Black Ops 3 GOTY...? Come on guys, that shouldn't be on the list no offense. Great game no doubt (zombies is freaking AWESOME in the new one) but is it really the BEST game made this year?
Looking at things objectively I am completely torn. It's either Fallout 4 or The Witcher. Rise of the Tomb Raider was awesome as well but usually console exclusives (even timed ones) don't win just based on that. Haven't played enough of AC in order to make that call. Not my GOTY but from what I played it was a very good AC game.
I think I'd have to go with The Witcher however. Fallout is awesome, I love Boston and the new locale, the gun play is FINALLY good enough to just play it as a shooter, characters and story are fairly well done as well. My main gripe as with EVERY Bethesda game is bugs! I just don't understand how some of them happen. I once had Preston spawn inside the wall of a house, at a point I couldn't talk to him. Guess what? No Minutemen quests for me! I had to hard reset my game.
I think The Witcher is probably the best game made this year. It is the first game I can consider truly Next-Gen. The graphics, story telling, audio, combat, RPG mechanics, all of it was top notch.
But hey, that's just one gamers opinion.
Sorry for the wall of text