The Game Awards 2023 | December 8th at 12.30am

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Best Game Direction:
Alan Wake 2
Baldur's Gate 3
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Best Narrative:
Alan Wake 2
Baldur's Gate 3
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
Final Fantasy XVI
Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Best Art Direction:
Alan Wake 2
Hi-Fi Rush
Lies of P
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Best Score and Music:
Alan Wake 2, composer Petri Alanko
Baldur's Gate 3, composer Borislav Slavov
Final Fantasy XVI, composer Masayoshi Soken
Hi-Fi Rush, audio director Shuichi Kobori
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, composed by Nintendo Sound Team

Best Audio Design:
Alan Wake 2
Dead Space
Hi-Fi Rush
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Resident Evil 4

Best Performance:
Ben Starr, Final Fantasy XVI
Cameron Monaghan, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
Idris Elba, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
Melanie Liburd, Alan Wake 2
Neil Newbon, Baldur's Gate 3
Yuri Lowenthal, Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Games for Impact:
A Space for the Unbound
Chants of Sennaar
Goodbye Volcano High
Tchia
Terra Nil
Venba

Best Ongoing:
Apex Legends
Cyberpunk 2077
Final Fantasy XIV
Fortnite
Genshin Impact

Best Community Support:
Baldur's Gate 3
Cyberpunk 2077
Destiny 2
Final Fantasy XIV
No Man's Sky

Best Independent Game:
Cocoon
Dave the Diver
Dredge
Sea of Stars
Viewfinder

Best Debut Indie Game:
Cocoon
Dredge
Pizza Tower
Venba
Viewfinder

Innovation in Accessibility:
Diablo IV
Forza Motorsport
Hi-Fi Rush
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Mortal Kombat 1
Street Fighter 6

Best Mobile Game:
Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Honkai Star Rail
Monster Hunter Now
Terra Nil

Best VR/AR:
Gran Turismo 7
Horizon: Call of the Mountain
Humanity
Resident Evil Village: VR Mode
Synapse

Best Action Game:
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Dead Island 2
Ghostrunner 2
Hi-Fi Rush
Remnant 2

Best Action/Adventure Game:
Alan Wake 2
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Resident Evil 4
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Best RPG:
Baldur's Gate 3
Final Fantasy XVI
Lies of P
Sea of Stars
Starfield

Best Fighting:
God of Rock
Mortal Kombat 1
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Pocket Bravery
Street Fighter 6

Best Family:
Disney Illusion Island
Party Animals
Pikmin 4
Sonic Superstars
Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Best Sim/Strategy:
Advance Wars 1+2: Reboot Camp
Cities Skylines 2
Company of Heroes 3
Fire Emblem Engage
Pikmin 4

Best Sports/Racing:
EA Sports FC 24
F1 23
Forza Motorsport
Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged
The Crew Motorfest

Best Multiplayer:
Baldur's Gate 3
Diablo 4
Party Animals
Street Fighter 6
Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Best Adaptation:
Castlevania Nocturne
Gran Turismo
The Last of Us
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Twisted Metal

Most Anticipated Game:
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Hades II
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Star Wars Outlaws
Tekken 8

Content Creator of the Year:
Ironmouse
People Make Games
Quackity
Spreen
SypherPK

Best eSports Game:
Counter-Strike 2
Dota 2
League of Legends
PUBG: Battlegrounds
Valorant

Best eSports Athlete:
Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok
Mathieu "Zywoo" Herbaut
Max "Demon1" Mazanov
Paco "Hydra" Rusiewiez
Park "Ruler" Jae-hyuk
Phillip "Imperialhal" Dosen

Best eSports Team:
Evil Geniuses (Valorant)
Fnatic (Valorant)
Gaimin Gladiators (Dota 2)
JD Gaming (League of Legends)
Team Vitality (Counter-Strike)
Best eSports Coach:
Christine "Potter" Chi
Danny "Zonic" Sorensen
Jordan "Gunba" Graham
Remy "XTQZZZ" Quoniam
Yoon "Homme" Sung-young

Best eSports Event:
2023 League of Legends World Championship
Blast.tv Paris Major 2023
EVO 2023
The International Dota Championships 2023
Valorant Champions 2023

Head over to https://thegameawards.com/ to vote

Surprised FF16 isn't up for GOTY. Only played Spider-Man 2 and Zelda of those nominations but would have put FF over Spider-Man.

Not that it matters because Baldur's Gate is almost guaranteed winner.

RE4 should be nailed on GOTY but I should think it'll be between Baldurs Gate and Tears of the Kingdom.

I would say Mario Wonder does not deserve it's spot and that place should have gone to something else, SF6 maybe.

Don't really care for awards but PMG better win best content creator.

If it were possible to have anything like an "objective analysis" of the best game I think it's hard to say anything other than TOTK or BG3 would be the rightful winner.

I've played shockingly little of these lists, in terms of the GOTY options the only one I've really put time into is TOTK (150 hours, it's the GOAT), other than that I've played Wonder up to W2 and watched my son play the opening of Spider-Man 2. The rest? Zilch! :lol:

Having replayed AW1 (along with Max Payne 1&2 and currently going through Control again) I am HUGELY looking forward to getting my hands on Alan Wake 2 though. Remedy :wub:

So, Starfield is only in one category. :shifty:

One too many tbf.

System Shock Remake is a better RPG than Starfield, and it's not even an RPG

another year and i still know what they mean by art direction?

It's criminal that Hitman World of Assassination doesn't have a nomination in either Best Ongoing or Best Community Support. Bringing the trilogy together into a single game is great in itself and the new Freelancer mode is like a whole new game on top of that. If it was actually a new release I'd argue for it pretty strongly as a GOTY contender! Talk about favourite Roguelites of all time and Freelancer probably comes second to me only after Hades. (Side note: Hades II for most anticipated for sure!)

Jenuall wrote:If it were possible to have anything like an "objective analysis" of the best game I think it's hard to say anything other than TOTK or BG3 would be the rightful winner.

Objective by what measure? Popularity?

Of the GOTY nominations I've played Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom and Resident Evil 4. I agree on all three being very deserving of a nomination and all three are in my top five for the year, but my GOTY pick is Resident Evil 4 by some margin.

All three are very different games in different genres so it's hard to compare, but if I were to start picking flaws I find several in BG3, several in TOTK, and almost none in RE4. That's as close to objective as I can get and makes RE4 the clear winner. It's the game I personally enjoyed the most and the only one I have played through multiple times.

I'm so glad Starfield didn't automatically get in to the GOTY contender list.

I hadn't even clocked the lack of Starfield, that's quite funny :lol:

OrangeRKN wrote:
Jenuall wrote:If it were possible to have anything like an "objective analysis" of the best game I think it's hard to say anything other than TOTK or BG3 would be the rightful winner.

Objective by what measure? Popularity?

Hence the qualifier - "if it were possible", I agree that there's no mechanism by which you can truly objectively assess the quality of a game and to attempt to do so would be madness.

And so, considering all known definitions of "best", i.e. having the greatest impact, success, sophistication, refinement, evolution of the form, ability to entertain, compelling mechanics, frequency of launching NPCs into the air with self-designed contraptions, and (most importantly) the "because I say so" factor, the empirically provable answer to "what's the best game?" is... TOTK. :datass:

2024 looks a bit bare if Tekken 8 is one of the most anticipated releases.

Silksong not up for 2024 most anticipated because Geoff knows it's shadow dropping at VGAs confirmed.

Jenuall wrote:If it were possible to have anything like an "objective analysis" of the best game I think it's hard to say anything other than TOTK or BG3 would be the rightful winner.

A win for TOTK is basically just saying BOTW was so good we decided to give it GOTY twice.

Captain Kinopio wrote:
Jenuall wrote:If it were possible to have anything like an "objective analysis" of the best game I think it's hard to say anything other than TOTK or BG3 would be the rightful winner.

A win for TOTK is basically just saying BOTW was so good we decided to give it GOTY twice.

Nah, it's more like saying "you know that game we thought was the greatest thing ever? Yeah, they showed us how much room for improvement there still was" :datass:

https://x.com/klobrille/status/1729503254155854014?s=20

With the amount of games Xbox has got in development it could be anything. Could be one of the unannounced 2024 games.

I'm hoping for a new street fighter character trailer, some shadow drops and lots of retro collections. Probably too soon for MGS collection 2.

Monkey Man wrote:
https://x.com/klobrille/status/1729503254155854014?s=20

With the amount of games Xbox has got in development it could be anything. Could be one of the unannounced 2024 games.

Could be the reveal of the Slim Series X that leaked earlier this year? They’ve shown consoles at TGA’s before.

ITSMILNER wrote:
Monkey Man wrote:
https://x.com/klobrille/status/1729503254155854014?s=20

With the amount of games Xbox has got in development it could be anything. Could be one of the unannounced 2024 games.

Could be the reveal of the Slim Series X that leaked earlier this year? They’ve shown consoles at TGA’s before.

According to the leak the consoles won't be announced until "E3" at the earliest -

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