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[RyanHardy101]

1. Konami

 

[shark sandwich]

1. No Man's Sky

Honorable mention: SonyGAF for hyping the fuck out of this game as a system seller/list war fodder. Ultra-ambitious game by a new developer with a 10-person team. Surely nothing can go wrong. Hype this shit to eleven!!! Silence the skeptics!!

 

[haikira]

1. Palmer Luckey

 

[KaoteK]

1. No Man's Sky without a doubt.
2. Sony for having shitty anti DDOS (WS-37397-9)

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

1. No Man's Sky
2. FH3 PC port

 

[runnin_blue]

 

[aaaaaa]

1. Street Fighter V launch
2. Oculus Rift

 

[Zia]

Gamers

 

[Salty Hippo]

1. No Man's Sky

Not even a question.

Honorable mentions:

2. Phil Spencer and Xbox's E3 conference.

3. Firewatch's conclusion.

 

[Wimps]

1. No Man's Sky

Nothing personal Sean.

 

[spindoctor]

No Man's Sky, easily. Shitshow of the year.

 

[Pokemaniac]

1. Paper Mario: Color Splash

If it was just another disappointing Paper Mario I wouldn't even consider posting it here but then they had to go and make those ridiculous comments about how Mario and Luigi RPG somehow made RPG Paper Marios redundant. That was just ridiculous.

 

[Primethius]

1. Palmer Luckey

As an aside, I wouldn't put SFV as a fail of the year. It's not even the franchise to experience the biggest drop in sales over the predecessor this year and the gameplay is great.

So I have a hard time giving it FOTY when there's plenty of other games with steep sales drops.

 

[Jumeira]

1. No Man's Sky

 

[AngmarsKing701]

1. No Man's Sky

 

[stew]

1. No Man's Sky

 

[Mindestens]

After checking 10 pages I feel this year's competition should be called 'Second biggest fail of the year after NMS'.

1. videogamer.com going shite.

Last year I enjoyed much of their work that wasn't too serious thanks to being introduced to it by Jim Sterling's Twitter account but this one they started producing less and less nonsense due to their financial situation.

Trinca and Burns are deeply missed by this one. Miller's work went into direction I don't enjoy as much. Scammel and Orry are next to stop working there at all by end of the year. F- Brat.

 

[Phil Fish]

1. Zero Time Dilemma
2. No Man's Sky
3. Mighty no. 9

 

[Rozart]

1. Palmer Luckey. Not even close. Trying to put a game in the top slot is petty compared to how awful this is. His actions had very real world consequences and not just humorous GAF meltdown threads. I'd like to ask anyone posting a list solely of games how they could possibly justify it versus this. Because this political matter is so divisive, this won't get the votes it should on an objective basis. It would be awesome if the mods considered that by offering some sort of "official" dishonorable mention atop what the obvious winner is going to be.

2. CS:GO gambling controversy. This would be an easy winner in many other years.

3. No Man's Sky. Biggest didn't-live-up-to-hype fiasco in a decade.

I'm going to echo this. After reading up more on Luckey, he gets the top spot on my list for sure.

 

[truly101]

1. Mighty Number 9

2. Battleborne

NMS certainly deserves ridicule for its myriad of issues, but like SFV, its being improved with updates to where the game by this time 2017 will be much closer to what was intended (hopefully). Its the biggest mess for sure but its not stuck where it was when it released. I don't know if there is any helping Battleborne, and given the hope that went into MN9 originally its kinda sad where it ended up .

 

[Quote]

1. Palmer Luckey

easily

 

[commissar]

1. Palmer Luckey

 

[Omikaru]

1. No Man's Sky
2. Street Fighter V launch
3. Palmer Luckey

 

[klier]

No Man's Sky, obviously. This thread was not even needed, it's so obvious.

 

[mr stroke]

2 more days to vote if anyone wants to pile on NMS

 

[Horns]

Palmer Luckey

 

[alexbull_uk]

1. No Man's Sky

 

[KalBalboa]

1. Palmer Luckey

What a joke. A true disgrace to the industry.

 

[callmeCata]

1. No Mans Sky

 

[mr stroke]

Voting ends today, get your NMS hate in for any last votes

 

[ShockingAlberto]

For my actual vote, I'll say:

1. Palmer Luckey
2. Sean Murray's handling of No Man's Sky

 

[K.Sabot]

Well obviously


1. No Man's Sky

 

[herminihildo]

Palmer Luckey

I wouldn't be put NMS higher than this guy.

 

[viHuGi]

1. Konami

Losing Kojima and announcing MGS Survival Lmao

 

[Mentok]

Palmer Luckey and it's not even close. An absolute disgrace.

 

[DagnastyEp]

After taking some time to think about this:

1. Lionhead / Fable legends : A core studio for MS, and one of their pillar franchises. It was really unfortunate what happened to Lionhead and the Fable franchise, which seemed ripe for a brilliant 4th installment on Xbox One. I played Fable Legends, it was ok - it had problems, but I don't see why they didn't just put it out as a game preview title. It was fascinating to read the series of events that lead up to this in the Eurogamer story. I hope this serves as a lesson and learning opportunity for MS, but also for other big publisher/devs.

Honorable Mentions:
2. No Man's Sky : I think Hello Games, Sean Murray, and Sony share equal blame in this. The marketing, promotion, and general discussion for this game was misleading and disingenuous, and even after delays it was still released in a poor state, and should've been further delayed.
3. Palmer Lucky
4. Street Fighter V's launch

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

1.No Mans Sky
2.Battleborn

 

[mr stroke]

closed

 

[Menitta]

edit: nvm.

 

[SlimySnake]

1. Nintendo. Didnt release jack shit this year. Delayed Zelda AGAIN. Didnt even reveal Switch properly. Just an awful miserable failure of a year for a video game publisher.

 

[Scrotum Phillips]

First time seeing this thread and see that voting is closed so I know this doesn't count, but...

1. Palmer Lucky

 

[brau]

First time seeing this thread and see that voting is closed so I know this doesn't count, but...

1. Palmer Lucky

Voting closes 12-20-16

 

[Adry9]

Nevermind