Current Events > Super Mario Odyssey sweeps Best Of Gamescom awards

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http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/24/super-mario-odyssey-sweeps-best-of-gamescom-awards-6876988/

Nintendo’s next big game for the Switch has once again picked up multiple industry awards, as Destiny 2 also celebrates two wins.

As we type this Gamescom, the European equivalent of E3, is over for another year. And without wishing to make any jokes about German efficiency, the results of the official Gamescom awards have already been announced.

There were 21 categories, with 100 different game submitted as nominees. According to Google Translate an ‘expert jury’, who we assume were primarily German, decided the winners.

At first it may seem odd that Super Mario Odyssey won so many awards, including Best of Gamescom and the Consumer choice prize, as Nintendo never usually exhibit anything new to the press at Gamescom.

But while the first day of Gamescom is press-only the rest of the week it’s open to the public (except for the business area where all the journos and PR people skulk about). And for them this would’ve been the first chance to play Super Mario Odyssey, and many of the other games listed below.

Super Mario Odyssey also won Best of Show, Best Console Game, and Best Action/Adventure Game at the E3 Critics Awards. So there’s going to be some very disappointed fans if the game doesn’t live up to expectations when it’s release for Nintendo Switch on October 27.

Mario stays winning.
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God I am so horny for it

These kinds of awards are completely meaningless

So there was no new info?
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Milkman5 posted...

These kinds of awards are completely meaningless

they exist just to sell games

My love for Mario should be shared by everyone.
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Go_Totodile posted...

So there was no new info?

There was a new 20 minute demo they showed off.

I'm not watching anything else about this game personally.
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Darmik posted...

Go_Totodile posted...

So there was no new info?

There was a new 20 minute demo they showed off.

I'm not watching anything else about this game personally.

same.

lol it will be good though
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2014 was a shitty year to be fair.

2017 has been amazing.
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

lol it will be good though

I mean, evolve's core gameplay loop wasn't bad, but the way the devs handled the release and everything royally screwed any chance it had of success.
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Evolve sucks and so does asymmetrical multiplayer. Natural Selection has already happened and it'll NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
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Drpooplol posted...

I mean, evolve's core gameplay loop wasn't bad, but the way the devs handled the release and everything royally screwed any chance it had of success.

Not sure if I agree. The game was good, the problem is as a multiplayer only game, the upper limit to how good this game can possibly be is how many people are playing it. As the player count dropped dramatically, the devs tried everything they could to salvage the failing player base and only did things that made the game worse in the long run.
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Evolve would be fun if you had a bunch of friends in a room together figuring out the game for the first time. Which is how the press played it.

Those experimental multi games were a big fad back then too IIRC. Everyone was looking for the next big thing. Which also benefitted Titanfall in 2013.
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I'm not going to watch or look up anything more about this or Shadow of War. i actually want to be surprised by both games.


The only thing I might look up is if they're good or bad. That's it.
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wolverinev2 posted...

i actually want to be surprised by both games.

The only thing surprising about Shadow of War is how shitty it's going to be with all the fucking microtransactions it has.
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AlternativeFAQS posted...

Milkman5 posted...

These kinds of awards are completely meaningless

they exist just to sell games

In this case they're super-duper meaningless, since I was gonna buy Odyssey long before reading this topic.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

wolverinev2 posted...

i actually want to be surprised by both games.

The only thing surprising about Shadow of War is how shitty it's going to be with all the fucking microtransactions it has.

You know, you could just ignore them. I don't really plan on giving a shit about the multiplayer aspect of it. Sense most Multiplayer games tend to piss me off (due to how annoying people can be online.).

Also, I am looking forward to Nintendo putting up their market place on Switch, so I can download some sweat SNES and NES classic games.
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Shadow of War looks awesome. I can't understand people that can't look past optional microtransactions. It's like... if you could get more money... why wouldn't you? It's like selling one of your possessions for 50 dollars when you know it's worth 100. You'd be an idiot not to take more money.
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