This morning, CD Projekt Red revealed that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077 is getting delayed three more weeks, and is now scheduled to launch December 10. Given that the cut-off date for The Game Awards consideration is the end of November, creator Geoff Keighley announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will now be eligible for next yea🧸r's Game Awards. Does this delay pave🧸 the way for The Last of Us Part 2 to sweep th🐻e awards?
In a year that has truly felt like ten years, it can be hard to even remember all the great games that have come out. But rest assured, there have been a lot of excellent GOTY contende𓄧rs released this year. Even if TLOU2 is the obvious front runner, it's important to consider what the competition will be — perhaps a win for TLOU2 iꦚsn't as obvious as it may seem.
A number of games that reached pop-culture phenomenon status spring to mind. Thanks to a year filled with quarantining and social distancing, many game publishers have seen record sales numbers, and we've seen four different games really take off on Twitch and social me♌dia, absolutely dominating the games industry news cycle.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the first major "quarantine game," selling 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:over 20 million copies to become the second-highest-grossing game of the year after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Beloved by many, the game is practically a shoo-in for the Best Family Game category, but even the🌸n, it has some 🐎stiff competition.
If you made it out to any of the major gaming conventions like PAX East before the quarantine, you may have had a sense of how big Fall Guys was going to be. For most, Devolver's last-man-standing indie game came completely out of nowhere. Fall Guys was the biggest game on Twitch for weeks, beating out everything from Fortnite to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:League of Legends. It's by far the most approachable hit ga𝓀me of the year and it's still going strong on Steam with tens of thousands of daily players.
An interesting consideration is Among Us. Like Fall Guys, Among Us has skyrocketed to the top of Twitch and has become one of the biggest games of the year because it is easy to learn and large groups can play together. When congresswoman 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:AOC did her first Twitch stream, she played Among Us w🎉ith the platform's biggest stars. 𒉰Among Us did not release this year but it was a completely obscure game until this summer. Could it be eligible for the 2020 Game Awards?
Finally, the hot new craze and a legitimate contender for multiple categories of the Game Awards is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact has become a worldwide phenomenon and would certainly benefit more from a timeliness bias than the other games we've mentioned. A free-to-play mobile game has never won Game of the Year of course, but 𓄧there's also never been a game like Genshin Impact, or a year like 2020.
These would all be fairly unconventional choices for Game of the Year, admittedly. The category — like the Academy Awards' Best Picture — is typically reserved for the most ambitious, highest budget title of the year. Sekiro, God of War, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 3 have little in common with a game like Fall Guys, and considering the Game Awards has a judging committee, populari♛ty certainly isn't everything. The Last of Us Part 2 is the "Oscar bait" equivalent for video games, but it isn't the only triple-A game in 2020 vying for topꦏ honors.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Tsushima is a beloved open-world game that has managed to pick up even more steam since its launch with a stellar multiplayer mode called Legends. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 Remake is another obvious contender, despite releasing fairly early in the year. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Doom Eternal is also worth considering, though hyper-violence tends to take games out of the running, it would seem. Hades is worth a mention too, as it'💎s certainly going to be a front-runner for the indie game caﷺtegory.
There's a whole other can of worms to unpack before we're done: next-gen launch titles. Geoff Keighley explained that the for each game, but would likely close sometime between November 15-30. All of the next-gen launch titles will be available before November 15, so it seems reasonable that games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Demon's Souls could be in the running, despite the fact that everyone's impressions of them won't have had very long to settle. Recency bias can help a title win an award, but being too recent may actually hurt its chances.
We won't find out about the nominations until some time in November, so there's still plenty of time for a new game to come out and makes a huge impact. Perhaps 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Destiny 2: Beyond Light will absolutely blow everyone's mind on November 10? Personally, I hope 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life: Alyx gets a nomination at the very least. A VR game winning GOTY likely wouldn't sit right with a lot of people, but if we're measuring a game by how ambitious, polished, and fun it is, I think Alyx absol✤utely deserves a nod even if most people haven't had the chance to play it yet.