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I have two: Unavowed and Return of the Obra Dinn. They’re both great.

I have to agree that it will probably be between Unavowed and return of the Obra dinn for best adventure game of the year. My guess would be that Unavowed would win Traditional game of the year and Return of the Obra dinn the Non Traditonal Game of the year and then a toss up to see who wins the overall game of the year.

I also hope Lamplight City and Pillars of the Earth win some aggies.

I haven’t played many games made in 2018, but my favourite is clearly Obra Dinn. Considering the laudatory reviews it received, I would be surprised if it weren’t voted best game of the year.

Unavowed was good and deserves at least one award (maybe best traditional adventure ? not that it’s completely traditional with its party mechanism, but it is more “conservative” than Obra Dinn).

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry looks like a viable candidate for best comedy, and I hope The Shapeshifting Detective gets at least a mention (thought that probably won’t be for best acting).

Lamplight City wasn’t well-received enough to be in the race, but I hope they get something in the visuals or sound department.

I wouldn’t call 2018 a lacklustre year, yes in terms of the number of good adventures games it was a poor year but… any year that gives us ‘Unavowed’, ‘Return of the Obra Din’, ‘The Red Strings Club’ (candidate best narrative) or ‘11-11 Memories Retold’ and the first episode of ‘Life is Strange 2’ can’t be a bad year, far from it since those games are amazing.

And there’s more, we also had games like ‘Forgotten Anne’, ‘Hero Rogue-U’, ‘Unforeseen Incidents’, ‘Gris’, ‘The Shapeshifting Detective’, ‘Beyond the Sky’, ‘Tshioque’, a new ‘Leisure Suit Larry’ game or ‘Apocalipsis: Harry at the End of the World’ so it will be interesting to see who will be nominated at the Aggies.

NickyLarson - 02 February 2019 08:39 AM

and I hope The Shapeshifting Detective gets at least a mention (thought that probably won’t be for best acting).

Really? I thought the acting was great.

The Gardens Between would have been nailed-on for “best gameplay” if it was not for The Return of the Obra Dinn, but I hope at least it gets some kind of award.

cyfoyjvx - 03 February 2019 12:14 AM

NickyLarson - 02 February 2019 08:39 AM

and I hope The Shapeshifting Detective gets at least a mention (thought that probably won’t be for best acting).

Really? I thought the acting was great.

I wouldn’t say it was bad, they’re all good actors but I think it must have been a directional choice to make it a bit “over the top”. In its defense, I played The Infectious Madness of Dr Dekker right after and found the acting much more believable, so I guess my memory is tainted by the comparison.

Big news for the 2018 Aggies!

Nominations will be announced this Friday (February 8th), with the reader poll to follow on Monday Feb 11, and then the final presentation across three days, Wed-Fri Feb 20-22nd.

(That’s not the big news. That’s the usual news.)

This year, though, we have a special treat. In cooperation with Gamewalker, AG is pleased to present a video announcement of the nominees, hosted by the very talented Ivy Dupler (Lamplight City, Unavowed)!

Sounds awesome, you say, but were to watch it, and when? You’re absolutely right, and good questions!

You can see it right here.

The video will open to the public at 8pm GMT Friday, and if you’d like to see the announcements unveiled “live”, you can even sign up right away for reminders of the big event.

Of course we’ll have a written version with a streamed video published on the site as well, at exactly the same time, but you’ll have to remember that on your own.

We’ll have a similar video presentation of the actual Aggie Award winners as well, so if you like what you see, there will be plenty more where this came from!

For me this is better than the Oscars Looking forward to it!

Doom - 07 February 2019 03:58 PM

No need for the Oscars anymore.

Well, the Oscars have the red carpet, overlong speeches, and song-and-dance numbers, but we’ve got the awards that really matter. (And at least we have a host. )

For me, my favorite adventure game I played from last year was Detroit Become Human.