You may have noticed that the Game Developers Conference has been taking place this week. As well as holding a number of talks with developers they also have an awards ceremony where they announce the games they believe have had the most impact during 2014. Sadly there isn’t a Nintendo title listed. Here’s the games they deemed the most important during 2014.
Game of the Year
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Best Debut
Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
Innovation Award
Monument Valley (ustwo)
Best Technology
Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
Best Audio
Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Best Visual Art
Monument Valley (ustwo)
Best Narrative
Kentucky Route Zero: Act III (Cardboard Computer)
Best Design
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Monument Valley (ustwo)
Audience Award
Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
Pioneer Award
David Braben
Ambassador Award
Brenda Romero
Lifetime Achievement Award
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Never heard about most of these games. And from what I’ve heard Destiny kinda sucked. The story was all over the place and stuff was cut out. Meh. Best Best Handheld/Mobile Game should have been Pokémon ORAS. Why was there even an debate there. lol
Bravely Default >>>>> ORAS
I second this, and I haven’t even played ORAS yet. This is coming from a Pokefanatic, admittedly.
Brav3ly default was released in 2013, but Pokemon ORAS was released 2014. And bravely default isnt really that much better than pokemon.
It was released in 2014…
No. 2013. In Europe.
2014 for NA though
If you really want ti be anal about it then here: BD was actually released in 2012 in Japan.
I agree with Shuhei, BD should’ve taken the award, overall better game and actually innovative unlike Pokemon ORAS, If I had my way though, I would chose Fantasy Life over any other handheld game but that’s just me.
I’ve never played it but you’re probably right this time, Pokemon is just not fresh anymore…
You’re not fresh anymore. Then again, you never were. Still using the three dots after every sentence. You’re so lame, dude.
If I wanted your irrelevant opinion, I would have abducted you in both this Virtual Reality and in the Real Realm…
Now go home Xbot…
youre mom isnt fresh anymore
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Really? You of all people lower yourself to a troll level?…
Be my guest…
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You petty coat is showing. A Sony fan on a Nintendo website trying to down play Hoenn lol! I guess when sack boy is your only mascot, the best you can do is hate on greatness that does not wait wait wait, disorder 1886 wait wait……
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Play down Hoenn? Nice try at an argument
Pokemon ORAS was awful. Worst Pokemon game in the series. This is coming from a huge Nintendo fan.
No. It’s coming out of your ass. Obviously. Since it was awesome.
Let’s see. The graphical style was terrible (I’m not even complaining about the 3DS’s hardware, I just mean the 3D-sprite style of the game). The overworld design was kept blocky like the original Ruby/Sapphire when this was a remake and that’s something that should’ve been fixed. There were only 3-5 Pokemon on each route compared to X and Y’s 7-10 per route (again, remake, this should’ve been updated). And last, and my biggest point, the game was too god damn easy, even without the EXP share. They made it even easier than the originals. Prime Example: the cave on Dewford island.
Yeah, I beat A.S. in 5 days. Way to easy.
-Able to catch almost every non event legendary Pokemon in-game.
-Hordes and Blissey bases make it extremely easy to EV train and level up Pokemon.
-IV judge and Pokemon Day Care around the same area.
-Online features from X and Y.
-All mega stones from X and Y including new ones.
-Delta Episode
Omega Ruby didn’t suck to me. I find it better than X. Only thing I like more about X was the character customization.
Destiny won in technology, can still suck. Actually Destiny didn’t really suck, it just failed to live up to it’s insanely blown up hype.
And Monument Valley is just truly a gem. I don’t know if I agree on throwing so many awards at it, but anyways, it’s supersimple design with kinda complex mechanics and superaccessible with a visualdesign that would cause every graphicdesigner wet dreams.
What’s bugging me though about these awards is, that 2014 was such an embarrassing year for the industry except Nintendo. While so many Studios failed to come after their stupid hype balloons, throwing out half baked, underwhelming software like
Driveclub
Alien Isolation
Watchdogs
AC:Unity
Destiny
and many more, Nintendo delivered with every piece of software. And they get nothing for that. So sure, it’s a bit unfair, but still, it’s not really an audience-driven award.
Destiny did not suck, it was reslly fun. The only issue is that it was overhyped, so some gsmers were underwhelmed.
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Well they didn’t award Destiny for its well thought out story now did they? :)
ORAS was stupid easy and short. It doesn’t deserve anything.
Well fuck those guys then.
Before the trolls troll, check out the headline again. “losses out”.
Just about to say that hahaha
see? they are failing again. :’D
ehhh i was more interested in the navidia shield than nintendo indie games.
Nvidea looks interesting.
If trolls want to read the games that won don’t even desrve a mention.
Why do people worship Hearthstone so much? I tried it. I even spent money on getting more decks. But was so bored of the repetition and lack of charm I quit after a week.
I’m not even joking, but there are people, specifically my brother, who CRAVE anything made by Blizzard. I’m not saying it’s a bad game or anything (I can tell it’s good, but it’s not my type of game) but it’s mainly so popular because it’s a card game BY Blizzard… (If it wasn’t made by Blizzard and was the same game, just different characters, probably no one would be talking about it)
The only thing I crave from them is Starcraft, nothing else matters in the PC Realm right now…
Half life 3?!
Do people still care about Half Life, or is it just some meme?
both
I do… It and Portal 2 are one of my favourite games of all time
Starcraft is definitely awesome from the small amount I’ve played of it.
Starcraft wad awesome. Oh the memories!
sounds like this award show sucked major balls. ssb and hyrule warriors will tople any of those titles mentioned, hand’s down!
Have you played Shadow of Mordor?
Woah! No Dragon Age Inqusition? I call Blasphemy.
Personally I found Dragon Age: Inquisition incredibly underwhelming. It was essentially everything bad about the Elder Scrolls and nothing good about any of said games, shoved into a different franchise.
The headline is spelled loses not losses!!!! Lolol
The headline is spelled loses not losses!!!!! Lolol
Let’s be fair, Nintendo can’t win everything. It’s perfectly possible for them not to receive a single award, especially because criteria for what passes as the best isn’t the same for every judging entity. But as Anonymous said above, I’ve heard a lot of complaint about Destiny, and Pokemon ORAS would be a better fit for that category.
Knowing how prize awarders seem to be afraid of showing Nintendo a bit of love, fearing their audience will leave if they do, such is the trend to hate on Nintendo, it isn’t weird to be a bit skeptical regarding those awards where Nintendo doesn’t show up in any category. But, again, we don’t know what criteria were taken in consideration, and the selection might have been completely impartial and fair.
Hironobu Sakaguchi got a lifetime achievement award, so I’m not complaining. “Pokemon ORAS should have won best handheld game.” Er…well it’s more worthy than any mobile game, I guess. I didn’t think it was that strong of a Pokemon title, I just don’t like Hoen.
…I dunno. Generally I don’t like games released at the end of the year claiming GoTY or any awards for whatever current year they’re in, but I just don’t see how Bayonetta 2 didn’t get anything. Oh well Whatever I don’t need the games I love to be ego stroked by these things. Fans do that enough lol
But the games you love do get “Ego stroked” in REAL game awards. This one just happens to be a farce, and obviously made to please and entertain their anti-Nintendo audience.
ehh… i really wounder how people still enjoy destiny.
Destiny is so boring.
Because it’s an MMO. It’s a lot more than just completing the story.
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Best Audio: Alien Isolation… REALLY?! WHAT ABOUT DKC:TF!!! ;_; Too bad it came out too early in 2014, because probably no one remembered it by the end of the year…
It’s not just about the music, it’s also about the sound effects etc etc…
Still, DKC:TF DESERVES some sort of soundtrack award…
It’s where the empire sent me to learn about war strategies…
Was meant for your other comment…
DKTF was best 2014 Wii U games.
Dude, you have to understand, this is not a REAL awards show. It’s a damn homegrown, anti-Nintendo, joke of an awards show. I would not get so worked up about a couple of haters making a fake awards show..
Well… I wouldn’t call it “anti-Nintendo”…
Of course it’s anti-nintendo. What would make you think otherwise?
Well, to be honest, probably most of them haven’t even PLAYED the games made by Nintendo, and I’m guessing these awards are mainly judged by popularity…
Actually Destiny did deserve Best Technology
Are you fucking nuts?
Yea lawl, NSMB U deserved the cake. I mean, 2D Mario! That’s some amazing tech use right there!
Destiny doesn’t deserve anything, Alien Isolation is better i nevery way…
If you haven’t played it, don’t knock it. The level of graphical detail from Bungie in this game is insane
Of course, here we go with the graphics again…
I don’t care…
The award was for Best Technology. It has EVERYTHING to do with graphics, whether you care or not
The gameplay of Alien Isolation in terms of technology is still better than the shallow graphical ones of Destiny…
Seeing Monument Valley getting all this praise and glory from a variety of reviews and awards and shit makes me want to try it. Had my eye on it before it was made to be so ‘fantastic’, but every review on the Play Store says it’s too short and not worth the money because of it.
What the fuck, Phil Fish did not win the life time achievement award, I was so sure he would.
Shadow of Mordor, game of the year? That’s really funny. Nothing original, a mix of gameplay mechanics that already exist.
I go play Bayonetta 2, bye bye
Lol, I love it how people practically admit to not even playing a game in their comments
I’ve played Shadow Of Mordor on PC and it is a great game but it’s not better than Bayonetta 2.
You just described Bayonetta 2 lmao
Lml you sir deserve a cookie for the truth in this comment.
The GDC’s awards have turned into a stupid circlejerk hugbox for the hipster indie click that yells “harrasment” at every turn.
Nintendo and any other developer is better off not dealing with this crap.
*indie clique
Anger impedes grammar.
#butthurt
Damn right I’m effing #butthurt son.
Yeah. Now it went from being like a E3/Comic Con for Developers to know being a indie party where the devs are entitled over everything and as you said harassed. It also didn’t help that Tim Schafer mocked minorities with a sock puppet.
Might be one of the worst indie parties out there, those awards can be a bit of a joke. And Tim Schaffer threw himself under the bus… yet again. I hope this one bites him in the ass for longer though.
Not a single win for the empire?…
Are they really asking for a war for extermination?…
This is so bullshit, considering 2014 was of Nintendo’s biggest years game-wise. Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros., even Shovel Knight (not created by Nintendo, but still a Wii U/3DS title)
It’s a conspiracy against Nintendo.
It always is.
I know Nintendo doesn’t have to win every category, that wouldn’t be fair. But it’s obvious to me whatever people picked these are fucking pricks who only favour violent games and westaboo poop and anything Nintendo related to them is “childish”. Boo hoo. Where’s most FUN game? I’m sure Nintendo would have won that category by miles.
Some of these award categories are lame. Where’s the music category?
It’s curious not to see MK8 or Bayonetta 2 somewhere in there but oh well, they’ve both received their share of awards.
This is the first time that I have heard of the GDC awards. How long has it been going on for???
I’ve never heard of th GDC Awards. Howlong has it been going on for???
*Sorry for the double post, I was logged out and only realised while the comment was being posted…
Just now they did their Game Of The Year? A bit late isn’t it? Most people do GOTY in December, since last year has been over for awhile. Also best audio, should be DKC: TR NO QUESTION.
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