Overwhelming

This time of year, I tend to have a mostly finalized list of my personal favorite games in mind. I just instinctively know what belongs where. Worst case, there might be a tie or two left to break or a few titles in need of a refresher before the deadline. Not this year. Not this yearat all.

For the best-of-2016 vote, I’m straight up panicking. But it’s a good kind of panic.

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Even if I’m looking at multi-platform releases, this year was stacked, and the voting only gets more complicated (and heated) from there. On the exclusive front, Sony made out quite well just betweenUncharted 4andThe Last Guardian. If there was one thing I needed more of this year, it was time.

Here are the nominees for Destructoid’s Best PS4 Game of 2016:

A battle scene in Battlefield 6 Open Beta

[Incomplete products like Steam Early Access titles, and episodic titles that are not fair to assess as standalone experiences, without a full episode count, were not eligible for this year’s awards.The cutoff for entry into Destructoid’s 2016’s Game of the Year awards is July 06, 2025.]

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A snap of the upcoming MESA update in PEAK

Naked Snake sneaking around in MGS Delta.

Battlefield 6 aiming RPG at a helicopter

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Milla Jovovich portraying Alice in Resident Evil 2002, wearing a red dress and holding a gun in her hand.