Post by Anthony on Apr 7, 2016 13:26:45 GMT
Tonight BAFTA will host the 2016 British Academy Games Awards honouring 44 hit titles including Batman, Rocket League and Fifa 16.
PC hit Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture leads the way with 10 nominations across Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, Best Game, British Game, Game Innovation, Music, Original Property, Story and two Performer nominees.
While the British-made Her Story has also picked up nominations in seven categories along with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
But what does the future hold for the BAFTA game awards?
With the introduction of not one, but three Virtual Reality headsets this year and a slew of VR games, is it possible that we could see Virtual Reality games getting the BAFTA seal of approval next year?
One of the things that’s stuck me recently is how much the awards have changed in the short time I’ve been presenting them," Dara told us.
"3D didn’t move me in the slightest, I thought that was a bit of a croc and I’m delighted we’ve worked that out of our system for another generation - though I'm sure in 30 years time we’ll pick it up again - but the buzz for VR feels very different, more genuine."
"I don’t know what the minimum requirement is in terms of a new category for the awards, but I can definitely envisage a VR category.
"I'm not sure BAFTA would introduce it next year, I think the market might need to mature beyond the initial launch titles - how many of them do we expect to be really really good?
"Perhaps 18 months time, the second set of VR games will change that, because by them we’ll have got over the novelty of just looking around.
"Obviously theres a category for gaming innovation, so for the time being it could end up there at the very least."
"I would love if Nintendo would return to something like the Wii. The joy of that first console and the really, really simple interaction, which small kids and adults can play something really straightforward
People who weren’t into gaming in a big way just got that, and with the Wii U they seemed to move back to that 'here's 17 buttons' on a handset.
"I'm not sure they should return to a general console like the Gamecube or N64, because it seems like a very crowded market for them to try and, at this stage, stake a claim in.
"There's also still a large percent of the population who if you give them a controller you'll have lost them at the first set of shoulder buttons, let alone all the other ones.
"I think they found something with the first Wii, large scale casual gaming, that's what it was good at and where I think they should concentrate on."
Watch the Bafta Game Award on Twitch tonight for red carpet highlights, photography and winners’ interviews.
The show starts from 5:45pm BST or alternatively you can follow everything as it happens on Bafta's various social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr
PC hit Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture leads the way with 10 nominations across Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, Best Game, British Game, Game Innovation, Music, Original Property, Story and two Performer nominees.
While the British-made Her Story has also picked up nominations in seven categories along with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
But what does the future hold for the BAFTA game awards?
With the introduction of not one, but three Virtual Reality headsets this year and a slew of VR games, is it possible that we could see Virtual Reality games getting the BAFTA seal of approval next year?
One of the things that’s stuck me recently is how much the awards have changed in the short time I’ve been presenting them," Dara told us.
"3D didn’t move me in the slightest, I thought that was a bit of a croc and I’m delighted we’ve worked that out of our system for another generation - though I'm sure in 30 years time we’ll pick it up again - but the buzz for VR feels very different, more genuine."
"I don’t know what the minimum requirement is in terms of a new category for the awards, but I can definitely envisage a VR category.
"I'm not sure BAFTA would introduce it next year, I think the market might need to mature beyond the initial launch titles - how many of them do we expect to be really really good?
"Perhaps 18 months time, the second set of VR games will change that, because by them we’ll have got over the novelty of just looking around.
"Obviously theres a category for gaming innovation, so for the time being it could end up there at the very least."
"I would love if Nintendo would return to something like the Wii. The joy of that first console and the really, really simple interaction, which small kids and adults can play something really straightforward
People who weren’t into gaming in a big way just got that, and with the Wii U they seemed to move back to that 'here's 17 buttons' on a handset.
"I'm not sure they should return to a general console like the Gamecube or N64, because it seems like a very crowded market for them to try and, at this stage, stake a claim in.
"There's also still a large percent of the population who if you give them a controller you'll have lost them at the first set of shoulder buttons, let alone all the other ones.
"I think they found something with the first Wii, large scale casual gaming, that's what it was good at and where I think they should concentrate on."
Watch the Bafta Game Award on Twitch tonight for red carpet highlights, photography and winners’ interviews.
The show starts from 5:45pm BST or alternatively you can follow everything as it happens on Bafta's various social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr