Poll: End of Year Awards (It's Different Trust Meeeeee...)

[RedDeadFred]

Spoiler: Best NPC

Gaunter O'Dimm. Unfortunately, to fully describe why, there'd be quite a few spoilers. Suffice to say, he's an incredibly charismatic, mysterious, and unnerving character.

Spoiler: Best Western Game

CS:GO for the few days of the R8 being the most broken piece of bullshit I've seen in quite a while.

Spoiler: Best I am so fucked Moment

Seeing the Mouth of Mordremoth for the first time in Heart of Thorns. He's actually an easy fight, but I was part of one of the first groups to kill him, so nobody knew the mechanics yet and he's fucking gigantic.

 

[FPLOON]

Spoiler: Best Bought Collector's Edition of 2015

Best Bought Collector's Edition of 2015:Tales of Zestiria
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Granted, it's the only Collector's Edition that I bought this year on top of the fact that I lack a PS4 to play the game in the first place, but this came with an OVA on Blu-Ray that I can play on my PS3... So, HA!

Spoiler: Best Unexpected Purchase of 2015

Best Unexpected Purchase of 2015:Highschool Romance
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This game was impulse-bought for three distinct reasons:It was on sale...It had crossdressing...The art was done by the dude who did the art for Skullgirls...It didn't take long for me to find enjoyment for this Visual Novel of a game...

Spoiler: Best Gift Given To Me On My 2015 Birthday

Best Gift Given To Me On My 2015 Birthday:Undertale
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Given to me by my best friend, he advise me to not play it with a controller... and then I started playing the game with the controller... Granted, in all fairness, this was only the second gift I got from a Steam friend in general, but as of 2015, it's the best because it was a birthday gift overall...

Spoiler: Best Unexpected Freemium Addiction

Best Unexpected Freemium Addiction:Pokemon Rumble World
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Honestly, I went into this game not even realizing that it was a freemium game where you can buy Poke Dimonds and shit on top of having to wait X amount of time before using certain hot air balloons... and even when I did, it wasn't the most annoying thing that I could [truly] nitpick about in this particular game...

Spoiler: Best DLC Roster

Best DLC Roster:Super Sm4sh Bros.
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Filled with a roller-coaster ride of character options on top of basically two payment options depending on your system of preference (even if one option seems to be the more valuable option from my perspective right now), this DLC roster ends up being the most diverse roster in terms of their IP placement in gaming lore... I think...

 

[1981]

Spoiler: Best NPC

Best NPC: Roach from The Witcher 3

Always there when I need him/her/it.

Spoiler: Best atmosphere

Best atmosphere: Her Story

Quotation forthcoming.

Spoiler: Best use of DRM

Best use of DRM: The Beginner's Guide

Second only to naming a game Porn ("approximately 83 240 results found").

Spoiler: The 'I has a smart' award

The 'I has a smart' award: The Silent Age

Finally, a point-and-click adventure game I could complete without a walkthrough.

Runner-up: The Journey Down. Chapter one was released in 2012 and chapter two in 2014, but I played them this year so it deserves an honorable mention.