The Game Awards 2021

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The Game Awards 2021 broadcast begins at 8 p.m. EST today you can watch on:

The nominees are:

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Game of the Year

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Metroid Dread (MercurySteam, Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Best Game Direction

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Returnal (Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Ongoing

• Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts)
• Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward, Raven Software/Activision)
• Final Fantasy 14 Online (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• Genshin Impact (Mihoyo)

Best Narrative

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/Square Enix)
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/Square Enix)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Indie

• 12 Minutes (Luis Antonio/Annapurna Interactive)
• Death’s Door (Acid Nerve/Devolver Digital)
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
• Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital)
• Loop Hero (Four Quarters/Devolver Digital)

Best Mobile Game

• Fantasian (Mistwalker)
• Genshin Impact (Mihoyo)
• League of Legends: Wild Rift (Riot Games)
• Marvel Future Revolution (Netmarble)
• Pokémon Unite (TiMi Studios/The Pokémon Company)

Best VR/AR

• Hitman 3 (IO Interactive)
• I Expect You to Die 2 (Schell Games)
• Lone Echo 2 (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
• Resident Evil 4 (Armature Studio, Capcom/Oculus Studios)
• Sniper Elite VR (Coatsink, Just Add Water/Rebellion Developments)

Best Action

• Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock Studios/Warner Bros. Games)
• Chivalry 2 (Torn Banner Studios/Tripwire Interactive)
• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
• Returnal (Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Action/Adventure

• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/Square Enix)
• Metroid Dread (MercurySteam, Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Best Role Playing

• Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)
• Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
• Scarlet Nexus (Bandai Namco)
• Shin Megami Tensei 5 (Atlus/Sega)
• Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco)

Best Fighting

• Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba The Hinokami Chronicles (CyberConnect2/Sega)
• Guilty Gear Strive (Arc System Works)
• Melty Blood: Type Lumina (French-Bread/Delightworks)
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Ludosity, Fair Play Labs/GameMill)
• Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown (Sega)

Best Debut Indie

• Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
• Sable (Shedworks/Raw Fury)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)
• The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers)
• Valheim (Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain Studios)

Best Family

• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Mario Party Superstars (NDcube/Nintendo)
• New Pokémon Snap (Bandai Namco/The Pokémon Company/Nintendo)
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo)
• WarioWare: Get It Together! (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

Best Sports/Racing

• F1 2021 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
• FIFA 22 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports)
• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed (Milestone)
• Riders Republic (Ubisoft Annecy/Ubisoft)

Best Sim/Strategy

• Age of Empires 4 (Relic Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Evil Genius 2: World Domination (Rebellion Developments)
• Humankind (Amplitude Studios/Sega)
• Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Multiplayer

• Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock Studios/Warner Bros. Games)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Knockout City (Velan Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
• New World (Amazon Games)
• Valheim (Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain Studios)

Most Anticipated Game

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarok (SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Untitled sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
• Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)

Best Art Direction

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)

Best Score and Music

• Cyberpunk 2077 (Marcin Przybylowicz, Piotr T. Adamczyk, Composers)
• Deathloop (Tom Salta, Composer)
• NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 (Keiichi Okabe, Composer)
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Richard Jacques, Composer)
• The Artful Escape (Johnny Galvatron & Josh Abrahams, Composers)

Best Audio Design

• Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
• Returnal (Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Performance

• Erika Mori as Alex Chen, Life is Strange: True Colors
• Giancarlo Esposito as Anton Castillo, Far Cry 6
• Jason E. Kelley as Colt Vahn, Deathloop
• Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village
• Ozioma Akagha as Julianna Blake, Deathloop

Games for Impact

• Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games/Skybound Games)
• Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox Games)
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Greg Lobanow, Alexis dean-Jones, Lena Raine, Madeline Berger, A Shell in the Pit/Finji)
• Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/Square Enix)
• No Longer Home (Humble Grove, Hana Lee, Cel Davison, Adrienne Lombardo, Eli Rainsberry/Fellow Traveler)

Best Community Support

• Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• Final Fantasy 14 (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Innovation in Accessibility

• Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/Square Enix)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Creative Bytes Studios/Falling Squirrel)

Content Creator of the Year

• Dream
• Fuslie
• Gaules
• Ibai
• TheGrefg

Best Esports Game

• Call of Duty (Activision)
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
• Dota 2 (Valve)
• League of Legends (Riot Games)
• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

• Chris “Simp” Lehr
• Heo “ShowMaker” Su
• Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov
• Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
• Tyson “TenZ” Ngo
• Best Esports Team
• Atlanta FaZe (Call of Duty)
• DWG KIA (League of Legends)
• Natus Vincere (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Sentinels (Valorant)
• Team Spirit (DOTA 2)

Best Esports Coach

• Airat “Silent” Gaziev
• Andrey “ENGH” Sholokhov
• Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi
• James “Crowder” Crowder
• Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun

Best Esports Event

• 2021 League of Legends World Championship
• PGL Major Stockholm 2021 (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020
• The International 2021 (DOTA 2)
• Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters

 

 

 

Who do you think is going to be the Game of the Year?

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Rumors:

• BotW2 trailer/gameplay
• Twilight Princess + Wind Waker collection announcement
• 6 minutes gameplay/trailer world premier
• New Sonic Game

 

Confirmed:

• Sonic Movie 2 trailer

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21 minutes ago, River said:

Who do you think is going to be the Game of the Year?

Village? i mean, it was huge. 

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Best Performance nominees

"Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village"

Yes, go, Maggie! 

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3 minutes ago, Ororo Munroe said:

Village? i mean, it was huge. 

Yeah I agree, I don’t see Ratchet and Clank wins, unless maybe for the crazy short loading times when jumping between worlds, this was impressive 

It Takes two, Psychonauts 2, hmm indies usually never win lol

Deathloop is hated on Steam so no

Metroid maaaaybe but TGA kinda likes to see Nintendo as a kiddish company so they never cared about them until botw

 

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I’m only watching for the Sonic announcements tbh 

This year was kinda uneventful for games

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I'm really rooting for Resident Evil Village, I haven't played ANY of the Resident Evil games before watching some Village gameplays, and it made me go throught all the main saga games in the beginning of this year, I've really enjoyed that time!

 

+ ofc I hope Maggie wins as well, Lady D is iconic thanks to her!

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21 minutes ago, River said:

Yeah I agree, I don’t see Ratchet and Clank wins, unless maybe for the crazy short loading times when jumping between worlds, this was impressive 

It Takes two, Psychonauts 2, hmm indies usually never win lol

Deathloop is hated on Steam so no

Metroid maaaaybe but TGA kinda likes to see Nintendo as a kiddish company so they never cared about them until botw

 

i'm not sure so how winners are usually chosen - impact, sales or critics acclaim? 

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Village was good, but as a huge RE Stan I just can’t connect with those FPS games 

 

Resident evil 2 and 3 Remakes were really good tho, especially RE2, there was also a rumor that Capcom is working on a RE3 Remake directors cut cause the vanilla version was missing ton of content compared to the original and Nemesis was a joke.. it also has like a ton of steam updates, even more than village so I’m curious 

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17 minutes ago, Ororo Munroe said:

i'm not sure so how winners are usually chosen - impact, sales or critics acclaim? 

I think critics acclaim + the art, music etc

Cyberpunk is not nominated because of the bugs and the mess for example, it was supposed to be the biggest winner this year but it's only nominated for best music and best rpg

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Just now, River said:

I think critics acclaim + the art, music etc

Cyberpunk is not nominated because of the bugs and the mess for example, it was supposed to be the biggest winner this year but it's only nominated for best music and best rpg

omg i absolutely forgot that Cyberpunk was even released this year. 

hm, then, yeah. Village is definitely the one to beat tbh. 

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Prayage for Final Fantasy 14

 

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1 minute ago, FFXIV WhiteMage said:

Prayage for Final Fantasy 14

 

I also played it a lot but for some odd reason I stopped cause my main console is the Xbox  isn’t it still rumored to be released on Xbox??

 

oh and I also hope for something Dead Or Alive, TeKKEN or overwatch related 

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I know it’s unlikely but I hope Dread gets it  it’s gonna help this franchise so much! 
Also I’m perched to see if Nintendo will have anything new this time 

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ssoooo nobody's talking about that BotW2 rumor

WHAT'S WRONG WITH U PEOPLE