Winners of the Golden Joystick awards 2013

[pwsincd]

Seems GTA is becoming one of the UK's biggest exports, I much prefer lego city anyways here's the list .

Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24677247



Now in its 31st year, the awards were first given out back in 1983, with the first Game of the Year award going to Jet Pac on the ZX Spectrum.
Andy Robinson, editor of Computer and Videogames, said that three decades on, the awards still "represent the voice of gamers worldwide".
"We've revamped the categories to reflect the diversity of modern gaming and also added the inaugural Lifetime Achievement award, which has made this year's ceremony the most thrilling for us yet," he said

Full list of winners :
Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto V
Hall of Fame: Activision: Call of Duty
Lifetime Achievement: Ken Levine
Best Newcomer: The Last of Us
Most Wanted: Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Best Indie Game: Mark of the Ninja
Best Visual Design: BioShock Infinite
Best Multiplayer: Payday 2
Best Gaming Moment: Far Cry 3 - The Definition of Insanity
Studio of the Year: Naughty Dog
Innovation of the Year: Oculus Rift
Best Storytelling: The Last of Us
Best Online Game: World of Tanks
Best Handheld Game: Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
YouTube Gamer Award: Yogscast
Best Gaming Platform: Steam
Best Mobile/Tablet Game of the Year: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

 

[GameWinner]

Good day for Naughty Dog!
Wait what? Assassin's Creed Vita won best handheld game? It wasn't even that good.

 

[Hells Malice]

Good day for Naughty Dog!
Wait what? Assassin's Creed Vita won best handheld game? It wasn't even that good.

A majority of the awards had very limited selection that didn't even cover most of the best games.
A lot of them were just picking the obvious gems among a pile of shit, with most of the true gems never even being an option. Pretty much why I only managed to vote for maybe half the categories.

 

[Arras]

I'll have to agree with Mark of the Ninja as indie game of the year. Really loved that. The rest... meh, dunno.

 

[shakirmoledina]

i agree with most if not all the games listed up there. nice choices.

 

[Flame]

i think people just voted to get those free games......

 

[Guild McCommunist]

>Ken Levine
>Lifetime Achievement

 

[YayMii]

Oh hey, none of my votes won (except for Steam). What a surprise.

/sarcasm

EDIT: oh wait, WoT won. That makes 2.

 

[Gahars]

Why are there 2012 games in the 2013 awards?

Like, seriously, Far Cry 3 winning "best gaming moment" for this year? How the hell does that work? "Every single second of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" should've taken the title instead.

 

[Black-Ice]

Best Online Game: World of Tanks

world...of tanks?
...

 

[DSGamer64]

I don't see how World of Tanks was the best online game, it's way too much pay to win and some elements of the game are way too cheese and easymode. It's too bad PGI has really screwed the pooch with MechWarrior Online, cause it's a good game that they can't balance.

 

[Hells Malice]

I don't see how World of Tanks was the best online game, it's way too much pay to win and some elements of the game are way too cheese and easymode. It's too bad PGI has really screwed the pooch with MechWarrior Online, cause it's a good game that they can't balance.

Pay to win? Wut? I hadn't paid a dime and I pretty much never did bad in any match.
All paying does is allow you to progress a hell of a lot quicker, like if you could pay money on League of Legends to gain summoner levels or something. I was tempted to pay to get better arty tanks quicker, but that's about it.
Most of the time you're put in with tanks around your rank, with a couple higher ups on both sides to retain balance, and the bigger and more badass your tank is, the more likely my artillery-ass was to focus you to rubble.
I've also seen lower tanks beat higher tier tanks simply because the skill gap was too great.

 

[TyBlood13]

I'll just put my individual reaction to each in this handy quote here

Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto V The Last of Us all day long
Hall of Fame: Activision: Call of Duty FUCK NO
Lifetime Achievement: Ken Levine No comment
Best Newcomer: The Last of Us Yep
Most Wanted: Witcher 3: Wild Hunt I said SSB4, but I think PS4 probably shoud have won
Best Indie Game: Mark of the Ninja Agreed
Best Visual Design: BioShock Infinite Not a bad choice
Best Multiplayer: Payday 2 They all sucked
Best Gaming Moment: Far Cry 3 - The Definition of Insanity Still going for TLOU here... (I'm starting to feel like emigre ...)
Studio of the Year: Naughty Dog Damn Straight
Innovation of the Year: Oculus Rift By definition, yes
Best Storytelling: The Last of Us Yes, yes, and yes
Best Online Game: World of Tanks I think LoL had this one, but whatever
Best Handheld Game: Assassin's Creed III: Liberation How the fuck did Fire Emblem lose to THIS
YouTube Gamer Award: Yogscast Have you never seen a Smooth McGroove video?
Best Gaming Platform: Steam PC Master Race, I guess
Best Mobile/Tablet Game of the Year: XCOM: Enemy Unknown I don't mobile game, so I don't care​

Overall, I guess I am not with the popular opinion

 

[DinohScene]

Yay Bioshock!
Yay Ken Levine!
Yay Yogscast!

I knew GTA 5 would go GOTY.

 

[gokujr1000]

Most of those votes probably aren't all that true because of how many people that would have raced through them twice for their free games. I know I didn't pay attention to who I was voting for.

 

[frogboy]

Most... Wanted... Witcher... 3?

Out of the list they supplied, I felt like that was the least wanted.