Elden Ring is GDC Awards GotY

Elden Ring took Game of the Year honors at last night's annual Game Developer's Choice awards. The ceremony also included a Lifetime Achievement Award for John Romero and a Pioneer Award for Mabel Addis: "This year, the GDCA was honored to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to John Romero, who helped pioneer the first-person shooter genre, the widely popular multiplayer gamemode “Deathmatch” and much more through his work on games such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake. This year’s Pioneer Award was posthumously awarded to Mabel Addis, widely regarded as the first female video game designer, who designed The Sumerian Game for the IBM 7090 in 1964. Mabel’s award was accepted on her behalf by Mabel’s grandson, Erik Johnson." Here are all the honorees:
The 23rd Annual Game Developers Choice Awards winners are:

  • Best Debut
    Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
  • Best Visual Art
    Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • Best Audio
    God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Best Narrative
    Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
  • Social Impact Award
    Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
  • Innovation Award
    IMMORTALITY (Half Mermaid Productions)
  • Best Technology
    God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Best Design
    Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • Audience Award
    God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Game of the Year
    Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • Pioneer Award
    Mabel Addis
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
    John Romero

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Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 23, 2023, 13:27:
Stray was absolutely adorable and deserves the award.
Oh I see what you mean, really high ratings, thanks for the tip!

Yeah, Elden Ring is great action game with Coop.
Never played a FromSoftware title before, I went in expecting more RPGishness.
Here's hoping they have a big enough budget and time to deepen the RPG features in the future.

It might be a matter of personal taste but the one huge flaw in the game, are the Helmets.
I understand the practicality of helms in battle but for story, they are shit.
The characters are literally acting with facial expressions, hidden by helms and we miss it ALL.
My best guess is they put 90% of npcs in helms for more of a horror vibe.
But dialogue interactions, it's like we are talking to Sign Posts.from Morrowind days where the npcs just stand there 24/7.
It's off putting and immersion breaking. Wall2

In case there are peeps planning on playing it in the future, I highly suggested a No Helm mod. Lighter
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