God of War won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2018 overnight, and if you missed Sony Santa Monica’s acceptance speech, you can watch it in full above. The winning announcement was preceded by an incredible musical medley, which featured flavours and motifs from the soundtracks of all the nominees.
In her acceptance speech, studio chief Shannon Studstill thanked the team and the wider PlayStation family for believing in its new vision for God of War. It marks a particularly poignant moment for the first-party developer, as there were rumours it was in trouble following the cancellation of another project earlier in the generation.
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Nice of you to put this up. While I was technically awake and watching this live last night it hardly registered. As I told my wife at the time, it was going in one eye and out the other. Too long, too many songs. Too many games that looked like every other game. I was kinda like this forcing myself to stay awake by the end.
Is that the boy who played "Atreus"? My wife assumed it was but I never found out for sure.
@rjejr Yeah it is!
well deserved.
it was either GOW or red dead.
no reason for red dead fans to be angry since both deserved it as much as the other. (altough i always favoured GOW because PS exclusive and because i had more fun with that game,but tbh if red dead won ,i would not be angry at all.)
Rightly deserved aswell. That Cory Barlog seems to be a pretty decent guy too unlike that tool Phil Spencer who annoyed be within 30 seconds of opening his mouth.
@get2sammyb Well good for him. Nice award to achieve while you're still a kid. He's gonna be getting mad action at university w/ that accolade.
@rjejr Yeah, for me it was way too little interesting content spread over way too much time. I was getting really irritated by the the last half hour or so.
@Giygas_95 For the first 2 hours, counting the pre-show where they seemed to give out more awards than the awards show, I was watching it on my 10" Fire tablet while I played a board/card game w/ my family. Then I sat at my desk thinking it would be over in a few minutes as it was getting late. I think it lasted another 1:15 after that, which was an hour too long.
I really, really, really think Yotubers and eSports needs to be regulated to another show. They don't hold ESPN's ESPYs and the Academy Awards during the same show. Look at the games that won the big awards - GoW and RDR2. Neither of them are eSports games. When eSports games start winning the big awards then they can take up half the awards show.
I know it isn't all about me, I don't play indie games like Celeste or FPS games like Fortnite and PUBG either, but they are games that a lot of people play so I think they deserve their time on the show. But there are WAY too many eSport awards - best moment, best team name, best team tour bus, best team hotel, best team sponsor - nobody who is playing GoW, RDR2, Spiderman and MHW cares. Is MHW an eSport? If so I stand corrected, but I don't think so. If they want to give an award, 1 award, to best eSport game, fine, give it one, but all the rest gotta go.
Youtubers can stay as presenters but they shoudlnt' be wining anything, bird boy, purple hair boy, whoever they want to present can present, presenters should be people comfortable in front of a camera and a huge live audience, but awards should go to people who make the games, not to people who make lets plays about the games, they don't need game show awards, let Youtube have it's own awards show for best hair, most likes, most subs, most take down notices issued by Nintendo.
Game awards should be for the people who make the games, not compete in sports, not make youtube videos, not report on them. Why wasn't there a category for best website - Nintendo Life, Dualshockers, Nintendo Everything, Pushsqaure - they are more relevant to normal gamers than Youtubers and eSports. Let sanity take over, do two shows. The 30 minute pre-show is a step in the right direction, just make a 60 minute "eSport and Social Media Awards" show as well. Preferably after I'm asleep.
@rjejr Yes, it definitely went on an hour too long. Also, you actually spelled Nintendo right! 😂
@Giygas_95 No joke, I just started using Firefox as a web browser instead of Chrome b/c Chrome kept freezing eating up all of my PC memory - something about a patch they needed to make for a CPU vulnerability - and Firefox is better at spellchecking my horrific typing of Nintendo. So technically I'm still not typing it right, my new web browser is just better at auto-correct.
@rjejr Is that Meltdown and Spectre related I'm guessing? Anyway, Firefox is what I have at work, and it seems to work just fine. I use Chrome for personal use, but I've never had memory issues with it...
Also, I thought you were always purposely misspelling it, haha.
@Giygas_95 Meltdown and Spectre
Yep, that's it. I googled it and 10-13% more memory. Now maybe that wasn't it, but Firefox imported all my stuff and has been working fine so I'm not going back to hanging and freezing Chrome.
Well, glad it works for you. Shame some people couldn't have been a bit more careful in designing a CPU.
@jdv95 God of War is not just my GOTY, but also my game of the generation. I’m really happy for Santa Monica and Sony.
God of Awards!
Deserved! I voted for them and I truly think it's the best game of the year, followed closely by RDR2!
@rjejr
Category for best website no, I don't like the idea at all. Its somehow limited after all, but best and worst article would be interesting. I do like the idea of a best journalist award though but that would probably be perverted unfortunately.
@get2sammyb You should put up the video of Cory's acceptance speech for Best Direction. He almost cried again, I'm really pleased he won.
Listened to the whole thing while at work, the highlight for me was Christopher Judge saying 'read it boy' and audience reaction.
that was magical read it boy.god of war PlayStation best franchise ever.word up son
@AFCC word up son
@PS_Nation same as myself also I fully agree with you.game of the generations .word life word to your mother.word up son
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