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NeoGAF Games of the Year 2015 Awards

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Superb job as always on compiling and presenting the list. I really can't complain about the turnout; it was a great year for gaming. Splatoon over Mario Maker was also a pleasant result. Rocket League really deserved its spot, too.
 

pariah164

Member
Why is Trails on this list? I know Second Chapter came out this year, but the first Trails game has been out for a couple of years now...
 

bombshell

Member
Every year I think the genre awards are strange and that's just debatable, but Rise of the Tomb Raider is not Xbox One exclusive. Halo 5 is the rightful winner!

Yeah, that award looked weird to me too. Rise of the Tomb Raider is on Xbox 360, so how can it win Xbox One exclusive?
 

Corpekata

Banned
Nintendo has 40 titles that can't be right? Anyway after nailing the top three last year I find GAF flubbed it this time, but the top ten is overall great.

They are probably considered the publisher of a lot of smaller Eshop titles and indies, similar to how MS published nearly everything in early Arcade days.
 

Well done ppl

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=190025732&postcount=158
1. [PS4][PC] Rocket League (Sports) = 12 points
2. [360][XB1][PS3][PS4][PC] Life Is Strange (Adventure) = 9 points
3. [XB1][PS4][PC] Batman: Arkham Knight (Adventure) = 7 points
4. [PS3] Yakuza 5 (Action) = 6 points
5. [PS4][PC] Soma (Horror) = 5 points
6. [XB1][PC] Ori and the Blind Forest (Platform) = 5 points
7. [360][XB1][PS3][PS4][PC][IOS][AND] Tales from the Borderlands: Episodes 2-5

Have rocket league and batman and like them both a lot (rocket league would have been on my list if I weren't fucking trash at it). The rest I am mostly definitely interested in. Good recommendations.
 
Shame Rocket League didn't get higher but not a bad 3 games to be behind and quite a good list.

Couldn't get into bloodborne myself but get why people like it as the combat was great.

The combat gets a lot of deserved attention, but two of my favorite things about are its level design and especially its lore. The latter in particular. It's so good.
 

Nameless

Member
Great to see MGSV crack the top 3 given how divisive and contentious the conversation surrounding that game was on GAF.
 
My prediction back from when the GOTY voting thread was about halfway done:

Top 3 are gonna be Witcher 3, Bloodborne, and MGSV for sure, although order is up in the air. Rest of the top 10 will probably be Super Mario Maker, Splatoon, Until Dawn, Undertale, Rocket League, Fallout 4 and Xenoblade X. Although I'd give an outside shot to Arkham Knight as well. The specific order is anyone's guess but from just skimming over lists so far in the thread I'd say those are the games showing up the most.

Got 9 out of 10, just missed Life is Strange. And Xenoblade was #11 so I was almost perfect.

Good list this year GAF, congrats to Bloodborne!
 

BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I just have generic Nintendo compatibility.

But a big chunk of my year was taken up by playing Dragon Quest VIII which as a 2006 title doesn't exactly count.
 

King_Moc

Banned
Life is Strange, which I thought was really good, over Splatoon and Mario Maker is a little laughable, but otherwise that's a slick and interesting list. Also, I only voted for a few games but they all made the Top 20 so yay! Also, go Bloodborne and MGS V! Two of the best games ever made released in the same year, wowzers.

Why is it? I imagine Mario Maker and Splatoon both sold more copies yet, despite that, Life is Strange got more votes.
 
Why is Trails on this list? I know Second Chapter came out this year, but the first Trails game has been out for a couple of years now...
Yeah, looking at that list, I'm pretty sure the overcomplicated naming led to some people voting "Trails in the Sky" when they meant SC.
Which would explain why a game that released almost 5 years ago in the West on PSP is the number one Vita game.

The Vita GOTY is a 2014 PSP game..? Surely the voters at least meant SC since that released this year.
2011 even.

Edit : even if Trails FC is at 78 points and SC at 84, SC should have the Vita top spot, while it's nowhere on the list ?
 

Hugstable

Banned
Yeah, that award looked weird to me too. Rise of the Tomb Raider is on Xbox 360, so how can it win Xbox One exclusive?

who cares, its a great game and definitely deserving of an award. Definitely the best game I played on my Xbox One this year personally.
 

Gattsu25

Banned
This is pretty much the most impressive GOTY thread/list I've seen.

Amazing work and presentation, timetokill and Cheesemeister!


Also, last year was so rich in quality content it was unbelievable. Agree with every listing in those first few posts.
 

Hugstable

Banned
Why is Trails on this list? I know Second Chapter came out this year, but the first Trails game has been out for a couple of years now...

I bet for most it read the title as Legened of Heroes or just Trails in the Sky and kept cutting everything else. I would laugh if that's all votes for both SC and CS hahahaha. Then again maybe many just didn't play CS yet, I know I'm still working on it since I played SC first. But yeah I'm positive it's meant to be FC there and not SC

The conspiracy has been true for a while now.

It's sadly been feeling like this for awhile for me too, makes so many topics now just not worth posting in
 

Ultimadrago

Member
I'm on four people's affinity lists, that feels pretty high for me. I'm really getting more and more mainstream every year. Not much I can say about the general results, I don't really care for most of the games that are ranked really high, for the most part not into those types of games. Cities: Skylines getting #21 is pretty good though :), well deserved.

We'll have you munching on Doritos while watching The Game Awards in no time!

Great taste. Not suprised to see Ultimadrago and ShockingAlberto. I remember liking the comments for their lists.

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pariah164

Member
Yeah, looking at that list, I'm pretty sure the overcomplicated naming led to some people voting "Trails in the Sky" when they meant SC.
Which would explain why a game that released almost 5 years ago in the West on PSP is the number one Vita game.


2011 even.
Only GAF would make a mistake like that.
 
Organiser's did a nice job.

Didn't expect BB to win over W3 - not a huge amount between them though. Good list; imo 2015 was a good year overall.
 

Kudo

Member
Well deserved win for Bloodborne, truly an exceptional gem and game of all-time. What a great year this was.
Outstanding work on the list!
 
I imagine Rise of the Tomb Raider would have been higher up in the rankings if it hadn't been exclusive to the least popular console (I love my Xbone, but this is just the truth). Fortunately it comes out on PC in 5 days and it's free with all new Nvidia GPU purchases so hopefully more people will see how excellent it is.

Great list overall though, Bloodborne #1 and Splatoon best shooter makes me happy.
 

Tizoc

Member
This is list so anti-climatic.
It feels no different than the dozens of other 2015 GotY lists, with or without Bloodborne.
To be fair though Until Dawn and Rocket League are in there so there is that ubt otherwise.

Pretty dull unimpressive list, and not because of Bloodborne; Witcha 3 could be #1 and it'd still be a dull list.
 

benny_a

extra source of jiggaflops
I imagine Rise of the Tomb Raider would have been higher up in the rankings if it hadn't been exclusive to the least popular console (I love my Xbone, but this is just the truth). Fortunately it comes out on PC in 5 days and it's free with all new Nvidia GPU purchases so hopefully more people will see how excellent it is.
Despite what the thread says, Rise of the Tomb Raider was also on 360.
 
This is list so anti-climatic.
It feels no different than the dozens of other 2015 GotY lists, with or without Bloodborne.
To be fair though Until Dawn and Rocket League are in there so there is that ubt otherwise.

Pretty dull unimpressive list, and not because of Bloodborne; Witcha 3 could be #1 and it'd still be a dull list.

Well this ain't the hipster awards.
 

Oreoleo

Member
And Mass Effect was only on 2 platforms the year it won

Oh wow, I forgot it released on PS3 a full year after 360.

This is list so anti-climatic.
It feels no different than the dozens of other 2015 GotY lists, with or without Bloodborne.
To be fair though Until Dawn and Rocket League are in there so there is that ubt otherwise.

Pretty dull unimpressive list, and not because of Bloodborne; Witcha 3 could be #1 and it'd still be a dull list.

Anti-climactic is a good word for it. The writing was on the wall at *least* for the top 3 a few weeks ago.

But at the end of the day it's a popularity contest and GAF is a big forum. Don't put too much stock in it.
 
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