Overwatch wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2016

Nickle said:
I'm crying right now. Single player games are dead. Fuck this industry.
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I can no longer recognize sarcasm.

Is the issue that some people want all major publisher games to have a single component? There are far more single player only or single player focussed games released recently then I could ever hope to play and plenty in development.
 
Glad overwatch won, totally deserved it.

They nailed the atmosphere and look of the world. Characters are varied and unique compared to each other. Gameplay is a blast, easy to get into, a challenge to master.

I'm not into shooters, and mp only games. But this game totally hooked me and hasn't let go.
 
The genius of overwatch is that, in quick play you get approximately a 50% win rate... so everybody feels like a winner. Which increases your self-esteem or at a minimum keeps it the same. (The 20% of the 80/20 rule)

The other 80% (of the 80/20 rule) that makes this game great is the character design, the voiceovers, the balancing, the game play, sound effects, animation, scoring, loot boxes... which Overwatch excels out (IMO the voiceovers are the best thing in the game)

Speaking of loot boxes... got carried away and bought 2 x 50x , summer 24x, halloween 24x (for the mercy witch costume)... also bought it for the PC... and a 24x halloween loot boxes...(for the mercy witch costume)

The only other online only game that i got really carried away with spending money on digital " tchotchkes" (clothing etc) was Second life.
 
Steve Youngblood said:
To be fair though, I think it is pretty easy to see that super expensive, AAA, single-player only titles are pretty much dinosaurs at this point for obvious financial reasons. But I do agree that this is a bizarre vehicle for people to reach that conclusion. A multiplayer game wins one award and you think the games of yesteryear that you loved so much are dying? No. I mean they are dying. But for completely different reasons that have nothing to do with awards shows.
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I hope those sad that we don't get quality bigger-budget single player games anymore will be speaking with their wallet when The Last Guardian comes out. That's pretty much the poster child - a unique single player focused game with a very focused vision that basically seems untouched by the more disliked changes in the industry and gaming - and we seems like there won't be anything else like it for a long time
 
Not my pick but also not a bad choice, the game is amazing (even though I think the microtransactions / lootboxes are shit).

It's not like this is a Dragon Age: Inquisition / Shadows of Mordor / The Walking Dead situation, Overwatch is actually a good game unlike those three.
 
This thread has just made me want to root for Uncharted 4 or Overwatch to win GOTY on GAF just to see the meltdowns. Not sure where they will rank for me personally, but all the games nominated for GOTY are all deserving and I would have had zero issues with any of them winning.

All that aside congrats to Overwatch on the win and hopefully it goes towards people not acting like a multiplayer-only game is inferior to single-player games for reasons in the next couple of years.
 
Maintenance said:
Not my pick but also not a bad choice, the game is amazing (even though I think the microtransactions / lootboxes are shit).

It's not like this is a Dragon Age: Inquisition / Shadows of Mordor / The Walking Dead situation, Overwatch is actually a good game unlike those three.
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Man, what's up with The Walking Dead being this hated series now?
 
I actually think Walking Dead deserved the praise and accolades despite how buggy and shitty it ran across a wide variety of hardware. Telltale gets a lot of hate in retrospect because their games still have a lot of the same issues.
 
Symphonic said:
Doom is praised more for action.

Overwatch is praised more overall.

Same shit happens with every awards show. Best Action Adventure Movie may not win Movie of the Year.
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So where does titanfall 2 fit in? Great sp, great mp, great action, controls, progression, free dlc, and balanced af. The only "Complete package" nominated this year, imo. You could argue the same for Uncharted but found it a letdown compared to OW, TF and Doom
 
Overwatch is a fun game but I don't think it deserved the top-prize. Blizzard sure has mastered the art of chemically perfect, ultra-addictive, money-siphoning games. Guys/gals really are some of the best at what they do -- they know how to get their audiences addicted, spending extra money, and singing their praises. So there's that.

I personally had a better experience with Deus Ex, Dishonored 2, and Dark Souls 3, and certainly Titanfall 2 (a more honest, beautifully executed experience from the only real shooter pros left in the industry) but hey, opinions....
 
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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wtf did I just read
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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I'm unable to discern a joke from genuine concern, but... what?
 
Golgo 13 said:
Overwatch is a fun game but I don't think it deserved the top-prize. Blizzard sure has mastered the art of chemically perfect, ultra-addictive, money-siphoning games. Guys/gals really are some of the best at what they do -- they know how to get their audiences addicted, spending extra money, and singing their praises. So there's that.

I personally had a better experience with Deus Ex, Dishonored 2, and Dark Souls 3, and certainly Titanfall 2 (a more honest, beautifully executed experience from the only real shooter pros left in the industry) but hey, opinions....
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In terms of ways for them to get more money post-purchase, Overwatch is comparably fairly conservative. Yes, there are lootboxes but you earn those by playing the game and they are only ever cosmetical. Maps, characters and new modes are all free.
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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Please be a real person, please be a real person...
 
TimeEffect said:
No other MP could possibly win on MP alone, because no other MP game is easy to pick up. Halo 3, COD4, Titanfall, etc. all require much more entry level knowledge and coordination, and are only appreciated by fans, as opposed to media, who will more generically praise the MP and focus more on SP. Skill matters in the appeal and popularity of MP games, and Overwatch simply has a better range.
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As someone who has played all these games a lot... no, they don't require more entry-level knowledge or coordination. Titanfall, I guess, because it has some unique mechanics, but the skill floor for Halo 3/CoD is at least the same as Overwatch, and probably lower.

What Overwatch does do for low-skill players that those other games don't is make you feel important and useful regardless of what you're doing or how bad you're doing it. You can jump on Lucio and S76 the first time you play and feel involved in the action, even if you're actually sucking horribly. And a lot of that is just good game design, sound design, and UI design, plus some smart manipulation of novice players (e.g., how the game counts "Eliminations" or hands out healing medals and cards).
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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I know this is a joke, but I swear I'm this close (imagine my hand in a gesture indicating a very short distance) to hear something like this in real life
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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I desperately want to believe this is a joke post, but some people's reactions in this thread are making me question that opinion.
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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The snub of Uncharted 4? What? No.

As an Uncharted fan who loved the first 2 Uncharted games and enjoyed the 3rd, I couldn't even bring myself to finish the 4th Uncharted...
It's like a completely different experience from the prior entries in the series in a bad way, and I can't exactly place my finger on why I find that to be the case...

Uncharted 2 is somewhere in the top 5 of my favorite games of all time. Something about 4 puts it far and away outside of that list.

If you want to talk about Titanfall 2 being snubbed... I'd buy that...
Doom, TF2, Overwatch... Honestly I don't know which I'd pick out of those. I enjoyed them all...
 
Majine said:
In terms of ways for them to get more money post-purchase, Overwatch is comparably fairly conservative. Yes, there are lootboxes but you earn those by playing the game and they are only ever cosmetical. Maps, characters and new modes are all free.
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Possible to earn in-game but painfully, agonizingly slow -- let's be real here for a moment. That's like saying Hearthstone is free -- sure, if you want to play 2 years straight for 12 hours a day you may be able to unlock all the content you desire, but the over-arching goal is to have people spend money on that "purely cosmetic" shit, and Blizzard are %100 masters at convincing players to do so. It's all very carefully structured to bring in tons of money from people who've already paid $60 for the game, but feel free to continue to defend microstranactions if it's your prerogative.
 
Radical Edward said:
So where does titanfall 2 fit in? Great sp, great mp, great action, controls, progression, free dlc, and balanced af. The only "Complete package" nominated this year, imo. You could argue the same for Uncharted but found it a letdown compared to OW, TF and Doom
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I mean, everything is relative. There's no criteria for Game of the Year beyond "we liked this game the most this year".
 
Steve Youngblood said:
To be fair though, I think it is pretty easy to see that super expensive, AAA, single-player only titles are pretty much dinosaurs at this point for obvious financial reasons. But I do agree that this is a bizarre vehicle for people to reach that conclusion. A multiplayer game wins one award and you think the games of yesteryear that you loved so much are dying? No. I mean they are dying. But for completely different reasons that have nothing to do with awards shows.
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Yep.

Although I would say that "dying", is all very relative.

I don't think the next Kojima game is going to be a multiplayer heavy game (although ok I didn't catch up with yesterday's trailer so maybe I'm looking stupid RIGHT NOW :P) and you can see Sony still pimping stuff like days gone, Horizon, etc.

And Naughty Dog either isn't going out of business anytime soon. Nor is Quantic Dream (for those who like that). Or Bethesda or Arkane. Etc.

Yes costs are becoming too high for an 8 hours super-cinematic campaign to be the "default" it was last gen, AND with the rise of esport and whatever of course multiplayer is going to be a thing that develops more and more, with long legs and content updates etc.

But "dying" doesn't mean "dead", at least not for several years imo.
 
Golgo 13 said:
Possible to earn in-game but painfully, agonizingly slow -- let's be real here for a moment. That's like saying Hearthstone is free -- sure, if you want to play 2 years straight for 12 hours a day you may be able to unlock all the content you desire, but the over-arching goal is to have people spend money on that "purely cosmetic" shit, and Blizzard are %100 masters at convincing players to do so. It's all very carefully structured to bring in tons of money from people who've already paid $60 for the game, but feel free to continue to defend microstranactions if it's your prerogative.
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Hearthstone sells content that effects or includes new gameplay (expansions and adventures) but Overwatch currently does not. That's my 2 cents on why it's less bad.
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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Holy shit. How far off can a person be?
 
When did GAF change from "Wow The Game Awards is crap" to "OMG the industry is dying because X game didn't win at the game awards"? I missed the memo when we stopped considering that ceremony a joke.
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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It says something about The Gamer's that it's actually impossible to tell if this is a joke post.
 
i probably would have given it to Doom myself, but there aren't many pvp-only shooters that have gotten 80+ hours out of me like Overwatch has, so I can't be mad at this.
 
Neverwas said:
i probably would have given it to Doom myself, but there aren't many pvp-only shooters that have gotten 80+ hours out of me like Overwatch has, so I can't be mad at this.
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I'm not mad at all.

Overwatch is legitimately great.

I would have also been happy with Doom, but I'm currently playing through Hitman and I could see that getting up there too.
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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At first I was like wtf am I reading then I got to the end and knew it was a joke. Good one.
 
Axass said:
Correct me if I'm wrong:

- Doom won "best action game", a category Overwatch was also nominated in.
- Overwatch won "game of the year", a category Doom was also nominated in.

So... if Doom beats Overwatch as best action game, how can Overwatch beat Doom as best game? Please explain how this makes sense.

Also, The Witness should have won.
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Stop caring about award shows. They're all bullshit. Stuff like this just comes down to the people who voted on it wanting to give both games some attention.
 
Horse Armour said:
It's pretty disgusting how anti-Sony the games industry and gaming journalism still is. Even after single-handedly ensuring the continued viability of AAA console gaming this gen with the PS4 sales phenomenon, they still spit in their face. The snub of UC4 reminds me of the election where a group of liberal elites ignored the will of the masses and prematurely crowned an unworthy victor.
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Good one ; ) my ribs still hurts for how much I laughed...
 
StayDead said:
Battlefield 1 and Siege are not even the best in their respective series so how on earth does this comment make any sense what so ever?
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BF is debatable. Have you played Siege? It may as well be a new franchise it has so little in common with previous R6 games. It has a destruction physics model far in advance of any other fps. It has asymmetric character classes. It's a game of cat and mouse and it's extremely well-balanced. It's better than Overwatch.
 
More_Badass said:
Man, what's up with The Walking Dead being this hated series now?
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Telltale's glut of licenced series after the success of The Walking Dead soured a lot of people on their whole shtick. I still think the first season of TWD is a remarkable piece of digital storytelling, but it is very hard to go back to now. So much of what makes it work is an illusion - not knowing exactly which decisions were actually attributable to your choices.

But with multiple series now under their belt, Telltale haven't improved in a meaningful way. Tales from the Borderlands proved they could write strong comedy/adventure in this style, but Game of Thrones/Batman/Minecraft did a lot to wear people down. It doesn't help that the second season of TWD is thoroughly unimpressive. The fact their engine runs like trash on every system doesn't help their case.

I'm still a fan, but they need to take the next big step. TWD was massive, because previous to that Telltale was only making new point-and-click adventure games. They need to find another leap forward of that magnitude.
 
Congrats to Overwatch. I think it's deserving of that title for the impact it had on the industry. From my little time of playing it I can see why it won. I think we also have to give credit to Naughty Dog for a studio that only makes exclusive games can compete with the two biggest companies in the industry Rockstar in 2013 and now Blizzard. Almost coming out on top to win GOTY only to finish second at the game awards is pretty incredible against those 2 giants.

2016 was an amazing year for games and I hope it's insanely better in 2017.
 
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