The SYSTEM WARS Most Anticipated Game of 2016 (FINAL 24 HOURS)

SYSTEM WARS MOST ANTICIPATED GAME OF 2016

System Wars- 2015 is behind us now. It was a great year for video games, and every single platform got multiple incredible titles to enjoy. 2015 was the year when this new generation of video games finally came into its own, and we finally got a taste of the kinds of games that are truly possible on this new batch of consoles.

And yet, 2016 looks better.

From every standpoint, 2016 is stacked- no matter what system your allegiances lie with, it seems that 2016 will give you something worth your while to play. AAA games, indie games, western titles, Japanese titles, first party games, third party games, and everything in between- you name it, 2016 has it. It truly looks like it will go down as the landmark year for this generation of video games.

But which of these games is System Wars looking forward to the most?

It's time decide that!

And how will we do that? Well, we'll be using the old System Wars Votes format for this. Here's how it will go:

• Nominate five games for Most Anticipated Game of 2016. Make sure your nominations are in order. The first game you nominate gets 50 points. The second game gets 40 points. The third game gets 30 points. The fourth and fifth games get 20 and 10 points respectively. The order you list your most anticipated games in is, therefore, very important.
• You can list up to five games. You are allowed to list less than five games, should you want to. If you list more than five games, then any game beyond the first five you listed will not be counted, and the first five games will be scored according to the order they were listed in.
• Any game announced for release in 2016 in at least one territory counts. As long as a game has been announced with an explicit 2016 release date in Japan, Europe, or North America, you can go ahead and nominate it.
• Games that don't have any release dates attached to them don't qualify- don't vote for them. So, games like Final Fantasy VII Remake, Ni no Kuni 2, Etrian Odyssey V, what have you- don't nominate these ones. They don't have an official 2016 release date.
• Don't nominate games that have not been announced officially. This may seem obvious, but in an industry with so many annual games, it's a point worth making. You might really be looking forward to the new Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, or FIFA game, but none of them have been officially announced yet- so don't nominate them, or you're just making stuff up.
• You can only nominate a single game once. I can't believe I have to say this, but there you go.
• Please don't nominate DLC. Yes, I know that nominating the next bit of Destiny DLC may be tempting, but that's not really a game- stop treating it as one.
• You may list re-releases. Any remaster or re-release that is slated to release at retail, such as Gravity Rush Remastered or The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, qualifies.
• An account must be 90 days old, OR have a post count of 100, to be eligible for participation in this contest.
• You have until 11.59pm Central Time on December 31, 2015 to get your votes in. Until this period of time, you are free to edit your votes as many times as you want to.

Got it? Awesome, let's get down to it then!

CURRENTLY, THESE ARE THE TOP 10 GAMES BY POINTS. THEY ARE NOT PRESENTED IN ANY ORDER:

• XCOM 2
• Horizon: Zero Dawn
• The Legend of Zelda
• Persona 5
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Mass Effect Andromeda
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• Fire Emblem Fates
• Dark Souls III
• Final Fantasy XV

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For reference, here is the list of System Wars' Most Anticipated Games of 2015:

1. The Legend of Zelda
2. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
3. Bloodborne
4. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
5. Batman: Arkham Knight
6. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
7. Persona 5
8. Final Fantasy XV
9. Xenoblade Chronicles X
10. No Man's Sky

I'll go ahead and list my most anticipated here:

1. Persona 5
2. The Legend of Zelda
3. Fire Emblem Fates
4. Final Fantasy XV
5. Horizon: Zero Dawn

1. Persona 5
2. Deus Ex
3. Mass Effect Andromeda
4. FFXV
5. Zelda

1. Fire Emblem Fates

2. Persona 5

3. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

4. Scalebound

5. The Last Guardian

1. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
2. NieR: Automata
3. Horizon: Zero Dawn
4. Dark Souls 3
5. The Last Guardian

Shame that we can't nominate RDR or Half-Life 3.

1. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
2. Mass Effect Andromeda
3. Scalebound
4. Horizon: Zero Dawn
5. The Last Guardian

I dont like threads like this, there's just so many games next year and i am looking forward to like over 20 games but ok i'll go ahead and list 5...

1. Persona 5
2. Final Fantasy 15
3. Uncharted 4
4. Horizon: Zero Dawn
5. Mass Effect 4

This is hard, I mainly don't get hyped except for stuff that's about to come out. I'll probably Day 1 the great and not-so-great alike. Anyhow, if I absolutely had to limit myself, I'd go in the order of...

1. Mass Effect Andromeda
2. Persona 5
3. Legend of Zelda for Wii U NX
4. Gears of War 4
5. Quantum Break

And an honorable shout out to...

funny how half of last years SW most anticipated game line-up got pushed back to 2016

Yeah, that kind of thing has happened a whole lot lately.

May we fare better this year!

1. Quantum Break

2. Gears 4

3. UC4

4. Mafia 3

5. Unravel

Still looking forward to Cossacks 3.

Give me some old school RTS !

These as well !

And I do want to see more from the new South Park, it has gone so awfully quiet.

@charizard1605: I really like the opening picture ! Just a single picture is quite telling and a great way to start any thread ^^

How did you make it ?

1. Xcom 2
2. Last Guardian
3. Dark Souls 3
4. Street Fighter 5
5. Zelda won't release in 2016, I would say Persona 5 but I don't want to look like a weeaboo and looking forward to anything else currently announced to come out next year would be borderline plebeianism.

>All the hard-ons for Fates and Persona 5

>All the impressionable western minds being poisoned by Japanese games

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

1. Dark souls 3

2. Xcom 2

3. Mass Effect Andromeda

4. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

5. Horizon: Zero Dawn

Man had to leave so many great ones out, going to be a sick year.

@R4gn4r0k: I still haven't played the last one, it came out at a bad time when I moved and I got rid of my Xbox 360 and I was mostly playing 3DS/WiiU games until late last year so never got around to it, picked it up when it went BC but been too busy to play it.

@lamprey263: I was gonna do that Zelda joke but you were first :P

You mean South Park ?

It has all the humor of the show in it and it's a pretty decent RPG. Get around to playing it, and you won't stop !

Believe me when I say this: I've played a ton of South Park games, because the show is so great, and The Stick of Truth easily trumps all.

Thank you! This is actually the first time I have attempted to make an image for one of my threads myself, usually I get @Zassimick or @_Matt_ to help me.

I found images of the same aspect ratio for the nine games, lined them together on a black background of 1980x1080, and then applied an Emboss filter on them, followed by an Abstract Painting Filter, and then I increased the color saturation throughout the nine images and the filter to give us that slightly dreamy picture of the games in the OP.

1. Quantum Break

2. Scalebound

3. Mass Effect Andromeda

4. Gear of War 4

5. Uncharted 4

The Division

The Last Guardian

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Dark Souls 3

Persona 5

1: Horizon: Zero Dawn

2: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

3: Hellblade

4: Dark Souls 3

5: Eitr

6: Mirror's Edge Catalyst

7: Gravity Rush 2

8: Ghost Recon Wildlands

9: The Division

10: The Last Guardian

Very nice ! It surprises me this is just your first attempt.

I really like the effect on Fox McCloud and the middle picture, which I'm gonna guess is ... Persona ? :p

I'll have 5 picks for 2016 in no time. What an amazing year we are headed into :O

This.

Looks far more promising than 2015 which I think has been a decent year.

Yep, going left to right, top row to bottom, we have:

Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Quantum Break, Uncharted 4, The Legend of Zelda, Persona 5 (CENTRE), Scalebound, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Star Fox Zero, and Final Fantasy XV.

1. Final Fantasy XV
2. Dragon Quest XI
3. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
4. Dishonored 2
5. Uncharted 4
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6. The Legend of Zelda
7. Gravity Rush
8. Cyberpunk 2077
9. Persona 5
10. Scalebound

Torment: Tides of Numenera

Bards Tale IV

Original Sin 2

Expeditions Viking

Underworld Ascendant

(Knights of the Chalice 2 would prob be on here if it were to come out in 2016)

1. Legend of Zelda Wii U

2. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

3. Quantam Break

4. Scalebound

5. Far Cry Primal

I look forward to seeing these games in 2017

1. The Last Guardian
2. Uncharted 4
3. Horizon Zero Dawn
4. Deus Ex Mankind Divided
5. Dishonored 2

1. Squadron 42
2. Torment: Tides of Numenera
3. Shadow Warrior 2
4. XCOM 2
5. Doom 4

Scalebound looks really good in there too.

Hmm... I need to put Scalebound somewhere on my list :P

@R4gn4r0k: Generally, it's the pictures that had a fair bit of color to begin with that came out looking the best in that pic lol.

1. Mirror's Edge Catalyst
2. Mass Effect Andromeda
3. The Witness (sorry Char if this doesn't count).
4. Shadow Warrior 2
5. Doom

Thread is over. Everyone go home.

1. Zelda Wii U or NX.

1. Firewatch
2. South Park: The Fractured But Whole
3. Mass Effect
4. Quantum Break
5. Horizon

1. Zero Time Dilemma
2. Persona 5
3. Deus Ex: MD
4. Xcom 2
5. Final Fantasy XV

1. FF15
2. FE Fates
3. Total War Warhammer
4. Overwatch
5. Homeworld Desterts of Kharak

1. Persona 5

2. Fire Emblem Fates

3. Deus Ex Mankind Divided

4. Mirrors Edge Catalyst

5. Zero Time Dilemma

Honorable Mentions: Final Fantasy XV, Legend of Zelda, Star Fox Zero and Street Fighter V

@charizard1605: My top 10 games for 2016 would be.

1. Quantum Break
2. Ni No Kuni 2
3. Scalebound
4. Uncharted 4
5. Horizon: Zero Dawn
6. Legend of Zelda
7. Gears of War 4
8. Final Fantasy XV
9. Dishonored 2
10. Ni-Oh

The next 5 games

1. The Last Guardian
2. Crackdown 3
3. No Man's Sky
4. ReCore
5. Divinity: Original Sin 2

1. Mass Effect Andromenda

2. Deus Ex : Mankind Divided

3. Hitman

4. Rise of the Tomb Raider

5. Quantum Break

No Persona 5? ;__;

lmao!

I'm choosing ones I'm more than 50% sure are coming out in 2016 ( Horizon zero dawn would be on the list, but I don't think it's a 2016 game).

1. Fire Emblem Fates

2. FF XV (It's basically in beta, how can SE not let this come out in 2016??).

3. Firewatch

4. Zero Time Dilemma (according to the wiki it's coming out in summer of 2016).

5. Uncharted 4

If we could throw in DLC/expansions , Witcher 3 Blood and Wine would be probably number 2 (I mean, a 20+ hour expansion is bigger than many games that will come out next year!). The first expansion was amazing and I cant wait for the next one.

1- Hatsune Miku Project Diva X

2- Megadimension Neptunia

3- Xcom 2

4- Homeworld Desert of Kharak

5- Pillars of Eternity White March part 2 (do expansions count?, if not replace this with Fire emblem Fates)

1. Uncharted 4

2. Dark Souls III

3. Horizon: Zero Dawn

1.star fox zero

2.legend of zelda

3.fire emblem fates

1. Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2
2. Ratchet & Clank
3. South Park: The Fractured But Whole
4. Uncharted 4
5. The Last Guardian