The 2015 Awards Podcast
4Player Podcast
Nick Henderson
4.8 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2016
⏱️ 199 minutes
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Summary

2015 was quite an amazing year for gaming. There was such a wide array of experiences from both established franchises and fresh new IP. As we always do, we sit down to give credit where credit is due by giving awards to those standout experiences from the previous year. This year, our categories are as follows:
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Discussion:
Best Looking Game
Best World/Universe
Best New Character
Best Boss Fight
Best Debut
Best Storytelling
Best New Gameplay Experience
Best Video Game Moment
Best Game Nobody Played
Biggest Disappointment
Worst Game Everyone Played
Biggest Regret
Best Multiplayer Experience
Biggest Surprise
Best Game from Another Year
The Asterisk Award
Number 11 Award
and more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the 2015 award show here at 4Player Network.com. Brad is joining me. Oh, yes, yes. It's me. Nolan Hedstrom. I don't think it's necessary to shuffle the papers that close to the mic. Sorry. I think they can hear it even like... That was Nolan. You ran out of of time Christopher guthridge is joining us |
| 0:38.0 | hey yes I am |
| 0:39.4 | and my name is Nick Henderson |
| 0:40.8 | god damn it Brad what are you doing |
| 0:42.3 | we should have gotten music to play each other off |
| 0:44.7 | like if someone's talking to |
| 0:45.9 | and just start |
| 0:47.8 | did you see what's his face |
| 0:49.7 | what is the director's name |
| 0:52.2 | uh Scott |
| 0:52.9 | uh... Ridley Scott when he was giving his speech. And they started playing them off and he was like, no. And he kept going. And the prompter, I think, was telling him to hurry up. And he was like, I'm not going to do that. And he just kept going for like a minute and a half. Beautiful, beautiful. By the way, we can't do small talk on our award show |
| 1:11.9 | speaking of this is the golden globes of video games yes the golden globes of video |
| 1:16.2 | games i think we decided on this wasn't wasn't prometheus just him getting up for two |
| 1:20.8 | hours and rambling anyways we're gonna so this is how it's gonna work tonight guys this is our |
| 1:27.2 | so like i said this is our 2015 award show we have a bunch of categories that we all came up with that we are going to, uh, we've broken it down into segments, all right? Segments. We're gonna do four awards per segment. And in between each segment, we're gonna take a short break and we're gonna play a sample from each of our favorite soundtracks of the year huh how's that sound i can't wait it sounds like a lovely and |
| 1:48.9 | delightful evening nick should i go ahead and read the categories for before we start i would say |
| 1:53.8 | or maybe the just the categories read the categories all they're going to forget by the time we get there. All right. Sure. For the first segment, we're going to be doing best looking game. That could be technical or just, you know, visual style, art direction, whatever. Best looking game. Damn game. Best world slash universe. What was that mean? That means, uh, the world or universe of a game? Yeah. The best world or universe created for a video game. Nice. Best new character. That could be main character, supporting character. Just all around great person or maybe... Do they have to be... Can they be a bad person? They could be a bad person. Okay. Or maybe they don't even have to be a person. You know what I'm saying? And our last category of this segment will be best boss fight. What are you doing? Oh my God. I want to see if he was in. I look over. Nolan is looking at me like he's very uncomfortable. And then I noticed that Crispy is holding his hand. Okay, so here we go. We're going to go around the room. I'm wearing coals tonight, by the way. I'm also wearing coals. Oh, I'm wearing Van Hewson. Oh, this is... It's a nice Van Hewson. What does that say? That is Big Man. Yeah. I got it from Walmart. You're a big boy. So, here's... I mean, this is pretty much the Golden Globes. The only thing that we're missing, really, is alcohol. You're kicking the air again. Nolan. I was kicking that thing on the floor. Because you've never vacuumed in this room. It's just a beautiful night out here. Well, I think we were all here the you've never vacuumed in this room. |
| 3:24.4 | It's just a beautiful night out here. Well, I think we were all here the last time he vacuumed in this room. Oh, that's true. The pageantry is stunning. All right, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to go around the room. We're each going to read our runner-up in the category with a brief explanation, and then our winner for the category. we're going to go around do all that |
| 3:41.6 | and at the end of each category |
| 3:43.3 | we'll each ramble |
| 3:44.6 | ramble off some honorable mentions. |
| 3:46.6 | Yep. |
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