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[ashecitism]

http://www.gdconf.com/news/witcher_3_wins_game_of_the_yea.html

Best Debut
Moon Studios (Ori and the Blind Forest)

Best Audio
Crypt of the NecroDancer (Brace Yourself Games)

Innovation Award
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Best Technology
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

Best Visual Art
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios)

Best Narrative
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Best Design
Rocket League (Psyonix)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Audience Award
Life is Strange (DONTNOD Entertainment)

Game of the Year
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

Pioneer Award
Markus "Notch" Persson

Ambassador Award
Tracy Fullerton

Lifetime Achievement Award
Todd Howard

http://www.gdconf.com/news/her_story_takes_home_top_honor.html

Excellence in Narrative ($3,000)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Excellence in Audio ($3,000)
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)

Excellence in Design ($3,000)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)

Excellence in Visual Art ($3,000)
Oxenfree (Night School Studio)

ID@Xbox Rising Star Award
(Girls Make Games - The Hole Story)

Nuovo Award ($5,000)
Cibele (Star Maid Games)

Best Student Game ($3,000)
Beglitched (Jennifer Jiao Hsia and Alec Thomson)

Audience Award ($3,000)
Undertale (Toby Fox)

Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($30,000)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

 

[Poster#1]

Bloodborne ROBBED!

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Everything was "Her Story".

 

[Nightbird]

So you're saying I should pay her story.

 

[KZXcellent]

Congrats to The Witcher. While I didn't like the game very much I still believe it deserves all the praise and awards.

Also, I'm kind of happy this is probably the last award show for 2015 games so 'Bloodborne was Robbed' can finally die. ...Eh, who am I kidding, 2016 will be the year of "Dark Souls III was robbed"

 

[Walpurgis]

The Witcher 3 was indisputably the greatest game of the year so this is well deserved. And from a developer's perspective it was even better with its unprecedented scope, world class technology and striking quality. Congratulations to CD Projekt RED for this incredible achievement.

 

[ashecitism]

Congrats to The Witcher. While I didn't like the game very much I still believe it deserves all the praise and awards.

Also, I'm kind of happy this is probably the last award show for 2015 games so 'Bloodborne was Robbed' can finally die. ...Eh, who am I kidding, 2016 will be the year of "Dark Souls III was robbed"

There's still the BAFTAs, though Bloodborne isn't nominated for GotY there.

 

[KZXcellent]

There's still the BAFTAs, though Bloodborne isn't nominated for GotY there.

DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE CHANCE TO BE ROBBED.

 

[Darkly Tranquil]

Witcher 3 is a worthy winner.

Also glad that Life is Strange got some acknowledgement too.

 

[maquiladora]

I really need to get Her Story.

 

[Salsa]

nice to see Rocket League win something that isnt COMPETITIVE SPORT or something

design is a nice one

 

[Kyou]

Good for Undertale and Her Story(which cleaned up, goddamn)

 

[FeelTheKick]

So how many GOTY awards has witcher won ? Did it surpass tlou ?

 

[Kanashimi]

Was Darkest Dungeon not nominated for anything? D:

 

[ashecitism]

Was Darkest Dungeon not nominated for anything? D:

It had a couple of IGF nominations including Grand Prize, but no GDC noms.

 

[Sparse]

(sorry, just wanted to use this. )

 

[tauke]

Congrats to Witcher 3 for winning the GOTY award!

I'm impressed to see the evolution from The Witcher to The Witcher 2 and finally The Witcher 3. There are like completely different game from each other.

 

[Kanashimi]

It had a couple of IGF nominations including Grand Prize, but no GDC noms.

Awww, that makes me super sad. Thanks for letting me know though.

 

[SolidSnakex]

So how many GOTY awards has witcher won ? Did it surpass tlou ?

Taking into account User awards it's 251 vs 249 in favor of TW3. Without User awards it's 191 vs. 164 in favor of TLoU.

 

[Crossing Eden]

So how many GOTY awards has witcher won ? Did it surpass tlou ?

Yep.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Oh, I missed this. Excellent!

 

[Noisepurge]

can't we watch both IGF and GDC awards shows anywhere this year?

i only found one Twitch link but that has muted audio and it doesn't seem to work in general.

 

[JaggedSac]

Ori grabbing some stuff. Playing through it again and it certainly deserves it.

 

[jett]

After playing Her Story I actually fell kinda disappointed after all the awards it has been getting. Ah wells. As far as story goes, I liked Soma's a great deal more.

 

[Solrac]

Best Technology
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

the order ROBBED

 

[manfestival]

Bloodborne ROBBED!

hope they ban you for that like they banned everyone else.

I personally do not see the appeal in her story but it seemed to clean up the whole night in the indie portion and did well in the main portion.

Also there was way too much cringe while watching this live last night. Everyone just tried way too hard to be funny and making all of these awkward jokes.

 

[Elandyll]

I did try Her Story based on awards and Gaf recommendations... I'll be frank, even though I liked the "ideas" and the acting, I honestly don't thing it's a video game (much less so imo than a TellTale games, which are at times bordering themselves on interactive storytelling).

Her Story, again in my opinion, has pretty much nothing that makes it a videogame. At least not more than, say, sorting through clips of video rushes with key words in my video editing software (I am a video editor by trade).

 

[Bits N Pieces]

Yay for Ori and The Witcher!

 

[adj_noun]

Congrats to Her Story. Loved that game.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

im ok with this goty, they should hurry up with the expansion though

 

[faridmon]

Love the fact that Her Story won so many awards. Great neat experiment that hopefully pave the way for more narrative focus games in FMV.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

These awards are pretty excellent

 

[Echoplx]

Lifetime Achievement Award
Todd Howard

A lifetime of lies

 

[Parham]

Granted I don't like Undertale, but it should've won Best Debut.

 

[Walpurgis]

Best Technology
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

the order ROBBED

More like Star Wars: Battlefront. No one even remembers The Shorter.

 

[Daft Punk]

Taking into account User awards it's 251 vs 249 in favor of TW3. Without User awards it's 191 vs. 164 in favor of TLoU.

This is actually pretty interesting and curious as to why no one has picked up on it. I'm assuming when you say User awards, you mean awards not given by actual media publications and such?

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Congrats to Her Story and Witcher 3, both great games.

 

[Mifec]

The Witcher 3 is too powerful

 

[Vintage]

Bought Her Story and played for a couple of hours. I'm not sure I understand it - is the whole game just typing random keywords trying to get new videos? Do I need to assemble the videos into big one? From what I played, none was interesting or fun. Am I missing something?