Expedition 33 coronation as expected.

Thing that surprised me the most was Wuthering Waves for Players Choice Award over Expedition 33, Dispatch, Silksong, Death Stranding, Ghost of Yotei, and KCD2. Literal complete stable of awesome games across genres lost out to a gatcha game. Are there just more gooner gamers than I thought? 🤔

Mega-hyped for Total War: Warhammer 40k

Flute guy killed it as usual!

What are your thoughts on the awards and show overall?

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    3 days ago

    Wuthering Waves should not be surprising. It’s a game that’s popular in China. If you’re polling people from all over the world to determine a winner, the one that wins is the most popular game in China.

    Clair Obscur is a good game, but I definitely like it far less than everyone else, and if I were god of video game awards, it would have gone to Kingdom Come: Deliverance II this year.

    Fatal Fury winning best fighting game was the objectively correct choice when faced against an early access game and several collections.

    The Alters losing out to a port of a PS1 game, even a spruced up one, for the strategy category is pretty stupid. The Alters also should have shown up in narrative and performance.

    As for reveals, there’s lots to be excited for. My most anticipated game for next year is probably Invincible Vs; I have not seen Ella Mental at where I’m at in the show, and maybe she won’t show up until later seasons, but she looks like a great Storm archetype for that game.

    • wia@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      She is a unique creation for the game. Not in the comic or show, unless they somehow decide to add her to the show later.

      But it follows the comics so tightly that would be kind of odd.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I have now caught up to where the show left off, and I’ll probably pick up the comics during an imminent sale somewhere. I did hear that this game would have an original story, and given all the deconstruction of its genre that that show does, it gets me excited that they’re doing something similar for tag fighting games. A riff on Storm from Marvel vs Capcom 2 would be perfect for that.