Everyone remembers "Death can have me when it earns me", and rightfully so... But who here remembers this gem: "KRATOS! YOU'RE ON FIRE!!!" "It will pass."
Still FF14 is quite good and consistent with the support (even amazing) and updates (though it's not fair bcs as an mmo they are just having consistent updates no matter whay). I will be happy seeing both of them winning.
elden ring music was god tier imo, but i understand why people would overlook it because its hard to pay attention to the music when ur trying ur best to roll out of waterfowl dance
I think the issue with Elden Ring in that regard is how the music and score is only there when you are fighting a boss. The OSTs are absolutely fantastic, I have listened to the Godskin Theme a billion times, but they are essentially narrowed down to just being "boss music". The scores in Ragnarok however range from subtle to grand and accompany you throughout the entire game. From the very first moment to the last you have audio that perfectly fits to the scene. Combine that with the beautiful environmetal sounds of the game and I believe that GoW's sound design is way superior.
@@davidjr3658 I’m glad sonic community tried, but imo the sonic game hella mid. No offense to those who like it. Genshit Midpact should be disqualified for that doing those reward tbh.
What I find so interesting is that for a lot of people. Elden Ring was their game of the year, yet in every other category GoW Ragnarok took the cake. To me, that tells me this. Making the best possible game isn't about Game Direction, Narrative, Art Direction, Music, or Audio Design. It's about creating the most memorable experience possible. These things matter, of course, but they're not everything. We don't want an elevator, we want stairs.
Elden Rings replay value is also at a level that hasn't been touched since the Skyrim and the mid-2000s Bethesda days. Like skyrim, it'll probably grow new fans and be played for DECADES after launch. Very very few games have that kind of power.
It's funny, I consider Ragnarok to be my favourite game of all time now that I've completed it, but i still want elden ring to with GOTY, i just don't have a reasoning for it, i just 'feel' like elden ring deserves it
agreed on Kratos' character, its very easy to illicit an emotional response by killing off characters or destroying things the audience likes, but to have the entire experience so wrought with emotion without having to rely on shock value and while instilling meaningful messages in the player, is something to behold.
Exactly what I have been saying. People think its brave or hard to do "kill the character with the questionable past violently". I believe its way too easy. Instead they went the "redemption by doing something equally as good" part, which is harder and takes lot of set pieces to fall accurately in the character development. That is brave.
Kratos was a deep character from the very start. Ever since the remake people pretend like the original kratos was this mindless murder machine and his games were nothing but gore and violence, when in fact they told a deep and rich story about regret and self-loathing. People disregarding that to praise the newer games is disgusting.
well it logical: GOW game direction is phenomenal, it's like you watching a movie, in the elden ring you kinda creating your own Score/music between these two is depends on ur own preferences, i voted for ER simply because main theme music used to be final boss music is OP decision Best actor, well no explanation needed Best action: GOW wins because you know it was best action game fr Best RP: ER wins because you know it was best role play game fr
@@mana256k3 bro u gotta chill 💀its legit a good game by definition; soundtrack, acting, art style, gameplay, game time etc etc only a few picks here and there lmao. Considering your calling it God of War 2 when its the 5th one imma take your opinion for granted lmao
@@mana256k3 all I was saying is it isn’t a shit game lol the team and publisher put a lot of work and took the community into an insane amount of consideration. Not a lot of teams have that amount of love and effort anymore.
I'm with Charlie on one thing: GOW Ragnarok did not ruined Kratos's character... On the contrary, they perfected it in an emotional level... Especially when he narrates the events from previous games.
The story and what they did with kratos was perfect… but i wouldant mind to think about how fast the game(s) in norse mythology would have been with gow3 kratos steam rolling all 9 realms
Honestly as a Xenoblade fan the real win isnt the chance of winning I know its literally impossible what I am happy for is that sweet rendition of the main theme we are gonna get
I think kratos was done phenomenal. He's an old man reflecting on his past, weary from countless years of battle, trying to live the life he's wanted. He's had to slowly learn to open himself up to love and caring about others, but it was done without turning him into a wimp. He is strong, he is stoic, but he is willing to open himself up. When he tells the story to atreus in late game, I literally started to cry. Hearing him tell the story and realizing that the story was his life and how exhausted he was. I think he was done absolutely amazing.
I feel like its rare to have an actually good role model whose masculine but also not toxic and actively working on themselves where men can look up to so I really appreciate that direction rather than the lift big rock kill big badguy like in the older games
He's amazing but his character arc isn't finished unless he comeback to Greece and fix what he already destroyed imo, because no matter how wiser he had become in norse realm in the end he is still running away from his responsibility in Greece.
@@CurseOxuin there isn't enough of Greece to fix. it's entirely flooded, filled with Souls, constantly covered in cataclysmic storms and tornados the size of mountains, and nothing can grow there. if any people survived the initial destruction they've long since died.
7:41 I was wondering why For Honor wasn't available for this category, but then Charlie said "Updates the community actually wants" and then it made sense.
It has gotten so hard to ignore the bots they take up such a massive fat section of the comment section it's horrible somebody I don't care who needs to deal with these maybe one day we'll have a Batman like vigilante that goes around finds these people and breaks all of their PCS or whatever prevents them from ever spamming again a hero the world needs the scam Hunter because the government ain't doing anything about it and neither are these platforms
Thanks for mentioning the Sonic Frontiers OST being missing. Actually such a shame, it's definitely one of the best Sonic Soundtracks ever and thats saying something considering the series.
I dont think kratos is as 1 dimensional in the old games as people remember. most just remember the hack slash, kill shit side. and they forget the reasons behind why he did it. he killed his family in a blood rage, and then ended up wanting revenge. but he was also having nightmares from killing the and felt rightfully awful about what he did, and athena was like ''do this and you will be absolved'' etc. theres a lot more to Kratos in the first three games than people remember i think. but i also agree they bought it out more in the newer ones.
Character motivation is not what entirely makes up a character, take the motivation away and how do you describe Kratos himself in the games? Then describe new Kratos, then Compare them, you’ll see a huge difference, I truly believe old Kratos was just a one dimensional angry guy who killed for nothing but revenge
Yeah, he was never one dimensional he was always fighting for his family and when hearing Kratos say he loves his brother in Ragnarok really cemented that. There were times when he fell and did some bad things but that was to show how much of his humanity had been taken from him from anger. He killed all the gods but the pain of losing his family still remained. The new Kratos shows the same intense love for his new family
@@PurpleG07 But it wasn't just about revenge for Kratos. He had endless nights where he would think about the moment he murdered his wife and daughter, again, and again and sought any means of getting rid of his torment. If it was just about revenge, he would have be happy at stopping with murdering Ares for what he did, but when he finds out that even after killing a god, he will not be rid of his nightmares, he decides to take his own life because his pain is far too great to bear. Not to mention the self hatred he has permeates every aspect of his life as god of war from then on. He hated himself more than he could ever hate Zeus or the other gods. That is why after his siege of the pantheon, he attempted to kill himself again as a means of a final, proper atonement for the injustices he carried out against the people of Greece, and especially for what he did to his family. To say he is one dimensional is such a blatant disregard of the effort the people at Santa Monica put into this franchise.
I think he's one dimensional in the fact that his entire existence revolved around revenge, in the new god of war, with the birth of his new son, his life so much more meaning. He's a lot more sympathetic to those around him, and he actively tries to instill good in the world
Best community support is almost 500% gonna be No Mans Sky. Those devs are probably the most transparent with their community and it shows with how many good updates and promises they are still developing
1:35 YES, THANK YOU. Jesus the brainrot of some people. His character is straight up the best part of the game. Guy has like 10 years of therapy worth of knowlege and emotional maturity and people complain hes not some empty shell for a game about killing gods
He wasn't an empty shell in the previous games tho, his character always had depth. The new god of war is just following the trend of stoic, emotionally distant but deep down a good guy, dad archetype that was popularised by the last of us.
@@AnimatorDemon That's such a cap. As someone who has played all the games and loved them, Kratos in the older games, especially the sequels, was just a giant ball of rage. Yes there are a FEW scenes where he isn't a maniac, but it's just him just barely holding in his rage. He was pretty one-dimensional.
@@AnimatorDemon Yeah, also he was a toxic masculine man, don't be like that, Revenge Bad, same shit as Tlou2 story, but what do you expect from Soyny. The will always put men down. This game got so much praise and the story was so fucking cringe in some parts, and forgettable.
@@AnimatorDemon It wouldn't make sense though. I like old kratos but having him be more emotionally stable makes sense as he ages. It's also a nice change of pace for the series and lets kratos do more self reflection.
@@gracecalis5421 Now thats cap. Kratos may have acted as a one dimensional charecter but he never was. His rage took over his entire personality and you see glimpses of his true personality throughout all the games. Its just that gods kept fucking him over and keeping his rage burning. I doubt you actually cared for the stories.
@goggles789 bro did u listen to video? That’s cap, he called gow perfect and overall cleaner, it’s just there hasn’t been a game like ER in a while and done to near perfect. Gow is better on paper it’s just er has everyone’s hearts.
@@YXIGXOA bruh, its option. imagine you are paralysed or smth, just tell someone to pick the personality traits of the chars to best suit your experience and you got the game played the way you wanna see it.
@@chrisperez3614 as a matter of fact I am actually. so I shall not stfu as you have requested. It was also a harmless question get out of here with your high and mighty tone.
I grew up watching Stargate SG-1. It fills my heart with so much joy that Christopher Judge is getting the recognition he deserves. He is just awesome!!!
I think one of the most clever things they did to show that Kratos isn't dumb is the riddle topic in GoWR. He gets riddles, he just finds no enjoyment in them. It was a great little piece.
Wtf are you saying🤣like how mimir makes fun of him by being dumb half the game while in greece he was solving impossible puzzles and being the greatest spartan general
Kratos is very clever. In 2018 he immediately improvised a plan to get to a chisel tip that was under an unbelievable amount of ice that even Mimir didn’t see a way through. He’s a quick thinker and a great strategist given that he was a Spartan general.
@@lejenddairy yeah I feel like people don’t understand that and he wasn’t a full rage and hate beast in Greece dude showed humanity kindness many times if they played the spin-offs like I did they’d know that shit I’m tired of people calling the old kratos a rage baby because that’s false they completely ruined him in this new game though 100% he’s to much of a fucking marshmallow and the only people saying he’s better now as a character are fucking soyboys like penguin0
He did smile one single time in one of the prequel games. (If not GOW3, I can't quite remember) He was experiencing an illusion of having his wife and daughter back and he was tucking her into bed. He knew it was an illusion the whole time but didn't care.
@@daani1733 So Doom Slayer and Azura are dumb cavemen too ? That logic literally makes no sense. And no dumb caveman could solve those puzzles from gow 1-3 (Which obv the players solves but tehnically its Kratos)
nah, without question for sure its edgerunners. don't get me wrong, i like arcane. but some of the character feels off to me. like jayce out of nowhere having sex. by the way, i never play league but i do watch highlights for champs. and when jayce since i dont know his ability and all showed up in show i expect something. but not sex for sure.
fk this fake ass bot i give you a reply you deserve I love both series, the story and the character done so perfect, i vote both of them, idc either arcane or edgerunner both deserve to win, maybe make both of them win the award idk
Edgerunners vs arcane is a tough call. Edgerunners made me want to play cyberpunk again, but arcane hooked me in without making me feel the need to play league at all
I watched both, and they both are amazing. Arcane takes the cake though because it got me addicted not only when watching it, but a year later still waiting for season 2. Edgerunners got me addicted, but faded after a while
@@nchicken_4815 Probably because the story ended. but I think the Edgerunners story was miles ahead of Arcane. But Arcane had a higher budget and work put into it.
Can we take a second to appreciate that RL was able to get Charlie to overcome his fear of flying, across the ocean no less, for the first time in 5 years
Huh? Pretty sure that flight made it worse dude. There was crazy air turbulence and that kinda freaked him out. Also a reason he wasn't feeling like meeting anyone there.
Would you recommend the game? I don't know much about it but I love immersive single player games and haven't played one in some time. But the theme and design in the game looks really good so I'm interested!
The entire game sounded to static/robotic/inhuman to me. Like the Last of Us and God of War both sound like people actually speaking to each other while A Plague Tale voice acting sounds like kids struggling to read what's on a script. Amicia wasn't terrible like Hugo and the annoying alchemist who over explained literally every gameplay tool given, but no one in the game really sounded particularly well (possibly playing in French would have made it better? But I'm guessing it's similar to Metro where it doesn't sound good no matter what language you play in lol).
on the topic of the character of Kratos, there was a really good quote from the director i believe that said "kratos is teaching atreus to be a god and in turn atreus is sort of teaching kratos how to be human."
I played Forbidden West, and I plan to play Elden Ring soon, but man, I feel bad for the developers of Horizon who released their game at the wrong times… twice..
I like that whenever one of the options was Ragnarok, it was usually in the middle where your eyes would be drawn to it, almost like they knew what everyone would pick for most of em.
When Charlie's talking about game direction, I suspect he's thinking more about cinematic direction. To me, that more falls under 'Best Narrative'. The way I see it, game directions is more, 'how do the mechanics, encounter, and level design execute the directors vision for a game'. Graphics, music, and cinematic story telling are also part of a games direction, in the same way a sound track is a huge part of a movie. But even if cinematics make up half a game, evaluating game direction on just that, misses the other half of the game. It's kind of like confusion the screenwriter for the director.
I think I agree, "Game Direction" seems like it should be the _overall_ *direction* of the game. Cinematic direction would certainly be a big part of that, but hardly the only factor.
Elden Ring's art direction is on another level. I can't even think of another game that kept having such breathtaking imagery throughout its entire runtime
Xenoblade 3 getting nominated is huge for a JRPG. Now we can also hear it in the Orchustra which is all I wanted, it won’t win but the music will slap.
This new bot is already annoying af. Reporting them doesn't even work nor does it permanently remove them from your feed. Is there a block feature I am missing here or do I just have to stick with all this?
I'd love for them to pull the choir out and blow everyone's faces out of their asses with the moebius battle theme, but I'm sure they'll probably choose the generic battle theme instead (which is A-ok, the soundtrack is fantastic). Just need sena's VA there to randomly shout "YIPPIE"
Elden ring had a bigger impact on gaming and me personally then GoW will ever have. The first time entering the map and discovering just how big the game is without a walk through was the most memorable experience in my life. Discovering and learning a bosses movesets or trying out interesting and unique weapons was just amazing. You can have your opinions but nitpicking everything about a game to prove your point just infuriates.
@@Paroxysm_1 malekith really isnt peak boss battle. I remember seeing the trailer way back expecting him to be the gael of elden ring and what a disappointment he turned out to be
The amazing thing about Horizon's release timing is that this is the second time that they have managed to do that in a two game series. Horizon: Zero Dawn -> Breath of the Wild: 3 Days Horizon: Forbidden West -> Elden Ring: 7 Days
It's criminal that he didn't consider or even look at No Man's Sky for community support. Just the sheer amount of free content with every update is insane. I think it's leagues above the other nominees in this aspect.
Yeah they litterally launched the game years ago but believed so much in their concept that they were willing to keep going instead of just folding. I am biased though because I rembered buying the game "used" after i passed my freshmen year of highschool for like 17 euro's 5 years ago and am still playing that sucker on my PS5 today.
@@cpmc5400 same. After that launch the game shouldn't be nominated or win anything. Shouldn't be rewarding it for fixing the false promises they claimed in the first place
Nah. Some of you will probably get mad, but I don't think Sonic, or any games for that matter, deserves to be nominated for best OST just because of 3 good songs.
My only reason for giving my vote to Edgerunners over Arcane is that it made me play Cyberpunk again, the game and the adaptation are made for each other while Arcane is a phenomenal story on it's own, but League has a totally different feel, it's like it's not even in the same francize.
Eldenrings soundtrack is amazing and has a major variety like the main theme/radagon theme is so triumphant and powerful but the ancestor spirit theme is honestly just so beautiful and peaceful sounding, I'm not saying elden ring deserves best sound design but it defeinrly earned its place on the vote
Honestly, in my humble opinion, i didn't really like the ER soundtrack as much as the other Fromsoftware games. Don't get me wrong tho, i still like the ER soundtrack, but it didn't quite do the trick to me as much as the other souls titles.
@@Daniel-jz9td No, our votes only count for 10% of the votes. The rest of the votes are from critics. This explains that abysmal TLOU 2 winning GOTY over Ghost of Tsushima.
Stray was a breath of fresh air. Entirely unique and cute. I got tired of fps games and hack and slash third person games, which is basically the rest. But Elden Ring is a beast of a game...
While I know it won’t win I’m more than happy seeing Xenoblade 3 being put up at all for game of the year, and hope that it will come out on top for best soundtrack.
Charlie, it is mainly the toxic parts of the genshin community, or really any game community that will attack you for not voting their game. If you like a certain mobile game and want to vote for it, more power to you. Most of the genshin reddit seems pretty chill with whoever you are voting for.
in a world where god of war and elden ring come out, on a more average year, i imagine stray getting a lot of these awards probably not game of the year but a lot of other rewards would go its way had 2 games that will go down as all time greats not come out in the same year.
i was so surprised at the best adaptation section. Arcane and edgerunners were my favourite shows and easily a top 5 of all time, man what a hard choice. i agree with arcane tho, that art direction and bts was crazy seeing it being made
I think edgerunners deserved it due to the fact it managed to bring old players back and bring in new people to the game. I preferred arcane as a series but this year I'd give it to cyberpunk
edgerunners hit me way harder than arcane ever could and i've never played either game. there is absolutely no way arcane could come anywhere close to the perfection that studio trigger brought down from the heavens
@@Oneironautic Agree. Not only did it revive a dying game, but it was an incredible ride. It accomplished a lot in 10 episodes that anime that run for so long can't even do properly.
@@Oneironautic I as a league player (ye bruh ik) find so many new league players who started playing because of Arcane. So the argument works for both games and the show
@@kaikai5963 I think it moreso applies to edgerunners since league is already a popular game where the complaints ive only ever seen (With my limited exposure to league) was the player base and I think the balance. While for cyberpunk its release was completely shat on by the developers and community. And while both games got blessed by the release of the show/anime, I say cyberpunk got the bigger boost considering where it was at before.
Best audio in Elden ring for me is when I dodge Godfrey's colossal axe and it hits the ground. It's just so satisfying for me when he isn't whooping my ass
I love him on stargate, first he's really intimidating but then he becomes a sweetheart. The last episode of the 10th season is simple amazing, he's like the ultimate best companion and the friend everyone wish to have.
9:34 no man's sky easily wins the vote for me without even thinking about it what they did with the game is just amazing and the work they put to make it good is actually insane
The problem with no man's sky for me, especially now, is that bethesda's version of it is already scheduled for release, and since it's gonna be basically the same thing, just hopefully finished by the deadline... No Man's Sky had it's time, and they missed the mark, not sayin' it wasn't an amazing game way ahead of it's time, but it shouldn't even be in the runnings, regardless of how supportive it's community is.
Huh, I had Elden Ring winning art direction by a landslide and still believe so Some of the landscapes entering regions such as Liurnia of the Lakes from Stormveil, all of Farum Azula, etc. looks like actual paintings and in many ways makes up for and even exceeds the ok graphics, Scorn was unique and great for sure though and if it wins I could see that
3:08 I feel like many people have forgotten how good Elden Ring looks artistically, Dunkey said it best in his Elden Ring review "Walking around in this game is like stepping into a painting". While the other nominations all have great art, Elden Ring is just on another level especially considering the size of the game and how many different environments they've crafted to perfection.
Kratos in Ragnarok was a thoroughly enjoyable character, seeing his evolution made me genuinely feel something. By the end of the game after all the main cutscenes I was happily in tears, what an incredible game and character.
Picking between Arcane and Edgerunners was really tough for me as I love both shows. But I think this award goes to Arcane simply because of how big it was when it came out.
Never saw Arcane, but the ending of Edgerunners really tied the whole thing together. It's a textbook 1 season show, and I wish there were more like it.
@@FreshTillDeath56 Arcane did that as well and better imo. What made Arcane ending so special is the birth of alot of theories on who survive, who dies, what will happen between the villian(yes she is) and protaganist who will enter the story, which other regions will be introduced, and it also touched on alot of stuff like child slaves, warcrimes, children being murdered/killed on screen and alot of darker stuff. it actually gives off the gamoe of thrones season 1 vibes. it was jsut that good. Edgerunners was really fucking good, but what I think of edgerunners was "shit that was super fun to watch" and what I think of arcane is "that had no right to be such a masterpiece of a show"
They really did play us putting those two shows against each other in that category. That's one situation where I wish there was just an option to have both shows win because they were both of a different caliber that stand out among alot of the rest.
I don't understand why people fear the games fandom dunking on anyone who doesn't like it tbh. Legit most of the community itself dunk on the game for having garbage endgame lol
@@ThisLuvee I don't know man. I played the game for a year then got out because terrible endgame (artifact farming sucks) and gen twt is a terrifying place. It just makes me hate the game even more. Music is god tier though, don't let anyone ruin that for you
Genshin players have a lot to complain about the game and definitely don't think its the "best" game but they vote it so the game can win and the playerbase gets gacha currency. That's all there is to it.
Im surprised he didn't gave best art direction to elden ring, every area looked so unique and beautiful, well except for caelid it looks terrifying in a good way
thing is, the art direction was pretty much identical to previous Souls games. They prettied everything up, turned the graphics up by x5, but in terms of *_unique_* art direction, Ragnarok takes that all day.
@@Khy._ Nah man I have to Disagree, every souls game have unique art direction DS1 is more dark and raw, DS3 is more pale, colorless and dead, BB is literally England, and sekiro is japan on crack, DS2 is more colorful and it’s the only one that can be compared to elden ring
Yea but visually honestly Cats deserved it, it was such a visual candy, not even visual euphoria, almost every area was so artistic and experimental it’s like a painting almost everywhere you look
Charlie: Elden Ring is the culmination of what they learn and is close to the perfect game Also Charlie: definitely God of War for Best Game Direction *Proceeds to talk about Narrative in Best Game Direction*
The view that I have is that God of War has undoubtedly evolved from the original and the game direction had developed to a much better degree. Elden ring was a great game direction but the narrative and story of God of War:Ragnarok apparently struck Charlie as a more fit choice.
Not saying it should have won but narrative direction is obviously a factor in overall game direction (especially for a game that’s more focused on the narrative)
@@ryanfield4926 I agree it's part of it, but when narrative has its own category generally you're supposed to focus on the parts that don't have their own category
Imo scorn had a very unique way of getting around enemies, literally most if not all of the time you could just avoid the enemies by not attacking them, just be patient and they'll go somewhere else and despawn by going through a tunnel of flesh of sorts
Yes because the categories that the game awards put elden ring in weren’t the exact reasons why elden ring was amazing. If they had a category for best combat and lore then I’m sure elden ring would win it. But best audio? Tf did elden ring do special with audio?
It’s gotta be Elden Ring for me. God of War has an incredible story, but I’ve never had as much fun playing a video game as I have playing Elden ring. There is just so much content and so many different ways to play the game.
I am one of those Dark Souls fanboys who thinks Elden Ring is a step back from Fromsofts other games, but I still agree ER is game of the year for sure.
@@lm_miniz I’m playing ds3 after elden ring right now and my god is this game so fun. Boss fights are difficult but are so much fun. Even the bs moves they got are fun to experience. Sister friends fricken rocks
Someone let charlie know that until november 29th, sonic fans are voting for sonic frontiers to be nominated for best ost in the steam award since it didnt get nominated here. His support would be great
Xenoblade 3 has the best OST. Im 100% sure it is the best of the year in that, but ofc It might lose that award because of how much underrated and unknown the game is
@@bennyblunto973 the main character being a cat makes it unique, allows the world to feel as big and the scope of it to feel the way it does. your point is really stupid. thats like saying "well if kratos was a cat, you wouldn't be playing it. so thats why its bad"
Did Charlie not Play GoW ascension? Ragnorok was not the first game to have Kratos have a real smile. In the scene where Kratos sees his daughter, while an illusion, he does indeed smile.
Because fromsoft honestly it’s a good game but I like the older games more elden ring is a bit overrated unless that dlc is great im boy coming back to it I already did everything
I am really excited for the orchestra portion for the game of the year announcement. Being able to hear songs like the god of war theme and Elden ring is going to be amazing!
@Jordy koo yeah, was gonna say. Sonic Frontiers has some banging music, but both Gowr and Elden Ring have the best tracks that add to the experience. None of the music enhanced my experience in Sonic Frontiers, whereas both ER and GOWR made some moments so much better for it.
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That part where Kratos said "I do not need a snack" was funnier than it had any right to be
"I don't see you as a man who fears death."
"Death can have me when it earns me"
All I see is bots in the chat💀
"It's Kratosing time" and then he Kratosed all over the place
I thought the part when he said "No" was comical haha
I’ve literally been joking about that with my brother for weeks now.
They’re just gonna leave a chair up for Christopher Judge so he doesn’t have to walk so far to get his awards
@Patrick39 🗑️
@Jordan VII 🚮
like 7 bots in 20 minutes, i wonder if anyone falls for them
I don’t understand this comment, is this supposed to be funny?
You must be fun at parties
"this is the biggest divide since my left and right buttcheek" is the greatest charlie line ever
How do i always read comments like this when theyre saying it
When kratos said
"So what am I supposed to be? Some kind of- god of war or something?" Really made me cheer outloud.
Why does everyone do this structure of comment? Its a bit boring now... Unoriginal?
@@Josh-sj9ig and complaining about one sure isn't either, get better soon.
@@Josh-sj9ig Because they're losers and have no life. There only purpose in life is to annoy people.
@@Josh-sj9ig Sir you are in a youtube comment section there is no such thing as original
I love the part when says its war time and then he ragnoroks all over the place
Everyone remembers "Death can have me when it earns me", and rightfully so...
But who here remembers this gem:
"KRATOS! YOU'RE ON FIRE!!!"
"It will pass."
No man,
"Kratos you are covered in bifrost"
Was better
"You feckless ballbag" will always be my favorite growing up with a Scottish da, I've grown to love ballbag as an insult.
“You’re on fire, but you already knew that.”
its even better when kratos says "im fine it will pass, stay focused"
How about “OOOH, There’s frost in me neck stump”
Can we all just agree that Christopher Judge already won the voice acting award?
YOU MEANT TEAL'C. HIS NAME IS TEAL'C... hehe.
@@GregorioStyreco HIS NAME IS KRATOS OF SPARTA
I think Sunny did a great job as well, like I’m surprised how good he did!
AMICIA DE RUNE FEARS NOTHING!!!
Who?
No Mans Sky community support is on another level. They deserve it for sure. Surprised Charlie hasn’t heard about that
Still FF14 is quite good and consistent with the support (even amazing) and updates (though it's not fair bcs as an mmo they are just having consistent updates no matter whay). I will be happy seeing both of them winning.
maybe just maybe he has a different opinion than u 😳
no mans sky is all around a good game too (vr player for it)
If no mans sky basically now has everything they promised at launch they just need to remind people they exist
He watched a whole video on it so im sure he’s well aware
elden ring music was god tier imo, but i understand why people would overlook it because its hard to pay attention to the music when ur trying ur best to roll out of waterfowl dance
Bro fckn sonic and genshin are getting the most votes at the moment like wtf
I think the issue with Elden Ring in that regard is how the music and score is only there when you are fighting a boss. The OSTs are absolutely fantastic, I have listened to the Godskin Theme a billion times, but they are essentially narrowed down to just being "boss music".
The scores in Ragnarok however range from subtle to grand and accompany you throughout the entire game. From the very first moment to the last you have audio that perfectly fits to the scene. Combine that with the beautiful environmetal sounds of the game and I believe that GoW's sound design is way superior.
@@msmplays8541 ok.
@@Malitwa-654 Genshit Midpact has been bribing fans to rig the votes for free in game items, so Sonic fans have been fighting back.
@@davidjr3658 I’m glad sonic community tried, but imo the sonic game hella mid. No offense to those who like it.
Genshit Midpact should be disqualified for that doing those reward tbh.
What I find so interesting is that for a lot of people. Elden Ring was their game of the year, yet in every other category GoW Ragnarok took the cake. To me, that tells me this.
Making the best possible game isn't about Game Direction, Narrative, Art Direction, Music, or Audio Design.
It's about creating the most memorable experience possible. These things matter, of course, but they're not everything. We don't want an elevator, we want stairs.
Elden Rings replay value is also at a level that hasn't been touched since the Skyrim and the mid-2000s Bethesda days. Like skyrim, it'll probably grow new fans and be played for DECADES after launch. Very very few games have that kind of power.
And there's also the fact that GOW 2018 also had the same thing happened to it with every category being in R2D2 but the Goty
Well said
lol this is too good for a youtube comment, this would pop off as a video premise
It's funny, I consider Ragnarok to be my favourite game of all time now that I've completed it, but i still want elden ring to with GOTY, i just don't have a reasoning for it, i just 'feel' like elden ring deserves it
agreed on Kratos' character, its very easy to illicit an emotional response by killing off characters or destroying things the audience likes, but to have the entire experience so wrought with emotion without having to rely on shock value and while instilling meaningful messages in the player, is something to behold.
Yeah, while I find his 2016 characterization more intriguing to watch, Ragnarok's Kratos is 100% a natural evolution and still really good.
Exactly what I have been saying. People think its brave or hard to do "kill the character with the questionable past violently". I believe its way too easy. Instead they went the "redemption by doing something equally as good" part, which is harder and takes lot of set pieces to fall accurately in the character development. That is brave.
Yeah to be honest most people who argue that they ruined his character don’t really have a very good point to make lol.
Kratos was a deep character from the very start.
Ever since the remake people pretend like the original kratos was this mindless murder machine and his games were nothing but gore and violence, when in fact they told a deep and rich story about regret and self-loathing.
People disregarding that to praise the newer games is disgusting.
@@mkwpaul Well to be fair most of Kratos' character comes from the spinoff games, which most people haven't played.
They didn’t ruin Kratos, they made his character have enough depth that I could dive into the deep end of that shit and be 1% of the way to the bottom
I mean he already had plenty of depth tho.
@jordanvii2936 Your sub count says otherwise, sh#$head.
Went from angry dumbass to sad dumbass ... wow much deptg
@@key0777 why would that stop them from making it even more deep
@SG cry
Charlie gives game of the year to Elden Ring and then gives every other award to Ragnarok lol
It’s to placate the “core gamers” aka the fucking losers. And this is coming from someone who owns and enjoys Elden Ring.
right? I don't get people who vote like this lol
well it logical: GOW game direction is phenomenal, it's like you watching a movie, in the elden ring you kinda creating your own
Score/music between these two is depends on ur own preferences, i voted for ER simply because main theme music used to be final boss music is OP decision
Best actor, well no explanation needed
Best action: GOW wins because you know it was best action game fr
Best RP: ER wins because you know it was best role play game fr
@@mana256k3 bro u gotta chill 💀its legit a good game by definition; soundtrack, acting, art style, gameplay, game time etc etc only a few picks here and there lmao. Considering your calling it God of War 2 when its the 5th one imma take your opinion for granted lmao
@@mana256k3 all I was saying is it isn’t a shit game lol the team and publisher put a lot of work and took the community into an insane amount of consideration. Not a lot of teams have that amount of love and effort anymore.
it's a crime for Jerma to not be nominated as best streamer of the year
so true
It’s a crime if Full McDonald's Menu
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u gotta understand man they can't just nominate murderers
Ishowspeed
I mean they can’t really put vtubers which jerma is because as we all know he’s not real
I'm with Charlie on one thing: GOW Ragnarok did not ruined Kratos's character... On the contrary, they perfected it in an emotional level... Especially when he narrates the events from previous games.
@@yeaman9844*page
He's human so it's normal for having change over the years he's been thru in his words "be better"
The story and what they did with kratos was perfect… but i wouldant mind to think about how fast the game(s) in norse mythology would have been with gow3 kratos steam rolling all 9 realms
Anybody that said that is a damn idiot.
Bro I loved ragnorok, I’ve never played gow or any ps games but I watched all the cutscenes.
"I'll just play it safe and chose Genshin" had me dying
They didn't even include COD mobile there 💀
@@Rein143- Cuz it's not even that great
@@Rein143- it's not good anymore
for real tho Apex mobile is pretty good for a mobile game standard, played it a couple's time and i had a blast with it.
@@Rein143- COD mobile : invasion of bots
Honestly as a Xenoblade fan the real win isnt the chance of winning I know its literally impossible what I am happy for is that sweet rendition of the main theme we are gonna get
The fact it was nominated and recognized should already be a massive W for us
@@filthydirector INDEED
Its a bloody boring game wouldn’t play it if someone paid me
@@melkorstormcrown6939 cool.
@@melkorstormcrown6939 clown
I think kratos was done phenomenal. He's an old man reflecting on his past, weary from countless years of battle, trying to live the life he's wanted. He's had to slowly learn to open himself up to love and caring about others, but it was done without turning him into a wimp. He is strong, he is stoic, but he is willing to open himself up. When he tells the story to atreus in late game, I literally started to cry. Hearing him tell the story and realizing that the story was his life and how exhausted he was. I think he was done absolutely amazing.
The very first scene with Kratos is him attempting suicide. He always been emotional lol
I feel like its rare to have an actually good role model whose masculine but also not toxic and actively working on themselves where men can look up to so I really appreciate that direction rather than the lift big rock kill big badguy like in the older games
@LakehuntistCool😎 Except your a bot, Bots ain't better than U'mies.
He's amazing but his character arc isn't finished unless he comeback to Greece and fix what he already destroyed imo, because no matter how wiser he had become in norse realm in the end he is still running away from his responsibility in Greece.
@@CurseOxuin there isn't enough of Greece to fix. it's entirely flooded, filled with Souls, constantly covered in cataclysmic storms and tornados the size of mountains, and nothing can grow there. if any people survived the initial destruction they've long since died.
Arcane and edgerunners being against eachother is like Captain America against Iron Man. You cant go wrong either way
Did yall even watch the movie because that is not true at all
what is up with these comments?
I never watched and won't watch either, but I have heard amazing things.
fr man its an even harder dilemma than Ragnarok vs Elden Ring for GOTY
yea personally i’d go edgerunners but they’re both amazing
7:41 I was wondering why For Honor wasn't available for this category, but then Charlie said "Updates the community actually wants" and then it made sense.
apex is even worse than for honor in that regard, I can’t stand either game
Lake of Kalandra *cough*
For Honour is a top tier community /s
Ubi takes one step forwards and 2 leaps backwards with every update
It has gotten so hard to ignore the bots they take up such a massive fat section of the comment section it's horrible somebody I don't care who needs to deal with these maybe one day we'll have a Batman like vigilante that goes around finds these people and breaks all of their PCS or whatever prevents them from ever spamming again a hero the world needs the scam Hunter because the government ain't doing anything about it and neither are these platforms
Thanks for mentioning the Sonic Frontiers OST being missing. Actually such a shame, it's definitely one of the best Sonic Soundtracks ever and thats saying something considering the series.
Fr bro I died when I saw Sonic Frontiers wasn’t there…
*I'M BETTER THAN CHARLIE, MY CONTENT IS BETTER!*
I swear the game wasn't out
Subway surfers theme slaps too it should be there
@@leacwm It came out the day before God of War though.
I dont think kratos is as 1 dimensional in the old games as people remember. most just remember the hack slash, kill shit side. and they forget the reasons behind why he did it. he killed his family in a blood rage, and then ended up wanting revenge. but he was also having nightmares from killing the and felt rightfully awful about what he did, and athena was like ''do this and you will be absolved'' etc. theres a lot more to Kratos in the first three games than people remember i think. but i also agree they bought it out more in the newer ones.
Character motivation is not what entirely makes up a character, take the motivation away and how do you describe Kratos himself in the games? Then describe new Kratos, then Compare them, you’ll see a huge difference, I truly believe old Kratos was just a one dimensional angry guy who killed for nothing but revenge
Yeah, he was never one dimensional he was always fighting for his family and when hearing Kratos say he loves his brother in Ragnarok really cemented that. There were times when he fell and did some bad things but that was to show how much of his humanity had been taken from him from anger. He killed all the gods but the pain of losing his family still remained. The new Kratos shows the same intense love for his new family
Yeah... In the first games he was already a deep character but now he is a multidimensional gigachad monster
@@PurpleG07 But it wasn't just about revenge for Kratos. He had endless nights where he would think about the moment he murdered his wife and daughter, again, and again and sought any means of getting rid of his torment. If it was just about revenge, he would have be happy at stopping with murdering Ares for what he did, but when he finds out that even after killing a god, he will not be rid of his nightmares, he decides to take his own life because his pain is far too great to bear. Not to mention the self hatred he has permeates every aspect of his life as god of war from then on. He hated himself more than he could ever hate Zeus or the other gods. That is why after his siege of the pantheon, he attempted to kill himself again as a means of a final, proper atonement for the injustices he carried out against the people of Greece, and especially for what he did to his family. To say he is one dimensional is such a blatant disregard of the effort the people at Santa Monica put into this franchise.
I think he's one dimensional in the fact that his entire existence revolved around revenge, in the new god of war, with the birth of his new son, his life so much more meaning. He's a lot more sympathetic to those around him, and he actively tries to instill good in the world
4:22 Charlie woke up and spoke facts
Frontiers soundtrack is one of the best if not the best in the entire series
I know right! It makes me so happy.
God of war Ragnarock came out after sonic frontiers yet they added that but not sonic frontiers.
unleashed >>
I have to play it now cause maybe it’s nostalgia but I highly doubt it’s topping SA2
Sonic 2 / 3 soundtracks are unmatched. Hydrocity Zone 1 and Chemical Plant are too good.
@@KCtheMC trust me. 'Find Your Flame' alone tops SA2
Jerma should've been nominated for best content creator.
Why was Kai not on there I don’t even watch his streams and vids but he exploded this yr top of twitch all over yt seems off
Hes not real, wake up
@@WritingHiLo and thank the stars he isn't.
@@jellydamgood i just lost THE GAME
who tf is jerma
I loved it when Kratos said "yes it is me, the God of War" and godded on everyone
I loved when Kratos said is God of Worbinn time
let this meme die its not even funny anymore
@@nawt9529 its dead meeming time
Best community support is almost 500% gonna be No Mans Sky. Those devs are probably the most transparent with their community and it shows with how many good updates and promises they are still developing
@LakehuntistCool😎 good for you pal, you want a medal?
@@revemb4653 he's basically giving himself a medal
they will never lose that award at this rate
they better cause destiny and ESPECIALLY Respawn does not deserve it. Especially Respawn. >:(
plus their twitch drops are actually good unlike most games
1:35 YES, THANK YOU. Jesus the brainrot of some people. His character is straight up the best part of the game. Guy has like 10 years of therapy worth of knowlege and emotional maturity and people complain hes not some empty shell for a game about killing gods
He wasn't an empty shell in the previous games tho, his character always had depth. The new god of war is just following the trend of stoic, emotionally distant but deep down a good guy, dad archetype that was popularised by the last of us.
@@AnimatorDemon That's such a cap. As someone who has played all the games and loved them, Kratos in the older games, especially the sequels, was just a giant ball of rage. Yes there are a FEW scenes where he isn't a maniac, but it's just him just barely holding in his rage. He was pretty one-dimensional.
@@AnimatorDemon Yeah, also he was a toxic masculine man, don't be like that, Revenge Bad, same shit as Tlou2 story, but what do you expect from Soyny. The will always put men down.
This game got so much praise and the story was so fucking cringe in some parts, and forgettable.
@@AnimatorDemon
It wouldn't make sense though. I like old kratos but having him be more emotionally stable makes sense as he ages. It's also a nice change of pace for the series and lets kratos do more self reflection.
@@gracecalis5421 Now thats cap. Kratos may have acted as a one dimensional charecter but he never was. His rage took over his entire personality and you see glimpses of his true personality throughout all the games. Its just that gods kept fucking him over and keeping his rage burning. I doubt you actually cared for the stories.
I love how Charlie doesn’t give gowr goty but gives gowr almost every other reward.
His reasoning for it confuses me as well
It's funny because GOW2018 lost almost every category to rdr2 except for direction and goty 🤣
Cause Elden ring is overall better but god of war has a great story and direction
because the other rewards are not overall game of the year they are completely different ideas
@goggles789 bro did u listen to video? That’s cap, he called gow perfect and overall cleaner, it’s just there hasn’t been a game like ER in a while and done to near perfect. Gow is better on paper it’s just er has everyone’s hearts.
Accessibility goes to The Quarry, the game can literally play itself.
then whats the point in playing the premium for a game if ur just gonna watch it, can you not get the same experience from a yt video?
@@YXIGXOA bruh, its option.
imagine you are paralysed or smth, just tell someone to pick the personality traits of the chars to best suit your experience and you got the game played the way you wanna see it.
@@kraventm i get that its an option man but im just saying to save a few bucks just find a video with no commentary then boom 60 dollars saved.
@@YXIGXOA are you disabled? If not stfu lol
@@chrisperez3614 as a matter of fact I am actually. so I shall not stfu as you have requested. It was also a harmless question get out of here with your high and mighty tone.
I grew up watching Stargate SG-1. It fills my heart with so much joy that Christopher Judge is getting the recognition he deserves. He is just awesome!!!
Somehow I didn’t know this was the same person. Amazing
highlight of the show has always been Teal'c responding deadpan serious to Jack O'Neill's Earthisms
@@blasphemer_amon For sure. They really came into their own as awesome characters.
I think one of the most clever things they did to show that Kratos isn't dumb is the riddle topic in GoWR. He gets riddles, he just finds no enjoyment in them. It was a great little piece.
Wtf are you saying🤣like how mimir makes fun of him by being dumb half the game while in greece he was solving impossible puzzles and being the greatest spartan general
Kratos is very clever. In 2018 he immediately improvised a plan to get to a chisel tip that was under an unbelievable amount of ice that even Mimir didn’t see a way through. He’s a quick thinker and a great strategist given that he was a Spartan general.
@@lejenddairy yeah I feel like people don’t understand that and he wasn’t a full rage and hate beast in Greece dude showed humanity kindness many times if they played the spin-offs like I did they’d know that shit I’m tired of people calling the old kratos a rage baby because that’s false they completely ruined him in this new game though 100% he’s to much of a fucking marshmallow and the only people saying he’s better now as a character are fucking soyboys like penguin0
Kratos’ transformation throughout the series and the first canon smile was so beautiful. I agree with Charlie
He did smile one single time in one of the prequel games. (If not GOW3, I can't quite remember) He was experiencing an illusion of having his wife and daughter back and he was tucking her into bed. He knew it was an illusion the whole time but didn't care.
@@Kjf365 Yes, God of war Ascension. And Kratos was never a “dumb caveman” wtf is he talking about
@@Padlock_Steve Yeah same, and noone even dares to call him out his sheep followers worship him like a god its so cringe
@@Crusher888 He said 1 through 3 which is true. He was just overcome with anger not thinking logically, so yeah, caveman indeed.
@@daani1733 So Doom Slayer and Azura are dumb cavemen too ? That logic literally makes no sense. And no dumb caveman could solve those puzzles from gow 1-3 (Which obv the players solves but tehnically its Kratos)
Edgerunners vs Arcane was for sure the hardest pick this year for me.
For me I picked Arcane. I liked Edgerunners but I loved Arcane
My brain is telling me Arcane but my heart is telling me Edgerunners.
nah, without question for sure its edgerunners. don't get me wrong, i like arcane. but some of the character feels off to me. like jayce out of nowhere having sex. by the way, i never play league but i do watch highlights for champs. and when jayce since i dont know his ability and all showed up in show i expect something. but not sex for sure.
@@adlannizar60 seems like a shit criticism for Arcane but sure.
@@justoneguy2487 probably. But meh, just my 2 cents.
Arcane vs Edgerunners was honestly such a hard choice for best adaptation this year
It really is, But edgerunners was something else.
fk this fake ass bot i give you a reply you deserve
I love both series, the story and the character done so perfect, i vote both of them, idc either arcane or edgerunner both deserve to win, maybe make both of them win the award idk
those bots are literally minions 🗿
I think Arcane was better. Edgerunners was good but nothing to spectacular.
I somehow feel like the anime is just like the game, culturally wannabe asian. Thus making me vote for Uncharted XD
It’s insane how Coryxkenshin wasn’t put for best content creator, dude is a legend
I think all of those people are twitch streamers, so it might be Twitch content creators
@@GameHead-04 pfp sauce?
@@jetstreamsam56 Aw hell naw. And even if I did know the sauce (Yeero) I wouldn’t give it to you
@toybonniefan 46 I like your profile picture, mind if I send it to my grandmother? It looks very cool!
@@coltonwilkie241 Sure!
I genuinely find it baffling by how Sonic Frontiers wasn’t in “best score and music”… It at least should’ve been nominated. That shit slaps hard.
They ought to put Pokemon Scarlet and Violet in last minute for best score and music
Because they hate Japanese games getting recognition. Xenoblade being there was a one in a million even though it deserves to win
@silentlore Xenoblade deserve to win over god of war and Elden ring ??
@@silentlore2458 you def liked ur own comment
@@silentlore2458 you are capping SO F. U. C. K. I. N. G. HARD
Edgerunners vs arcane is a tough call. Edgerunners made me want to play cyberpunk again, but arcane hooked me in without making me feel the need to play league at all
I watched both, and they both are amazing. Arcane takes the cake though because it got me addicted not only when watching it, but a year later still waiting for season 2. Edgerunners got me addicted, but faded after a while
@@nchicken_4815 Probably because the story ended. but I think the Edgerunners story was miles ahead of Arcane. But Arcane had a higher budget and work put into it.
Edgerunners made me cry while Arcane didn't (still peak though). Edgerunners wins.
Edgerunners is a far better video game adaptation and also a far better show than that woke BS arcane
Cuphead
Can we take a second to appreciate that RL was able to get Charlie to overcome his fear of flying, across the ocean no less, for the first time in 5 years
I used to love going on airplanes when I was younger, but I like it less and less every time I fly.
@@Sue_Me_Too I can relate flew alot in college, thought it was so cool, not anymore..
@@luketzenx2 You've commented more times than you have subscribers
Huh? Pretty sure that flight made it worse dude. There was crazy air turbulence and that kinda freaked him out. Also a reason he wasn't feeling like meeting anyone there.
YES LET'S APPRECIATE THE EFOORT
Amicia’s voice actor was really one of the highlights of Plague Tale Requiem for me, I really think she should be up there for best voice actor
oh yeah absolutely
Would you recommend the game? I don't know much about it but I love immersive single player games and haven't played one in some time. But the theme and design in the game looks really good so I'm interested!
@@Rai97 play the first one first, they're both on gamepass :)
@@lum1notryc828 not anymore, sadly, they removed innocence from game pass a while ago
The entire game sounded to static/robotic/inhuman to me. Like the Last of Us and God of War both sound like people actually speaking to each other while A Plague Tale voice acting sounds like kids struggling to read what's on a script. Amicia wasn't terrible like Hugo and the annoying alchemist who over explained literally every gameplay tool given, but no one in the game really sounded particularly well (possibly playing in French would have made it better? But I'm guessing it's similar to Metro where it doesn't sound good no matter what language you play in lol).
Karl Jacobs as a nominee for content creator of the year is CRAAAZZZY 💀
😂
Are you serious right neow💀
Fr it should've been Ryan trahan tbh
So is Ludwig or QT. I mean you need to stream games for atleast 5% of your time to be considered right?
@@yashkapoor5805 do you need to stream to be considered? That’s… dumb.
I think the actress who plays Amecia in both Plague Tale games is actually really slept on tbh.
Just coment on how people should play this series... I prefer this over GOW
Kratos saying "I... wanted to see the wolves again." Is what locked my vote lol
Weed pipe dialogue for me
on the topic of the character of Kratos, there was a really good quote from the director i believe that said "kratos is teaching atreus to be a god and in turn atreus is sort of teaching kratos how to be human."
I played Forbidden West, and I plan to play Elden Ring soon, but man, I feel bad for the developers of Horizon who released their game at the wrong times… twice..
If they released it late-may early june they would've had a SIZEABLE chunk of time between two games. Such a disappointment for them I imagine.
When Elden ring release date was postponed to closer to HFW. The Dev's should've saw the writing on the wall and ran.
In what world would fucking horizon deserve goty . Not even close to elden ring and gow . Just because it looks great?
@@jasonburrell4903 nobody claimed that though
pretty sure theres a good video explaining why the devs released it when they did
I like that whenever one of the options was Ragnarok, it was usually in the middle where your eyes would be drawn to it, almost like they knew what everyone would pick for most of em.
It is in alphabetical order
@@martinlervik265 ye, I just thought it was ironic that despite that fact, it still happened to be center frame for most of the categories
I love how there is a remake in "pushing games forward" category
And it's not even a remake it's a glorified graphics overhaul
It's an accessibility category
@jordanvii2936I don't get what the point of these bots are... they don't even post anything
@@coltonwilkie241 uh
The puppy's ball scene was so funny to me.
The exchanges between Kratos, Freya, and Brok were just perfect.
I yelled at my scream “A WHAT?!” But had to chuckle because the game got me lol
Dude you have like seven different bots all commenting under your post that is absolutely insane
When Charlie's talking about game direction, I suspect he's thinking more about cinematic direction. To me, that more falls under 'Best Narrative'. The way I see it, game directions is more, 'how do the mechanics, encounter, and level design execute the directors vision for a game'. Graphics, music, and cinematic story telling are also part of a games direction, in the same way a sound track is a huge part of a movie. But even if cinematics make up half a game, evaluating game direction on just that, misses the other half of the game. It's kind of like confusion the screenwriter for the director.
I think I agree, "Game Direction" seems like it should be the _overall_ *direction* of the game.
Cinematic direction would certainly be a big part of that, but hardly the only factor.
Charlie didn't explain much for his game direction choice. But while he was choosing, he was giving his opinion on Kratos' character development.
"Game direction" such a vague and meaningless metric. Every design choice about a game contributes to the direction of that game.
*I'M BETTER THAN CHARLIE, MY CONTENT IS BETTER!*
“Xenoblade 3 has a very enthusiastic community on Twitter- Very much so doesn’t like Dunkey”
Understatement of the century LMAO
I can already tell, the orchestra for this year is going to SLAP SO HARD…
I’m getting chills just thinking about it
ITS GONNA BE SO GOOD!
NIHIIIIIL!!!!
The orchestras are always the best parts of the game awards for me
if they don't play the elden ring main theme i will be pissed
Elden Ring's art direction is on another level. I can't even think of another game that kept having such breathtaking imagery throughout its entire runtime
Every other Fromsoftware games
Should be “best soundtrack” also imho
most be on pc only, on ps5 is was pretty bad
@@RiamK not talking about graphics or performance, it's about art direction, meaning world design, enemy design etc
Valheim?
Xenoblade 3 getting nominated is huge for a JRPG. Now we can also hear it in the Orchustra which is all I wanted, it won’t win but the music will slap.
Yea i cannot wait for the weight of life to play with all the other nominees
@@aylinilya. Yeah i was thinking it has to be weight of life or the offseer theme.
This new bot is already annoying af.
Reporting them doesn't even work nor does it permanently remove them from your feed.
Is there a block feature I am missing here or do I just have to stick with all this?
I'd love for them to pull the choir out and blow everyone's faces out of their asses with the moebius battle theme, but I'm sure they'll probably choose the generic battle theme instead (which is A-ok, the soundtrack is fantastic). Just need sena's VA there to randomly shout "YIPPIE"
I know. I absolutely love Xenoblade 3
Elden ring had a bigger impact on gaming and me personally then GoW will ever have. The first time entering the map and discovering just how big the game is without a walk through was the most memorable experience in my life. Discovering and learning a bosses movesets or trying out interesting and unique weapons was just amazing. You can have your opinions but nitpicking everything about a game to prove your point just infuriates.
The only problem with elden ring is its shitty fucking bosses
@@makxspeed Nah disagree some bosses like Malekith is peak boss battle and others are just optional
@@Paroxysm_1 malekith really isnt peak boss battle. I remember seeing the trailer way back expecting him to be the gael of elden ring and what a disappointment he turned out to be
@@makxspeed Opinion rejected.
Opinion rejected
The amazing thing about Horizon's release timing is that this is the second time that they have managed to do that in a two game series.
Horizon: Zero Dawn -> Breath of the Wild: 3 Days
Horizon: Forbidden West -> Elden Ring: 7 Days
this isn't a titanfall 2 situation. Those games just sucked
@@Pegarexucorn agreed horizon is such a generic boring ass open world game
Neon white is criminally underrated, its so much fun just going fast and it's my personal game of the year and I wish more people played it
Only downside is the dialogue and story are painful to put up with to get to the rest of the actual gameplay
One of my fave indies in a while. The music is amazing too. Im sad it wasnt nominated for best soundtrack
Based Yanfei enjoyer
yeah the dialogue was cringe af
the soundtrack is amazing
also yanfei :)
I vote Elden Ring for art direction because of the boss designs and epic drip. Scorn is very good choice too.
Scorn is unique as shit like damn. I'm gonna remember that game forever
God of War wins in every measurable aspect except world, but Elden Ring is just a stroke of sheer genius and that wins GOTY for me.
It's criminal that he didn't consider or even look at No Man's Sky for community support. Just the sheer amount of free content with every update is insane. I think it's leagues above the other nominees in this aspect.
Yeah they litterally launched the game years ago but believed so much in their concept that they were willing to keep going instead of just folding. I am biased though because I rembered buying the game "used" after i passed my freshmen year of highschool for like 17 euro's 5 years ago and am still playing that sucker on my PS5 today.
@@ayomri1914 They've lost all good will for me with that launch they had
their launch state was criminal, whether you like it or not that launch leaves a taste of shit in people's mouths when they think of the game.
@@cpmc5400 same. After that launch the game shouldn't be nominated or win anything. Shouldn't be rewarding it for fixing the false promises they claimed in the first place
To be fair when you start at 0 and add 100 then you did add more than games that start at 90 and add 10..
I love seeing every youtuber go to the fighting game category and immediately ask why Sifu is there lol
Rightfully so
I’m glad we can all agree that Sonic Frontiers not being nominated for best OST was the biggest snub this year
Exactly
This is game award and thats not even a game but a trash though.
@@death2able sir even penguinz0 said the game looks good lol.
@@death2able you’re spewing this stuff like in the most confident tone, but it’s clear that you have no clue about what you’re saying
Nah. Some of you will probably get mad, but I don't think Sonic, or any games for that matter, deserves to be nominated for best OST just because of 3 good songs.
It feels like Christopher Judge put his heart and soul into Kratos. The acting in Ragnarok was amazing
(I dont know the actors name) Atreus actor also, he is underrated thats why i voted him
My only reason for giving my vote to Edgerunners over Arcane is that it made me play Cyberpunk again, the game and the adaptation are made for each other while Arcane is a phenomenal story on it's own, but League has a totally different feel, it's like it's not even in the same francize.
You should be thankful Arcane didn't make you want to play League 😂
Eldenrings soundtrack is amazing and has a major variety like the main theme/radagon theme is so triumphant and powerful but the ancestor spirit theme is honestly just so beautiful and peaceful sounding, I'm not saying elden ring deserves best sound design but it defeinrly earned its place on the vote
I voted for it, I loved the music and score so much
Honestly, in my humble opinion, i didn't really like the ER soundtrack as much as the other Fromsoftware games.
Don't get me wrong tho, i still like the ER soundtrack, but it didn't quite do the trick to me as much as the other souls titles.
@@Ratigee504Yeah compare that soundtrack to DS3 or BB and you feel, they didn’t try as much as they did before, did they
elden ring’s soundtrack isn’t bad but it’s so much less memorable than any of fromsoft’s other titles
The soundtrack to me was good but forgettable.
Elden ring is one of the best experiences I’ve had with a game, I really hope it wins
I hope so too, but i feel like god of war is gonna win. Its always the game with the best narative that wins.
@@mcride9773 It's gonna win because popularity, that's what GOTY awards are at the end of the day
@@mcride9773 I think elden ring is going to win this
@@shrekonion7032 i hope it does win, but who knows. its a toss up at this point.
@@Daniel-jz9td No, our votes only count for 10% of the votes. The rest of the votes are from critics. This explains that abysmal TLOU 2 winning GOTY over Ghost of Tsushima.
Definitely laughed audibly when Charlie said “this is the biggest divide since my left and right butt cheek!”
Stray was a breath of fresh air. Entirely unique and cute. I got tired of fps games and hack and slash third person games, which is basically the rest. But Elden Ring is a beast of a game...
elden ring is a fucking beast
@@ethereal-2jz but cat
@@theorangegremlin334 stray 100% got my vote in terms of artistic direction ngl
Stray's lighting is beautiful. Just that first cutscene in the sunlight was gorgeous.
Plague tale's ending was phenomenol, never has such an experience pierced my heart
Ageeed (I never played that game)
watch grave of the fireflies
I fucking bawled in that ending
Haven't played yet. I'm going to see about that.
Honestly I haven't even heard of that game before now.
While I know it won’t win I’m more than happy seeing Xenoblade 3 being put up at all for game of the year, and hope that it will come out on top for best soundtrack.
i hope it wins anything bro
It deserves to win something especially considering what they maneged to do with the limitations of the switch hardware
Facts
Charlie, it is mainly the toxic parts of the genshin community, or really any game community that will attack you for not voting their game. If you like a certain mobile game and want to vote for it, more power to you. Most of the genshin reddit seems pretty chill with whoever you are voting for.
Facts here
genshin just sucks though
@@imuttx In your opinion
@@imuttx Oh no,
Retard alert
Twittard alert
@@imuttx i used to think that way until I tried it. Almost two years later, I'm still playing it
Tunic is downright criminally underrated.
I'm just glad Plague Tale and Stray got nominations in a few categories. Everyone is overlooking them for awards but they're two serious hard hitters.
i feel like a no one was really overlooking stray when it came out
in a world where god of war and elden ring come out, on a more average year, i imagine stray getting a lot of these awards
probably not game of the year but a lot of other rewards would go its way had 2 games that will go down as all time greats not come out in the same year.
I really have to try them. Innocence was on my radar since the first trailer, I thought it looked great, but I have yet to give it a shot
@@quantummidget Can't speak for Plague Tale but Stray is amazing. I don't play a huge amount of games but it's easily my favourite.
Stray got a whole ton of attention from fans, there was a solid week where it seemed like EVERYBODY was posting Stray playthroughs
i was so surprised at the best adaptation section. Arcane and edgerunners were my favourite shows and easily a top 5 of all time, man what a hard choice. i agree with arcane tho, that art direction and bts was crazy seeing it being made
I think edgerunners deserved it due to the fact it managed to bring old players back and bring in new people to the game. I preferred arcane as a series but this year I'd give it to cyberpunk
edgerunners hit me way harder than arcane ever could and i've never played either game. there is absolutely no way arcane could come anywhere close to the perfection that studio trigger brought down from the heavens
@@Oneironautic Agree. Not only did it revive a dying game, but it was an incredible ride. It accomplished a lot in 10 episodes that anime that run for so long can't even do properly.
@@Oneironautic I as a league player (ye bruh ik) find so many new league players who started playing because of Arcane. So the argument works for both games and the show
@@kaikai5963 I think it moreso applies to edgerunners since league is already a popular game where the complaints ive only ever seen (With my limited exposure to league) was the player base and I think the balance. While for cyberpunk its release was completely shat on by the developers and community.
And while both games got blessed by the release of the show/anime, I say cyberpunk got the bigger boost considering where it was at before.
Best audio in Elden ring for me is when I dodge Godfrey's colossal axe and it hits the ground. It's just so satisfying for me when he isn't whooping my ass
Spongbob has better soundtracks lol
@@narutolikestoes9028 Ok?
I wasn't even talking about soundtrack
Don't be sprinkling salt here
@@narutolikestoes9028 who asked ? Lols
@@thimotheopeterlini ur mom
@@narutolikestoes9028 r/young people on youtube
As a genshin player, I'd rather people not vote genshin so I can watch other genshin players cry about it
same but also i want primo
either way a w
@@do_cyx you know mihoyo ain't giving us primos 🤣
@@aussakagamine8862 they do actually, we got it last year
christopher judge's acting in SG1 was quite intimidating.. I never thought of him as a sweet man after that xD
I love him on stargate, first he's really intimidating but then he becomes a sweetheart.
The last episode of the 10th season is simple amazing, he's like the ultimate best companion and the friend everyone wish to have.
That part where Charlie said it’s Kratos time and ripped off his shirt was amazing
9:34 no man's sky easily wins the vote for me without even thinking about it
what they did with the game is just amazing and the work they put to make it good is actually insane
if you see the history of ff14,i bet it's equal or probably even better than no man's sky,the story of their rise from the fall was fantastic
Yeah I voted nms
The problem with no man's sky for me, especially now, is that bethesda's version of it is already scheduled for release, and since it's gonna be basically the same thing, just hopefully finished by the deadline... No Man's Sky had it's time, and they missed the mark, not sayin' it wasn't an amazing game way ahead of it's time, but it shouldn't even be in the runnings, regardless of how supportive it's community is.
@@JenkemWatchman so starfield already got released and I hope you are enjoying it. Cause for me it's a $70 of hot garbage
@@igg12 didn't buy it so I couldn't tell ya lmao
Huh, I had Elden Ring winning art direction by a landslide and still believe so
Some of the landscapes entering regions such as Liurnia of the Lakes from Stormveil, all of Farum Azula, etc. looks like actual paintings and in many ways makes up for and even exceeds the ok graphics, Scorn was unique and great for sure though and if it wins I could see that
3:08 I feel like many people have forgotten how good Elden Ring looks artistically, Dunkey said it best in his Elden Ring review "Walking around in this game is like stepping into a painting". While the other nominations all have great art, Elden Ring is just on another level especially considering the size of the game and how many different environments they've crafted to perfection.
They haven't forgotten, it's just that when it comes to art direction scorn is untouched
In my opinion the only part of the map that doesnt look as good is the mountaintops they reused hella stuff
@@moham3dd gotta give that to caelid imo....that area is just so depressing to wonder around xD
Where Elden Ring lacks in fidelity, It makes up for it with its scenic shots , the environment looks beautiful
@@moham3dd that shit is pretty as hell too, the freezing lake portion is so grandiose and pretty.
Citizen sleeper and neon white are absolutely INCREDIBLE games. People really missed out if they haven't gotten a chance to try them.
I've been meaning to play both, but haven't had the time yet.
Neon white is great but it makes me physically cringe whenever any of the characters talk
@@jethrobreek8340 yeah it's supposed to be cringy and goofy but imo that adds to the charm
@@TheElectricRaichu citizen sleeper is actually on gamepass right now and DEFINITELY can be time consuming if you go through all the different routes.
Regardless of which is your favorite, you deny that this has been a killer year for your gaming.
no i dont
How do you vote?
@@NFLHighlightReels You could try going to the URL in the video
@@Elektrokardiogramm i found it but thanks
Kratos in Ragnarok was a thoroughly enjoyable character, seeing his evolution made me genuinely feel something. By the end of the game after all the main cutscenes I was happily in tears, what an incredible game and character.
Good to know I'm not the only one.
God of War > Any Other Game
Picking between Arcane and Edgerunners was really tough for me as I love both shows. But I think this award goes to Arcane simply because of how big it was when it came out.
Never saw Arcane, but the ending of Edgerunners really tied the whole thing together. It's a textbook 1 season show, and I wish there were more like it.
@@FreshTillDeath56 Arcane did that as well and better imo. What made Arcane ending so special is the birth of alot of theories on who survive, who dies, what will happen between the villian(yes she is) and protaganist who will enter the story, which other regions will be introduced, and it also touched on alot of stuff like child slaves, warcrimes, children being murdered/killed on screen and alot of darker stuff. it actually gives off the gamoe of thrones season 1 vibes. it was jsut that good. Edgerunners was really fucking good, but what I think of edgerunners was "shit that was super fun to watch" and what I think of arcane is "that had no right to be such a masterpiece of a show"
I like Arcane infinitely more, but I voted Edgerunners because it’s a better ADAPTATION than Arcane.
They really did play us putting those two shows against each other in that category. That's one situation where I wish there was just an option to have both shows win because they were both of a different caliber that stand out among alot of the rest.
*I'M BETTER THAN CHARLIE, MY CONTENT IS BETTER!*
I love how he voted Genshin in fear of the fandom lmao.
genshin twittards would absolutely rip into him. but the majority of the rest of the fandom wouldnt care tbh.
Genshin hivemind is scary and will absolutely eat anyone brave enough to criticize the game
I don't understand why people fear the games fandom dunking on anyone who doesn't like it tbh. Legit most of the community itself dunk on the game for having garbage endgame lol
@@ThisLuvee I don't know man. I played the game for a year then got out because terrible endgame (artifact farming sucks) and gen twt is a terrifying place. It just makes me hate the game even more. Music is god tier though, don't let anyone ruin that for you
Genshin players have a lot to complain about the game and definitely don't think its the "best" game but they vote it so the game can win and the playerbase gets gacha currency. That's all there is to it.
You have got to play Tunic. Looks like a Zelda clone on the surface but it's in a league of its own, easily one of my favorite games of all time.
Im surprised he didn't gave best art direction to elden ring, every area looked so unique and beautiful, well except for caelid it looks terrifying in a good way
yeah agreed but scorn was literally just art the entire game. it’s all they went for
thing is, the art direction was pretty much identical to previous Souls games. They prettied everything up, turned the graphics up by x5, but in terms of *_unique_* art direction, Ragnarok takes that all day.
@@Khy._ Nah man I have to Disagree, every souls game have unique art direction
DS1 is more dark and raw, DS3 is more pale, colorless and dead, BB is literally England, and sekiro is japan on crack, DS2 is more colorful and it’s the only one that can be compared to elden ring
Yea but visually honestly Cats deserved it, it was such a visual candy, not even visual euphoria, almost every area was so artistic and experimental it’s like a painting almost everywhere you look
He hasn't played immortality has he?
If deep rock galactic doesn't win the labor of love award i'm going to cry.
For rock and stone!
same
Dwarves are gross.
That or terraria in my opinion
Charlie: Elden Ring is the culmination of what they learn and is close to the perfect game
Also Charlie: definitely God of War for Best Game Direction
*Proceeds to talk about Narrative in Best Game Direction*
It's amusing
The view that I have is that God of War has undoubtedly evolved from the original and the game direction had developed to a much better degree. Elden ring was a great game direction but the narrative and story of God of War:Ragnarok apparently struck Charlie as a more fit choice.
@@Ultimatora narrative is different than game direction
Not saying it should have won but narrative direction is obviously a factor in overall game direction (especially for a game that’s more focused on the narrative)
@@ryanfield4926 I agree it's part of it, but when narrative has its own category generally you're supposed to focus on the parts that don't have their own category
Imo scorn had a very unique way of getting around enemies, literally most if not all of the time you could just avoid the enemies by not attacking them, just be patient and they'll go somewhere else and despawn by going through a tunnel of flesh of sorts
They didn’t just make us choose between Arcane and Edgerunners 💀💀💀
They wanna kill me they’re both GOOOOOD
Charlie: *choses elden ring for game of the year*
Also Charlie: *choses gowr for all the categories*
More than the sum of its parts and all that.
I mean to be fair, there wasn't a category on gameplay
Yes because the categories that the game awards put elden ring in weren’t the exact reasons why elden ring was amazing. If they had a category for best combat and lore then I’m sure elden ring would win it. But best audio? Tf did elden ring do special with audio?
It's probably cuz people enjoy elden ring more even tho it isn't better than gow
@@deoxycodone what did gow did for best audio????
It’s gotta be Elden Ring for me. God of War has an incredible story, but I’ve never had as much fun playing a video game as I have playing Elden ring. There is just so much content and so many different ways to play the game.
I am one of those Dark Souls fanboys who thinks Elden Ring is a step back from Fromsofts other games, but I still agree ER is game of the year for sure.
@@klevinsmum2157 Thank you for admitting that cuz its definitely true. DS3 & BB> ER
@@lm_miniz I’m playing ds3 after elden ring right now and my god is this game so fun. Boss fights are difficult but are so much fun. Even the bs moves they got are fun to experience. Sister friends fricken rocks
Sister friede*
@@onomatopoeia300 Yessir. gl brother
Someone let charlie know that until november 29th, sonic fans are voting for sonic frontiers to be nominated for best ost in the steam award since it didnt get nominated here. His support would be great
Xenoblade 3 has the best OST. Im 100% sure it is the best of the year in that, but ofc It might lose that award because of how much underrated and unknown the game is
The fact that Stray got a lot of nominations is testament how good it is even though how simple the game is.
True
, if the main character wasn’t a cat you’d never play it
That’s why it’s bad
The game is freaking terrible! It's a freaking baby's game that looks like something from the PS1 era! Easily the worst game of 2022!
@@bennyblunto973 the main character being a cat makes it unique, allows the world to feel as big and the scope of it to feel the way it does. your point is really stupid. thats like saying "well if kratos was a cat, you wouldn't be playing it. so thats why its bad"
It was super over hyped because people mindlessly worship cats.
Honestly kinda hard to beat Christopher Judge, the dude played Kratos so insanely well
Did Charlie not Play GoW ascension? Ragnorok was not the first game to have Kratos have a real smile. In the scene where Kratos sees his daughter, while an illusion, he does indeed smile.
Its funny how he votes elden ring for GOTY but then votes for Ragnorok every time it pops up lol
I’m here to let you know that we commentators do exist.
Oh no someone has an opinion that differs from your own cancel him immediately
Because fromsoft honestly it’s a good game but I like the older games more elden ring is a bit overrated unless that dlc is great im boy coming back to it I already did everything
i sure do love that youtube makes replies by time commented and not likes given. AWESOME!!!!
lets goo early gang xd
I am really excited for the orchestra portion for the game of the year announcement. Being able to hear songs like the god of war theme and Elden ring is going to be amazing!
I'm so sad that Sonic Frontiers hasn't even been nominated for the best music, which is by far the best that the ones which have.
cap, there is probably only 2 good songs in that game, both gowr and er have conistanlty flawless music throughout both games
@Jordy koo yeah, was gonna say. Sonic Frontiers has some banging music, but both Gowr and Elden Ring have the best tracks that add to the experience. None of the music enhanced my experience in Sonic Frontiers, whereas both ER and GOWR made some moments so much better for it.
He hyped up Sifu everytime but didn't vote for em a single time 😂