Fuck yeah, congrats to the developers! Witcher 3 is a remarkable game and very ambitious project, and deserves all the praise and attention it can get.

As for the rest of those awards, there's definitely a few odd ones, such as the GTA "innovation" award, or this one: Gaming Platform of the Year: Steam.

What were those guys smoking? I mean, Steam has been around for a while now. Have they actually done anything major this past year, to earn this award? I mostly seem to remember drama related to mods, and some vague memories of other negative Steam related news. And their Steam-Box(?), controller, and VR setup have yet to be released, as far as I know.

Considering the alternative, its great that GTA V got a winner spot. What, Dwota? Yeah, seriously, this is no innovation at all. But if this was an innovation, what will be called an innovation next time? Also, since the Golden Joystick puts for you the candidates and you vote on them, it means that this first person thingy was viewed as an innovation. I mean what the hell? I'm going to argue. A terrible bethesda game won. What do I smell? Have no comments, but surely Hitman 6 would've been a better choice. No, just no. First there is no such thing as eSports, second CounterStrike GO is just a vanilla shooter. Battlefield is surprisingly more fun than it. Oh-hoh! So now instead of mentioning the PC's glory, it is now mentioning Gabe Newell's fake glory! Soon enough, all our PCs will be called Steams by average joes. I refuse to believe that steam can be plural! Last time I used GJ, they had a skip voting option. That and the PlayStation and Xbox guys didn't chooser CoD either. Must admit you're right on Candy Crush... *sniff*

Who said anything about favouring Steam over GOG. GOG is flawed, they have issues and until they work them out they will never be up there. Why does it have to always be about favouritism? I'm a believer in say what you want, do what you want. So if I think this, I should be allowed to voice my opinion on the forum of the company that needs improving.


But get this... it runs on PC.

As someone that does not support steam, I do spend a lot of time on tne steam forum. Why? Hopefully to help improve the system and to counter the sycophants.

Darthspudius is no different.

GoG is good, but is not great and steam does hsve the whistles that people find attractive.

But all this good press and the success of a DRM free AAA title will hopefully see GoG gain more ground so in a couple if years valve gets the serious competition it needs.

Thank you lol. I don't think people realise how much GOG community is turning into the Steam community. I use both programs and are quite happy to criticise both when I feel it is necessary. It is a shame we aren't allowed to be so open minded.

Can't wait to have a PC that can handle it and a Linux port to play it.
Enough time to play the first two games meanwhile. ^^

I may not agree with many of CDPR's politics, but congratulations for surviving such an ambitious project, let alone having such a success. Most of my favourite RPGs killed their studios.
Hopefully this will lead to more DRM-free AAA titles.

uhm Cs has been a esport icon since 1999. Don't mistake your ignorance and prejudice for facts mkay?

The Witcher 3 is a new benchmark for RPGs, a game so astounding on every level from its morally complex characters, mature relationships, grimy fairytale aesthetic, and satisfying quests. I had no idea if it was going to be any good (remember, CD Projekt hadn't done open-world before), but any doubts have been blown away. Congratulations to them!

Hey, PookaMustard, we fucking get it. You don't like Valve.

Nobody cares.

Yeah, totally! It was hard earned and well deserved!

Something must be fishy about those rewards, though, or they must have not been updated... Specifically, best multiplayer is GTA V? Most players, if not all of them, pan it, because it had microtransactions (initiated on that deceptive sales and meant to have the game go on sale without price reduction, technically...), got full of hackers and destroys everyone's online fun. Something REALLY must be wrong with those rewards. The witcher ones though, sound legit. Game IS a masterpiece.

Fanboys dont have any need for logic, they see their beloved game in a list and vote for it no matter what.

Edit: I really have to say some of the decisions are more than cringe-worthy. *shudders*

Edit: For example, Bloodborne won the Best Original Game Award...WHAT !?...its a friggin Dark Souls reskin...

that was funny :)

great news and congralation CDPR - will help them to reach a even bigger audience with next game as their public profile gets more known. GTA 5 best multiplayer though ?!? I enjoyed it but well the horrible lobby-system, long connection times and hackers still stand and bc of that it shouldn't be best MP game .
Same for GTA 5 best PC Game - MGS5 and TW3 superior imho.

Yep, you can just picture Gabe striding up the central walkway surrounded by stormtroopers to imperial march.