Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "THE GAME AWARDS 2023 NOMINATIONS"

Episode Date: November 14, 2023

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Voting is a right and a responsibility. And with great responsibility comes great power at a chance to have a say in decisions that matter most to me. Well, maybe not most, but y'all get what I'm saying, right? So all jokes aside, the Game Awards has officially announced the nominees, and of course it's hosted by Jeff Keely, which is an annual recognizing event of outstanding achievements in the gaming industry. Now, with that being said, Port went out for respawn because I don't know what they did to make Jeff Keely or the Game Awards committee upset,

but they did not receive any type of game of year nominations for Jedi Survivor. And for that, I think it's blasphemous to quote my man, Stephen A. but hey what are you going to do right the nominee leaders are allen week two balder's gate three and i don't know it's basically it so alan wake two and balder's gate three leads the nominations with eight each including a nomination for game of the year now i've been watching the game award show enough for quite some time now to acknowledge and see where they're trying to to go with the show. Now, the games with the most nominees usually means that they're the most likely to win

a game of the year. It's been like that for the past two to three years, so I don't think they will change it anytime soon. So I think Allen Wake 2 or Balders Gate 3 will end up winning game of the year. And guess which one I'm going to choose? Probably Balders Gay 3 because I've been hearing that it's just far in a way the best game of the year. Comparable to Eldon Ring when it came out last year

as far as it's competition lacking when it comes to quality and the amount of bang for your buck. I've seen some interesting customizable options and barterscape three when it comes to certain

significant others. Let's just put it like that because it involves a bear and if I get into it, I may get, just may get flag, even though flagging doesn't happen on podcasting, but you get what I'm saying. They're, they're wilding, all right? You can do whatever you want in Bald's Gate 3. Let's just say that.

So anyways, the biggest thing that I want to acknowledge is Jedi Survivor being snub, because my personal, well, that's my personal game of the year at this point in time, as that game just implemented so many new mechanics and improved upon the foundation. of Fallen Order that I just believe led to it being such a comparable or compatible game for everyone.

Like if you play Fall in Order compared to if you play Jedi Survivor, Jedi Survivor is a much more gamer-friendly game. I mean, because you know, there's difficulty levels. It's not just one, because there's a difficulty spike where you can put on certain difficulty and it becomes Elder Ring.

but as far as like difficulty but then you can put it on like story mode and you could just breathe through the story so fall in order as far as mobility wise with calcestis who's the main character of that game transitioning into Jedi survivor calcest's mobility

is night and day and the way that they improved upon it and made it a much more smooth experience to make you feel like a Jedi I just feel like it has to be stated because I'm not going to spend this whole review talking about how Calcestis was snub, but hey, you said it, not me. And technically he wasn't snub because apparently he was nominated on one of the awards

for voice acting. So as always, like I started off the segment saying, I am going to be voting. You know, they do say that voting is a way to change the future and have a voice for what you want and how to affect things in your community. and your country you know so make sure to vote kids well you probably can't vote if you're a kid anyways you got what i'm saying all right let's get into the list um as always analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video element along with the audio i do have the list pulled up i am logged in so i am a certified and eligible voter so i am about to vote on every single category even if i

don't know anything about it which brings me to the first voting Category? I don't know. All right. So we have best e-sports event. We have 2023 League of Legends, World of Championship, Blast.tv, Paris Major, 2023, Evo, 2023, the International Dota 2 Championships, 2023, and Valoran Champions, 2023. Of course, since it says best esports event, I don't really follow Esports too closely, but with the way that World of War warcraft no no um is that what it is yeah world of warcraft that's what the league of legends thing is right maybe it's not maybe i'm getting the two games mixed i'm pretty sure it's world of worldcraft anyways i'm going with league of legends simply for the fact that that game has been

around for what seems like centuries at this point and it's still going on strong so i'm gonna say that's the best esports event i would say evo 2023 since i'm a fighting game uh connoisseur but I don't want to be biased. I think that League of Legends will end up winning this event. So I'm going to vote for them. I know that's probably not how it works. I should probably get my own vote, right?

I should probably vote for myself. So I think League of Legends is going to win, but I'm personally, since I'm biased, I'm going to vote for Evo. So we're going to click that. Okay, keep voting. All right, so we get to keep going. All right, let me see.

I'm going backwards for a reason. I didn't want to start with the game of the year. Like, who wants to start with the biggest event? Um, you earned a badge. Oh, I got a badge for voting. Okay, okay. It's like the real thing. Hopefully, uh, sleepy Joe don't see me.

All right. Best e-sports coach. Now, I'm not even going to bother reading off the names because I don't know none of these people. So I'm just going to go off, uh, which name I feel like sounds great to me. Um, the homie. Sounds like a homie to me. So we're going to vote for him.

All right. There we go. Best e-sports coach. I'm voting for you. Homie. Yeah, I'm, I'm pretty shi. I don't know any of these people either. But as always, once again, if you want to follow along with me,

it's Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see me clicking through this list. It's like the official list on the website. It's pretty cool as far as user interface. Best e-sports team. I don't know none of these people either. So I'm just going to pick one. Let's go with... Dang.

Usually sometimes I can pick out, like, certain e-sports team, like, what's it called? phase aren't they esports team hey that's it that's all I know see that's how you know I'm a casual

I don't know any type of esports when it comes to esports I only know about the fighting tournaments I don't know any of the shooting

teams I don't know none of that the behind the scenes none of that um we're gonna go with JD gaming just

just because just because that's what we want to do all right so that was for best esports team that had no knowledge about, which is okay. Best e-sports athlete.

Don't let sports fans hear you say that. Athlete, what? It's so funny how sports fans, I would say including myself, because I am a sports fan, but I don't act like this. They have all the anger in the world, but they never went to the gym. You know how gym builds up testosterone and things of that nature. And they never been to the gym once. to build muscle, but somehow whenever their favorite team loses, they're able to punch holes

and objects and walls and TVs, but in real life, they don't ever work out. So I'm always thinking to myself, where does this strength come from? Like, your favorite team loses it. All of a sudden, you gain the ability to punch a hole through a wall. What in the world? Anyways, that's all I got for this, because I don't know any of these esports athletes, all jokes aside so we're gonna go with um we're gonna go with faker simply because his nickname is faker i like that one that's that's kind of fire so we're gonna go a faker for best esports athlete and then let's go

to the next list hopefully some of these oh okay finally something i understand all right best esports game we have counter strike two dota two league of legends pub g mobile and valerent now the one that i think is going to win would have to be i would have to say league of legends i mean i think was it taylor swift they was able to acquire somebody to make their theme song i think maybe it was olivia rodrigo i forget who it was i'll have to look it out hold up it was literally somebody who they had to do the do the theme song it was a pretty big deal world of warcraft song i don't know if that's going to pull it up that's not going to pull it So yeah, I remember reporting on it, but I forget who it was.

Maybe it was Dua Lepa. I don't know. It was somebody. So I'm going to go to League of Legends. I think they're going to win, and I think they deserve it. So that's my vote. I think League of Legends is going to win that one. So that's my vote for best e-sports game.

Let's go to the next one. I didn't press exit one in the world. My fault, my fault. All right. Hey, they keep track. They keep track. So, hey, vote. My vote does matter, I guess, because they keep them track.

All right, there we go. to get right back into all right content creative of the year um i don't see analytic dreams on here so we just gonna skip now this flat i'm just playing uh let me see all jokes aside don't know like no like disrespect is that what i have to say um i don't know any of these creators of course content creation is such a big expansive world that you can be making a living for yourself and nobody knows about you so not saying that regarding these people i'm just saying that in general but specifically talking about these people i think i've heard about cipher so we're going to go with him i don't really i haven't heard of any other other ones so we're

going to go with cipher so that was content creative the year now we have most anticipated game uh final fantasy what's it seven seven right yeah final fantasy seven rebirth i don't know why it was such a slow moment i was like that's seven i did go to school i believe anyways uh hadies two like a dragon infinite health uh infinite wealth Star Wars outlaws and Tekken 8 I'm trying to see all they have the developers in the bottom massive I've never heard of massive huh as far as the most anticipated game

you have to say Final Fantasy 7 right because that game was so good that's basically all I have like it's basically such a well-crafted game that it's just masterfully crafted in the way that people are putting up with the fact that it was split into two parts so i have to say final fantasy seven rebirth and that's my person to vote too so that's for uh most anticipated game now what's the next one let's go into

best adaptation come on now we ain't got to read we even got to read this all you already know it's going to go to the last of us i mean if you get a show on hbo and is literally nominated with the likes of no disrespect but peacock in Netflix. Come on now. Like, you know which one's going to win. So I think Last of Us is going to win. And I think it should win.

I don't know. The Super Mario Bros movie, I enjoyed it. So personally, I'm a vote for Super Mario Bros. But I think that The Last of Us is going to win. So my vote goes to Super Mario Bros because I actually seen it. And that's the one. And I heard Grand Turismo is not as bad as people saying it. Like, it is.

They said it's actually pretty solid. So that's interesting if you want to see that and as far as twisted metal and nocturn, I don't know what those are. Best multiplayer game. We have Baldur's Gate 3, Diablo 4, party animals, Street Fighter 6, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Best multiplayer game, it would have to go to either Street Fighter or Mario Bros, right? because every time I hear about Baldesgate 3, it's all about customizable options, which means that isn't it more of a single player type appeal? Like when I think of immense, immense customizable options in an open world RPG,

I think Mass Effect, and that's more a single player. Obviously, Baldur's Gate does have multiplayer because it's more of a turn-based card game. But if we're talking about strictly multiplayer, who or which game is best for the majority of gamers, I would have to say either street fighter or Super Mario, and I'm going to have to go a Street Fighter 6. But the reason I'm not going to pick Street Fighter 6 is because I think they have a category specifically for fighting games. So I think that's when it will get its due credit, if that makes sense.

So I think best multiplayer should probably go to, dang it. So it's between Mario and Baldracekate. Best multiplayer. i don't even look at balder's gate three like a multiplayer hmm i have to go super mario bros honestly so most so best multiplayer i'm going with super mario bros and that may upset some balder gate fans out there but hey at the end of the day super mario is one of the greatest gaming well maybe the greatest

game and character of all time so you know i got to stick with my guns anyways best sports slash racing esports so basically a soccer game do you have the rest racing games why do they combine

sports and racing I mean I guess racing is a sport but is it really no I'll just let Lucha Lucha all right

I would probably say I haven't heard or played any of these games no I'm lying I did hear about Forza I heard that was pretty good I'm gonna go with forza I think forza will win this category

so for best sport slash racing I'm going with forza motor sport all right so then we have best sim slash strategy best sim slash strategy turn base simulation why is barter's gate not on here if it's talking about turn base

maybe I'm tripping we have a lot of games I've never heard of except for Fire Emblem and Pickham for. I remember I used to play with Pickham in Super Smash Bros. Just to throw the little tail move with his little minions in the back. They like grab onto each other to make like a tail. That stuff was so annoying. But anyways, just for that, I'm probably going to go with Fire Emblem as far as Best Simps slash strategy

because the rest of the games I don't even, I've never even heard of. Where's the Sims at? Isn't simulation like its main thing? Like, did they put out, did they not put out a game this year? I'm not going to look that up. But anyways, um, Bessim slash strategy I'm going to give to Fire Emblem. Simply for the fact that I don't really know too many of their games off of this list. So then let's get into Best Family.

Now, y'all know that Nintendo is notorious for family games. So for Legends of Zelda to not be on here makes sense because that game's more complicated. but still the appeal is very kid friendly i would say um party animals as a game i've been seeing a lot of content creative stream shout out to r dc world but in general when i think a family i think of nintendo and if it's not nintendo i don't want it so we're going to have to go with super mario bros and uh yeah there we go so best family game has to go up super mario bros i mean if If Mario isn't the ultimate family game, I don't know what it is. Like, I don't know if y'all ever had this situation or this event,

and I'm sorry for your loss if you haven't. But I remember going, I think it was like a holiday or something. We just having like a family outing, you know, extended family, all that good stuff. And we was playing on the Wii. And we was playing this Mario game where you got to play it as Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy. And it was like a party simulator. It was like Super Mario Party, I believe. It was like it was a different type of game.

I don't know how to describe it. Like it was the actual Mario game. Kind of what Super Mario Party is. But it was the actual Mario game. We usually doing a certain mode where you got to play as like all the characters. So yeah, let's keep going. So that was, I'm choosing that for Best Family Game. Best Fighting Game, we even got read off the list.

I can't believe what Nether Realm is doing with more to combat one. Like they talked about Activision with Modern Warfare 3. The way that Nether Realm is treating Mortal Kombat 1 is almost like you pay us and then you pay us again to get the content that we should have gave you all in the first place. Like I don't understand what Nether Realm is doing. I just feel like they took their audience for granted after their emergence with Mortal Kombat X into Mortarcombat 11 becoming a best selling mortar Kombat game and one of the best selling fighting games of all time that now I think they was either rushed or. or they just don't care about the audience enough to give us a nice return on our investment. And sad to say, because I'm a huge fighting game connoisseur, and I do have Omni Man gameplay coming out soon,

but I still have to be real with myself. You know, it's almost like me being a huge Spider-Man fan, but me not pointing out that the game is a buggy mess, you know, things of the... It goes hand-to-hand with a review and stuff. So best fighting game by far is going to be Street Fighter-6. It's not even a it's not even a discussion, honestly. So best fighting game is definitely going to Street Fighter 6, and that's my personal pick as well.

I did try to play Street Fighter. I can't get down the controls. I think it's a curse whenever you play one game or the other. Like if you play Street Fighter, you're going to be cursed in more to combat. If you play more to combat, you're going to be cursed in Street Fighter because I can get the most sweatiest of advanced combos and more to combat,

which, you know, shameless plug, if you ever want to see my gameplay, more to combat one, gameplay analytic dreams, and the show pop up on the Spotify channel. So, basically, I can do combos, no problem, and more to combat. Come over the street fighter,

and they want me to do a half-turn circle, do this button, that button, just to get the super. I'm like, bro, I ain't doing all that. Like, come on now. Like, I don't know what they, what type of gamer they think I am, but I come from more to combat

where you press, like, the back R2 and L2, or is it R1? one and l1 anyways you press like two buttons at the same time and to do your special now and street fire there's like some type of half turn uh press the ones and the twos and then you get to do your special i'm like bro i ain't doing all that how about i just don't play but yeah i think street five to six is definitely going to get um best fighting game and deservedly so of course now let's get into best RPG. So we have Borders Gate. We have Final Fantasy. 16. That looks like 16. Uh, Liza P. C of Stars and Starfield. Wow. Starfield finally made us way on a nominee list. That was another

thing that a lot of Xbox fans was mad about, which I would be too. Imagine having Spider-Man are the best games of all as the game in the year nominee, but you don't have Starfield. I'm like, it's almost like the Game Awards is leaning towards one exclusive party versus another. Like, I hope politics isn't already seeping into the Game Awards. Because if it is, that's ridiculous. Like, Starfield should obviously have a nomination for Game of the Year. So, but it is going up against Bartlesgate. And Bartersgate, I think, is the best RPG game out by far.

Like, literally the epitome of RPG from what I've seen and heard about Barter's Gate 3, the amount of options you have to customize your character gameplay and just overall satisfaction with the game is just out of this world so by far best RPG is going to go to uh barterscape three so that's for best RPG now let's get into best action slash adventure best action slash adventure now Finally, my game has finally gotten some type of recognition. Like, I feel like when Drake said on scholarships, I keep referring to this line, but I really do feel like this sometimes.

I need acknowledgement. If I got it, then tell me I got it then. If I respond to finally get a nomination, I finally feel like they received their proper acknowledgement, even though it's not as much as I would hope for the Game Award show. At least they have them on some type of category. So me being biased, I'm gonna say Star Wars Jedi Survivor. But of course, Alan Wake 2, Marvel Spider-Man 2, Resident Evil 4. Why is it? Isn't that a remake?

Did they remake Resident Evil 4? Why is it on here? That's like if Mass Effect or that's like if, uh, that's like if any game remade the most classic game ever and then try to get it on the, this year's game of the year or best whatever. Like, no, it's a remake. Like, come up with something original and then maybe we'll nominate you. But Resident Evil 4 is straight up a remake, right? Like a remake remaster. That's kind of weird.

I'm not going to lie. So, and then you have the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. So, of course, I would probably go with, I'll probably go with Star Wars Jedi Survivor. Shocking, right? So, yeah, honestly, y'all have to play. the game i think jettis survivor is really slept on to not receive like i even see people upset with it like people was just like oh where is they was talking about some let me see they was talking about some el paso game el paso elsewhere which was some indie focus game that like won best game of the year on other

nominees but not on the game award 23 uh 2023 i don't know anyways el paso elsewhere everybody was upset that it wasn't on any of these game of the year list but or this one specifically but me personally i'm like why hasn't nobody upset that star war's jett i'm gonna list like that game is fantastic so anyways as far as my putting my business hat on they probably want to make nintendo happy so the legend of zelda will probably win best action slash adventure um i could see marvel spider man two winning just because you know such a such a mammoth of a IP but so was legend of Zelda so I

don't know it's hard I'm gonna say Zelda will win this category yeah personally I gotta go a Jedi Survivor though so I got to vote for my man you know pause but yeah so Jedi Survivor to me is just the best game by far all right not by far because you know got to be respectful all right best action game so we have armored core Six, fires of Rubicon, Dead Island 2, Ghost Runner 2, High Fire Rush, and Remnant 2. I would probably say that Bandai Namco did it again with back-to-back. I feel like could have been Game of the Year nominees with Elder Ring and then this year,

Armored Corps. So for best action game, I'm going to go with Armored Corps. but it's nice to say Xbox exclusive on here you know got to make sure they ain't swaying one way in trying to help out the console war so I'm a vote for Armored Corps

and yeah obviously I can see like other games winning but that's the one I'm gonna pick so for best action game I think Armored Core 6 is going to win and I think it should win Bets VR slash AR I don't even know about this category because I don't even think technology has caught up yet

to even make these tangible to the casual audience. So I'm just going to pick one. So let's just pick the racing game. Let's pick Grand Turismo just because I don't know any other ones. I mean, Resident Evil maybe, but we're just going to keep going. So best VR slash AR game, nobody cares. Best mobile game. I would say nobody cares, but mobile will be putting up numbers when it comes to gaming.

Like I wish I would review more mobile games. but honestly it's such its own niche category that i feel like somebody who like if there was a channel specifically made off of somebody calling themselves like mr mobile and covering everything mobile games i think they could thrive which you know obviously there's probably people out there that only covers mobile games that are thriving i'm just throwing that thought out there all right so best mobile game i haven't heard of any of these so i'm just going to go with final fantasy seven just because of name recognition but i would think that uh monopoly go should be on here right that's a mobile game or maybe they're thinking about a more like when i hear mobile game like how advanced does it have to be

like could marvel snap not be on here monopoly go was that at um what else apex legends had a mobile even though they no they they killed that so yeah probably not that Apex Legends mobile. Anyways, Monopoly Go and Marvel Snap should definitely be on here. I heard Marvel Snap was really fire. So I don't know why that's not on here at all. Yeah, that's weird. I don't know if it didn't come out this year.

Maybe it came out last year. But I don't remember it being on the list last year. But then again, that was a while ago. So yeah. So let's get into the next category. Best debut indie game. Now, not going to lie to you. I don't know none of these names

So we're just going to look at the names And just try to go off name recognition Um See, cocoon Can't go with that one for obvious reasons Dredge I don't know man I don't like that name

Pizza Tower We're gonna go with that one Because piece is my favorite food of all time That is my logic And I'm sticking to it All right Best Independent game still don't know Let me see

We're going off name recognition again Let's do see as stars this time simply because i don't know best independent like what is that best community support oh this is a good one uh come on now cyberpunk has to get this best community support y'all know three years ago the abomination that was labeled cyberpunk 2077 that game made rounds for all and when i say all i mean that game made rounds for all of the wrong reasons cyberpunk 277 was really one of those type of games where you just look at it and it's just like man how did you mess this up so bad so best community support well i have to go to cyberpunk 27 simply for the

fact that the whole fan base came back after they um led the developers to fix the game and it was once they fix the game, all the player base came back like nothing happened. Like, even me. Like, I want to play Cyberpunk now, and I'll probably play it at some point in the future. So, yeah, I think Cybergunk 277 will win, and I think they should win. So I'm going to go to Cyberpunk 277 over a No Man Sky, over a Final Fantasy, 14, over a Destiny 2, over a ball to skate 3. So my pick for Best Community Support is Cyberpuny. 2077 then we have best ongoing game I mean it would have to go to fortnight I mean I'm not

even going to read off the rest of the list like come on now Fortnite what fortnight has done for gaming is like what lebron did for the NBA like changed it forever and brought it to new heights that you need from your top games like gaming should be pushed forward in a way that makes the whole industry more or have more exposure to the general audience and for fortnight that's what it did it brought gaming to a whole new audience and even had drake out of all people yes we're talking about games specifically and i still brought up drake that has to be some type of record but had drake literally playing fortnight and and drawing it to the point we even travis scott hopped on the fortnight session when it was drake ninja and uh chavis got so i'll have to say best ongoing by far

is fortnight like it's it's not even close so anyways next category so now we have games for impact i don't know what that means so now we're just going off name recognition so i'm just going to click one let's go with a space for unbound simply because i like the name like what type of category is games for impact. We're in the world. Innovation and accessibility. This is a good one because I do not know. So I'm too ignorant to give an actual objective opinion. So I'm just going to go off to what I know.

And I do believe that Marvel Spider-Man 2 had a lot of accessibility options, I believe. So we're going to go with that one. Marvel Spider-Spitamin 2 gets his first win. my book in innovation and accessibility. I had an exit voting again. My fault. My fault, y'all. My fault.

I'm a tight note. I'm a tight note. All right. We're almost done. You see the whole list? Hey, we've been voting. Don't ever let you say dreams ain't voting. I mean, I'd be out here voting for real.

Anyways. Best performance. Oh, it's voice acting. Okay. Not going to lie to you. Yuri Laurentahl is by far the best voice actor. in 2023.

The way that he portrayed Peter Parker and Spider-Man, the range that he went to, like, obviously y'all know I like Jedi Survivor, but I think Jedi Survivor is more like a mass effect type thing.

Like so many characters in the Survivor world is so well-casted and well-thought-out as far as the motives. And Spider-Man 2, by far in the way, the best voice actor is Yuri Lorinthal.

Like, obviously for Najee Peter, who did in miles you know it wasn't a bad job it's just like next to yuri it's he was just on a whole another level and for the other characters i haven't heard their performances for their um i well i did hear idris elba for cyberpunk i did hear scenes from him um but for the barters gay actor the alan wake actor in the fantasy um 16 actor i haven't heard any of the work so i'm going with Yuri Lohenthal who voiced Peter Parker, Spider-Man for best performance. And I think he'll end up winning.

Like, I think it's a clear runaway winner in this category. So let's go to Best Audio Design. That's interesting because I feel like Best Audio Designs will have to go to horror because I think that's basically the gist of every scary game, is to make it sound and feel real. So I'm going to go Alan Wake 2. That's what I'm going to do. Resident Evil 4 better not win any of the categories.

I'm not going to lie to you. Remaking a game should not put you in any category. If that's the case, then when BioWare remastered Mass Effect, it should have been on all the categories. And since y'all didn't do it for that game, let's not do it for Resident Evil for it because it doesn't make any sense to have a remaster up against new games that just came out this year.

All right. Best score and music. I would have to say, I don't know too much about the scores of each and every one of these games, but I do believe High Fight Rush was specifically based off of music as far as the gameplay. So I'm at to go a high five rush. That's basically my logic. And I don't know if it will end up coming to fruition, but I'm going with High Five Rush since it was literally a game about music and it's nominated on this list.

All right. Imagine being strictly based on music as far as your gameplay is still losing. but hey at least you're nominated right best art direction i don't think there's any better art direction than mario i'm not going to lie like the way that super mario has taken this direction in a bunch of ways i mean mario has been a tennis player this man has been an olympic swimmer this man has been the space this man has uh raised go cards for no reason he's done everything right the direction they've taken as far as art artistic direction I think Super Mario Bros.

By far is the best one. So personally, I would choose Super Mario Bros. But I know they're going to go with some type of old new-ish type of game. So I'm going to think they're going to go with Allen Wake 2 for best art direction. But personally, I'm going to choose Super Mario. So I'm going to vote for Super Mario. If y'all don't know, I enjoy Mario immensely as a game. gaming character. All right. Best narrative. So best narrative we have Alan Wake 2,

Baldess Gave 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy 16, and Marvel Spider-Man 2. Guess which one I'm a go with. Obviously, Spider-Man 2, come on now. There's no better narrative than my favorite fictional creation of all time. I know, y'am may have thought I was hating on it at the beginning saying it was a buggy mess, but still, when it comes to storytelling and when it comes to putting together a likable superhero, I don't think there's any arc better and more relatable than Peter Parker's. As far as the ability to balance both light, the ability to balance two lives and one life may suffer because of the thrive, because of you thriving in another life, right? Like everybody's balancing things in their life,

but it's the way that they portray it with Spider-Man. Obviously, we're not balancing with saving the world or going out nightly to beat up bad guys. But, you know, whether it's your homework, whether it's school, work, personal relationships, you're always balancing something. And I feel like Spider-Man is the best portrayal of one thing, affecting another, affecting another. And never, I mean, obviously things could have synergy. But I think Peter shows in the best way what it actually is. looks like to have a real realistic balance of your life you know things are going to falter and it's

going to be highs and lows and lows for everything so for that best narrative by far is going to marvel spider man too because even a beyond that i mean venom's in the game like come on now like somebody is going to take those 19 inches you know i mean so anyways uh best narrative goes to spider man uh two and best game direction best game direction is interest because that goes into i don't know i feel like that's a trick question like is direction like multi direction or is it just like direction because one direction i would have to say spider-man multi-direction i would have to say bartersgate because it had so many different outcomes and things you could customize throughout the story so to not be biased

I'm gonna say that it's talk about like all type of directions so I'm gonna say Bartis G8 3 will probably win this category but me personally I'm gonna have to go with Spider-Man 2 as that direction is a direction I always want to be taking on like I would take a Spider-Man movie 10 times a year if I could so

yeah I'm going to Spider-Man 2 for best game direction and plus they changed up so much like Spider-Man 2 changed up so much when it came to game direction. Like, I'm not going to spoil it because I don't know if y'all still want to play the game or are playing the game. But there's so many different directions they take with iconic characters that you don't see coming

that I think personally would deserve it of, will make it deserving of best game direction. Finally, we have Game of the Year. recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields. Simply put, all of these games, most of these games do not belong on this list. Super Mario Bros. Legend of Zelda, Reson the Evil 4 is three I can name off the top of my head. Why in the world is all three of these games on this list? Now, I know what you're saying.

How on earth are you going to disrespect Mario after you just chose it? to win multiple categories. But let me tell you something. Either Mario or Zelda needs to be on this list because both of these are Nintendo games. You're telling me every single game that Nintendo puts out is a game of the year contender? I think not.

So you pick for Mario and Zelda. So that leaves one. Obviously, I'm going to take Mario. So I think Alan Wake 2, Baldus Gate 3, Marvel Spider-Spotterman 2, and Mario should be on this list. But as far as the additions, obviously, you know, I got to go with my personal pick Jedi Survivor and then for number six I would have to say either Armored Corps or Remnant 2.

I'm leaning more towards Armored Core but I think simply because Bandai Namco already had a game of the year winner and Eldon Ring they didn't want to make it seem like they was biased or whatever even though Armored Core is a fantastic phenomenal game coming off the heels of Eldon Ring. Like imagine having back-to-back hits like a Bandai Namco. So with that been so, with that been said game of the year is obviously going to go to bar to skate three i really don't think it's any type of competition um people have been saying it from day one since it launched so i believe them i've watched enough i've researched enough i've read enough about barred to skate three to know that it gives you so much bang for your buck you could literally start playing that game at the start

of this year and still wouldn't be done with it because it's so many hours and so many outcomes you could it's literally like Mass Effect, but just a much more extensive game and it's turn base. So it's not like, you know, the gameplay is not the same. But Bartus Gate 3 gives you so much pain for your buck. If that was the only game you purchased in one year, you would still be satisfied because you could do so many things that you didn't or wasn't able to do and your first, second, third, fourth play through. So game in the year, by far, in a way, I would have to say, well, have to be.

go to bar to skate three and personally since my favorite game on here jettai survivor isn't on this list i will pick out of the picking or add out of the selections and i would have to say that if i was picking out of the selections that they forced me to choose from i'll probably say game of the year should go to barred to skate three only reason i can't say spider-man two is simply because it was a buggy mess so i I even think that like, well, if a game comes out buggy mess, that's like if Cyberpunk 27, even though it's not because that was 10 times worse. But it's like if a buggy game was nominated for game in the year. Oh, wait.

We have Marvel. We already have that. All right. So yeah, I'm going to go with Barton's Gate 3 for game in the year. And I think that's it. So yeah, we're done. So yeah, those are the categories. Obviously, I chose Bartergate for a game of the year.

actually let me go let me start from the bottom best e-sports event i don't know none of that i don't know none of that nope nope all right best that best adaptation i chose a mario bro's movie there was super mario bro's movie best multiplayer i chose the mario game the mario wonder game from nintendo best sports and racing i think i chose forza uh let's see best family game i chose super mario wonder best fighting the game obviously i chose street fire to six best RPG i chose balder's gate best action adventure went to jaddy survivor and its only nomination in this entire war show sad day in history best action game went to armored core best VR i don't care about that uh best best community support i gave this cyberpunk 277 simply for the fans clamoring for

the developers of respawn to fix the game and they actually fixed the game but not respond was it no cd project red i'm tripping the um fans clamoring for cd project red to fix cyberpunk 2077 and it actually went in and fixed the game so kudos to them so i'm gonna say cyberpunk 277 because of the fans asking for something being given something and they coming back and given drove like immense amount of a sport support so as far as best community support cyberpunk 2077 best ongoing it would have to be fortnight i don't even think it's close games for impact i don't even know what that is uh innovation the accessibility i went with spider man two i did recognize it had a lot of accessibility options like me being partly colorblind i was

able to change Spider-Man's Spider-Sense to blue so that when, you know, you're in danger from like a rocket or whatever, like, it would change colors more distinctly because if it changed from, I think it was like orange to red or something like that, some type of shade I couldn't see. So I changed it from blue. So when I was in danger and went from red to blue, if that makes sense. Anyways. But yeah, so that's just an example of accessibility. I guess I should have brought that up in the category, but hey, I'm bringing it up now.

So I didn't know. I'm partly colorblind, so I really do need stuff like that sometimes because shades are very tricky for me and colors. Certain combinations start to flip-flop as far as like messing with my eyes. So I guess I could speak to that. That's crazy. Anyways, best performance gave the Yuri Laurent Thore for Spider-Man 2, of course. Best audio design, Alan Wake 3. too just because it's a horror game i feel like those always have the best audio sounds best score

of music obviously i gave it a high-five rush i mean a game simply about music should probably win game of the year i'm not game in the year should probably win the category for music or based on music but i don't know i guess we'll wait and see best art direction i give it to super maria or wonder as I do believe that if we're talking about art Mario has some of the best artistic he has some of the best art ever created in a video game or some of the best art ever portrayed in a video game so I'm gonna go at Super Mario Wonder because obviously they was trying to do stuff in this game best narrative I went with Spider-Man 2 I mean come on best fictional character of all time in my humble opinion and

As far as best narrative and simnaic really knew what they was doing with the character to the point that everybody and I mean everybody had to give it up to to them. So yeah, I think they would definitely deserve best narrative best game direction. Obviously I had to go with my personal bias again with Spider-Man 2 even though I know it's going to go to like an Allen wake or a balder's gay 3. But personally I would say Marvel Spider-Man 2. And then game of the year at that point I just had to give it up. ball discreet is by far in a way the consensus to win game of the year everybody thinks it's one of the best games of all time has one of the best ratings of all time best scores from critics it's just one of those games where it can captivates everything that comes with customizable options

that reminds me of mass effect but really in a term base type style as far as mechanics so it's not for everybody of course but for those who it's for i think by far and away it's definitely game of the year so those are the 2023 let me see if i can go home uh yeah so those are the uh nominees for the game awards that's happening december 7th and peacock theater and what else something else i had on my the war's schedule the war ceremonies excuse me ceremony

is scheduled for December 7th 2023 obviously you see the peacock theater Los Angeles so it's also as you can see at the bottom I don't know if you can see that

now you should be able to see it it's streaming live on all platforms and it's the global celebration of video games and i definitely do agree with that because the game awards is one of those type of events where all the gamers tune in to either clown it praise it or do a little bit of both so can't wait to see the the jean and suit jacket with the shirt combination and people just horrendously dress at these game award shows i can't wait to see the uh the atrocious amount of

matching that comes with these outfits because if there's one thing about the gaming community is um you know as far as style and cool points it's at an all-time low and i don't mean all-time as far as like it used to be high because it wasn't but you know always have to point out how you know they tried their best but they ultimately fail at the end of day but hey they still got that suit jacket and shirt combination so december 7th is when this is all going down as far as the actual winners being announced so click my link to your my bio let me know one of my social media's what do you think about the game award nominees and who do you think was snubbed and also more importantly what is your pick for the best game of the year at 2023