The Game Awards 2018 Nomination List Has Been Announced, Which Is Your Favorite Game?

It has become a tradition that every year there will always be a form of community appreciation that is given specifically to the players of the video game industry. Especially for developers who are able to impress us with the results of their hard work so far in making games. Of the many types of appreciation or awards, The Game Award is one of the events that began to become a big concern for gamers before welcoming the new year.

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In the award in the previous year (2017), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a game that has recently overtaken Dragon Age Inquisition (2014), The Witcher III: Wild Hunt (2015), to Overwatch (2016) as one of the champion games in those years. As for 2018, which game do you think deserves the most prestigious title? Because in fact, The Game Awards itself has now released a complete list of nominations for each of the contested categories.

For the most awaited categories like Game of the Year. There is one surprise game that can unexpectedly be nominated to compete with other big games that certainly won’t surprise you too much to appear there. Here’s the list:

God of War

Genre: Action-adventure

Developer/Publisher: Santa Monica Studios / SIE

Platforms: PS4

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Genre: Action Role-Playing

Developer/Publisher: Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One

Marvel’s Spider-Man

Genre: Action-adventure

Developer/Publisher: Insomniac Studios / SIE

Platforms: PS4

Red Dead Redemption 2

Genre: Action-adventure

Developer/Publisher: Rockstar Games

Platforms: PS4, Xbox One

Monster Hunter: World

Genre: Action Role-Playing

Developer/Publisher: Capcom

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One

Celeste

Genre: Platformers

Developer/Publisher: Matt Makes Games

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch

Of the many nominations presented, the names of indie platformer games such as Celeste definitely an interesting surprise. Especially when you see the fact that this game together with Monster Hunter World is a game that was released in early 2018. Will Celeste be able to give a surprise by winning the GOTY title? We will see later.

In addition, they (The Game Award) also released lists of nominations from other categories, the complete list of which you can see below:

Best Action Games

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch / Activision)
Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie / Activision)
Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
Mega Man 11 (Capcom)

Best Action-Adventure Game

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Eidos Montreal / Crystal Dynamics / Square Enix)

Best Role Playing Game

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Square Enix / Square Enix)
Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Level 5 / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
Octopath Traveler (Square Enix / Acquire / Nintendo)
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (Obsidian Entertainment / Versus Evil)

Best Fighting Game

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (Arc System Works)
Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
Soul Calibur VI (Bandai Namco Studios / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
Street Fighter V Arcade (Dimps / Capcom)

Best Family Games

Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning / Nintendo)
Nintendo Labo (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Overcooked 2 (Ghost Town Games / Team 17)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Ubisoft Toronto / Ubisoft)
Super Mario Party (NDCube / Nintendo)

Best VR/AR games

ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission (SIE Japan Studio / SIE)
Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Firewall Zero Hour (First Contact Entertainment / SIE)
Moss (Polyarc Games)
Tetris Effect (Resonair / Enhance, Inc)

Best Mobile Games

Donut County (Ben Esposito / Annapurna Interactive)
Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
PUBG MOBILE (Lightspeed & Quantum / Tencent Games)
Reigns: Game of Thrones (Nerial / Digital Developer)

Best Strategy Game

BATTLETECH (Harebrained Schemes / Paradox Interactive
Frostpunk (11 bit studios)
Into the Breach (Subset Games)
The Banner Saga 3 (Stoic Studio / Versus Evil)
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Sega CS3 / Sega)

Games For Impact

11-11 Memories Retold (Digixart / Aardman Animations / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories (White Owls / Arc System Works)

Best Game Direction

A Way Out (Hazelight Studios / EA)
Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best Narrative

Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best Art Direction

A Way Out (Hazelight Studios / EA)
Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best Independent Game

Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
Into the Breach (Subset Games)
Return of the Obra Dinn (3909 LLC)
The Messenger (Sabotage Studio)

Best Sports/Racing

FIFA 19 (EA Vancouver / EA Sports)
Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games / Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning / Nintendo)
NBA 2K19 (Visual Concepts / 2K Sports)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (PES Productions / Konami)

Best Multiplayer Game

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch / Activision)
Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie / Activision)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)

Best Ongoing Game

Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Overwatch (Blizzard)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)

Best Score/Music

Celeste (Lena Raine)
God of War (Bear McCreary)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (John Paesano)
Ni No Kuni II (Joe Hisaishi)
Octopath Traveler (Yasunori Nishiki)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Woody Jackson)

Best Audio Design

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch Studios / Activision)
Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games / Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best Performance

Christopher Judge as Kratos (God of War)
Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption 2)
Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker (Spider-Man)
Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra (Assassin’s Creed Odyssey)
Bryan Dechart as Connor (Detroit: Become Human)

Best Content Creator

Ninja
Pokimane
Dr. Lupo
Myth
Willyrex

How, are your favorite games there? You can also donate voting for your favorite games by visiting the following link. Then, you just have to wait for the results of the announcement on December 6 later at the award ceremony which took place at Microsoft Theatre, Los Angeles.

However, we also want to hear your opinion about what game do you think deserves to win next time? You can include your votes and votes below for the Game of the Year 2018 nominations. If you find that there are other games that are more appropriate to compete or replace one of the 6 games that have been selected by The Game Awards, you can also express your opinion in our Facebook comments column.

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