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2017 Game of the Year Awards — Genre Awards — Best Strategy Game

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/13/2017

Posted in: 2017, Game of the Year Awards. Tagged: blade of the shogun, crusade, galactic civilizations iii, game of the year awards, goty, kingdom battle, mario, rabbids, shadow tactics, starcraft remastered, strategy, total war, warhammer ii. Leave a comment

What a weak year for strategy games. The usual big names like StarCraft, Civilization, and others are missing this year. There were a few great games, but they were so spread out I started to wonder if the genre died.

Total War: Warhammer II

Warhammer II was a no-brainer this year. Being even better than the already fantastic original, it’s massive in scale and delivers all the Warhammer essentials for fans of the series. It’s deep, beautiful, fun, and challenging.

Runner-Ups

StarCraft: Remastered

Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade

Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun

Mario+Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

Reissues used to get a lot of backlash as being an excuse to release older games just to get some extra cash due to the lack of exclusives. As of late, re-releases have improved with developers putting their heart and soul to painstakingly recreate a game to look amazing and play with a more modern play style. We went from some extra cash to preserving history.

Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy

Crash isn’t only one of my favorite childhood games of all time, but nearly every PlayStation owners’. N.Sane Trilogy lovingly recreated the entire game from the ground up keeping every little detail in view with great controls and gorgeous visuals, not to mention we get 3 whole games. I have never seen this much effort put into a remaster before.

Runner-Ups

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 Remix

.5

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

StarCraft: Remastered

2017 Game of the Year Awards — Console Awards — Best PC Exclusive

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/08/2017

Posted in: 2017, Game of the Year Awards. Tagged: game of the year awards, goty, guilds wars 2, hollow knight, lone echo, path of fire, pc, starcraft remastered, total war, warhammer ii. Leave a comment

PC exclusives have slowed down quite a bit. All we really get now are some indie games or strategy games, as well as MMOs. This year was strange as the second Total War: Warhammer game was released as well as Starcraft Remastered. Nothing else really stood out this year which is sad for PC gamers.

Total War: Warhammer II

I know Total War: Warhammer won as of last year’s best PC game, but the series has seriously been a behemoth on PC. For the past two years, PC exclusives have fallen short or have been pumping out expansion to older games. Starcraft Remastered came in as a close second, but Warhammer II picked up where the first left off and hit the ground running.