TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, said today that THQ’s decision to put THQ Digital Warrington studio into a closing down process confirmed both the impact of tax incentives on investment in the video games industry and the need for the UK Coalition Government to work with TIGA to enhance the appeal of the UK as a place to do games business.
Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony's Helldivers 2 was the big winner of the 2024 TIGA Awards, taking home the Best Technical Innovation and Game of the Year prizes last night.
Fun game but I don’t think it’s a game of the year over everything else and not even close. I would put at least 6-8 games before it.(random number off the top of my head it’s probably more)
If it was live service game of the year I could see it. This is coming from someone who really likes HD2. Good for them though.
I thought it easily had the most fun moment to moment gameplay of the year. Don't think anything else even came close. Indeed, good for them.
Best i played this year is Stellar Blade and Silent Hill 2.
Didn’t play FF7 and DQ3 HD yet but these might also win it for me.
No two ways about it. My favourite game of the year was Helldivers 2. I had more fun with it than any other game by a wide margin.
But I am yet to play Astro and Stellar Blade
I agree with OP. I still play this game pretty often and love it, but it is wearing thin and definitely not game of the year.
It was deserved. In my opinion, if the VGA wanted to maintain credibility, they should have added Helldivers 2 instead of Shadow of the Erdtree.
I agree. I bought it due to the hype, and quickly got bored of it. Jump to location, carry out menial task while wave after wave of bugs attacks, go to pickup point, a couple more waves of bugs until the ship arrives, rinse, repeat. Boring.
Astrobot blew this out of the water.
Subjective take. I loved Astro Bot and haven't played HD2, but those points you write so dismissively, millions of others enjoyed.
Many, many, many more millions compared to Astro Bot, a platformer whose charm piggybacks off the success and nostalgia of decades worth of PS history.
And it irritates me that it feels Hulst used Astro Bot as another way to artificially inflate the importance and relevance of Horizon. That God of War themed stage should've swapped order with where Horizon's was placed.
I enjoyed those points too, until I realized it was all the game had to offer. I even went back again months later and gave it a second chance, and I still couldn't get into it.
I doubt Hulst had any say over the order of Astro's stages... Regardless of the order, both are great IMO. I think leading with GOW was the better option, being that I too agree that it was the better of the two, why not have it be what introduces people to the concept of other game-themed stages?
The nostalgia isn't what made Astro great to me, though, it was the gameplay. It was the true return to classic platforming that has been missing for so long. It was the innovative use of the controls. It was the fantastic music. The game is just completely polished top to bottom. The nostalgia was just the cherry on top.
110% agree on Astro's gameplay and platforming prowess. The whole thing was some of the most moment-to-moment fun I had all year aside from Shadow of the Erdtree.
My issue with Horizon being placed where it is isn't that God of War *shouldn't* have been the leading capstone stage, but that it seems apparent Horizon is viewed by PS as their golden IP and I just don't like that. It felt like a forced, unearned, corporate-pleasing placement that was tonally inconsistent in a game that exists to celebrate and embody all that makes PlayStation so great. It felt unnatural and another way for execs to preach to their players about that franchise
Who cares, these are different awards organizations outta many let them win awards. They deserve it and also you dont need to be talking when you hate these types of games to begin with.
And yet game awards has a DLC as a nominee for goty. Lol. Don't get me wrong, shadow of the erdtree is goated, but its a DLC....it needs it own category...
Next thing you know they'll be giving GOTY awards to patches and games that still haven't released to the general public.
Best Day One Patch
Best Disc Build
Best Technical Achievement via Post-Release Optimization
This TIGA awards is a joke.
Best Action n adventure game (hellblade) barely has any action (that you comtrol)
Best Narrative (TLOUS2) is a remaster
Best use of license (spiderman 2) is from October 2023
Nine virtual reality games and projects have been shortlisted for the annual TIGA Games Industry Awards in 2023.
Alex & Mike talk Biomutant, a game from Experiment 101/THQ Nordiq you likely have not heard of. While the AAA side of the industry tends to homogenization and imitative, cinematic presentation, “AA” games remain creative and innovative in 2021. Drawing on inspirations as varied as Dark Souls, third person shooters & kung fu cinema, Biomutant is Ratchet & Clank on acid, developed by a team of 20 people.
