2015 GAME OF THE YEAR TOURNAMENT - RESULTS

32 games wntered, Sup Forums voted, and now we have our champion.

This was by far the most peaceful final round of voting we have ever had in the history of the Sup Forums beackets. There was a strong string of opinions that echoed the ideology that both games were worthy contenders of the title and neither side would be that upset regardless of the outcome.

>Exit Poll Consensus
Voters for Rocket League mostly argued the classic "gameplay first" ideology. Many saw Rocket League as an example of how more games should be developed, citing the Witcher as an example of how narrative-focused design has overtaken the AAA market and "dumbed down" the mechanical aspects of games in favor of cinematic and story centric gaming. Many RL voters even admitted that TW3 will possibly be remembered more fondly in the coming years than RL for its epic scale, but that at the end of the day, RL was simply "more of a videogame".

Witcher voters were less homogenous on their reasonings. Some praised the Witcher as the single best open world RPG in years or even ever, while other focused their reasoning on criticizing the competition, calling out RL as a "meme/normie game" that was no more worthy of the title than games such as Call of Duty.

>My Take
My personal favorite game of 2015 was N++, followed most likely by Bloodborne, so I didn't have any personal stake in this final round. I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the Witcher 3 when I first played it, but don't really have the strive to go back to it ass often as I do to Rocket League, which still keeps me consistantly entertained whenever I boot it up.
That being said, I feel that TW3 was unfairly criticized here. It has a strong focus on story, yes. I would expect that from any high budget RPG. Calling it a movie game is going to far in my opinion. It still has replayability and can be challenging enough at times.

Anyway, that's a wrap. We're taking suggestions for the next bracket now.

Until then, stay classy, Sup Forums

Is Xenoblade chronicles the most overhyped game of 2015?

I fell in love with it at realise but now can't even bring myself to get back to it.

The video game beat the QTE/diologue/cinematic fest.
Good. It should have.

That's 2 years in a row now Sup Forums has had good taste.

Are we in a new golden age of Sup Forums?

>Dark Souls II beating anything
Besides that it was a good tournament

Requesting Silent Hill bracket next

What a shitty year

Witchafag here.
I'm fine with Rocket League winning.
Easily the best multiplayer game of 2015.

It was better than 2014
And 2016 is ready better than both of them

Why? Does any game besides 2 have a chance?

>Ori made it to the semis
I'm so proud of it, no shame in losing to the Witcher

Rocket League is such a great game and the Devs did a great jobs supporting it.
I didn't play the Witcher 3 but it sounds like it's excellent.
probably the best final 2 we've had

>Why? Does any game besides 2 have a chance?
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 3
Homecoming

How is rocket league on Xbox one

Best console version.

PC version is best overall.

>Rocket League
>Steam exclusive on PC

Fuck that.
i-it's not like I wanted fun anyway...

2016 winner coming through

When was the Pokemon tournament last done? I feel like that may require a new bracket at some point.

Although not as large of a fanbase as some games, I would like to see a Tales of... bracket done eventually.

How the fuck does voting even work in these polls. I always see them but I never go in the threads because they just seem like hate bait.

I'm pretty happy with this, my favourite games of 2015 were:

1. The Witcher 3.
2. Bloodborne
3. Ori

The witcher 3 really just felt like the absolute culmination of a realised, loved world, with perfect, memorable side quests, incredibly well written characters, and a setting and mythology that introduced elements of slavic infuences incredibly well, and never really grew tiring.

Bloodborne had my favourite gameplay of 2015, but it really took the DLC to elevate it to the levels I felt with the rest of the souls series other than 2.

Ori just felt fresh, original and well crafted in every way.

Buy the console version then

No reason to dislike the pc version because of steam
It's not 2006

Looking back, I can't think of a single 2015 game that I have had as much sheer fun in that Rocket League.

Well done, Sup Forums

>rocket league
This is what happens when you let ledditors vote.

Are you me?

The only difference is I'm more of tied between Ori and bloodborne for 2nd. I love them both.

But yeah witcher was the ultimate for me.

Yeah, why should Sup Forums vote for a game with actual gameplay?

What has better combat?
Ocarina of Time or Witcher 3?

Meme simulator obviously

Someone must know.

>How the fuck does voting even work in these polls. I always see them but I never go in the threads because they just seem like hate bait.
You post your vote and give a semi detailed description as to why you like it more than the other.

Bracketfag is a huge autist and monitors the unique poster count to prevent spamming.

Still seems really easy to break or fake.

I'm not about to buy two consoles just to play one game with a friend, user.

BB losing to some gamemaker platformer gives me autism.

Witcher 3 > Bloodbourne > Rocket League

>Still seems really easy to break or fake.
Theoretically if you were hyper autistic about it you could keep IP-resetting and then giving more different reasonings for the same vote, but for the amount of effort that would take, it would be a miniscule amount compared to everyone else that votes once.

>Theoretically if you were hyper autistic
You underestimate this board.

>Isolation
>FF7
>LoZ MM
>360 Controller

Tasteless faggots spamming their shit opinions confirmed.

>Ori
>Gamemaker
this is bait

to be fair to BB, a little of people just voted for Ori because it wasn't BB

>no splatoon

I agree with this, but I'm still fine with Rocket League winning.

Splatoon got bloodBONED
Then Bloodborne proceeded to get BLINDED
Then Ori proceeded to get HUNTED
Then Witcher proceeded to get can't think of anything

* a lot of people
phone why

>The Witcher was out of his League

This.

I voted for Ori because I legitimately like it more than Bloodborne and I'm sure others did as well, but I'm not dumb enough to believe there were not also lots of spitevotes

Posting best taste bracket

>Rocket League
>Soccer meets driving

W-w-what?

IT works

>Sup Forums voted
Evidently, reddit voted.

If witcher had won you'd be saying Tumblr voted

Nah, as other people said, it was filled with dumb spitevotes in a perfect Sup Forums-fashion.

Is anyone actually upset with Rocket League winning?

Like sure, maybe it wasn't your personal #1 game of the year, but you actually don't like rocket league?

>FIFA with cars won

Beautiful.

>We're taking suggestions for the next bracket now.

BEST OST!

Seconded. This would be good.

>rocket league
this is a joke right?

>witcher
>tumblr
dude tumblr hates witcher

Why yes, Rocket League is simply fun.

You like fun, right Sup Forums?

That would be interesting.
Also, great respect for OP who does all that every time while tolerating Sup Forums's underage kids acting like retards. You are the embodiment of patience.

Kek

me too. i played like 8 hours but can't get back to it. i might someday

No user, you're the joke

god what an awful insult
try harder

>people actually call Witcher 3 a "movie game"

You retards just use buzzwords and don't even know what they mean now.

At least I like both games but fuck you niggers for hating on N

I accept this result.
Both games are certainly amongst my favorites.

I wouldn't mind Bloodborne loosing against the witcher cause both are great gaems, but... bloodborne loosing agaisnt ori? what the hell

Ori is a pretty great and very popular game, no shame in losing to it.

Honestly there were very few games in the brackets that'd be worth getting upset over beating anything else; last year was just very good.

I do wish MH4U had done better, if not won, though.

I'm genuinely curious, what does your top ten look like? I wanna know what kinda games MonHun fanboys are into that'd make them think their shitty handheld title was goty.

>year 2015+3-2
>Board culture garbage still isn't banned

>embodiment of patience
>removes polls they don't like

pic related

>Witcherfag OP tries to rig polls so Witcher can get to the top easily
>still gets blown the fuck out in the end

This is why you faggots should stop praising games with shit gameplay.

>Sup Forums hates sports/racing games
>sports with cars is fine
Allllllrighty, then.

>Super Mario World
>FF7
>Majora's Mask best Zelda
>MMX > MMX2
>RE4
>Metroid Prime

Holy fuck, Sup Forums has Reddit-tier taste

>Sup Forums
>hating sports and racing games

Sup Forums hates sports and racing SIMS, user.

arcadey racing games (mario kart, wipeout, crazy taxi, forza) and arcadey sports games (ssx, mario strikers, punch out, tony hawk's pro skater) have always been fairly well liked - and rocket league is an excellent fusion of the two

>game with good gameplay wins over cinematic bullshit

You got it backwards son.

That's a pretty good list all things considered.

i really like witcher but i'd vote for Rocket league anyway.

for most people this result is a Win/Win situation.

To be fair though if it was a normal poll hosted by a website those same people would still proxy spam it

I request a "Best Fighting Game" Tournament.

melee already won that title years ago though

I don't see how we could possibly do "best OST".

You'd have to be much more specific.

Castlevania bracket

I liked it, it was a nice and beautifull game but not better than BB imo

Best girl

>Best girl
This, but make it DOA

Silent Hill

Best puzzle game

Cars

this will just result in an adventure game or vn winning, like danganronpa, manic mansion, virtue's last reward, monkey island, or an ace attorney game


actual, dedicated puzzle games like puyo pop won't even make it to the semis

Says the member of the community that voted Halo 5 is better then Fallout 4. Da fuq?

And not enough people have played the true best puzzle game

Halo 5 is legitimately better than Failout 4

No...

ITT opinion wars...

So no it's not.

Please, prove my opinion wrong Sup Forums

Haven't played either game sorry.

I don't need to prove your opinion wrong.
That's not what matters.
What matters is that your opinion is in the minority.

Soooo you get much natural light under that rock you call home?

>Playing Normie games
Not interested

Videogames

That's cool, you're right I wouldn't want to be in the majority of ASSHATS who frequent Sup Forums maybe I should just kill myself.

I've been thinking of killing myself as well.
Want to meet up and kill each other so we don't go to Hell?

You're so beta, I'm shaking in my boooooots.