The Annual 2015 Video Game Awards

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In case you didn't watch it last night, here were the winners...

The Game Awards 2015 officially kicked off at 9 p.m. ET tonight, but producer Geoff Keighley got the party started with a couple of awards on the pre-show, which began half an hour earlier. Here's a list of all the winners; we'll continue updating the post throughout the evening as more awards are given out. And for reference, you can compare the winners to the list of nominees.

BEST FAMILY GAME
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Mortal Kombat X (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)

BEST MOBILE/HANDHELD GAME
Lara Croft Go (Square Enix Montreal/Square Enix)

ESPORTS TEAM OF THE YEAR
OpTic Gaming

ESPORTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Team EnVyUs)

ESPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
No Man's Sky (Hello Games)

BEST NARRATIVE
Her Story (Sam Barlow)

TRENDING GAMER
Greg Miller

BEST INDIE GAME
Rocket League (Psyonix)

BEST SPORTS/RACING GAME
Rocket League (Psyonix)

GAMES FOR IMPACT
Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)

BEST FAN CREATION
Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
CD Projekt Red (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)

BEST SCORE/SOUNDTRACK
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett, Daniel James/Kojima Productions)

BEST PERFORMANCE
Viva Seifert (Her Story)

GAME OF THE YEAR
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
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I saw Konami's lawyers told Hideo Kojima he couldn't attend. That's f'd up.

Without him and Igarashi, they wouldn't be anywhere close to where they've come.
 
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To be honest, I thought either Bloodborne or Metal Gear Phantom Pain deserved to win Game of the Year. Don't get me wrong, I liked The Witcher 3. It's a beautiful and ambitious game but it had it's flaws. For one, the main story was not that great IMO. I was kind of bored with it after a while, especially after you complete the Bloody Baron quest. I actually found the side quest stories to be way more interesting. Plus there was just way too much dialogue in the game. I get that it's an RPG but good god! After a while I'm just like "skip, skip, skip, skip, etc." Also the mechanics were servicable but I didn't find them particularly great. The sword play at times felt clunky, especially compared to Bloodborne's melee system. Also I thought Mario Maker should've at least been nominated for GOTY.
 
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To be honest, I thought either Bloodborne or Metal Gear Phantom Pain deserved to win Game of the Year. Don't get me wrong, I liked The Witcher 3. It's a beautiful and ambitious game but it had it's flaws. For one, the main story was not that great IMO. I was kind of bored with it after a while, especially after you complete the Bloody Baron quest. I actually found the side quest stories to be way more interesting. Plus there was just way too much dialogue in the game. I get that it's an RPG but good god! After a while I'm just like "skip, skip, skip, skip, etc." Also the mechanics were servicable but I didn't find them particularly great. The sword play at times felt clunky, especially compared to Bloodborne's melee system. Also I thought Mario Maker should've at least been nominated for GOTY.
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I agree with this. I love old JRPGs and many new WRPGs, but I don't feel like I'm "role playing" when I'm forced to play as a pre-set character with a pre-set story, you know? You get to do that with Bloodborne, Souls, Elder Scrolls, and Fallout (to an extent). I also enjoyed that Bloodborne and the Souls games don't beat you over the head with dialogue and cut scenes.

And don't get me started on Bloodborne/Souls combat. It is vastly superior to any sword combat in any game series. Ever. Period.
 
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some of these catagories are stupid.... Trending Gamer??? Who gives a...?
 
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some of these catagories are stupid.... Trending Gamer??? Who gives a...?
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LOL I agree. Though I have to say, Greg Miller's acceptance speech was really great. I think it's just a part of the social media culture with gaming. There are a lot of video game-centric characters on those channels with shows that a lot of people tune in to. Guys like Angry Joe, Pewdipie, Greg Miller, Colin Moriarty, etc are trailblazers.

My personal favorite category is "Most Anticipated Game" LOL WTF?? So now we're giving out awards to games that haven't been released yet?
 
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LOL I agree. Though I have to say, Greg Miller's acceptance speech was really great. I think it's just a part of the social media culture with gaming. There are a lot of video game-centric characters on those channels with shows that a lot of people tune in to. Guys like Angry Joe, Pewdipie, Greg Miller, Colin Moriarty, etc are trailblazers.

My personal favorite category is "Most Anticipated Game" LOL WTF?? So now we're giving out awards to games that haven't been released yet?
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I hate that guy. He's like a bad version of the Angry Video Game Nerd (who himself has gotten stale).
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
I hate that guy. He's like a bad version of the Angry Video Game Nerd (who himself has gotten stale).
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he's definitely campy but I tend to agree with *most* of his reviews.

I can't bring myself to watch a man-child who calls himself "pewdipie" though
 
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SWIL said:
he's definitely campy but I tend to agree with *most* of his reviews.

I can't bring myself to watch a man-child who calls himself "pewdipie" though
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Yeah I agree with him most of the time as well. However his problem is he only has one volume....loud! After you listen to it for a while you tend to want to tune him out.
 
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The whole "angry reviewer" thing kind of peaked in 2010-2011, and now it just seems silly. There aren't that many around that still do it, but I do laugh when I come across some new person trying to do it, because at this point it's almost retro.
 
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Glad to see No Man's Sky get an award before it even releases. That's my vote for GOTY next year if it lives up to it's hype.
 
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Oh my, that takes me back.
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Yeah, he was awesome for about his first 2-3 years. I still watch his stuff but it's pretty much mailing it in now.

I also remember The Irate Gamer, who was a blatant ripoff of the AVGN; so much that a few of his first episodes were of the exact same games the AVGN did and he even tried to use the same catchphrases and all.
 
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AVGN somehow invented a few new swear words back in his prime; when many of his rants were epic. His take on TMNT is probably my favorite.

Hard to believe it was first posted 9 years ago!!
 
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SWIL said:
AVGN somehow invented a few new swear words back in his prime; when many of his rants were epic. His take on TMNT is probably my favorite.

Hard to believe it was first posted 9 years ago!!
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Good lord I feel old!
 
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SWIL said:
AVGN somehow invented a few new swear words back in his prime; when many of his rants were epic. His take on TMNT is probably my favorite.

Hard to believe it was first posted 9 years ago!!
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Yep, back when he was The Angry Nintendo Nerd. He had to change it when he started making money off of it.
 
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