It's now partway into December, and the year of 2018 is coming to a close. In that timeframe, many, many video games have come and gone, with the likes of new Pokemon, God of War, Assassin's Creed, and other titles hitting the shelves. Not every release was a major success, but as far as most gaming calendars go, this year was definitely one of the most packed. With 2019 around the corner, it's time to take a moment to reminisce on which video game was your absolute favorite of this past year.

As usual, GBAtemp will be holding our own version of the GOTY awards, where the best of the best will duke it out in the polls, only to lose to Pokemon in the end, and surprise nobody once more. We'll be splitting the categories by platform, PC/Microsoft, Nintendo, and PlayStation so that each will have representatives to go against each other when we do our final vote at the end of the year. This first thread is for voting on the best PlayStation game, which includes Spider-Man, Detroit: Become Human, God of War, and more. So long as they were released on 2018 for PlayStation 4, it's fair game!

Happy voting!

2017 Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (NS)
2016 Winner: Pokemon Sun/Moon (3DS)
2015 Winner: Undertale (PC)

Upcoming Vote Thread: Nintendo
Nominations for best romhacks/fangames

Credit to FAST for this...beautiful banner, representing the greatest gaming had to offer this year.

GBAtemp Official Review Scores

God of War - 10/10

Spider-Man - 8.3/10

Yakuza 6 - 8.3/10

Dissidia NT - 6.5/10

Persona 3 + 5: Endless Dancing Collection - 8/10

Ni No Kuni II - 8.5/10

Dragon Ball FighterZ - 9/10

Call of Cthulhu - 7/10

Iconoclasts - 7.2/10

Hitman 2 - 9/10

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 5.5/10

 

[Shadowfied]

Gonna have to say God of War. Sadly wont play Spider Man until next year.

I for one am beyond disappointed with RDR2. Never have I been so discouraged in an open world game to actually check out the open world.

 

[Lycan911]

Dad of Boy

 

[smileyhead]

@Chary That's some grade A censorship if I do say so myself.

 

[duwen]

No Soul Calibur 6... fuck off with your half assed poll.

...in fact, it looks like none of the new releases I purchased for PS4 this year are in the poll; not that I'd vote for it, but where's SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy? Where's Shikhondo? Where's Tempest 4000?

 

[Wrathcaster]

Easily goes to Detroit: Become Human from me, even though it was interactive cutscenes mostly, i spent days and weeks messing with the timelines. Absolutely hated God of War, and was disappointed with Red Dead 2.

 

[Rabbid4240]

i havent touched my ps4 in half a year and i know its god of war lmao i just did the one with the most votes

 

[RedoLane]

at first I wanted to vote for DQXI, then I found out there's no multi-vote.

..so I voted for Spider-Man.

 

[waveathon]

Can only choose 1... damn. guess DQ 11 would be it for me. it's been a long time since a game made me feel excited to get home and boot up the game.

 

[wurstpistole]

I personally think it'd make more sense to exclude all and any multi-platform games and make it Sony-only.

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Gonna have to say God of War. Sadly wont play Spider Man until next year.

I for one am beyond disappointed with RDR2. Never have I been so discouraged in an open world game to actually check out the open world.

The story and gameplay itself was tremendous, though.

 

[Cyan]

only one vote allowed?
spider man or red2. I'll pick one.

I liked Shadow of Tomb raider, too bad it's not in there.
I'm waiting for this months PS+ to try iconoclast.

 

[DarthDub]

Haven't played any of these, but I do want to play Red Dead Redemption 2, so I'll vote for that.

 

[GhostLatte]

If Red Dead 2 doesn't win, I'm having Elon Musk buy GBAtemp and then delete it.

 

[Costello]

If Red Dead 2 doesn't win, I'm having Elon Musk buy GBAtemp and then delete it.

it's great game, but I'm not enjoying it as much as I thought I would, so far (about 20 hours in)
on the other hand, Spider-Man: I bought this game for my son, but I never thought I would enjoy it so much. It's an amazing game all round. I voted for it

 

[ShaytheStar]

The only ones I’ve played are Vampyr, which hasn’t been finished because it hasn’t gripped me for some reason, and Dissidia NT, which is fun enough but hard. I have God of War laying around though.

 

[DragorianSword]

Glad to see God of War won here too.
Spider-Man was my favorite at first. Really great game, good story with some nice twists but the combat and environments get just a little repetitive after a while.
But then I bought God of War at the Black Friday sales, mostly on a whim and it just blew me away.

[spoilers]
Great story with amazing twists to the whole mythology and a great and quite unique way of exploring the environment.
The world isn't giant, but just big enough and the way the water drops to reveal more and more was just fantastic level design.
The combat get's just a little competitive and just at that moment they add the Blades of Chaos. Still prefer the axe though
Was completely not expecting those and surprisingly that element did not get spoiled in any videos or discussions I saw about the game.
Same for the multiple twists at the end.

Made me start a replay of the original trilogy and can't wait for the next one.
[/spoilers]

The fact that I played it this late is mainly because there did not seem to be as much hype around GOW.
At least compared to Spider-Man and RDR2 and I feared that more people would have completely overlooked this game.
Glad to see I was wrong.

I can imagine that Red Dead Redemption 2 is a great game in it's own right and it's probably more 'unique' than GOW.
(loads of action/adventure with RPG elements lately, but westerns are pretty rare. I know open world games aren't that unique, but it has some pretty great mechanics)
I'm afraid it's just less my genre.

 

[DragorianSword]

Easily goes to Detroit: Become Human from me, even though it was interactive cutscenes mostly, i spent days and weeks messing with the timelines. Absolutely hated God of War, and was disappointed with Red Dead 2.

Haven't played Detroid: Become Human yet, but it's definitely on my list.
I'm curious what you hated about GoW though, if you don't mind me asking.
It was definitely not what I expected, but in a good way in my case.

 

[Wrathcaster]

Haven't played Detroid: Become Human yet, but it's definitely on my list.
I'm curious what you hated about GoW though, if you don't mind me asking.
It was definitely not what I expected, but in a good way in my case.

The boring axe, man I really hated that axe, the poor execution on nord mythology, they could of done so much more with it. The entire map having to retrace alot of steps and rowing about on boat just made exploring for me dull, the game was way too slow paced for my liking, the repetition of puzzles, and of course I much preferred the god like style of the original series, and the boss fights and backdrops just felt more epic to me.
The game just wasn't for me....i tried REAL hard just to finish it, then sold it immediately after.

 

[Aglaophotis]

Why is Spyro: Reignited Trilogy on the list but not Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy? :/