MyGaming Game of the Year 2016

[Jan]

Dude, a patch got nominated for best multiplayer game. A PATCH

I will take this as a personal affront! (not really)

It's something I've thought about quite a bit and wonder if there really is a solution... Older games get updated a lot, and a lot of work goes into those updates, yet by virtue of the base game not being released in the year the major update was, it stands no chance of winning an award.

Now The Witcher 3 is a bit of an extreme case because it won a GOTY award last year, so it's a bit rough that it was in the running *again* this year because it released an expansion.

And yet despite that, the tribe has spoken, and I completely get why - it's an excellently crafted story over 20 hours of new gameplay (on average). It *is* a whole new game, you just happen to need the previous game to play it.

Let's take another game like No Man's Sky. Hello Games can roll out a patch next year that makes it the greatest indie game of the decade and unless it rolls it into a new game and charges for it, it can't be nominated for an award?

That's why I nominated Diablo 3 this year. No-one would vote for it, but I feel it deserves at least a nomination. They added a solid amount of content over the year, changed up the metagame, and manage to keep a significant community going around a non-tournament game. All for free.

(Similarly, Broforce probably won best SA-developed game despite being "released" long ago, and it was nominated by virtue of being released on PS4 this year.)

[Solitude]

I will take this as a personal affront! (not really)

It's something I've thought about quite a bit and wonder if there really is a solution... Older games get updated a lot, and a lot of work goes into those updates, yet by virtue of the base game not being released in the year the major update was, it stands no chance of winning an award.

Now The Witcher 3 is a bit of an extreme case because it won a GOTY award last year, so it's a bit rough that it was in the running *again* this year because it released an expansion.

And yet despite that, the tribe has spoken, and I completely get why - it's an excellently crafted story over 20 hours of new gameplay (on average). It *is* a whole new game, you just happen to need the previous game to play it.

Let's take another game like No Man's Sky. Hello Games can roll out a patch next year that makes it the greatest indie game of the decade and unless it rolls it into a new game and charges for it, it can't be nominated for an award?

That's why I nominated Diablo 3 this year. No-one would vote for it, but I feel it deserves at least a nomination. They added a solid amount of content over the year, changed up the metagame, and manage to keep a significant community going around a non-tournament game. All for free.

(Similarly, Broforce probably won best SA-developed game despite being "released" long ago, and it was nominated by virtue of being released on PS4 this year.)

The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine won LazyGamer's RPG of the year too. Or was it NAG... It was one of the other South African gaming sites. Can't remember which.

I'll probably never experience the Witcher 3 because I don't like Geralt.

Now Dark Souls 3... there you can make your own character. Far superior.

[BeoTeK]

I will take this as a personal affront! (not really)

It's something I've thought about quite a bit and wonder if there really is a solution... Older games get updated a lot, and a lot of work goes into those updates, yet by virtue of the base game not being released in the year the major update was, it stands no chance of winning an award.

Now The Witcher 3 is a bit of an extreme case because it won a GOTY award last year, so it's a bit rough that it was in the running *again* this year because it released an expansion.

And yet despite that, the tribe has spoken, and I completely get why - it's an excellently crafted story over 20 hours of new gameplay (on average). It *is* a whole new game, you just happen to need the previous game to play it.

Let's take another game like No Man's Sky. Hello Games can roll out a patch next year that makes it the greatest indie game of the decade and unless it rolls it into a new game and charges for it, it can't be nominated for an award?

That's why I nominated Diablo 3 this year. No-one would vote for it, but I feel it deserves at least a nomination. They added a solid amount of content over the year, changed up the metagame, and manage to keep a significant community going around a non-tournament game. All for free.

(Similarly, Broforce probably won best SA-developed game despite being "released" long ago, and it was nominated by virtue of being released on PS4 this year.)

The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine won LazyGamer's RPG of the year too. Or was it NAG... It was one of the other South African gaming sites. Can't remember which.

I'll probably never experience the Witcher 3 because I don't like Geralt.

Now Dark Souls 3... there you can make your own character. Far superior.

I also think there's a difference between a patch and added content or expansion. They aren't simply just fixing bugs, glitches, exploits etc they're also adding a boat load of new content. We're talking an entire game length worth of content that was added.

[MalicE]

I will take this as a personal affront! (not really).

HAHA! no you shouldn't, I'm more of an abback kind of guy....... wait......

Let's take another game like No Man's Sky. Hello Games can roll out a patch next year that makes it the greatest indie game of the decade and unless it rolls it into a new game and charges for it, it can't be nominated for an award?.

Yeah like I've said previously, I would nominate the Foundation Patch then cause that added and changed a lot in the game.

That's why I nominated Diablo 3 this year. No-one would vote for it, but I feel it deserves at least a nomination. They added a solid amount of content over the year, changed up the metagame, and manage to keep a significant community going around a non-tournament game. All for free.

Then maybe next year we should look at a "Honorable Mention" category for these old new games

[Solitude]

Then maybe next year we should look at a "Honorable Mention" category for these old new games

Or next year there can be a DLC category.

[MalicE]

Or next year there can be a DLC category.

and that too

[Blazzok]

Or next year there can be a DLC category.

My favourite DLC of the year was the Zebra camo skin on my AK47 in CSGO

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[MetalSoup]

It seems this thread has run its course, so have some nostalgia:

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It seems this thread has run its course, so have some nostalgia:

I miss Cybernet. And the opening shots of MGS and Monkey Island 3 already got me happy already