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Spade on 10 December 2021
shikamaru317 said:

The 7th Annual VGChartz Xbox Empire Game of the Year Awards

 Rules:

  1. You can vote for as many or few categories as you like or are able to. It doesn't matter if you played an Xbox 1st/2nd party game on Xbox One, Xbox Series, PC, or xCloud, and you can also vote for multiplat 2021 games that you played on Playstation or Switch in addition to the earlier listed platforms. 
  2. You can either place preliminary votes now and edit your post later, or you can wait to post any votes until later. Votes won't be tallied up until the very end, so there is no rush. 
  3. Voting will be open until January 20th, in order to give people as much time as possible to play late 2021 releases.
  4. The game needs to have released on Xbox for the first time in 2021. Remasters of older games are not eligible for the awards. Late Xbox ports of games that released on other platforms (PC/PS/Switch) are eligible, for instance Flight Simulator is eligible. 
  5. Votes will be added up, with 2 points for each person's top pick and 1 point for each person's runner-up. 
CategoryTop PickRunner-Up
Best Shooter  
Best Action/Action-Adventure  
Best RPG  
Best Platformer  
Best Fighter/Brawler/Beat 'em up  
Best Horror  
Best Sports/Racing  
Best Sim/Strategy
Best Soundtrack 
Best Audio Design
Best Art Design  
Best Graphics  
Best Male Performance  
Best Female Performance  
Best Singleplayer  
Best Multiplayer  
Best Story  
Best 3rd party Gamepass release List  
Best Ongoing Support
Best Indie  
Best Xbox Console Exclusive  
Best Studio
Overall Xbox Game of the Year  
Most Anticipated Multiplat  
Most Anticipated Xbox Console Exclusive  

Rate Xbox's 2021

Flight Simulator /10 
Psychonauts 2 /10
Age of Empires 4 /10
Forza Horizon 5 /10
Halo Infinite /10
Overall 1st Party /10
Overall 3rd Party /10
Hardware Rating (Limited Edition Halo console, limited edition controllers, etc.) /10
Overall Xbox 2021 Rating /10

Previous Year Results

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

I won't be a dick and I'll actually vote on this one. I didn't realize this was even a yearly thing  

If we didn't play it, we just leave N/A I'm guessing. 



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DroidKnight on 10 December 2021
shikamaru317 said:

Awards- Not as bad as past years, I agreed with the winners on more categories than usual. Was hoping for one more Xbox/Bethesda win though, as I think I'm one over on my bet, which sucks. 

If you count this one you nailed it.  Player's Voice: Halo Infinite

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=245076

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konnichiwa on 10 December 2021

I see the Coallition worked aswell on the Matrix demo.






Machiavellian on 10 December 2021

Just like any awards show, its really not about you and more about the people in the industry who get a chance to dress up. My son lasted about 30 minutes before he was bored to death and left. As for Hellblade || it looked great, if that was gameplay I probably will struggle to finish it. I still have not finished the first game and I have finished all of Ninja games besides HellBlade. The combat just isn't my cup of tea. I would not expect more showing for the Halo TV show, they need to keep at least something things underwrap and the trailer is more a teaser than anything else. I would say it showed enough to garner some interest. Now its time to go back to Halo and Mortal Shell which are the 2 games I am play currently.



G2ThaUNiT on 10 December 2021
Ryuu96 said:

On the topic of Xbox's 2022, I think Sony does have the edge for now but I also think Xbox's 2022 will be better than their 2021 as long as everything hits and they've had a great 2021, although everything was jammed into Summer - Holiday and I suspect that will happen again, Lol.

XGS 2021

  • Flight Sim Port
  • Psychonauts 2 (Not Exclusive)
  • Age of Empires IV (PC Only)
  • Forza Horizon 5 
  • Halo Infinite

XGS 2022

  • As Dusk Falls
  • Forza Motorsport
  • Grounded 1.0
  • Redfall
  • Starfield
  • Project Pentiment (Rumoured)
  • Project Belfry (Rumoured)

Higher in quantity and exclusive output, I think quality will be there too, I have little doubt that Motorsport, Redfall, Starfield and Pentiment will all score well, I don't know about the others. Also Starfield crushes almost everything releasing in 2022 for me in terms of excitement, Lol. If Starfield slips out of 2022 though, I will be very disappointed.

If Starfield doesn't make that release date, it's going to screw up ALL of XGS's schedule lol especially with their RPG's.

I imagine there's at least a couple more games that'll be shown off for 2022 releases. Not insanely huge games, but some first party stuff to pat out 2022. 



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WoodenPints on 10 December 2021
gtotheunit91 said:

If Starfield doesn't make that release date, it's going to screw up ALL of XGS's schedule lol especially with their RPG's.

I imagine there's at least a couple more games that'll be shown off for 2022 releases. Not insanely huge games, but some first party stuff to pat out 2022. 

I'd be very surprised if it missed the date Starfield is probably the game with the most important release date of this generation imo even more so than it was getting Halo Infinite out for this holiday since it's the time where "next gen" console sales start to blow up and there is enough games currently released for most to make it worth a purchase and the next few years of announced games to look forward to and it's where momentum kicks in for the next few years.



derpysquirtle64 on 10 December 2021
Spade said:

Oh ok I didn't know that first part. I still think Atlus is just not going to bring anything to Xbox though lol. Glad I have a PS5 for that. Would be nice, but ehh. And it also sucks SE has become a 3rd party timed exclusive publisher. Still no word on FF 14 and FF 7R. 

Anyway, Atlus probably could force ArcSys to port it to Xbox if they wanted to, as a publisher (I think). Doesn't change anything anyway. Persona will only come to Xbox if Phil pays for it, most likely through GamePass deal, because that's how Xbox does it recently. And I wouldn't expect it to happen at any point rather than E3 announcement



 

derpysquirtle64 on 10 December 2021
shikamaru317 said:

The 7th Annual VGChartz Xbox Empire Game of the Year Awards

CategoryTop PickRunner-Up
Best Shooter Halo Infinite Quake
Best Action/Action-Adventure NieR Replicant Scarlet Nexus
Best RPG Tales of Arise Scarlet Nexus
Best Platformer Blaster Master Zero 3 Cyber Shadow
Best Fighter/Brawler/Beat 'em up  
Best Horror  
Best Sports/Racing Forza Horizon 5 
Best Sim/Strategy
Best Soundtrack NieR ReplicantBlaster Master Zero 3
Best Audio Design
Best Art Design Tales of Arise Scarlet Nexus
Best Graphics Forza Horizon 5 
Best Male Performance  
Best Female Performance  
Best Singleplayer Tales of Arise NieR Replicant
Best Multiplayer Halo Infinite 
Best Story NieR Replicant Tales of Arise
Best 3rd party Gamepass release List Scarlet Nexus Octopath Traveler
Best Ongoing Support
Best Indie Blaster Master Zero 3 Cyber Shadow
Best Xbox Console Exclusive Halo Infinite Forza Horizon 5
Best Studio
Overall Xbox Game of the Year Tales of Arise NieR Replicant
Most Anticipated Multiplat  
Most Anticipated Xbox Console Exclusive  

Rate Xbox's 2021

Flight Simulator NA/10 
Psychonauts 2 NA/10
Age of Empires 4 NA/10
Forza Horizon 5 8.5/10
Halo Infinite 8.5/10
Overall 1st Party 3/10
Overall 3rd Party 9/10
Hardware Rating (Limited Edition Halo console, limited edition controllers, etc.) 4/10
Overall Xbox 2021 Rating 6/10

Haven't played many games this year, so it's mostly the same games over and over again in all categories



 

Angelus on 10 December 2021
Ryuu96 said:

At what point is Microsoft going to stop treating E3 as the only event that exists? 

Either never, or whenever they get into a rhythm where they're actually releasing big games in Q1-Q2 every year. 



DroidKnight on 10 December 2021



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