The Game Awards 2015

[GregRedd]

(May have missed a post about these awards somewhere, but can't find anything via search, so here's a reminder.)

The Game Awards 2015 happen today (well, technically tomorrow from 4AM here in SA). Here's a complete list of all the categories and nominees this year:

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GAME OF THE YEAR
Bloodborne
Fallout 4
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Super Mario Maker
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Axiom Verge
Her Story
Ori and the Blind Forest
Rocket League
Undertale

BEST MOBILE/HANDHELD GAME
Downwell
Fallout Shelter
Lara Croft Go
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Pac-Man 256

BEST NARRATIVE
Her Story
Life is Strange
Tales From the Borderlands
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Until Dawn

BEST ART DIRECTION
Batman: Arkham Knight
Bloodborne
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Ori and the Blind Forest
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

BEST SCORE/SOUNDTRACK
Fallout 4
Halo 5: Guardians
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Ori and the Blind Forest
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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
Her Story
Life is Strange
Sunset
Undertale

BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Destiny: The Taken King
Halo 5: Guardians
Splatoon
Star Wars Battlefront

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Batman: Arkham Knight
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Ori and the Blind Forest
Rise of the Tomb Raider

BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME
Bloodborne
Fallout 4
Pillars of Eternity
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Undertale

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign-
Mortal Kombat X
Rise of Incarnates
Rising Thunder

BEST FAMILY GAME
Disney Infinity 3.0
Lego Dimensions
Skylanders SuperChargers
Splatoon
Super Mario Maker

BEST SPORTS/RACING GAME
FIFA 16
Forza Motorsport 6
NBA 2K16
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016
Rocket League

BEST MULTIPLAYER
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Destiny: The Taken King
Halo 5: Guardians
Rocket League
Splatoon

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Horizon Zero Dawn
No Man's Sky
Quantum Break
The Last Guardian
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

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
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
League of Legends

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)

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Ceremony will be live streamed on a variety of platforms, consoles, and sites. Check here for your favourite if you're working the night shift, suffer from insomnia, or are just plain curious.

Will mark my guesses for winners a little later. What are yours?

 

[mottamort]

Mark Hamill as Joker in AK? SPOILER ALERT!

 

[MalicE]

Mad Max

 

[Solitude]

I only played Forza Motorsport 6 of all the games listed.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Sad day indeed when RTS doesn't even feature on GOTY lists any more.

Not that we did not have any, Grey Goo, Offworld Trading Company, Total War: Attila and StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void are just some of them, let alone the remastered games such as Homeworld that was so well done it may as well feature.

 

[GregRedd]

The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is Game of the Year 2015.

For prosperity, I will copy pasta the other results I've found below, and then update the original post with all the winners later as well.

 

[GregRedd]

BEST FAMILY GAME
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Mortal Kombat X (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)

BEST MOBILE/HANDHELD GAME
Lara Croft Go (Square Enix Montreal/Square Enix)

ESPORTS TEAM OF THE YEAR
OpTic Gaming

ESPORTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Team EnVyUs)

ESPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
No Man's Sky (Hello Games)

BEST NARRATIVE
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

TRENDING GAMER
Greg Miller

BEST INDIE GAME
Rocket League (Psyonix)

BEST SPORTS/RACING GAME
Rocket League (Psyonix)

GAMES FOR CHANGE
Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)

BEST FAN CREATION
Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
CD Projekt Red (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)

BEST SCORE/SOUNDTRACK
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett, Daniel James/Kojima Productions)

BEST PERFORMANCE
Viva Seifert (Her Story)

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