2017 was an incredible year for all kinds of games, but it's time to decide which one was the best.
Update: The polls have closed! We’ll publish the list of winners soon… stand by!
Holy moly, what a year!
It’s hard to argue against 2017 being one of the best years for gaming since… well, one of the best of all time, really. Its first few months alone saw the likes of Resident Evil 7, Nioh, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier Automata, and Persona 5. Come on!
We’ve got a lot of the same categories below that we’ve featured in previous years — plus a few new ones. You may notice a slight change to this year’s “Most Anticipated” category: since The Last of Us Part II won the Platinum Trophy in that same category following its announcement last year, it’s no longer eligible for a nomination in that category this year. Games that previously won Gold, Silver and Bronze Trophies get another shot at the Plat.
All the polls you see below are open now, and will remain so until we close out 2017 at 11:59pm Pacific on December 31. Get those votes in, and remind your friends to do the same!
Finally, from the entire PlayStation.Blog team, thank you for an incredible year. We’re privileged to have the best fans in the biz, and it’s thanks to you that we get to keep doing what we do. Cheers!
Editor’s note: Since The Last of Us Part II won the Platinum award in this category last year, it is no longer eligible for nomination here.
I totally wrote in Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy for best PS4 game lol, but seriously for real, I really want the Uncharted 10th Anniversary theme to win for Best Theme even though it wasn’t listed there.
Part of our nomination criteria is that we won’t nominate a remaster of a game that had previously appeared on a PlayStation platform. Crash falls into a sort of gray area there since the N-Sane Trilogy was such an overhaul, but I figured competition is stiff enough that we should avoid adding more games to the list.
Agreed on the Uncharted theme — I’ll actually add that one to the poll!
Don’t understand why Atlus is not on here, they have been really good at communicating issues with the release of their games, and does their best to please their consumers. I might be biased since they make my favourite game. I somewhat follow the things that happen in the gaming industry, and from what I see, you never hear anything bad about Atlus. Even though they were bought by SEGA, though that doesn’t really count since SEGA has no influence on the company decisions. I don’t know, just my opinion. (I say that, while I have a Persona 5 avatar, please don’t judge me for that).
Best soundtrack definitely has to go to Persona 5, would always catch myself jamming whenever my brother played the game.
So it’s impossible for “Crash Bandicoot N’sane Trilogy” to win best PS4 game even if majority voted for it? @Justin Massongill
Thanks for the Uncharted Anniversary nomination for Best PS4 Theme @Justin Massongill. As for Crash, I was totally joking on that since I know being a remaster it doesn’t qualify for “game of the year” material, but I just wanted to make it known that on a personal level Crash would be my personal game of the year I loved it that much simply because it was such a special remaster of one of my favorite franchises and I want to thank PlayStation, Activision, and Vicarious Visions for reaching out to make it happen, and even though I’m only a more recent fan of MediEvil having got the games on Amazon in the past couple of years, the MediEvil remaster is actually one of my most anticipated titles for next year because of how great Crash turned out. I hope we can expect MediEvil II to be included in the remaster :)
For me i vote Destiny 2 beacues the graphics is awsome and destiny 2 have more new armor and weapons
This was a great year for the PS4. My personal GotY was Yakuza 0. It got me into the series and it’s characters were memorable.
I chose Warframe as game of the year. The way that Digital Extremes have continually built the game and evolved is quite remarkable. I’m a very seasoned gamer (code for 40 yrs old) and nothing has held me to a game quite like this.
Anyways if you haven’t seen it check it out, it’s free to play, it’s huge and yeah once you get your head around it it’s awesome!!
Psn me if you have any questions etc.
Yeah, still rocking the Crash Bandicoot theme on my PS4 :)
Nier automata will always be in my heart.
Persoooona! They will never see it coming!
Love that FFXIV is on the Post-Release Content Ballot twice. If only i could vote twice!
Studio of the year clearl was Pholophony Digital to me. Why wasn’t it in the list? Had to write it in with “others”.
I really think that Epic Games should be added to studio of the year, and Fortnite should be added to best game on PS4 but that’s just me I guess