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Elden Ring becomes the most awarded GOTY game in history, surpassinhg TLOU 2

JokerMM

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Elden ring 324 wins
TLOU 2 322 wins

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DenchDeckard

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" Taking a slightly deeper look at things, Elden Ring appears to have won a grand total of 281 Game of the Year awards from media outlets (including us here at GamesRadar+). Additionally, the action-RPG took home 43 awards from polls voted on by audiences rather than media outlets. All told, that's 324 awards.


Interestingly enough, The Last of Us 2 took home more reader's choice awards around two years ago with 108 awards bagged from audiences. Media outlet Game of the Year awards totalled 195 for Naughty Dog's sequel though, ultimately putting it well below Elden Ring in that category at least. "

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i'm happy for miyazaki and from software.

it's a great game but i wish i had got the same enjoyment out of it that others seemed to. don't get me wrong i played the shit out of it and had a fun time with it but it has some big flaws. i want to go back to it and see if my mind changes but i'm waiting and praying for a big DLC release.
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
That's crazy. Well deserved.
Although I prefer previous, more pure souls and more focused.
I think I will replay older souls more often than Elden Ring but I adore the game.
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
Well deserved.

TLOU2 ages poorly. Its story telling mistakes and slab-handed execution are glaringly apparent playing through it again two years later.

Elden Ring is a masterpiece of gameplay and environment design.
These games couldn't be more apart from each other and both are perfect.
Tlou2 got incredible story and character. Really worked for me.
The gameplay is pure madness, how well it plays.
 

tommib

Member
Best success story of the last 20 years for From Software. Myazaki and his team just kept following their vision consistently. These guys went from being ignored by Sony who refused to publish Demon’s Souls outside of Japan to having the most acclaimed game ever and a juggernaut blockbuster in sales.

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most gotys is a quite useless metric
if famitsu decided tomorrow that they do 50 points instead of 40, suddenly all newer gaems would appear "better" than all before.
If we always (since Pong or whatever) had, I don't know 500 awards that count and compare those outcomes it would have some value, but with ever increasing numbers of awards, it is simply pointless.
 

FunkMiller

Gold Member
These games couldn't be more apart from each other and both are perfect.
Tlou2 got incredible story and character. Really worked for me.
The gameplay is pure madness, how well it plays.

Eh. TLOU2 throws out all the subtlety and focus of the first game, for a by the numbers revenge story, and a cackhanded, self contradictory message about violence. It fails to pull off its central conceit of getting you to empathise with the bad guy, because it uses cynical, lazy writing to do it.

I liked the game the first time around, but slogging through it again, its shortcomings are obvious.
 

Aenima

Member
Good to see a Fromsoft game taking the Throne. But if it was to me, Witcher 3 would be the one still wearing the crown. Both TLOU2 and Elden Ring did not became my personal GOTY games in they respective years.
 

Mr Moose

Member
What's the performance like these days on console? Haven't played it in a while. Is it still kinda shit?
 
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