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RespectThySole · Feb 10, 2016

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt won a mammoth three awards, including the Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year, at last night’s New York Game Awards in Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by the New York Videogame Critics Circle, the Awards included appearances by Wyclef Jean, members of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Rockstar Games, award-winning “Book of Numbers” author Joshua Cohen and downtown music legend Tom Clark. The full list of winners appears below.

Andrew Yoon Memorial Legend Award:

Rockstar Games

Statue of Liberty Award for Best World:

Bloodborne
Kerbal Space Program
Rise of the Tomb Raider
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fallout 4
Batman: Arkham Knight
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game:

The Beginners Guide (Davey Wreden)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios)
The Talos Principle (Croteam)
Soma (Frictional Games)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Soul Axiom (Wales Interactive)
Technobabylon (Technocrat Games)
Mushroom 11 (Untame Games)
Undertale (Toby Fox)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Sunset (Tale of Tales)
Cibele (Star Maid Games)

Winner: Rocket League (Psyonix)

Battery Park Award for Best Handheld Game:

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D (Nintendo) Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
Steins;Gate (5pb., Nitroplus)
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Nintendo)
Resogun Defenders (Housemarque)
Persona 4: Dancing All Night (Atlus)
BOXBOY! (Nintendo)

Winner: BOXBOY! (Nintendo)

Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game:

Life is Strange – Ashly Burch – Chloe Price (Square Enix)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Doug Cockle – Geralt (CD Projekt RED)
Fallout 4 – Stephen Russell – Various Roles Including Detective Nick Valentine (Bethesda)
Her Story – Viva Siefert – Hannah Smith (Sam Barlow)
Cibele – Nina Freeman (Star Maid Games)
Rise of the Tomb Raider – Camilla Luddington – Lara Croft (Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal)
Metal Gear Solid V – Kiefer Sutherland – Venom Snake/Big Boss (Konami)
NBA 2K16 – Sarunas J. Jackson – Victor Van Lier (Visual Concepts)

Winner: Her Story – Viva Siefert – Hannah Smith (Sam Barlow)

Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game:

Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)
Tearaway Unfolded (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Leonardo’s Cat (Savage Studios Ltd)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios)
Disney Infinity 3.0 (Disney)
Lego Dimensions (Traveller’s Tales)
Whispering Willows (Abstraction Games)
Splatoon (Nintendo)

Winner: Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)

A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game:

Alphabear (Spry Fox)
Pac-Man 256 (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Prune (Joel McDonald)
Specimen (PepRally, LLC)
Dark Echo (RAC7)
Subterfuge (Snappy Touch)
Fallout Shelter (Bethesda)
Downwell (Moppin)
Lifeline (3 Minute Games LLC)
Lara Croft Go (Square Enix)
Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector (Hit-Point)

Winner: Lara Croft Go (Square Enix)

Herman Melville Award for Best Writing:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)
Life Is Strange (Square Enix)
Shadowrun: Hong Kong (Harebrained Schemes)
Soma (Frictional Games)
Hard West (Creative(Forge Games)
Until Dawn (Supermassive Games)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Sunset (Tale of Tales)
NBA 2K16 (Visual Concepts)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal)
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (Andrew Crawshaw)

Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

Knickerbocker Award for Best Game Journalism:

Will Partin
Rob Zacny
Christian Donlan
Cara Ellison
Ian Danskin
Carolyn Petit
Jon Bois

Winner: Cara Ellison

Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game:

Fallout 4 (Bethesda)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios)
Undertale (Toby Fox)
Metal Gear Solid V (Konami)
Splatoon (Nintendo)
Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (Ubisoft)
Persona IV: Dancing All Night (Atlus)
Mushroom 11 (Untame Games)
Life Is Strange (Square Enix)

Winner: Metal Gear Solid V (Konami)

Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake:

Uncharted Collection (Naughty Dog)
Rare Replay (Rare)
Grim Fandango Remastered (LucasArts)
Fallout Collection (Bethesda)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (Nintendo)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (Nihon Falcom)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D (Nintendo)

Winner: Rare Replay (Rare)

Ebbets Field Award for Best ESports Team:

Denial eSports – Call of Duty
MVP Phoenix – Dota 2
Na’Vi – Dota 2
FNATIC – CS GO
Cloud9 – League of Legends
SK Telecom T1 – League of Legends
Evil Geniuses – Dota 2
OpTic Gaming – Call of Duty

Winner: SK Telecom T1 – League of Legends

Big Apple Award for Best Game:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)
Life Is Strange (Square Enix)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Disney Infinity 3.0 (Disney)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal)
Bloodborne (FromSoftware)
Until Dawn (Supermassive Games)
Undertale (Toby Fox)

Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

Lol at that acceptance for the Best Music Award . Skip to 1:35.

dugdug · Feb 10, 2016

Very cool of them to have a memorial award for Andrew Yoon. Miss that guy's opinion on games.

Randdalf · Feb 10, 2016

Na`vi and MVP Phoenix nominated as the best e-sports teams? WutFace.

NIGHT- · Feb 10, 2016

Best game continues to win! Witcher 3 is incredible

marrec · Feb 10, 2016

Randdalf said:
Na`vi and MVP Phoenix nominated as the best e-sports teams? WutFace.

Ya I'm wondering how either of them sneaked in there. And also how EG didn't win (usa, usa, usa).

Also, digging the Cara Ellison pick, her book was great.

KraytarJ · Feb 10, 2016

Randdalf said:
Na`vi and MVP Phoenix nominated as the best e-sports teams? WutFace.

Phoenix at least had a good run at ti, Na'vi being nominated makes far less sense. It feels as if they just nominated some token teams like "oh, they won ti and everyone likes Na'vi so fuck it there's the nominees" type of deal.

Randdalf · Feb 10, 2016

marrec said:
Ya I'm wondering how either of them sneaked in there. And also how EG didn't win (usa, usa, usa).

Also, digging the Cara Ellison pick, her book was great.

CDEC, EG and OG are probably the three I'd nominate.

M0nochromatic · Feb 10, 2016

Decent lists all around and nice memorial.

Also am I seeing things or is NBA 2K16 in the best writing category.

RespectThySole · Feb 10, 2016

M0nochromatic said:
Decent lists all around and nice memorial.

Also am I seeing things or is NBA 2K16 in the best writing category.

Yeah that one makes no sense. Even the MC stated that he doesn't know how it was a nominee for that category.

TriAceJP · Feb 10, 2016

Some of these are laughable. Handheld specifically.

Also, Life is Strange second best writing? Hm....

Corpekata · Feb 10, 2016

TriAceJP said:
Some of these are laughable. Handheld specifically.

Also, Life is Strange second best writing? Hm....

They aren't listed in order. The bolded are the winners.

fhqwhgads · Feb 10, 2016

Undertale robbed for best music yet again

CrimsonFist · Feb 10, 2016

Trails in the Sky was a remake?

Unless they mean Evo, but I'm guessing they don't.

RespectThySole · Feb 10, 2016

TriAceJP said:
Some of these are laughable. Handheld specifically.

Also, Life is Strange second best writing? Hm....

Winners are bolded. I'll remove the numbers to avoid confusion.

MiamiWesker · Feb 10, 2016

Did no one play batman, how is mark hamill not winning best voice acing awards everywhere.

Corpekata · Feb 10, 2016

CrimsonFist said:
Trails in the Sky was a remake?

Unless they mean Evo, but I'm guessing they don't.

Probably just meant the ports for SC. The Fallout collection aren't remakes either.

WhiskerFrisker · Feb 10, 2016

How in the world was Bloodborne not nominated for best music?

Dangansona · Feb 10, 2016

M0nochromatic said:
Decent lists all around and nice memorial.

Also am I seeing things or is NBA 2K16 in the best writing category.

I thought the moment to moment writing was pretty solid in 2K16, the problem was the story itself and how it was implemented in the MyCareer mode. Maybe the award separates writing and story?

AyanFaust · Feb 10, 2016

The names for the awards are pretty adorable. ^^. Glad to see witcher 3 still taking in awards. Boxboy for handhelds though? The stuff on the list was probably better, and to trails of cold steel for handhelds? They included trails in the sky(wrongly) in the best remaster, so they should have know about the series. Weird. That was my personal handheld game of the year with maybe record breaker being a close second.

Jumping Chief · Feb 10, 2016

Happy to see that Rise of the Tomb Raider ranked in a lot of lists.

Nesther · Feb 10, 2016

Are the bolded ones the winner?

RoboPlato · Feb 10, 2016

Heh, really like the award names.

Hassun · Feb 10, 2016

Some of these nominees are clearly filler. Makes me wonder why they list so many of them.

RespectThySole · Feb 10, 2016

CrimsonFist said:
Trails in the Sky was a remake?

Unless they mean Evo, but I'm guessing they don't.

It's just an all-encompassing category for remakes/remasters/ports.

ps3ud0 · Feb 10, 2016

Nesther said:
Are the bolded ones the winner?

Yeah - having them as numbered lists could confuse

And fixed...

ps3ud0 8)

Richie · Feb 10, 2016

Rare Replay doesn't actually qualify as a remake, but I'm glad to see it being recognized, so unfairly ignored right after release. Pleasantly surprised at Boxboy crowned for best handheld game, too!

ViciousDS · Feb 10, 2016

shocker here is that 2k16 had two nominations

best acting
best writing

this has to be a fucking joke.....it is absolutely one of the worst written storylines I have ever played. I skipped as much as I could and Victor Van Lier? Seriously? Terrible character.

it has to be filler lol

Fried Food · Feb 10, 2016

I like how this award ceremony seemingly comes out of no where and does more right than all the other award shows we are familiar with.

PeregrinSe7en · Feb 10, 2016

WhiskerFrisker said:
How in the world was Bloodborne not nominated for best music?

Bloodborne got....

Devil · Feb 10, 2016

They seriously named the award for a remake Freedom Tower Award. Ahahaha, perfect!

chicagocubsfan · Feb 10, 2016

Steins;Gate getting nominated is great.

lukeskymac · Feb 10, 2016

Undertale losing best music to fucking MGS, BB not even being nominated, and someone actually thought Chloe was Best Acting material since it was nominated... just lol.

UglyPony · Feb 10, 2016

What is it with bloodborne not at least being nominated for music. I just dont get it.

Shpeshal Nick · Feb 10, 2016

Lara Croft GO is phenomenal.

Double dipped in Windows 10 and iOS.

Acquiescence · Feb 10, 2016

Keifer Sutherland for best actor lol!

Tenebrous · Feb 10, 2016

EG not winning best eSports team is a shame, but honestly, that's a pretty damn good list of nominations & winners.

RespectThySole · Feb 10, 2016

lukeskymac said:
Undertale losing best music to fucking MGS, and someone actually thought Chloe was Best Acting material since it was nominated... just lol.

Yeah, MGSV only has one noteworthy original theme. The licensed tracks definitely carry it, but Sins of the Father is used terribly. I don't really care for Chloe either.

RespectThySole · Feb 10, 2016

RoboPlato said:
Heh, really like the award names.

Yeah, the names are cute lol.

Rush_Khan · Feb 10, 2016

WhiskerFrisker said:
How in the world was Bloodborne not nominated for best music?

Obviously these noobs weren't gud inuuf to get to

Upper Cathedral Ward

.

I'm just joking, apart from that track and the final boss I don't consider Bloodborne's music to be all that good (it should've won everything else, though). Ori definitely deserved to win Best Music, though I admit I haven't finished the mess that is MGSV.

Toxi · Feb 10, 2016

MGSV best music?

Uh... I guess Sins Of the Father is pretty awesome, but what else is there?

Golgo 13 · Feb 10, 2016

A step in the right direction for dignifying the process of acknowledging the artistic accomplishments of gaming. With all due respect to other attempts, this seems like a more esteemed process, in my view.

Chaos2Frozen · Feb 10, 2016

Toxi said:
MGSV best music?

Uh... I guess Sins Of the Father is pretty awesome, but what else is there?

Quiet's Theme?

"Man who sold the world"

JustSomeone · Feb 10, 2016

Witcher 3 certainly deserves the GOTY award,but Pillars of eternity not even nominated for best writing is laughable.

Deleted member 80556 · Feb 10, 2016

Toxi said:
MGSV best music?

Uh... I guess Sins Of the Father is pretty awesome, but what else is there?

I like the main theme. It's pretty hype. That's it.

Golgo 13 · Feb 10, 2016

Chaos2Frozen said:
Quiet's Theme?

"Man who sold the world"

Yeah, bunch of good 80's music in there. Soundtrack doesn't nessecarily mean "original composition".

W.S. · Feb 10, 2016

Toxi said:
MGSV best music?

Uh... I guess Sins Of the Father is pretty awesome, but what else is there?

That's what I'm saying.

Shake Appeal · Feb 10, 2016

Ctrl+F "invisible"

No, none of this checks out.

Toxi · Feb 10, 2016

Golgo 13 said:
Yeah, bunch of good 80's music in there. Soundtrack doesn't nessecarily mean "original composition".

Good point.

Lanrutcon · Feb 10, 2016

Came in to see if there'd be one of these threads without Bloodborne complaints.

Maybe next year.

Thabass · Feb 10, 2016

Juan29.zapata said:
I like the main theme. It's pretty hype. That's it.

No love for the actual song The Phantom Pain? Other than Sins of the Father, it's one of the best on the soundtrack.

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