Game of the Year 2016: Day Five Deliberations

Oh boy, this will be interesting.

And the Final Battle Has Begun...

yay goty

HAHAHA team Hitman

Happy new year, duders!

IT STARTS

Is there a sodium-meter somewhere? I feel like we're getting record levels of salt around these parts.

REALLY!?!?!??! That was game of the year?!?!?!

I know it was popular but COME ON!

This is what I won't be saying, but I said it while watching an ad play because I am a non-premium Giant Bomb Member. Go Premium and don't be a loser like me!

This has been one hell of a 5-day stretch between the deliberations & guest lists, thanks to everyone at Giant Bomb for another awesome year of coverage!

Awwww yeah

I don’t know if this hangs here… *dramatic cut to word doc*

That preview image is fantastic.

Knives out !.

Edit: The knives remained firmly sheathed. No bloodletting, no arguments, no cutting. This isn't the Giant Bomb GOTY discussions I've come to know and love !.

Also, Doom is better than Hitman. Just saying...

I had spent the past month so excited to see the crew give Doom game of the year. Not upset at all by the end result, but just did not expect it.

Overwatch character of the year is a real category? For real? Is this a "sponsored" video?

Here we go boys!!!!

Everyone is talking over each other. The deliberations have taken their toll on the crew.

Zayra sucks... God damnit Dan. This is even worse than your singing!

If you, like myself, have zero connection to or interest in Overwatch, skip to 29:00.

Also, Happy New Year!

How can you give Uncharted best story? Nathan, Sully and Elena don't die or end up in prison where they fucking belong! They're fucking scum and the entire series paints them as heroes WTF?

Papa Vinny, as usual, has the right of it. Rein/Mercy 4ever.

i thought i was sick of hearing about team fortress thre-COUGH i mean overwatch.

but then they threw so much shade at tracer i needed to put on a sweater. thanks for that, jeff.

REAL TALK: tracer is an insufferable accent with a gun.

I'm ready. Let's do this. I expect the discussion will get heated and I like it when it gets intense. As long as someone doesn't get glory killed I'm okay with some intense moments.

I like Tracer. She is fun.

Symmetra, as is her lot in life and Overwatch, was robbed.

This is one hunnert percent accurate.

Overwatch is Popplio levels of THA BES, though.

"Someone wrote Mass Effect 2 on this list..."

*lost it*

@philscorpio said:

No. Overwatch is just awesome?

Roadhog is the actual best Overwatch character

Thanks, done. The clear winner of 2016's Dumbest Category.

I find it hard to understand why characters/story are so popular in games like Overwatch where there's barely any story in the actual game because it's just a multiplayer arena shooter and all that matters is the skills of the different characters.

SHE'S A SPACE EGYPTIAN!

That's the best title card I've seen since Attack on Titan's quick look.

Dan, I can't abide your Zarya hate. You are now my mortal enemy.

A-MEI-ZING

There is no controller support for Mass Effect 2 on PC. Gah!

Also, thanks alot guys. I've really enjoyed all these videos.

Personally, I would re-order the final GOTY list a bit (DOOM is better than Hitman), but it is an awesome list of games that feels good, for sure. I played almost everything on this list except for Thumper and Superhot which I fully intend to play eventually. It's cool that Hyper Light Drifter got on there, and Titanfall 2 is my personal best.

@afashionablehat: Everything about this.

Going in on this one blind. I checked what the winners were on the other ones, but this shit? Gotta go in raw!

I'm not an Overwatch fan but the discussion was fun

Jump to around 1:38:10 if you want to avoid any Best Story spoilers, fyi.

I always wondered what kind of person would ever want to play as Soldier 76... And of course it was Dan that supplied the answer.

Jeff's Mei crush is adorable

Jesus, do mine eyes decieve me? Four hours?

It's so funny hearing Alex say "Tossed off" over and over: (see British English) tehehe.

Dude, you are overreacting like none before. If Overwatch had been included in "best new character", it probably would have placed two in the top three. This is a gut-busting funny way to avoid that problem.

Overwatch probably will be top 3 (I haven't gotten there) because it's an amazing game, but "integrity issues" - you for real? This stuff is all for-funsies and doesn't matter. Be chill.

Vinny keeps mixing up the Witcher DLC release dates, he keeps bringing up Heart of Stone which came out last year. It was great, but shouldn't be eligible for 2016. Blood and Wine though...

@philscorpio: Dude what

For some reason I have had to disable my no script addon in order to being able to start the videos. While I understand that preventing the use of adblock is a reasonable thing to require of us I dont think that having to turn scripts on globally is a good idea.

Fortunately I can turn the noscript addon back again after starting the podcast. Though I wish that giant bomb would go back to videos where I dont have to take extra steps in regards to the noscripts addon. That addon is a lifesaver in regards to various websites since they cant just ran various scripts withouth me having a say in it.