[Question] The Gamingforce Game of the Year 2014: All aboard the hype train - voting edition

I'm going to steal Q's idea because I love it. <3333

Mario Kart 8 - 40 Points

Best Music
Best Princesses
Best Heart Attacks
Best Fuck You Tails
Best Grunts
Best Game

Rosalina wants none of your bullshit. None of it.

This game has probably given me legit anxiety issues and heart palpitations. It gave me a stroke. The online is amazingly smooth. The game tracks stats versus individual players. IT HAS ROSALINA. IT HAS A JET BIKE. It has EVERYTHING.

It has the BEST SELECTION OF COURSES EVER.

IT HAS THE BEST DLC FROM THE LAST TWO YEARS.

THE SOUNDTRACK IS LIKE LEPRECHAUNS SHITTING GOLD DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EAR CANALS.

CHZ IS AN ASSHOLE.

Bayonetta 2 - 15 Points

Best Punching
Best Hair
Best Angels
Best Thing that Sold Only Four Copies

Man I'm not even done this yet (because I'm a shitwad) and I want to play the co-op. It's sublime, though. I can't think of anything wrong with it. And everything's improved somehow from the damn near flawless original. Everything. How does that happen? I don't even know. Platinum why are you so good at all things all the time everywhere.

Elite: Dangerous - 15 Points

Best Space
Best Trolling
Best Tricking Other People into Killing Themselves
Best Reason to Own a Flightstick

Ok so. In this game about being a space asshole, you can space troll people in MANY WONDERFUL AND UNIQUE WAYS, such as; stealing all the shit they just worked four hours for, getting them to shoot friendlies and aggroing entire space stations on them, scooping up all their cargo after they bribe you to leave and then killing them anyway, tricking them into flying into the sun and exploding.

It's really quite the thing.

Also it's FUCKING GORGEOUS JESUS CHRIST.

Also you can discover all sorts of wonderful things and then shoot them for profit. Rad.

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - 5 Points

Best Animu
Best Plot Twist
Best HOLY SHIT WHAT
Best Reason to Still Have that OLED Vita

So I picked this up because of the director, and MAN. MAN. It's almost (almost) Virtue's Last Reward good. There's a few misteps on the way due to some minigame shenanigans but the VA is solid, the characters are actually not the giant shit eating tropes they start out as, and it's a very compelling VN. SURPRISED. Also dem colours on dat Vita OLED. Sucks for people with the 2000 model, I tell you what.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - 5 Points

Best Toon Link
Best AcerBandit
Best Tritoch Getting Mad About AcerBandit
Best Reason to Spend like 380 dollars on Adapters, Controllers, and 4 inch plastic toys

MAN LOOK AT ALL THE ACER UPPERCUTS. And Wii Fit Trainers volleyball spikes. And general horseshit. BATS. SO GOOD. Best Smash yet, Melee people can suck a dick. Everything in this is so good. So rad, so snazzy. I've only put in like 15 hours into it too, and I've barely scratched the surface. I need to get my Acer to top tier Acering. Behold UP B UP B UP B UP B UP B UP B UP B UP B UP B. And beard. With backup Toon Link and Tritoch salt.

Yissssss.

BattleBlock Theater - 5 Points

Best Co-op
Best Pants Buckling
Best Announcer
Best Why is that Bird Farting Me Out like a Rocket

Holy shit in a cup, this game. THIS GAME. The CO-OP. Drowning your buddy and then jumping off his head while his lifeless corpse floats in the sea. Pulling out a platform from underneath him so he gets eaten by a mutant bear racoon thing. Breaking the game because it's easy to break and relying on general fuckery to get things done.

Also jesus the ending. And the announcer, like, in general. "IT SMELLS LIKE BEEF STEW IN HERE". Alien Hominid is ok. Castle Crashers was alright, but this. THIS. This is Behemoth's masterwork. I suddenly care about what they're putting out next. This is just fucking golden.

Lethal League - 5 Points

Best Robot on a Skateboard
Best Pang is SO MAD You Guys, Like For Real
Second Best Music

It's basically multiplayer Pong and the best fighting game. Like...ever. Also the best/worst MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE CLUTCH MATCHES. Awww yeah feel the beat son.

Also Pang salt is best salt.

Mario Golf: World Tour - 5 Points

Best Hitting Balls with Sticks
Best Sport Played Underwater
Choke of the Year
Best 3DS Hand Cramps

Oh lord. Best Mario Sports game in multiple generations. Courses are great. Characters are great. MP is fantastic. I CHOKED LIKE A BITCH after something like 8 or 9 extra holes after staying tied with Omagnus for like AN HOUR AND A HALF. And then I got so fucking antsy I flubbed a shot on a par 3 and IT WENT OUT OF BOUNDS oh man I was so mad.

Five points for how mad I was.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PC Port) - 5 Points

Best Japanese Game on PC
Best Cutting Dudes in HALF
Best MANLINESS
Best Surprise Christmas Gift

Zandatsu in 1080p/constant 60 frames a second/all DLC/always on sale/giving it to people/giant testicles.

SO BIG.

SO TESTICLES.

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Honourable Mentions:
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse.
Shovel Knight.
Transistor.
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth.

Things that would have gotten more points had I, y'know, played more than an hour of them this year probably:
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
Divinity: Original Sin.
Crimzon Clover: WORLD IGNITION.

Things that were giant piles of dogshit that should never have come out and I feel bad for actually playing them:
Destiny.

Jam it back in, in the dark.