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GAF FOTY 2016-Fail Of The Year-Results- Winner of the 2016 shit sandwich goes to...

Decider

Member
The fact that most apparently totally forgot about Allison Rapp getting thrown out to dry by Nintendo under pressure by her harassers isn't really unexpected but still a bummer.
Forgot? I thought all mention of that was either excised through post deletions or buried in locked threads.
 
I could see FF XV being on a "Biggest Disappointment" list, but the 5th Biggest failure of the year? A bigger failure than Battleborn?
 

The Lamp

Member
For everyone whining about FFXV, here's how the list looks if you go by % of total vote:

1. NMS - 49%
2. Palmer - 21%
3. Mighty Number 9 - 7%
4. Street Fighter V - 4%
5 - Final Fantasy XV - 2%

6th place is about 2%, 7th is 1%, and every other place after is well under 1%.

Yeah people need to apply better quantitative thinking when they look at results like these.

Though honestly I wish I had seen the thread so I could have included FFXV in my vote too lol
 
Worthy winner but not a lot of imagination further down the list. Nintendo somehow escaped a dreadful year with federation force, star fox 0 and the Wii U collapse in general with barely a mention.
 
Don't get upset about FFXV folks, it'll perform well when the GOTY voting thread comes around.

And here's to my three brethrens who also voted for Firewatch's ending. It is the crappy resolution that binds us.
 
2015's Winner--Konami


Will hand the trophy over to-
No Mans Sky
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Why is Todd Howard getting thrown under the No Man's Sky bus of failure? Did he defend the game or something?
 

Decider

Member
I mean, clearly most thought No Man's Sky was much worse in the voting thread.
The hate for NMS (and Sean Murray in particular- shame on three of you) on here is beyond tedious now. MN9 was arguably worse, given the crowdfunding, delays, mediocre and buggy game and the cynical attempt to spin a franchise out of it before it was even finished.
 

SOLDIER

Member
What's with the hate behind FFXV?

A select group of whiny fucks who have been whining about every aspect since day one.

The game has problems, there's no arguing there, but there's constructive criticism and there's nitpicking.

Just read up on how many people threw a tantrum over the recently added New Game Plus, despite it doing exactly what it says.
 
A select group of whiny fucks who have been whining about every aspect since day one.

The game has problems, there's no arguing there, but there's constructive criticism and there's nitpicking.

Just read up on how many people threw a tantrum over the recently added New Game Plus, despite it doing exactly what it says.
this is quite the tantrum you are throwing over people not liking a game
 
NMS winning over Palmer Luckey is like EA winning worst company over Bank of America. Abysmal lack of perspective.

Meh, Palmer Luckey did the worst thing yes but I still voted for NMS because I see it as gaming fail of the year. What Luckey did didn't have much to do with the industry itself. I'd absolutely vote for BoA over EA as worst company though.


Anyway kinda related but when does the GOTY voting thread go up?
 

Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
A select group of whiny fucks who have been whining about every aspect since day one.

The game has problems, there's no arguing there, but there's constructive criticism and there's nitpicking.

Just read up on how many people threw a tantrum over the recently added New Game Plus, despite it doing exactly what it says.

dude you're getting aggressively angry because 15 people on the internet didn't like a game you like -- please refrain from characterizing other people as whiny fucks throwing tantrums
 

Flux

Member
Meh, Palmer Luckey did the worst thing yes but I still voted for NMS because I see it as gaming fail of the year. What Luckey did didn't have much to do with the industry itself. I'd absolutely vote for BoA over EA as worst company though.


Anyway kinda related but when does the GOTY voting thread go up?

That's a better suited Outlook considering it's gaming related poll. I think I voted Palmer too.
 

fhqwhgads

Member
Worthy winner but not a lot of imagination further down the list. Nintendo somehow escaped a dreadful year with federation force, star fox 0 and the Wii U collapse in general with barely a mention.
Federation Force and Star Fox aren't in the same league as MN9 or NMS. Plus I can't really see how you can consider the Wii U's slow death a fail, it's not like they could much about it at this stage.

I will say, I was expecting at least to see Nintendo's treatment of fan projects at 5th or 4th. That's still pretty terrible and one of the actual cases of Nintendo genuinely being "out of touch"
 

xviper

Member
FFXV is a fail ?? really GAF ?? the game sure has lots of problems ( the car being the biggest ) but overal it's still an amazing game

a overrated Walking\climbing simulator which was once an action game is not a fail ??
 

phanphare

Banned
FFXV is a fail ?? really GAF ?? the game sure has lots of problems ( the car being the biggest ) but overal it's still an amazing game

a overrated Walking\climbing simulator which was once an action game is not a fail ??

look at the vote totals
 

fernoca

Member
As usual, this results are more driven by either emotions or hype(anti-hype), more than anything.

The fact that a relatively average game that some felt over promised aspects and failed to deliver (but still gets updates adding and fixing aspects), won by nearly half the votes over a guy that made racists remarks and who the company basically put inside a bubble not allowing interviews to him or anyone that works to him....

That FFXV even made it there...or that Paper Mario got votes...

Then again the amount of voters was not that high, so votes would be more focused on some sides.

But I mean.
The situation at Crytek is a fail.
United Front Games shutting downs is a fail.
What happened to Lionhead and Fable...
Disney Infinity ...

Yet, none got mentioned.
Studios closing, people without jobs, good game franchises now been on hiatus because of that...but No Man's Sky gets the most vote,because lol Sean Murray (who also got individual votes).
 

SOLDIER

Member
this is quite the tantrum you are throwing over people not liking a game

It's gone beyond that, imo. Nearly every new FFXV-related thread is plagued with petty complaints.

"New update includes free stuff!"

"This shit is terrible I want more free stuff! This game is a complete failure!!!"
 

robotrock

Banned
I see my vote for "people who thought No Man's Sky would be good" didn't get counted. Where's Jill Stein when you need her?

Yup. This is on the people who bought it.

I'm sorry you didn't like a game neogaf...but the prerelease and release coverage was there to tell you what it actually was rather than some hype speak from the devs.
 

Mooreberg

Member
So surprise at MMS "winning" here. I just got FFXV delivered so I will see what it is like over the weekend. It cannot be as bland and monotonous as Pulse in FFXIII.

I think Battleborn gets a pass for being so far out of sight, out of mind. It came and went at light speed.
 
NMS winning over Palmer Luckey is like EA winning worst company over Bank of America. Abysmal lack of perspective.

It's a video game forum. Everything discussed on the gaming side could be dismissed this way.

Palmer Luckey isn't a particularly high profile person, and his offense was not gaming related.
 
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