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Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
The BAFTA Video game awards are about to start, here are the nominees:

quote:

Artistic Achievement


Assassin’s Creed Unity
Far Cry 4
Hohokum
Lumino City
Monument Valley
Valiant Hearts

Audio Achievement


Alien: Isolation
The Banner Saga
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved
Mario Kart 8
The Sailor’s Dream

Best Game


Alien: Isolation
Destiny
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Mario Kart 8
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Monument Valley

British Game


80 Days
Alien: Isolation
Forza Horizon 2
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions
Lumino City
Monument Valley

Debut Game


The Banner Saga
Counterspy
Hitman Go
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
Shovel Knight
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Family


The LEGO Movie Videogame
LittleBigPlanet 3
Minecraft: Console Editions
Mario Kart 8
Skylanders Trap Team
Twelve a Dozen

Game Design


Alien: Isolation
Destiny
Far Cry 4
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor
Threes

Game Innovation


80 Days
Alien: Isolation
Lumino City
Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor
Titanfall
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Mobile & Handheld


80 Days
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Hitman Go
Monument Valley
Threes
The Walking Dead: Season 2

Multiplayer


Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Destiny
Mario Kart 8
Minecraft: Console Editions
Titanfall

Music


Alien: Isolation
The Banner Saga
Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved
Far Cry 4
Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor
The Sailor’s Dream

Original Property


Kalimba
Monument Valley
Sunset Overdrive
Titanfall
Valiant Hearts
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Performer


Adam Harrington (Bigby Wolf in The Wolf Among Us)
Ashley Johnson (Ellie in The Last of Us: Left Behind)
Kevin Spacey (Jonathan Irons in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare)
Logan Cunningham (Transistor in Transistor)
Melissa Hutchison (Clementine in The Walking Dead: Season 2)
Troy Baker (Pagan Min in Far Cry 4)

Persistent Game


Destiny
EVE Online – Phoebe
League of Legends
Runescape
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
World of Tanks

Sport


FIFA 15
Football Manager 2015
Forza Horizon 2
OlliOlli
Madden NFL 2015
Trials Fusion

Story


80 Days
Broken Age
Far Cry 4
The Last of Us: Left Behind
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
The Wolf Among Us

BAFTA Ones to Watch Award
Chambara – Kevin Wong, Catherine Fox, Alex Faulkner, Esteban Fajardo, Thomas Hoffman – Overly Kinetic
Sagittarius – Vivek Deshpande, Anand Navaneetha Raja, Ashik Sharief, Shashank Chavan, Karthireyan Dhandapani – Too Mainstream
Dont Walk: Run – Niall Taylor, Joseph Grainger, Oliver Reynolds – Duffy, Sean Barron, Alan Taylor – Torque

http://www.twitch.tv/bafta That's the link

All I know about this is that it's a British awards show about video games, but it seems important enough.

edit: it has started.

Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Mar 12, 2015

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eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
ill watch it i like trainwrecks

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Jokes are all bad so far

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
A 'Peter Molyneux/Tim Schaefer' undelivered games joke was just said.
You could tell the ones who work for the two in the crowd, they were not laughing.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

happyhippy posted:

A 'Peter Molyneux/Tim Schaefer' undelivered games joke was just said.
You could tell the ones who work for the two in the crowd, they were not laughing.

That was funny.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat
Are the BAFTAs the awards show with that Mt Dew and Doritos dude hosting, or is this another one?

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Best Music

Farcry 4

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

happyhippy posted:

Best Music

Farcry 4

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
sweet god callout

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Drifter posted:

Are the BAFTAs the awards show with that Mt Dew and Doritos dude hosting, or is this another one?

It's the Academy Award wannabe ceremony by Brits, their sponsors are EA, Sega and Blizzard.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Drifter posted:

Are the BAFTAs the awards show with that Mt Dew and Doritos dude hosting, or is this another one?

This is the stuffy suit wearing 'we dont know what games are and select winners from our arse' british version.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
lol if broken age wins

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011

christ these nominations loving suck. at least the doritos pope VGX or whatever it was called had pretty great nominees and winners, this one is almost as bad as the award show that gave Destiny a shitload of undeserved awards

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
youtube celebrities!!

Erata
May 11, 2009
Lipstick Apathy
You and me both, uncomfortable Tim Schaefer.

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here
What is monument valley and why is it nominated to a bunch of poo poo?

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Jesus that's the Frenchiest accent

fanks

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
A 2D 8bit memory game won best Sports Game lol

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Actually you can go wrong with a bioware RPG.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




Could this be even worst than the the vga awards (or whatever they're called now)

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
The Walking Dead Season 2, a Mobile or Handheld game.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

hemale in pain posted:

Could this be even worst than the the vga awards (or whatever they're called now)

These ones prefer arty farty games other good ones in an attempt to try to be as relevent as the normal BAFTA's.
So yeah.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




I'd like her saliva dangling from me if you know what I mean

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Holy gently caress Detective Tag McGlish is in the crowd!
He doesn't even get 10000 subs on YT, wtf?

Edit: I stand corrected, 115k subs.

happyhippy fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Mar 12, 2015

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Monument Valley, it's a mobile game.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




I've never heard or played it and don't want to

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

hemale in pain posted:

I've never heard or played it and don't want to

BUT IT JUST WON AN AWARD!?!!

Surely now you want to? An AWARD!

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




I do sorta want to try it now

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Minecraft: Console editions won over Mario Kart booooo

Erata
May 11, 2009
Lipstick Apathy
Good byefta. Oh, we're backta.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Someone stepped on a cord

again

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




at least titanfall didn't win

Stick Figure Mafia
Dec 11, 2004

why are there four screens and six people trying to talk at once?

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




I thought it was gonna be loving pewdiepie for a second but it turns out to be a guy i dont know

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

hemale in pain posted:

I thought it was gonna be loving pewdiepie for a second but it turns out to be a guy i dont know

Nice of them to let the intern give out an award.

(wot a hipster)

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Stick Figure Mafia posted:

why are there four screens and six people trying to talk at once?

They're youtube celebrities presenting the game of the year nominees

Edit: Tim Schaffer alert :siren:

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




That game was okay

Cthulhuite
Mar 22, 2007

Shwmae!
I, too, like watching the British Academy of Game Awards British Academy of Film and Television Awards.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




I'm excited to see if that dumb warcraft card game wins anything

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Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

hemale in pain posted:

I'm excited to see if that dumb warcraft card game wins anything

you jinxed it

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