2016 Game of the Year – Nominees and Winners

Here is the Nominees and Winners in the Should I Play This Game 2016 Game of the Year awards podcast!

Podcast : 2016 Game of the Year

Best non-2016 Game we played in 2016, Because Games!
Forza Horizon 2 (Winner)
Red Dead Redemption
Tecmo Bowl

Other nominees:
Rebel Galaxy
Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition
Halo Wars

Best auditory experience
Firewatch (Winner)
Doom
Mafia III

Other nominees:
Stardew Valley
Forza Horizon 3
Song of the Deep

Best Public Transport/Waiting Room Distraction
Reigns (Winner)
Really Bad Chess
klocki

Other nominees:
WWE Supercard Season 3
Super Mario Run
Desert Golf

Man, I wish I played More of That Game…
Doom (Winner)
Dishonored 2
Hitman

Other nominees:
Titanfall 2
Picross 3D Round 2
Red Dead Redemption
Mafia III

Best Game Name of 2016
My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress As Him And Now I Have To Deal With A Geeky Stalker And A Domme Beauty Who Want Me In A Bind!! or, Ladykiller in a Bind (Winner – thanks to Budi for bring this game name to our attention)
Stephen’s Sausage Roll
Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler!

Other nominees:
VA-11 HALL-A

Best New Thing
Overwatch (Winner)
Firewatch
Inside

Other nominees:
Tricky Towers
Overcooked
Song of the Deep

The ‘Spring Breakers’ Award – the game that was better than it had any right to be
Overwatch (Winner)
Alienation
Hitman

Other nominees:
Doom
Song of the Deep

Top 5 – Graham Banks
1) Firewatch
2) Inside
3) Titanfall 2
4) Forza Horizon 3 and Gears of War 4
5) The Division and Watch Dogs 2

Viewing of the Year
John Wick (Winner)
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Zootopia

Other nominees:
NXT Takeover: Dallas
WWE Cruiserweight Classic
Voltron (Netflix)
The Grand Tour
Troll Hunters

Steve’s Album of the Year
Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us (Winner)
Silent Planet – Everything Was Sound
letlive. – If I’m The Devil…

Other nominees:
Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 3

The Donald Trump Memorial award for the biggest piece of shit in 2016 presented by the Australian Government
Twitter’s Alt-Right (Winner, if you can call it that)
Digital Homicide
Palmer Luckey

The ‘WWE Supercard’ Award for the game you liked but no one else did
Song of the Deep (Winner)
PinOut
Recore

Other nominees:
Alienation
Klocki
Supercard Season 3
Mirrors Edge Catalyst
The Division

Top 5 – Steve
1) Overwatch
2) Forza Horizon 3
3) Titanfall 2
4) Stardew Valley
5) Doom and HItman

Dumbest Bullshit of 2016
Street Fighter V (Winner)
Australia’s consumer-level internet
No Mans Sky

Best Looking Game
Firewatch (Winner)
Ratchet and Clank
Overwatch

Other nominees:
Superhot
Titanfall 2
The Witness
Forza Horizon 3
Gears of War 4
Unravel
Uncharted 4
Song of the Deep

Best New Character/NPC
BT-7274 from Titanfall 2 (Winner)
Henry from Firewatch
Delilah from Firewatch

Other nominees:
Roadhog from Overwatch
Helmet Kruger from Hitman
Oscar from Gears of War 4
Trico from The Last Guardian

‘Holy Shit’ Best Moment or Mission of 2016
Titanfall 2 : BT sacrifices himself at end of game (Winner)
Firewatch : Boombox
Titanfall 2 : The smiley face turning into a sad face when you take the Arc Tool from the robot

Other nominees:
Superhot : Chat client
Overwatch – getting Play of the Game
Titanfall 2 : Effect and Cause – The time travel mission
Titanfall 2 : The Fold Weapon – when they kill BT then you go through the mission with Smart Pistol taking everyone down
Gears of War 4 : Meeting Marcus (you play has his son)
Inside : making and getting the blob thing outside!
Doom : Opening Scene/mission

Site Top 5:
1) Forza Horizon 3
2) Titanfall 2
3) Firewatch
4) Overwatch
5) Inside

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