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[Ridesh]

Best Original Game – Overwatch
Best Storytelling – The Witcher 3:Blood And Wine
Best Visual Design – The Witcher 3:Blood And Wine
Best Audio – Fallout 4
Best Indie Game – Firewatch
Gaming Personality of the Year – Sean Plott (Day (9))
Best Multiplayer Game – Overwatch
Competitive Play of the Year – Coldzera’s jumping AWP quad kill at MLG Columbus
Best Gaming Moment – Play of the game in Overwatch
YouTube Upcoming Personality of the Year – Jesse Cox
Studio of the Year – CD Projekt Red
Innovation of the Year – Pokémon GO
Lifetime Achievement Award – Eiji Aonuma
Best Gaming Platform – Steam
Best Gaming Performance – Doug Cockle
Competitive Game of the Year – Overwatch
Nintendo Game of the Year – The Legend Of Zelda:Twilight Princess HD
Playstation Game of the Year – Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Xbox Game of the Year – Rise Of The Tomb Raider
PC Game of the Year – Overwatch
Handheld/Mobile Game of the Year – Pokémon GO
Breakthrough Award – Eric Barone, Stardew Valley
Hall of Fame – Lara Croft

Critics Choice Award – Titanfall 2

Ultimate Game of the Year – Dark Souls III

Most Wanted Game – Mass Effect: Andromeda


http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/18/dark-...golden-joystick-awards-6267541/#ixzz4QOhvswV0

 

[AAK]

Dark Souls 3 wins game of the year yet can't win best PC, PS4, X1 GOTY.... *face palm*

 

[sixteen-bit]

Congrats to the winners.

 

[Jawbreaker]

It's my GotY (so far) as well. Only The Last Guardian has a chance at dethroning it.

 

[pizzacat]

Dark Souls 3 wins game of the year yet can't win best PC, PS4, X1 GOTY.... *face palm*

There's an obvious pattern with the goty of the specific ones barring the PC one

 

[Astaleview]

I'm jumping back into gaming for Titanfall 2. Can't wait to play it.

 

[AAK]

There's an obvious pattern with the goty of the specific ones barring the PC one

What pattern?

 

[kruis]

Nintendo Game of the Year – The Legend Of Zelda:Twilight Princess HD

Nintendo Switch can't come soon enough.

 

[Mifec]

God damn CDPR the GODS and my boy Day J. Good job people.

 

[sixteen-bit]

It's my GotY (so far) as well. Only The Last Guardian has a chance at dethroning it.

If you're not under NDA, is it safe to say TLG living up to your expectation?

 

[Cake Boss]

Well deserved. Best shooter since COD4.

 

[Copper]

Kind of embarrassing Nintendo goty is a remaster of a 10 year old game.

 

[Bronetta]

Well deserved for Dark Souls 3.

There is no way, I repeat NO WAY Uncharted 4 is a better game than Dark Souls 3.

 

[flkraven]

What were the cut offs? ROTR came out for Xbox Nov 2015.

 

[mrmickfran]

Twilight Princess winning best Nintendo game lmao

 

[pizzacat]

What pattern?

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft having exclusives?

 

[silva1991]

Well deserved for Dark Souls 3.

There is no way, I repeat NO WAY Uncharted 4 is a better game than Dark Souls 3.

They are equally disappointing

What were the cut offs? ROTR came out for Xbox Nov 2015.

lol.

 

[Phamit]

What were the cut offs? ROTR came out for Xbox Nov 2015.

The usually have a cut in october. So Q3-Q3

 

[Xamtheking]

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft having exclusives?

But Rottr isn't exclusive

 

[Lunar15]

Nintendo Switch can't come soon enough.

I feel like no one on the team played Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE

 

[oti]

Oh come on. Is it really that hard for a racing game to win an award? Forza Horizon 3 should have won Xbox Game of the Year.

 

[Conkerkid11]

Fallout 4 for best audio, and Pokémon GO winning any awards.

Yikes

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

RotTR for Xbox which came out in 2015 ahead of Gears 4, Forza 3 and even ReCore? Huh?

 

[Hero of Canton]

Kind of embarrassing Nintendo goty is a remaster of a 10 year old game.

It's not been a great year for Nintendo, but Fire Emblem Fates (3rd) or Monster Hunter Generations (runner-up) would have been much more deserving winners.

 

[Flux]

I like that CDPR won studio of the year without releasing a full game. I like to think it is due to their great consumer friendly attitude and wealth of content in their expansion packs.

Only thing I would have swapped from that list is The Witness for Indie game. Otherwise can't really see an obvious omission. Maybe Switch as most anticipated if that was a choice? A new console carries more weight than a single game to me (even if it's a really good one.

 

[Stevey]

Best Gaming Platform – Steam

All is well.

 

[Syf]

Can't understand Fallout 4 winning best audio. There were much better games in that department this year. And I wish Doom would've won something. But not a bad list.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

No Man's Sky got robbed.

 

[Mifec]

I like that CDPR won studio of the year without releasing a full game. I like to think it is due to their great consumer friendly attitude and wealth of content in their expansion packs.

Only thing I would have swapped from that list is The Witness for Indie game. Otherwise can't really see an obvious omission. Maybe Switch as most anticipated if that was a choice? A new console carries more weight than a single game to me (even if it's a really good one.

Well yeah their expansion is better than any full game released this year so far.

 

[Schlorgan]

No Man's Sky got robbed.

The Golden Joystick Awards are for video games.

Spoiler

/s

 

[pizzacat]

What were the cut offs? ROTR came out for Xbox Nov 2015.

What month are we in right now as they are doing the 2016 awards

 

[Conkerkid11]

The Golden Joystick Awards are for video games.

Spoiler

/s

What's Firewatch doing in there?

 

[norm9]

Best Gaming Moment – Play of the game in Overwatch

Wha???

 

[GravityInsanity]

No Man's Sky got robbed.

.

 

[WadiumArcadium]

Yay for CDPR and Overwatch.

 

[Deadbeat]

Best audio goes to fallout 4? What?

 

[Basketball]

Honestly 2016 was meh in games

 

[Schlorgan]

What's Firewatch doing in there?

I just wrote a troll response to (what I think) was a troll post. There are plenty of real reasons for No Man's Sky not to be mentioned.

Honestly 2016 was meh in games

GTFO

 

[Xamtheking]

Fallout 4 for best audio, and Pokémon GO winning any awards.

Yikes

Pokémon GO is still printing money, just at a more reasonable rate
Not surprising
Though yeah FO4 for audio? OK suuurrree

 

[Syf]

Also Day9 should have that award on lock every year tbh.

 

[FloweryMarston]

Nice, aonuma got a lifetime achievement award. Many nintendo designers deserve it (tezuka, sakurai, koizumi, to name a few).

 

[AAK]

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft having exclusives?

Tomb Raider was released on PC and PS4 as well.

And there is no overlap between the top rated games released on PS4/X1 and WiiU, so it's unavoidable for the best of WiiU to be exclusive on that platform.

 

[Wagram]

Congrats Dark Souls 3. It's been a solid year for good games.

BTW. Congrats to Doug "Geralt" Cockle. Such an undervalued voice actor.

 

[BRocknRolla]

Some of those award categories are a total joke.

Kudos to those who won, but honestly, the way they spread these awards just sounds like industry politics.

Honestly 2016 was meh in games

I'm slowly shaking my head at you.

 

[Conkerkid11]

I just wrote a troll response to (what I think) was a troll post. There are plenty of real reasons for No Man's Sky not to be mentioned.

I'm not trolling.

Pokémon GO is still printing money, just at a more reasonable rate
Not surprising
Though yeah FO4 for audio? OK suuurrree

Pokémon GO isn't successful because it's innovative, it's successful because it's Pokémon. Overall it's an incredibly poorly made game that hasn't seen any new content since launch, and has actually lost its only appealing feature.

Clash Royale, Reigns, Sorcery 4, Crashlands, etc... Are far better mobile games.

 

[SJRB]

Best Audio – Fallout 4

Eh... what?


Golden Joystick Awards span from November to October or something?

 

[Mcdohl]

Dark Souls 3 wins game of the year yet can't win best PC, PS4, X1 GOTY.... *face palm*

Yeah...classic case of everyone wins something, everyone is happy, everyone gets free ad.

At least I'm happy Dark Souls took home the ultimate award.

 

[orborborb]

As a fan of both Titanfall and Dark Souls 1&2, Titanfall 2 and Dark Souls 3 were disappointing simplified sequels that lost most of the magic.

The most remarkable games with AAA production values I played this year were Doom (ESPECIALLY the multiplayer), The Witness, Inside, Obduction, Star Fox Zero, and Metroid Prime Federation Force. And yes, Uncharted 4 was good, but mostly for some of the combat arena designs, not the lame puzzles or predictable story.

 

[CountAntonius]

Rocket league> Overwatch as competitive year IMO.

 

[Zemm]

I feel like Steam has had a shitty year, and that GoG deserves to have won this one.