I hated how they rushed award winners and even rapid-fired off others. Like they really couldn't give them time to accept their award at least? Best RPG couldn't get an award presentation? Best Action? Best Fighting Game? Best music score? Nope, we get randomy celebrity presenters and random talk about nothing to waste minutes on instead.

Game announcements for reference : 1. 7:50 Start of the Show. 2. 9:15 Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons. Remake 3. 12:05 Pony Island 2: Panda Circus 4. 13:40 The Rise of the Golden Idol 5. 14:25 Usual June 6. 16:25 Arknights: Endfield 7. 17:30 The Matchless Kungfu 8. 18:30 W40K: Rogue Trader 9. 19:30 - 20:10 Assassins Creed: Nexus (VR) 10. 23:15 Harmonium: The Musical 11. 27:05 Windblown 12. 28:50 Thrasher (VR) 13. 30:55 Persona 3 Reload 14. 33:20 Dave the Diver featuring Dredge. 15. 35:35 World or Goo 2 16. 37:45 Metaphor: Re Fantazio 17. 44:21 Christopher Judge roasted Call of Duty 😄 18. 50:25 EXODUS 19. 53:20 God of War: Ragnarök: Valhalla 20. 55:55 Big Walk 21. 58:15 Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown 22. 59:45 LEGO Fortnite 23. 1:05:00 Senua's Saga: Hellblade II 24. 1:11:50 I'll have what she has 😅1:13:05 KEMURI 25. 1:14:15 No Rest For The Wicked 26. 1:18:00 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 27. 1:24:02 Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Crazy Taxi, and more! 28. 1:26:05 Dragon Ball: Sparking ZERO 29: 1:27:10 The Casting of Frank Stone (From DBD) 30. 1:29:15 Visions of Mana 31. 1:30:50 Rise of the Ronin 32. 1:37:50 OD (Hideo Kojima Game) 33. 1:46:25 Jurassic Park: Survival 34. 1:51:55 Rocket Racing 35. 1:53:15 Black Myth Wukong 36. 1:56:00 Suicide Squad 37. 1:58:25 Warframe: Whispers in the Walls 38. 2:01:55 Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Collectors Edition. 39. 2:03:10 Ready or Not 40. 2:09:05 Tales of Kenzara: ZAU 41. 2:10:40 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage 42. 2:12:05 Zeek's outstanding performance presenting - The First Berserker: Khazan 43. 2:17:10 Final Fantasy's content in Apex Legends 44. 2:20:05 Honkai Starrail 45. 2:22:10 Fortnite games, CoD Season 1 and Zombies, Skull and Bones 😂 46. 2:25:10 Marvel's game - BLADE 47. 2:34:40 Last Sentinel 48. 2:36:30 The First Descendant 49. 2:38:15 Zenless Zone Zero 50. 2:39:45 Mecha Break 51. 2:41:50 Hell Divers II 52. 2:42:45 W40K: Space Marine (Sep 9, ooof ) 53. 2:50:05 Den Of Wolves 54. 2:51:40 EXOBORNE 55. 2:54:30 Asgard's Wrath II (VR) * 3:00:15 😂 the internet never forgets 57. 3:00:45 Palia now on Nintendo 58. 3:07:05 Light No Fire 59. 3:11:50 Stormgate 60. 3:18:25 Guilty Gear: Strive, no idea what that game is in between, Ark: Survival Ascended 61. 3:21:00 FF XVI: Echoes of the Fallen 62. 3:27:10 The Finals 63. 3:30:50 Bellwright 64. 3:31:50 Monster Hunter: Wilds THE END

I love that Zeke signed "World Premiere" for the game made for the deaf

The pure joy on the face of Sam Lake during that performance is just incredible. Alan Wake 2 deserved every award it won and then some.

The Alan Wake music show was honestly the best part of VGA this year

Seeing Max Payne walk up on stage as a real person still does something to me. I wonder if a remake of Max Payne would be in order (and would work) today. It's been so long and the game expanded with modern tech and assets would be so goddamn fantastic.

Redfall was a "Publisher told us we need to have GaaS title" made by Arkane Austin. Blade is single player game made by Arkane Lyon. They've made Dishonored and Deathloop.

He say that Sam smiling put his off like...Its Max Payne smiling! Honestly, on that point, i don't blame him BUT....This is a really happy creator being able to fully realize his vision, be celebrated for it, and then get to dance up on stage in front of a crowd with the character he created....something no one else has ever done!!

Thank you for making it a real Dropped Frames show!

So excited for Larian, well deserved.

Damn, didn't know Neil is as tall as Christopher.

Geoff's shoulder pads were definitely very 80s

Always love your guys' coverage, was a fantastic show this year!

He's not just Flute Guy, he's EPIC Flute Guy!!

The wrap up thing needs to be something more subtle. They need to know they need to wrap up, but the entire audience doesn't need to know. Also as big as their audience is, it could be so much bigger if they changed the time so it's not on at midnight in Europe. Then they really could do Zeke's 'less adds and charge more' idea.

2:00:43 LMAO, that Day before bug paired with the starfield music. Does anyone know the source of the clip?

First off great stream, you guys have one of the best 3 peice host dynamic in podcasting. AW2 and BG3 ran away with it and well deserved to both. I find it sad that so many awards were rushed. I hope that next year there will be less celebrities and more devs accepting awards or just a longer show if needs be. Peace

Cohh's hair splitting about Arkane was kinda uncharacteristically dumb. Yeah, they're both "Arkane". They're also both different studios, with quite literally the Atlantic ocean between them. Does he apply the same logic when "Ubisoft Montreal" or "Ubisoft Shanghai" make a game? They're part of the same company so they will help each other out where needed, share notes and tech, and so on - but they are different studios.

You guys win best costream awards as always 👍🏻

Fun fact, more people from IDSoftware work on Redfall than people from Arkane Lyon.

Geoff is really going hard to legitimize the "award show" by getting random celebrities and his friends on stage while actual devs get 30 seconds to thank a team of sometimes hundreds of people. But hey muppets and teal´c got to play out their skits and that's what real important. There is so much unnecessary you could have cut from the runtime but the people getting the awards getting beaten off stage so Geoff can run handheld ads so he can buy the most famous people he knows to his stage.

Old school hype!!

The exodus guitar rift at the end hit different 🔥

thats one +9 flute he got there

Having best score be a one off rapid fire award was so fucking insulting. Not only that, but the fact we still don't have a best supporting performance category is bs.

Archetype Entertainment is a division of Wizards of the Coast. They pulled in a bunch of OG Bioware devs and other people that worked on pre-Larian Baldur's Gate games. And, well, on their Wikipedia page, any mention of Mass Effect is omitted, I suspect for a reason.

FeelsStrongMan Alan wake 2 performance

2:00:40 my god that is the funniest music timing ever...

2:13:31 FF7R (but I think they only show second half of the new FF7 trailer here)

Old school is the way!

the goons were guarding the stage hardcore this time

Sadge no cohh’s chat during the Alan wake performance part

I love how far Arknights has come tbh and look forward to be trying out the pc tech test in january if i get in

Exodus got me... I immediately started installing all Mass Effect games. xD

I have watched so many TGA streams just to watch the reactions of everyone when they see Light No Fire after the disaster that was No Mans Sky launch and it never gets old lol.

2:15:43 Having to take out your in-ear monitoring? Yeah, something went definitely wrong. :/ but kudos to the singer! She made it work without a hitch. big props.

Man what a shame they pulled that on the acceptance speechs

Wait Jessie cox was behind Todd howard

Omg World of Goo woot

its actually crazy that people thought monster hunter 6 was gonna be called world 2.

Let's goo!!!

"Christopher Judge!" Why do I know that... ~Man walks out~ Holy shit its Teal'c. Somehow I never knew about this.

What a freaking show. So awesome!

I know this is just an excuse to show us ads but it feels really shitty how open they are about it. A dev starts talking and they're like "play the music get this loser out of here"

I get rushed but man the show was almost 4 hours haha

Kojima has some world class drugs.

Zeke was so off this show

Got to love it when the hosts of these channels laugh at hello games first mistakes and say things like dont break your promises or LIE to us and then they see the trailer and it shuts them up lol and shocked lol

First and last time I watch 'The Game Awards", though I am quite happy that Larian Studios received a well deserved Game of the Year. The "awards show" embodies everything wrong with the overall game industry these days; greed over quality, rushed and soulless feel in order to squeeze some form of monetization. That the few categories winners that were allowed to walk up on stage to receive rewards, where quickly rushed off just to get another advert in... just disgusting.

3:14:58 this is the reason, why i will be able to understand japanese fluently in 10 years. Kappa "yuniku gemupurai"

The Game Awards Dropped Frames.....Literally.

I really don't know if TB would be happy or sad about the remake of one of his favourite games..

Can’t wait for next year

the alan wake 2 performance was the best part, the awards ofc.. but the games... oh well maybe next year.. some interesting.. overall i think i hoped for more

The fact that you honestly think arkane is a lost cause because of a live service project force on them that they couldn't salvage is wild to me. Prey for one (by Arkane Austin) is one of the greatest games ever made. Also no, Arkane lyon and Arkane austin are separate in everything but technology

Pog Old gods of Asgard performance live Pog

Seeing the new lego fortnite I wish that lego universe still was a thing..

Wasnt there any rumors that capcom still has one big anannounced game coming out before March 2024? I wonder when they are doing that. MH Wilds is coming out 2025 so maybe another RE Remake?

Check out Trials of Mana Remake from 2020. It's good.

no way cohh said mh wilds looks like world lmaoo, wtf is he looking at?

it's the best show yet.

It felt more like a showcase than an actual awards show. To much filler and not enough about the games that were up for awards. To have the music for final fantasy played on stage then not have the category as an actual presented award. Then award winners were pushed off stage after winning just to have more games presented. Very very poor.

Hellblade 2 was all in engine cinematic’s and gameplay. It looks insane

WOW! THE HOST CAN READ A TELEPROMPTER JUST LIKE BIDEN

ZEKE with the great Clerks reference.

2:12:00 - hahaha holy shit, good one, Zeke! It's been a while and a half since I've heard that one

World premier dropped frames episode!

yes cohh. rebirth spoilers for a remake of a game that came out 25 years ago and aside form a couple things are almost shot for shot the same.

OMG I am SO excited by that Sega development trailer. Please, please, please don't fuck this up Sega.

I hated this. Not the Dropped Frames crew, you guys are always great, and your commentary was the only consistently good part of the night. I watch TGA for the awards, and the heartfelt moments with the Devs. They were glossing over awards en masse - multiple in a row during the breaks. And giving the devs 30 seconds to talk before the teleprompter told them to finish up? That's barely enough time for some devs to get their emotions under control enough to talk! Playing the "get off the stage" music before Sam Lake had gotten halfway through what was clearly a well-written and concise speech? Fuck that. The world premieres are always exciting, but they completely eclipsed the awards, especially in combo with ALL THE **** ADs. Five minutes with the muppets and 30 seconds with the dev? The fuck? And how long did they give Kojima even though he really had nothing to show? Super disappointing show, and if the game awards are aiming for the panache and cultural significance of award shows like the Oscars, then they really need to reel it in.

Eh with the fallout show... bethesda isn't exactly a company with strong writing to adapt

I can not replay brothers a tale of two sons

Game awards reacts let’s goooo

-I agree that the music is annoying, when then someone exploits your patience with an eight minute ramble, you learn to avoid that in the future.

2:08:45 that guy is like me lol oh lord i can't watch whatever this game is.

Cyberpunk did not meet the criteria for Best Ongoing Game and the fact it won is a little insulting

FeelsStrongMan World of Goo 2

1:47:02 Mia Khalifa

completely disagree that this was the best show. it was one of the worst. the announcements are cool but its barely an award show. it should just be a digital showcase if you want game announcements

ODeeez nuts, missed opportunity with OD game :)

The feeling inside when you were there at the first Mana game 30 years ago. The dawn of the gamer I became. This is a love story of a life time.

Cohh: that looks liek a different type of mass effect me: if you fuckign paid attention to what JP said literalyl 2 seconds before that you'd know it's made up of ex devs from BioWare who worked on mass effect but also I think naughty dog too?

Pog Pony island 2

If they’re not gonna bother to let them give speeches then we might as well just get rid of the awards and make it a game showcase.

Cyberpunk 2077 winning 'best ongoing' is basically rewarding CDPR for releasing in a broken state and panic fixing for a few years.

i enjoyed this show, but... its more actors than gaming industry folk. kinda hate that. its just slowly turning into the oscars.

Great show, but gotta agree the "get off stage" music, was an awful touch. and award giving could have been better handled

One thing i will say is that so many people have left arkane its not really the same studio anymore, they aren't the studio that made prey anymore and they are the studio that made redfall

Pog

best on going to cyberpunk? pity award

"Its MHW2" There's no such thing....They were never going to do a "Worlds 2". Its MH6. Even has 6 in the logo.

PagMan

Next year more awards less trailers and I bet my life the gang complain the reverse 😂 no winning 😅 all good tho

Starfield was my game of the year

No way alan weak gets the narrative one from CP, lmao. Undeserved af. And how the hell did BG3 not get the OST one, what?

Cohh being disappointed that Hi-Fi Rush won best audio design when that was baked into the entire concept of the game. Meanwhile, show me truly memorable art for Alan Wake 2 over the world of Lies of P.

I'd be embarrassed to see "my" trailer showing up in an award show like this having had just slapped some shitty rap song on top of it.

What have we learned. Best action game isnt about best action gameplay or best overall action game. Its about what game has the biggest booms and flashy explosions. Best music is not what music best fits the game and how it fits into the game its whatever game has the loudest and most generic massive combat music of the year.

I'm going to be that guy. Going for 10 years and it's still plagued by ridiculous shit and hasn't improved in the slightest since it began. I love the awards that were given this year but I truly hate the GA show as it is. It's literally just an advertisement show with trophies tacked on, and even those are executed poorly. They hardly show any awards being handed out. They dilute awards like best voice acting to only 5 people and lumping both male, female, supporting and leading roles in it which doesn't at all cover the wide array of talent. They relegate important awards like accessibility or indie game of the year awards to pre-show or a quick ramble off. Then they force award winners to end their speeches, which is incredibly rude and annoying. I mean its a fucking AWARDS SHOW to celebrate the games and PEOPLE involved in them and then they do this shit? Nobody is going to take this show seriously as an "award show". But then they dedicate time and money to a cringe and useless muppet section. Kojima's movie game and Hollywood actors who are clearly just there for a pay check. Its actually fucking insulting and condescending that people like Geoff Keighley in the game industry use Hollywood as some sort of crutch being like "hey guys we're a big thing right, right papa Hollywood?" instead of getting those from within the industry who deserve attention to come up on stage and speak. The Game Awards is a joke of a show that hasn't improved since it started and Geoff Keighley is a fucking hack that has literally done nothing for the gaming industry except make it seem like more of a joke to those outside of it.

The whole show was... awful. Bloated out to monstrous proportions with non-celebrities, non-announcements, non-interviews and (of course) ads. The whole thing could have been done in half the time and would have been much better for it. It's the first and last time I'll tune in, that's for sure.