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[FearlessBelgian]

Thanks god

 

[nightmare-slain]

Game came out in February and wiped out the rest of the year.

GoW didn't stand a snowballs chance in hell.

 

[Party McHardy]

I rewatched it and couldn’t understand a thing except Bill Clinton. Very strange.

 

[Loxus]

This year's GOTY Awards had to be rigged.
GOW Ragnarök has:
Better Graphics
Better Story
Better Combat
Better Music/Audio
Better Performance
Innovation in Accessibility
Little to no bugs
List goes on.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

1000% deserved, Miyazaki's got two of these shiny baubles for GOTY with Sekiro and Elden Ring, can't wait to see what's next.

 

[Bragr]

What else.

 

[Marchizmo]

Honestly felt a level above anything i have played in 2 or 3 years. Glad it won.

I had friends that have dropped FROM games only to really enjoy ER, so I feel it had the right formula to really entice most.

 

[sandbood]

That was Ass of Can Whooping after losing a bet.

 

[Draugoth]

winning Game of the Year! Truly an incredible experience, we hope everyone at @fromsoftware_pr is proud of this amazing accomplishment. Well deserved!

 

[FearlessBelgian]

This year's GOTY Awards had to be rigged.
GOW Ragnarök has:
Better Graphics
Better Story
Better Combat
Better Music/Audio
Better Performance
Innovation in Accessibility
Little to no bugs
List goes on.

 

[El Muerto]

I'm just glad GOW:R didnt get GOTY. Sony to video games is what Disney is to movies. Unlimited budgets to crank out games, and making the same games over and over with different paint jobs.

 

[feynoob]

This year's GOTY Awards had to be rigged.
GOW Ragnarök has:
Better Graphics
Better Story
Better Combat
Better Music/Audio
Better Performance
Innovation in Accessibility
Little to no bugs
List goes on.

 

[ProtoByte]

Good to see Dark Souls 2 DLC finally win an award.

Bloodborne>DS3>DS1>DS2>Elden Ring

Just goes to show you make anything open world and it will win GOTY by default.

If nothing else, it is quite funny how FromSofties make themselves seem like alt-gamers or some shit, then go crazy for an open world fully of many of the same faults they criticize "mainstream" games for.

Unrelated: God of War should've won Game Direction and Horizon probably should've won Soundtrack and Art Direction.

 

[Killer8]

 

[ArthriticZombie]

Kid was clearly the QA lead.

 

[OsirisBlack]

Well deserved

 

[Blitzmangoman]

Well deserved indeed.

 

[legacy24]

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Real recognize real.

 

[bender]

Bayo taking action game and Elden Ring taking GOTY. Thank you, Japan.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Yeah! a billion times agree with GOTY 2022. It brought me closer to enjoying a game with “friends”. I didn’t get that from any other game this year. I felt like it was a collaboration, a journey, and appreciation of guidance. It was the ultimate adventure for me.

 

[BennyBlanco]

This year's GOTY Awards had to be rigged.
GOW Ragnarök has:
Better Graphics
Better Story
Better Combat
Better Music/Audio
Better Performance
Innovation in Accessibility
Little to no bugs
List goes on.

Seethe

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Good to see Dark Souls 2 DLC finally win an award.

Bloodborne>DS3>DS1>DS2>Elden Ring

Just goes to show you make anything open world and it will win GOTY by default.

If CoD goes open world next year, BOTW2 has no shot.

Don’t get your hate boner against ER

The open world is absolutely fantastic

It’s not perfect in other ways but it’s an impressive title and worthy of GOTY accolades even if it’s not my pick for it

 

[mortal]

 

[-Zelda-]

Not gonna lie, they really had me with each award GoW recieved. Has that happened before in these award shows? to get almost every other category you are in, but lose the last one?

 

[Northeastmonk]

Maybe Geoff will shed some light on how weird and intrusive that moment was.

 

[nightmare-slain]

This year's GOTY Awards had to be rigged.
GOW Ragnarök has:
Better Graphics
Better Story
Better Combat
Better Music/Audio
Better Performance
Innovation in Accessibility
Little to no bugs
List goes on.

all that and still couldn't beat Elden Ring.

 

[ArthriticZombie]

Geoff just tweeted about it “The individual who interrupted our Game of the Year moment has been arrested.”

 

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman]

They added jump ya'll

 

[Fake]

And Bill Clinton apparently?

Bill Clinton got more awards than Horizon Forbidden West... How is this even possible?

 

[feynoob]

They got him.

 

[MagnesD3]

Lord Miyazaki the All Knowing!!

 

[Raonak]

Nope

 

[nightmare-slain]

Nope

yep

 

[Ezekiel_]

Didn't Ragnarok end up winning the most awards?

They had best Performer, best Audio design, best score/music, best action/adventure, best narrative and best innovation in accessibility

 

[Loxus]

all that and still couldn't beat Elden Ring.

I think it's mostly because it's a multiplat.
More people played and experienced it that GOW.

 

[SlimySnake]

Don’t get your hate boner against ER

The open world is absolutely fantastic

It’s not perfect in other ways but it’s an impressive title and worthy of GOTY accolades even if it’s not my pick for it

Im glad it won over GOW, but neither game deserved it. ER gave me massive DS2 vibes. I love souls games because of their metroidvania game design where exploring every inch felt rewarding. ER just gave me stuff i didnt need. its too big for its own good. the castle i explored felt like a massive drop in quality from Bloodborne and DS3.

I dont mind ubisoft open world games, but i dont go out giving them gotys either. HFW was a better open world game than ER. This is BOTW all over again. Gone are the carefully crafted dungeons and levels, and random far cry style outposts are in. yay?

 

[a multicultural team of v]

honestly other than music gow probably won the awards it should have, and elden ring won the awards it should have. actually felt pretty fair and correct.

(direction could have been a toss up depending on how you interpret direction)

 

[SLB1904]

Well deserved. What amazing year. Next year will be sick as well.

Can't be mad with that show. Truly awesome

 

[Jaybe]

Class

 

[nightmare-slain]

Didn't Ragnarok end up winning the most awards?

They had best Performer, best Audio design, best score/music, best action/adventure, best narrative and best innovation in accessibility

but they didn't win the main ones for direction and goty.

their awards will look good on a shelf until you ask what they are for,

 

[Saber]

More like invaded by a retard.

 

[Draugoth]

You fast.

Thanks. At least i mgood at something!

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Im glad it won over GOW, but neither game deserved it. ER gave me massive DS2 vibes. I love souls games because of their metroidvania game design where exploring every inch felt rewarding. ER just gave me stuff i didnt need. its too big for its own good. the castle i explored felt like a massive drop in quality from Bloodborne and DS3.

I dont mind ubisoft open world games, but i dont go out giving them gotys either. HFW was a better open world game than ER.

This is the worst take I’ve ever heard

HFW’s biggest issues is it’s amazing to look at, but otherwise completely uninteresting open world

 

[Airbus Jr]

BRRROOO HOW CAN A GAME WITH THIS PS3 GRAPHICS WON FUKIN BULSHIITTTT

GOW RAGNAROK METASCORE WAS BOMBARDED BY FUKIN TROLL

 

[Represent.]

but they didn't win the main ones for direction and goty.

their awards will look good on a shelf until you ask what they are for,

Those are all solid awards. Best action/adventure is huge if thats your fav genre, which it is for many

 

[Yoboman]

Well done From Software

I flip back and forth between this and Ragnarok on which I prefer but both in my GOAT list

 

[MarkMe2525]

The game awards are so pathetic. Boooooooo!

I expressed that I thought everyone was being a little to aggressive towards your dissenting opinion in your last thread. I regret that, as its clear you are just looking to start shit.

 

[SlimySnake]

They couldve beaten ER with a better finale. Maybe if they didnt try to subvert our expectations and added Miljnor and made it next gen only pushing boundries instead of constant walking segments, it might have actually won GOTY.