Polls Closed: PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year 2016 Awards

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Polls Closed: PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year 2016 Awards

The end of the year is upon us, and that can mean only one thing — well, actually it means lots of things. The thing that it means in the context of this post, though, is that PlayStation.Blog’s annual Game of the Year awards are upon us!

PS.Blog Game of the Year 2016

2016 kept us busy, opening with the long-awaited release of The Witness and ending with the similarly long-awaited launches of Final Fantasy XV and The Last Guardian. The rest of the year was punctuated by hit after hit: Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, Inside, Overwatch, Dark Souls III, Titanfall 2, Doom, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Battlefield 1, Rise of the Tomb Raider… the list goes on!

Anyway, it’s time to make this official. Starting right now, the polls are open for the PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year 2016 awards. We’ll keep them open until the end of the year — that’s 11:59pm Pacific on December 31 — then tally up the votes and present the winners.

Don’t see your pick in our list of nominees? Never fear! There’s a write-in option for each category, so feel free to cast your vote for whichever game you think deserves the Platinum.

But that’s enough from me… let’s vote!

Best PS4 Game
Best PS Vita Game
Best Independent Game
Best Use of PS4 Pro
Best PlayStation VR Game
Best Story
Best Performance
Best Soundtrack
Best Visuals
Best Multiplayer
Best Post-Release Content

Editor’s note: In years past, we’ve called this category “Best Expansion”… but that felt a bit limiting. This year, we’re expanding the category to recognize all forms of post-release content: DLC & add-ons, in-game special events, new modes, new episodes, new characters, the works. When you vote, take it all into consideration!

Most Innovative
Most Anticipated

Editor’s note: As in previous years, any game that has previously won a “Most Anticipated” award is not eligible to win a Trophy this year. That said, you can still vote for previous winners Horizon Zero Dawn and Persona 5, and we will call them out appropriately in the winners post should they place.

Furthermore, this year we are removing the year from this category. That means you can vote for any game that is currently announced, even if it doesn’t have a release date or year set. Go nuts!


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Studio of the Year

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  • Best PS4A game Final Fantasy XV, most anticipated game is Yakuza 6, yeah baby

  • Persona 5 will be my most anticipated until it freakin’ comes out here.

  • Last of Us Part II hands down most anticipated game.

  • RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER BETTER THAN UNCHARTED HANDS DOWN ☺

  • Wish I could change my vote, I just played Oxenfree and I think it deserves best independent game and best soundtrack!

  • Naughty Dog all the way!!! Cant wait for the Lost Legacy and LoU Pt !!! But I did throw some votes towards Overwatch, I can’t deny how much fun that game is.

  • Good poll. Only thing I wrote “other’ for, was for Odin Sphere for Vita game of the year.

  • FFXV best visuals lets go~ So much details of texture on the environment. Look at a random piece of metal or wall and u see unique markings of dirt and rust. The city were beautiful it almost seems real.

  • Why not just give Uncharted 4 every award? :D

  • So many good games (≧∇≦)Only 5 games for Most Anticipated.

  • Dark Souls 3 The Best Soundtrack hands down!

  • Best multiplayer: No Man’s Sky. :p

  • Rainbow six siege for multiplayer, no? Seems an important nominee/reference given it’s innovative design and insane yearly growth.

  • Definately The Last of Us Part 2 for most anticipated game

  • Ratchet and Clank for President.

    pssst, better than Qwark.

  • I can’t believe Bound wasn’t anywhere in this list. Hard choices but Dark Souls 3 and Uncharted 4 are the only games worthy of Goty I think.

  • Last of Us 2 will probably win most anticipated but Red Dead Redemption 2 is my most anticipated game by far.

  • I looked at the list here and IGN. So many remakes and sequels this year with a few original IP from the big studios.
    I put Dreamfall Chapters as my most anticipated game, but there were many I am just as excited to see, like Kingdom Hearts 3, Shenmu 3, Shoppe Keep, Y’s and a game I will pick up over Horizons: Zero Dawn (overhyped), is Elite Dangerous – this is already out on other systems but the game is everything I wanted No Man’s Sky to be, only better graphics.

  • most Anticipated: kingdom hearts 3 and 2.8 and 1.5+2.5 combo, so hard to choose.

  • most Anticipated: kingdom hearts 3 and 2.8 and 1.5+2.5 combo, so hard to choose

  • I’m surprised that I Can’t see anyone saying Red Dead Redemption II for Most Anticipated Game, that game was the **** when the first game (or second, depending on how you see it) came out.

  • Spider-Man easily took Most Anticipated for me. Cannot WAIT to get my hands on that!

  • This was a cool year for gaming at least although it’s had it’s downfalls. (Cough Cough) Mighty No.9 (Cough Cough) No Man’s Sky. But other than all that I hope all of you have a Happy New Year, and let’s hope 2017 is a Great year

  • Would love to see battlefield 3 remade for ps4

  • I just can’t wait for Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Really hard to not fill in Doom everywhere. I am disappointed that for best performance Elias Toufexis got snubbed for Deus Ex MD. Had to write him in

  • Final Fantasy all the way!

  • Battlefield1 is AMAZING, and can’t wait for Crash! Thanks Dice, and naughtydog!

  • How can you only vote for one game for Most Anticipated Game
    God of War
    Red Dead Redemption
    The Last of Us pt.II
    And many more

  • I think I put Uncharted 4 for everything it was nominated for XD. Just a phenomenal game, loved every bit of it.

  • I’m SOOOOOOO hyped for The Last of Us Part II.

  • For me, this was a good year for games. Dark Souls 3, Dishonored 2, The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy 15, Uncharted 4, Darkest Dungeon, Titanfall 2, Dragon Quest Builders…. Looking forward to 2017! Any chance I could get more Bloodborne? I’ll even pay for Chalice dungeon updates =]

  • There were so many great games this year it was hard to decide which should be GOTY. It was easy to decide that Ni No Kuni II is the most anticipated though. The first one is probably my personal favorite out of every game I have played, definitely psyched to hear that it’s coming out!!!

  • I voted Uncharted 4:A Thief’s End as the best game of the yearand Titanfall 2 best studio of the year.

  • HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I meant Uncharted4 for for best PS4 game

  • Best PS4 Game: Uncharted 4
    Best Vita Game: Darkest Dungeon
    Most Anticipated: God of War

  • I’m a huge Naughty Dog fan, but even I have to give my most anticipated vote to Crash Bandicoot over The Last of Us: Part II simply because we don’t know enough about it, and plus it’s freaking Crash Bandicoot. Without Crash, PlayStation would not be where it is today.

  • I’d love to see some more love for The Last Guardian. Yeah the controls were rather un-innovative and Trico was a hard AI to work around for some, but in terms of a game that felt like an ‘experience’, I had to go with that for Best Story (especially considering how much one can read into a lot of its plot and interpret what various things mean subjectively), Best Performance (I got so attached to Trico as a video game character the ending had me in tears), Best Soundtrack/Score (very atmospheric and beautiful), Best Use of PS4 Pro (I didn’t play the game with it, but from some gameplay I saw of it on PS4 Pro, it seemed to work even better than the bog standard PS4, the game isn’t exactly well optimised for the PS4) and also Best Graphics/Visuals (there was so much to gaze in awe at, and the game has such a chill vibe that it never really rushes you past a bit where you should gaze in awe at something).

    P.S. I cannot f**king wait for The Last of Us Part II, without any doubt I instantly went for that as Most Anticipated release of 2017, even though I’m really freakin hyped for Spider-Man!

  • Really looking forward for the rest of ffxv dlc to come out also the hype is real with kh 2.8, then just keep waiting for kh3 and ff vii remake. Although God of War seems like it’s gonna be epic with the Norse mythology

  • I guess I missed the poll. Well I would have voted for Uncharted 4 as favorite game of the year. I also really like the PSVR stuff I have gotten to try. Mostly I play older games I have or older year games I didn’t get around to playing when they first came out. But with Uncharted, I make it a point to play it when it first comes out and they delivered another amazing adventure. I was so impressed with the free roaming jeep sections and the hook and the story in general. Just amazing… also loved the ending.

  • Where were the winners announced? I wanted to know the results of this poll. I expected to see them on this blog but so far nothing has been said.

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