I expected this year’s to be predictable. I was so sure, in fact, that I wrote an entire article 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:predicting what we would andꦍ wouldn’t see. I knew that 2024’s show was rumoured to pack a punch, but also figured we’d b♍e seeing a lot of games that we alreaꦬdy knew were coming. Boy, was I wrong.
Nobody Predicted The Game Awards’ Announcements
I was so wrong, in fact, that nearly none of the games I said we’d likely see showed up. We saw Hideo Kojima, as I predicted, but nothing of , and definitely no OD or, sadly, Hunter Schafer. None of the superhero games I pegged were so much as mentioned. , , and were all skipped over, though did ma༺ke a showing, since that was confirmed beforehan🍬d.
There was no , no new WolfEye game, no Project 007, no new . Shockꦆingly, there was no , which I thought was a shoo-in. I can at least rest easy that the gam✤es I said wouldn’t show didn’t show, but that’s a bit of a cop-out. For the first time in a long time, The Game Awards were full of genuine surprises.
Everything Revealed At♎ The Game Awards 2024
Here are all the reveals, new trailers, and updates from The Game ﷽Awards 2024
You can see a full list of the games announced here, but I’ll describe the most exciting surprises. Obviously, Naughty Dog finally revealed its new (badly named) game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. got a cinematic trailer, though . Okami is, to my great delight, . I don’t think anybody was predicting , but the trailer made my housemate leap to his feet from the couch and cheer. To my great surprise, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a new multiplayer immersive sim from ’s Warren Spector was announced in the pre-show – the pre-show, for god’s sake. The꧋ developers announced a 5v5 soccer game callᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚed that, yes, looks a lot like Sifu.
Elden Ring is getting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a weird spin-off. Team Ico announced a mecha game. showcased its first gameplay trailer. Hazelight showed off its new co-op game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Split Fiction, though we kind of knew that would come already. There’s a gorgeous , a that looks kind of like Sleeping Dogs, a new game, a new , and a new co-op game . Telltale also gave us a first lo🍎ok at , 🧸and I’m hyped.
And Yet, It Felt Exactly The Same
Despite all these exciting and u🍒nexpected announcements, The Game Awards still felt like the same old rollercoaster ride of ‘it’s so over’ and ‘we’re so back’. In between developers giving the briefest of award speeches, long barrages of trailers, and for his own incompetence instead of actually addressing the issues this show helps to perpetuate, were an endless stream of thoroughly🐽 irritating ads from big corporations like Amazon, Nintendo, and Lenovo. Xbox’s ‘this is an Xbox’ campaign made an appearance too. We saw Fortnite about a billion times, as if you forgot that existed.
We saw ads for games we already knew were coming that didn’t show us anything new, functioning solely as a reminder that they exist and we should buy them. I don’t care if everybody loves Infinity Nikki, it was up there for way too long. There 🐠were lots of crossover announcements and things that felt more like commercial🥂s than parts of an awards show.
It’s all to be expected – The Game Awards runs on advertiser money. But it all contributes to the fact that it can be a real slog to watch, especially🥂 live. I watched the sh𒅌ow along with other members of TheGamer, and reactions oscillated wildly between ‘holy crap holy crap holy crap’ and boredom. Several of us began wishing we were either asleep or dead.
The show doesn’t need to be this long, but advertiser padding lengthens the show, throws off the hype generated by so many cool announcements, and generally makes people (me) want to tear our hair out. It’s particularly annoying that all the money made from giving these advertisers slots 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:go into getting celebrity guests (Snoop Dogg, anyone?) on stage to do inane stuff that also acts as advertisements. Once aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚgain, the conclusion is that no matter how many cool games are a༒nnounced, The Game Awards will always be The Game Awards, in the worst way.
- Dates
- ও December 12, 2024 💝
- Location
- 🍌 𒁏 Peacock Theater, Los Angeles
Founded by Geoff Keighley, The Game Awards is a video games event centered on celebrating the best of the year's titles, with emphasis on reveals and promos for upcoming launches.
