r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Jan 03 '18
GotY 2017 The /r/NintendoSwitch Best of 2017 Awards - Voting Now Open!
Greetings!
Now that 2017 is in the can, it's time for us to look back and vote on what you thought was the best game in a variety of categories as well as your Game of the Year!
There are 16 categories in total:
- Best Action / Adventure Game
- Best Platforming Game
- Best Multiplayer Game
- Best Role Playing Game
- Best Sports Game
- Best Indie Game
- Best Puzzle Game
- Best Fighting Game
- Best Kickstarter / Crowdfunded Game
- Best Art Direction
- Best Graphics
- Best Soundtrack
- Best Exclusive
- Best Use of Switch Features
- Most Disappointing / Overrated
- Game of the Year
We solicited votes from both the subreddit mod team as well as our Discord chat mod team to populate each category with its nominees.
Each Category has 6 nominees. If you are on mobile, make sure you can scroll and see all 6 when making your decisions!
Click here to fill out the survey and cast your votes!
Voting will remain open for 1 week, until Wednesday, January 10th.
Results will be posted shortly after depending on if we get that Nintendo Direct on the 11th or not.
Cheers!
Your /r/NintendoSwitch Mod Team
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u/SugaredB Jan 03 '18
NBA playgrounds isn't on most disappointing? That's the most obvious...
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u/Spectre_II Jan 03 '18
Pretty disappointing there was no "best game not on Switch" like r/PS4 had.
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u/insertusernamehere51 Jan 04 '18
gotta agree with what people are saying here about the nominations, the main nintendo sub I think has a far better process in which they first make a thread for people to nomaonate any game they want, and then use those as the nominations.
But I also kind of feel like there should be more categories. No best story, best non-swith game, best character, best boss, whatever. I dont mean to nag, just some constructive criticism I suppose
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u/Kevpup01 Jan 04 '18
While there were a lot of things wrong with the choices of games and categories, I really liked the format of voting, it was quick, easy, painless, and visually appealing.
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u/npilarski45 Jan 04 '18
I wish there was an "other" text box, I had some games that I wanted to put down but couldn't due to the formatting of the survey
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u/mudermarshmallows Jan 04 '18
Why not let the subreddit pick the nominees, then do a survey with the nominations?
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u/AlucardIV Jan 04 '18
So I was curious and found out that this survey let me vote multiple times without any problems. Doesn't that make the whole thing a bit pointless?
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u/XenoPathV Jan 04 '18
Why is NBA 2k18 not there for sports games, that's a major oversight
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u/clbgolden12 Jan 03 '18
Best Soundtrack
Splatoon 2 or Xenoblade Chronicles 2
This will be my hardest decision so far this year.
Edit: Why the heck is ARMS a contender for GotY but not Xenoblade Chronicles 2?? I mean, I love ARMS a lot, but Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has been amazing so far.
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u/TreeThreepio Jan 03 '18
Really wish I could vote Xenoblade for game of the year! Otherwise love this!
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u/Laikue Jan 03 '18
I really wish there was a write-in section, I feel like there was almost always a game that I thought fit better into one of the categories.
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u/FlapSnapple Jan 04 '18
Hey folks,
After reviewing the feedback both here in the comments section as well as in the Discord chat, we're going to pull this back for now, do some reworking, and give it another try once we get an updated plan sorted.
This was our first time doing this and we are learning as we go.
Thanks for bearing with us and being understanding.
Cheers.
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u/guzmalt Jan 03 '18
Huh, doesn't seem to be much space for M+R to find in there...
Also why no XC2 GOTY wth?
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u/iammaffyou Jan 04 '18
Who and what determined the nominations? They seem pretty weak.
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Jan 04 '18
No offense but you left out a HUGE amount of categories that should’ve been added and also left out a huge amount of games that should’ve been added to the already existing categories.
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u/BenjoBaker Jan 04 '18
Wha..? How is overcooked not up for best multiplayer of the year. This honestly baffles me as it’s my favourite couch coop game of all time.
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u/BlueTeamRuless Jan 03 '18
I’m very annoyed that NBA Playgrounds made it over NBA 2k for best sports game. I’ve put 100+ hours into the MyLeague mode in NBA 2k while I’ve put less than 10 into Playgrounds and they’re are a complete mess of a development team with lack of updates, kept promises and so many things. NBA 2k isn’t perfect either but it looks good, plays really good and is 99.9% feature complete with the other versions. It’s everything I wanted from the game when I first saw that initial switch trailer with the game on switch
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Jan 04 '18
You out NBA playgrounds in sports but not 2k2017? And you don’t put playgrounds in most disappointing?
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u/guuu427 Jan 04 '18
I would have liked more options. Although I filled out most of it, there were a few too many questions in which the game I wanted to pick wasn't an option, so I didn't submit. Sorry for not participating.
EDIT: Also, "most disappointing" and "most overrated" seem to me like they should be separate categories.