TSA’s annual Game of the Year celebrations are about to kick off, but before we start revealing our winners in each GotY category tomorrow, which the editorial staff and regular contributors have been voting for, we though we’d get in early and give you a chance to start voting. After all, community involvement is a huge part of TSA.
As with last year, the categories are same as the ones we’ve been using for the staff vote, and we’ve tried as hard as we can to include all of the games that made a mark on TSA this year, sometimes awkwardly fitting them into categories that you may disagree with, but ones which must exist for the presentation of the feature to work.
There are ten categories in total, ranging from Sports to Action Adventure epics and everything in between, with around 100 games to choose from in the final overall Game of the Year vote.
You may notice some omissions, such as handheld. That’s because we feel that handheld games have advanced enough to be considered aside the home console games, and to prevent duplication of titles as we had last year. That means we’ve stuck to one category – the defining genre(s), usually – for each game, rather than having multiples across categories. This should make the voting system fairer.
We’ve still got a separate Mobile category, so that those smaller games don’t feel oddly juxtaposed with epic titles such as The Last of Us, and we’ve added in one dedicated to Independent Developers, so those games get their time to shine and don’t get lost alongside titles which are usually much more expensive.
So, go ahead and use the form below to vote, and we’ll have a round-up of your results on New Year’s Eve. If you think we’ve missed anything, then we can only apologise, but we have tried to fairly represent every game worth consideration. We hope you enjoy joining in on the celebrations!
Update: Voting has now closed. Results will be posted soon!
doug
3 games in the game of the year were also my 3 worst games of the year they were metro last light,god of war and the last of us
Blair Inglis
The GotY category is just all of the games we considered.
3shirts
Last Of Us was one of your worst games of the year? I can’t fathom how that can be.
doug
I just wasn’t feeling it with the last of us maybe because I played all 3 uncharted games before playing it so my expectations were to high but I just couldn’t get in to it. I don’t even think I finished it,by the end I was forcing myself to play it so I just sold it
HywelWJ
My favourite game of this year was Brothers a tale of two sons, doesn’t seem to be on the list. But as mentioned you can’t include everything I guess.
colmshan1990
You left out the best mobile game of the year from your selections…
Where’s Papa Sangre II? Highest metacritic score of the year (top 5 if you count all platforms) too if you care of that.
Anyway, apart from that the hardest decision for me is best soundtrack- The Last of Us or Bioshock? Tough call really.
Kennykazey
I found the categories too general, bundling together games with little to no similarity. And leaving Ni No Kuni out of the Best Soundtrack category is nothing short of a disaster.
ron_mcphatty
I’ve definitely not experienced enough of whats been on offer this year, I felt I could only really vote for GTA or The Last Of Us. On the plus side, the game of the year list has given me plenty of wish-list ammo, looks like the PS4 will have to wait a bit longer!
Severn2j
Surprised Guacameelee isnt up for Best Platform Game, its probably the only one I’ve played in a long time, so had to go No Vote in the end..
Blair Inglis
It’s in best indie game, we didn’t want to duplicate things and it fitted best there.
Severn2j
Ah, fairy nuff. I’ve gave that one to gunpoint.
RudeAwakening
Quite disappointed that Killzone Shadow Fall was not on the shortlist for best soundtracks as it was stellar. Definitely a contender in my books.
Sitorimon
haha I think I have some weird gaming choices as those lists were a bit of a struggle for me but I went with what I had and they are still all great choices.