Witcher 3 Wins GOTY @ The Game Awards 2015!

Bloodborne has the better combat and encounter design is top notch but world building, story telling, and difficulty (at least this plays a factor for me) does give the Witcher the edge. Deserved.
 
Skelter said:
They are working on a Cyberpunk RPG. I wish they'd give us some news on that already.
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Reeeeeeally? I have zero interest in The Witcher franchise but I can't deny that CD Projekt are very talented devs and I'm a big fan of the cyberpunk style so this interests me greatly. What have they said about it?
 
Afrodium said:
While I personally prefer Bloodborne to The Witcher 3, you can't really award a game as the best of the year and then say that it wasn't the best in its genre.
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When you have a competition between two crazy good games in the same category like that,you can afford to do it.

Not every Best picture winner wins best screenplay in the academy awards for example.

But no matter,Witcher easily deserved it.
 
OrbitalBeard said:
Guys. Bloodborne never stood a chance. It's an amazing game but its appeal is limited. It's easily the best game I've played in a decade but I never, ever, ever thought it had a shot.

The Witcher 3 is a fine choice and it appeals to a far broader audience, so it's not surprising at all that it won. It's a great game.
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Yeah this is definitely understandable. At the beginning of the program when they had journalists talking about how hard the game is and its the game they go to when they want to be punished. I knew right then and there. Too bad they dont realize thats not the point of the game at all.

The bigger travesty is it not being nominated for Best Soundtrack which it had the best of this year by a mile. At least for big budget releases.
 
DoubleTake said:
Yeah this is definitely understandable. At the beginning of the program when they had reporters talking about how hard the game is and its the game they go to when they want to be punished. I knew right then and there. Too bad they dont realize thats not the point of the game at all.

The bigger travesty is it not being nominated for Best Soundtrack which it had the best of this year by a mile. At least for big budget releases.
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Totally agreed. "The First Hunter" might be the single most beautiful piece of video game music I have ever heard.
 
Im so happy they won. Is one of my favourite games ever.

All this awrds tonigh award is for making a masterful trilogy of games and treating gamers as people instead of money bags. Totally desrved. CDPR you are amazing and I cant wait for Cyberpunk.
 
Great year, since I can honestly say that I wouldn't have been surprised had at least other two title win it instead. But yeah this is my favorite game of the year right now.
 
It was certainly my GotY until Fallout 4 came out, glad they're getting the recognition they deserve, Bethesda doesn't need another GotY award ;)
 
just started this a few weeks ago and i already trust this. in a year full of amazing games, CDPR created a real masterpiece.
 
To be fair, several games would have deserved this award, but that is an inherent problem with most award sessions. You have to be pretty cynical not to recognise that, for all the disappointments and shady actions over the months, overall, this industry and its output are absolutely amazing. In a perfect world, every great game / studio / creator could get the deserved recognition, but in many ways, GOTY awards are really not an adequate measure of a game's quality or significance, so it's really not worth getting hung up on them.
 
Ironic to see all the posts cheering this over Fallout when they both suffer from the same crippling problems, Fallout's bethesda jankiness aside.

I'll suck it up this season. I want Bloodborne to win, and would be fine with MGSV, but Witcher 3 definitely has the support across the board to dominate the season. I would have rather seen W3 take soundtrack over MGSV, but neither deserves to get anywhere close in a year with Undertale and Bloodborne.

As an aside, the conflict between this and MGSV encapsulates perfectly the battle between two markedly different perspectives on where games should go.
 
OrbitalBeard said:
Guys. Bloodborne never stood a chance. It's an amazing game but its appeal is limited. It's easily the best game I've played in a decade but I never, ever, ever thought it had a shot.

The Witcher 3 is a fine choice and it appeals to a far broader audience, so it's not surprising at all that it won. It's a great game.
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Basically this. Tons of awesome games this year even if nothing came close to Bloodborne for me personally. Witcher 3 finally got me into the series after finding the first two impenetrable, and quite enjoying the books now too.

I knew it was a long shot, but I would have lost my mind if one of those music segments was Father Gascoigne theme.
 
DoubleTake said:
The bigger travesty is it not being nominated for Best Soundtrack which it had the best of this year by a mile. At least for big budget releases.
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I think even in the soundtrack department, Witcher 3 could compete with BB easily.
They're both fantastic on that front.

BB should've won art direction.
Not that Ori is an ugly game or anything,, but BB is just one step ahead for me.
 
The thing that'll impress me the most about The Witcher 3 is how consistent the game is overall; not only with a strong main story, but also consistently great side quests. In most of the recent big WRPG's, I feels like I'm usually choosing one or the other. I love the Mass Effect series, but Bioware never really figured out how to make meaningful side quest content for those games (unless you count the optional recruitment and loyalty missions for ME2, but honestly, that was basically the meat of that game). In more recent Bethesda games, you can get some fantastic side quests, but the main storyline typically leaves a lot to be desired.
Perhaps it's just how CDP toys with expectations. Sure, sometimes a contract from the local town board is just a simple quest to kill a monster, but so many times, it just ends up being a lot more complicated than that. Similarly, while the main story can be reduced to "gotta find Ciri", the journey to get there feels like an appropriately lengthy epic (almost like a few seasons of a TV show) that is rewarding to finally complete.

From CD Projekt getting the time, talent, and resources to make this incredible game, to me fortunately having enough time to play through it at a reasonable consistency where I didn't need to take super long breaks away from it, I'm definitely very grateful I got the chance to experience it.
 
Deserved, but since Witcher 3 already won best RPG award AND best developer, Bloodborne should have gotten the GOTY award. For me at least.
 
Very well deserved. CDPR managed to create an amazing world full of meaningful characters and engaging content. Not easy given the scale of the game. I`m really looking forward to the Blood and Wine expansion
 
Easy win. With the exception of Bloodborne, there wasn't much of a competition however.

Good on you CDP, patiently looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077.

Best wishes.
 
Dark_castle said:
Deserved, but since Witcher 3 already won best RPG award AND best developer, Bloodborne should have gotten the GOTY award. For me at least.
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I don't think it works that way.

Anyway, all good games, but Witcher III is my personal GotY as well, so, yeah. Really glad they got best developer too. Far and away deserved that over everyone else.
 
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Best game wins.
 
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