The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Wins Game of the Year at 2015 Game Awards

[Las7]

Witcher 3 is the best Single Player Game of the year, no doubt about it
Splatoon is the best Multiplayer and Shooter game of the year

Great success for the awards to lineup with my tastes for once.

 

[Saulkar]

It's sad that I have run quite a few articles praising CD Projekt Red for deciding to NOT fuck people over with shitty business practices and half-assed bug filled games.

EA, Konami and Warner Bros. are reading this in stunned silence, trying to grasp the concept of being nice to their customers.

Not just stunned silence but the very mechanics by which their brains biologically function does not allow them to understand, they cannot understand. The only thing we can do is a rag, some chloroform, a shovel, and no guilt as we do the objectively right thing and put them out of our misery.

I approve of CD Projekt Red's award.

 

[Timeless Lavender]

That is good. Well deserve. Even though I never play/care about this game but I acknowledge its accomplishments.

I am not a fan of 'the developer award' itself. I felt it just blind fanboyism rather than being level-headed/skeptic towards any developer studio.

 

[Thyunda]

Of all the games this year and developers, it deserves it the most. So kudos.

Even... if its completely and absolutely inferior to the books (and CDPR would do good to fix some of their lore/logic rape).

pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft it's called adaptation mang live with it

*sigh*
You will never understand. No matter what I do, no matter what language or explanation I use or give you

Adaptation =/= stupid or simplified. It should not mean that. If I take what you are saying by the letter... you are telling me exactly that. I am a jaded elitist asshat, but I do love the the things I am complaining about/at times hyping myself. That is how I work.
For example, talking about our old Fallout 4 arguments... if it was CoD: The Next One that had those perceived issues, I would not give a flying fuck. But since it is Fallout fucking four, I give a good amount of fucks

Being cold, silent, passionless or settling for less... that is not how I operate when I give a good ammount of fucks

And I look forward to doing this every time we share an interest in a game - you've got nearly the same avatar as me so you'd better bloody get used to me.

 

[Thyunda]

Of all the games this year and developers, it deserves it the most. So kudos.

Even... if its completely and absolutely inferior to the books (and CDPR would do good to fix some of their lore/logic rape).

pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft it's called adaptation mang live with it

*sigh*
You will never understand. No matter what I do, no matter what language or explanation I use or give you

Adaptation =/= stupid or simplified. It should not mean that. If I take what you are saying by the letter... you are telling me exactly that. I am a jaded elitist asshat, but I do love the the things I am complaining about/at times hyping myself. That is how I work.
For example, talking about our old Fallout 4 arguments... if it was CoD: The Next One that had those perceived issues, I would not give a flying fuck. But since it is Fallout fucking four, I give a good amount of fucks

Being cold, silent, passionless or settling for less... that is not how I operate when I give a good ammount of fucks

And I look forward to doing this every time we share an interest in a game - you've got nearly the same avatar as me so you'd better bloody get used to me.

Problem is, your interest does not seem to be as ... high or earnest as mine.

The Witcher 3 has stupid faults. It is that simple. Fixable ones. Ones that CDPR CAN address. This time it is not a rave on the intrinsic inferiority of gaming compared to literature.
That is what I am talking about.

And I was Zee Captain since before it was cool
*Hipsterness intensifies*

Yep well I was here first. Have at you.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

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AFAIK Sapkowski himself has denounced games being canonical, so it's not like REDs are obliged to stick to the lore anyways.

 

[Elfgore]

Not my GOTY, but I don't think any other game could really take it this year. Fantastic gameplay, one of the best stories I've seen a while, an insane attention detail, and just a damn fine company making it.

 

[RyQ_TMC]

AFAIK Sapkowski himself has denounced games being canonical, so it's not like REDs are obliged to stick to the lore anyways.

Sapkowski's stance is that he will happily sell the rights to anyone who comes around with a fat sack of money, but ONLY his books are canonical. The games, the upcoming movie, the shitty disaster that was the TV/film adaptation, the comic books, short stories by other authors - they're all basically fanfiction as far as canon is concerned.

OT: Great news, TW3 is easily my favourite game of this year and possibly one of my all-time favourites. It certainly deserved the award. I think it's the first piece of gaming news that I've heard from mainstream media before the gaming ones.

 

[Chaos Isaac]

Disappointing.

It wasn't that good.

 

[Kaymish]

i havent played it yet but i think im going to skip the witcher 2 to play it once im done with fallout 4 by all means it sounds like it was well deserved

 

[Strazdas]

Good. They deserved this. There were many good games out this year, but Witcher 3 and CDPR certainly deserved to be on top.

EA, Konami and Warner Bros. are reading this in stunned silence, trying to grasp the concept of being nice to their customers.

Not just stunned silence but the very mechanics by which their brains biologically function does not allow them to understand, they cannot understand. The only thing we can do is a rag, some chloroform, a shovel, and no guilt as we do the objectively right thing and put them out of our misery.

how long untill EA exec comes out saying something like "All gamers are entitled brats for not making our Star Wars mod of Battlefield GOTY. Also buy more DLC"

 

[Saulkar]

how long untill EA exec comes out saying something like "All gamers are entitled brats for not making our Star Wars mod of Battlefield GOTY. Also buy more DLC"

I give it two hours (weirdly backhanded tweet or something) then I demand a refund for my tickets for the front row seats of the ensuing backlash.

 

[RedRockRun]

This makes me happy. W3 is a phenomenal game made by a phenomenal company. I can only hope that other developers take note of CDPR's business ethos.

 

[Amaror]

Sapkowski's stance is that he will happily sell the rights to anyone who comes around with a fat sack of money, but ONLY his books are canonical. The games, the upcoming movie, the shitty disaster that was the TV/film adaptation, the comic books, short stories by other authors - they're all basically fanfiction as far as canon is concerned.

OT: Great news, TW3 is easily my favourite game of this year and possibly one of my all-time favourites. It certainly deserved the award. I think it's the first piece of gaming news that I've heard from mainstream media before the gaming ones.

Yeah, hehe. For Sapkowski the books are the only things that are real Witcher stories. I remember an interview were they noticed that his book sales increased after the games release and asked whether he thinks that the games contributed to the books new success. He said that the games only sold so well in the first place because of his books ... which only very few people even knew about outside of poland before the games.