Hello, everyone!
So, it's time. You got in the nominees, now you get to vote on the winners. But, there's also our usual contest to see who can best predict the winners.
If you just want to vote, here's your link: http://goty.n4g.com/home/in... . Make sure you vote for who you think should win in the poll. The contest below is an entirely different item and should not reflect who you think should win in each category.
Please note: Voting will be open until February 24, 2017 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be announced the following week.
Predict the GotY Winners Contest
Like in past years, we're running a contest where the goal is to be the closest to predicting the outcome of the Game of the Year voting. The prizes will be two (2) $250 Amazon Gift Cards to two winners. The two people who get the most correct predictions will win. If there is a tie, then we will randomly select between those who are tied.
How to Enter: from the possible nominees in each category (pasted below for your aid), select the one winner in each category and Private Message them to me, Christopher, via http://n4g.com/user/home/ch... . Your PM should only include each category and your one predicted winner for each respective category. Only one entry will be accepted per person, so make sure you use notepad or a similar tool to organize your entry first. Entries must be received no later than February 26, 2017 11:59 PM EST.
This year's categories and nominees, as provided by the N4G Community
Best New Video Game Character
- BT-7274 (Titanfall 2)
- Delilah (Firewatch)
- Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Bood and Wine)
- Emily Kaldwin (Dishonored 2)
- Lincoln Clay (Mafia III)
- Jesse McCree (Overwatch)
- Noctis Lucis Caelum (Final Fantasy XV)
- Prompto Argentum (Final Fantasy XV)
- Sam Drake (Uncharted 4: A Thief's End)
- The Protagonist (INSIDE)
- Tracer/Lena Oxton (Overwatch)
- Trico (The Last Guardian)
- Wrench (Watch Dogs 2)
Best Single Player Experience
- Dark Souls III
- Dishonored 2
- DOOM
- Final Fantasy XV
- Gears of War 4
- Hitman (2016)
- INSIDE
- Ratchet & Clank
- Severed
- Stardew Valley
- The Last Guardian
- Titanfall 2
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
- XCOM 2
Best Multiplayer Experience
- Battlefield 1
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
- Dark Souls III
- DOOM
- Forza Horizon 3
- Gears of War 4
- Killing Floor 2
- Overcooked
- Overwatch
- Titanfall 2
- Tom Clancy’s The Division
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Downloadable Content
- Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel
- Destiny: Rise of Iron
- Dying Light: The Following
- Fallout 4: Far Harbor
- Forza Horizon 3: Blizzard Mountain
- Star Wars: Battlefront – Death Star
- Tom Clancy’s The Division – Expansion II: Survival
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine
- Uncharted 4: Survival
Best Episodic Content
- Batman: The Telltale Series – Episode 3: New World Order
- Batman: The Telltale Series – Episode 5: City of Light
- Hitman: Bangkok
- Hitman: Paris
- Hitman: Sapienza
- King’s Quest – Chapter III: Once Upon a Climb
- The Walking Dead: A New Frontier – Episode 1: Ties That Bind – Part 1
- The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode 1: In Too Deep
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
- Darkest Dungeon
- Deus Ex GO
- Dragon Quest Builders
- I Am Setsuna
- Lara Croft GO
- Pokemon Go
- Pokemon Sun and Moon
- Severed
- World of Final Fantasy
Best Voice Acting
- Aidan Gillen (Paul Serene, Quantum Break)
- Alex Hernandez (Lincoln Clay, Mafia III)
- Cissy Jones (Delilah, Firewatch)
- Emily Rose (Elena Fisher, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End)
- Nolan North (Nathan Drake, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s end)
- Rich Sommer (Henry, Firewatch)
- Troy Baker (Sam Drake, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End)
Best Art Direction
- ABZU
- Bound
- Dishonored 2
- DOOM
- Final Fantasy XV
- Firewatch
- INSIDE
- Overwatch
- Ratchet & Clank
- The Last Guardian
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine
- The Witness
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Story
- Dishonored 2
- Firewatch
- INSIDE
- Mafia III
- Oxenfree
- The Last Guardian
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Soundtrack
- ABZU
- Battlefield 1
- DOOM
- Final Fantasy XV
- Forza Horizon 3
- Furi
- Mafia III
- The Last Guardian
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Innovation
- HDR10
- Pokemon Go augmented reality
- Trico AI (The Last Guardian)
- Virtual Reality hardware
News Story of the Year
- Bethesda Softworks changes review copy policy
- Death Stranding announcement
- God of War announcement
- Mid-generation console announcements (PS4 Pro/Scorpio)
- Nintendo Switch announcement
- No Man’s Sky controversy
- Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement
- Sony E3 2016 conference
- Spider-man PS4 game announcement
- The Last of Us Part II announcement
Most Anticipated Game of 2017
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
- Crackdown 3
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Mass Effect Andromeda
- Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
- Nier: Automata
- Nioh
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Fail of the Year
- Alekhine’s Gun
- Battleborn
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
- Final Fantasy XV
- Mafia III
- Mighty No. 9
- No Man’s Sky
- Quantum Break
- ReCore
- Star Fox Zero
- Street Fighter V
- Tom Clancy’s The Division
Indie Game of the Year
- Darkest Dungeon
- Firewatch
- Furi
- Hyper Light Drifter
- INSIDE
- Oxenfree
- Stardew Valley
- The Witness
Game of the Year
- Battlefield 1
- Civilization VI
- Dark Souls III
- Dishonored 2
- DOOM
- Final Fantasy XV
- Forza Horizon 3
- Overwatch
- Ratchet & Clank
- The Last Guardian
- Titanfall 2
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
- XCOM 2
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Dear team,
Xbox has always been different.
We started with a simple idea. Games should bring people together through shared experiences. That led to the first Xbox in 2001, Xbox Live in 2002, and new ways to connect, from friends lists and achievements to parties and play across devices. Today, Xbox reaches over 500 million players around the world, with some of the most important franchises in entertainment.
re-evaluating exclusivity 💀
PS players will need to go back to pretending to dislike Xbox games
Or meaning since it’s doing so good they might just do everything day 1.
They didnt say re-evaluating their multiplatform approach.
🤣🤣🤣 Xbox is so dead. I know you scared🤣🫵ӿ 97;
Hurt over video games 🤣🤣
Lmao we all grew and got jobs but apparently you stayed home broke 🤣🤣.
Man I love loyal dogs like you. MS kicked Spit and slapped you around but you still come back on all 4s.
Good little boy 🤣🤣
My only question is what games are PlayStation gamers gonna play now? They don’t really come out with new games anymore. I’m looking forward to wolverine, but after that then what?
Lmao
There’s no way after everything it’s going back, the damage is done
What you are seeing now is the new management telling what the core fanbase (aka…you) want to hear so they are pumped full of hope and are more likely to invest in the next Xbox console
When Phil took over after the awful Xbox One reveal he did the same thing, he told people what they wanted to hear for damage control.
It’s crazy people are getting suckered into this again.
And you'll now go back to again thinking exclusives suddenly matter, that multiplatform is no longer the future, or that revenue from multiplatforms doesn't matter, like all you flop flopping xbox grifters lol.
The whole post just sounds like the previous phil corpo slop talk to me, whole thing reads like a nothing burger lol.
“re-evaluating exclusivity”
She also said this.
“The model that got us here won’t be the one that takes us forward.”
I don't know if they have a model anymore it's flipped so many times since the xbox one reveal
There's a bunch just like him but that's what happens when some rely on dreams, hope and wishful thinking. lol
"pretending"? Bro gears hasnt broke 1mil on ps5, and starfield hasn't passed 200k, Hellblade 2 was even stated to be a financial disappointment in sales on its own console, let alone ps5. Im not saying people don't like them, but they certainly aren't setting the community on fire, Forza may be different tho
Xbawx is ''re-evaluating exclusivity''... Translation: After throwing all sort of crap to the wall to see if something sticks but clearly nothing worked, we, including our lord ''in charge'' Phil came to the conclusion that exclusives indeed do matter so please forget if we ever said otherwise.
Yup, I feel it in my gut, next gen belongs to xbox, PS6 is cooked...
Someone can’t sleep after those 5 million forza games PURCHASED by PlayStation owners🤣 🧌 💥
If they go back to exclusive games it at least shows that they are finally getting it. They would be turning down immediate money for something that will potentially workout in the long term.
Only issue is they've already opened Pandora's box. A lot of their base has moved to PC or jumped to PS. So will be a long road to get back on track.
We have been saying this from day one exclusives are a must if you are going to be selling hardware look at Nintendo and Sony before Jim Ryan. That's the proven formula. You had some that were deluded and blinded by loyalty accepting that multiplat was the future and that MS was merely getting ahead of where the industry was headed, but at least they can finally see the light and agree with what everyone has been saying for a decade+
True, blame it on the rabid fanboys. MS can do no wrong and spinner this multiplatform move. While the actual fans moved on.
I feel like with the new Xbox coming they are hoping to bring back those old fans and then if it goes well. Bring back exclusives.
If the new console is performing like series x and one. Naw they staying multiplatform.
Funny world where Sony is pro consumer and Xbox is not? At least according to what you loyalists have been saying all this time 🤭
@itveds For how many years have you been doing this sad stuff? For how many years have you been creating fake accounts to troll? For how many years have you always been cl vnn
Pathetic incels with nothing better to do than argue over a box... Because they don't have any good games to play on theirs, obviously. If your precious box is so special, why don't you shut the fuck up and go play it?
I think it's too late, xbox sales were diving even before ABK, they got even worse since then even long before the full multiplatform push. I'd be surprised if they even went back to timed exclusivity at this point, Helix is basically a PC and is going to be expensive, they already struggle to sell cheaper xbox consoles, it will be low volume and they'll have a very small 'console' base to sell to, which has already been conditioned to just play via gamepass anyway.
I don't see them removing PC from the equation. Considering MS has a heavy enough investment in the PC market, it would be foolish to abandon them. I could see them taking away games from PlayStation or ensuring they are timed exclusives at the very least. Say what you will but if Call of Duty ends up becoming a timed exclusive to Xbox machines, that would hurt PlayStation, don't pretend like those games don't sell millions.
Despite all of that, it's clear that Microsoft's Xbox division is broken beyond repair.
PlayStation is currently draining money on flop after flop. It's Sony that needs to re-evaluate their strategy
It isnt. But I dont think they mean in 'games', rather, footprint.
They own the OS but as far as gaming is concerned, Steam dominate. I imagine the VAST majority of people who use the Xbox app/launcher are PC gamepass subs. No ones buying their 3rd party PC games through Xbox PC.
Insider Gaming writes: "Marathon was one of the best-selling video games in March 2026 in the United States. On Wednesday, Circna released the best-selling games of the month, and it featured six new releases along with two games returning to the top 20 after previously falling out."
Is it April fools day again?
The game is dead.
EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”
well it's not on Switch / Switch 2.. so their number would be zero.
The game had a decent launch however the userbase numbers are dwindling on Steam.
“ Is it April fools day again?
The game is dead.
EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”
Does it hurt you to hear a SONY game was BEST selling ?
You gotta let go of those OBCURED feelings 🤷🏿
I mean the only reason MLB was the best selling title was because it was multi-platform. Likewise with Marathon. Will ring true for MS games. Only Nintendo titles are truly flexing their muscles when they chart as they are only to be found there.
Yeah sure, yet the player count is no where near what they want for a AAA game with so much money behind it
Why people are trying to spin this game like it’s done overly amazing is baffling to me.
It won’t even be a blip on peoples radars by the end of the year .
The release on Steam of the anime-style gacha-less open-world RPG DragonSword: Awakening is facing a legal challenge from its gacha publisher.
Initially, I got the wrong impression from the 3-limit during the nomination phase. I'm really liking the expansiveness of this list. And nary a grammatical flaw of the list in sight. What is this?!?! >:(
Only disappointment for me is Game Innovation locked to hardware-oriented stuff--except for Trico. I thought at least SUPERHOT got a couple of nods during the nomination process but I guess not.
EDIT: Ah ha! "Darkest Dungeons" instead of "Darkest Dungeon" in IGGY category! :P
I'm just going to predict GOTY here.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
IMO
Best New Video Game Character
- Trico (The Last Guardian)
Best Single Player Experience
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Multiplayer Experience
- Overwatch
Best Downloadable Content
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine
Best Episodic Content
- Hitman: Sapienza
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
- Pokemon Sun and Moon
Best Voice Acting
- Nolan North (Nathan Drake, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s end)
Best Art Direction
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Story
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Soundtrack
- Final Fantasy XV
Best Innovation
- Virtual Reality hardware
News Story of the Year
- Sony E3 2016 conference
Most Anticipated Game of 2017
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Fail of the Year
- No Man’s Sky
Indie Game of the Year
- INSIDE
Game of the Year
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End