What are your extremely early candidates?

For what you think will be in your 5 games of this year, this can include games not currently released so it can be a mix of games you've actually played or games you expect to show up there?

For me it would be:

1. Zelda U
2. Bravely Second
3. Danganronpa V3
4. Persona 5
5. Street Fighter V (ONLY if March makes the Single Player great)

Honorable mention: Twilight Princess (since it's only a remaster)

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Zelda U

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Persona 5

Fire Emblem Fates

Those are the top 5. I would have listed Mass Effect: Andromeda as well, but that's probably releasing early 2017.

How is Fates for you so far?

Been obsessively playing it for a week. Finished Birthright, 20 hours into Conquest.Thought Birthright was solid, but I was frankly a little let down, especially after what I was expecting, but Conquest is just amazing. It's what I expected the sequel to a game as awesome as Awakening to be. The gap in quality between those two is surprising. It's almost as if Birthright was just easing me into Fates and Conquest is now giving the full blown, proper experience.

So yeah, really enjoying it. Definite GOTY contender for me (still too early to say for sure, but it's pretty damn good).

1. Squadron 42 (I'm forever hopeful)
2. Xcom 2
3. Total War: Warhammer
4. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
5. Rise of the Tomb Raider

Other notables: The Division (PC), Mass Effect Andromeda.... actually this list could go on and on so I'll end there.

• Deus Ex Mankind Divided
• Doom
• Squadron 42
• Shadow warrior 2
• Hitman

Honorable mention goes to Quantum break

Wasn't RoTR 2015?

Uncharted 4

Mass Effect Andromeda

Horizion

PErsona 5

Rime-if it ever comes out :|

How about we wait till we can play these games.

@naughtyottsel: Not for me, I don't own a Xbox One

It's a prediction thread, what you list here isn't set in stone so it could very well change at the end of the year.

Can you choose whether or not you want characters to die for good in Conquest or is it set on dead for good? I hate that the better experience is locked behind the version with the most suffering. >:l

:P

Doom

Mass Effect Andromeda

Uncharted 4

Mortal Kombat XL

New COD

Yeah, permadeath is optional. Conquest is challenging enough even on Casual mode, so you're not going to loose too much in terms of quality. I'd recommend Hard + Casual, but if you go Classic, choose Normal difficulty.

Also, 20 hours in Conquest, and I can tell you one thing- it's challenging, sure, but it hardly ever feels unfair. That's why it's so enjoyable. I mean, I'm someone who hadn't even played Fire Emblem before Awakening (even now, Awakening, Birthright and Conquest are the only FE games I've ever played), but I'm still having way too much fun with Conquest. So it's not like you can't enjoy it if you're not a series veteran.

Gonna get the third version as soon as it launches in March too.

xcom 2, deus ex, dark souls 3, torment tides of numenera, horizon/MASS EFFECT(pretty please 2016)

Yeah I'm lame, I'll go casual over classic. For multiple reasons, a.) would lose everyone very quickly b.) it's interesting, but losing characters ain't my thing.

I'm glad it's challenging even without permadeath though. I do love a good challenge, okay not really. I hate FE's brand of torture (in Awakening I wouldn't let ANYBODY die, so I had to help those gosh darn vulnerable peasants that had no weapons and would, I believe, permadie if I didn't do anything).

Yeah, can't go wrong with Conquest, no matter how you play it. It's that good. I know I'm running the risk of overselling it maybe, but that's just how much I'm loving it :P

1. Persona 5 (easily)
2. Fire Emblem Fates
3. Zelda U
4. Uncharted 4
5. NieR

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

1. Persona 5
2. Pokemon Sun and Moon
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Fire Emblem Fates
5. Final Fantasy 15

Best games of the year

• SOMA
• Quantum Break
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• Dying Light The Following
• Cossacks 3

Flop of the year

• Street Fighter V

**** yeah

Oh wait SOMA didn't come out this year, oops.

Still not gonna change my list. SOMA GOTY 2016

replace pokemon with bravely second, and that's spot on.

I can only speak on games I've played. Plus I have a nagging suspicion that a ton of stuff is gonna slip to 2017.

1. Rocket League (Xbox One) :p
2. Amplitude
3. Xcom 2
4. Street Fighter V
5. PvZ Garden Warfare 2

I haven't opened Fire Emblem yet. I will play The Witness soon too.

1. Persona 5
2. Unchared 4
3. Deus EX Mankind Divided
4. Fire Emblem
5. FFXV(please come out this year...)

In all seriousness this is shaping up to be one of the best years in gaming

I can't with a straight face list my games of 2016 which I haven't actually played yet so have zero clue how they will pan out. It's just too ridiculous, even for this place.

It reminds me of the Young Ones sketch where they're playing Monopoly 'hey guys, imagine if all this money was real?'.

Just too stupid and bizarre even for SW. I love how people are arguing already about the merits of games they haven't even touched or proudly championing games they may well hate on release. There really is no cure for stupid.

It's a prediction thread.

That's it.

Yeah, predictions based on pulling fanboy nonsense out of your ass. I know what the thread is, thanks all the same.

The thread never said "make predictions based on facts and logical reasoning". The purpose of the thread is to make predictions based on your hype for games. People here aren't saying "these games will be GOTY for sure". They're saying "I'm excited about these games and have the potential to be my personal GOTY."

Predicting what your GOTY will be based on endless rehashes of other games you've liked from the same franchise is hilarious, oh I liked the last one so this new one will be my GOTY.

Like I said your all-important 'purpose' of the thread was clear to me I am just kind of sad that people really are that stupid. The same people will complain endlessly that there is no new IP's when all they want is the same games they liked last year with a different name and nice new packaging.

Maybe you're taking this a bit too seriously? It's supposed to be a fun prediction thread, nothing in this entire thread suggest anything to the contrary.

Uncharted 4

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Mass Effect Andromeda

Horizon Zero Dawn

Hitman

1. Dark Souls 3
2. Pokemon Sun
3. Horizon Zero Dawn
4. Deus Ex Mankind Divided
5. Mass Effect Andromeda

@NoirLamia777: Already picked the Sun?

Moon > Sun

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

X-Com 2

Ratchet and Clank reboot

Torment: Tides of Numenera

^some awesome fun stuff there

So, dunno if the leak said so or not, but would we assume this another 3DS entry or...? plsconsoleseventhopokemansdon'tbelongthereusually

3DS seems like a safe bet.

NX handheld seems like the second safest bet.

I say NX + 3DS crossover, **** yeah.

Final Fantasy 15

Deus Ex

Horizon Zero Dawn

Nier Automata

Persona 5

I'm pretty confidant that these will be in my top 5...

• Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Cyberpunk 2077 (but doubt it'll be this year)
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• Quantum Break
• Dishonored 2

Plus: Tacoma, Forza Horizon 3, Gears 4, Mafia 3.

I'm expecting it to look something like...

1- Fire Emblem Fates

2- Project Diva X

3- Bravely Second

4- Megadimension Neptunia

5- Xcom 2 or Uncharted 4

I only intend to get 3 games at the moment

1) Street Fighter V: released with all the content necessary to offer near endless gameplay and depth and will only grow throughout the year

2) The Legend of Zelda Wii U: The franchise is of the utmost quality

3) Dark Souls III: Atmosphere, challenge, world building and gameplay bliss.

Note: You're not going to get that Cinematic Experience for Street Fighter till June and if an Arcade Mode is in the works you'll likely not see it till early next year. Besides if you're not enjoying Street Fighter V now as Multiplayer Juggernaut that it has been for Decades (as far as Street Fighter as a Franchise is) then you should return it and never return.

As for the Topic. I think Fire Emblem Fates as a Whole (the $80 package) is worthy of GOTY.

uncharted 4

doom

shadow warrior 2

ratchet and clank

horizon zero dawn

1) warhammer total war. im getting a really good feeling about this one.

2) Zelda u: i dont think its going to be my dream game but i think nintendo are mostly going to pull it off.

3) super hot: i just played it a bit and have a big stupid smile on my face that i cant wipe off. its so COOL!! im including it here because i predicted that it would smack a stupid smile on my face that i couldnt wipe off :P

cant think of much else at the moment

@charizard1605: My girlfriend is getting Moon haha :P

Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest has it on lockdown unless something really special comes along.

Mass Effect Andromeda