The Game Awards 2025 | December 11 | Nominations And Categories Revealed - 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' Leads With 12 Nominations

[Jaguar93]

If they’re going on metacritic scores Ghost doesn’t belong.

 

[HiiiPower]

No Ghost on the list???

did it miss cutoff?

It’s not better than anything on that list that iv played (can’t speak for donkey kong)

 

[Zero]

E33 got this on lock

 

[GambinoMakeItWork]

Yotei's gonna be the Spider-Man 2 of this year I fear

 

[Deafheaven]

Going by the reviews should be Hades II it's a 94-95 on both Opencritic and Metacritic and the highest the others get are 91-92 at best. I think they'll give it to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because it's a feel good story and they'll probably play it as a JRPG.

Ironically an actual JRPG released this year which got reviews in the range of Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come 2 didn't get a nomination. They've nominated remakes for this category in the past and Trails in the Sky 1st is a 90 on Opencritic and an 88 on Metacritic wasn't considered. Just goes to show how actual JRPGs not named Final Fantasy or Persona fair in stuff like this.

Also Dispatch got snubbed unless they push it to next year.

trails in the sky is never moving the needle breh stop this nonsense.

 

[winb83]

trails in the sky is never moving the needle breh stop this nonsense.

It's not nonsense it reviewed in line with other games on that list that got nominated. The difference is it's a JRPG so it won't get that shine. The irony is if you make a game that mimics a JRPG you can get a nomination.

 

[Jaguar93]

Ghost is probably getting the Spidey 2 and Horizon treatment this year. Unless it gets the adventure or action category.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Cac ratings

 

[OneDeep]

AC:Shadows got subbed in a lot of categories

But just like Dragon Age last year they gave them the nomination in the pettiest category they have

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Is Kingdom Come 2 really that good? Gameplay always looked mad boring.

 

[OneDeep]

But Expedition 33 should clean up though

 

[Deafheaven]

It's not nonsense it reviewed in line with other games on that list that got nominated. The difference is it's a JRPG so it won't get that shine. The irony is if you make a game that mimics a JRPG you can get a nomination.

Expedition is better game and more ambitious than any trails title so naw. ff7r was nominated the year it released

 

[Deafheaven]

Is Kingdom Come 2 really that good? Gameplay always looked mad boring.

I actually tried it, no. its not.

 

[Legal]

Going by the reviews should be Hades II it's a 94-95 on both Opencritic and Metacritic and the highest the others get are 91-92 at best. I think they'll give it to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because it's a feel good story and they'll probably play it as a JRPG.

Ironically an actual JRPG released this year which got reviews in the range of Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come 2 didn't get a nomination. They've nominated remakes for this category in the past and Trails in the Sky 1st is a 90 on Opencritic and an 88 on Metacritic wasn't considered. Just goes to show how actual JRPGs not named Final Fantasy or Persona fair in stuff like this.

Also Dispatch got snubbed unless they push it to next year.

Dispatch"s problem is that they didn't release review codes for the entire game up front. Since the game was episodic, most outlets I saw opted to either review once all episodes were out, treat it as a an unscored review in progress until everything was out, or merely review individual episodes with a full review coming later.

Either way, the full product wasn't out in time to make the cutoff.

Also, regarding that Trails game, this is where playing the Metacritic/Opencritic game falls short. Because while the score may be similar, context matters. The game may be very good, but it didn't have the same cultural impact that the other games nominated did.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

At the end of the day these are just opinions from humans.

Humans are inherently bias, tribal, and malleable.

Trying to apply any objective measure to this is missing the point.

As always congregate reviews and awards are more about hype/hate and cultural trends than they are objective quality.

Just watch the show for the new trailers and the celebration of games in general.