Poll: How Would You Rate The Game Awards 2022?

The best thing announced was the Forspoken demo. As predicted... nothing shown that I care about. The industry is making the choice of PS5 being my last system an easy one.

Thought it was excellent. So many great announcements. However, the star of the show was easily the Fro dude from the orchestra!

Armoured Core though... 🤤 I've waited so long

Edit: Bill Clinton matey has been arrested. I guess at least he didn't slap anyone.

So... are we going to talk about that Bill Clinton thing right there at the end?

0 awards for Horizon and GOW didn't steal GOTY from Elden Ring. There is good in this world!

Excellent TGA. Lots of surprises.

It was okay at best. Definitely worse than last years.

Btw what did the little dude at the end even say?

Shout out to reformed Orthodox Rabbi Bill Clinton I guess.

@KAIRU I know right? How did he manage to have a different instrument in every shot? 😂 Brilliant

It was fine. More interesting world premieres than usual.

I thought it was brilliant. Had no intention of watching it but tuned in to see what it was all about and ended up watching the whole thing.

I can't believe I'm saying that for the 1st time in 5 years of watching it live that I actually enjoyed the show, it was legit far better than Summer Games Fest.

This was fantastic, well paced and a good cross section of games were recognized. Shame HFW got snubbed tho 😕

@Gloamin That man was a god damn beast 💪

Way better than I expected! There are quite a few games I'm hyped for.

I thought it was great! Plenty more games to look forward to now and I can't complain about any of the award winners.

I think we should all take a moment to thank that kid’s reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton.

Good actually. Wayyyyy too long and late at night though.

I came away underwhelmed. FF16 and Horizon dlc looked good though.

Fromsoft bought their award with an exclusive trailer for their next game... Scandalous!

@Enuo Pretty bad security, that kid was standing behind Miyazaki for his entire speech 🤣

@Hindenburg I can see that you love their work.

The only thing I disliked is Geoff’s insistence on using film and tv industry people for The Game Awards

Not only is the gaming industry bigger than those since the pandemic, but it takes away an opportunity to celebrate the creatives behind the games to just give them to Hollywood actors instead

Besides that phenomenal show loved most announcements and the award picks were great as well

@themightyant it would still be going if Christopher Judge had his way 😂

They had better pacing this year but still way too long. The insane Bill Clinton comment from the weirdo at the end really put a bow on it too.

Hopefully the Sonic fanbase will pipe down now. 🤣

Best Game Awards yet in terms of announcements. Pacing wasn't terrible, either. Almost feel bad for Geoff with the kid ruining the moment at the end!

I went with ‘very good’ only because I fell asleep & woke up 45min in. I skipped all the fluff & got to the GOTY just in time.

I really thought GOW:R was going to sweep, but it wasn’t meant to be.
I enjoyed Elden Ring, but Ragnarok is one of those games I wish I could forget everything about & experience it all over again. It’s that special.

Not bad, though not very many games I really have an interest in were announced. As time goes on I find the appeal of the big budget AAA experiences to be less and less captivating.

Best show they've ever put on imo, lots to look forward to!

Really glad I didn't waste time watching this. Glad to see ER won GotY! The AC announcement was pretty cool, I guess.

Pretty happy about it. As expected, it's a battle between GoW Ragnarok and Elden Ring but the highlights for me are the world premiers, especially Armored Core VI. Congrats to Elden Ring and Miyazaki's team. TBH, I'm fine with either GoW Ragnarok or Elden Ring winning. Kinda felt bad for HFW and Xenoblades 3 tho, especially XB3, I really enjoyed its story and gameplay

Hyped for DS2. Think I'm going to swerve W3 ps5 for now and replay DS for a third time over Christmas 🎄

@KAIRU I’ve still not sorted my sleep pattern from uni yet. One for New Year’s!

It was good. Plenty of exciting announcements, even Nintendo got in on the announcements with the Bayonetta storybook game and Fire Emblem DLC when they usually just throw in a few "Nintendo Switch has Games" style ads.

@starbuck2212 I gotta reinstall DS as well, I was in the middle of the game on my second playthrough and just stopped for some reason. Now I don't know if I want to restart a 3rd time or just play from where I last saved cause I have to get into that mindset that I'm not playing an action game.

I thought the show was excellent, best one yet... barring that shi**y kid at the end and Christopher Judge telling us his life story.

Really good show tho alot of reveals were just trailers. No gameplay, no hype.

Although Ragnarok and Elden Ring dominated I was happy to see Stray pick up 2 awards aswel

You are super negative. Ps5 is awesome

@Ken_Kaniff there is always one of you, super negative

Best show Keighley has done in a while.

That’s not exactly a compliment, given how bad his events have been in recent years. But it managed to exceed my severely low expectations. Didn’t feel like a complete waste of my time, like the last couple of TGAs felt.

Just enough decent announcements and a good pacing (at least once we got past the Christopher Judge speech. The man deserved to be able to say everything he wanted to say - he earned it - but I think it was unfair to other award recipients to take as much time as he did).

It was good. I was hoping for a lot more PSVR2 stuff, but Behemoth looks like it has the higher production values we need to combat all those last, last gen quest ports.
Hopefully we get in game footage soon.

Edit: just saw there’s a Quest version 😕 hopefully it doesn’t hamstring the development too much.

My wish for Muppets came true. Real fun bit with Animal talking about wanting to star in a Kohima game lol

@Uncharted2007
What would seal the deal for you out of curiosity? What kind of announcements would have you cream your pants? Other than an Uncharted game I assume.

@ROBLIVION I was just being real. It started good but the latter half announcements did nothing for me.

Good show for sure. Good reveals. Good updates. About the the only award given I agreed with was GOTY but of course the star of the show must be Bill Clinton Boy.🤣

@themightyant haha yeah! I just looked up the video of it again for a laugh and it's 9 whole minutes 😂

Nothing surprising or gripping in the way of the actual awards, but some of the announcements (Judas, Hellboy , etc.) definitely had me fairly hyped.

Hades 2 was the best part IMO. Still a great show!!

@Uncharted2007 what is it you were hoping for? Not having a go just genuinely curious as to what it is you feel this gen is missing?

A very strong line-up, the show itself was great too, funny and emotional!! Loved this edition!! Geoff is a treasure!! The pre-show presenter was awesome too!! I'm stoked for many of the announced games already!!

Caught up this morning, fast forwarding through it and I was pleasantly surprised. It was definitely one of the better shows.

The presentation was okay. Better than last year. But they could have talked even less and cut the music performances.

HFW won no award at all. A bit sad about this. And Ragnarok should have won Best Game imo. Elden Ring is good, but too niche. 17 Million copies sold, yes. But how many people felt for the hype of this game only to find out that they don't like it? I'm betting at least half. Not the case with Ragnarok, I'm sure.

There were a couple of game announcements to my liking but not a lot.

@Vriess going by Trophies on PS 25% of players got the Ranni ending and almost 12% Platinumed it so with 17 million sales I'd say it wasn't niche in the slightest and a sizeable chunk of those players liked the game enough to get at least one of the endings (not the easiest ending either. the other two endings sitting at 20% and 15%)

Ragnarok has a 9% Platinum and a 39% for the final boss trophy... It'll be interesting to see what the completion rate is like further out from launch.

HFW would've done much better if it hadn't released like a week after Elden Ring, it got a bit buried... I think the first game also launched too close to something else as well.

Very good show. FF, Street Fighter, anything Kojima…ai’m a happy camper.

It was good, just not enough surprises besides Judas and Armored Core 6

Solid show overall minus the Kratos word vomit.

@Boucho11 I have a decent list actually.
1. Dino Crisis reboot
2. Shenmue 4
3. Ninja Turtles (dark and gritty)
4. Uncharted continuation

Then for already existing reveals, I'd like updates on...
1. Mass Effect 5
2. Tomb Raider (new game)
3. Witcher projects
4. Indiana Jones coming to PS5 confirmation (not happening, I know)

Any one of those would have made me happy.

Christopher Judge's speech wasn't that bad. He didn't win the award 4 years ago and with some of the stuff he probably went through during the development and just everyone with Covid in general, it was well deserved and funny at points.

The Eric is a mfing beast moment was funny.

@Uncharted2007 that’s not a bad list at all. What sort of turtles game? Like in the style of Arkham?

@Boucho11 Exactly. In fact, I think Rocksteady would do very well with it. Irony on the dev name not lost on me.

I thought it was an enjoyable watch though still far too long - but these things always are. Still, this show felt like progress in a positive direction.

@starbuck2212 Your shorthand could be anything...

@Mintie HFW got released a week BEFORE Elden Ring

Funny how Elden ring wins game of the year but doesn't win anything else (apart from role playing game which it didn't have much competetion) but God of war walks away with 4 awards, but doesn't win game of the year.

How does one judge what a game of the year is, when that should be a combination of all things.
To me God of war wins game of the year seeing as it won 4 awards, it excelled in every department.

Elden ring is still pretty buggy in my opinion.
Great game and unique but it doesn't excel in all aspects.

But still it dissapointed me Sony where is Legend of Dragoon....

@brazzios_84 I have no idea what your talking about.

@Mintie
Souls games are very intriguing to me, but I suck at them because I lack the patience to learn. So I'm probably projecting my experience on the actual popularity and succes of this game...

Still, I must agree with @Bez87 's comment.

@Vriess I get that lack of patience thing, I was like it for ages until DS3 but something in that just clicked and after that I was a lost cause.

The funny thing is for me the 'Game of The Year' should always go to the game that had the biggest impact on me, the one that REALLY stuck around in my head and with that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 should've won because that game destroyed me emotionally, it was far from perfect but man did it leave a lasting impression.