The Games Awards 2017 Nominees Announced
It's that time of the year when Geoff Keighley hosts the most anticipated night in game criticism.
The Game Awards 2017 will air live on December 7 at 8:30 PM ET and today Geoff Keighley announced the nominees. If you don't want to watch the 12 minute video embedded below, we have compiled a list of the nominees. Please take a look.
Best Performance
Ashly Burch as Aloy - Horizon: Zero Dawn
Brian Bloom as BJ Blazkowicz - Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Laura Bailey as Nadine Ross - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Melina Juergens as Senua - Hellblade: Sensua's Sacrifice
Best Audio Design
Destiny 2
Hellblade: Sensua's Sacrifice
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Best Score/Music
Cuphead
Destiny 2
NieR: Automata
Persona 5
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Best Ongoing Game
Destiny 2
Grand Theft Auto Online
Overwatch
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Warframe
Games For Impact
Bury me, my Love
Hellblade: Sensua's Sacrifice
Life is Strange: Before The Storm
Night In The Woods
Please Knock on My Door
What Remains of Edith Finch
Best Art Direction
Cuphead
Destiny 2
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Persona 5
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Best Multiplayer Experience
Call of Duty: WWII
Destiny 2
Fortnite
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Splatoon 2
Trending Gamer
Andrea Rene - What's Good Games
Clint Lexa - halfcoordinated
Guy Beahm - Dr. Disrespect
Mike Grzesiek - C9 Shroud
Steven Spohn - AbleGamers
Most Anticipated Game
God of War
Marvel Spider-Man
Monster Hunter World
Red Dead Redemption II
The Last of Us Part II
Best Action/Adventure Game
Assassin's Creed: Origins
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Best Action Game
Cuphead
Destiny 2
Nioh
Prey
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Best Esports Team
Cloud9
Faze Clan
Lunatic-Hai
SKT1
Team Liquid
Best Esports Player
Faker
Coldzera
Niko
Ryujehong
Kuroky
Best Esports Game
CS: GO
DOTA 2
League of Legends
Overwatch
Rocket League
Best Role Playing Game
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Final Fantasy XV
NieR: Automata
Persona 5
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Best VR/AR Game
Farpoint
Lone Echo: Echo Arena
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Star Trek Bridge Crew
SUPERHOT VR
Best Sports or Racing Game
FIFA 18
Forza Motorsport 7
GT Sport
NBA 2K18
PES 20188
Project Cars 2
Best Strategy Game
Halo Wars 2
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Total War: Warhammer 2
Tooth and Tail
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
Best Family Game
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Sonic Mania
Splatoon 2
Super Mario Odyssey
Best Fighting Game
ARMS
Injustice 2
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite
Nidhogg II
Tekken 7
Best Handheld Game
Ever Oasis
Fire Emblem: Echoes
Metroid: Samus Returns
Monster Hunter Stories
Poochy & Yoshi's Wooly World
Best Mobile Game
Fire Emblem: Heroes
Hidden Folks
Monument Valley II
Old Man's Journey
Super Mario Run
Best Independent Game
Cuphead
Hellblade: Sensua's Sacrifice
Night in the Woods
Pyre
What Remains of Edith Finch
Best Narrative
Hellblade: Sensua's Sacrifice
Horizon: Zero Dawn
NieR: Automata
What Remains of Edith Finch
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Best Game Direction
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Game of the Year
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Persona 5
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
You can vote now by going to The Game Awards website right now. The Game Awards 2017 will air live on December 7 at 8:30 PM ET.
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replyAsif Khan posted a new article, The Games Awards 2017 Nominees Announced
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Best Performance with 4 woman nominated is pretty awesome!
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Ashly Burch might have been nominated twice in the same category if the voice actor's strike didn't keep her from being Chloe in Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
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Good point
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I guess they're either banking on PUBG being completed before the end of the year or don't care it's not done.
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Seems like they are setting a precedent. Early Access games can be nominated for The Game Awards GOTY.
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I know right? The Shacknews Awards sounds dank af.
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Trending Shacker is tough this year.
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Best Original Shackmeme
Most Underrated Shacker
Most Underrated Thread
Loneliest Shacker (most OP's with 0 replies or self-bumps only)
Rookie of the Year
Best Use of Shack APIs
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That is why people call it the "Keighley's"
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Ongoing Game is also a weird category.
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Same with best Chinese game. You know that Tencent shoehorned in that one.
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PUBG is great, but it's kind of one note. It does that one note SUPER well, but other games this year had more..............breadth.
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Nah, if you can pay for it and play it then it should be nominated that year. That means you shouldn't have crappy state games for public consumption.
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It missed its chance quite a few years ago now.
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Best Ongoing Game of the Decade.
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Yep. People forget that this game is not done. Or at least I hope it's not, based on what I've heard about the netcode.
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They're saying 1.0 next month, that's "launch ready" or whatever.
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2017: best year for video games.
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Haven't played a single one of these. Oh well.
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i think doki doki literature club absolutely should qualify for the 'games for impact' category, though maybe it did and just got beat out by the others (that IS a pretty solid list for the impact category, tbh)
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Most Promotional Award
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Best Ongoing Game? wut?
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With all the stuff that’s been out this year?! It’s really not. Though, PUBG has no business there being unfinished.
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If anything, Yakuza Zero should have been there.
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Twitch personalities.
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Thank you! It is my attention to detail that gets me the big bucks.
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i gave it a try http://i.chattypics.com/files/videogameawards_yruoytd3n3.jpg
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This looks so dumb.
I hate these bullshit awards, it's so arbitrary- best performance. Fucking lol.-
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A ton of things- limited voting base, arbitrary categories- Best performance neglects the fact that someone else wrote the lines, another one directed/produced the performance. It's like having movie awards that are only about the actors.
These categories were created to be digestible by idiots who get excited about awards, not to honor any real achievements. Notice most of the things are products or services. Not individuals. It's an advertisement in the form of an awards show. Keighley is a softball hack who can read lines in front of a camera- he's the Ryan Seacrest of games.
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It being People's Choice Awards vs Oscars is a different criticism than what the awards are for. If they want to give an award for best performance, fine, whatever. Its being an ad though, yeah, no shit.
My stand is that all awards shows are bad so I really don't care. This is more about the original post-
I will say that the jury is like the least of its problems, its almost all reputable sources. Keighley himself was a hell of a journalist before he went down the producing path. IMHO his Final Hours series in the late 90s through mid-2000s is as good as it gets, and even then the Final Hours app he made for Portal 2 was really good.
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All award shows being shit doesn't excuse another one.
All they have to do is mention the writers or producers of the voice content, alongside the actor that spent 10 hours making grunting sounds to be played randomly when shot in-game? Is it that hard to make it appear credible?
The sources are maybe reputable? Hard to say. The COD game that came out 1 week ago is nominated for Best Multiplayer Game? Seems legit. Most anticipated game?
This is exactly why I never bought the argument "games are art" - because they are constantly treated like products and anything that honors them, an advertisement.
Ah, I can see it now- this fucking dope next to Woodward and Bernstein on the mantle of sterling journalism:
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/nKzF6EfMB2Y/hqdefault.jpg
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Low hanging fruit, even he criticized that product placement ages ago.
Things like Final Hours of Half Life, Daikatana, Black & White, Half Life 2, and Portal 2 are all absolutely fantastic. Its taken almost a decade but only Danny O'Dwyer is just starting to pick up on what Keighley did, and even his work isn't such an honest warts and all account of crunch.
And of course the "games are art" argument is stupid. Its why I roll my eyes whenever people talk about Horizon having a good story or whatever; so much of what passes as "amazing" is sub-Syfy level of narrative (then again this is the same slice of audience that loves Peter Jackson movies and Ready Player One). Aside from execution there's the fact that as a whole gaming the most blatantly commercial medium today. Its why I focus so much on what I feel are games' specific strengths, which are mechanics, rules, and player teaching.
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This list is invalid. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 hasn't been released yet.
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