This is the nomination thread, so drop your nominations in the comments. We will keep nominations open through Christmas. The categories are the same as last year:
- Best AAA Game: This category is for the Call of Duties and the Fallouts, the big games with big publisher backing.
- Best Indie Game: The games that go their own way, sometimes self-published.
- Best DLC/Expansion/Update: Any addition to a game that had a very positive effect, from...
My nominations:
Best AAA Game:
Best Indie Game:
Best DLC/Expansion/Update:
Best Mobile Game:
Best AAA Game: Zelda Breath Of The Wild (that came out this year, right?)
It did, yup!
+1 for Zelda BotW for Best AAA Game.
+1 BotW AAA
I agree with Travis's DLC picks, too.
I'd like to put Ark for Indie game, because it just released. I'd also like to nominate the new DLC, Aberration.
Oh and I think Civ6 goes in there somewhere, too.
Best AAA Game: Resident Evil 7. It's been a long time since Resident Evil actually scared me. Good times.
Best Indie Game: Pyre. Supergiant was once again able to make a game where all aspects of the game come together and support each other in the wonderful story of redemption, political intrigue, and fantasy sportsball. As with other indie darlings of this year, the art, music, and gameplay are spot on.
Best DLC/Expansion/Update: StarCraft 2 going free to play. SC2 has had a good boost in players with the addition before co-op mode, and between that and going free to play, I've been able to pull more friends into the game who were hesitant to pay for a game as daunting as StarCraft.
Best Mobile Game: Jackbox Party Pack 4. A stretch of the term "mobile," but this game is available for everything (even roku and apple tv), and each person plays using a mobile device. I take it with me to nearly every social gathering as there's a game for everyone in this, and is incredibly accessible. (Monster Seeking Monster is the best one)
Triple A: Metroid: Samus Returns & StarFox II(i'm open to recategorizing this but where else would it go? ).
Indie Games: Thimbleweed Park & The End is Nigh.
Best DLC/Expansion/Update: Full Throttle Remastered, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, StarCraft Remastered & Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catacombs.
Actually drop Samus Returns from Triple A.
Best Mobile: Metroid: Samus Return & Stranger Things(I still need to write up my thoughts about this). I might have more games later too.
Wait there's a Stranger Things game?
What Travis said^^^
Yep.
Ok, I downloaded the ST game.