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[jshackles]

Best remake

There have been some good remakes this year. Crisis Core, Front Mission, Chrono Cross, The Last of Us, Live A Live, Tactics Ogre, etc.

 

[bender]

Best Revival

 

[R6Rider]

Best UI/HUD/Menu
Best use of DualSense Controls
Best VR title
Best boxart

 

[tommib]

I would like to see some genres. Best horror, sci-fi, fantasy, etc. I also really like the best game no one played because you always end up finding something you never paid attention to.

 

[Rival]

Scummiest move of the year. ie Nvidia 4080.

 

[Interfectum]

Best UX
Most Political
Most Overrated Game
Best Account Suicide

 

[Jaybe]

Not sure about categories, but 22•22 should do a musical performance for it! That dude shreds.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Ugliest character and most disappointing game.

 

[Kataploom]

Best level design
Best combat system
Best cover art
Best UX/UI
Best day-1 performance
Best post-launch support (not counting fixing broken game)
Best core mechanic
Best world building
Best sound design (matters more than just music)
etc...

You know, something that actually matters for games than "actors", "twitch player" and those weird shit geoff put on the TGA

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Best game you didn't play award.

 

[tommib]

Best level design
Best combat system
Best cover art
Best UX/UI
Best day-1 performance
Best post-launch support (not counting fixing broken game)
Best core mechanic
Best world building
Best sound design (matters more than just music)
etc...

You know, something that actually matters for games than "actors", "twitch player" and those weird shit geoff put on the TGA

Cover art is a good one. Scorn takes my vote.

 

[Bonfires Down]

Best Game Pass / PS Plus Extra game.

 

[Rat Rage]

Best gameplay

Best game made from gamers for gamers

Best pixel art game

 

[Damigos]

Best game no one played

 

[SmokedMeat]

Most punchable character(s)

Weightiest combat

Most Punchy Guns

Best Booty

Funniest Switch port

Game you’ll most likely still be playing two years from now

Coolest stages/open world

 

[mortal]

Another one for

Best art direction /art design

Best UX/ UI design

 

[GHG]

best acquisition of the year /s

Regulator of the year award would be more apt.

 

[Investor9872]

Best sRPG.

 

[Rentahamster]

Hi everyone. What would you like to see beyond the obvious overall and genre categories? We've developed some custom internal functionality for this year, so let's go all out and broaden the scope of the NeoGAF Awards.

Best value? Or possibly best game with launch MSRP under $10/$20/$30

Best remake

Most optimized and bug free on release

Most improved (bad games that were released in previous years but via patches are actually good now)

Best game that can run on a potato

Best game to play with a friend

I think certain aspects of games that make them fun to play should be rewarded, like:

Best UI/UX

Most responsive gameplay

Best control scheme

Most innovative gameplay loop

 

[Stinkbug]

Best game you wouldn't've played, had it not been on gamepass/ps+)etc

 

[hepfom]

Honestly I'd like to see a category for "Best game from 2012." to see which one has held up the best.

 

[STARSBarry]

I like the idea of just keeping it simple and having a GOTY as you always have.

Honestly I think the lesson from this years GOTY awards is that throwing out shitty new awards is bad, like they had to rappid fire out 20 of them and only like 10 got the big stage celebration where they did a speech.

So for GAF keep it simple, GOTY and that's it.

 

[Mozzarella]

I think those are a must:

1- Game of the year
2- Best art direction
3- Best music/soundtrack
4- Best gameplay/ game direction whatever you wanna call it
5- Best Level/World design
6- Best story/writing
7- Developer of the year

Optional ones: i dont really recommend this but if you want to add more.

Best RPG
Best Action
Best Horror
Best Indie
Best (x genre) actually

Character of the year

 

[Icymanipulator]

Worst launch (problems, bugs, crashes, server issues, ect)

Best launch (smooth, polished, ready to play, ect)

Best recovery (game that initially launched in a bad state but recovered sometime in 2022 even if it wasn’t released in 2022, just that made huge recovery during the calendar year)

 

[AJUMP23]

Favorite character

Best boss encounter

Best Elden Ring boss

Best Elden Ring location

Most likely to be nominated for mod?

 

[ZehDon]

I'd like to see a "Best Moment" award, highlighting perfectly executed scenes, shots, or moments in video games that are worth recognising, even if the game overall isn't the best.

A good example from prior years would be from Halo 4, for the ending scene where Master Chief and Cortana say goodbye. The game itself wouldn't take GOTY, heck it wasn't even that great a game overall, but that moment? Easily the best moment in gaming for that year, and well worth recognising. For this year, a good example might be a boss reveal from Elden Ring, or a particular shot from GOW:R, that really just took our collective breaths away.

 

[Crayon]

Guilty Pleasure! For fan service games.

 

[AJUMP23]

Best social media Star.

worst gaf fanboy.


most insufferable game creator.

 

[The_Mike]

Best Phil Spencer award for who has talked most about him lol

 

[semiconscious]

best critically praised games that the rest of us either didn't play, or were unable to complete...

 

[Northeastmonk]

Best Toilet Seat Game - doesn’t have to be gross, but there’s a difference between a game you can play on the can and one that takes some effort
Best song in a OST - how many titles I buy the OST for and maybe 1 track actually gets it. Maybe best theme song? Best OST is so broad. Aka Death Stranding soundtrack.
Some negatives - Worst Game and Most Overhyped. These are just some things I had on my mind.

 

[CatLady]

sexiest cartoon furry

That one is an automatic Sony win since Goodbye Volcano High is a PlayStation Exclusive

 

[MasterDerico]

"Best obscure game"
"Best gameplay"
"Best bad game"
"Best good and cheap game"
"Best antagonist"

"Instant classic game"
"Most innovative game"
"The game you most regretted buying"
"Most overrated game"
"Most overlooked game"

"Worst shitty and expensive game"
"Worst praised game"
"Worst hyped game"
"Worst gameplay"
"Worst main character"
"Worst dlc of the year"

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Best game launch priced at under $20 or $30.

I know there's always Indie categories which kind of mean the same thing, but not always. Putting a price on it firmly distinguishes the difference between a $19.99 game and a $39.99 game.

 

[yamaci17]

best replayability
most unforgettable story
the game with the best ending

 

[GeekyDad]

Comebacks

Perhaps for games that are either older and have returned to popularity, or games that were failing that are now thriving.

and perhaps...

Miracles (a la the new Tactics Ogre)

Games you thought would never happen but did.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Biggest Day One Patch of The Year Award.

Biggest Day One Server Not Working as Intended Award

Biggest 180 of The Year

 

[anthony2690]

Forum Meltdown of the year award.

 

[Beer Baelly]

Best handhold game
Best stutter game

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Best/worst game personality of the year. The latter so the Days Gone director can finally win an award.

 

[nocsi]

Top reformed orthodox Rabbi category

 

[22•22]

Not sure about categories, but 22•22 should do a musical performance for it! That dude shreds.

I'm like a drunken monkey playing the piano with his toes.

 

[xrnzaaas]

"why only 30fps and not 60" console category

Plague Tale 2 and Gotham Knights will have a tough fight

 

[Pejo]

Most of GAF doesn't play games anymore, so probably stupid shit like:

• Digital Foundry shitpost thread with the most replies award
• Strangest sales metric corporate speak twitter post
• Leakiest leak (4chan) *update in OP, confirmed fake* award
• My plastic box vs. your plastic box award
• Jim Ryan award for pissing off existing fanbases in pursuit of short term profit
• Phil Spencer award for buying studios and having them amount to nothing ('these things take time, he's still trying to fix Don Mattrick's problems' edition)
• 'Forgetting to take your meds' fanboy award
• Best developer acquisition
• Best snarky reply to an Off Topic thread accidentally created in Gaming side before it's moved by a mod.

 

[nush]

Retro game of the year, either as a compilation release or a standalone title. For example a remastered PS2 title would count or a PS1 title released on PS Plus but not a remaster from the PS360 gen. However a remaster of any game older than that would count.

 

[F0rneus]

Most Elden of Rings
Best Elden Ring Waifu
Best Elden Ring Weapon
Best Elden Ring Spell
Soldier of Godrick Award for Best Boss Fight of the Year

 

[T4keD0wN]

Best microtransactions
Best controversy
Best new fortnite skin
Best update/patch
Best apology tweet
or just "best game (quality)" instead of the usual "best game (most popular)"

 

[wipeout364]

Best game that neogaf refuses to acknowledge might actually be good because it’s popular

Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Fifa
Madden
Fortnite
Candy Crush Saga
Call of Duty Mobile

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

BEST OLD GAME OF THE YEAR

Game you played this year that you enjoyed the most which wasn't released in this year. It would be hard to get any clear winner since everyone's backlog is different but it would really interesting to see all the gaf picks.

If you wanted to try and make it more functional as a voting category you could limit it to the previous year. So "Best 2021 game that you played in 2022" or something like that

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Best handhold game
Best stutter game

I was debating on putting up a Best Steam Deck Game category since I'm obsessed with playing with my Deck. Best Handheld is a better category though.

Best new fortnite skin

Can we shorten the award to Best Forskin?