Wait, isn't Helldivers 2 nominated for 4 categories? According to The Game Awards 2024 website it's nominated for Best Ongoing Game, Best Community Support, Best Action Game and Best Multiplayer. Were we only talking about GOTY category? Perhaps I missed something but there's a diffence between not nominated for GOTY and not nominated at all.
Here's more insight on the Valve 20th anniversary thing: Valve is known and has stated several years ago that they aren't interested in looking back at their old titles and, I guess, reminiscing about them. They just want to move on and work on new projects. That's why there were never 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th anniversaries for any of their previous games up until last year with Half Life 1's 25th anniversary, and last week with HL2s 20th anniversary. This is pretty unusual behavior for Valve who usually only comes out from their cave when they announce a game or new crate for CS. Valve isn't the type of company that would find themselves running out of time and feel forced to do something for an anniversary, they just wouldn't do anything like they have for over a decade. That means these celebrations by Valve are very intentional and out of character. Many people think that they are doing these anniversaries for half-life to keep the franchise in people's minds. Why? Because they're working on a new Half Life game that will most likely be releasing in the next 1-3 years. No, I'm not schizo posting right now. There are strings people have found from Valves newest games like CS2 and Deadlock which refer to a new project titled HLX. Said project has strings of code referencing an object called nHEVSuit and an NPC called nNPC_Houndeye. Both of which were renamed in the next update to generic names unrelated to the Half Life universe. These aren't he said/she said leaks; they are strings of code taken directly from builds of Valves newest games. Similar leaks were found in early released Source 2 projects before Half Life: Alyx released. Strings like nXen_Grenade (Xen grenade), nNPC_Reviver (Electric Headcrab), and nNPC_Blind_Zombie (Jeff) were found under a project called HLVR a year before Alyx was even announced. All of these were included in Alyx when it released. This doesn't prove that HLX will release, but Valve IS working on the next Half Life game. Considering the ending of Alyx, the fact that Alyx took 4 years to make, and that people have been finding HLX related strings since 2021, we're getting clsoe to the next Half Life game. Pretty much, don't be disappointed because Half Life 3 wasn't announced on HL2s twentieth anniversary. We'll get something soon enough. Also, Half Life 2 RTX isn't being made by Valve. It's basically a fan project that has partnered up with NVIDIA to get it done. Anyways, if anyone read through this, welcome to the Valve schizo club.
Nikke fan here. Nikke may not be the GOTY contender, but their sister game: Stellar Blade, got nominated for the OST category. And that’s all that matters when it comes to giving the dev exposures.
And best Action game! Wish it also got GotY nomination, cause Stellar Blade might be my GotY (only other ones I'd even consider are FF7R and Metaphor). Hope it wins one of the categories it got nominated for...
Hey, what's up with the NIkke slander? But no, seriously, Nikke has pretty good writing, I know I know, hard to believe but it's pretty good. People often say they came for the "plot" and stayed for the plot. There's an anyversary going on right now with a great story, shame it's about to end, would be a great time to try it.
Right?! Like, yeah, I get it, Nikke is very much sexualized, but the people playing aren't just doing it for that, they are doing it because of the insanely good story (holy F... poor Cinderella. Felt awful for her in this story event).
“It’s not zero g it’s just falling” is comical because that’s all zero g actually is. You are moving fast enough forward to fall around the earth infinitely
I think you mean orbit, not zero g. Continuously falling around the earth is orbit, which yes you are in a state of zero g for, but isn’t a blanket statement for all zero g
I can fully understand and support HD2 not winning but not nominating it is pretty bad. I can think of only 1 other game that made a comparable splash to HD2 this year, SM2.
While Helldivers 2 had a phenomenal start on release, they dropped the ball with consecutively nerfing the fun stuff, I've uninstalled during the PSN account fiasco, which is unrelated to gameplay, of course, but that essentially killed the game for me, never went back after that.
A random and I won a World Tour tourny after our teammate rage quit. 😅 We popped off with great team work! I was dressed as a frog and speared them to death 🤣
I really wish these 2 dudes would nerd out about battlefield more often. I want to hear their deep, detailed thoughts on what they want out of the next BF (or their ideal version of what BF could be).
I just hope Astro Bot sweeps it, I though I had grown out platformers since it's been almost 20 years since the Sonic and Mario days for me. Shooters and story driven games have been my bread and butter for so long and platformers don't interest me. I bought Astro Bot because I wasn't in a good head space and needed something just to pass the time and I enjoyed the PS5 demo that comes installed with the console at launch. And holy shit, I usually chase that feeling we had when playing games as kids and this game is the closest to it. Just pure videogame, a joy to play through just for the sake of it, I caught myself just smiling at the TV all the time. It looks great, feels great to play, oozes creativity and the soundtrack is fucking amazing. And there is a lot of nostalgia for those familiar with some of the IPs in there. Games like Rebirth or Metaphor are much more up my alley and yet I really hope Astro Bot wins. It should win GOTY, Family game and soundtrack.
Space Marine 2 is better than helldivers and as amazing as that game is it doesn't earn GOTY. Helldivers went through so many issues and it's only marginally better than launch
@aidanfrancis2193 the sm2 comment or helldivers issues? Because there's only been incremental increases that should've occured back in March/April we should've gotten the illuminate, armor still isn't properly fixed weapons are still not to great especially against bots on the higher 8+, the battle pass weapons more times then not have been mediocre or just straight up bad compared to the rest of the roster especially the current battle pass, they've been trying to fix ragdolls for months now. Not to mention some developers and community leads poor behavior (not excusing players actions but they aren't professionals). The game was unplayable for about 2 weeks+ at launch, the summer was mired with game breaking crashes and bugs that took a good bit to fix. I'm not saying it's a bad game it's great but it really doesn't deserve goty, it's like saying dragons dogma 2 should be up there that game was awesome but not goty
It's because it was too political and of course anything that's too political they won't give it awards even though it's the most played game over any other games
I bought Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 this year. Done with buying woke gay slop that ruins my favourite franchises That Star Wars Outlaws got 2 nominations was hilerious. 2nd biggest flop this year besides QueerAge Pronounguard
Meanwhile Helldiver players to the game awards ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Hell Divers 2 is the only game I have played almost every day this year
Wait, isn't Helldivers 2 nominated for 4 categories? According to The Game Awards 2024 website it's nominated for Best Ongoing Game, Best Community Support, Best Action Game and Best Multiplayer. Were we only talking about GOTY category? Perhaps I missed something but there's a diffence between not nominated for GOTY and not nominated at all.
Yes, title is misleading as I think he means game of the year
There you go, he changed the title 😂
It’s more of a game than the other options
Best community support hahahaha :D Ban +170 countries is amazing support. Helldivers 2 doesn't deserve to be nominated on anything.
@@tadej64 best multi-player and action it might win.
Here's more insight on the Valve 20th anniversary thing:
Valve is known and has stated several years ago that they aren't interested in looking back at their old titles and, I guess, reminiscing about them. They just want to move on and work on new projects. That's why there were never 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th anniversaries for any of their previous games up until last year with Half Life 1's 25th anniversary, and last week with HL2s 20th anniversary. This is pretty unusual behavior for Valve who usually only comes out from their cave when they announce a game or new crate for CS. Valve isn't the type of company that would find themselves running out of time and feel forced to do something for an anniversary, they just wouldn't do anything like they have for over a decade. That means these celebrations by Valve are very intentional and out of character.
Many people think that they are doing these anniversaries for half-life to keep the franchise in people's minds. Why? Because they're working on a new Half Life game that will most likely be releasing in the next 1-3 years. No, I'm not schizo posting right now. There are strings people have found from Valves newest games like CS2 and Deadlock which refer to a new project titled HLX. Said project has strings of code referencing an object called nHEVSuit and an NPC called nNPC_Houndeye. Both of which were renamed in the next update to generic names unrelated to the Half Life universe. These aren't he said/she said leaks; they are strings of code taken directly from builds of Valves newest games.
Similar leaks were found in early released Source 2 projects before Half Life: Alyx released. Strings like nXen_Grenade (Xen grenade), nNPC_Reviver (Electric Headcrab), and nNPC_Blind_Zombie (Jeff) were found under a project called HLVR a year before Alyx was even announced. All of these were included in Alyx when it released.
This doesn't prove that HLX will release, but Valve IS working on the next Half Life game. Considering the ending of Alyx, the fact that Alyx took 4 years to make, and that people have been finding HLX related strings since 2021, we're getting clsoe to the next Half Life game.
Pretty much, don't be disappointed because Half Life 3 wasn't announced on HL2s twentieth anniversary. We'll get something soon enough.
Also, Half Life 2 RTX isn't being made by Valve. It's basically a fan project that has partnered up with NVIDIA to get it done.
Anyways, if anyone read through this, welcome to the Valve schizo club.
Nikke fan here. Nikke may not be the GOTY contender, but their sister game: Stellar Blade, got nominated for the OST category. And that’s all that matters when it comes to giving the dev exposures.
And best Action game! Wish it also got GotY nomination, cause Stellar Blade might be my GotY (only other ones I'd even consider are FF7R and Metaphor). Hope it wins one of the categories it got nominated for...
DLC and remakes should be its own category, maybe lumped together.
One thing that can help with FPS though is Nvidias own optimization of the game in their game ready drivers, which usually get pushed on launch day.
The developer mindset for performance is always interesting to here love the technical side of development is always interesting to hear
The guy on the left's beard, oh man. It's 2024 for fuck's sake!
Everyone knows Concord was GOTY.. 😅
Balatro is the only mobile game I have ever bought other than Mario Run
Best podcast ever
Hey, what's up with the NIkke slander?
But no, seriously, Nikke has pretty good writing, I know I know, hard to believe but it's pretty good. People often say they came for the "plot" and stayed for the plot. There's an anyversary going on right now with a great story, shame it's about to end, would be a great time to try it.
"I watch porn for the plot" 🤣
Right?! Like, yeah, I get it, Nikke is very much sexualized, but the people playing aren't just doing it for that, they are doing it because of the insanely good story (holy F... poor Cinderella. Felt awful for her in this story event).
“It’s not zero g it’s just falling” is comical because that’s all zero g actually is. You are moving fast enough forward to fall around the earth infinitely
I think you mean orbit, not zero g. Continuously falling around the earth is orbit, which yes you are in a state of zero g for, but isn’t a blanket statement for all zero g
35:40 I would show them my Star Citizen Legatus Pack.
Arcane would be great with going to the fregjlord and picking up Sylas story and seeing Braum.
I can fully understand and support HD2 not winning but not nominating it is pretty bad. I can think of only 1 other game that made a comparable splash to HD2 this year, SM2.
@@mattsgrungyExactly, it was never going to get nominated for GotY, it's not that kind of game.
Lol everyone forgets Palworld. That shit was WAY overhyped. I never hear about it now
I got my first car in 2001 for $1300. It was a 1974 VW beetle. Wish I still had it.
I was genuinely shocked, it’s my goty anyway.
Fellow Toyota Tercel core reporting in!
While Helldivers 2 had a phenomenal start on release, they dropped the ball with consecutively nerfing the fun stuff, I've uninstalled during the PSN account fiasco, which is unrelated to gameplay, of course, but that essentially killed the game for me, never went back after that.
as a console pleb, I cant afford a pc and the upkeep on upgrading parts when they come out.
Gee I wonder what Level could be talking about tomorrow. He didn't even talk about Star Citizen today.
The Finals not being nominated is frustrating
The game has way to much call outs for Bots and Hacking and the playerbase fell off hard.
It's a great game but it has issues.
The finals came out last year
A random and I won a World Tour tourny after our teammate rage quit. 😅 We popped off with great team work! I was dressed as a frog and speared them to death 🤣
@@Bahamut-113 at the last game awards but it still counts for the year
@@Bahamut-113 It came out at the last video game awards, meaning it qualifies this year.
Matimio needs to dig back at level by calling out how Amish he looks. Love you both keep up the amazing work, listening every week!
5k hours on STALKER mod, it's time
Astrobot is a weird cooperate graveyard Hat in Time.
Typing on a keyboard to close an elevator? What happened to buttons?
Embark really just needs to make a destruction-based BF rip-off at this point. Great gunplay + server-side destruction + good vehicles. Game over.
Ok Go made the music vid in the plane pretty sure. They always have creative vids! First one i remember was them dancing on treadmills 😅
Level not knowing what persona is def screams how much hes in a small part of the gaming sphere lol.
DLSS frame gen is silly. Why make high detail games, then get an algorithm to smudge over all the detail?
It pronounced knee Kay not Nike as in the shoe brand
Wait its tuesday!?! Is this the new pod day? You made me think its wednseday 😅
Dlc should just be in the running because of its good enough to win then thats it
Helldivers 2 deserved better... publisher
A day early? Lucky us!
I really wish these 2 dudes would nerd out about battlefield more often. I want to hear their deep, detailed thoughts on what they want out of the next BF (or their ideal version of what BF could be).
I just hope Astro Bot sweeps it, I though I had grown out platformers since it's been almost 20 years since the Sonic and Mario days for me. Shooters and story driven games have been my bread and butter for so long and platformers don't interest me. I bought Astro Bot because I wasn't in a good head space and needed something just to pass the time and I enjoyed the PS5 demo that comes installed with the console at launch.
And holy shit, I usually chase that feeling we had when playing games as kids and this game is the closest to it. Just pure videogame, a joy to play through just for the sake of it, I caught myself just smiling at the TV all the time. It looks great, feels great to play, oozes creativity and the soundtrack is fucking amazing. And there is a lot of nostalgia for those familiar with some of the IPs in there. Games like Rebirth or Metaphor are much more up my alley and yet I really hope Astro Bot wins. It should win GOTY, Family game and soundtrack.
THE FINALS
It's nominated in 4 categories...
Whats hell divers?
Space Marine 2 is better than helldivers and as amazing as that game is it doesn't earn GOTY. Helldivers went through so many issues and it's only marginally better than launch
🧢🧢
@aidanfrancis2193 the sm2 comment or helldivers issues? Because there's only been incremental increases that should've occured back in March/April we should've gotten the illuminate, armor still isn't properly fixed weapons are still not to great especially against bots on the higher 8+, the battle pass weapons more times then not have been mediocre or just straight up bad compared to the rest of the roster especially the current battle pass, they've been trying to fix ragdolls for months now. Not to mention some developers and community leads poor behavior (not excusing players actions but they aren't professionals). The game was unplayable for about 2 weeks+ at launch, the summer was mired with game breaking crashes and bugs that took a good bit to fix.
I'm not saying it's a bad game it's great but it really doesn't deserve goty, it's like saying dragons dogma 2 should be up there that game was awesome but not goty
It's because it was too political and of course anything that's too political they won't give it awards even though it's the most played game over any other games
I don’t think that’s why it wasn’t nominated.
I bought Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 this year.
Done with buying woke gay slop that ruins my favourite franchises
That Star Wars Outlaws got 2 nominations was hilerious. 2nd biggest flop this year besides QueerAge Pronounguard
Lol it's okay grandpa, calm down.
Good. Trash bandwagon games don't deserve goty
Bandwagon doesn't equal trash tho
Bandwagon? The game is actually good. At least one of the better ones I played the last 5 years.
You died in the tutorial didn’t you?
How is helldivers a trash bandwagon game? lol
Lol you have no clue what makes a good game the huh.