now!
The focus of the whole audience was on the stage!
As one of the four major game awards in the world, GDCA is not only one of the most important awards in the world's gaming circle today, but also the longest-running gaming awards event.
In the past twelve years, GDCA has been committed to awarding games that have unique innovative significance, good reputation and design.
“And this year is no different!”
The host said:
“GDCA has always adhered to the principles of fairness, justice, innovation and comprehensiveness, and selected games that are loved and praised by the player market, media colleagues and judges of the organizing committee to compete for this year’s [Annual Choice Award]!”
"Then I announce! The games nominated for the [Annual Choice Award] at the 13th GDCA Game Awards are:"
"Konami Games Group's "Night Owl" - He is a night owl in the flames of war, howling in the rolling tide of history. The extremely high operating difficulty and rich plot complement each other, and won the Best Action Game of the Year!"
Crash——
Accompanied by applause, the award representative from Konami stood up and saluted the audience.
The host's voice continued:
"Raging F1 by Fury Games Technology Co., Ltd. - The intensity of the racetrack is the fiery storm caused by the rapid rotation of the turbines, and it is also the passion of the brave drivers to surpass the speed of life and death. Experience the thrill of adrenaline surge at an unprecedented speed, and won the Best Racing Game of the Year!"
"Anoli Game Studio's "White Project" - a unique Germanic perspective, starting a world war as one of the initiators. When you have to point your gun at civilians for the first time, the huge trauma of war has never been so concrete. It won the Best Shooting Game of the Year!"
“…”
As the host introduced the nominated games one by one, there was constant applause from the audience.
And as the last game nomination was announced, the warm applause and cheers at the scene reached a climax!
"Golden Wind Games' Overwatch - the advent of the golden holy light brings an immortal heroic monument. The unprecedented combination of skills and shooting has finally ushered in its most successful standard answer. It is a new trend and the pioneer of a new generation of multiplayer online shooting games. The data of millions of players online at the same time around the world has already announced its undoubted success, and won the Best Online Game of the Year Award!"
Amidst warm applause!
Gu Sheng was the last one to stand up. He gestured to all the applauding audience members and enjoyed the last wave of cheers for the honorary nominations of the award ceremony.
Four awards, one nomination, and a wave of successful publicity.
It was worth it that the two core executives, me and Nezha, were present at the scene in person.
Gu Sheng sat down and looked at Shen Miaomiao.
Little Nezha smiled and approached Gu Sheng and teased:
"Interview Mr. Gu. What does it feel like to have four more trophies from one of the world's four major gaming awards in your trophy cabinet overnight?"
“Ahem, experience is…”
Gu Sheng pretended to be interviewed, with his hands in front of his chest, and said seriously:
"It's not enough yet. I hope to work harder in the future and strive to win the Grand Slam soon."
Seeing this, Shen Miaomiao patted Gu Sheng lightly and said with a smile: "Silly..."
As the two bantered in the manufacturer's seat, the presenter of the evening's final award took the stage - Al Torres, founder, former chairman of the board and CEO of United Enterprise Media Technology Network.
Torres is 75 years old this year. He is slightly fat, has a head full of white hair, is not tall, and looks a bit like old Uncle Anthony Hopkins.
Although he is not young, he is in good spirits. He walked onto the stage, nodded politely to the host, and then took out an envelope that had been sealed long ago and was waiting to be opened.
Suddenly, the place was silent, and everyone's eyes were focused on the stage, waiting for the announcement of the final grand prize.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Old Torres opened the envelope, took out the list of winners, and slowly said:
"I hereby announce that the games that won the 13th GDCA Annual Choice Award are—!"
As soon as these words came out!
Wow——!
There was a sudden cheer in the field!
【them?】
two?
The audience was slightly agitated, and the media looked at each other in astonishment!
The grand prize tonight is actually a double yolk egg?!
This is an unprecedented situation!
At this moment, there was a heated discussion on the bullet screen——
"Oh my god! Two!"
'How difficult it is to judge this, there is actually a tie for first place!'
"Oh shit...oh shit...I feel like a surprise is coming..."
'Me too!'
"Oh my god! No way... is there really someone who can defeat five people at once?"
"That's too scary..."
"Hou Lixie, the twelve-year death list is going to be broken tonight?"
'Sh ...
"……"
Highly anticipated!
Old Torres announced to the award list card:
"The games that won the 13th GDCA Annual Choice Award are——"
"Anoli Games Studio - The White Project"
"as well as!"
At this point, Old Torres put down his card and smiled:
"Golden Wind Game Company——"
Overwatch
boom--!!!
The scene exploded instantly!
It is surprising enough that two works tied for first place in this year's Annual Choice Awards!
What is even more shocking is that Overwatch has clearly entered the "death list" recognized by almost everyone, and it won this year's Best Online Game of the Year award in one fell swoop. In theory, it has no chance of being selected as the game of the year.
However, with its excellent quality and groundbreaking performance, it managed to fight its way out of the death list and was included in this year's GDCA's biggest award, the Game of the Year Choice Award, becoming the first multiplayer competitive online game to win this honor in thirteen years!
The audience was shocked, the media were shocked, even Shen Miaomiao and Gu Sheng were shocked!
Especially Gu Sheng.
What the hell?!
I even took off my fucking suit jacket, and you told me I was going to go on stage to receive an award again?!
So, when the live broadcast camera cut over, the audience saw Gu Sheng putting on his coat with a look of surprise on his face.
For a moment, the well-intentioned exclamations in the audience and the sensations on the barrage echoed each other, like a wave of the sea that was as high as the last.
'Hahahahaha the old thief is confused'
'One against five! One against five!'
"This is so awesome! Five awards in one gala! This is making history, right? ! "
"Don't say that this is an unprecedented peak for Chinese game companies. Even if you look at the global game industry, the only company that can win five of the four major awards is Xiao Huang's family!"
'Little Huang is awesome! Old thief is awesome! (broken voice)'
"But to be honest, the GDCA organizing committee is indeed fair and just. After all, if you don't look at it through the tinted glasses of online games, Overwatch deserves the annual choice award for both its game quality and influence."
"The only drawback is that there is no plot, but in other aspects it is far superior to its competitors."
"This old thief is really a disruptor of the gaming industry. His insights and creativity in the gaming field are seriously beyond the norm..."
"GDCA is a good guy. If the quality is good, he will really give out awards. He doesn't care about the issue of monopoly at all."
"It is said that they have been able to hold the award for 13 consecutive years and still be among the top four awards. As long as you are eligible for the award, you will be awarded the prize."
"Awesome! ! ! "
"……"
Amidst a sensation!
See both sides of the stage!
Gu Sheng from China and Ivan Anoli, director of Anoli Studio from Eastern Europe, took the stage together.
Anoli is not very old this year, about thirty-four or thirty-five, with typical Eastern European looks, tall and strong, with deep eye sockets and brown hair. He doesn't look like a game designer, but more like a boxer.
Here, as soon as Gu Sheng stepped onto the stage, he saw Arnoldi rushing towards him in two steps at a time, looking like he wanted to fight.
Even Gu Sheng couldn't help but be stunned.
Then, Anoli grinned and stretched out his hands to him excitedly:
"Hello, Sam. I've heard a lot about you. Today I finally get to meet you in person. I'm so excited."
As he said this, he gave Gu Sheng an excited hug, feeling like he had successfully chased his idol.
"Hello, hello,"
Gu Sheng was a little amused by this sudden enthusiasm, and shook hands and hugged Anoli repeatedly:
"Congratulations, let's receive the award together..."
Having said that, the two of them walked to the center of the stage together, and with the help of the etiquette lady, they accepted the crystal trophy awarded to them by old Torres.
And when the two men stood on both sides of old Torres, one on the left and one on the right, holding up the trophy, the flash lights in the audience suddenly turned it into a sea of ​​stars.
Then, at the suggestion of old Torres and Arnoli's repeated concessions, Gu Sheng took the lead in coming to the podium to give his acceptance speech.
This was not a difficult task for the eloquent Gu Sheng.
Although he had not prepared in advance, a big liar like Gu Sheng was still able to win waves of laughter and warm applause from the audience through perfect improvisation:
"…Finally, I would like to thank the GDCA organizing committee for giving us this award."
"It is your expertise that affirms us and gives us the courage to move forward."
"Also, thanks again to all Overwatch fans around the world."
Speaking of which!
Gu Sheng raised the trophy in his hand:
"This is your common honor,"
"This world needs more heroes!"
Wow——!!!
There was thunderous applause at the scene!
In the live broadcast room, the comments were madly filling the screen with [I have been summoned and must respond, as always! ]
From now on!
The shadow of the Garden War defeat that once frustrated the Gold Experience Team was completely washed away.
Two million people around the world witnessed the announcement!
On the first day of launch, millions of players around the world were playing online simultaneously!
The single-week sales broke the sales record of motion sensing cabin competitive online games, reaching a terrifying three million copies in a single week!
Until now!
It won the [Best Online Game of the Year] and the final award [Annual Choice Award] in succession!
With over 95% positive reviews on both platforms and overwhelming popularity among players, Overwatch has become the undisputed king of global shooting competitive online games, like a new emperor ascending the throne, and has ushered in a new era of domination!
Gu Sheng's speech won rounds of applause and screams.
Arnoli, who spoke after him, made a thunderous opening speech. His first words when he came on stage were, "I am very excited to stand on the same podium with Sam because I am his biggest fan."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a burst of exclamations in the audience and whistles were sounded one after another.
You know, although Anoli Studio is not considered a veteran team in the gaming industry, it is a medium-sized game production group after all, and it has been established for nearly ten years.
But it is such a studio that has made Gu Shengshi, who debuted less than five years ago, into a super idol. This is really unexpected and even a bit ridiculous.
However, Anoli didn't seem to be joking.
He said that about two or three years ago, the Anoli studio was in dire straits.
Having just become a mid-sized manufacturer at that time, they were eager to seek more rapid growth and invested heavily in creating a motion sensing cabin game, but suffered a miserable failure. The huge loss almost made it difficult for them to continue to maintain the operation of the team.
However, at this point in time, Golden Wind emerged and refreshed the market's long-standing perception of shooting games with the game "Left 4 Dead".
The phrase "MFGA" by its chief designer Gu Sheng is still fresh in our memory and is thought-provoking.
Therefore, Anoli decided to lead the team to fight to the death, and used all the remaining assets to create a second-generation FPS independent game with a story.
It was this game that saved them from dire straits.
Therefore, it seems not an exaggeration to say that Gu Sheng is the savior of Anoli Studio.
Later, with the rapid growth of Golden Wind, the emergence of works such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Titanfall, Outlast, Sekiro, and Peak State made Anoli a die-hard fan of Gu Sheng.
even!
Today's "White Project" is also the story mode that Anoli realized after an in-depth analysis of the plot of "Sekiro":
"In fact, what attracts me most about Sekiro is the perspective of the story. In previous games, our main perspective would actually be placed on Genichirō,"
"Because he is the true monarch who protects his country at all costs, even at the cost of his life,"
"But Sekiro did not use him as the protagonist. Instead, it used a loyal ninja as the protagonist, thus cutting into this fictional world of war and chaos."
“This is very novel to me,”
"So I turned my attention to modern wars,"
"In modern war games, we always focus on the invaded party,"
"To reflect their resistance, their anger, their misery,"
"But this time, I wanted to think differently, so I focused on Nazi Germans at that time,"
“From this unique perspective, players will act as executioners, witnessing the loss of countless lives, the destruction of countless families, and the cruelty of war from another perspective, and reflect on the indelible trauma that war has caused to humanity.”
"Although this work has been criticized since its release, our determination to oppose war has never changed,"
“I would also like to thank the GDCA organizing committee and all the players,”
"It is your recognition that has brought this work to such a peak,"
"We will continue to work hard in this area,"
"May the world be at peace, and may war never come again,"
"Thanks……"