Remakes, Remasters, and DLC Eligible in All Categories at The Game Awards - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 December 2024 / 1,754 Views
A newly posted FAQ on The Game Awards website reveals that remakes, remasters, expansions, DLC, and new game seasons are eligible in all categories.
"The Game Awards aims to recognize the best creative and technical work each year, irrespective of the format of that content’s release," reads the FAQ.
"Expansion packs, new game seasons, DLCs, remakes and remasters are eligible in all categories, if the jury deems the new creative and technical work to be worthy of a nomination. Factors such as the newness of the content and its price/value should be taken into consideration."
The list of nominees for The Game Awards 2024 will be announced on Monday, November 18, while the awards show will take place on Thursday, December 12 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Game Awards are a joke
I learned that when The Least of Us Part II was picked in favor of Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Or when Octopath didn't win best OST in 2018. Or when DAI won GOTY over Bayo 2. and Xenoblade is always snubbed.
The Game Awards were never anything more than a vehicle for Keighley to live out his starstruck fantasies, particularly in regards to Hideo Kojima.
Everyone else has to wrap it up except Kojima
If Elden Ring DLC is nominated for GOTY I’m out. This shit is ridiculous
DLC stealing a spot from titles like Balatro, Animal Well, Zelda EoW, Black Myth, etc., and potentially stealing the show from original titles such as Astro Bot and Final Fantasy, is kinda ridiculous. Elden Ring is a great game, but it already won GotY two years ago,
Wukong is not on goty list
Astro, FFVIIReBirth, Metaphor, ER:SotE, Wukong, Balatro. It's literally right there.
Looks like only just announced but still, remakes are fine but I find the idea of a DLC as game of the year weird.
Well, on the plus side, at least no games are nominated in what is clearly the wrong category like whats been happening at The Emmys.
Dave the Diver was nominated (and may have won?) Indie Game of the Year 2023, despite being produced by a multibillion yen company. Other than that, though, you’re not wrong.
this comment has aged like milk lol. Astro nominated for best Action Adventure? The family category filled entirely with Nintendo games? Among other things…
DLC game of the year? LOL
The whole TGA is a complete embarrassment.
".....are eligible in all categories." pukes
Mind that Blood & Wine won best RPG in 2016 (over DS3 even) already so they're just clarifying the rules, not making new ones.
Rigged rigged rigged rigged rigged for no ones pleasure
That means elden ring dlc will win sigh
Ugh, can the Game Awards die already? BAFTA Game Awards are better.
Gamer's do not vote on this, they mean absolutely nothing.
The vote only weighs in at 10% of the overall score. Supposedly. That means every single person that votes, out of millions, is a tiny fracture of that 10%. The judge's make up the other 90%.
Technically a DLC could be equivalent to a standalone game. But Shadow of the Erdtree doesn't have the scope of Elden Ring.
Still fail to understand how Half Life Alyx (equel highest rated game in its year, 93 meta) with all positive reviews, and didn't even get nominated for GOTY let alone win it in 2020.
I'll pass on the Game Awards. Too heavily influenced by popularity and favouritsm.
This will just even more gear the industry toward re-hashing old games and making people pay for extra content on games they already have, rather than making new experiences. Sad for the industry, and stupid for the Game Awards.
Well, that's fucking dumb. And actual gamers have such a negligible impact on the whole thing that it's just laughable. This is going to go the way of the Oscars, just a circle jerk that has nothing to do with the actual craft, slowly sinking into oblivion. We shouldn't even hate watch this, it sends the wrong message. Only watch a reaction video by your favorite youtuber.
As much as elden ring dlc deserves all the praises,
Dlc don't deserve to have a goty spot coz they were the same game as the base game,
Even the crappy cyberpunk 2077 critically acclaimed dlc didn't make a goty nominee so what gives?
Remakes deserves a spot coz they're built from the ground up while remaster shouldn't be eligible coz its a straight up copy paste,
TGA IS A JOKE
There weren’t enough new things?
Essay Pro