The yearly D.I.C.E awards are formally wrapped for 2019’s games and a well-known bandit reportedly sneaked into the occasion. Well, as a lot as one’s sneaking after they’ve been nominated for a handful of awards. The Untitled Goose Game had its non-name thrown within the hat for Game Of The Year and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences membership voted it in as winner. Congrats, horrible goose. Go add that shiny trophy to your assortment of different stolen items on high of the village bell and that lad’s glasses. You’ve performed good.
Untitled Goose Game was up for Game Of The Year alongside Death Stranding, Control, Disco Elysium, and Outer Wilds (not worlds) which looks like a loads various set of games, at the least by way of scope and finances. Like its namesake up towards a village all chasing it down, the goose game outmaneuvered its fellow nominees to slide out victorious. The builders at House House are additionally taking house awards for “Outstanding Achievement For An Independent Game” and “Outstanding Achievement In Character” awarded to the goose itself after all.
Yon horrible fowl is one in every of RPS’ personal games of the year for 2019 for its nice twist on stealth and honkin easy comedy. In her Untitled Goose Game review, Katharine calls the goose a “devious and thrilling villain to behold” and says “the level of detail that’s been poured into each of his hapless victims only serves to make them all the more endearing when you come flying in and take a giant dump on their perfectly ordered lives.” The goose is nice. It is thought.
The Goose Game is becoming a member of a fairly lengthy line of principally very massive games from very massive publishers as Game Of The Year winner—at the least as far as the D.I.C.E awards are involved. The final correctly small crew to nab the award appears to have been Thatgamecompany in 2012 with Journey, although they have been additionally revealed by Sony on that one. Way to be a combo-breaker, goose.
The goose’s compatriots principally went house with awards of their very own, regardless of not catching the large ‘un. Death Stranding won out in sound design, Control in game direction, and Disco Elysium in story. Outer Wilds was nominated in several categories but didn’t win out in any. Here are the remainder of the classes and their winners over on D.I.C.E’s site.
That’s all until subsequent 12 months’s fancy academy awards of gaming. Good on ya, goose.
