Full nominees:
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Night in the Woods
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Horizon also won Outstanding Technical Achievement.
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Horizon Zero Dawn wins D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Story
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Full nominees:
Horizon also won Outstanding Technical Achievement.
can't say I disagree, the story just kept me engage until the end. Also good to see GG know their weakness and hired the right people on the job. KZ has a massive lore but the games were just another fps, Horizon is different, you get the see a lot of it in the actual game.
well deserve too, probably the best looking game I played last year.
Yeah really love the tribal world with a sci-if twist. Kinda knew it would be special just from that leaked concept art along time ago.
Just a SICK universe GG created. Ohhh that PS5 sequel will be insane smh.
Just a SICK universe GG created. Ohhh that PS5 sequel will be insane smh.
the nominees list i thought was bad. but i guess out of the games they picked this makes sense. technical achievement i obviously get
One day I need to go back to Horizon and find the rest of those old world audio and text files. They definitely had the best writing in the game but they were way to hidden. I don't think I even found half of them.
I gave up half way through as I found the story uninteresting and couldn't stand the dialogue, does it do anything original in the end? It felt very generic compared to the games technical achievements.
I found hellblade a good counterpoint. While they both took themself a bit too seriously I had much more empathy for senua. I think it was down to performance mainly but the story was much more unique to gaming.
I found hellblade a good counterpoint. While they both took themself a bit too seriously I had much more empathy for senua. I think it was down to performance mainly but the story was much more unique to gaming.
I bought the Collector's Edition for this meaning to play it, however, I also bought a Switch at the same time and was building my first gaming PC. This lead to me playing a lot more exclusively on PC, then I had to play Mario and Zelda.
So many darn games came out this year that I bought and I haven't played has given me a huge backlog. My 2 sons finished the game and said it was amazing and I wanted it, because I enjoy Sci Fi games with a future dystopian feel to it. Like they had to start all over again.
I had maybe got about 2 hours into it when I started building my new PC, then I started going backwards through all the Dark souls games.
Along with that we redid my office and I was working on connecting my 2 4K monitors to my PC, Switch, and Pro.
Now that it is all finished I can get down to enjoying this game, although Kingsom Come just came out, so I may split my time. I only play games about 5 hours a week, so games take me quite awhile to beat, but I am excited to dig in.
Congrats on the award!
So many darn games came out this year that I bought and I haven't played has given me a huge backlog. My 2 sons finished the game and said it was amazing and I wanted it, because I enjoy Sci Fi games with a future dystopian feel to it. Like they had to start all over again.
I had maybe got about 2 hours into it when I started building my new PC, then I started going backwards through all the Dark souls games.
Along with that we redid my office and I was working on connecting my 2 4K monitors to my PC, Switch, and Pro.
Now that it is all finished I can get down to enjoying this game, although Kingsom Come just came out, so I may split my time. I only play games about 5 hours a week, so games take me quite awhile to beat, but I am excited to dig in.
Congrats on the award!
It's been a little while now since I've enjoyed a video game story as much as HZD, I was surprised how good it was. Congrats to GG, very much deserved.
It takes a long time but the the story does get compelling.
I agree with you, Hellblade has a lot to do with the performance of the actor playing Senua. Outstanding work from her and I'm glad she got recognition in the Game Awards.
Will need to pick it up again at some point. The three or four days of gaming session I spent with the game left me completely bored, gameplay and story wise. I couldn't stand dialogue in particular, npcs talked way too much about the most idiotic things i didn't care about. But I guess it'll get better later? Dunno
Well deserved. The fact that this game came from a company whose work I've never enjoyed only blows me away even more. Story, gameplay; it was all so engaging.
It is one of the best stories I've experienced in a game and quite easily the strongest in an open world design. Well deserved.
I do think Nier should have been a contender.
I do think Nier should have been a contender.
The story picks up once you reach Creator's End. I was honestly asking myself where the praise was coming from, doing sidequests and other storylines while thinking that was the final quest. But it wasn't. And everything from that quest to the end is really, really good sci-fi. I don't know if I would say it is at the same level as Asimov, but getting there is worth it for the twist alone.
As already posted: 2x Awards and 10x Nominations. Incredible for a brandnew IP. Congrats Guerrilla Games.
Definitely my favorite sci fi story from last year. John Gonzales and co did an amazing job coming up with genuinely intriguing reasons for the world to be full of robot dinosaurs and people in tribal garb. Can't wait to visit more of that world in the future.
Well deserved, and it's good to see Hellblade and What Remains of Edith Finch among the nominees.
