In an effort to bolster his awards present, host Geoff Keighley has introduced a daring new class for the 2022 Recreation Awards: The Recreation of the Week award.
“This prestigious award acknowledges distinctive titles that pushed the boundaries of sport design and captured gamers' collective consideration and creativeness for as much as seven days,” Keighley explains.
Guerilla Video games' Horizon Forbidden West scored the primary nomination. The well-received follow-up to Aloy’s 2017 journey took the gaming world by storm till it instantly didn’t, because of Elden Ring – a sport critically lauded as the perfect sport within the historical past of without end – stealing its thunder(jaw) every week later.
Regardless of being a seemingly logical nomination and the truth that the awards are months away, that hasn’t stopped journalists and influencers from weighing in on whether or not or not Horizon deserves the accolade and speculating on different titles that might run in opposition to it.
“I believe it’s worthy,” says critic Josh Pardue. “I actually loved roaming Forbidden West’s beautiful panorama atop my robotic horse-thing till Elden Ring got here out. Now all I take into consideration is From Software program’s magnum opus. I nonetheless like Horizon, however now I can’t assist however marvel why my robotic horse can’t double leap too. Shouldn’t it have rocket hoofs or one thing?"
“Um, No person Saves the World, anybody?” tweeted Twitch streamer ChristiePlayz. “That sport rocks and didn’t even get an hour within the highlight earlier than getting totally buried by Xbox’s multi-billion greenback buy of a problematic writer. No person ought to win this award.”
In the meantime, From Software program mastermind Hidetaka Miyazaki cryptically congratulated Guerilla Video games on Twitter by tweeting a winking emoji with a photograph of himself posing with a suspiciously GOTY-shaped gift-wrapped object.
Recreation of the Week isn’t the one premature nomination Guerilla can brag about. The corporate as a complete can be the primary studio to be nominated for a Lifetime Achievement award for serving to usher in two of the best video games of all time: Elden Ring and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
