The Game Awards 2020 - live coverage - Sephiroth joins Smash, new Perfect Dark



It's that time of year again, where game companies will reveal to us snippets of information about upcoming games while we appreciate the games that have released throughout this past year. There are plenty of of different categories to see awarded, from Best eSports Host, to the illustrious Game of the Year. GBAtemp will be covering the event, from start to finish, so you can easily check out all the major announcements without having to tune in. However, if you are interested in the show, you can tune in and watch alongside us on our official Twitch channel, as we stream the show and talk about the games that came out this year, while reporting on the event.

The show will kick off at 4:00pm PT.

The first award goes to Final Fantasy VII Remake, which won Best Soundtrack/Score.

Loop Hero announced by Devolver Digital. It's a pixel game where you fight in dungeons with cards. 2021.

This next game sees you explore oceans, mountains, and more on a topical island. You can follow animals and manipulate certain objects. Tchia is the name.

Best Action Adventure goes to The Last of Us Part II.

Developer Jo-Mei, along with Quantic Dream as the publisher, are working on Sea of Solitude Director's Cut for an exclusive release on the Nintendo Switch.

Shady Part of Me is now available. It's a puzzle game where you use your shadow to solve puzzles.

The rest of the Yakuza games are coming to PC

Best Family Game: Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Best Community Support: Fall Guys.
Best Debut Game: Phasmophobia.

Myst gets a VR release. You can get a Myst-themed Oculus Home space if you order it on the Oculus store.

Lyn is on stage to perform some Persona 5 Strikers music.

Nier Replicant gets some gameplay.



We are OFK is an interative game coming 2021.

Best eSports Game: League of Legends
Best eSports Coach: Zonic
Best eSports Event: League of Legends World Champion 2020
Best eSports Host: Sjokz
Best eSports Team: G2 eSports
Best eSports Athelete: Showmaker

Ride dragons and fight other dragons in Century: Age of Ashes, launches Feb. 2021.

Now the real show begins.

Smash Bros.!

Sephiroth is the latest DLC. Coming Dec. 2020.

Best Performance: Laura Bailey for TLOU2.

The Initiative is working on a new Perfect Dark game.

Turtle Rock's latest game features the zombie apocalypse. Back4Blood. Zombie co-op shooter. It looks very much like Left4Dead. June 22.



Scavengers gets a PC closed beta, and is a snowy third person battle royale.

Assassinate, fight, brawl, and run as outlaws in Hood: Outlaws and Legends.

Nintendo celebrates all the indie games released throughout the years.

Best Ongoing Game: No Man's Sky

The Callisto Protocol coming 2022.

Warhammer: Dark Tide sees you slaying waves upon waves of zombies.

Best Art Direction: Ghost of Tsushima
Best Action Game: Hades
Best VR: Half Life Alyx
Best Sports: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
Most Anticipated: Elden Ring

Uncover a mystery from years ago in Open Roads.

Valorant gets a new trailer.

Disco Elysium Final Cut, free upgrade for existing players, March 2021.



Dragon Age's latest game gets a cinematic trailer.

Tactical isometric squad-based roguelike game made by SEGA. Endless Dungeon.

Black Desert Online creators are working on a new MMO. Crimson Desert shows off its visuals and graphics. Winter 2021.

Best Narrative: The Last of Us Part II

Swedish Chef is here to...talk. Swedish Chef is now playable in Overcooked.

Take another new-old look at Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Warframe has some free Unreal Tournament skins available on the Epic Games Store.

Season heads to PlayStation, where you wander nature and take notes.

Games for impact: Tell Me Why.

An incredibly long trailer for Ark 2, starring Vin Diesel.

Ark is also getting an animated series, too, in 2022.

Fall Guys is getting some winter-themed content! New stages and costumes aplenty.

Checkpoint is about bringing help and mental health to gamers.

Square Enix is publishing Outriders, out Feb 2.

FIST is out Spring 2021. It has animals with giant cybernetic fists for punching.

Best Multiplayer: Among Us.

The necronomicon is a focus in this horror game with werewolves, knights, and chainsaws, in Evil Dead, coming 2021.



Capcom is remaking Ghosts and Goblins, releases Feb 25.



Capcom Arcade Stadium will be a download on the Switch with old classic Capcom games available.

Best indie: Hades
Best Audio: The Last of Us Part II
Best RPG: Final Fantasy VII Remake
Best Sim: Microsoft Flight Simulator
Player's Voice: Ghost of Tsushima

Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate

Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming to the Series X and S.

Super Meat Boy Forever launches Dec 23.

Reach the border in a procedural road trip game called Road 96.

EA has a new game about two humans that turn into dolls and play minigames to turn back into humans. You play coop in all sorts of challenges. It Takes Two.

REGGIE IS HERE.

Accessibility: The Last of Us Part II

Elder Scrolls...Online: Gates of Oblivion is the latest expansion, coming next year.

The next Oddworld game launches spring 2021.

Best mobile: Among Us.

Monster Hunter Rise has a new trailer, which shows the threat of new monsters. March 26th.

Evil West has guns, bladed gauntlets, zombies, and more. Launches 2021.

Scarlet Nexus hits Spring 2021.

Among Us adds The Airship as a new map. Early 2021.



Geoff Keighly also gets a mask in Among Us,

Content creator: Valkerae

Master Chief is coming to Fortnite.

Daryl and Michonne from The Walking Dead also coming ot Fortnite.

Just Cause is coming to mobile. Challenge modes and online play.

League of Legends: A Ruined King gets its world premiere. It's a card-based RPG.

Best Game Direction: The Last of Us Part 2

VR multiplayer shooter about WWII, in Medal of Honor Above and Beyond.

Mass Effect is going to continue...sometime.



Game of the Year: The Last of Us Part II

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About as mediocre as expected honestly.

It's kinda funny, even the Game Awards seem to understand no one cares about their awards. They just rifled them off between reveals and ads. Didn't even have time to discuss really because they happened so fast.

Thanks for the peeps who joined us live, was fun to shit talk this terrible show with some people.
Tbh you guys made the show actually fun to watch
 

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The Last of Us part 2 was designed in a way to win awards. That's why I always thought that it was going to be the one that won. The stuff that it did that pissed off a lot of gamers (some warranted and some certainly not even remotely warranted) is the stuff that award shows love.
This. TLOU2 is the video game equivalent of the Oscar bait movies. Designed to appeal to the awards folks.
 

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I called that TLoU2 would win GoTY in the last thread and I'm still super disappointed. I'm convinced that the Game Awards is rigged by the journalists or something, it does not deserve half of those awards, and the game isn't acclaimed at all by regular people. It's a shame to see that Doom Eternal lost on the game's 25th anniversary too.
 
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the problem is this is going to show in the long run how meaningless the awards are if the critics are the only one really deciding game of the year (or any of them for that matter) and I thing that going to hurt reviewers in the long run
 

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How the fuck did Animal Crossing: New Horizons get best family game. Gone are the days where families actually sit in the same room with a controller and played a fucking game together. And pretty sad best rpg is final fantasy 7 a fuckin remake of a 20 year old game and not even half of a fucking game just a hand holding steaming pile of shit.
 

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How the fuck did Animal Crossing: New Horizons get best family game. Gone are the days where families actually sit in the same room with a controller and played a fucking game together. And pretty sad best rpg is final fantasy 7 a fuckin remake of a 20 year old game and not even half of a fucking game just a hand holding steaming pile of shit.

Think you need to lay off the bath salts for a while, calm down.
 

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To be honest, not a bad presentation. Sephiroth for Smash is awesome even though I'm too poor for a Switch right now so it's just teasing me. Though on that note, a bit of life advice; find someone as excited to be with you as Maximillion Dood is that Sephy's in Smash. His face, man. Priceless.

Aside from that it was decent enough. Elite Dangerous getting more, new Perfect Dark, that appears to be Liara in the Mass Effect teaser. More Dragon Age is always welcome as long as EA keeps their stanky corporate dongs out of those two franchises of course. Disco Elysium finally coming to PS4. Some good looking indies and whatnot. Not a bad show. I've certainly seen worse.

As for the awards, personally I think that while TLOU2 was decent enough, it's made me cynical as I don't believe it won based on the merits of the game so much as how it toes the right political lines with its gender activist stuff. I'd have given it to Ghost Of Tsushima, FF7R at a push. To be honest I'm tired of all the politics in video games these days. I just wanna have fun, experience a rich world and decent story, shoot some guys in the face. I don't need to be reminded of the real world I'm trying to avoid. In that respect TLOU2 is an awful video game as it defeats the entire purpose of playing a video game to begin with.
 

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It wasn't anything other than what most expected which was mostly a SJW circle jerk and ADs. I think those who are a gaming fan will see past all this nonsense and not give it much merit.
 

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So, in conclusion:
  • Half the nominations (including GOTY) are swiped by mildly decent game that happened to have the largest marketing campaign of all competition, to nobody's surprise;
  • Best Action Game is played between several acclaimed skill-based arcades, is given to a dialogue focused roguelite instead;
  • Best Family Game is awarded to a release that's still notoriously restricts multiple family members from playing the game properly
  • Best Mobile Game 2020 is a title that's neither mobile-focused nor 2020.
The overall experience is kinda shrug-inducing. Yakuza remasters are cool though, so I can live with that.
 

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My centiments are exactly the same with most gamers who watched the livestream, that TLoU 2 didn't deserve the GOTY award. Even though I haven't played it, there are just better games suited for the GOTY especially from the perpective of gamers. It all makes sense though if most of the judges and votes came from journalists and not the gamers themselves. The game itself was an exclusive to playstation and yet all other games are multi-platform, unlike God of War in 2018 where it was also exclusive yet everyone can all agree. Because everyone should judge a game from all aspects like gameplay, story, sound and music, content, character development, etc. I don't even think TLOU 2 should win or get nominated in all the categories, but oh well what's done is done. I'm guessing they just want to appeal and market to certain individuals and companies and not the gamers.

I'm guessing it's just a controversial game or something, does it make it relevant in our society? I think gamers even are intelligent enough to know the difference of a shallow game or not. Anyway, I just watched it for the announcement of upcoming games, was disappointed though as they weren't that interesting.

Here I was thinking 2020 couldn't get any worse, then here we are in the gaming community with these issues and drama.
 
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