N4G 2016 Game of the Year Awards Winners

Hello, everyone. You did all the work leading up to this, and now you have decided the winners in the Game of the Year Awards categories for 2016. Here is what you, the N4G community, decided were the best in their category for 2016.

Best New Video Game Character
Trico (The Last Guardian)

Best Single Player Experience
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Best Multiplayer Experience
Battlefield 1

Best Downloadable Content
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine

Best Episodic Content
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1: Ties that Bind - Part 1

Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Pokemon Go

Best Voice Acting
Nolan North (Nathan Drake, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End)

Best Art Direction
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Best Story
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Best Soundtrack
DOOM

Best Innovation
Virtual Reality Hardware

News Story of the Year
Mid-generation console announcements (PS4 Pro/Scorpio)

Most Anticipated Game of 2017
Red Dead Redemption 2

Fail of the Year
No Man's Sky

Indie Game of the Year
INSIDE

Game of the Year
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

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Some random facts about this year's voting:

* Every single nominee in every single category was voted for, no nominee had zero votes.
* More votes were placed for Best Downloadable Content than any other category.
* The top 4 nominees for Best Soundtrack were only 6 votes apart from one another.
* Nolan North had more votes for his voice acting than Uncharted 4 had in any other category.

Winners of the prediction contest will be contacted via PM soon.

[MasterCornholio]

That Uncharted 4 love.

:)

[lxeasy]

All these games were very deserving of the titles they won

[UCForce]

Uncharted 4 got some loves.

[Nejadah]

Respect to all nominees specially INSIDE, UC4 it's masterpiece.

[solideagle]

Yaay UC4 :)

[Artemidorus]

Fail of the year is 100% correct.

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Surprised Pokemon Go won. So many people here were trashing it but I guess there are a lot of people who don't comment.

[Gazondaily]

Mobile gaming. No one really gives a shit lol

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Eh, mobile gaming included handheld games like Pokemon Sun/Moon and I think Fire Emblem. Not many play on handhelds here anyways and I Pokemon GO is obviously more accessible.

[rainslacker]

I'd wager 99% of the people that come to this site never comment.

Anyhow, I don't know if I'd consider it that great of a game, but it was certainly wan an impactful game, which in itself can make it worthy of the award.

[Emilio_Estevez]

My only real gripe is Hitman not winning for 'Best Episodic Content', not a fan of TWD Telltale games

[2pacalypsenow]

Nice

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Would be awesome to see the top 5 in each category .

'Giant Bomb' voted HITMAN number 1 and DOOM 2016 number 2 for GOTY.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Would be awesome also, to see next year 'Best Single Player FPS Campaign' and 'Best Single Player 3rd Person Campaign' .

[Stogz]

Uncharted 4 was my game of the year too, awesome!

[Nineball2112]

I figured UC4 would get it! Also, the random facts were pretty interesting! Thanks for including that info.

[Legatus]

Uncharted 4 fully deserved to win GOTY, truly a gaming masterpiece.

[pandehz]

Bias is real. Goodbye N4G

[Nyxus]

Elaborate?

[Liqu1d]

Haven't you heard? Everyone is biased in favor of Sony and we're all bullying Phil Spencer and Xbox.

[Overload]

They shouldn't, because they'll get shutdown with this.
https://gotypicks.blogspot....

Bias? Nope, it's just how it is.

[MasterCornholio]

No it's the community that voted for this.

[Bathyj]

Bye

[Nineball2112]

Cya....

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/i...

[Stogz]

Awesome! I'll make sure to repost this next time I see ya on here 😂

[Inzo]

Dont let the door spank you on the way out.

[rainslacker]

See ya.

[The_Sage]

Bye Felicia

[rivaldoo777]

Well deserved !!

[Nara_shikamaru]

Uhhh what? I understand DOOM has a good soundtrack. But how the hell isn't FFXV in the #1 spot? Just how?

[Liqu1d]

More people voted for Doom.

[Concertoine]

I personally didnt think dooms soundtrack was allthat great

[mynameisdon]

Good job

[Bathyj]

Seems legit

[Bathyj]

Well deserved winners there. Uncharted was the obvious choice so no surprises there. Good to see Trico getting some love and it was a relief to see the game turned out as well as it did given the troubled development.

[DialgaMarine]

Uncharted 4 deserved it, beyond the shadow of a doubt. Phenomenal game.

[coolbeans]

Glad to see you've awakened from your presumed Torment slumber, cgood. ;)

A bit surprised at a couple of choices like Episodic Content & Multiplayer (figured a HITMAN episode and Overwatch would win). Pleasantly surprised w/ the Multiplayer win. There's something about Battlefield 1 that can be so bombastic and visually stimulating, especially in Operations Mode.

[Christopher]

I was surprised a Hitman episode didn't win, but I'm guessing not as many people experienced those as TWD episodes.

[CP_Company]

Uncharted wins because here is no medias bias,which was with overwatch.

[Razzer]

Gamers have spoken

[InKnight7s]

DOOM better than FFXV soundtrack? WOW at taste of fps players :)

[Platformgamer]

I'm sorry for yoko shimomura, she does a beautiful job, but DOOM ost rocks \M/

[PlayableGamez-]

Predictable...
Not much variety of awards here...

[EmperorDalek]

Uncharted 4 for best story of the year? That is absolute proof of how overrated it is.

[Goldby]

can u name a better one for us?

[EmperorDalek]

Dark Souls 3 (By a few miles)
Inside
Firewatch
The Last Guardian
Oxenfree

People often confuse good storytelling, with the story itself. Sure it plays a part, but games like Dark Souls 3 and Inside choose to let the player figure out the story for themselves. They're the sort of stories that once you finish the game, you immediately go on the internet to read what other people think or have found out.

While Uncharted 4's story was definitely serviceable, it was rather ordinary and predictable. And consequence-less... Jeff the camera guy is the only good guy to have died in the whole series.

Regardless of how well presented it was, or how pretty the cutscenes were, the story itself does not warrant this award.

[Goldby]

@Emperor,

and neither does Dark Souls 3. while a good game, 2 was better, 2 told its story in a more understandable matter, and frankly, DS3 is the worst in my opinion of the DS/BB games.

Last guardian was my second pick

[jorellpogi]

Congratulations to all winners!

Looking forward in 2017!

[Persian_Immortal]

Naughty Dog are unstoppable the first exclusive developer to win game of the year not to mention only exclusive developer with Goty honour and now the second developer to have 3 overall game of the year winners Uncharted 2, The Last Of Us and Uncharted 4 the other developer with this honour being Bethesda with Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim.

[ifrit_caress]

No Man's Sky for Fail of the Year... More like Fail of the Decade.

[ifrit_caress]

They should also have another award: Most hyped game of the year. Just so we know which game to be wary of buying.

[Platformgamer]

I already know where my vote goes for that

[Inzo]

There can only be one.

[XStation4pio_Pro]

UC4 was great. No racing titles mentioned though. Fh3 wins that one for 2016.

[Christopher]

No FPS mentioned, no action game mentioned, no RPG mentioned, no platformer mentioned, no puzzle game mentioned, etc.

FH3 was a nominee in multiple categories, though, including best DLC. It just didn't win. Plain and simple.