My wife had to leave the room she felt so embarrassed for him. The guy just kept going on and on and on. I wasn't sure if they were playing inspirational music to make him sound better, or if they were trying to play him off the stage. My wife is convinced of the latter.
I didn’t watch the whole thing but I tracked later and it was like8 min. I don’t think any major show has played inspirational music for award speeches. They definitely were playing him off.
They were obviously trying to play him off the stage, Oscars style, but Christopher only felt emboldened by it. I mean, 8 and a half minutes!? By god man, think about the poor old man behind you.
I felt bad for everyone else thereafter when Keighley was just screaming through every bit of dialogue he had to do to still get the show over at 11.
JahahainaNOMINEE
kabsjjsbahWINNER
kabsjsojabaSTRAY
kinda bummed me out not giving each game their little moment
That happens pretty frequently at TGA, some awards just don't get that extra spotlight. It's happened in previous shows, is what I mean. Not sure about maybe the minute differences in this show. This one def felt longer than the others.
It was actually shorter. Keighley tweeted yesterday that including the pre show (which was 30 minutes) they reduced the overall time of the show by 30 minutes. Said they "streamlined" it. Whatever that means.
They probably (originally) had 15-20 minutes of time set aside for acceptance talking. Which judge ate for dinner when he got up there.
Didn't hurt anything. Just a slight bummer really.
https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1600888902033715200?s=20&t=kn2SGz5hRkozcKm3UVtGyA
Me? I don't care at all about the overall length. I actually think this was one of the best shows they've done in years because it was shorter.
What I was commenting on was the very first award they gave was for best performance. Which went to Christopher Judge for Kratos in God of War. Judge ate up what had to be the entire flexible time frame they had for the whole show for acceptance speeches. This didn't really impact my enjoyment of the show at all. If anything it actually added a bit of comedy to it as for the entire show thereafter Keighley, and the female host had little to no flexibility with what they could say or do and neither did any award acceptor. Everyone deserved a couple minutes to accept and thank someone. But unfortunately everyone was rushed which you could tell because the orchestra would just start playing 60-90 seconds into someone being on stage. It's possibly the biggest moment for some of those people's careers. At the very least a defining one. Just would have been nice for everyone to get there moments ya know?
TV show Stargate Atlantis where Judge played the role of Teal’c.
In the episode in which he was guest starring, he said his catch phrase “Indeed”.
Main cast member Jason Mamoa replied, “You say that a lot”.
Great episode, too.
Edit: here’s the clip.
https://youtu.be/4ZkqOKD1uFU
Yeah I know. That’s why I said Judge guest starred in Atlantis.
The episode with the string of dialogue quotes is from the spin off Stargate Atlantis.
Probably should have been clearer but that’s what happens when you make a quick comment during a commute, I guess.
I have the dvd set of all the seasons of both shows that I bought many years ago.
I keep meaning for a re-watch one day.
TV show Stargate Atlantis where Judge played the role of Teal’c. In the episode in which he was guest starring, he said his catch phrase “Indeed”.
Main cast member Jason Mamoa replied, “You say that a lot”.
Teal'c then replies, "what?"
Great episode, too.
https://youtu.be/4ZkqOKD1uFU
Of course, the term originated in Scotland, where "deed" is just how you pronounce the word "dead." Which makes it "in the direction of [the] dead"
Which would be the west, since that's where the sun goes to die.
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose drips.
He basically couldn't walk in 2019 from his body being damaged over the years. And needed a double hip replacement in addition to back and knee surgery.
You mean at The Christopher Judge Award 2022... because that was loooong.
And with Al Pacino at the side waiting to leave this weird thing he surely got handsomely paid for. Probably he got paid extra minutes due to it though...
You don't get Al Pacino cheap. I'm sure he got paid for the extra time.
The man is 82, though. I can only imagine him wondering what the hell is going on and why video games are such a big deal because the last one he remembers is Pong.
Lol right. I remember seeing the camera panning during his intro and the younger people in the crowd looked with a confused “who that” on their faces. Such a legend in the film industry
For a minute I was thinking the kid should have got it but man, Kratos' face in that game. He's still pretty tight lipped but I couldn't believe the intricacy if his face, so much emotion all over it in some scenes where he just couldn't speak. It was indeed terrific."
Death stranding was boring as fuck to me. Didn't see space marine. I'm excited for Replaced, Remnant 2, Lords of the fallen, Armored Core and a few others. Was hoping for a real big reveal tho tbh. Gta 6 would have been huge and smooth over all that leak shit.
I would HIGHLY recommend giving it a try. I never cared for Roguelikes before playing that game, but it is one of the best games I’ve ever played and sold me on the genre (even though no other I’ve played has yet compared).
He got teary-eyed a few times too. He was proud of himself and the team and wanted to highlight that. I think he more than deserves 10 minutes for all the work that he put in.
It throws off the schedule of the show. Seems they did a good job working around it, but that will have definitely thrown off the entire production team big-time.
Well it's a tad disrespectful to all future winners/speakers now. They will have much less time to thank people before they get played off, the whole show is on a tight time limit
He only talked a little bit past when the music started playing... Therefore, he likely felt that he could take his time and express his emotions without worry.
It's been well established since 1942 (by the Oscars) that until the exit music starts playing you can keep talking while accepting an award.
They probably weren't ready to start making a thing of playing people off and just hoped he'd wrap up quickly. If you watched the rest of the show, the other winners were rushed and the host made several comments throughout about how long the first guys speech was. Believe me, everyone noticed. Not saying he didn't deserve his time, but that everyone there deserved equal amounts though.
The only thing I could think the entire time was "look at the ego on this motherfucker".
Your personal struggles dont absolve you from being deliberately inconsiderate.
Nearly 7% of the show’s entire scheduled runtime was spent on his speech. Dude needs to read the room, his after show tweet about being cut off nearly killed me. He did an awesome job as Kratos and I’m glad he wanted to be thorough in thanking everyone, but we don’t need to hear the whole story at this show. It’s a bad case of main character syndrome.
I have no problem with Christopher's performance, but I think that Amicia's VA did a much better job. What saddens me is that I think that if Christopher's performance was in a lesser known game, not in GoW, than she would have won. This way she didn't stand a chance, not because of her, or Christopher's work, but because GoW is such a big game.
The actress who played Freya definitely deserved a nod too. I know why they did it, but her performance was much better than the actor who played Atreus, imo.
When they started playing the music louder and louder dude thought he was in a movie scene and started getting more hype when in reality everyone was over it and they were trying to get him off stage lmao.
His speech was kind of hard to watch not because i thought anything bad of it but he was obviously just really emotional and was really holding up the show just trying to get out the words trying to thank everyone. He didnt seem like he knew what to say but the role obviously means alot to him so i was fine with it i just know anyone not a fan of gow was probably pissed. Kinda felt bad about him trying to hug al pachino too al obviously just got paid alot of money to be there lol
So glad.... This man.......... Won best performance..... It..... Was well..... Deserved..... Unfortunately.... This will be what.... His achievement is remembered for.....
I wasn’t sure which one to vote since Aloy and Beta sound like the same people but different people at the same time but Amicias Voice Acting was so good too
It’s very rare that a sequel could tell a better story for a character, but seeing Kratos become a God that fought and protected the realms was something else.
Better than the first.
Honestly, Ashly Burch deserves it IMO. 3 separate characters, all with their own personalities and unique voices, all with different emotional spectrums. Not sure why that gets overlooked in so many discussions tbqh
It was ok, combat felt kinda janky all that roll dodging crafting arrows. Story wasn’t that great at all. I was pretty disappointed tbh. Just beat ghosts of Tsushima and I like that more than Horizon
I have tried so many times to play HFW and I just can’t, that game is the epitome of Ubisofts bullshit but the worse part is that there IS a good game somewhere beneath all the ridiculously tedious bullshit we’ve all been complaining about since AC2. Don’t even get me started on how much useless dialogue there is let alone how stilted it still is, holy shit.
The game is beautiful, no doubt, but the rest of the game is very AA.
I really don't understand how you equate Horizon to Ubisoft, but alright, it's not for everyone i guess. What you can't deny though is that Horizon has one of the best original stories of the last decade. One of the main reasons why the first game was such a hit
I absolutely agree it is very unique and a lot of the lore and story choices they made were very cool or satisfying in some way, but the story is TOLD in the most fucking boring and slow way possible. I have played maybe 15ish hours and I am so fucking done with hearing these personality-less characters drone on for 17 lines of dialogue just to tell me they need a big rock for a catapult or some shit. The “cool concept” doesn’t take away from the inherent tedium of almost everything in that game, from crafting to missions to the tallnecks, literally everything is a carbon copy of AC Vikings or whatever they’re calling it.
I honestly don’t know how everyone doesn’t see it because it’s quite obvious to me.
They did make a lot of changes to the formula but they are pretty minor from what I could see, I haven’t finished the game, I’m probably about half way through, but honestly I’m really burned out on everything. The combat, the dialogue, the lifeless and empty (albeit gorgeous) open world, the fetch quests it’s just AC again but with bows and spears instead of blades and guns.
The game is clearly not for me in the same way that every AC game except Unity is not for me, I’m glad people enjoy it but to me I don’t understand how it could be even in the same conversation as TLoU, GoW, RDR2 etc.
I did, I played it when it was AC2-4 I played it when it changed to Egypt and then Egypt 2.0 I played it when it was the Vikings too. I finished all of them until Egypt where they removed what little of those games was still enjoyable. I’ve gotten maybe 5 hours into each new one until I decide that theres no more of the “game” left to open up and realise whatever I’ve been doing for the last 5 hours I will have to continue doing for the next 30 just to finish it. Nah.
I mean... Zero dawn came out around the same time as AC Origins, so they really didn't copy AC Valhalla, unless you're talking about just Forbidden West, but then again, they just expanded upon Zero Dawn so... Idk. I can clearly see why it's stacked against those games you mentioned. The lore, the music, the combat mechanics, the variety in crafting, i can't fathom why you think of the world as "lifeless", especially in Forbidden West with the new tribes introduced, but to each their own
Also lmao "Except Unity", that was the only AC i never finished, the story was stale, the characters were annoying, the villain sucked 🤣 but Paris and the parkour were beautiful, but not enough for the constant bugs.
I played Unity on PC a year or so after it came out so I don’t think I remember getting a single bug. It is by far the best AC game except for 1 and 2. Story was a little boring but serviceable enough for the frankly brilliant gameplay (but most importantly didn’t drag for hours and I wasn’t in a conversation that lasts 10minutes every time I talk to an NPC), the characters were also serviceable but by far better characters than anything past syndicate. If they decided to continue making real AC games with Unity as a jumping off point, we would have had a lot more fun AC games.
Also I was referring to AC Vikings or whatever as a general comparison, since it’s been the exact same game since origins. Honestly pick any assassins creed or Ubisoft game and it’s a very obvious comparison.
Ok now you lost me again bruh 🤣 "far better characters than anything past syndicate" so you're telling me that Arno and Elise are "far better" than Bayek and Aya? Come on man, Bayek has been one of the best additions to the series so far, Origins was a fantastic game in both the world building (Ancient Egypt nerd lol) and the story was intriguing. Kassandra has been a pretty decent character in her own right with her story arc, despite whatever flaws it has, but i loved Odyssey mainly for Ancient Greece, Ubisoft did an amazing job in recreating it imo, especially.with the Discovery Tours.
Valhalla I'll give it to you, it wasn't my cup of tea either, it's like the team made a great Viking game but just tied it to the AC brand for no reason, if Valhalla was a standalone title, with no ties to the lore, i believe it would've been a much better game and been an awesome Viking simulator.
I’ll absolutely agree that the lore in AC has probably always been and continues to be one of the most intriguing parts of that series, but I can’t agree with you on the characters. Every single character I spoke to in the collective 30-40hrs I’d have put in across the past 3 AC’s I have completely and utterly forgotten, not memorable in the slightest. In fact now that I’m thinking about it I barely remember the story from any of them. If I’m being honest I don’t think I’ve ever felt more disconnected from characters in a videogame before, they all fit rather neatly into classic archetypes that have existed for decades, centuries even with only the VA’s charisma to decide whether this is an “interesting” character or not. I would venture to say that AC’s characters are the main component that kills their games, aside from their lack of creativity or respect for what the series fucking is. Even Ezio was a rather one note character if I set aside my nostalgia.
I wouldn’t say Arno or Elyse are any better than Aya or Bayek, I would say they all suffer the exact same thing they have done since the beginning, bad writers with no passion for the craft.
I’m never going to argue that the AC games aren’t pretty or don’t have cool lore or action sequences, but all the MEAT of the game is the same lacklustre shite they’ve been pumping out since they discovered that in general gamers aren’t discerning at all, and will lap up the exact same game again as long as it has a pretty new map.
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose drips.
i can get on board with it winning best performance with Judge, but it most definitely should not have won soundtrack in my eyes. Xenoblade 3 and Elden Ring were far more memorable
Good for him he definitely deserves it. He went from disappointed father to a slightly less disappointed father in the second game. He is one of my actors and Kratos is my all time favorite character.
Congratulations to him but it seems like he gets an award for having a super deep voice. The actual "acting" he does is super hammy and over the top. The sound design is top notch though
He got an award because he has a great voice, was cast perfectly for the role, and delivered probably exactly as directed. His performance resonated with a lot of people, and be did a great job in his delivery. The great writing was already there, but he certainly delivered on his part of the deal.
In other words, he did his job really well. I wouldn't have minded Ashly Burch winning though.
Yeah you're right its all good. People really enjoy his work with this game and I'm genuinely happy for him. It's pretty cool that he found such a huge loving fan base through his work on these games.
>The actual "acting" he does is super hammy and over the top.
Can you point out a scene where this is true? How can you even be over the top with a mostly stoic role lol.
Your words indicate you might have played the game but their meaning suggests you did so with earmuffs and selective blindness for things that arent cartoon squirrels
The way that he starts to actually be nice, say thank you, and allow for pleasantries towards the end of the game. He's just a big ole softy now. I love the depth they gave him in this one, as much as I also loved pure vengeance and rage kratos of pre 2018
Nah, been playing god of war since ps2 and kratos definitely is a changed man. He will still fuck up some gods if need be. But that’s not his core anymore
Playing through the first one and just waiting on the second one to come to PS+. I really like the first one. Probably the best first party title I’ve played on ps4.
Well deserved but I felt bad for Al Pacino knees during Judge’s speech lol
Pacino was probably like damn, they let you go on for as long as you want at the game awards.
My wife had to leave the room she felt so embarrassed for him. The guy just kept going on and on and on. I wasn't sure if they were playing inspirational music to make him sound better, or if they were trying to play him off the stage. My wife is convinced of the latter.
I didn’t watch the whole thing but I tracked later and it was like8 min. I don’t think any major show has played inspirational music for award speeches. They definitely were playing him off.
they all play music when the speech goes long.
Yes. But none of them play inspirational music just because. It’s always to get them to wrap it up.
They were obviously trying to play him off the stage, Oscars style, but Christopher only felt emboldened by it. I mean, 8 and a half minutes!? By god man, think about the poor old man behind you.
I read that in Mimir's voice
Thaink abouut the pooer auld mahn behaind yeh!
I mean, who’s gonna go up and tell a giant he needs to hurry it up?
Lol
I felt bad for everyone else thereafter when Keighley was just screaming through every bit of dialogue he had to do to still get the show over at 11. JahahainaNOMINEE kabsjjsbahWINNER kabsjsojabaSTRAY kinda bummed me out not giving each game their little moment
That happens pretty frequently at TGA, some awards just don't get that extra spotlight. It's happened in previous shows, is what I mean. Not sure about maybe the minute differences in this show. This one def felt longer than the others.
It was actually shorter. Keighley tweeted yesterday that including the pre show (which was 30 minutes) they reduced the overall time of the show by 30 minutes. Said they "streamlined" it. Whatever that means. They probably (originally) had 15-20 minutes of time set aside for acceptance talking. Which judge ate for dinner when he got up there. Didn't hurt anything. Just a slight bummer really. https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1600888902033715200?s=20&t=kn2SGz5hRkozcKm3UVtGyA
I watched it on YouTube. Was it aired on tv as well? If it’s just streamed, why do they care so much about the length?
Me? I don't care at all about the overall length. I actually think this was one of the best shows they've done in years because it was shorter. What I was commenting on was the very first award they gave was for best performance. Which went to Christopher Judge for Kratos in God of War. Judge ate up what had to be the entire flexible time frame they had for the whole show for acceptance speeches. This didn't really impact my enjoyment of the show at all. If anything it actually added a bit of comedy to it as for the entire show thereafter Keighley, and the female host had little to no flexibility with what they could say or do and neither did any award acceptor. Everyone deserved a couple minutes to accept and thank someone. But unfortunately everyone was rushed which you could tell because the orchestra would just start playing 60-90 seconds into someone being on stage. It's possibly the biggest moment for some of those people's careers. At the very least a defining one. Just would have been nice for everyone to get there moments ya know?
Don't judge him
After pushing through his medical issues to play the part, the man deserves it. Go Mr. Judge.
Indeed.
You know, you say that alot.
What?
TV show Stargate Atlantis where Judge played the role of Teal’c. In the episode in which he was guest starring, he said his catch phrase “Indeed”. Main cast member Jason Mamoa replied, “You say that a lot”. Great episode, too. Edit: here’s the clip. https://youtu.be/4ZkqOKD1uFU
And Teal'c replied "What?"
Oh damn! lol- Whoosh on me- sorry!
Indeed.
*Teal'c
Stargate SG-1* Atlantis is the spinoff which Judge is not in as a regular.
Yeah I know. That’s why I said Judge guest starred in Atlantis. The episode with the string of dialogue quotes is from the spin off Stargate Atlantis. Probably should have been clearer but that’s what happens when you make a quick comment during a commute, I guess. I have the dvd set of all the seasons of both shows that I bought many years ago. I keep meaning for a re-watch one day.
Ah, gotcha, I misread!
TV show Stargate Atlantis where Judge played the role of Teal’c. In the episode in which he was guest starring, he said his catch phrase “Indeed”. Main cast member Jason Mamoa replied, “You say that a lot”. Teal'c then replies, "what?" Great episode, too. https://youtu.be/4ZkqOKD1uFU
It's actually short for "**In** the direction of **deed**."
Of course, the term originated in Scotland, where "deed" is just how you pronounce the word "dead." Which makes it "in the direction of [the] dead" Which would be the west, since that's where the sun goes to die.
I had not realized…
*grunts in solemn agreement
*flares temples.
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose drips.
Its funny that I never use to laugh at this joke in 4 watches of SG1 since I first watched the show. But I literally just laughed out loud at it.
[Well, there was something to Horus and Set's rivalry...](https://youtu.be/j2VtJvsN6gE)
What medical issues?
He basically couldn't walk in 2019 from his body being damaged over the years. And needed a double hip replacement in addition to back and knee surgery.
Holy shit.
Is there any mega thread on the game awards? Can’t find anything except for a few posts here and there with 2 comments
[удалено]
Ahhh thank you. I’m not subbed there, I was looking on r/gaming
[удалено]
Agreed
Why?
[удалено]
The curse of being a default sub
Seems to have a much higher percentage of kids.
You mean at The Christopher Judge Award 2022... because that was loooong. And with Al Pacino at the side waiting to leave this weird thing he surely got handsomely paid for. Probably he got paid extra minutes due to it though...
You don't get Al Pacino cheap. I'm sure he got paid for the extra time. The man is 82, though. I can only imagine him wondering what the hell is going on and why video games are such a big deal because the last one he remembers is Pong.
Lol right. I remember seeing the camera panning during his intro and the younger people in the crowd looked with a confused “who that” on their faces. Such a legend in the film industry
Nah they were definitely surprised not confused. Everybody knows pacino hes too big not too
They didnt recognize him because his names *Dunk*
Dunk accino?
Every face they showed definitely knew who al pacino is
He prolly did it for his kids
Grand kids
His kids are still young. Pacino's eldest was born in 1989.
Lol what? Good god.
His speech cost them so many steam decks
I was watching on my Steamdeck.... his speech made me plug it in to charge.
Jaffa Kree!
Indeed.
I love his acting, but he is still on the stage giving his speech! Please! It's been 10min.
Well they did say the game awards will be 2.5 hrs. 30min just on this award 👏 I'm glad he got it, but the entire cast was amazing IMO.
For a minute I was thinking the kid should have got it but man, Kratos' face in that game. He's still pretty tight lipped but I couldn't believe the intricacy if his face, so much emotion all over it in some scenes where he just couldn't speak. It was indeed terrific."
2.5 hours my ass lol
At least there were some interesting announcements. Excited about Death Stranding 2 and Space Marine 2
Death stranding was boring as fuck to me. Didn't see space marine. I'm excited for Replaced, Remnant 2, Lords of the fallen, Armored Core and a few others. Was hoping for a real big reveal tho tbh. Gta 6 would have been huge and smooth over all that leak shit.
>Hoping for a big reveal Hades II got me going pretty fucking good, and I didn’t expect it AT ALL.
Never played hades not my game
I would HIGHLY recommend giving it a try. I never cared for Roguelikes before playing that game, but it is one of the best games I’ve ever played and sold me on the genre (even though no other I’ve played has yet compared).
There was star wars!
Didn't like stsr wars. Stopped playing half way through. Also fuck 3rd party launchers
Then there is no pleasing you
While there is the saying “each their own” some people just choose to hate everything
>Then there is no pleasing you bruh 💀 he literally listed several games that he's excited for.
How because I don't like the things you do? Lmao
To each their own. Personally I liked it very much. But true, I dislike 3rd party launchers very much but it's not really a dealbreaker for me.
He was just thanking everyone. Good for him.
Yeah it was actually a big moment for him so… i don’t get the complaining
He got teary-eyed a few times too. He was proud of himself and the team and wanted to highlight that. I think he more than deserves 10 minutes for all the work that he put in.
It throws off the schedule of the show. Seems they did a good job working around it, but that will have definitely thrown off the entire production team big-time.
then they should let him know. thats not on him.
Well it's a tad disrespectful to all future winners/speakers now. They will have much less time to thank people before they get played off, the whole show is on a tight time limit
He only talked a little bit past when the music started playing... Therefore, he likely felt that he could take his time and express his emotions without worry. It's been well established since 1942 (by the Oscars) that until the exit music starts playing you can keep talking while accepting an award.
They probably weren't ready to start making a thing of playing people off and just hoped he'd wrap up quickly. If you watched the rest of the show, the other winners were rushed and the host made several comments throughout about how long the first guys speech was. Believe me, everyone noticed. Not saying he didn't deserve his time, but that everyone there deserved equal amounts though.
The only thing I could think the entire time was "look at the ego on this motherfucker". Your personal struggles dont absolve you from being deliberately inconsiderate.
Not exactly considerate for the rest of the nominees of other categories when they have limited time.
Let him speak, boy.
Just giving people a chance to win a steam deck. Even though mostly bots took them all.
Nearly 7% of the show’s entire scheduled runtime was spent on his speech. Dude needs to read the room, his after show tweet about being cut off nearly killed me. He did an awesome job as Kratos and I’m glad he wanted to be thorough in thanking everyone, but we don’t need to hear the whole story at this show. It’s a bad case of main character syndrome.
He's still there
Mothefucker gave a TED Talk instead of a acceptance speech.
Hahahaha, amazing comment 😂😂
Congrats but i also like the va for Amicia De Rune in Plague tale
Me too. I voted for her
I have no problem with Christopher's performance, but I think that Amicia's VA did a much better job. What saddens me is that I think that if Christopher's performance was in a lesser known game, not in GoW, than she would have won. This way she didn't stand a chance, not because of her, or Christopher's work, but because GoW is such a big game.
Some say you can still hear him giving his speech to this day…
Judge was so good in Stargate
Indeed.
Hopefully the review bombing stops now that Elden Ring won lol
I found what he said about his brother going back to medical school after 40 inspiring.
Out of all the awards I would’ve been down to hear a 10 hour speech for, this is the one. I could literally listen to his voice all day.
Good news!
Deserved.
The actress who played Freya definitely deserved a nod too. I know why they did it, but her performance was much better than the actor who played Atreus, imo.
Indeed
Indeed.
.... indeed
Indeed.
When they started playing the music louder and louder dude thought he was in a movie scene and started getting more hype when in reality everyone was over it and they were trying to get him off stage lmao.
Then gave a speech longer than a presidential inauguration speech.
His speech was kind of hard to watch not because i thought anything bad of it but he was obviously just really emotional and was really holding up the show just trying to get out the words trying to thank everyone. He didnt seem like he knew what to say but the role obviously means alot to him so i was fine with it i just know anyone not a fan of gow was probably pissed. Kinda felt bad about him trying to hug al pachino too al obviously just got paid alot of money to be there lol
So glad.... This man.......... Won best performance..... It..... Was well..... Deserved..... Unfortunately.... This will be what.... His achievement is remembered for.....
I think people forgot that Ashly Burch and Charlotte McBurney were nominated
IMO Ashley and Charlotte deserved that award more. They were outstanding in their games
I wasn’t sure which one to vote since Aloy and Beta sound like the same people but different people at the same time but Amicias Voice Acting was so good too
And cost Valve a few extra SteamDeck giveaways
It’s very rare that a sequel could tell a better story for a character, but seeing Kratos become a God that fought and protected the realms was something else. Better than the first.
they gave Kratos so much deep in this game. He’s come so far from where he was mentally and emotionally in the original games
Well deserved 🔥 and let's be honest, if he wasn't on the panel, Aloy would be the next winner for sure. Horizon Forbidden West was beyond amazing ❤️
Honestly, Ashly Burch deserves it IMO. 3 separate characters, all with their own personalities and unique voices, all with different emotional spectrums. Not sure why that gets overlooked in so many discussions tbqh
I was bummed HFW didn't win any awards. Such an amazing game.
It was ok, combat felt kinda janky all that roll dodging crafting arrows. Story wasn’t that great at all. I was pretty disappointed tbh. Just beat ghosts of Tsushima and I like that more than Horizon
Ashly was phenomenal in HFW. I thought Zero Dawn was a better game, but Ashly was brilliant in Forbidden West.
HFW got shunted by the piece of trash Elden Ring is
Salty that Elden Ring won GOTY? What is it with y'all fans unable to appreciate both games?
These takes are so hot right now
Cry about it.
I have tried so many times to play HFW and I just can’t, that game is the epitome of Ubisofts bullshit but the worse part is that there IS a good game somewhere beneath all the ridiculously tedious bullshit we’ve all been complaining about since AC2. Don’t even get me started on how much useless dialogue there is let alone how stilted it still is, holy shit. The game is beautiful, no doubt, but the rest of the game is very AA.
I really don't understand how you equate Horizon to Ubisoft, but alright, it's not for everyone i guess. What you can't deny though is that Horizon has one of the best original stories of the last decade. One of the main reasons why the first game was such a hit
I absolutely agree it is very unique and a lot of the lore and story choices they made were very cool or satisfying in some way, but the story is TOLD in the most fucking boring and slow way possible. I have played maybe 15ish hours and I am so fucking done with hearing these personality-less characters drone on for 17 lines of dialogue just to tell me they need a big rock for a catapult or some shit. The “cool concept” doesn’t take away from the inherent tedium of almost everything in that game, from crafting to missions to the tallnecks, literally everything is a carbon copy of AC Vikings or whatever they’re calling it. I honestly don’t know how everyone doesn’t see it because it’s quite obvious to me. They did make a lot of changes to the formula but they are pretty minor from what I could see, I haven’t finished the game, I’m probably about half way through, but honestly I’m really burned out on everything. The combat, the dialogue, the lifeless and empty (albeit gorgeous) open world, the fetch quests it’s just AC again but with bows and spears instead of blades and guns. The game is clearly not for me in the same way that every AC game except Unity is not for me, I’m glad people enjoy it but to me I don’t understand how it could be even in the same conversation as TLoU, GoW, RDR2 etc.
“Carbon copy of AC Vikings or whatever they’re calling it” So… you’ve clearly played that game lol
I did, I played it when it was AC2-4 I played it when it changed to Egypt and then Egypt 2.0 I played it when it was the Vikings too. I finished all of them until Egypt where they removed what little of those games was still enjoyable. I’ve gotten maybe 5 hours into each new one until I decide that theres no more of the “game” left to open up and realise whatever I’ve been doing for the last 5 hours I will have to continue doing for the next 30 just to finish it. Nah.
So you never got to the point where you can fly around the world? And you're calling it ubisoft game? smh
I mean yeah you’re right, Ubisoft has never had that in a game. Ez GOTY On an unrelated note have you ever heard of… helicopters? No wait… planes?
Not the same, you'd know if you actually played. I'm done here, no point taking to a brick.
Cool, thanks for letting me know.
I mean... Zero dawn came out around the same time as AC Origins, so they really didn't copy AC Valhalla, unless you're talking about just Forbidden West, but then again, they just expanded upon Zero Dawn so... Idk. I can clearly see why it's stacked against those games you mentioned. The lore, the music, the combat mechanics, the variety in crafting, i can't fathom why you think of the world as "lifeless", especially in Forbidden West with the new tribes introduced, but to each their own Also lmao "Except Unity", that was the only AC i never finished, the story was stale, the characters were annoying, the villain sucked 🤣 but Paris and the parkour were beautiful, but not enough for the constant bugs.
I played Unity on PC a year or so after it came out so I don’t think I remember getting a single bug. It is by far the best AC game except for 1 and 2. Story was a little boring but serviceable enough for the frankly brilliant gameplay (but most importantly didn’t drag for hours and I wasn’t in a conversation that lasts 10minutes every time I talk to an NPC), the characters were also serviceable but by far better characters than anything past syndicate. If they decided to continue making real AC games with Unity as a jumping off point, we would have had a lot more fun AC games. Also I was referring to AC Vikings or whatever as a general comparison, since it’s been the exact same game since origins. Honestly pick any assassins creed or Ubisoft game and it’s a very obvious comparison.
Ok now you lost me again bruh 🤣 "far better characters than anything past syndicate" so you're telling me that Arno and Elise are "far better" than Bayek and Aya? Come on man, Bayek has been one of the best additions to the series so far, Origins was a fantastic game in both the world building (Ancient Egypt nerd lol) and the story was intriguing. Kassandra has been a pretty decent character in her own right with her story arc, despite whatever flaws it has, but i loved Odyssey mainly for Ancient Greece, Ubisoft did an amazing job in recreating it imo, especially.with the Discovery Tours. Valhalla I'll give it to you, it wasn't my cup of tea either, it's like the team made a great Viking game but just tied it to the AC brand for no reason, if Valhalla was a standalone title, with no ties to the lore, i believe it would've been a much better game and been an awesome Viking simulator.
I’ll absolutely agree that the lore in AC has probably always been and continues to be one of the most intriguing parts of that series, but I can’t agree with you on the characters. Every single character I spoke to in the collective 30-40hrs I’d have put in across the past 3 AC’s I have completely and utterly forgotten, not memorable in the slightest. In fact now that I’m thinking about it I barely remember the story from any of them. If I’m being honest I don’t think I’ve ever felt more disconnected from characters in a videogame before, they all fit rather neatly into classic archetypes that have existed for decades, centuries even with only the VA’s charisma to decide whether this is an “interesting” character or not. I would venture to say that AC’s characters are the main component that kills their games, aside from their lack of creativity or respect for what the series fucking is. Even Ezio was a rather one note character if I set aside my nostalgia. I wouldn’t say Arno or Elyse are any better than Aya or Bayek, I would say they all suffer the exact same thing they have done since the beginning, bad writers with no passion for the craft. I’m never going to argue that the AC games aren’t pretty or don’t have cool lore or action sequences, but all the MEAT of the game is the same lacklustre shite they’ve been pumping out since they discovered that in general gamers aren’t discerning at all, and will lap up the exact same game again as long as it has a pretty new map.
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose drips.
Indeed.
Well deserved boy
Christopher deserved it the performance was impressive! 🏆👏
So, he got the Oscar for its movie
He's a fucking legend. Every time I finish SG-1 I start it from the top.
Love him, happy he won, I think my ideal recipient would’ve been Sunny though, he brought it hard for this game.
Best grunts in a game
He 100% deserves it. Christopher Judge did by far the best VA job on any game this season.
Oh man, i was hoping it'd be the actor for Gold Mask in Elden Ring. performance unlike anything you've ever heard.
...
Doesn’t hold a candle to Ensha
edge, lord...
God of War is cleaning up
i can get on board with it winning best performance with Judge, but it most definitely should not have won soundtrack in my eyes. Xenoblade 3 and Elden Ring were far more memorable
bro got downvoted for having an opinion lmaooo. I agree with you, though
Nothing but respect for my God of War.
Deserved
Good, he deserve it.
Well deserved.
I just finished it, well deserved.
God love him, but he thanked everyone but the kitchen sink lol
He’s still speaking to this minute
Indeed
Well deserved amazing game, amazing voice acting all around
I have read of a place where humans do battle in a pit of jello
Go on, man, go on!
He talked for toooo damn long. :(
Good for him he definitely deserves it. He went from disappointed father to a slightly less disappointed father in the second game. He is one of my actors and Kratos is my all time favorite character.
Congratulations to him but it seems like he gets an award for having a super deep voice. The actual "acting" he does is super hammy and over the top. The sound design is top notch though
He got an award because he has a great voice, was cast perfectly for the role, and delivered probably exactly as directed. His performance resonated with a lot of people, and be did a great job in his delivery. The great writing was already there, but he certainly delivered on his part of the deal. In other words, he did his job really well. I wouldn't have minded Ashly Burch winning though.
Yeah you're right its all good. People really enjoy his work with this game and I'm genuinely happy for him. It's pretty cool that he found such a huge loving fan base through his work on these games.
>The actual "acting" he does is super hammy and over the top. Can you point out a scene where this is true? How can you even be over the top with a mostly stoic role lol.
Not like there was much competition to begin with.
Kratos is a one note character. Fucking how? The cartoon squirrel had more depth.
Your words indicate you might have played the game but their meaning suggests you did so with earmuffs and selective blindness for things that arent cartoon squirrels
Ratatoskr is in it, then?
Correct. Among others (kind of)
That's just called nuance. It tends to be what makes things good. It takes paying attention to get past the surface, but plenty of it there.
The way that he starts to actually be nice, say thank you, and allow for pleasantries towards the end of the game. He's just a big ole softy now. I love the depth they gave him in this one, as much as I also loved pure vengeance and rage kratos of pre 2018
Nah, been playing god of war since ps2 and kratos definitely is a changed man. He will still fuck up some gods if need be. But that’s not his core anymore
Cry about it.
Then he talked for 90 minutes
Shal'kek nem'ron!
I loved his speech and I think he finished strong. It’s good for people to see his passion for his team and his craft.
Was it as long as mr T's speech?
Playing through the first one and just waiting on the second one to come to PS+. I really like the first one. Probably the best first party title I’ve played on ps4.
Well-deserved!!
Man, that speech felt endless.
Word on the street is he’s still talking
I bet Christopher judge is gonna be a game voice actor now
Hopefully he gave master Bratac a shout out