And the goty goes to???
Lets be honest, these are the nominees
RE4R
Dead Space
FFXVI
TLoZ:TotK
Baldurs Gate 3
Starfield
Hogwarts legacy
Armored Core 6 (carried by meme Souls and FROMSOFT as a dev. If no one knew this was a FROMSOFT game, no one would care. No one care about the first 5 iterations before Souls success)
Remakes and remasters shouldn't be included
They can be if they surpass the original.
which has never happened outside of arguably REmake 1 and a few old Final Fantasy titles.
my weanus peanus :DD
>TLoZ:TotK
TLOU2 was rigged. You know damn well Neil Cuckman paid millions of dollars in bribe money so his propaganda game would win all the awards.
>You know damn well Neil Cuckman paid millions of dollars in bribe money
he didn't have to. dorito pope awards are 90% voted by video game "journalists."
>TLOU2 was rigged
they were all rigged. not a single one of these game won based on its own merit, they only won because their respective publisher poured millions in marketing (that includes inviting game journos to some fancy event)
GOTY is decided by journalists and they love TLOU2. No need to bribe anyone when you make Oscarbait and it works.
OP pre-seething is always hilarious to see
>Armored Core 6 (carried by meme Souls and FROMSOFT as a dev. If no one knew this was a FROMSOFT game, no one would care. No one care about the first 5 iterations before Souls success)
you forgot your shazam image OP
>FFXVI
It's between AC6 and BG3. I think logically the only real answer is BG3 since it's not only an amazing game in its own right, but it also has these cultural elements to it. It spends 3 years coasting along with early access building up hype just for it to explode to Elden Ring-tier cultural significance. Hitting almost 900k peak players and to this day maintaining numbers over 250k concurrent players
Armored Core isn't getting nominated. Mario Wonder might and there is usually an Indie nominee too. Maybe Sea of Stars? I haven't played any Indies this year.
I'm voting for Zelda
Baldurs Gate 3, no contest.
>Dragon age inquisition
>overwatch
>it take two
>TLOU2
How the fuck did those win?
are you just now realizing journos are actually clinically braindead?
I usually don't really give much of a shit about those award ceremonies, but seeing that list, half of it is like wtf
It's between BG3 and Zelda. And BG3 is probably going to win, Zelda was forgotten two weeks after release.
TotK had the same impact as Deathloop: comes out, 10/10s everywhere, everyone stops giving a shit immediately after.
>Dragon Age: Inquisition
Weak year. Hearthstone should've won imo.
>Overwatch
It was definitely the game of 2016. Everyone was playing it, everyone loved it. Well deserved.
>It Takes Two
Weak year. Well deserved, given the competition.
>TLOU2
It should've been HF Alyx for innovation, or Animal Crossing for overall impact.
Should have been Hades
>a game should win based on its impact
thank fucking christ people like you aren't involved in the voting process
Yes? That's one factor you need to take into account as well. The entire thing is stupid anyway, you can't compare a turn-based RPG with 40 hours of bear sex cinematics with an arcade mecha action-game for Japanese ultra-autists. They're too different.
Game of the Year = The (well received) game that comes into (most) people's mind when they think about the year 20XX.
That's how I see it, because as I said comparing Animal Crossing with Doom Eternal doesn't make any fucking sense.
I hate how these awards skew people's perceptions of how good or bad any particular year was like they don't regularly ignore the best examples of their respective categories every year
There are several degrees of separation in terms of nicheness, review scores and general buzz between Deathloop and TOTK
>mature story
>heavily cinematic
>subvert expectations
>lesbian protag (literally the first imageunveiled to the public was ellie kissing her garden gnome girlfriend)
>strong feminist theme in the plot
>an entire level about how garden gnomes have been persecuted for the entirety of human History
>50 gorillion dollars in marketing
the game was hardcoded to please game journos and win this award
I hate riggers
2020 (and maybe also 2021) might as well not even existed. No one talks about either game anymore, or cares if they get sequels.
Hi-Fi Rush
no other title comes close.
Which one would cause the bigger shitstorm?
>2014
>what the actual fuck
>2016
>stop it oh my god
>2020
>that's it i'm out
>No one care about the first 5 iterations before Souls success
zoomertard, AC1 was very popular before you were all groomed by western slop
>All that brief description
>That sudden seething with AC6
You okay bro?
bg3 was the only game journalists were required to play this year so that
I'd be shocked if BG3 doesn't win
>Re4r
too early in the year
>Dead space
Nah
>XVI
Will probably win a pity award like best OST or something
>TLOZ
Probably this, nintendo bonus, journos (the ones that vote) love sucking nintendos cock
>BG3
This is probably the "darkhorse" if anything but TLOZ wins
>Starfield
nah, not generating enough hype even though its todds game
>hogwartz
too early in the year everyones forgotten
>AC6
too niche, probably best action game, beats out RE4 due to recency bias
>>XVI Will probably win a pity award like best OST or something
FF16 OST is bad though
Pity award to make up for Shadowbringers being snubbed back in the day
>Not even nominated
Fuck off
>Probably this, nintendo bonus, journos (the ones that vote) love sucking nintendos cock
Nintendo got snubbed at the VGA every year except 2017
this is what i'm thinking almost exactly. altho i'd bet re4r is a strong contender
it think it's a match up between bg3 and zelda
>slop of the year awards
unironically house.wad
I still hear the music and feel the discomfort and the joy of sharing it with my friends as they discovered the deeper lore and secrets within the game.
it was free and could run on a toaster and the author refused to elaborate further.
>Hogwarts legacy
Stop already. This game is mediocre as fuck. If you wanna put a goyslop movie inspired game in the GOTY conversation put Jedi Survivor or Spiderman. Hogwarts was worse.
Damn what a shit year 2021 was.
It's pretty obvious Zelda is going to win although if Microdick forks over enough $ they might give it to Starfield.
I think it's pretty obvious this is how it's going to play out.
Only Armored Core is the unique entry to the list.
>Resident Slop 4: Reslopped
>Dead Slop
>Sloppy Fantasy Slopteen
>The Legend of Slop: Tears of the Slopdom
>Baldur's Slop 3
>Slopfield
>Slopwarts Legacy
>Armored Slop 6
this is the worst year in the history of video games
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This but unironically, not a single good game released since Elden Ring
Elden Slop
play hifi rush. unironically restored my faith in vidya.
why didn't you post the reviews for re4 remake I wonder
Armored Core VI and Starfield were a flop and BG3 is a chud game
Either Dead Space or RE4make
BG3, not that awards are in any way relevant
>RE4R
Remakes can't win
>Dead Space
Remakes can't win
>FFXVI
Flopped
>TLoZ:TotK
DLC
>Baldurs Gate 3
Will win
>Starfield
Disaster
>Hogwarts legacy
Forgotten and average
>Armored Core 6
Too short
Baldur's Gate 3 > Zelda > Jedi Survivor > FXVI > AC6 > Starfield
Verification not required.
Armored Core 6 deserves it
Starfield will get pushed my marketing
Zelda will prob win it cause retards
TotK
How in the FUCK did Dragon Age Inquisition win GOTY? Was the year really that bad?
Objectively its only between
RE4make
AC VI
TotK
BG3
but since Remakes never won or aren't even included then from pure gameplay quality its
AC VI GOTY
>this is what FromSlopware drones actually believe
ywnbaw
>YWNB-ACKKK
TOTK: More of BOTW, same game shouldn't get GOTY
Starfield: Didn't explore enough in hype, will get nominated but wont win.
Baldur's Gate 3: Clearly the winner, stands far above the rest, brought in millions to a new genre and is the highest rated game of the year should be a lock but you never know with Nintendo's favoritism
AC6: No triple back to back GOTY, don't think it will even get nominated. May win best Action game of the year
FFXVI: may get nominated, wont win anything significant maybe the graphics
Spider Man: same as above
Diablo/Hi-Fi Rush: Might get nominated, wont win.
Hogwarts legacy: there is not a single chance this will get nominated for anything with all the chud outage
Dead Space/RE4R: one of these might get nominated but remakes rarely do well in award ceremonies.
>nintendo favoritism
no such thing at the TGA, they only won with BOTW in 2017 because it was too much of a phenomenon to ignore without losing face, otherwise they have been snubbed every other year
2021 was such a shit year, but it was understandable because of the pandemic
If we're talking about TGA then the only real contenders are Baldur's Gate 3 and Tears of the Kingdom. I think BG3 wins it because Breath of the Wild won in 2017 and BG3 will appear "fresh" in comparison.
>2014
It was a shit year, but any pick would have been better
>2015
Deserved
>2016
Fuck this. Titanfall 2, The Last Guardian, Dark Souls 3...
>2017
Deserved
>2018
Deserved
>2019
Not deserved, still better than Death Stranding
>2020
Not deserved
>2021
The game that literally deserved it the most in the entire list
>2022
Deserved it
>The game that literally deserved it the most in the entire list
metroid dread?
It's BG3, no doubt
either Zelda or BG3, it depends on how journos feel I suppose. Are they still doing player's voice or did they stop after everyone shat on TLOU2 for this category?
They do it, but it always goes to Gatcha crap now
ah yes, chink botters.
They bribe voters with free pulls. Its extremely degenerate.
did Dorito pope ever address this?
Not sure but last year it was Genshin vs Sonic and Sonic votes were botted and were later removed from the running so he didn't need to. Its also only assumed theyll give out free pulls if they win so there is no transaction to track down.
I wonder what kind of crazy thing will happen at this year's TGA.
Another GTA schizo? or another streamer kid?
Hope Bill Clinton kid gets tackled by security on camera
You sound VERY mad about AC6
However the winner is Zelda or Baldy's Gape
Realistically it will be between ToTK and BG3.
>RE and DS
are good remakes, but they're remakes that didn't generate that much hype.
>FFXIV
Lol.
>Starfield
Too controversial, too many flaws.
>Hogwarts
Too controversial
>AC6
Too niche
Hogwash Legacy was an extremely mid game entirely carried by the Harry Potter IP plus maybe the controversy
I think im gonna drop gaming and pick up competitive eating as a hobby. wish there was a Ganker board for eaters like me though
Wrong board