Summary
- You may be upset about Dragon Age: The Veilguard not being nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards. Unfortunately, it was never going to happen, because it's not very good.
- Arguably, it deserved to be nominated in a few other categories (art direction and performance, perhaps), but it doesn't even stand up to the games in the RPG category, let alone the GOTY contenders.
- Sorry. Maybe the next Mass Effect will be better?
is a contentious event every year, but this year’s nominations have been particularly discourse-heavy because for the first time in the show’s history, a DLC pack has been nominated for 𒁃Game of the Year.
Whether you think that’s fair or not is really none of my concern, because right now, I’m more interested in analysing a far more common complaint about the show: the snubs. Every award show has people who complain about their favourite thing of the year being overlooked, and while some of the complaints have been entirely valid, one of them isn’t. was not snubbed.
Triple-As Don’t Deserve GOTY Just For Being Big And Expensive
I don’t really care for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I really wish I enjoyed it as much as some others did, but I’m part of that contingent of fans that are fairly disappointed with how it turned out. I’m still working my way through it, hoping that it’ll eventually start being fun, but it’s not very good so far. There’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:little accommodation for roleplaying, 16💯8澳洲幸运5开奖网🧸:no tension between characters or factions, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it ignores lots of existing lore… I could go on. As a standalone ac♐tion RPG, it’s𒅌 serviceable, but it’s no masterpiece.
A lot of fans still feel that The Veilguard only being nominated in the Innovation in Accessibility category (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:well deserved, in my opinion) is a huge snub. Among anger that it wasn’t nominated fꦗor Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Performance, and Best RPG, are people complaining that it was also overlooked for Game of the Year.
I’d argue that out of all those categories, Gareth David-Lloyd being overlooked for his performance as Solas is the most egregious. The arꦿt direction was also pretty good – the game has some beautiful environments – but the others in the same category outclass it.
2🔯024 Has Not Been Great For G🅠ames. That Makes The Game Awards Better.
With no clear favourites and a wide range of nominees, The Game Awards 2024 is the most interesting thꦿe ceremo𝓰ny has been in years.
I haven’t finished t𝔉he campaign yet so I can’t comment on its overall narrative, but I haven’t been very impressed, especially considering how poorly it fits into the overall series’ lore. But Game of the Year? Come on, now. It’s not even in the same league as other nominees in the Best RPG category.
I’ve got my own gripes with the GOTY nominations, as does every single person in the world with the capacity to have opinions (Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth was robbed). But to say The Veilguard deserved a GOTY nom is like being mad that a Marvel🅠 movie didn’t win Best Picture at the Oscars.
Leaning on triple-A cliches that other games have used better, and Dragon Age’s successful history at The Game Awards in the past ( won the first ever TGA GOTY and Best RPG awards), doesn’t make it a contender in 2024, when many of the more deserving gaܫmes nominated are trying to break away from that typical triple-A action RPG template.
Neither does having a long and troubled development cycle. While I respect that BioWare’s developers made the best game they possibly could with the resources given to them, the game existing against all odds ꦕisn’t a criteria for GOTY. (Well, maybe it is, the rules have never been made clear to its viewers.) That redemption arc is enough recognition.
The Game Awards Has Too Many Categories For Its Own Good 🍃
For the annual cer✃emony to do the medium justice, it needs to💯 evolve.
Who Cares About The Game Awards, Anyway?
I can hear you yelling ‘that’s just your opinion’ at your screen. I’m in your walls, by the way. And you’re right. That’s what’s messed up🎶 about award shows, review scores, and even op-eds you disagree with – every assessment is based entirely on subjective opinion. There’s very little science to any of this, if any.
It’s also worth noting th🎃at The Veilguard only released a few weeks ago, and many of the jury members likely haven't had a chance to finish it. But even if they did, I doubt things would be very different.
None of us are entirely happy with the nominations, because we all have opinions about stuff that likely contradict other peoples’. The TGA jury decided The Veilguard wasn’t all that good, and that’s an opinion I happen to agree with. The jury also somehow decided that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black Myth: Wukong deserved a 🔯nomination more than Infinite Wealth did,🧜 which would probably make me want to scream if I thought The Gameไ Awards really meant anything.
Don’t worry about it. The Game Awards are a glorified marketing show anyway, and the nominations are a popularity contest more than anything. I stand by my point – The Veilguard didn’t deserve a nomination – but don’t worry about it. It can still be Game of the Year in your heart, and that’s worth a lot more because your heart isn’t presented by Geo✱ff Keighley.
- Dates
- December 12, 2024 ꦛ
- Location
- 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.
