Here are the Nominees and Winners in the Should I Play This Game 2016 Game of the Year awards podcast!
Podcast : 2017 Game of the Year
Best non-2017 Game
Nuclear Throne (Winner)
Doom
Ratchet & Clank
Other nominees:
MGSV
Titanfall 2
Best auditory experience
Cuphead (Winner)
Pyre
Horizon Zero Dawn
Other nominees:
Destiny 2
PUBG
What Remains of Edith Finch
Hollow Knight
Super Mario Odyssey
Assassin’s Creed Origins
Never Stop Sneakin
Golf Story
Best Public Transport/Waiting Room Distraction
Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire (Winner)
Typeshift
Space Plan
Other nominees:
Gardenscapes
Dominations
Idle Miner
Adventure Capitalist
Man, I wish I played More of That Game…
Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Winner)
Assassin’s Creed : Origins
Heat Signature
Other nominees:
Nex Machina
PUBG
Windjammers
Hob
West of Loathing
Nioh
Tacoma
The Mummy Demastered
The Sexy Brutale
Nier : Automata
Thimbleweed Park
Mario+Rabbids : Kingdom Battle
Gorogoa (iOS)
Best Game Name of 2017
Slice Dice and Rice
100% Orange Juice
ANCIENT DOOM SPIRE DEMONTOWER part iv – slaughter of the blood thief. (playable in Night of the Woods)
Other nominees:
Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force
88 Heroes: 98 Heroes Edition
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[st]
Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue
Best New Thing
PUBG (Winner)
Hollow Knight
Cuphead
Other nominees:
Horizon Zero Dawn
SubSurface Circular
Super Blood Hockey
West of Loathing
Pyre
Golf Story
Never Stop Sneakin’
Tacoma
The ‘Spring Breakers’ Award
AC: Origins (Winner)
PUBG
The Mummy Demastered
Other nominees:
Super Blood Hockey
Typeshift
West of Loathing
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Top 10 – Graham Banks
1) Horizon Zero Dawn
2) Cuphead
3) Super Mario Odyssey
4) Uncharted : The Lost Legacy
5) Assassin’s Creed Origins
6) Wolfenstein II
7) Golf Story
8) Pyre
9) Battlegrounds
10) Never Stop Sneakin’
Viewing of the Year
Kingsman : The Golden Circle (Winner)
Spotlight
John Wick 2
Other nominees:
Spider-Man Homecoming
Logan
Kenny Omega vs Kazuchika Okada trilogy – NJPW
Katsuyori Shibata vs Kazuchika Okada – NJPW Sakura Genesis
Atypical
Voltron
The Defenders
Star Trek Discovery
Steve’s Album of the Year
Mastodon – Emperor of Sand (Winner)
Other nominees:
Belle Haven – You, Me and Everything in Between
Justice for the Damned – Dragged Through the Dirt
Comeback Kid – Outsider
Polaris – This Mortal Coil
Counterparts – You’re Not You Anymore
A Night In Texas – Global Slaughter
Make Them Suffer – Worlds Apart
Alpha Wolf – Mono
In Search of Solace – RegressionProgression
Hollow Prophet – Hellhole
Signs of the Swarm – The Disfigurement of Existence
Converge – The Dusk In Us
Honest Crooks – Suffer
Statues – No Grave, No Burial
Vices – Now That I Have Seen I Am Responsible
Cursed Earth – Cycles of Grief Vol 1 & 2
Lodz – Time Doesn’t Heal Anything
Enterprise Earth – Embodiment
Daybreak – Death Dreams
Pallbearer – Heartless
Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
Jay Z – 4:44
Joey Bada$$ – ALL-AMERICAN BADA$$
Best Wolfenstein II : The New Colossus moment or sequence:
Death of Caroline (Winner)
Confronting your father/return to Mesquite
BJ’s capture/death/resurrection
Other nominees:
Max Hass beating Set in a game of Chess
Monkey/Cat
Waking up in a jar
BJ’s birthday party
Anya/grenades
Submarine sex
Anya/pregnancy horniness/Max
Intro with dog scene
Walking around nazi version of America
Hitler Scene
Talk show ending
Top 10 – Steve
1) Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2) PUBG
3) Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
4) Steamworld Dig 2
5) Horizon: Zero Dawn
6) Hollow Knight
7) Assassin’s Creed: Origins
8) Tekken 7
9) South Park: The Fractured But Whole
10) Everybody’s Golf
Dumbest Bullshit of 2017
The various Destiny 2 bullshit (Winner)
Everything surrounding Battlefront 2
Blind/Loot boxes
Other nominees:
WWE Main Roster – terrible, just terrible
Chariot racing in AC: Origins
1st Coon/Mitch Conner fight (South Park)
Best Looking Game
Cuphead (Winner)
Horizon Zero Dawn
AC: Origins
Other nominees:
Zelda
PUBG
Destiny 2
Pyre
Ruiner
What Remains of Edith Finch
Dirt 4
Hollow Knight
West of Loathing
Night in the Woods
Gorogoa
Call of Duty : WW2
Best New Character/NPC
Bayek (from Assassin’s Creed Origin-Winner)
Aloy (from Horizon Zero Dawn)
Nakmor Drack (from Mass Effect Andromeda)
Other nominees:
Jodariel (from Pyre)
Ti’zo (from Pyre)
Sharkle (from Night in the Woods)
Morgan Freeman (from South Park: The Fractured But Whole)
Cappy (from Super Mario Odyssey)
Cuphead (from Cuphead)
Mugman (from Cuphead)
Major Milestone (from Never Stop Sneakin)
Amadeus Guildenstern (from Never Stop Sneakin)
Chase McCain (from Lego City Undercover)
Best Moment or Mission of 2017
Cayde-6 holding a chicken (Destiny 2-Winner)
The end of Stories Untold (Stories Untold)
2D section in New Donk City (Mario Odyssey)
Other nominees:
‘That thing’ that happens in PUBG
‘That thing’ that happens in Zelda
Elevator crash in Destiny 2
Everybody’s Golf – getting a hole-in-one
The end of Edith Finch
First time you enter 2D section (Mario Odyssey)
Site Top 10:
1) Horizon Zero Dawn
2) Wolfenstein II
3) Battlegrounds
4) Assassin’s Creed Origins
5) Zelda Breath of Wild
6) Cuphead
7) Super Mario Odyssey
8) Uncharted : The Lost Legacy
9) Steamworld Dig 2
10) Hollow Night