Game of the Year Awards 2024

I just got back from traveling out of state for family matters. The road trip was tiresome but I'm back now. But while I was staying at a hotel, I caught wind of the Game of The Year Awards which is hosted by the Dorito Pope Geoff Keighley. I figured I may as well watch it considering I had nothing better else to do. I only brought my DSi, my e-reader, and my phone of course. I wish I would had brought my laptop but I'm not going to use hotel internet. Also as of the past few years, there are occasionally "big" annoucements that are made during the GOTY award shows so in a way it's kind of like an end of the year E3 in theory. I might have mentioned about previous GOTY award shows in my blog before, (I'm not sure if I mentioned them in the daily blogs). So what I did I think about this years GOTY.

AAA gaming is a joke. Of course the award show was shit. I'm not going to list out everything I saw but I can tell what it basically was without looking up anything online and only what I remember from watching it. I guarantee you it's right on the money.

Gatcha Impact clones, Advertisement, Advertisement, Mobile Shit, Gatcha Impact clones, Cinemeatic trailers with no gameplay, celebrity cameos in order to appeal to normies, camera pans to Kojima's or Todd Howard's expressions during the show, the muppets basically dissing the show the same way I would had thought while I was watching it, and Playstation 5 finally has ONE game that's playable (but still don't have any interest in playing it despite it winning the game of the year). Do with that information what you will.

Two interesting things that caught my mind during the show is an annoucemnt of a new Turok game which initially peaked my interest until they showed the trailer and gameplay (for once) and I am vomit. It's a third person shitter with the art style of Fortnite, looks like shit, plays like shit, it's a third person GOD OF SOY persepctive instead of a first person shooter like the other games, has fuck all to do with the older Turok games, It'll never be a real Turok game. Even the 7th gen Turok game is less of an insult to the Turok franchise than this new game. Not interested anymore.

The one only good annoucement from the GOTY show was an annoucement for Okami 2. No gameplay or trailer, but just an annoucement. I do like the first Okami game. It has a very beautiful traditional Japanese artstyle, music, and is a better wolf game than Twilight Princess. I played it on PS2 and bought it for Wii later on and it's nice. I need to play the DS game at some point. I can't imagine them screwing up the sequel. I can't see how they can unless it's at a superfical or technical level.

Other than that, Triple A gaming is still dead. A bunch of worthless annoucemnts not even worth my time. Boring at best and outright insulting at most. How do gaming normies eat all this up?