Hello, everyone. You did all the work leading up to this, and now you have decided the winners in the Game of the Year Awards categories for 2016. Here is what you, the N4G community, decided were the best in their category for 2016.
Best New Video Game Character
Trico (The Last Guardian)
Best Single Player Experience
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Best Multiplayer Experience
Battlefield 1
Best Downloadable Content
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine
Best Episodic Content
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1: Ties that Bind - Part 1
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Pokemon Go
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
DOOM
Best Innovation
Virtual Reality Hardware
News Story of the Year
Mid-generation console announcements (PS4 Pro/Scorpio)
Most Anticipated Game of 2017
Red Dead Redemption 2
Fail of the Year
No Man's Sky
Indie Game of the Year
INSIDE
Game of the Year
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
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Some random facts about this year's voting:
* Every single nominee in every single category was voted for, no nominee had zero votes.
* More votes were placed for Best Downloadable Content than any other category.
* The top 4 nominees for Best Soundtrack were only 6 votes apart from one another.
* Nolan North had more votes for his voice acting than Uncharted 4 had in any other category.
Winners of the prediction contest will be contacted via PM soon.
Sony is said to be pulling back on releasing PlayStation games on PC, and this starts with Ghost of Yotei and Saros.
If true then the PC elitists will no longer be saying..."I'll wait to play it on PC where it'll play best" I'm guessing the money Sony spends porting & profiting from PC isn't worth it. Making PS first party solely exclusive again to their consoles will make their consoles more relevant to buy especially if their output of first party titles are good.
A certain spamtastic account will not be pleased if this is true.
This is another basic logic scenario. We've seen both extremes playing out right now. Would you rather be in Xbox's or Nintendo's position right now? Sony already had a working formula, stick to it.
Sony released games on PC to try to make a few extra bucks... Valve (and possibly MS, if the new Xbox ever sees the light of day) attempted to use this to allow you to play PlayStation games on other consoles, so instead of making Sony a few extra bucks, it's now costing them good money... so this only makes sense.
All those players who claim they were happy to wait an eternity for every game, will now suddenly be saying all those games are/will be crap and they were never interested.
Of course they will...lol. It looks like they'll never get to play PS exclusive games or they'll give in & buy a PS.
PC gamers got by for decades without PS games. They will be just fine
Sonys copy paste first party games aren’t worth buying a console for for most PC gamers
Also “an eternity” lol, DS2 came in about half a year… Sony are all in on PC porting and the dates are getting earlier and earlier
Sure, keep coping obscure, suddenly Jason Schrier is super unreliable too I guess? lmao.
I’ll believe it when Sony announce it - or a year from now if Yotei isn’t on Steam.
Schrier is wrong on a lot of things. Sony literally just held a showcase where they announced more PC ports lol.
But either way, who cares? PC was fine for decades without the 1-2 annual Sony games. Nothing changes really.
PC was the biggest platform before Sony, it will still be after Sony.
Zero chance this is true. Sony likes free money.
They are third party and that won’t change now.
XB is solely a 3rd party company, they hardly have any solely XB console exclusives anymore especially from most of their generational first party ips. 90% of PS first party titles are on PS gaming consoles only.
Elda. Sony are the exact same, they hardly have any PS5 exclusives
Any they do, are timed.
More like people were realizing what wasn't worth it was buying a PS5 to play games that eventually came to another platform. The constant excuses the entire gen to try to lessen the butt hurt y'all were feeling. Let's be for real here ladies and gents y'all were bothered by the fact most of these games were making their way to PC and judging by the replies y'all STILL butthurt. Trying to make it sound like waiting 6 months to a year was the worst thing when most people don't care cause why should they? Who's in a rush to play mostly SP games when they know they can play it on the platform they prefer? How exactly does it hurt y'all personally? Besides getting your pride hurt cause SONY making you look childish for being so loyal to a brand?
If they're pulling support it's because they know that long term they can't convince people to buy a PS if they can get their games on PC. It's that simple. You really think having an extra platform to gain more profit from somehow hurts them financially? Nah, it's cause they can't convince people to throw another 600-700 bucks at new hardware when their current console gen has barely been taken full advantage of. All the conveniences of a console are on PC now, and you aren't locked into a cycle where the hardware you buy becomes obsolete every 6 years. And the new hardware you buy receives games that are built off software made for the gen before.
Of course people rather buy these games on PC if they already own a PC, makes no sense at all to invest in a console if this continues. And it will infact continue if dev cycles keep taking most of the gen to complete development.
Duplicate:
N4g.com/news/2685624/sonys-sh ift-in-strategy-will-lead-to-fe wer-playstation-first-party-gam es-on-pc-it-is-claimed
Well, we have the data in front of us, don't we. Not to mention how extensive Sony's data's got to be.
They've tried.
Huge revenue wasn't generated (don't get me wrong - they did make billions, but you get it), Steam got a cut, Xbox got a cut, PS5 is trailing ~2 million units behind PS4.
The paycheck for, but also potential harm to the remaining years of PS5 and the release of PS6, just wasn't it.
It's absolutely logical if true.
And people shouldn't forget Sony'd simply return to the strategy they've been following for 4/5 of Playstation's history.
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A huge world awaits in Crimson Desert, with plenty to do and explore starting March 19.
This gives me the feeling of Forspoken with an empty world except enemies and puzzles. Gameplay could be much better, though, which would be nice. Definitely not looking like a world you live in, just explore to grow in power.
That Uncharted 4 love.
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Yaay UC4 :)
Fail of the year is 100% correct.
Surprised Pokemon Go won. So many people here were trashing it but I guess there are a lot of people who don't comment.