It's that time of the year once again. Time for N4G to determine the year's winners. But, before we get to that, we first need to determine the nominees. Not only do you get to help determine who has a chance at winning, you also have a chance to win a $100 or $50 Amazon Gift Card during each part of the nomination process.
This is part 1 of 3 blog posts this week that will ask you, our N4G users, for your nominees in a variety of GotY categories. For each one of the categories, submit up to 3 nominees. Just reply with your nominees to the following categories and you will not only help to determine who is up for winning in each category but will also be entered for a chance to win a $100 or $50 Amazon Gift Card.
GOTY Nominee Categories - Part 1
1. Best New Video Game Character
2. Best Single Player Experience
3. Best Multiplayer Experience
4. Best DLC
5. Best Episodic Content
Some stories come in pieces, what piece was the best of them?
6. Best Handheld Game
Portable console or mobile game
Note: You don't have to have three nominees for each category nor nominees in each category, just put in what you can. Remember that the games or content had to be originally released in 2016. Rereleases on other platforms in 2016 do not count if it originally released in 2015 on one or more other platforms.
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And the beat goes on in this innovative shooter.
NoobFeed editor Ahnaf Tajwar writes - Hades II can be kind of a bummer sometimes when you find yourself sucked in with a really good build only to realize the game isn’t finished. If you are the kind of player who appreciates complete experiences, you may want to wait, but if you are the kind who enjoys seeing the journey of a game that is being actively worked on, playing Hades II seems like a no-brainer.
Proof of concept for a promising new technology.
I did note that the Xbox frame-gen implementation is not perfect. There appear to be intermediate freezing issues when there's a camera cut during cinematics, but while a bit annoying, it does not intrude on gameplay (a quick look at PS5 doesn't see this issue manifest)
Xbox Can’t catch a break recently
"I did note that the Xbox frame-gen implementation is not perfect."
Grasping at straws I see.
In the video John literally says that FSR 3´s implementation on Xbox Series X is far better than the PC version on release, and they are very impressed with the results. Especially considering that they didn´t even expect such performance to be possible achieved from 30fps. Not even AMD itself recommends 30fps for frame generation.
And... perfect? It´s not perfect even on PC to this day, so I´m no sure what you mean by that.
Maybe it´s perfect on PS5, I don´t know. It would be nice if you post the source of the analysis video of the PS5 version you saw to back up your claims.
"Xbox Can’t catch a break recently"
Don´t worry about the Xbox. There´ll be PLENTY of upcoming first party games to take advantage of FSR 3 in the coming months and years.
Indiana Jones, Avowed, Fable, Shattered Space (Starfield), Gears of War 6, Perfect Dark, State of Decay 3 and many many more.
Also, I´m expecting a FSR 3 update for Hellblade II rather sooner than later.
Great times ahead.
"It would be nice if you post the source of the analysis video of the PS5 version you saw to back up your claims.'
no I just quoted from the very article we are commenting on, these were digital foundry's words, saying xbox isn't perfect, but on the ps5 version, it doesn't see the issue manifest.
Console warring over a framerate pause during non-interactive content in a first-of-its-kind implementation in a game no one gave a crap about when it released 9-10 months ago.
Gotta love N4G.
Its promising tech and what's even more funny is that it was DF that was saying it wouldn't work. If fact they were pretty emphatic about it. What's stupid about their claims is that consoles are just specialized PCs. Now imagine if they combine this with a different upscaler like TSR or the upcoming PSSR.
DF act like they know as much as the engineers that work on this software but they are not even close to as knowledgeable they only have tools that give them numbers and then they act like they are experts.
I'd think there's a chance PSSR and frame-gen could yield better upgrade performance for PS5 Pro than PS4 Pro did if this is how well it's going to be working on consoles. I'm curious about input latency though.
1. Best New Video Game Character
Trico
Sam Drake
Noctis
2. Best Single Player Experience
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
The Last Guardian
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
3. Best Multiplayer Experience
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4. Best DLC
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5. Best Episodic Content
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6. Best Handheld Game
Haven't played any of 2016.
2. Best Single Player Experience
Dishonored 2
Doom
Uncharted 4
1. Best New Video Game Character
Sam Drake
Noctis
Titanfall 2 - BT
2. Best Single Player Experience
Uncharted 4
The Last Guardian
Ratchet and Clank PS4
3. Best Multiplayer Experience
Battlefield 1
Titanfall 2
Forza Horizon 3
4. Best DLC
Forza Horizon 3 - Blizzard Mountain
Witcher 3 - Blood and Wine
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5. Best Episodic Content (Can't think of any but it's likely a Telltale game is going to win that category)
6. Best Handheld Game
Super Mario Maker 3DS
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow 3DS
World of Final Fantasy
I'm just putting in my picks for winners, picks are nominees and winners to me.
1 - Sam Drake
2 - Uncharted 4
3 - Battlefield 1
4 - Hearthstone - Whispers of the Old Gods
5 - HITMAN
6 - Didn't play any - N/A
1.Best New Video Game Character
Trico
2. Best Single Player experience
Xcom 2
3. Best Multiplayer Experience
Battlefield 1
4. Best DLC
Witcher 3:Blood and Wine
5. Best Episodic Content
Hitman
6. Best Handheld Game
Pokemon Sun and Moon or Go