2015 GDC Committee Announces 2014 Best Game Nominations, Who's the Winner?

Started in 1998, the Game Developers Conference is a meeting place developer largest on Earth and a place to see the evolution of industry Gaming. This year, the GDC will be held again in March, from 2 to 6. And in order to appreciate their peers, the committee has a list of the best games in 2014 based on their own assessment.

The titles you will soon see are game innovative, with the best design, narration, technology and audio presentation according to experts. GDC appointed dozens of game nominees in nine categories for the 2015 Game Developers Choice Awards, plus 'honorable mention'.

You can read the full list of nominations below. I adjusted the chronology of the categories a little so that you are more curious (Game of the Year is down there). Name developer and publisher are in parentheses, except for Best Debut. Here he is:

Best Visual Art

• Monument Valley (Ustwo)
• Hohokum (Honeyslug and Richard Hogg/Sony)
• Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games / Nintendo)
• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly / Sega)

Honorable mention: Never Alone (Upper One Games/E-Line Media), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts), Transistor (Supergiant Games), Broken Age: Act 1 (Double Fine Productions), Destiny (Bungie/Activision)

Best Audio

• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly / Sega)
• Hohokum (Honeyslug and Richard Hogg/Sony)
• Destiny (Bungie / Activision)
• Transistors (Supergiant Games)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable mention: Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo), Crypt of the Necrodancer ( Brace Yourself Games)

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Best Narrative

• 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
• This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
• Kentucky Route Zero: Episode 3 (Cardboard Computer)
• Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable mention: Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 (Gearbox Software/Telltale Games), D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (Access) Games/Microsoft), Hatoful Boyfriend (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Best Debut

• Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight)
• Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall)
• The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)
• Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
• Upper One Games (Never Alone)

Honorable mention: Dynamighty (CounterSpy), Hinterland Games (The Long Dark), 1337 & Senri (Leo's Fortune), MachineGames (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Hipster Whale (Crossy Road)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Threes! (I serve)
• Super Smash Bros. 3DS (Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco/Nintendo)
• Hearthstone (Blizzard)
• 80 Days (Inkle Studios)
• Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Honorable mention: Bounden (Oven Games), Bravely Default (Silicon Studio and Square Enix/Nintendo and Square Enix), Desert Golfing (Blinkbat Games), Velocity 2X (FuturLab), Fantasy Life (Level-5/Nintendo)

Best design

• Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
• Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-Up Studio/Nintendo)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)

Honorable mention: Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Destiny (Bungie/Activision), Monument Valley (Ustwo), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Tech

• Destiny (Bungie / Activision)
• Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
• Wolfenstein: The New Order (MachineGames / Bethesda)
• Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
• Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)

Honorable mention: Assassin's Creed Unity (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), The Last of Us: Remastered (Naughty Dog/Sony), Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac Games/Microsoft), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony)

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Innovation Award

• Bouden (Oven Games)
• Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
• This War of Mine (11 bit studios)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
• Monument Valley (Ustwo)

Honorable mention: Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games), Extrasolar (Lazy 8 Studios), Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments), Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games), 80 Days (Inkle Studios)

Game of the Year

• Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games / Nintendo)
• Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros.)
• Destiny (Bungie / Activision)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
• Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly / Sega)

Honorable mention: Titanfall (Respawn/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco/Nintendo)

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Surprisingly, the name Shadow of Mordor pops up everywhere, bagging five different categories (according to my personal preference). Then followed by Alien: Isolation - game survival horror most unusual and refreshing last year - as well as Destiny, who actually got average score just normal. Winners will be announced when the GDC 2015 event takes place later.

Alternatively, please see The best game console and PC version of Trenology based on website Metacritic score aggregate.

Sumber: GDConf.com.