The Game Awards 2018 (December 7th)

[johnhoftb]

Game of the Year

• Assassin's Creed Osyssey
• Celeste
• God of War
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Monster Hunter: World
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Ongoing Game

• Destiny 2: Forsaken
• Fortnite
• No Man's Sky
• Overwatch
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Best Game Direction

• A Way Out
• Detroit: Become Human
• God of War
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Narrative

• Detroit: Become Human
• God of War
• Life is Strange 2: Episode 1
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Art Direction

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• God of War
• Octopath Traveler
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Return of Obra Dinn

Best Score

• Celeste
• God of War
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom
• Octopath Traveler
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Audio Design

• Call of Duty: black Ops 4
• Forza Horizon 4
• God of War
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Performance

• Bryan Dechart as Conner; Detroit: Become Human
• Christopher Judge as Kratos; God of War
• Melissa Mahut as Cassandra; Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan; Red Dead Redemption 2
• Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker; Marvel's Spider-Man

Games for Impact

• 11-11 Memories Retold
• Celeste
• Florence
• Life is Strange 2: Episode 1
• The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories

Best Independent Game

• Celeste
• Dead Cells
• Into the Breach
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• The Messenger

Best Mobile Game

• Donut Country
• Florence
• Fortnite
• PUBG Mobile
• Reigns: Game of Thrones

Best AR/VR Game

• ASTRO BOY Rescue Mission
• Beat Saber
• Firewall Zero Hour
• Moss
• Tetris Effect

Best Action Game

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
• Dead Cells
• Destiny 2: Forsaken
• Far Cry 5
• Mega Man 11

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• God of War
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Red Dead redemption 2
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Best Role Playing Game

• Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
• Monster Hunter: World
• Ni no Kuni 2:Revenant Kingdom
• Octopath Traveler
• Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Best Fighting Game

• BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
• Dragon Ball FighterZ
• Soul Calibur VI
• Street Fighter V: Arcade

Best Family Game

• Mario Tennis Aces
• Nintendo Labo
• Overcooked 2
• Starlink: Battle for Atlas
• Super Mario Party

Best Strategy Game

• The Banner Saga 3
• BATTLETECH
• Frostpunk
• Into the Breach
• Valkyria Chronicles 4

Best Sports/Racing Game

• FIFA '19
• Forza Horizon 4
• Mario Tennis Aces
• NBA 2K19
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2019

Best Multiplayer Game

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
• Destiny 2: Forsaken
• Fortnite
• Monster Hunter: World
• Sea of Thieves

Best Student Project

• Combat 2018
• Dash Quasar
• JERA
• LIFF
• RE: Charge

Best Debut Indie Game

• Donut Country
• Florence
• Moss
• The Messenger
• Yoku's Island Express

Best eSports game

• CSGO
• DOTA2
• Fortnite
• League of Legends
• Overwatch

Best eSports Player

• Dominique "SonicFox" McLean
• Hajime "Tokido" Taniguchi
• Jian "Uzi" Zi-Hao
• Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev
• Sung-hyeon "JJoNak" Bang

Best eSports Team

• Astralis
• Cloud9
• Fnatic
• London Spitfire
• OG

Best eSports Coach[/list][*]Bok "Reapered" Han-gyu[*]Cristian "ppasarel" Bănăseanu[*]Danny “zonic” Sørensen [*]Dylan Falco[*]Jakob "YamatoCannon" Mebdi[*]Janko "YNk" Paunovic[/list]

Best eSports Event

• ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018
• EVO 2018
• League of Legends World Championships
• Overwatch League Grand Finals
• The Internationals 2018

Best eSports Host

• Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez
• Alex "Machine" Richardson
• Anders Blume
• Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere
• Paul "RedEye" Chaloner

Best eSports Moment

• C9 Comback Win in Triple OT vs FAZE
• G2 Beating RNG
• KT vs IG Base Race
• OG's Massive Upset of LGD
• SonicFox Side Switch Against Go1 in DBZ

Content Creator of the Year

• Dr. Lupo
• Myth
• Ninja
• Pokimane
• Willyrex

[Eleccybubb]

Best ongoing game choices are weak as fuck this year imo.

I mean if I had to pick one it would be No Man's Sky but even then that's just by a slim margin.

Once you upload the rest John I'll just copy paste the categories and pick one from each.

[johnhoftb]

Best ongoing game choices are weak as fuck this year imo.

I mean if I had to pick one it would be No Man's Sky but even then that's just by a slim margin.

Once you upload the rest John I'll just copy paste the categories and pick one from each.

I would have chosen Splatoon 2 myself for best ongoing game, at least for nomination.

[Eleccybubb]

I would have chosen Splatoon 2 myself for best ongoing game, at least for nomination.

We know you would have......

[dope_danny]

Overwatch? best ongoing game? they added the hamsterball and changed symmetra, have they done anything else of note in 2018 outside of chasing activisions mad thirst for esports?

[Ashleyxoxo]

Lol gaming trying to be legit but having the same 5 games in each category zzZ.

[Vineri]

Sponsored by the Guild for the Advancement of Microtransaction Enjoyment (GAME), with a few actually good games stuffed in to make it look like they're not biased or anything.

Best ongoing game Destiny 2 .. wtf

[Calfredd]

Lol gaming trying to be legit but having the same 5 games in each category zzZ.

That's because there were no other good games of note this year. And quit with the holier-than-thou attitude about games when your preferred choice of entertainment probably isn't much better.

[Rogalicus]

Not sure how I feel about never playing any of those games.

[Orby]

Its like the same 5 games for each category lol. Was there on ly 5 games released this year?

[CasualFilth]

Lol gaming trying to be legit but having the same 5 games in each category zzZ.

Not even 5, it's gonna be GoW vs RDR2 (maybe Spider-Man into the mix).

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No Dragon Quest 11? It'd have been hilarious to see DQ in the 'Best Game Direction' when the DQ series is known for being conservatively traditional in the JRPG genre.

Aright DQ11 nominated in the RPG category.

[MrPaladinGuy]

GoTY is either going to be GoW or RDR2

[Rustedsaint]

I would say fortnite or overwatch for best ongoing.
Rd2 or god of war for game of the year
Octopath for best score

[johnhoftb]

Finished the list.

[Tech614]

Octopath for best score

This award is literally FREE for Octopath. Octopath truthfully should not win any other award it's up for but it's score literally beats the breaks off any other OST this year.

[MrPaladinGuy]

How does the voting for these awards work ?

Who votes ?

[Tech614]

How does the voting for these awards work ?

Who votes ?

A committee of press.

They have open internet votes usually to but those count for a totally insignificant portion of the scoring and will not move the needed at all.

There are certain awards that are fan vote only though, like the esports ones.

[MrPaladinGuy]

This award is literally FREE for Octopath. Octopath truthfully should not win any other award it's up for but it's score literally beats the breaks off any other OST this year.

Was Ni No Kuni 2's bad or was Octopath's just that good ?

[Cattleya]

Was Ni No Kuni 2's bad or was Octopath's just that good ?

I wouldn't say NNK2's was bad, but it wasn't great either, and the best theme on that OST was just a different version of NNK1's main theme.

[Tech614]

Was Ni No Kuni 2's bad or was Octopath's just that good ?

NNK2 wasn't bad, but pretty average by JRPG standards at this point.