The Game Awards 2015

[OrbitalDawn]

The nominees are out:

http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/13/9728874/the-game-awards-2015-nominees
http://thegameawards.com/nominees/

GAME OF THE YEAR
Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
Bethesda Game Studios
CD Projekt Red
From Software
Kojima Productions
Nintendo

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Axiom Verge (Tom Happ)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST MOBILE/HANDHELD GAME
Downwell (Moppin/Devolver Digital)
Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios|Behaviour Interactive/Bethesda Softworks)
Lara Croft Go (Square Enix Montreal/Square Enix)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
Pac-Man 256 (Hipster Whale/Bandai Namco Entertainment)

BEST NARRATIVE
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)
Tales From the Borderlands (Telltale Games)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Until Dawn (Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

BEST SCORE/SOUNDTRACK
Fallout 4 (Inon Zur/Bethesda Game Studios)
Halo 5: Guardians (Kazuma Jinnouchi/343 Industries)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett, Daniel James/Kojima Productions)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Gareth Coker/Moon Studios)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski, Percival/CD Projekt Red)

BEST PERFORMANCE
Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
Mark Hamill as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)
Viva Seifert (Her Story)

GAMES FOR CHANGE
Cibele (Nina Freeman)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)
Sunset (Tale of Tales)
Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch/Activision)
Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie/Activision)
Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)
Star Wars Battlefront (EA DICE/Electronic Arts)

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Ubisoft Quebec/Ubisoft)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Microsoft Studios)

BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME
Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian Entertainment/Paradox Interactive)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- (Arc System Works/Aksys Games)
Mortal Kombat X (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Rise of Incarnates (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Rising Thunder (Radiant Entertainment)

BEST FAMILY GAME
Disney Infinity 3.0 (Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive)
Lego Dimensions (TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Skylanders SuperChargers (Vicarious Visions|Beenox/Activision)
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)

BEST SPORTS/RACING GAME
FIFA 16 (EA Canada/Electronic Arts)
Forza Motorsport 6 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)
NBA 2K16 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (PES Productions/Konami)
Rocket League (Psyonix)

BEST MULTIPLAYER
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch/Activision)
Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie/Activision)
Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Computer Entertaiment)
No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
Quantum Break (Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
The Last Guardian (GenDesign/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment)

ESPORTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Team EnVyUs)
Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (League of Legends/SK Telecom T1)
Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Fnatic)
Peter "ppd" Dager (Dota 2/Evil Geniuses)
Syed Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan (Dota 2/Evil Geniuses)

ESPORTS TEAM OF THE YEAR
Evil Geniuses
Fnatic
Optic Gaming
SK Telecom T1
Team SoloMid

ESPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
Dota 2 (Valve)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
League of Legends (Riot Games)

TRENDING GAMER
Total Biscuit
Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles
Greg Miller
Markiplier
PewDiePie

BEST FAN CREATION
GTA 5 - Targets (Hoodoo Operator)
Real GTA (Corridor Digital)
Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)
Super Mario Maker e-Reader Levels (Baddboy78 / theycallmeshaky)
Twitch Plays Dark Souls (Twitch Community)

 

[Knyro]

Fallout 4 is already there and SW: Battlefront even though it isn't out yet?

What BS, this is more like the Hype Awards 2015.

 

[DanDango]

^^This

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Fallout 4 is already there and SW: Battlefront even though it isn't out yet?

What BS, this is more like the Hype Awards 2015.

Why wouldn't it already be there? The judges that nominated them will all have played it already or finished it already.

A panel of judges from 32 international publications, including Polygon, selected the nominees for The Game Awards 2015. Games had to have a commercial release date on or before Nov. 24, 2015, in order to be eligible for this year's awards, which excludes some big December titles such as Just Cause 3 and Rainbow Six Siege.

Unfortunate about those missing out, though.

Dunno why don't just hold it at the start of the following year to make sure everything from 2015 is actually included.

 

[ponder]

Dunno why don't just hold it at the start of the following year to make sure everything from 2015 is actually included.

Don't see why it has to fall in a calendar year either. Golden joystick award is done end of october so anything from november the previous year is included.

 

[ponder]

My pics

GAME OF THE YEAR
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)


DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
CD Projekt Red


BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Rocket League (Psyonix)


BEST NARRATIVE
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)


BEST ART DIRECTION
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)


BEST PERFORMANCE
Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)


BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Microsoft Studios)


BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)


MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment)


TRENDING GAMER
Total Biscuit


BEST FAN CREATION
Real GTA (Corridor Digital)

 

[Knyro]

Why wouldn't it already be there? The judges that nominated them will all have played it already or finished it already.

Because it won't be the actual game. In many cases advance copies of games for press to review etc. are not finished/only include certain parts of the game/still in beta etc.

We don't even know if they finished them (especially a massive game like fallout). How did they judge the multiplayer aspects of Star Wars Battlefront when it isn't even out yet? Local servers? Hardly fair to the other shooters, did they judge it from the open beta? Not fair either.

There's too much we don't know about this process.

They should just wait until the games are properly released then put them in the running for the next year, like the Oscars. But like I said, the hype would have died down by then.

 

[Vizzehh]

Cannot stand the Fallout 4 hype, some people haven't even played it and its already their favourite game of the year ffs

 

[Voicy]

Cannot stand the Fallout 4 hype, some people haven't even played it and its already their favourite game of the year ffs

I bought fallout 4 on PS4 on Friday.

I still haven't opened it, seeing as I got the new Witcher 3 expansion.

 

[Polish]

Fallout 4 is already there and SW: Battlefront even though it isn't out yet?

What BS, this is more like the Hype Awards 2015.

Word.