Last night was the game awards and, as always, it was more about upcoming games and trailers than the actual awards. It always bothers me that some of the awards are spedran, without even the chance for the winners to come onstage. (Plus it’s so long, it started 12:30 and lasted until about 4am here)

For those that didn’t see it here are a bunch of things that happened:

*Sleep Token played in the overview trailer!
*Hades II, Hollow Knight Silksong and Donkey Kong Bananza all ran one award each (Best Action game, best Action/adventure game and best family game)
*Clair Obscure Expedition 33 win pretty much everything they were up for
*The whole Clair Obscure team were there, all of them wearing Berets
*There was a warframe video, Werner Herzog voiced and was in it
*Miss Piggy was there and was hilarious, it was also heavily implied she and the presenter of the awards spent the night together and had sex
*She also did a song with Rolf (I think that’s his name) which name checked everything from kingdom hearts to discord
*Maggie Roberson (tall vampire lady from Resident Evil) did a skit about a survival training session which was so funny
*Her and Neil Newborn presented the best voice acting award and were so funny
*There was a cut sheep herding cgame
*There was a trailer for a game that featured a man getting burned alive in a wicker man type thing, while there was an orgy going on. This wasn’t warned for and was in the first hour of the show (it’s also by the studio that did Baldurs Gate III, it’s called Divinity)
*There’s a new Tomb Raider game, as well as a remake. The latter looks bonkers and features dinosaurs
*Theres not one but two Star Wars games! The first I suspected would be a franchise game cause of how the trailer was cut (long shots, not showing characters) but I suspected it was Star Wars cause of the hiss of smoke when the boarding ramp went down, then the lightsaber sound confirmed it
*the other one is Galactic racer and is a dancing game, like the podracer games but with other ships too. It looks so cool and has Sebulba coming back!
*Resident Evil Requiem revealled that Leon is coming back! (Which everyone guessed but it was nice to confirm)
*Evanesence performed the song they did for Devil May Cry (I need to watch it)
*A new Megaman game is coming, but not till 2027
*There was a clip from Street Fighter and the cast came onstage
*There was a cool game called Ontos by the people that made Soma (and the voice of Stellan Skarsgård)
*There was an awesome onstage announcement/trailer for a new control game and it’s so cool I’m glad I’m playing the first game.
*The Game Awards orchestra was so great, plus the flute guy kept changing is flute which was fun

I’m sure there was other stuff too that I’ve missed from it, cause there was a lot, but yeah. As you can see there was a lot of wild stuff.

I am a bit annoyed that the Hades II and Silksong devs didn’t get a chance to get onstage for their awards, they both deserved more love. (And honestly, it feels like a fluke that they didn’t but Expedition 33 was just… a powerhouse)

I am so hyped for the Star Wars games, especially racer and Resident Evil (I need to get back to 4). I’d say those three, Control Resonant, Ontos and Tomb Raider are the ones I’m most curious about, but I am kinda curious about a divinity. I mean that trailer was absolutely insane it was certainly memorable.

But ugh the whole thing was tiring and it has made me drained today.

Now to see if my brain will work on other things and then… I dunno. Maybe I’ll go on Control later

Today has been a busy day but first.

As I mentioned in the last post the library stint yesterday was quiet and I mentioned to mum about getting the tree sorted. I was saying it in the sense of ‘we’ll do it Saturday’ but mum took it to mean ‘we’ll get it down yesterday’. Cue me lugging the thing down after the food shop came, opening the box and getting it out… only to find the stand for it is nowhere to be seen.

I think we’d boxed it last year, forgot to add the stand and it got put with other things but do I know where they are? Nope. So we have the tree box where it would go cause I didn’t have the energy to mess with it. (Mums genius idea? Sort it while food was cooking and obviously that went wrong)

Sigh.

Today started with sorting out an order for mum (the gingerbread Lego that’s meant to be for Xmas, but it’s on back order, but at least doing it now got a freebie) then mums friend came, ostensibly to bring Xmas stuff but of course she wanted stuff ordering too ugh.

Mail came today too, the new Stranger Things annual (which I got under half price!) which looks really good on my flick through! There was also God Is A Bullet, the blu ray with hot Garrett Wareing (which I was told to expect by Jan 22) so I hope it’s good (and works!). Then when I came back Doctor Who books were here (I got some 2 for £5 deals from zavvi, which are mostly hardbacks so oop sorry mum that you had to move them).

Today I went to town, the town part was pretty short. I looked in smiths for the new stranger things stickers but they’re not out yet, but I did get a Stranger Things thing from b and m (the box that I lost when I lost my bag the other month) but they didn’t have the snack pack or bag alas.

I went into Smyths but alas they didn’t have the stranger things funkos I was looking for (even Vecna which was listed on the site, but I guess he was on the high shelves hidden) but I did get the Lego happy plants though (look how cute!). I also got the Frankenstein art/making off book which was a real bargain from Asda (less than half off!). I had a little flick through and it looks beautiful.

None of the trailers were interesting so I will just jump right into the film talk. (Unlike the last film thoughts these will be more spoilery. So let’s get onto thoughts of Pillion and Five Nights At Freddy’s 2

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That might be it for cinema adventures this month. I might see The Shining on one of it’s showings though but I’m not sure yet (it depends on mood, energy and weather) and I do wanna see Anaconda but that likely won’t be till early January cause it comes out just after Xmas.

Now though I’m gonna bundle up, watch stuff and might fic some.

Next days are low energy I might watch stuff (and the game awards is tomorrow) and I might go back to home bargains to get more Star Wars doorables (they’re so cute! And this set has some of my favs) but who knows if I’ll feel up to it. I also wanna make peanut butter booped cause I found recipes.

And there was something else but it’s gone out of my brain completely.