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game awards live discussion thread

slop better be good tonight

cbd [he/him] - 24hr

A NEW BREED OF SHOOTER (overwatch clone)

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lizard_thing [she/her] - 24hr

Yeah but does overwatch have horses? checkmate atheists

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 24hr

Was it Battleborn that had horses? I can't remember. One of the clones had mounts.

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Hermes [none/use name] - 24hr

paladins

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Belly_Beanis [he/him] - 22hr

Team Fortress 3?

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abc [he/him, comrade/them] - 1day

wtf is wuthering waves and why do we need to shut down game development until we can figure out wtf is going on with gacha games

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 24hr

China Stans SHOCKED when confronted with the terrible truth of Chinese Gooner Game Devs

confusion

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LadyCajAsca [she/her, comrade/them] - 16hr

strong china soft power but you have to appeal to the gooners

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LadyCajAsca [she/her, comrade/them] - 16hr

Genshin Impact but.. different? IDK how to describe WuWa that isn't in the context of the company that made it, the previous games (like PGR, and Genshin Impact) and the differences between 'gacha games' that doesn't sound gacha-rotted to an average person, but it's supposed to be more 'generous', and high graphic compared to Genshin.

Gacha games are just popular because of the time sink and habitual 'dailies' routines when playing games and living the 9 to 5 life, also gambling surges your dopamine lol

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

It's so fucking weird how it's called the Game Awards and they speedrun through the actual awards now. I'm imagining if the Oscars were like this and it's mostly just ads and awful skits and then they go "yeah, best foreign film is ____. Back to the ads."

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PKMKII [none/use name] - 23hr

The Oscars aren’t like that?

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peeonyou [he/him] - 22hr

they are, but there's a clear delineation between what's an ad and what is award show stuff.. this is just a hot mess of constant ads mixed with a blurb of 3 awards won by whatever the fuck games you've never even heard of before

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

Unironically star wars racing game looks more promising than old republic

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cbd [he/him] - 24hr

it has a much greater chance of actually coming out at least

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LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him] - 23hr

yeah, that could be fun. probably gonna be the best star wars game in 20 years, which is saying absolutely nothing at all

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 23hr

IDK Empire at War was a great strategy game (early 2006, barely fits the requirement) and I know The Old Republic scratches the WoW itch for many of my friends. I also had a ton of fun in the original Battlefront/II.

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 23hr

Funny you mention that. People who said Total Warhammer 40k couldnt be done look no further then Empire At War. Replace the planetary combat with Dawn of War 1 and you have a game I would play for 10.000 hours. (Just as an example)

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 23hr

The guys who are doing 40k did Halo Wars 2, and are a Creative Assembly studio. There's an even more recent example.

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 1day

Big Ups to No Man's Sky for best ongoing support. long deserved.

literally resurrecting the corpse of one of the most famous flop launches with 10 years of completely free support and sustained by game copy sales and merch alone.

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 1day

A MILLION SPACE MARINE DLCS UPON THE STEAM MARKETPLACE

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 1day

Aight. New Divinity (from Larian folx behind Baldurs Gate 3)

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SickSemper [she/her, they/them] - 24hr

Holy shit possibly interesting Star Wars games and total warhammer 40k? Faith in gaming restored, send me to the gulag gamer-gulag

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Parzivus [any] - 22hr

I am still getting excited for Star Wars games in 2025 lukashenko-tired
this time for sure

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SickSemper [she/her, they/them] - 24hr

What is Clair obscure

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Geoff visibly forcing himself to spit out that slop-speech about Fortnite.

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puppygirlpets [pup/pup's, she/her] - 1day

every time i catch bits of the game awards i feel like i'm watching geoff's soul slowly die

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

he just wants to talk to kojima but the judges keep voting for the Fr*nch

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

"its the times we live in"

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cbd [he/him] - 1day

kojima boutta decapitate geoff on stage for giving all the awards to expedition 33

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WhyEssEff [she/her] - 23hr

worst geoffslop of all time it’s got me negatively polarized against a good game

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Hermes [none/use name] - 24hr

Geoff just faking everyone out with the intros that keep sounding like HL3

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PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them] - 24hr

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PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them] - 24hr

Just building up my meter

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 1day

Im just here for Total Warhammer 40k

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

if necrons arent a day one faction im going to complain

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 1day

I just want my Orkz honk-enraged

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

You got your shit. Let's go.

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 23hr

Thank you for your support mario-thumbs-up

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 1day

There you go, nerd lmao

(Warhammer Fantasy stan)

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 23hr

Thanks Im also a Fantasy fan but I have always considered 40k my true love.

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

If it happens they must be really really hurting for money lol

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 1day

Its basically the break glass in case of emergency option (but so is Medieval 3)

Like if they deliver on Total Warhammer 40k its gonna make them a fuckton of money.

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cbd [he/him] - 1day

sega forced them to make a terrible live service shooter that was incredibly expensive and got cancelled so you're not wrong

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 1day

They also shut down support for their most recent historical title and released all of that planned DLC as a free update in a last ditch effort to make game copy sales. To say nothing of Hyenas.

They already have the established relationship with GW, and Old World is rapidly gaining on 40k in the internal competition GW has between their settings so 40k needs Juice outside of the boring ass ultramarines release for tabletop in the 500 worlds announcement.* There's no way it isn't Total War: 40k

*Edit for the 40k nerds: Votann is pretty cool, forgot about them

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TheFinalCapitalist [he/him] - 21hr

Where mechanicus faction, I crave the certainty of steel

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 19hr

Dawn of War 4 will have Mechanicus day 1

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Parzivus [any] - 22hr

E33 did not deserve all those awards, I liked it but better than Silksong AND KCD2 AND DS2? Really?
Cool game announcements though. Geoff announced AC8 so he's safe from me for another year

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Moss [they/them] - 1day

I'm watching with my friend, we both predicted a Clair Obscur sweep and that's exactly what's happening

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Hermes [none/use name] - 1day

rise and shine was control and not half life boohoo

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lizard_thing [she/her] - 23hr

aint no way some of yall thought half life 3 was even a possibility. surely you jest

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LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him] - 23hr

no, that's getting announced tomorrow.

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Hermes [none/use name] - 23hr

neon-fell-for-it-evangelion

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thefunkycomitatus [comrade/them, they/them] - 23hr

They'll probably save the Half Life 3 trailer for E3 next year. That would be better.

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The_hypnic_jerk [he/him] - 1day

Open Livestream

Immediate greeted by James Bond Lenny Kravitz

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

Apparently the studio make the new old republic thing was formed 5 months ago lol

Its not gonna be out before the heat death of the universe lol

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 1day

Im watching total war nerds and they were all collectively putting their heads in microwaves thinking it was a Total War: Star Wars announcement

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

thats funny, considering like 2 days ago there was a leak that CA hired people for some 40k project.

still lego total war would have been fun

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 1day

It's obviously 40k, but I also really liked the idea of lego. I played Lego Kingdoms way back in the day.

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 24hr

"We're going to make Tamriel real. We're calling it "Tamreal," coming via Google Stadia 2 UVR (ultra-VR) in 2032"

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 24hr

E33 on stage so much they're running out of shit to say

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 23hr

oh hey did Silly French Game win the GOATY

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insurgentrat [she/her, it/its] - 23hr

Teenage angst and a turnbased status based combat system but it's French so it's sexy.

Oh yeah and there's a risk/reward parry system because the game was made after dark souls.

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regul [any] - 21hr

It's good, actually.

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insurgentrat [she/her, it/its] - 20hr

It's fine. It's not that remarkable and will be largely ignored in a few years. It's not a high watermark, it doesn't innovate particularly, it's a well made game that's fine but stays comfortably within the bounds of a genre and focuses on style without tightly integrating it into game systems.

The game's main strength is its artistic direction which is generally very good, although let down by mediocre level design from a mechanics/gameplay perspective. Which is fine. A new studio put out a well made and enjoyable game, I'm not a hater and as a first game (from admittedly very experienced devs) it's an impressive showing.

It's just hardly the best thing in every category released this year. Nobody is going to be talking about it in 5 years. This isn't like hades or something where a studio took something popular and elevated it to heights nobody knew the genre could go to by tightly integrating all aspects of game design with high levels of polish. It's just a good spectacle jrpg.

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Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them] - 20hr

It's fine. It's not that remarkable and will be largely ignored in a few years

I've noticed how quickly it's been ignored in a the now. People have said it is good, but it doesn't seem like a game that has stuck with people beyond being more flashy fun game to switch brain off to. Which is fine, but not how a game has lasting impact.

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insurgentrat [she/her, it/its] - 18hr

There's only so much impact you can have in the genre of "take turns selecting from a menu until you kill god with the power of friendship". It's so well established genre wise and it's difficult to maintain pacing, but it's too constrained to allow players to find their own narrative.

I do want to be clear, it's very pretty and the performances are generally good, gustave especially is done well and the opening is strong but at the end of the day it's like avatar. Pretty, sounds good, no dealbreaking flaws, just very comfortable and safe to the point that it fails to leave a mark beyond "I enjoyed looking at that".

Which is fine but I mean how many awards need to be piled on this thing? In what ways is it particularly distinct from something like ghosts of yotei?

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cbd [he/him] - 23hr

ye

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 22hr

Todd howard gave an award to e33

3+3= 6

Elder scrolls 6 confirmed

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unaware [they/them] - 17hr

e33

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Half Life 3 confirmed

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 17hr

No its half life 6

We were looking for 3 all along but it was 6 all along

Episode 1 was hl3 episode 2 was hl4 and alyx was hl5

Hl6 tmr

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 1day

British studio Creative Assembly really going all-in on the table top British IP provided by Games Workshop aren't they.

that said I'm curious how they'll go about with, i think, their first game that's not based on warfare from and prior the industrial revolution plus the hocus pocus of the wham fantasty they played with. Like they can't do dawn of total war hammer, so it'll be interesting to see what they come up with

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 24hr

Anchoring it with a role played by a freshly cancelled celeb too lol

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 24hr

charlie kirk as the emperor of mankind?

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 24hr

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 23hr

Counting or not counting hivegang violence

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

They should add the necrons as a base game faction because i like them.

also it kinda looks like it will have space combat in some way

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keepcarrot [she/her] - 24hr

I will probably play it regardless :(

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 23hr

From what I've heard the devs working on it started as the devs for Halo Wars 2, so it's not as outlandish if you look at it from that perspective.

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] - 21hr

oh so it might look like dawn of war then, well they had to make that eventual departure from their usual dev style i suppose.

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 21hr

Creative Assembly also announced in their showcase a week or so ago that "their next big game" will be on the new engine, so I imagine it will look a bit novel compared to the rest of the franchise

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CredibleBattery [he/him, comrade/them] - 1day

ANOTHER 20 BILLION AWARDS FOR EXPEDITION 33

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

New Ace Combat and with a PC release lets-fucking-go

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Nomisslehere [he/him] - 23hr

Guy on the boat sounded like Pixy from Ace Combat Zero

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 1day

Wow . 2 Tomb Raider games. One in 2026 and one in 2027 (not even a Tomb Raider fan but thats kinda cool huh)

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thefunkycomitatus [comrade/them, they/them] - 23hr

So Catalyst looks like a new entry in the Tomb Raider/Rise of the Tomb Raider/Shadow of the Tomb Raider series. The other one looks like an HD remake of the first PS1 game?

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LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him] - 23hr

I dont think its just an hd remake, its the new engine, entirely rebuilt.

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LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him] - 1day

tankrat looks fun as hell, along with the chicken foot lady game. otherwise just a bunch of anime goonerslop and generic third person shooters.

oh! and control 2. fucking PUMPED for that shit

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regul [any] - 21hr

Am I losing it or does Tankrat look identical to Tankhead, which came out earlier this year?

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MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any] - 23hr

We're actually getting Ace Combat 8 I can't believe it!

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worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him] - 22hr

My time spent praying and performing dark rituals in my basement all week 2521 days since Ace Combat 7's release paid off

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PKMKII [none/use name] - 1day

Leon’s back baby!

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

leon you are so old, go home to your family, dude. lol

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ryepunk [he/him] - 23hr

He said he wants a second opinion though!

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 24hr

French Sw33p at the awards france-cool

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

Whos gonna win best music guys is it gonna be the game that got a solo performance earlier tonight lol

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

its looking like a france-cool sweep

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

Larian, warhorse, remedy, and now sandfall

We're living in a euro dominated g*mer industry its so joever man

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

i blame ubisoft

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

Ubisoft tried its best to prevent french cultural dominance by making the most dogshit slop games ever unfortunately they couldn't stop their ex devs

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Dessa [she/her] - 21hr

Thay divinity trailer was fucking gross. I want to play the game less having seen it

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Parzivus [any] - 18hr

That's kinda what the Divinity series is like. The trailer was turned up to 11, and usually they mix in some dark/absurdist comedy, but they're pretty gorey games.

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Dessa [she/her] - 8hr

I've played the divinity series. I've got no issue with gore. This is definitely grosser than usual. Like why am I seeing pigs eat vomit from a nasty as fuck dude eating a turkey leg? I assume it's meant to be humor

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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 19hr

the lizard sex was kinda cool, i could do with less vomiting on pigs catgirl-disgust

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thefunkycomitatus [comrade/them, they/them] - 1day

Let me know when the Half Life 3 trailer drops

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Infamousblt [any] - 1day

Imagine if they just go straight to 4. Would be unprecedented levels of trolling and they would do it

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

Make it VR exclusive as well

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Thanks Bawma.

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

OK, Ace Combat is cool.

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Distinct lack of pod racers in that star wars racing game.

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 1day

I actually like the choice to do swoop racing instead of pod racing

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 24hr

Pod racers are cooler because it shows the chariot racing inspiration more as well as making it visibly more dangerous and insane that people on these poor, junker planets are reusing old spaceship engines and strapping themselves to them.

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 24hr

Sure thing, and I played and loved the old pod racing game. I'm just excited to see something new, you know?

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 24hr

Yeah, fair.

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Nomisslehere [he/him] - 23hr

It looks like three different classes of vehicles on the logo with pod racers being one of them

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abc [he/him, comrade/them] - 1day

"See you guys won dean-smile" Geoff also hates Silksong he's just like me fr

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Monk3brain3 [any, he/him] - 23hr

Not even one jrpg announced. Im going into withdrawal

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Commie_Chameleon [she/her] - 1day

Oh my god I'm so tired of star war

Edit: ok I am still tired of star war but BRING BACK DEMOLITION YOU COWARDS

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 24hr

Previous GOTY winner was fr@nch too

Fr*nch kabal confirmed

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Mindfury [he/him] - 22hr

AYO I HEARD THERE'S A NEW PODRACER GAME?!?

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insurgentrat [she/her, it/its] - 23hr

Obscured clare obligatory colon useless subtitle is well made but like it's not that good. Standard combat system, some good art animations and music, tedious level design, annoying "observe the art" character dialogue that was parodied in portal of all things, somewhat creative story.

Idk it wasn't thaaaaaat good. Music sure but huh?

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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] - 23hr

my new conspiracy theory is that the TGA judges were staffed by Daredevil fanatics in a convoluted bid by Marvel/Disney to advertise for the new Daredevil season

::: spoiler spoiler (The English VA for Gustave was Charlie Cox, who plays Daredevil in the Netflix series and now MCU) :::

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SevenSkalls [he/him] - 23hr

Was hoping for a trailer or preview of the next FF7 remake and I'm kind of sad one didn't happen.

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Commie_Chameleon [she/her] - 23hr

Honestly surprised it wasn’t there now that you mention it!

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peeonyou [he/him] - 22hr

hmm i guess i'm not a gamer.. this was boring beyond belief for me. literally not looking forward to anything they showed

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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 1day

cool first award for expedition 33 (best performance)

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Blep [he/him] - 1day

Ku klux kiramman 2xko tweet went brazy

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Thank you, Victor Lucas of Electric Playground.

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VictorLucas [he/him] - 1day

Anytime! 👍

Play Forever! 🎮

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Does Warframe have a lot of capes in it? I feel like it does based on that caped woman.

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barrbaric [he/him] - 1day

Rather interestingly, there are only like 2-3 proper "capes" in Warframe. The devs generally try to avoid them due to clipping issues and blocking the screeen during typical warframe movement (in particular, the new riftguard one from tennocon this year is fucked). But the Repala (a very basic cape) is consistently one of the most popular premium cosmetics.

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Interesting.

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peeonyou [he/him] - 1day

joined late but so far seeing a bunch of stuff slated for release in 2027... which is not that exciting to think about

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 24hr

New Megaman 2027 game is getting PS4 and Switch releases. Hell yeah. PS4ever.

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peeonyou [he/him] - 1day
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Guamer [she/her] - 22hr

Some neat looking new IPs, but nothing that really got me hyped. Guess I'm more a Nintendo hog nowadays.

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Sickos [they/them, it/its] - 11hr

That's what happens in a year with more industry layoffs and game cancellations than ever.

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] - 1day

Have they explained that Geoff Keighley tweet or is he just opening a portal to hell?

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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] - 1day

Teaser for new larian divinity game

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] - 1day

wowee

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grandepequeno [he/him] - 16hr

I'm glad people are dunking on E33 because I still want to play that game yet and my hype was WAY TOO HIGH, now I know it's not literally everyone's favorite game ever so my expectations are tempered

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Missed most of it watching Nutcracker Fantasy.

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

Did they just ruin Control by turning it into a Souls-like

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cbd [he/him] - 1day

looks more character action, honestly looks sick

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1day

The 2 gameplay genres. Over-the-shoulder 3rd-person shooter and 3rd-person action-combat game with slow animation timings and a dodge roll.

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LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him] - 23hr

it just looks more melee focused, what are you talking about

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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 23hr

Yeah, exactly. You have SCP devices and powers that could be used to make it interesting if they're not going to ever make a game with a new gameplay system, but instead it might just be a guy with a club.

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LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him] - 23hr

Dylan is even more powerful than Jessie and you think they're going to remove the powers he has and not allow any weirdo devices? Come on.

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buckykat [none/use name] - 21hr

Melee combat and a guy PC? Not interested

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unaware [they/them] - 15hr

enter the gamer ward

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Kras Mazov - 12hr

Missed this thread, so I'll just leave my impressions here :3

There were some really cool announcements like Orbitals (what an amazing art style, holy shit), new Ace Combat, Coven of the Chicken Foot (cuuuute), new Divinity (was the pig eating vomit really necessary?), Gang of Dragon, No Law, new Control (makes me wanna play the first one), Bradley the Badger, Ontos (this one felt disturbing in a good way) and Tank Rat (looks super fun).

The 40k Total War game would get me hyped to try it if it wasn't being presented by that manipulative piece of shit from Stranger Things that I forgot the name, he's even in the game, ugh.

The SF movie actually looked good? Like how lol. It's still a wreck of a cast, but it looked trashy fun. The MK jab tho was just weird and unfunny.

COTW winning best fighting game? Really? I know that's probably not possible, but it just felt like Saudi Arabia threw money to get the win.

Mario Kart winning best racing game, like eh. All I see about it is complaining, I thought Sonic was gonna win.

New Tomb Raider looked AI, there was too many AI slop in there too. AMD had not 1, but 2 AI ads.

Still, the whole show felt weird and dry. Indie of the year presented during the pre-show? And obviously Exp33 won despite not being fucking indie. It soured me how much both Geoff and the Exp33 crew were pushing hard how they were "indie" during the show. I haven't played the game, and still really want to, but that sucked major ass.

I think the main issue with the show was the order of announcements, some big stuff were presented early, then there were lots of times were there weren't many exciting announcements for long periods of time and the last game presentation was the worst I've ever seen, holy shit. Geoff just talked big about the most generic hero shooter ever made that got no one excited. Almost any other trailer presented at the end would have been better than this shit. But I guess all you have to do is throw some money and you get to have the biggest spot in the show for your generic shooter that is gonna shut down 6 months after release.

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