Game Awards Nominees 2024 - Balatro Sweep

[@devonclark1926]

Holy shit, the editor pulled triple overtime for this one. who else bricked up rn?

[@okkdoss5284]

I am incredibly bricked up

[@Austin.G]

Only the real ones get bricked up

[@Irunts]

I am always bricked up for Bricky

[@raiju5422]

Skater gap

[@BigBuddhar]

✋️

[@madison_russell04]

Seeing Balatro up there is so funny because people who don't know what it is or how good it is are probably wondering how a cracked version of Solitaire is up there next to the newest graphical achievements of the triple AAA industry.

[@malmasterson3890]

I have indeed seen a lot of bafflement and it is quite entertaining.

[@chainsawboy2388]

Watched Zannys video on it and he and a good portion of his stream chat had no idea lol

[@disobey8828]

Because the VGA are trash obviusly like Balatro.

[@Banalytical]

I’m loving the pipeline of people trashing it without playing it, trying it, and then getting super hooked and going “I get it now”.

[@malmasterson3890]

@@Banalytical Exactly, the vast majority of haters haven't played it.

[@rokemuri9838]

For fellow Balatro addicts, hear me: Balatro theme song with GOTY orchestra. Win or not, BANGER incoming.

[@SofaMuncher]

I'm so excited man

[@christianholbrook2686]

I don't even know how they're gonna do it. Balatro's theme is great but it sounds like the opposite of orchestra music.

[@shade-z3q]

@@christianholbrook2686I can’t imagine how they’re gonna handle the switch, because balatro is in 7/4 time.

[@jjwang7597]

And damn you were right

[@impracticalnuke]

Mfs who says Balatro doesn't deserve GOTY have not known addiction too well

[@ilyamacintosh303]

it just it didn't have the same impact space marines 2 or silent hill 2 had on launch i read the nominees and was like wtf is a belatro literally never heard of it until today and i'm someone who's chronically online

[@impracticalnuke]

@ilyamacintosh303 Balatro be unearthing people's unchecked addiction left and right fr fr. It is an indie release tho, a debut no less. For a pretty niche category too. But damn, when it grips you, it doesn't let go

[@thegentleman7880]

@@impracticalnuke is not about not knowing addiction, is to prevent addiction to other innocent souls

[@jamielench5722]

Balatro definitely deserves GOTY, it is the addiction we all crave

[@goldcreeper7376]

@@ilyamacintosh303 Balatro was called GOTY on release with zero info on the year 8 months ago, you just weren't listening

[@qq1933]

I need to see Localthunk accepting that GOTY award

[@Theorak]

Every time you click Balatro, you get a Multiplier. Thus, it has won. Yeah I don't know why Space Marine cannot be in the GOTY category. Respect for Manor Lords showing up.

[@studman1169]

15:34 That transition is FUCKING GOLD

[@fudwTM]

He feeling cold, as someone who lives in the middle line where summer is like 9 months of the year i am very jealous.

[@mrbenman97]

Best Performance should go to Jimbo for his work in Balatro

[@kiran5964]

Actually huge seeing Wukong in so many categories, hopefully means the Chinese gaming market might shift away from those plentiful gacha copies and more towards new and expensive single player games.

[@wildrose7648]

Gachas still make shit tons of money so probably not but we might see said companies make more games like Wukong.

[@SofaMuncher]

This is the toughest boss blind yet boys, but were on ante 8 we gotta pull through

[@dudemanjo404]

Igon's voice actor not being nominated for best performance pains my soul

[@error404nooriginalityfound3]

I need a Bricky Metaphor playthrough, I love the vods of the P5 playthrough as excellent background for work and driving when I'm not in the mood for music and having a new Bricky 80-hour JRPG playthrough to put on loop would make me so happy.

[@CreationsFlare]

I wanna see Bricky unironically fall in love with Louis, he loves his twisted good intentioned men.

[@DoctoEris]

>Mobile Games Nominatees >"Rat Girl" >Zooms in on Koleda

[@wildrose7648]

It’s funny cause there is a rat girl in the game

[@fb1877]

The orchestra is gonna go so hard this year

[@zinogretw]

Balatro exists* Bricky: WELL...

[@EricHernandez-vx8cv]

Bricky when he wrongly says the changes in FF7 Remake/Rebirth was Nomura. It was Kitase and Nojima, been confirmed in interviews for years now.

[@lordtacocat3138]

There are two types of people in this world... METAPHOR SWEEP!!!111!!!1 and BALATRO SWEEP!!!111!!!1

[@maley335]

Me supporting Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising for the fighting game is just competing for not being at the last position.

[@goldjaw]

11:59 Richard Lintern had ten lines and he should have been nominated. “CURSE YOU, GEOFF KEIGHLEY”

[@BlackHoleEye]

For how much you praised Metaphor, I think you HAVE to play it now, Bricky. You've basically endorsed it, and you can't really do that without playing it.

[@sh0gun1223]

I think Balatro is going to sweep the indie awards, but I think making the stage on GotY is as far as it can take it. That said, your argument of 5 nominations is a good argument, media might've... stacked the deck, revealing a dark horse run. Now what will get it I have no clue, I want Hashino (Metaphor) to get his flowers after being ignored for far too long, but... I don't know, I feel like they might get RPG and Wukong or FF7 get the nod for the big prize. Meanwhile I think people won't vote Erdtree because DLC, but they'll give Miyazaki directior, which arguably should apply to DLC directors.

[@gevgnek]

I really want Balatro to win GOTY just because it's gonna be so funny

[@WaxenBat]

Can’t wait for the orchestra to play the balatro theme for hours while I kick myself for playing flushes again

[@MateMaterial]

2:30 a night lords fan for life .

[@KingDetonation]

"Centrist andy" My brother in Christ, that's where compromises come from

[@IvanHavid]

Yeah, like the great compromise of 1850 and the Munich compromise

[@oniemployee3437]

​@@IvanHavid There's a time and place for decisive action, but centrism and compromise is often the better way to go about it.

[@IvanHavid]

@@oniemployee3437 I ain't trusting the words of an oni employee

[@oniemployee3437]

@IvanHavid Good. We are not to be trusted. We'd lace ice cream with crack if it'd improve our odds if catching more children for the Spartan-2 program. Fr tho: compromises are alright when properly discussed and both parties agree.

[@KhezuOnYourScreen]

I still don't get how Destiny 2 AND Diablo IV got nominated for Best Ongoing WHEN WARFRAME IS BETTER THAN BOTH.

[@pavelsvacha]

I didn't vote for Shadow of the Erdtree in any category out of principle, if they want to nominate DLCs they should've started with Phantom Liberty this is just an excuse to give ER a second GOTY because they need to suck off Fromsoft as much as possible.

[@norikwiese8900]

Phantom Liberty literally got nominated for best narrative last year

[@pavelsvacha]

@@norikwiese8900 Did it get nominated for GOTY? I'd say it deserved that nom just as much as Shartree

[@duke.disparity]

​@@pavelsvacha even more so, I'd say, since it also released with a patch that significantly improved the base game as well

[@gman2570]

@@pavelsvacha It deserves it more to be honest midtree was jsut that it was super fucking mid and I say that as someone whos been a huge fromsoft fan since demon souls on the ps3. horrible boss design, bad open world design, and a story thats barely there. Phantom Liberty had a goated story, a great map expansion, and it came with the revamped gameplay

[@XLMasterBlaster]

10% chance you say? Well I’m all in on Balatro then!

[@jroden06]

We will look back on 2024 and realize we were eating so good.

[@Cpt.Str4ng3]

We also ate a lot of lead/vtuber based paint, but lets ignore that. 😂

[@Jasperdurr]

MAAANNNNN the best performance category is just nothing compared to last years, I dont think there will ever be a race closer than Asrarion v Spider-Man

[@GideonGleeful95]

Honestly gad Manor Lords and Balatro got so mny nominations. Not only both indie, but both made mostly by one person.

[@flumph3209]

Arcane is making me so depressed

[@Cpt.Str4ng3]

LoL.

[@598019001]

A lot can be said for remakes being controversial for this kind of this... but Despite how good unicorn and Manor lords are, I have to give my vote to AoM Retold. It's such a good remake that redoes mechanics and balance from the bottom up to bring a game that was underappreciated for its time into a modern hitpiece, and proves that the fundamentals then are just as correct as now. This Might just be bias because a game lived up to my nostalgia i had for it but I want Aom to win something, Because the team working on it did, and is doing so well. Weird that factorio Space age didn't get nominated.

[@ysbrann3059]

to bad the new game mod is so lacking compared of what it could be

[@TOGSolid]

Metaphor's music is so good that I know its battle theme and have never played the damn game.

[@coltsfan354]

JIMBO, YOU HACK!

[@haroldtaylor6830]

I will say, you should play Metaphor. It sucks you in real well and suddenly you're fighting a nightmare from a Bosch painting while the dead king's face looks down on you like the damn Majora's Mask moon WHILE you listen to somebody rap out a buddhist chant over sweeping orchestral music. It's a fuckin ride my dude.

[@Shibby]

Every time I hear Balatro I get bricked up.

[@theswarmsquad3606]

B A L A T R O S W E E P

[@rileydport]

Bricky: "My heater is broken" Me living in the Midwest having not turned my heater on yet: :)

[@jameshibberd5134]

I beg, next year needs to be a fucking LAD Pirate Yakuza Sweep, it looks so fucking amazing Like Its Majima but pirate

[@kshycatch3635]

Balatro is the first game to earn balatrillion dollars

[@Crytica.]

Imma keep it real for RPG nominations. If Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC would be nominated again I would vote for it again over some of the full games out there that come out these days

[@Wulgreath]

SPIN THE WHEEL SPIN THE WHEEL SPIN THE WHEEL WE'RE SO DUE

[@abemoment]

BALATRO BE BALLIN

[@juniper1361]

angry at balatro existing because im pacific drive pilled

[@ryanrichards7724]

I wish they did like the oscars where there are 10 options for game of the year, especially with Elden Ring taking up one of the slots

[@memeweirdguyn.0019]

I am just saddened by one thing and I know it may sound petty.... *Blasphemous yet again feeling kinda ignored in best score category.* These two games are GOAT in their music, they are so amazing and I really would want them to be like recognized in a more general way other than the indie game space circle,

[@smokingghost9781]

Our Man Looks So Warm And Cozy.

[@_hellbanner]

Heater? I always thought that Bricky was from Cali, the closest thing to hell on earth

[@NanoDrish]

If Bricky is depressing media guy he 100% should play Indika on stream. Russian VA, English subs ofc. It is crashing!

[@finnvost9349]

nah, I would bet on Shadow of the Erdtree, simply because the Fromsoft glazing is phenomenal : it has almost as many nominations as the best game of the year objectively (balatro), in every category except the _only_ category it should be eligible to run in.

[@Frddy_-sh8so]

LONG LIVE OUR LORD AND SAIVOR BALATRO

[@umut_demirkol]

Bricky is girlfriend maxxing with that oversized hoodie

[@goldjaw]

And Bricky’s built like a fridge, imagine a girl taking that hoodie

[@srcocomad]

BALATRO SWEEP LIKE A DRAGON SWEEP

[@Judgment_Kazzy]

It's a shame that Yakuza 8 is not nominated for best soundtrack.

[@Manzuchilu]

me seeing Aleksi In Best Esport star and being: "fatherland deserves it"

[@Duffers]

If SOTE was exactly the same but was on a standalone launcher no one would give a fuck that it's nominated, and that's why it should be nominated

[@Swaggy_PP]

in a category about innovation there should not be a single triple AAA game.

[@flamingscar5263]

Let's take a mommemt to consider that balatro beat out Helldivers 2 for a GOTY nominee

[@moersertrupp]

Best Ongoing should go to Path of Exile. Settlers Expansion was insane

[@olsongc8422]

Is it sad that when I sae Belatro I mentally said "Bricky will love it!"

[@rougenarwhal8378]

Having the properties of or similarity to a block of clay fired in a kiln

[@xboxclown8922]

I voted for Balatro in every category let's do this!!!

[@thomasway0320]

I swear to god, if Balatro wins I am selling my soul to jimbo

[@herebejamz]

Final Fantasy 7 really do be a new game, and that is weird.

[@nullvoid7402]

Dragon’s Dogma II absolutely does not deserve any win whatsoever, it’s painfully clear that itsuno’s vision was once again chopped off at the knees and Capcom should be absolutely embarrassed at the incomplete package that game is.

[@ShockedTaiLung]

Bricked outta my gourd rn

[@theswarmsquad3606]

Balatro sweep

[@TrippyTigre]

It's crazy that Metaphor is so crazily popular. I have so many rpg fans and when Persona 5 released they would not ahut up about it, but only a couple of them play Metaphor and they say it's good. It looks good, but I'm more of an arpg player, turn based doesn't do it for me.

[@tomobrouns8586]

animal well so robbed that game is so goated🙏🙏🙏

[@Cpt.Str4ng3]

Yakuza is a banger. Its like the yakuza series but change all happy stuff with zigarettes. 😂Still good

[@Shinransa]

I'm wishing for Bricky to get bricked up by playing Stellar Blade, it'll be funny I swear plus the game is good.

[@cactophone4552]

only people not rooting for balatro are the mfs who havent played it or even know people who play it

[@ElPacolyps]

But Bricky, HD2 breaks itself after every patch.

[@kogden8110]

Anyone else upset Helldivers didn’t make the list?

[@morgymomo8535]

ELDEN RING DLC FOR GOTY, LETS GO SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE IDC THAT ITS A DLC ITS GOTY

[@kogden8110]

I have literally never HEARD of metaphor, how tf did it end up as a GOTY nominee?

[@47slogra]

I mean that you have living under a rock does not discredit the game

[@dbear7717]

Mr. center of the universe over here

[@kogden8110]

@@47slogra I haven’t seen or heard ANYONE talk about nor play it

[@kogden8110]

@@47slogra and it does kind of discredit it. If it’s such a good game then I should have heard *something* about it by now. If it’s a super niche game, then it doesn’t matter how good a game it is, it shouldn’t win GOTY

[@fellownigerianhere6378]

​@@kogden8110i respectfully disagree. The game had trailers released, videogame dunkey made a vid about it, a bunch of popular streamers and youtubers played it. Just because you didnt hear about it doesnt make it unworthy of goty. A lot of people didnt know about bg3 despite it making its way around communities and the internet until it won goty

[@NorthInium]

How the fuck did Star Wars Outlaws or Prince of Persia get a nomination xD both flopped hard and 1 of the games got its studio disbanded ^^ Also No Mans Sky should win best community support they have been giving out free content for 8 years or so now ^^

[@vskywalker10]

11:49 imagine not being colorblind

[@chrisyoung1576]

Please give itchyballs dragon awards

[@LORDSHIPICKLE]

I wanna see elden ring win something because it would be hilarious Also damn that hoodie looks comfy Also also I’m kinda sad SoTe didn’t get nominated for best score/music, Midra lord of frenzied flame ost is an absolute BANGER

[@BetarayBillLover]

The fact that wukong is not in action/adventure is criminal, it’s my goty for sure I have a bet with a buddy for wukong v rebirth

[@RxA.1456]

Game innovation if balatro? POKER 2

[@Jojo-nq3bp]

ff14 gets you banned if you contact customer's support

[@netoxis3258]

the mexicans WILL make DBZSZ win

[@SyLuX636]

I dont get the Balatro hype, i never even heard of the game until the Game Awards. Its just Poker with modifiers, i dont see the appeal and shouldnt be here.

[@monkeyman4346]

its a fun game

[@kilnareth7970]

Just cuz you don't understand it, doesn't mean its not a good game. The overwhelmingly positive reviews of the game are a testament to that.

[@CrimsonHellkite666]

Why do they have best indie game twice? Indie is short for independent

[@adalbertocaruna1024]

I, personally, Hope refantazio win. Won't happen, but i will

[@heibk-2019]

I dont know why the dlc is such a big problem, when it wasnt in previous years. If Blood and Wine could win best rpg, then Eldenring Sote can win some too.

[@badasscrusader]

No? Blood and wine shouldn't have won either,mistakes of the past shouldn't be used to justify making the same mistake

[@miles6777]

People complain every time about the DLCs being nominated lmao

[@CreationsFlare]

It's less the nomination and more of the format and Geoff's illuminati being as flexible as cement.

[@morkgin2459]

RPG OF THE YEAR NOT GAME OF THE YEAR.

[@GtdAquataine]

Balatro? Balatro.

[@HeadfirstRYAN]

Okay, okay, hear me out... Balatro is only fun if you enjoy cards. Otherwise there are better nominations in the categories it was nominated in

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

L + no jokers + debuffed + glass broke

[@Hollyclown]

The hell is Balatro?!

[@justanastartes9198]

Crack cocaine

[@silveredbullet802]

Game awards also made the audience impact 10%. Tells you about the circlejerk that is the game "urinalists" which is the ones picking who wins.

[@euoplo1007]

youre too nice

[@KodaKitten333]

Please do a new holocure video it has an update

[@danielellis6327]

Balatro sneek

[@NEOrdinary]

JRPGs just arent my jam, so I cant really say anything about Metaphor. Really surprised me to see so many people say it might take GOTY, since I literally watched like 20mins of it and then nothing else. Apparently its great for its genre though, that many people cant be wrong.

[@jeremifk]

#BalatroSweep

[@thegentleman7880]

We must not let Balatro win, society will be ruined if so

[@morkgin2459]

Nope Balatro or Wukong. Elden ring dlc cannot.