GameSpot's Top 25 Games of 2015: The Witcher 3 Is Gamespot Game of the Year 2015

Safe and boring pick by GS as was expected.

Oh well still a very nice top 5 list there, seems like Bloodborne was THE best exclusive of 2015.

@Sollet: their last two years had pretty unexpected picks though

True, however Witcher 3 was expected to win GOTY (not only here).

@Sollet: Gamespot haven't gone with safe and boring in a very long time now- they did Demon's Souls in 2009, when the world went for Uncharted 2. They went for RDR in 2010, when the world went for Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Mass Effect 2. They did Journey in 2012, when the world went for Mass Effect 3. They did A Link Between Worlds in 2013, when the world went for The Last of Us. They did Shadow of Mordor in 2014, when everyone else went for Dragon Age.

Gamespot almost always stands out with its picks for GotY.

Man, I really don't like this format for their top five videos. I would much prefer a well pre-made video with only gameplay footage as has been done in the past. Their personalities just aren't up to par anymore for their current format.

I need a new PC.

Boring choice. Also going through their awards pages is a mess.

Still have no idea how they chose Evolve to be in Top 25 yet no sign of Batman AK

The Witcher 3 deserves it <3

There should be few melt downs with this choice. Congrats to the Witcher 3.

Surprised that there is no Undertale.

Rocket League over Phantom Pain is bizarre despite TW3 being the obvious choice.

I called it.

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I think this is the one time you can't go "unexpected". The Witcher 3 is that damn good. It's groundbreaking imo.

Too lazy to make a new post, so...

Having rocket league in top 5 is laughable, nice to see the PS4 has the best exclusive of the year ... And TW3 deserves Goty it was outstanding.

Dang. Overlooked that one but I thought it might have been top 10 instead considering how many people seemed to praise it. I guess it is still in a honeymoon period.

And also the fact that it won the Greatest Game Ever in GameFAQs

Not really... because MGS games suck.

Boring list, kind of like the PS4 games this year. lol

I predicted that Super Mario Maker will be #5. I was right.

No problem with the safe pick here. Witcher 3 is clearly the best.

It deserved to be in top 5. I'd definitely replace Mario Maker with it

Well, it's the top 5 list we all expected, just not in the order that I was expecting.

It's solid though. They actually managed to get 2 of the years best games in the top 5. Probably 3 of them actually, I just haven't played Rocket League, can't speak on that one.

Congrats to Geralt of Rivia and Cirilla.

http://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2013/09/2013-game-of-year.html

This keeps track of games that won the most awards in their respective years Red Dead was getting its, in fact Mario galaxy 2 would have been the unconventional pick that year (albeit a popular one). And it wasn't Mass Effect 3, it was The Walking Dead piling on the awards in 2012. Mario Galaxy 2 only won 17 GOTY awards from a critic. Red Dead had 87, including Gamespot.

lolwut?

So, Bloodborne is still better than anything Xbox had to offer in its best year

It's better than anything else on the PS4 as well, not really surprising.

Yup by a long shot, not to mention Rocket League is also on there. All i all a stellar year for PS4.

Top 5 are good picks.

Order is of no importance really, to me.

Got no problem.

Just glad FO4 isn't winning many(any?) GotY awards. I love that game, but seriously, Bethesda need to stop with the overzelous streamlining. Every game they release has trimmed down or removed features from the previous one.

untill dawn 》》》》》》 halo 5

HAHAGAGA

and bloodborne best exclusive

ps4 wins

After looking at the list, all I can say is.. LOL consolespot

A worthy winner, I enjoyed W3, lots of games stacked in the latter part of 2015 though isn't there (barring the obvious exceptions!)

@k--m--k: lol true

conclusion 2015

ps4>>pc>>>>>>xposbone>>wiiu

untill dawn>>>>>>>>>halo 5

cows>>>>>>>lems

list further proves GS is a joke

No Life is Strange on this list... That's disappointing.

Not shocked at the Witcher3 winning. I knew it would win GOTY.

I also predicted that not that many big first person shooters would appear on Gamespot's top 25 list and I was right. Only three appeared if I recall.

Good to see Rocket League at #2. Witcher 3 at 1 was a no-brainer, really.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion, Wii U has more exclusives on the list than Xbox One, and they are ranked higher than Xbox One exclusives

@charizard1605: in that case

ps4>>pc>>>>>wiiu>>>>>xbone

mario maker>>>until dawn>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>halo5

damn lems

Another year where my GOTY matches Gamespot's :D

The best got it. Well deserved.

Agreed. This year it was a no brainer.

I don't understand how people have such strong feelings about things they don't own or haven't played. I feel like I can't get too upset over the list because there are 8 games in that Top 25 list that I don't own. I'm happy that Splatoon, Rocket League and Mario Maker made the list because they are all great games. I would move The Witcher 3 down to 5 and Until Dawn to the 20's but this isn't my list, so whatever.

Curious, how do they go about making this list? Was this decided among the staff, or player votes? I just looked at the individual staff top 10 picks and it doesn't really reflect the overall results at all.

GOTY is picked by all the staff together, and it's the game they think is the best. Their individual picks are just their favorite games. Favorite games are not always what they consider to be the best.

Surprised with how much I agree with their favorites. MGSV at #1 and Bloodborne at #2. Despite that, I can't deny what The Witcher 3 did for open world RPGs and writing in games.

@tormentos: no, stupid. They should have given a 6 the day it was released because the game was broken.

They waited a week to review it so 343 could patch a broken multiplayer (which they didn't do until much later).