I'm glad to see Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart doing great. But I'm surprised to not see Monster Hunter Rise... It was last year ?

MHR is nominated for best RPG. It launched March 26th.

Man, some of the discourse here is pretty...strange. I don't understand this 'it got the highest metacritic so it should be the game of the year' arguments. Like, review scores are often meant as a metric of how well it did something specific, Forza Horizon is an outstanding RACING game, but it's still just a racing game. that doesn't mean it's not great, it just means it's a bit more niche. It didn't and won't have the impact of a Death Loop or Returnal or Ratchet & Clank or Metroid Dread or It Takes Two.

It's such a strange phenomenon because, like, I do agree it was one of the best at what it did but just like sports titles it seems weird to give it a game of the year award. with no story, no characters, no real plot, just arcadey racing - even if it's GOOD arcadey racing - it makes perfect sense that it didn't leave as much of an impact even if it did review well.

I don't even like The Last of Us, but I agree with it winning because it was the most artistically bold, it was the best designed, it was the most creative and original, it was the one that was most daring. Forza Horizon 5 is a great racing game but I wouldn't nominate it for GOTY any more than Fifa 2022 or whatever football game is out. IT's just a refinement on a game genre that was mastered years ago. that makes it amazing, but impact matters and once Forza Horizon 6 comes out, nobody's gonna be talking about Forza Horizon 5. It's just an iterative take on an established franchise. That does matter.

Thank you. So I'm very surprised to not see it nominated at the Game of the Year. It got a 88% metacritic score. That's strange...

Is so hard to believe the media outlets just choose action adventure because that's the most popular genre and the ones that appeals the most?

If the point was to bring in views, they would nominee anything that was highly popular like FIFA or COD. Instead we see indies 

In my opinion, Bayonetta 2 should have never made it anywhere near any game of the year awards, but you know, it's my opinion. Your opinion is yours. An awards show is determined by opinions (and likely agendas) that are neither mine or yours. It's just how it is.

I skiped last year and just watched the anouncements the next day. Might do the same this year.

Although I got to say that the last coment made by keely picked my interest. That some games dint get shown last year because of the pandemic. So if those games get shown now means that they will be soon to release. Please keep the CG trailers to a minimum.

That's the trade off of shows like this or old-school E3. As fun as the consolidated shows are compared to every publisher having their own presentation format/timing and being able to deep dive into each game, the negative is these companies only get seconds to minutes to announce their game and CGI goes a long way to excite people if they only get that little time.

Geoff runs through things at a rapid pace so people don't have the time to do 5-10 minute deep dive gameplay trailers. The only time they have has to be spent emotionally captivating people and you achieve that more easily with cinematics.