Voting has opened up today for the upcoming The Game Awards 2017 event. To kick things off, its host, Geoff Keighley, revealed the nominations in a new video that represented the various facets of gaming, which were all derived from 51 media outlets.
The Games Awards 2017 – Nominations
A number of categories that were featured covered a wide spectrum of gaming and included best voice-acting performances, best games in their genres, best multiplayer games, best audio design as well as most anticipated titles and much more.
You can check out some of the nominations chosen for their categories and see if your favorite game made it to the list, down below.
[Best Art Direction]
- Cuphead
- Destiny 2
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Persona 5
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
[Best RPG]
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Final Fantasy XV
- Nier: Automata
- Persona 5
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole
[Best Score/Music]
- Cuphead
- Destiny 2
- Nier: Automata
- Persona 5
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
[Best Narrative]
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Nier: Automata
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
[Best Strategy Game]
- Halo Wars 2
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
- Total War: Warhammer 2
- Tooth and Tail
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
[Most Anticipated Games]
- God of War
- Marvel’s Spiderman
- Monster Hunter: World
- Red Dead Redemption II
- The Last of Us Part II
[Game of the Year]
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Persona 5
- PUBG
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
For the rest of the nominations, you can watch the recent video below. Which shows off more categories from best ESports team or player, to awards for trending gamers, best action-adventure games and others.
As a reminder, voting begins today and you can cast yours through Facebook Messenger, Twitter, the official TheGameAwards.com website and even with Google Search. For more information, you can head over to this link which outlines The Game Awards 2017 event.
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2 responses to “The Games Awards 2017 Nominees & Voting Begins!”
FFXV placed 2nd above Persona 5, for best RPG. Yikes.
I sense some pissed off people that their favorite game didn’t get Game of the Year.
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