GEOFF KEIGHLEY's Game Awards by GEOFF KEIGHLEY, hosted by GEOFF KEIGHLEY

Taramoor

So a new Game Awards show is in the works, created by Gaming LEGEND GEOFF KEIGHLEY.



http://thegameawards.com/

Here are the nominees:
Best Online Experience

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Dark Souls II
Destiny
Hearthstone
Titanfall

Best Family Game

Disney Infinity 2.0
Fantasia: Music Evolved
Mario Kart 8
Skylanders: Trap Team
Tomodachi Life

Best Sports/Racing Game

Fifa '15
Forza Horizon 2
Mario Kart 8
NBA 2K15
Trials Fusion

Best Role-Playing Game

Bravely Default
Dark Souls II
Divinity: Original Sin
Dragon Age: Inquisition
South Park: The Stick Of Truth

Best Fighting Game

Killer Instinct: Season 2
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Ultra Street Fighter IV

Best Action/Adventure

Alien: Isolation
Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Bayonetta 2
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Sunset Overdrive

Best Shooter

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Destiny
Far Cry 4
Titanfall
Wolfenstein: The New Order

Best Remaster

Grand Theft Auto V
Pokémon: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
The Last of Us: Remastered
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

Games For Change

Mountain
Never Alone
The Last of Us: Left Behind
This War of Mine
Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Best Performance

Adam Harrington as Bigby Wolf, The Wolf Among Us
Kevin Spacey as Jonathan Irons, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Melissa Hutchison as Clementine, The Walking Dead: Season Two
Trey Parker as Various Voices, South Park: The Stick of Truth
Troy Baker as Talion, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Best Score/Soundtrack

Alien: Isolation
Child of Light
Destiny
Sunset Overdrive
Transistor

Best Narrative

South Park: The Stick of Truth
The Walking Dead: Season Two
The Wolf Among Us
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Wolfenstein: The New Order

Developer of the Year

Blizzard Entertainment
Monolith Productions
Nintendo
Telltale Games
Ubisoft Montreal

Best Mobile/Handheld Game

Bravely Default
Hearthstone
Monument Valley
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
Threes!

Best Independent Game

Broken Age: Act I
Monument Valley
Shovel Knight
Transistor
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Game of the Year

Bayonetta 2
Dark Souls II
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Hearthstone
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

But, dear sir, you say, how were these games nominated?

Well, a panel of GAMING LUMINARIES, brought together by Gaming Legend GEOFF KEIGHLEY! assembled them. Including, but not limited to:
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Okay, I can't look them up right now because the website went down, but when it comes back up I'll find them and edit them in.

EDIT: The Website is BACK!

The Jury consists of the following GAMING LUMINARIES:

Lou Kesten - Associated Press - USA
Federico Cella - Corriere Della Sera - Italy
Dale North - Destructoid - USA
Tony Mott - Edge - UK
Victor Lucas - Electric Playground - Canada
Darren Franich - Entertainment Weekly - USA
Andy McNamara - Game Informer - USA
Sophia Tong - Gamesradar - USA
Ben Howard - Gamespot - USA
Brandon Jones - Gametrailers - USA
Jeff Gerstmann - Giant Bomb - USA
Keith Stuart - The Guardian - UK
Tal Blevins - IGN - USA
Jean-Marc Wallimann - Jeux-Video - France
Ludwig Kietzmann - Joystiq - USA
Jamin Warren - Killscreen - USA
Keza Macdonald - Kotaku - UK
Todd Martens - L.A. Times - USA
Nacho Ortiz - Meristation - Spain
Evan Lahti - PC Gamer - USA
Robert Khoo - Penny Arcade - USA
Chris Grant - Polygon - USA
Joachim Hesse - Spieletipps - Germany
Katsuhiko Hayashi - Famitsu - Japan
Mike Snider - USA Today - USA
Jeremy Parish - US Gamer - USA
Chris Kohler - Wired - USA
Ben Silverman - Yahoo! - USA

These are the men and woman responsible for nominating those games above. I've bolded the ones I recognize offhand. Though there is a guy there named Nacho, which is just awesome.

The Advisors consists of the following GAMING LUMINARIES:

Eric Hirshberg -CEO -Activision Publishing

Peter Moore - COO -Electronic Arts

Hideo Kojima - Kojima Productions -Konami

Phil Spencer - Head of Xbox - Microsoft

Reggie Fils-Aime - President and COO -Nintendo of America

Rockstar - Company - Rockstar Games

Shawn Layden - CEO - Sony Computer Entertainment America

Valve - Company - SERVE THE NEWELL!

Yves Guillemot - CEO and Co-Founder - Ubisoft

Martin Tremblay - President - Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

They're just there to help out of the goodness of their hearts and the spirit of friendly competition.


The awards will be Streaming Live on December 5th at 6pm at

There will be game trailers, premieres, musical numbers, special guests, GEOFF KEIGHLEY, and I'm sure much congratulations.

Also, neither DKC:TF nor Smash Bros. WiiU were nominated in the soundtrack/sound design categories, which is a crime. I can't find any games from the first half of the year, actually... that's weird.

lionheart_m

Did they really need to nominate Smash twice?

I needed anime to post.

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Buttcleft

I saw GOEFF and was expecting something from Geoff Ramsey.

I'm a little sad that its not.

Taramoor

Buttcleft wrote: »

I saw GOEFF and was expecting something from Geoff Ramsey.

I'm a little sad that its not.

You saw no such thing.

Anyway, I don't actively hate any of the nominees, except I'm a little surprised at AC:Unity making it in after its overall reception. Then again, I haven't played it, so can't speak to its quality.

Zxerol

Valve, as in the entire damn company itself, being an adviser is the funniest thing.

Grislo

I like that they have a best narrative award, at least.

Dark Raven X

So Joel McHale as the stalwart professional cohost last year will surely be making a return, yes? :P

(realtalk, he made it watchable. The drunker he got, the better the trainwreck)

So skimming the categories, Alien Isolation and Wolfenstein New Order are undoubtedly the best in their respective category. So watch AC:Unity and Destiny take em. :I

Undead Scottsman

Last year was funny because I was like "Oh hey, it's not being televised, so they'll have time for all the awards and less need for stupid bullshit." And then it became a wonderful, and terrible trainwreck

cooljammer00

They should get Joel McHale and Jamie Kennedy to host.

Dark Raven X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OGexjaP1U

Hi!

...

We're Waves

I'd forgotten the glorious highlights

Undead Scottsman

More highlights, including my favorite failed joke of the evening. "I LIVE in the Remedy multiverse!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCso_b_PtY

lionheart_m

MK8 is probably in my personal top 10. Then again, I confess that I've spent most of 2013 playing Wii U's back catalog.

cloudeagle

So it's gotten to the point we've got a "best remaster" category. Oy.

Undead Scottsman

cloudeagle wrote: »

So it's gotten to the point we've got a "best remaster" category. Oy.

Not only that, there's actually five pretty good remasters on there.

cloudeagle

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

So it's gotten to the point we've got a "best remaster" category. Oy.

Not only that, there's actually five pretty good remasters on there.

It's actually hard to find a crap remaster nowadays.

I wouldn't mind so much if AAA releases in general hadn't shrunk to maybe 25 percent of what they were at this point last gen.

David_T

lionheart_m wrote: »

Did they really need to nominate Smash twice?

Apparently there were only four fighting games released this year? I'm assuming that's the case.

Dark Raven X

I guess critical reception wasn't too kind to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle. :P

But realtalk, Persona 4 Ultimax should win that category. Pure fighting perfection. Smash Bros'll take it, and that's fine, it's super polished and the Wii U deserves some props, but in a fair world P4U would get the recognition.

Magic Pink

Who's Geoff Keighley?

David_T

Magic Pink wrote: »

Who's Geoff Keighley?

You might know him as Dorito's Geoff Keighley, Presented by Mountain Dew?

Dehumanized

Magic Pink wrote: »

Who's Geoff Keighley?

used to be at gametrailers and g4 as a journalist, now he pretty much just presents at events

you might know him for being involved in this shindig back in 2012 (don't bother reading it all, it's very old news. just scroll down to the funny pic of keighley staring dead-eyed next to a pile of doritos and a mountain dew halo poster)

http://kotaku.com/5957810/the-contemptible-games-journalist-why-so-many-people-dont-trust-the-gaming-press-and-why-theyre-sometimes-wrong

Dark Raven X

As near as I can tell, he's a Doritos and/or Mountain Dew Game Fuel representative who pretends to be a journalist.

There's an ethics in game journalism joke there somewhere.

Dehumanized

Dark Raven X wrote: »

As near as I can tell, he's a Doritos and/or Mountain Dew Game Fuel representative who pretends to be a journalist.

There's an ethics in game journalism joke there somewhere.

FWIW he did used to do some pretty good journalistic pieces. He's not in the "journalism" space anymore, though, just a presenter.

Taramoor

As an aside, I really need to rethink my Joke Thread Titles in the future.

Undead Scottsman

I just use the boards bookmark system to keep up in threads I make. Save the notifications for important stuff.

cooljammer00

Yeah, I think the reason why I don't have as much of an issue with Keighley as some people do (Even some people in this thread) is that he's never seemed like he's presented himself as a real hard hitting journalist type. He's basically Ben Lyons but for video games. So do all the Dew-ritos sponsorships you have to. I understand the difference between a TV host and a journalist.

Undead Scottsman

So what all do we think we're going to see?

Fallout 4 is logically the safe bet, but it's been burning people for a year now, so who knows.

Jazz

Never Alone got a nomination for Games for Change. That's goddamn awesome.

I recognise a LOT of those "luminaries" from when I listened to tons of podcasts at work. There's a lot of names there I have respect for, so that's good.

I actually quite like that there's a Best Remaster category now too. They've become an (unexpected, IMO) cornerstone of the market.

cloudeagle wrote: »

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

So it's gotten to the point we've got a "best remaster" category. Oy.

Not only that, there's actually five pretty good remasters on there.

It's actually hard to find a crap remaster nowadays.

I wouldn't mind so much if AAA releases in general hadn't shrunk to maybe 25 percent of what they were at this point last gen.

Although that is a bit of a trade-off... although if all these remasters weren't a thing, I don't honestly think the number would be much higher at the moment.

Wraith260

ah that magical time of the year is here once again. one can only dream of how spectacularly bad this event will be. i can't wait to see it all fall apart in glorious fashion.

on a more serious note, that logo is hideous. it actually hurts my eyes.

emnmnme

Wraith260 wrote: »

on a more serious note, that logo is hideous. it actually hurts my eyes.

It's the H in The that's the worst offender. It's playing tricks on my mind.

David_T

I actually think this will probably be fine. The absence of Spike TV can only help and whatever else you want to say about Geoff Keighley, he's always respectful of games and their creators in ways that not many involved with the VGX's seemed to be.

Rehab

Magic Pink wrote: »

Who's Geoff Keighley?

He is the Carson Daily of video games.

Archsorcerer

http://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/537773804274348033

EDIT: "premiere" is a verb?

reVerse

Best performance: Troy Baker as a forgettable generic guy.

zllehs

Please don't post any more vgx videos... I still haven't recovered.

cooljammer00

What are the odds enough people can ironically vote for Jeff in that Trending Gamer category?

farbekrieg

heh im surprised that sunset overdrive is 1> nominated 2> according to reviews not utter crap, the trailers and gameplay i've seen for it look awful, tho this might be due to my illness of being really really old.

Dark Raven X

It's the closest thing to a new Jet Set Radio, so it has that going for it. :P

cloudeagle

Despite the seeming lack of buzz Sunset Overdrive got pretty good reviews overall. It apparently didn't sell all that great though (didn't show up in the top 10 -- granted it was only on sale for a few days in the reporting period, but game sales are insanely frontloaded nowadays). Ah well, I'd get it if I had a One.

Johnny Chopsocky

Sunset Overdrive is very good and anyone who tells you otherwise is a boring person who should be ashamed of how boring they truly are.

It answers the question of "what would happen if I mixed together Jet Grind Radio and Ratchet and Clank and added giant handfuls of Tank Girl for flavor?"

Stormwatcher

Johnny Chopsocky wrote: »

Sunset Overdrive is very good and anyone who tells you otherwise is a boring person who should be ashamed of how boring they truly are.

It answers the question of "what would happen if I mixed together Jet Grind Radio and Ratchet and Clank and added giant handfuls of Tank Girl for flavor?"

that sounds amazing right until "and make it a multiplayer FPS".