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[Award] General: The Player's Choice Awards - Game of the Year
BillMurphy
Former Managing EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 4,565
We know you're all sick of award polls, but this is the last one... for now. We've curated the best of the best from 2014 and are asking YOU which games you think had the most excellent year. Both RPGs and MMOs are represented, so click through and vote!
CLICK THROUGH AND VOTE FOR OVERALL MMO AND OVERALL RPG OF 2014!
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The RPG part was easy, was a tie between Dragon Age and Shadow of Mordor for me, but I chose DA due to it having more of that RPG feel.
MMO wise, I didn't want to pick any of them because most either sucked outright all year like GW2(I would give it to it NOW if the last week was in 2014, lol but it wasn't. I see it being the 2015 MMO of the year if the expansion launches this year, but anyway) and the 2 newbies.
I almost gave it to WoW as I really enjoyed the expansion, till endgame at least, but then I remembered they only gave me the expack in the last 2 months of the year and gave me NOTHING for the other 10 months all while charging a monthly sub. Bastards.
So I settled with FFXIV as that's the only game I really came back to more than once throughout the year as each of their content patches had something I wanted to try and also earning that same monthly sub other games have the nerve to charge.
Voted Divinity: Origional Sin as that was my favourite rpg from last year that and Wasteland 2, Dragon Age comes in a close thrid. Sahdow of Mordor was fun for a bit but the combat got a bit boring in the end.. Had the same feeling with the batman games but a lot worse with those hehe.
I did not vote on the MMORRPG as nothing in that list is any good.
For me Divinity and WoW, with no real contenders.
There is DA:I as "contender" for Divinity but the game is glitchy and bugged as hell in its PC version even after a couple of major patches, that besides being a dumbed down version of what the game could really be, only to please the brainless console masses and their 8 button pads. Plus, strictly speaking of RPG, Divinity is infinitely more RPG than DA:I. DA:I is gorgeous, and its voice overs are wonderful. That's it.
In the MMO department... yeah, nothing can really rival WoW from even afar, and it's been 10 years now. I wanted to vote Wildstar, but it fell short in many aspects. Better luck next decade I guess.
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That's why I voted for the Stick of Truth
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor & World of Warcraft, I dont care, flame me!!!!!
Had some trouble voting for the MMOs. For me it was a 3 way tie of voting for the lesser of evils. Then again I just haven't been impressed with MMOs sandbox or themepark. In the end I voted for FFXIV for substance and quality and effort (even if I don't completely like the direction of the game). Yoshi-P and company have definitely put forth the best effort. Runners up were GW2 and ESO by default just because they have aspects "right?" few as they are that FFXIV doesn't IMO.
Had no trouble with the RPG section. It wasn't even a close contest. And even though I know opinions are like assholes, and everyone is entitled to their (wrong) opinion. I voted for Dark Souls 2. In my mind, the rest of the RPG list was a joke with the exception of Divinity. Which even though doesn't hold a candle to Dark Souls series, at least it belonged on the list. And I am sorry, but I just absolutely hate Dragon Age and Diablo. But according to the poll, Im the odd one? Well as long as I keep getting Souls-type RPGs, Ill be happy. And congrats to the winners.
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DA:I and ESO
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it was a decent year for rpgs, but it was an awful year for gaming in general compared to previous years IMO. Lots of broken releases on PC, and lack of releases for new gen consoles (plus some broken ones too)
Either Divinity and Transistor were going to be my choices for sure but i didnt play any of them so i had to choose Dark Souls 2.
As for the mmos, the lack of WASD in Marvel Heroes was an instant NO from me so it was between Draenor and GW2 (went with GW2).
In order for me to properly vote I will have to try all of these titles.. Kindly IM me an access key for every one of them.
This poll is not very scientific otherwise.