The GRcade Game of the Year Awards 2017: Results revealed on p3

Best visuals: Horizon Zero Dawn
Best audio: Horizon Zero Dawn
Best multiplayer: Windjammers
Most anticipated game: Spider-Man
GRcade Game of the Year 2017: Nex Machina

Best visuals: Horizon Zero Dawn
Best audio: Resident Evil 7
Best multiplayer: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (literally the only game I've played with another person)
Most anticipated game: Ni No Kuni 2
GRcade Game of the Year 2017: Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild

Best visuals: It's between Horizon Zero Dawn or Assassin's Creed Origins. Both looks stunning in 4K HDR and I love both. I have to say Assassin's Creed Origins to win this one, but it is very close though!

Best audio: n/a

Best multiplayer: Destiny 2. It's one of few games that I've played online with friends and GRcadians this year. Another one was Ghost Recon: Wildlands which I really enjoyed it, but I think Destiny have just edged it a bit.

Most anticipated game: The Last of Us Part II, Red Dead Redemption II, God of War, Shenmue III and so on... I'd say Red Dead Redemption II.

GRcade Game of the Year 2017: Horizon Zero Dawn. It was something different to play and it was a fantastic game too.

Preezy wrote:Best visuals: Elite: Dangerous (PS4)
Best audio: FIFA 18
Best multiplayer: pass
Most anticipated game: Red Dead Redemption 2
GRcade Game of the Year 2017: I haven't actually played that much this year that's new so I'll just go with... FIFA 18

lad

Best visuals: Uncharted Lost Legacy
Best audio: Horizon Zero Dawn
Best multiplayer: PlayerUnknowns Battleground
Most anticipated game: The Last Of Us Part 2
GRcade Game of the Year 2017: Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild

Rocksleddy wrote:
Preezy wrote:Best visuals: Elite: Dangerous (PS4)
Best audio: FIFA 18
Best multiplayer: pass
Most anticipated game: Red Dead Redemption 2
GRcade Game of the Year 2017: I haven't actually played that much this year that's new so I'll just go with... FIFA 18

lad

I know, I used to be a real gamer but now I'm all about the CODs and the FIFAs with the oi-oi-ing and the ladbible and whatnot.

Thanks for all the votes for so far. Remember, if you haven’t voted yet, you have until 13 January to make your choices.

Best visuals: Breath of the Wild
Best audio: Mario Odyssey
Best multiplayer: Because I can't vote for Overwatch this year... Splatoon 2
Most anticipated game: Pokemon Switch
GRcade Game of the Year 2017: Breath of the Wild

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Best visuals: Uncharted: Lost Legacy
Best audio: Destiny 2
Best multiplayer: Splatoon 2
Most anticipated game: Red Dead Redemption 2
GRcade Game of the Year 2017: Mario Odyssey

Best visuals: Assassin's Creed Origins. This was a tough choice but in the end I just had to go with the game that most made me go 'Wow!' - and that was AC Origins (on the PS4 Pro). The scale, the detail, the variety....it just looks fantastic! Loads to choose from this year; I've just started playing Horizon Zero Dawn too, which is mightily impressive to look at, while LOZ was also a stunner.

Best audio: Legend Of Zelda Breath of the Wild. I don't think this even has the best Zelda music etc by a long chalk, but it fits the game so utterly perfectly. The incidental stuff, the gentle rises and falls of the notes as you make your way across the land, all of it just transported me into this amazing world. I love when the sound of a game plays a huge part in my memories of it, and I can't think of any better examples of that happening than this.

Best multiplayer: Mario Kart 8. I don't really play too much multiplayer anymore, but this gets my vote because I've been playing it with my youngest son (he's 4) and it's been a load of laughs.

Most anticipated game: There's so much to look forward to! I think I'm pretty excited for a Switch Pokemon game though, so that gets the vote!

GRcade Game of the Year 2017: Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Just a wonderful, glorious experience from start to finish. It's not perfect.....but it's close.

The votes have been counted, and the results calculated.

It's time to reveal the winners of the 2017 GRcade Game of the Year Awards! :toot:

The first award of 2017 is for

Best visuals

15 games were nominated, and the winner with 28 per cent of the vote is:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nintendo EPD, Nintendo
Wii U, Nintendo Switch

Runner up
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment) – 23 per cent

3rd
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment) – 10 per cent

Previous winners

Our second award is for

Best audio

And the winner, with 19 per cent of the vote from the 17 games nominated, is

Super Mario Odyssey
Nintendo EPD, Nintendo
Nintendo Switch

Runner up
Persona 5 (P-Studio, Deep Silver) – 14 per cent

3rd
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD, Nintendo) – 11 per cent

Previous winners

The third award to be announced is the prize for

Best multiplayer

13 games nominated for this award this year, and picking up 29 per cent and this year's winner is

Splatoon 2
Nintendo EPD, Nintendo
Nintendo Switch

Runner up
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EAD, Nintendo) – 24 per cent

3rd
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Corporation, PUBG Corporation/Microsoft Studios) – 15 per cent

Previous winners

The next award is one of my favourites, the award for

Most Anticipated Game of the Year

At least Breath of the Wild couldn't win for a fourth year in a row!

Taking the crown this year, with 21 per cent of the vote, is

Red Dead Redemption 2
Rockstar Studios, Rockstar Games
PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Runner up
The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment) – 15 per cent

3rd
Metroid Prime 4 (Nintendo) – 10 per cent

Previous winners

And so we come to the final category – the big one every developer and publisher wants to win

The GRcade Game of the Year Award

12 games were nominated, but the end result wasn't even close as the winner took home 54 per cent of the vote. And the winner of the most prestigious award in video gaming is

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nintendo EPD, Nintendo
Wii U, Nintendo Switch

Runner up
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD, Nintendo) – 15 per cent

3rd
Persona 5 (P-Studio, Deep Silver) – 8 per cent

Previous winners

What a fantastic selection of award winners. Thanks for voting :toot:

GR has shown some pretty good taste with those awards; it's good to see that Breath of the Wild met (and maybe exceeded?) expectations after being "highly anticipated" for a few years

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Thanks for organising the voting, Celer :toot:

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A clean sweep for Nintendo concerning 2017 awards, well deserved I think.

Will be interesting to see if Nintendo can manage anything like the dominance they had last year again any time soon, can't see it happening this year.

Gemini73

HSH28 wrote:Will be interesting to see if Nintendo can manage anything like the dominance they had last year again any time soon, can't see it happening this year.

Nintendo have already brought out their big guns, certainly from a mass market appeal, so I doubt it. Never say never, though.

Personally I'm looking forward to Bayonetta 3 and Metroid Prime 4 - if they get a release this year that is.

Gemini73

Having now played Ghost Recon Wildlands I would have nominated that as best multi-player. Combined with the enjoyable single player element, Wildlands is easily one of Ubisoft's best games in years.

The GRcade Game of the Year Awards 2017: Results revealed on p3

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