Yesterday game of the year was awarded to Witcher 3.

Not surprised Witcher 3 is a fantastic game but...

Fallout 4 didn't make second. It made third.

AGANST SUPER MARIO MAKER.

and??? u know how massive Mario Maker is right???

Super Mario maker is epic!! Just played it for about 10 minutes at GameStop tonight...I thought they were going to toss me out..

So now I'm getting myself a wii u and super Mario maker for Christmas..

Againts Fallout 4? For game of the year, with the bullcrap that is happening with Youtube and Nintendo and IT being a flashier version of a Flash maker your own game?

I don't think you realize how powerful nintendo is...

Theres a reason why most Popular Media gaming critics refuse to review their games.

If you don't know what I'm talking about with the stuff Nintendo has been doing with YouTube, they want 40% of all money you make on your account. They will take down anything to do with Nintendo as well. Playthroughs, Reviews, everything.

Super Mario Maker is brilliant.

I bet you would've complained if the new Legend of Zelda game had come out this year and beaten it. I've preordered that btw.

I'm not complaining about Legend of Zelda, I loved those games. I've also played Super Mario Maker, Liked it but it beating Fallout 4 for second place?

What is crazy is some of the insane levels that people have created with Mario Maker. Lots of them are play it for half an hour and throw the controller at the TV because it is too difficult. The people at Nintendo are not that sadistic.

You know those Games Awards shows are a load of crap, right?

They mean nothing to anyone who isn't a marketing executive or in PR. I mean, I feel really sorry for anyone who actually sits through that boring pile of nonsense.

Awards shows are not worth a drop of snot and you really shouldn't be wasting your time by watching them or caring what they think.

Looks like it's time to:

-get a bigger dev team

-expand your vision

-develop a new engine

Then next time Mario Maker won't beat them.

I'm not saying Fallout 4 is perfect, but Super Mario maker? I think it's a little Repetitive if a Mario game makes it on a Game Awards thing.

The only problem I see is that Super Mario isn't really a game that was made by developers... To me Super Mario Maker is more of an Engine for other people to make stuff with and not a literal game that was sculpted by developers. It's like if Gmod won best story because a map someone made.

IMO Bethesda did it to themselves...they released a game that some consider unfinished in more ways than one etc. etc...all that just to stick with their release date..

They should have worked on it another month or so and fine tuned it, then probably win next years GOTY...

But people would probably have bashed them for pushing back the release date...

6. Who cares.

(And from what I've seen about it, Mario Maker seems like a pretty impressive bit of programming. No shame in losing to it. No, I've never owned a Nintendo platform, and have barely played any of their games since SNES.)

edit: I'm amazed how much importance people seem to be putting on this little award show. And/or how much they seem to tie their own self-worth to whether their game "wins". They're just games. Play them, enjoy them. Don't obsess so much about them.

Why get this mad about super mario maker (a game with, at least from what I've gathered, actual creative merit)?

If anything, be glad that it wasn't something like Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed (but to each their own, of course).

Perhaps I'm a bit biased but super mario games will always have a nice place in my heart. There are far less deserving franchises out there, at least, IMO.

Yeah well it's still kinda the same to me, but I'd get a hole ton of crap if I called Mario a "Recycled game idea." and Atleast to me Super Mario Maker is like "Hey we don't want to make our own game to make money anymore, here's the engine and make your own maps. GIVE US YOUR MONEY."

Mario Maker is a great game, and it's doing something that no console game has ever done before! (at least not at this large of scale.) Meanwhile, FO4 is not exactly groundbreaking in any aspect. Fallout is worthy of GotY, yes, but it's not changing how people experience a game, unlike Mario Maker.

Secondly, video game awards are like any other award ceremony. They only portray a small percentage of the media and fans, and ultimately exist just to promote advances in the gaming industry. (Which is something that Mario Make deserves recognition for.)

Well here's the confusion right here. You seem to not appreciate what MM is doing as a game and as a gaming tool for one of the biggest game franchises to ever exist in the history of gaming

What revolutionary thing did it do?... Like seriously.. I liked it and it was amazingly fun with everyone's maps, but I kinda had the same experience with the Ben 10 game maker from Cartoon Network's website way back.... I just don't see how it can get there.