RPGWatch - Going to Gamescom

That means that I have the appointment confirmed

I'm also seeing Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Originally Posted by Myrthos
I'm also seeing Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Woohoo! Hope you get some delicious details of that game

Originally Posted by Myrthos
I'm also seeing Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Yay Myrthos, I can't wait for this year's Gamescom articles

Added The Falconeer.

Related to Gamescom is this list of the nominees for best game award:

Best Action Adventure Game
Blacksad: Under the Skin, astragon Entertainment
Concrete Genie, Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Nintendo

Best Action Game
Borderlands 3, 2K
DOOM Eternal, ZeniMax Germany
Marvel's Avengers, Square Enix

Best Family Game
Concrete Genie, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Dreams, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Luigi's Mansion 3, Nintendo

Best Racing Game
Grid, Koch Media
Hot Wheels Infinite Loop, Mattel
Need for Speed Heat, Electronic Arts

Best Role Playing Game
Final Fantasy VII Remake, Square Enix
Pokémon Schwert und Pokémon Schild, Nintendo
Wasteland 3, Koch Media

Best Simulation Game
Barotrauma, Daedalic Entertainment
NBA 2K20, 2K
Planet Zoo, Frontier

Best Sports Game
EA SPORTS FIFA 20, Electronic Arts
eFootball PES 2020, Konami
Roller Champions, Ubisoft

Best Strategy Game
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Microsoft
Desperados III, THQ Nordic
Foundation, Polymorph Games

Most Original Game
Concrete Genie, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Dreams, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Felix The Reaper, Daedalic Entertainment

Category Group: Platform
Best Microsoft Xbox One Game
Bleeding Edge, Microsoft
Borderlands 3, 2K
Gears 5, Microsoft

Best Nintendo Switch Game
Luigi's Mansion 3, Nintendo
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, Nintendo
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Nintendo

Best Sony PlayStation 4 Game
Concrete Genie, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Dreams, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Final Fantasy VII Remake, Square Enix

Best Mobile Game
Battle Chasers: Nightwar - Mobile Edition, HandyGames
Hot Wheels Infinite Loop, Mattel
Lock's Quest, HandyGames

Best PC Game
Borderlands 3, 2K
DOOM Eternal, ZeniMax Germany
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ubisoft

I didn't go there. I just couldn't get myself into doing that. I feel more and more misplaced there.

"Concrete Genie" ? Funny title …

You couldn’t have gone there yet, as it starts tomorrow

Alrik when we'll hear your thoughts about the new upcoming TDE game (that isn't singleplayer)? It's called Book of Heroes:
https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43488

Blacksad: Under the Skin for all I know is still not released as I'm eagerly waiting to buy it (I have all 5 graphic novels) thus I guess these rewards are about games shown on Gamescom.
If that's correct, it's kinda odd among nominees (any genre) is not Humankind, SEGA's upcoming AAA title that'll be shown on Gamescom. Or that game will be revealed with just a few screenshots in which case it won't be odd.

Originally Posted by joxer
Blacksad: Under the Skin for all I know is still not released as I'm eagerly waiting to buy it (I have all 5 graphic novels) thus I guess these rewards are about games shown on Gamescom.

Yep, same for Wasteland 3 which is nominated for best RPG.

@Myrthos wow, hard to reach some of those companies, one would think it'd be in their interest to give you some easy way of contacting those companies considering the site you run. I don't doubt that we do generate a lot of sales for them from here.

I don’t know why it happens. It might be that for some reason RPGWatch is blocked by their server or sent to their spam folder. I did put in the effort to get everything email related in place, like SPF, DMARC and DKIM, so it should validate our regular mails.
I know Google still lists everything we sent as spam.

Anyway, I have 14 appointments. Creating a single article from a half our appointment takes about 3-4 hours. That includes listening to the often noisy recordings, typing what they said and making some sense of it all so that it becomes readable. I’ve tried speech to text applications, but nothing works, because of the amount of background noise and disturbances.
I think the 14 is enough to keep me occupied for a week or so

On a side note, I’ll be writing a bit on my endeavors at Gamescom using my twitter account @TheRealMyrthos, which I started recently to not have to abuse the RPGWatch account, for random stuff

I can confirm, we almost missed Myrthos' mail (Tactical Adventures, Solasta) since it was swimming around with hundreds of spam mails from GamesCom (translators, advertisements, set-up companies…).

On the bright note it wasn't caught by the spam filter It's just that once your presence at GamesCom is made public, you get targeted like crazy :/

Saw the demo of Solasta, for a part at least. The session of half an hour was too short for the questions that I had prepared, received from Purple and that popped up during the hands-off demo, so will have to ask them another time
Anyway, it was looking good from what was shown to me and what I was told.

Just in case you were wondering what game won at Gamescom, here is the list:
Best Action Adventure Game
Blacksad: Under the Skin, astragon Entertainment

Best Action Game
DOOM Eternal, ZeniMax Germany

Best Family Game
Concrete Genie, Sony Interactive Entertainment

Best Racing Game
Grid, Codemasters

Best Role Playing Game
Wasteland 3, Koch Media

Best Simulation Game
Planet Zoo, Frontier

Best Sports Game
Roller Champions, Ubisoft

Best Strategy Game
Desperados III, THQ Nordic

Most Original Game
Dreams, Sony Interactive Entertainment

Category Group: Platform
Best Microsoft Xbox One Game
Gears 5, Microsoft

Best Nintendo Switch Game
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Nintendo

Best Sony PlayStation 4 Game
Dreams, Sony Interactive Entertainment

Best Mobile Game
Battle Chasers: Nightwar - Mobile Edition, HandyGames

Best PC Game
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ubisoft

Originally Posted by Myrthos
Saw the demo of Solasta, for a part at least. The session of half an hour was too short for the questions that I had prepared, received from Purple and that popped up during the hands-off demo, so will have to ask them another time
Anyway, it was looking good from what was shown to me and what I was told.

Aww Yeah, 30mins sounds a bit too short - oh well, still looking forward to read your impression on the demo

I like reading that Wasteland the third took honours for top rpg, that gives me even more hope for the game!!

Originally Posted by Carnifex
I like reading that Wasteland the third took honours for top rpg, that gives me even more hope for the game!!

There were only a few RPGs at Gamescom, not much of a reward.

There are more than a few, I would think.

Anyway, had a lengthy presentation and talk with the Gamedec devs. A game with violence but no combat system. It does look like it has a lot going for it, if you are into story and character development. As I usually suck at combat, this might be more my thing

Originally Posted by Archangel
There were only a few RPGs at Gamescom, not much of a reward.

Glass half full man