Halo 5
Ori And The Blind Forest
Rise Of The Tomb Raider

As someone who has done virtually all of the quests in Xenoblade Chronicles, its pretty easy to see that they fall into a two main categories. There are the filler quests and the bigger quests. While a lot of those in both categories do make you "fetch" things, I think the two main subsets of quests are all present (Fetch and Kill) with the addition of "Explore" quests. However, while the filler quests tend to not really do much interesting with these and they exist more as something to get experience with, the bigger quests are...well, bigger. They often have a large focus in world building, requiring interactions with multiple NPCs and sometimes some decently interesting morality decisions. They also have effects on the world, causing characters to become different people.

While the actual design of these quests aren't always the most interesting, I think the way that they have you interact with the world does make them memorable and enjoyable and they do a very good job at making otherwise unimportant NPCs memorable.

There were also variants on the kill quest where you were hunting unique monsters which could be interesting, and a lot of the Exploration, whether or not you got a quest for it, was very enjoyable and the secret areas were always enjoyable to find.

XCX can do a lot to improve on the quest system, but Xenoblade's quest system was far from bad and it was pretty much always easy to differentiate between the important quests and the filler quests (also, the fact that you didn't actually have to turn in most quests did a lot to decrease the tedium).

Cities Skylines is definitely a strong contender.

hmm, I don't think it will but it would be great if it does..

New IP's have big chance for GOTY and i expect Bloodborne. And XCX is very subjective and i don't think it will be a GOTY as we already had Bayonetta 2 with high ratings but it could not win last year. Witches 3, Batman, MGS V and Halo 5 have equal chance and it depends on what is something new each of the game brings in next gen game.

Depends on what you mean.  If you mean the VGAs, it lost to Grand Theft Auto V.  Also, while they did win the majority, the 200 number includes a ton of dinky little publications. If you limit it to noteworthy publications, it didn't dominate as much; there were a number of GTAV and BioShock Infinite GOTYs.

True enough.  There's nothing stopping an exclusive from winning.

Since when Bayonetta 2 and Xenoblade X are similare games? Why if bayonetta, a hack and slash that was blamed to be sexist, didnt win, a massive rpg will not win? Where´s the logic there?
because is on the WiiU? That´s what you are really saying?

I want to remind you that the last year the winner was a sequel of one big and impresive rpg... just like, you know, XENOBLADE.

Xenonlade looks cool but its not the best thing in the world. Wait till witcher 3, batman arkham knight, halo 5 and mgs v. Plus xenoblade might underperform critic wise.

I say MGS V. X will be too niche sadly imo