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Game of the Year

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Doom Eternal – id Software Final Fantasy VII Remake – Square Enix Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Hades – Supergiant Games The Last of Us Part 2 – Naughty Dog

Best Game Direction

Final Fantasy VII Remake Ghosts of Tsushima Hades Half-Life Alyx The Last of Us Part 2

Best Narrative

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Final Fantasy VII Remake Ghosts of Tsushima Hades The Last of Us Part 2

Best Art Direction

Final Fantasy VII Remake Ghosts of Tsushima Hades Ori and the Will of the Wisps The Last of Us Part 2

Best Score/Music

Doom Eternal Final Fantasy VII Remake Hades Ori and the Will of the Wisps The Last of Us Part 2

Best Audio Design

Doom Eternal Half-Life: Alyx Ghosts of Tsushima Resident Evil 3 The Last of Us Part 2

Best Performance

Ashley Johnson – Ellie, The Last of Us Part 2 Laura Bailey – Abby, The Last of Us Part 2 Daisuke Tsuji – Jin, Ghost of Tsushima Logan Cunningham – Hades, Hades Nadji Jeterm – Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Games for Impact

If Found… Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition Spiritfarer Tell Me Why Through Darkest of Times

Best Ongoing Game

Apex Legends Destiny 2 Call of Duty: Warzone Fortnite No Man's Sky

Best Indie Game

Carrion Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Hades Spelunky 2 Spiritfarer

Best Debut Game

Carrion Mortal Shell Raji: An Acient Epic Roki Phasmophobia

Best Mobile Game

Among Us Call of Duty Mobile Genshin Impact Legends of Runeterra Pokemon Cafe Mix

Best Community Support

Apex Legends Destiny 2 Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Fortnite No Man's Sky Valorant

Best VR/AR Game

Dreams Half-Life: Alyx Marvel's Iron Man VR Star Wars: Squadrons The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

Innovation in Accessibility

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Grounded Hyperdot The Last of Us Part 2 Watch Dogs Legion

Best Action Game

Doom Eternal Hades Half-Life: Alyx Nioh 2 Streets of Rage 4

Best Action/Adventure Game

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ghosts of Tsushima Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ori and the Will of the Wisps Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order The Last of Us Part 2

Best RPG

Final Fantasy VII Remake Genshin Impact Persona 5 Royal Wasteland 3 Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Best Fighting Game

Granblue Fantasy: Versus Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Street Fighter V: Champion Edition One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[CL-R]

Best Family Game

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit Minecraft Dungeons Paper Mario: The Origami King

Best Sim/Strategy Game

Crusader Kings 3 Desperados 3 Gears Tactics Microsoft Flight Simulator XCOM: Chimera Squad#

Best Sports/Racing Game

Dirt 5 F1 2020 FIFA 21 NBA 2K21 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2

Best Multiplayer Game

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Among Us Call of Duty: Warzone Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Valorant

Content Creator of the Year

Alanah Pearce Jay Ann Lopez Nickmercs Timthetatman Valkyrae

Best Esports Athlete

Ian "Crimsix" Porter Heo "Showmaker" Su Kim "Canyon" Geon-Bu Anthony "Shotzzy" Cuevas-Castro Matthieu "Zywoo" Herbaut

Best Esports Coach

Danny "Zonic" Sorensen Dae-Hee "Crusty" Park Fabian "Grabbz" Lohmann Lee "Zefa" Jae-Min Raymond "Rambo" Lussier

Best Esports Event

Blast Premier: Spring 2020 European Finals Call of Duty League Championship 2020 IEM Katowice 2020 League of Legends World Championship 2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals 2020

Best Esports Game

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Fortnite League of Legends Valorant

Best Esports Host

Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez Alex "Machine" Richardson Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere James "Dash" Patterson Jorien "Sheever" Van der Heijden

Best Esports Team

Damwon Gaming Dallas Empire G2 Esports San Francisco Shock Team Secret

Ugh, need a better format.

The fact that Hades at least has a nomination for GOTY is good.

But damn, they're really trying to push for TLOU2 even though that game's relevance dropped off the face of the earth about a month after release. Let's hope the electorate is a little better and votes something deserving of the title.

TLOU2 is the favorite to win.

I swear if Animal Crossing wins anything I'll be mad. It's the only game I own on the list, but the sheer lack of content makes me wish I bought Mystery Dungeon DX instead.

I usually don't bemoan these award ceremonies but really, Xenoblade Chronicles wasn't nominated for anything?

Ghost of Tsushima better win at least one award

Xenoblade Chronicles released in 2010

Definitive Edition came out in May. Final Fantasy and the Persona remakes were nominated so there's no precedent for why Xenoblade shouldn't be nominated also.

For me, GOTY is AC New Horizons or Mystery Dungeon DX

How much do you bet that if Animal Crossing New Horizons won over The Last of Us Part II, that there will be a resurgence in TLoUII memes?

No Origami King for best soundtrack?

TLOU 2 is gonna win at least once considering "private" votes take priority and are worth more

Or No Straight Roads, but I don't whine about snubs.

Well, if that's the case, then they deserve the prize, right?

I don't like the game itself but I do think they deserve the best art direction or audio design awards since they are genuinely fantastic.

As far as voice acting is concerned, I want Laura Bailey to win, but I'll be absolutely ecstatic if Logan Cunningham wins.

Also Among Us is nominated and it came out in 2018 (it just didn't gain mainstream attention until 2020).

Anyway I doubt TLOU2 will win GOTY. People assumed Death Stranding would win that category last year simply because of Geoff being friends with Kojima would mean rigged voting but no it didn't win there, so I doubt his friendships with anyone mean that much in the process. My best guess is it'll go to either Doom Eternal or Ghost of Tsushima.

Also Origami King should have at least gotten a nomination in best action/adventure.

I really don't see TLoU2 NOT winning most categories it's in. The easiest way to tell is by which game got the most coverage by gaming "journalists" (the more ass-kissing a game gets before the VGAs normally means it'll get just as much of it for the VGAs), and it easily has the advantage there.

Of course, my faith in the VGAs or any entertainment award is near nil, so I might be pleasantly surprised.

Most video game journalists are glorified bloggers, so I really, REALLY hate to give them more credit than they deserve, but I digress.

Best Sex in Vidya

The Last of ASS Fart Two

They're really trying to push TLOU2 which is funny because:
-It stopped being relevant around a month after its release
-The most divisive game of the year
-A complete flop in Japan
-The only times it's brought back in a discussion is anything but the actual qualities of the game

It's the antithesis of a game of the year,in fact Game Awards started to be a joke since TLOU 1 won when Metal Gear Rising came out the same year.
The latter managed to be far more memorable and continued to get referenced for almost a decade and took a massive part on the mockery of TLOU2.

Meanwhile most hardcore fans of TLOU1 forgot about it until the sequel trailers came out.

I want to see Animal Crossing win over The Last of Us Part II just because I want a resurgence of those TLOUII edit memes and for the contrarian salt. Plus considering how much of an impact it made during the pandemic, I think it deserves the win

In a nutshell of TLOU2 being nominated for everything.

It's really good to see Ori at least being nominated for a few things, it's definitely my Game of the Year and one of my favourite games of all time so here's hoping it'll actually win an award.

Except it won't.
Game Awards have been a joke for years,if any other game loses and cause it won't cause an outrage except for TLOU2 "fans".

It's always been an expensive ad event.

Yeah no, I don't believe in the paid awards/reviews myth.

I do

Maybe game critics will stop being "overhated" when they start actually having differing opinions instead of the same shared opinion all the damn time. Movie critics at least manage to have more diversity to their opinions more often than not.

Anyways, I am curious as to whether Chimera Squad or CK3 will win best sim/strategy game (kinda effed up that simulations and strategy games are placed in the same category, but again, not surprised, all things considered.)

Because you're rude to users with different opinions on The Last of Us Part II, just like you were rude to me, not to mention harassing me on private messages too.

Well, it's uncalled for to downvote someone for liking a thing. Sorry for the DM harassment, I learned my lesson.

“One reveal we know now is Nintendo will reveal the next Smash Ultimate character tonight”:https://mobile.twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1337034342913216514

The Twitter post was is mostly filled with people meming it’ll be Jonesy from Fortnite. My hope? I want Doomguy but I’m just gonna wait and see.

It is the 27th anniversary of the original Doom today, so the reveal would be appropriate.

Personally I'd also like Shantae and Hat Kid.

Nintendo why you gotta be like this? Revealing shit at the last minute? Somewhat ticked off because I would not have bothered to watch the Game Awards otherwise.

Anyways, Reimu or Doomguy.

As for the actual Game Awards, I seriously do hope Ghost of Tsushima manages to upset The Last of Us.

Best Score/Music: Final Fantasy VII Remake
Best Action/Adventure Game: The Last Of Us Part II

It’d be funny if the reveal did a Bait-and-Switch where it set up a reveal for a Fire Emblem character only for it to be someone else instead

I just had this idea in my head for such a reveal.

DK, Diddy, Banjo, and Kazooie are sparring with each other only to be distracted by an axe flying by. They see a silhouette of another Fire Emblem character like Edelgard. The four look genuinely disappointed, annoyed, or even angry another Fire Emblem character was added before it’s revealed to be someone else like say, Crash Bandicoot.

The FE character that Crash pretended to be tries to attack Crash similar to what K. Rool and Banjo did to Dedede and Duck Hunt in their respective trailers only for Crash to dodge and spin them into a convenient pile of nitro crates.

Best Family Game: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Best Community Support: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Best Debut Game: Phasmophobia
Best E-Sports Game: League Of Legends
Best E-Sports Coach: Zonic
Best E-Sports Event: League Of Legends World Championship 2020
Best E-Sports Host: Sjokz
Best E-Sports Team: G2 Esports
Best E-Sports Athlete: Showmaker

SEPHIROTH IS IN SMASH!

I KNEW I WANTED ONE-WINGED ANGEL, BUT TO ACTUALLY GET SEPHIROTH I'M LEGIT PARALYZED

AND MARIO IS FUCKING DEAD

Best Performance: Laura Bailey as Abby in The Last Of Us Part II

Sephiroth is a legit surprise as I didn't think Square would do another FF rep. I know Maximillion's gonna be happy about that one since FF7 is one of the only JRPGs he loves, plus hey this acts as a way to finally get more FF music in Smash.

Also, PERFECT DARK IS BACK?!

EDIT: For those who don't know, Back 4 Blood is the latest game from the studio that did Left 4 Dead, it's basically Left 4 Dead 3 in all but name.

I guess that does more harms for Geno's chances, but if it means we'll get One-Winged Angel in Smash, I'm down.

Also, sounds like they brought back Coach and Zoey's voice actors.

Best Ongoing Game: No Man's Sky