Helldivers 2 was the big winner at the 2024 TIGA Awards, scooping Game of the Year, Best Visual Design, and Best Technical Innovation.
The chaotic co-op shooter set the world on fire when it launched back in February (god, that feels like so long ago), but its popularity steadily declined as the months wore on, to the point where it's now all but buried when it comes to Game of the Year conversations.
So in that sense, it's nice to see Helldivers 2 get some recognition. TIGA's Game of the Year award was decided by attendees of the actual ceremony, which took place on the 28th November.
For those wondering, TIGA is a trade association that works to bolster the UK's video game industry. It has enough backing to launch government-facing campaigns, and loads of high profile developers and publishers are counted as members.
It's also worth mentioning that Sony grabbed a couple of other awards, which were decided by judges. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 claimed Best Use of a License (we assume its October 2023 release date makes the cut), and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered won Best Narrative in Games. We guess Naughty Dog's story has simply never been bettered over the last four years!
Do you think Helldivers 2 is deserving of more recognition? Are you happy to see it snag some awards? Do your part in the comments section below.
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[source tiga.org, via gamesindustry.biz]
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I love managed democracy!
A great game that was/ is a blast to play with friends, but just quickly got left in the wake of further great games released soon after. To be fair, despite an apparent lack of first party titles (as people say), this has been a solid year for games, and it's not (quite) over yet!
People go on about Helldivers 2's decline in popularity like it's a dead game, but the reality is that most live-service/multiplayer games lose the majority of their initial players very early on. Plus those launch period numbers were an anomaly; very few games peak that high that early on, or ever.
Go into the game right now and you'll have no problem finding a team to join. Or start an operation and you'll have three other players join your team almost immediately. Helldivers 2 is still going strong and any nominations or awards it receives are well deserved.
FOR DEMOCRACY!!!
Well deserved as its a cracker of a game.
I think that's two goty got helldivers 2 so far. It really did deserved to be nominated for the tga game awards, but they chose dlc instead.
@Markatron84 I think the player base will jump back up when it gets the next enemy faction (maybe announcement next month?) also once this gets added to plus probably next year, it's going to bring in tons of new players.
It always looked interesting to me, and I'm glad it's been getting some recognition, but for some reason I just wasn't in the mood for a multiplayer live service game when it was released, and so I didn't get it.
I noticed though that it's on sale in the PS Store as part of the Black Friday promotion. I admit I am tempted to buy it now, but I'm already invested in the latest Call of Duty (on Xbox, via GamePass), and will certainly continue playing that live service game, so I dunno ...
@MadCaptain2207 i don't play multiplayer games often, but this game really got its hooks in me. I have over 250 hours in it.
@Americansamurai1 yeah, I imagine the numbers will spike when the third faction drops, just like they did with the "buff everything" patches.
I didn't get it until late August/early September; I'm at 104 hours so far 😁
Hell yeah! Well deserved! The fact Helldivers 2 was not nominated by The Video Game Awards for game of the year is a travesty.
This dull, repetitive and generic game won an award?! It’s a free to play game that somehow makes you pay money to play it
It’s alright game
@Mattock1987 I'm not a fan of the game, but you pay for it because it has no F2P mechanics. Everything is unlockable by playing the game, battlepasses don't expire, and they're constantly adding to it.
It also launched at €40, so even the modest Black Friday discount nets you it for little more than the price of lunch.
It's also a witty, satirical piss-take of jingoism, I'm not too sure there's many other games that do that, let alone do it successfully.
@Mattock1987 are you bored?
@Markatron84 could definitely see the announcement trailer at the tga or state of play.
not had a PS5 that long, moved over from Xbox and this game was a big reason for that. 3 of us have been playing this non stop all week, it's so much fun, and a really positive, healthy vibe playing with randoms too, probably a benefit of it NOT being free to play...
@Dimey I've only played with randos, as nobody I know is playing it, and I have to agree that it's the most friendly online game I've ever played. I've only had a handful of incidents where people were actively being toxic. Oh, and one incident where one of my teammates must have hit his head and thought he was actually in the armed forces, barking out orders and telling us what stratagems we should and shouldn't be using. I paid no attention to his strategies, which is a good job really, because I put a gatling turret in a prime position right on the edge of a platform and the dope still managed to squeeze in between it and the edge and get torn to shreds, before blaming me for "not taking enough care in my turret placement" 🤣
@Americansamurai1 I do wonder if they'll wait until next year to add them. We're a little over two months away from the game's one-year anniversary, after all. Then seems like a good time to add in an entire extra faction and set of planets.
@Markatron84 haha, yep, getting between a turret and the bug swarm is friendly fire 101, and led to more than a few headset disagreements (alcohol may also be partly to blame!)
@Markatron84 yeah they might not add them until next year but I think we'll get a trailer next month teasing them
The popularity didn't decline like this says. It surpassed 15 million players and has been probably the biggest video game hit of all of 2024 and with how popular it got and how dedicated the developers have been to making changes and chatting with the community, of course it deserves game of the year! I've never seen a game as popular or with as dedicated devs as Helldivers 2 has been and it's helped me a lot with gaming with other people now too!❤️
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