Topic: THE Game Awards 2014, hosted by Geoff Keighley

[MysterD]

Last night was Geoff Keighley's awards show The Game Awards 2014.
It took place in Vegas + was broadcasted over on Steam, PSN, and many other places.
There were a bunch of world premieres and awards.

Here's some of the Awards winners, from Polygon/

WINNERS:

Game of the Year
Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)

Best Role-Playing Game
Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)

Best Performance
Trey Parker as Various Voices, South Park: The Stick of Truth (Obsidian Entertainment/Ubisoft)

Best Score/Soundtrack
Destiny (Marty O'Donnell/Bungie)

Best Online Experience
Destiny (Bungie/Activision)

Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)

Best Fighting Game
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd./Bandai Namco Games/Nintendo)

Developer of the Year
Nintendo

Best Sports/Racing Game
Mario Kart 8

Best Shooter
Far Cry 4

Games for Change
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)

Best Narrative
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)

Industry Icon
Roberta and Ken Williams

Best Independent Game
Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)

Best Remaster
Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)

Best Action/Adventure Game
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Best Family Game
Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)


Fan's Choice

Most Anticipated Game
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

eSports Player of the Year
Matt "NaDeSHoT" Haag (Call of Duty)

eSports Team of the Year
Ninjas in Pyjamas (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)

Trending Gamer
TotalBiscuit

Best Fan Creation
Twitch Plays Pokemon by Anonymous

[MysterD]

Polygon -> World Premieres from last night's Awards Show.

Bloodborne - Multiplayer and Flamethrower weapon shown off.
The Legend of Zelda WiiU gameplay footage; new Star Fox also named for coming in 2015.
Mario Maker for WiiU announced - creation + gameplay footage begins at 3:52.
King's Quest (Reboot) announced for PC, PS4, PS3, XB1, X360.
No Man's Sky - "5 Ways To Journey" Trailer.
Metal Gear Online shown off; and this will ship with MGS V: The Phantom Pain.
Human Element (post-apoc FPS/Racing game with motorcycles) debuted by Robotoki's Robert Bowling (formerly of Infinity Ward).
Before (prehistoric survival game) by FacePunch Studios.
Adrift [is this Gravity: The Game?] debuted by Adam Orth of ThreeOneZero (formerly at Microsoft).
Hazelight game-company announced (makers of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons) + working on new IP; EA will publish.
Tacoma announced by FullBright (dev's behind Gone Home)
Dying Light - "Story" Trailer.
The Witcher 3 will let you play as multiple characters.
The Order: 1886 - "Victorian Airships" Trailer
Dungeon Defenders 2 coming to PS4 in 2015.
New Godzilla game coming to PS4 + PS3.

[Cobra951]

Dammit, I missed that.  I was going to watch it, but I had to put out some fires on my mom's new email setup.  Contacts weren't accessible as an address book (after moving the data from her old PC).  Damned Outlook is a pita.

Several games there are on my must-get list:

Dragon Age: Inquisition
Far Cry 4
GTA V Remaster (when cheaper)

Glad to see Shadow of Mordor get a nod.  It's well deserved.

[MysterD]

@Cobra

I watched it last night in full on Steam - and it was quite terrible, TBH.
A lot of awards weren't even shown, but might've been mentioned.

A lot of World Premieres, advertisements, and other nonsense.
It was little better than some of Geoff's past shows w/ Spike, though - if that's even saying much.

Honestly - you're best off just watching the trailers + stuff from the Polygon site.
Best stuff from the show's there, anyways - without any in-between garbage + BS.

[Cobra951]

Thanks for that.  I was looking for the show when I got distracted by other stuff on Youtube.  I guess I'll just try to find a good synopsis.  Polygon sounds like the place to start.

[idolminds]

Also it was on kinda late and then ended up being like 4 hours long. Feel glad you missed it.

[Pugnate]

I find myself so out of touch when people's names are mentioned like they are somebody and I have no idea who they are. I have never heard of Geoff Keighley.

[MysterD]

I find myself so out of touch when people's names are mentioned like they are somebody and I have no idea who they are. I have never heard of Geoff Keighley.

Geoff has done the hosting of the Spike TV Video Games Awards forever.
And he's known for DoritosGate, as well.

[Xessive]

He was also the guy behind GameTrailers.com until they moved under a different ownership.