Today, the award ceremony for the Golden Joystick Awards was held at the Bloomsbury Big Top in London, and the final winners have just been announced.
The game of the year prize was brought home by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild. Horizon Zero Dawn was ranked second, and Persona 5 got third place.
Other highlights are Horizon Zero Dawn as best storytelling (with Aloy voice actress Ashly Burch also winning the Best Performance award), and Playerunknown‘s Battlegrounds winning Best Multiplayer Game.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild won Best Nintendo Game, actually beating Super Mario Odyssey that got the seconnd place. Zelda also won the Critics’ Choice Awards, voted by a panel of critics.
Best PlayStation Game was Horizon Zero Dawn, followed by NieR: Automata.
Cuphead floored everyone as Xbox Game of the Year, with Gears of War 4 taking second.
The award for Most Wanted game, which gives us a glimpse of the future, was won by The Last of Us Part II beating in order Red Dead Redemption 2 and Death Stranding.
You can enjoy the full list of winner below.
Best Audio: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild
Best Gaming Performance: Ashly Burch – Horizon Zero Dawn
Best Indie Game: Friday the 13th The Game
Studio of the Year: Nintendo EPD
eSports Play of the Year: Agilities’ five-man Dragonblade at Overwatch Contenders
eSports Team of the Year: Seoul Dynasty (formerly Lunatic-Hai)
eSports Game of the Year: Overwatch
Handheld/Mobile Game of the year: Pokémon Sun and Moon
Nintendo Game of the Year: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild
PlayStation Game of the Year: Horizon Zero Dawn
Xbox Game of the Year: Cuphead
PC Game of the Year: Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds
Critics’ Choice Award: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild
Hall of Fame Award: Final Fantasy
Most Wanted Game: The Last of Us Part II
Outstanding Contribution to the UK Game Industry: Debbie Bestwick
Ultimate Game of the Year: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild
Besides the Critics’ Choice Award (doh!), the prices were voted by the public (anyone can vote online), so if you dislike the results, you can scream at each other in the comments, because it’s everyone (else)’s fault.
Last year, the overall Game of the Year prize was won by Dark Souls III, while Mass Effect Andromeda won the Most Wanted award. I sure hope that doesn’t jinx The Last of Us Part II.
imnotgoats on November 17th, 2017 at 19:33 UTC »
I find it interesting that Cuphead won Xbox game of the year. Considering that Microsoft has just released the X and has been pushing the 'powerful'/4K thing, it's interesting that the platform's 'best' game in this case was a 2D Unity-based title.
If nothing else, it can surely serve as a hint to spec-obsessed gamers as to why people like 'underpowered' consoles like the Switch. It's about the games, nothing more.
Edit: A few people seem to be reading something along the lines of 'Xbox sucks', 'Xbox fans are dumb', 'Switch is the best' or 'graphics don't matter'. I'm not sure where they got that from. I didn't say those things. I didn't even talk about Xbox fans. I don't want to argue with people, I just found something interesting.
abcxyd on November 17th, 2017 at 17:41 UTC »
Nintendo EPD won Studio of the Year too.
Joseki100 on November 17th, 2017 at 17:39 UTC »
Just the first of many probably.