Boards.ie Game Awards for 2019 ** Results! **

Sawduck

Voted for the outer worlds and outer wilds

Mr E

Quiet for the last few hours so I closed it up. Results to follow....

Mr E

Results for 2019.
Where two games are listed for a category, it was a tie for first.

Best PS4 Game (Retail)
Sekiro

Best PS4 Game (Download Only)
Outer Wilds

Best Xbox One Game (Download Only)
Outer Wilds (Wins by default)

Best Xbox One Game (Retail)
Jedi Fallen Order

Best Switch Game (Retail)
Luigi's Mansion 3

Best Switch Game (Download Only)
Untitled Goose Game
Tetris 99

Best PC Game (Retail)
Sekiro
Control

Best PC Game (Download Only)
Outer Wilds

Best iOS Game
Grindstone
Sayonara Wild Hearts

Best Android Game
No Nominees

Best VR Game
No Mans Sky VR
Blood & Truth

Fun: Best Character
The Goose - Untitled Goose Game

Fun: Best Story
Outer Wilds

Fun: Best Boss Fight
Resident Evil 2 - Mr X

Fun: Best Music
Outer Wilds

Fun: Best Sound
Resident Evil 2

Fun: Hottest Female
Claire Redfield (RE2 Remake)

Fun: Hottest Male
Mr. X - Resident Evil 2

Fun: Best Art Design
Outer Wilds

Fun: Best Game Design
Outer Wilds

Fun: Best Graphics
Death Stranding

Fun: Pleasant Surprise
Outer Wilds
Jedi Fallen Order

Fun: Biggest Disappointment
Anthem

Fun: WTF Were They Thinking Award
Fallout 76 Subcription

Fun: Most Anticipated Game for 2020
Cyberpunk 2077

Overall: Best Racing
Need for Speed Heat (Wins by default)

Overall: Best Sports
PES 2020 (Wins by default)

Overall: Best Action/Adventure
Outer Wilds
Sekiro

Overall: Best RPG
Outer Worlds

Overall: Online Game of the Year
Apex Legends

Overall: Best DLC/Add-On Content
Days Gone - 12 free challenge modes and special bike customisations

Overall: Best Strategy/Puzzle
Outer Wilds

Overall: Best Downloadable (non-Retail) Game
Outer Wilds

Overall: Game of the Year 2019
Outer Wilds

Mr E

Breakdown:

Outer Wilds: 12 wins
Resident Evil 2: 4 wins
Sekiro: 3 wins
Untitled Goose Game: 2 wins
Jedi Fallen Order: 2 wins

Jordan 199

Well I'm happy Days Gone won something

Zero-Cool

Thank you again Mr. E for taking the time to organise this.

I'm so happy for Outer Wilds, truly deserves that recognition.

johnny_ultimate

That glorious list of Outer Wilds (plus some other games) is the kind of unambiguous clean sweep I can live with.

Did folks just vote for outer wilds in every game category as a piss take lol

Retr0gamer

Despite the sever and distressing lack of Ace Combat 7 I can live with most of these.

Big head scratchers were Jedi fallen order winning anything. It's Meh Souls with a crap story. And pleasant surprise? I expected much much better from the titanfall 2 Dev. Was very disappointed.

Best soundtrack... I think Ace Combat 7 and sayonnara wild hearts were clear winners but not a bad choice

Best DLC add-on... More boring days gone is a poor choice when the ace Combat 7 dlc missions were insanely high quality and also people forgot the excellent resi 2 scenarios that were also at the great price of free.

Also the WTF award... Ace combats dog.jpg made me laugh a lot but really wish it had gone to any of the morally corrupt companies taking China's side. **** the Chinese government.

Retr0gamer

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Did folks just vote for outer wilds in every game category as a piss take lol

No it's amazing and well deserving of it.

Zero-Cool

Retro, wait till mass effect 2 wins game of the decade

Retr0gamer

Mass effect deserves to with best MRPG. Best meh rpg

johnny_ultimate

It is heartening to see Outer Wilds outperform so dramatically relative to its profile. The nature of polls such as this is that very well-known games will often dominate - it’s just the nature of the beast. So a small indie game just completely sweeping almost every category is always good to see. It helps, it should be said, that it’s truly an all-time great - the best game won

Also, kudos to Mr E for organising as ever!

Mr E

Cheers guys. I'll compile the "Best of the Decade" awards survey this week (compiled from the last 10 years awards)
I did the last decade awards too. Jesus have I been doing it that long?

Sonics2k

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Big head scratchers were Jedi fallen order winning anything. It's Meh Souls with a crap story.

I think it did well partially because people were surprised it was actually a good single player Star Wars game from EA. It's not perfect by any measure, but it's got some fun Lightsaber mechanics, and that's what a lot of people just want in a game.

I'd love to see a modern version of KOTR with better gameplay.

Also it looks like I may have to pick up The Outer Wilds.

Penn

Sonics2k wrote: »

I think it did well partially because people were surprised it was actually a good single player Star Wars game from EA. It's not perfect by any measure, but it's got some fun Lightsaber mechanics, and that's what a lot of people just want in a game.

Have to agree. It was definitely my pleasant surprise of the year. It didn't do anything particularly great, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it, and given that it's from an EA studio, the lack of anything resembling lootboxes, microtransactions, forced online/social aspects etc meant you could really just play an enjoyable, single player, Star Wars Jedi story. I enjoyed pretty much all the time I spent with it (bar some of the backtracking through levels cleaning up collectibles for the platinum, pretty much my only big gripe with the game).

Retr0gamer

I think playing through Dark Forces and starting xwing reminded me that star wars used to be amazing.

Mark Hamill

Did Outer Wilds win every category it was in?

Zero-Cool

Mark Hamill wrote: »

Did Outer Wilds win every category it was in?

Not sure but it could/should have also won in categories it wasn't in.

B.A._Baracus

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Not sure but it could/should have also won in categories it wasn't in.

Best overall game of the year 2019 that wasn't Outer Wilds:
Winner: Outer Wilds

:pac:

ShaneU

Seriously don't get the love for Outer Wilds. Played it for hours wandering around translating things, very boring game.

Retr0gamer

ShaneU wrote: »

Seriously don't get the love for Outer Wilds. Played it for hours wandering around translating things, very boring game.

Play Ace combat 7 instead.

Mark Hamill

ShaneU wrote: »

Seriously don't get the love for Outer Wilds. Played it for hours wandering around translating things, very boring game.

Outer Wilds is the best game I have I ever played.
It is an open-world-solar-system exploration based emergent-story driven game that gave you full freedom with were to go, but required reasonable space-ship, platforming and puzzle solving skills to get there, all in a package that can polished off in about 15 hours.
You can follow the obvious checkpoints and encounter the story that way or literally just pick something that looks interesting and see what you can see there and allow the story to emerge around you and bring you place to place.

It has better storytelling than the best walking simulators, and with actual gameplay behind it.
It has the most truly open-"world" environment I've ever played, but with a clear record of where you've been, what you've done, what you know and were you need to go, all without any filler.
It is what videogames have been trying to do since day 1 - give you a complete storytelling and gameplay experience, balancing gameplay freedom with a story driven by your own curiosity. No levels or leveling, just the questions of "What happened?" and "What is happening?", your reward being your curiosity satisfied.
It is damn near perfect and it is the most artistically perfect game ever made.