Whoa, the things people are saying... going to be a good holiday game.

A week and change baybeeee!

Playing through FFVII for the first time ever (PS4 port).

For The Game Awards i'm not expecting much besides

Death Stranding
New Rocksteady project
New Biomutant trailer

PSX:
I want Persona 4 Remaster for PS4 announced
Concrete release dates for all the exclusive titles revealed since E3 2016
New FromSoftware project(s)
More PS4 remasters (Demon's Souls, Bayonetta, Vanquish)

@michemagius I agree that P5 and Nier are a bit more niche. I'm honestly happily surprised to see Persona 5 nominated for GOTY. But for me, BotW is about just as good, sometimes better, I really loved playing both of them this year. So if Zelda wins, i'd still be happy but that's more expected than if P5 wins. Even if Mario wins i'd be happy, love Mario. I'll play Odyssey one day.

@michemagius Yeah. I say this as I finish Route C of Nier haha, it's great. In that category I think I voted for What Remains of Edith Finch. I didn't play it but I watched all of Huber's playthrough, it really hooked me. Maybe the jury felt P5 and Nier already held so many of the more prominent categories so they picked more less known yet still worthy titles for that category, probably.

First off, yeah i hate that PUBG is nominated for GOTY or nominated for anything at all. I don't care how popular it is, it's not an official release. But whatever.

This was very hard voting for me. The best year in gaming of all time. It took a while to decide between Zelda and Persona. Good thing they both came out at the same time. I love them both a lot but...I voted Persona 5. It just stuck with me longer than Zelda, i kept thinking and missing it. Whereas for BotW it was just, well I'll get back to it with the DLC so any thoughts were dismissed. Whereas, I still think about the characters in Persona 5. I still think about things in BotW too like some puzzles and just exploring the world. But one had to be chosen for GOTY.

I did vote for BotW for Best Action game. Best Music was the hardest, harder than GOTY. Cuphead, P5 and Nier Automata have outstanding scores/soundtracks. I went with Nier. Mostly because I gave votes to Cuphead and P5 in other categories. But that's not a good thing to do, if something is the the best, it's the best. Nier is the game i played more recently so it's not even fair that it's fresh in my mind. But I honestly hold the music of these 3 games on the same pedestal of greatness so..yeah there's my poor justification. All 3 really deserve it.

I didn't vote for Odyssey because i don't have a Switch yet :( else it would probably sweep my choices.

Also it's weird how P5 was omitted from Best Narrative and how both P5 AND Nier Automata were omitted from the Games for Impact category. I'd argue both of those games are very thought provoking and Persona is absolutely pro-social.

I do the same for this month - as i'd like to call Spooktober. Technically it's November 1st right now. Late post but this month I finally played through Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 1, Bioshock 2: Minerva's Den and The Last of Us: Left Behind DLCs. Also continued my playthrough of Hollow Knight and started Demon's Souls.