Now that everything's released: GOTY Poll

Now that all major releases are out, it's time to discuss which game should get Game of the Year! I'll make the poll for game of the year only but you are invited to submit your choices for all categories...

Game of the Year

Crysis - EA / Crytek

Bioshock - 2K / Irrational

World in Conflict - Sierra / Massive

The Orange Box - EA / Valve

Action/FPS Game of the Year

Crysis - EA / Crytek

Bioshock - 2K / Irrational

The Orange Box - EA / Valve

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl - THQ / GSC Gameworld

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare - Activision / Infinity Ward

Unreal Tournament 3 - 2K / Epic

Gears of War - 2K / Epic

RTS Game of the Year

World in Conflict - Sierra / Massive

Supreme Commander - THQ / Gas Powered

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts - THQ / Relic

RPG Game of the Year

The Witcher - Atari / CD Projekt

Hellgate: London - EA / Flagship

Jade Empire: Special Edition - 2K / Bioware

As for myself it's gonna be Crysis for GOTY and FPS, World in Conflict for RTS and undecided for RPG, the only one I played was Jade Empire and it wasn't game of the year material. Crysis is one hell of a ride and keeps you amazed all the way through whether it's for it's action cinematics, emergent gameplay and godly graphics. I thought World in Conflict was a great new way to play RTS, I've never felt more involved in an RTS. Kinda like mixing Battlefield with Company of Heroes. Your thoughts?

This thread fails for not including Soldier of Fortune: Payback.

/sarcasm

Definitely Crysis for GOTY and Action FPS. World of Conflict for RTS. The Witcher for RPG.

Runner up for Action FPS/GOTY would have to be STALKER in my opinion, followed by bioshock.

lol @ SoF: Payback it looks like crap...how could someone find a 50$ to spend on this game with all of these great games getting released...underdark944

It's actually $40, but it isn't worth that either based on what people are saying about it. Go to its forum. Pretty much nothing but complaints. When I asked what was worse, Vietcong 2 or SoF Payback, someone said Payback is comparable in quality to the Marine Sharpshooter games.

None of them even rate in my Top 3 for GOTY

The Witcher is the best game i've played this year. Followed by STALKER and then Portal.

SoF Payback looks like alot of fun... they should have made it $20 and i might buy it.

Crysis is without a doubt GOTY. superb graphics and the best gameplay of any game out now.

Bioshock finishes a close second.

Crysis or COD4.

I would say the Orange Box but that's more of a "compilation" than a "game" you know?

I'm really split. I absolutely love Call of Duty 4, I really like the Crysis demo (getting full thing for the xmas day), and the Orange Box is probably the best value ever (But HL2 won't start up...). I think:

Shooter:

CoD4. Will probably be Crysis

RTS:

World in Conflict. CnC3 as an honorable mention.

RPG:

Haven't played one the entire year. What a realization!

GOTY:

I think it should be Call of Duty, but I haven't played through Crysis (which I imagine will win), so I'll reserve judgement.

Worthy games but not winners+reasons:

Orange Box: Great game (How could you not like HL2?), but the larger portion of it was already released. TF2 is greatfun, but its not really as good a multiplayer game as say BF2 or something. Not as much content and small-scope gameplay. Portal was awesome, but a bit short, as were both HL episodes. Still an awesome package. 9.0 in my book

Bioshock: Excellent SP shooter, but it's not terribly long (that's what she said) and not much replay value. Plus, the last 15% or so isn't nearly as good as the rest.

Crysis for GOTY, nuff said.

Bioshock. Not a hard choice.HupHupOranje

IMO Bioshock shouldn;t even be up there. Replace it with Witcher or better yet, Stalker.

Bioshock is the most boring of the hyped games with the worst FPS element. The only new thing is using plasmids to melt ice and light objects on fire.

Game of the year 2007:

The Witcher

RTS Game of the year:

World in Conflict (by far ahead of the other RTSs released this year)

FPS game of the year:

(the hardest choice here)

Process of elimination... Bioshock was a really good game but not GOTY material. Crysis = Farcry 2 + nanosuit. STALKER is out.

All others come really close to FPS GOTY, but I'd have to say the Orange Box (eventhough HL2 ep 2 got really boring after a while), simply because of portal and TF2, and the value.

RPG game of the year:

The Witcher

Game of the year: Crysis

Action/FPS of the year: Crysis

RTS of the year: Medieval 2: Total war: Kingdoms (shame on you for not listing it!)

RPG of the year: The Witcher

I think it's a really tough call between Crysis, The Orange Box and The Witcher for overall goty. I thought Episode 2 was dire and, while brilliant and hilarious, Portal was barely two hours long. Team Fortress 2 is the real champion of The Orange Box as far as I'm concerned. It deserves to win every multiplayer award going this year, and every graphics/technical award going too. As an aside, I really hope we see another Portal game soon. A full, retail, standalone game. The portal gun and puzzle potential is just too great to be constrained to one two hour game. I know there's plenty of user-made maps coming online, but it's just not the same...

The Witcher is simply wonderful, but it has almost no replayability as far as I'm concerned. The astounding length of the single player campaign mostly makes up for that, and yet most of that is spent running back and forth on fairly repetitive kill and collect quests. Plus, some occasionally awkward dialogue brings everything down a little. But on the whole, it's just a roleplaying masterpiece.

Crysis is really something. It's almost annoying that it's so good, since most people assume it's only well liked because of how amazing looking it is. The technology behind it certainly helps, but it's really how well the game plays that makes it great. The large, open areas - the multiple routes, the tools at your disposal, the choices of how, when and even if you engage the enemy. The final few hours aren't so great, and depending on how you play the game, it's arguably too short, but I think how well the game not only allows but facilitates various playstyles, through level design and some astoundingly good AI, really just gives it a ton of replay value. I've already finished it once, I'm playing it through a second time and then I have plans to play i through a third time - each time playing the game in a very different way.

I realise Kingdoms is an expansion, but I still say it easily deserves RTS GOTY. It has four enormous campaign maps, each set in utterly unique settings. It has tons of new armies, units and features. It's as big - arguably bigger - than most full RTS games hitting the shelves these days. It's also half the price of most full RTS games hitting the shelves these days. Pretty much a perfect package.

The Witcher easily takes RPG of the year. It has its flaws, but the good outweighs the bad like a sumo and a toddler on a seesaw. Great story, great combat mechanics, awesome feel to the world, very polished game all round.

Goty goes for Crysis, no doubt.

But how can Orange Box be considered as an goty nominee since its not a game but a few games in the same box?

GOTY - Bioshock

Action/Fps-Bioshock

RTS-WorldinConflict

Rpg-Hellgate:London

IMO Bioshock shouldn;t even be up there. Replace it with Witcher or better yet, Stalker.

humbugdude

Seconded.

FPS: Orange Box (TF2 is pretty much my favorite MP FPS now, and Portal was just awesome; still waiting for my fuzzy companion cube dice)

RTS: Supreme Commander

GOTY: Orange Box (followed by Crysis)

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IMO Bioshock shouldn;t even be up there. Replace it with Witcher or better yet, Stalker.

RK-Mara

Seconded.

Thirded? Yeah, thirded.

Definately not Crysis...

For me it's The Witcher.

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IMO Bioshock shouldn;t even be up there. Replace it with Witcher or better yet, Stalker.

Inverni

Seconded.

Thirded? Yeah, thirded.

Why? I played Bioshock and it was one of the most polished and lovingly crafted experiences that I have played. Maybe the gameplay is not what everyone was expecting, but the real deal is the story and environments.

Bioshock is GotY for sure.

Bioshock was fun. Crysis was... I'm still trying to decide weither it lived up to the hype. Im hoping for revolutionary games like SupCom, but that will never get it because for some reason they like to say that SupCom is demanding on hardware and have that listed as the only bad reason for giving it a 8 rather than a 9. Then when CRYSIS comes along. They act like hardware doesn't mean anything anymore and whip out the 9.5. Hypocritcal or Bribes (maybe just plain stupid)... I can't decide.Swiftstrike5

Supcom is just to hardcore. I remember hearing the PC staff @ IGN stating that the game has everything going for it except it's learning curve and that is the biggest turn off. Reviewers need to review for a certain audience and most reviews are direct towards the mainstream pc gamers.