

but then,

 

[crantheman]

nobody should be winning awards for copying someone's 23 year old homework lol

Exactly!