The Game Awards 2015 Nominees and Categories

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Our year is coming to a close friends, and very soon it will be time to fight tooth and nail to decide the one true question.

What is the Game of the Year for 2015?

The Game Awards has posted their nominees for multiple categories, which I will be listing in each below.
Very soon we will most likely have our own polls as well for seperate categories deciding what the GBAtemp GOTY will be, but for now, let's use these lists to take a retrospective on all of the amazing things that came out this year!

And don't forget, the year isn't QUITE over yet, but for Game Awards standards, the cutoff for nomination was November 20th, 2015.

  • Axiom Verge
  • Her Story
  • Ori and The Blind Forest
  • Rocket League
  • Undertale

  • Her Story
  • Life is Strange
  • Tales From The Borderlands
  • The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
  • Until Dawn

  • Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
  • Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of The Tomb Raider)
  • Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher III: Wild Hunt)
  • Mark Hammil as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)
  • Viva Seifert (Her Story)

  • Call of Duty Black Ops III
  • Destiny The Taken King
  • Halo 5 Guardians
  • Star Wars Battlefront
  • Splatoon


  • Bloodborne
  • Fallout 4
  • Pillars of Eternity
  • The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
  • Undertale

  • Disney Infinity 3.0
  • Lego Dimensions
  • Skylanders Superchargers
  • Splatoon
  • Super Mario Maker

  • Call of Duty Black Ops III
  • Destiny The Taken King
  • Halo 5 Guardians
  • Rocket League
  • Splatoon

  • Bethesda Game Studios
  • CD Projekt Red
  • From Software
  • Kojima Productions
  • Nintendo

  • Downwell
  • Fallout Shelter
  • Lara Croft Go
  • Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
  • Pac-Man 256

  • Fallout 4
  • Halo 5 Guardians
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • Ori and The Blind Forest
  • The Witcher III: Wild Hunt

  • Cibele
  • Her Story
  • Life is Strange
  • Sunset
  • Undertale

  • Assassins Creed Syndicate
  • Batman: Arkham Knight
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • Ori and The Blind Forest
  • Rise of The Tomb Raider

  • Guilty Gear XRD-SIGN-
  • Mortal Kombat X
  • Rise of Incarnates
  • Rising Thunder

  • FIFA 16
  • Forza Motorsport 6
  • NBA SK16
  • Pro Evolution Soccer 2016
  • Rocket League

  • Batman: Arkham Knight
  • Bloodborne
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • Ori and The Blind Forest
  • The Witcher III: Wild Hunt

AND LASTLY GAME OF THE YEAR,
Which I decided not to spoiler as it is the biggest decision.

  • Bloodborne
  • Fallout 4
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • Super Mario Maker
  • The Witcher III: Wild Hunt

That is all of the current nominations and categories for the 2015 Game Awards! What are your opinions? Be ready to make a decision soon, as our GBAtemp Game of The Year will be fast approaching!
 

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Honestly out of all the categories, the thing I want to see most is Splatoon win best Shooter.

I love Halo, but I would be happier to see fucking Call of Duty, Destiny, and everything else lose to Splatoon.

Splatoon has had fantastic reception all year round and has really grown into its own, it absolutely deserves it.
 

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Undertale or Steins;Gate are my personal GOTY. As far as Indies go, Rocket League and Ori were fantastic, but Undertale was in a league of it's own, the cult following it's got should prove that.

This year was fairly sparse for shooters, and Splatoon is the only one that sticks out to me. I have a feeling Battlefront will win it, though. I would so enjoy seeing the popular shooters bite it to Nintendo's own kiddie shooter though.

The RPG category is a tough pick, but I'd give it to Fallout 4. Near endless hours of gameplay and content, it's a great game, but not GOTY-worthy.

Dev of the year should go to CD Projekt Red, they handled DLC in a great manner, and Witcher 3 was just all around solid. Mobile section really isn't that much of a fight, Monster Hunter 4 trumps the competition there, imo. As far as soundtracks go, Ori is the only game where I can recall pieces off the top of my head. Except for the trailer theme to Fallout 4. Darn that catchy song.

Games for impact? Undertale, easily. Youtube, Tumblr, everyone and their mother talked (and still is talking) about it.

Action Adventure games had an amazing year. I didn't play either MGS V or Rise of the Tomb Raider, but going off gameplay videos I've watched, they both look like the best in show.

As much as I like Bloodborne's art style, Ori and the Blind Forest's visuals were some of the best I've ever seen in a 2D game, I'd love to see it win this category.

Finally, GOTY out of those options, is Bloodborne, for me. Punishing yet fun, solid mechanics, fun gameplay, it did so much right.
 

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I deserve outrage for not seeing Undertale for Best Soundtrack and Narrative! XD

I can understand Undertale not in for GOTY...... But I request Undertale for GOTY anyway. :P
 

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Finally, GOTY out of those options, is Bloodborne, for me. Punishing yet fun, solid mechanics, fun gameplay, it did so much right.

I'm thinking of getting a PS4, and I heard about that game. I'm interested in playing it.

Best Fighting Game
  • Guilty Gear XRD-SIGN-
  • Mortal Kombat X
  • Rise of Incarnates
  • Rising Thunder

Where are the good fighting games of 2015? ..they forgot to put them in the list

I want to play Mortal Kombat X though, it looks fine to me, at least on the PS4.

I can't properly choose from any of the categories, I barely play video games, and all I have are Nintendo consoles and Sega Genesis. I never even played Mario Maker and Splatoon.
 

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I'm thinking of getting a PS4, and I heard about that game. I'm interested in playing it.



I want to play Mortal Kombat X though, it looks fine to me, at least on the PS4.

I can't properly choose from any of the categories, I barely play video games, and all I have are Nintendo consoles and Sega Genesis. I never even played Mario Maker and Splatoon.

Get a gaming PC. Undertale is also a damn good PC indie game. In terms of narrative and story. It even runs on toasters! :P
 
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Get a gaming PC. Undertale is also a damn good PC indie game. In terms of narrative and story. It even runs on toasters! :P

I have one, I just need to update my old 720p monitor. I may buy a new monitor instead, depends on the price and how much money I'll make by Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
 
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I deserve outrage for not seeing Undertale for Best Soundtrack and Narrative! XD

I can understand Undertale not in for GOTY...... But I request Undertale for GOTY anyway. :P

Same! Did a deaf person play the game? I can't listen to the music alone without getting all emotional... The game is THAT powerful.
I demand that Undertale should win every category! Yes, even best fighting/fps game.
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Let's see.. Undertale should win every category it's nominated in. LiS for narrative. Splatoon for best shooter, it's innovative, fun, appeals to everyone and handles DLC incredibly well. RPG should go for TW3, but F4 is gonna win even if it wasn't as ground breaking as TW3.
Multiplayer... Splatoon!
Best handheld game MH4. Ori and the Blind Forest has a great soundtrack as does the TW3. Hands down Ori wins best art direction though.
Was a great year for gaming this year :3

GoTY The Witcher 3!
 

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This list really shows what a slow year it has been for gaming.
Well aside from the fact most of the best games didn't make the list. Though that was kind of obvious by how many categories Undertale got tacked onto for lack of anything else.

My GOTY goes to Tales of Zestiria. Not much else I can really recall loving this year.
 

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I do not think I have played a game released this year so there is not much I can say there.
On Fallout 4 I will wait for the DLC and bugfixes and with that it might be a candidate for GOTY 2016 -- I once saw a differences between as released and the eventual DLC and bugfixes and it was somewhat different. I am not sure how mario maker could be GOTY for me, I am biased against metal gear and I imagine I would great fun with boodborne and witcher 3 as I have enjoyed previous efforts from both companies and these are supposedly them firing on all cylinders. So much of this year was HD psbone remakes and tart ups though so I do not really have any other offerings if Just Cause 3 is not going to make the cutoff.

Surprised we have not seen moaning that handhelds got bundled with andrios.

Anyway I was wondering if this still suffered the taint of the VGAs. I will at least wait to see it (not live, I do enjoy my skip button and fastforward) before passing judgement though..
 

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I'm so angry that they throw mobile and handheld games into one category.
People still seem to treat handheld as inferior.
 

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I'm kind of mad Undertale isn't nominated for best soundtrack, but my second choice would be Ori.
I'm also kind of surprised Splatoon is nominated in so many categories, but I would love to see it beat the other shooters :)
Undertale and Ori both deserve to win Best Indie Game, sadly only one of them can win. Ori has a very sad and touching story but so does Undertale. Ori should definitely win Best Art Direction though.
 

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