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[Zghia]

Dear Haters, your tear is delicious

 

[NathanDiego]

What a sweep, deserved every award.

 

[Wunray]

Not in my opinion, hades deserved it but congrats either way.

 

[dave_d]

Fine fine but did they say if there's going to be an upgraded re-release for the PS5? (Yes, I'm one of those that bought it when it was on sale and hasn't opened it because I was worried they'd announce a better version of it at TGA when that rumor started to go around.)

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Naughty Dog crunched too hard on TLOU2

I really wish they would have not crunched and made a game that wasn't Game of the Year instead

 

[Raonak]

TLOU2 was a fantastic game.

Now where the PS5 patch at? I want to replay it

 

[SaniOYOYOY]

water is wet

 

[Collin]

love that a game this ballsy won the big award. good choice. ghost is great and 7 remake rules but tlou2 feels important and it’s the game i thought about the most all year. excited to replay it on ps5

 

[Toaster man]

Tlou2 got so much shit this year for no real reason. Maybe you hate the direction of the story (I thought it was great) but the whole thing is an amazing stealth action adventure game wit top of the line production values.

Deserved.

 

[Jigga]

One of the best games I ever played

 

[Kerotan]

Even if cyberpunk had of made it TLOU2 would still have cleaned up. Its a step above everything since God of war.

 

[Represent.]

TLOU 2 just set the record for most awards ever at the TGAs

Gold standard of a 3rd person action game. Point blank.

 

[drganon]

Meh. Not surprised that it won. Wouldn't have been my choice, but I'm in the minority that think Naughty Dog games from even just a purely gameplay perspective are massively overrated dogshit.

 

[Silent Viper]

Ghost of Tsushima my pick but Tlou 2 good as well.

Congratulations to ND

 

[Deleted member 17706]

They need to hurry up with that PS5 upgrade!

 

[Raven117]

Not what I would have picked, but a great game for sure.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Phenomenal game, well deserved!

 

[j0hnnix]

Abby deserves this win, she had to take it rough and took it all in like a champ.

 

[Ktotheroc]

I would say yes. I want Ghosts to win, but I still really enjoyed TLoU 2. My top 5 would look like this:

Ghosts Of Tsushima
Streets Of Rage
The Last Of Us Part 2
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Doom Eternal

Ghosts did win. It won the only thing that matters, which is popular fan vote. With the way the industry is today, it's not a surprise TLOU2 won, despite being mixed reviewed vs. Ghosts, which received universal praise.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Ghost did win. It won the only thing that matters, which is popular fan vote. With the way the industry is today, it's not a surprise TLOU2 won, despite being mixed reviewed vs. Ghost, which received universal praise.

But didn't it lose 2/3 rounds?

 

[NathanDiego]

Ghosts did win. It won the only thing that matters, which is popular fan vote. With the way the industry is today, it's not a surprise TLOU2 won, despite being mixed reviewed vs. Ghosts, which received universal praise.

yeah, if helps you sleep rs

 

[LivingD3AD]

Well deserved. One of my Top5 best games ever and i play videogames for the last 25 years.

 

[Dr. Claus]

No one was honestly expecting anything else from an award ceremony created by gaming “journalists” and judged by gaming “journalists”. Much like any award show, it means literally nothing.

 

[DForce]

Ghosts did win. It won the only thing that matters, which is popular fan vote. With the way the industry is today, it's not a surprise TLOU2 won, despite being mixed reviewed vs. Ghosts, which received universal praise.

I'm sure the Reddit users crying about TLOU 2 having the lead didn't contribute to the win. TLOU was clearly as a disadvantage.

 

[Orpheum]

Ghost of Tsushima got robbed

 

[Ktotheroc]

yeah, if helps you sleep rs

Many "gamers": OMG The industry is so trash, game journalism sucks, they're all paid off, fuck these losers, etc.

Same players when it comes to GOTY, where 90% of the vote comes from those same people: OMG my game won! YAY! Suck it haters! We did it, Reddit/Twitter/GAF/ERA/etc. *self-fellatio*

But didn't it lose 2/3 rounds?

I think it won 2, lost the last one. Can't check currently, but if it did lose two, idk how it still won. lol

I'm sure the Reddit users crying about TLOU 2 having the lead didn't contribute to the win. TLOU was clearly as a disadvantage.

Doubt it. People just voted on who they thought should win, and there were subreddits from every part of that site participating. TLOU2 just lost.

 

[DForce]

Doubt it. People just voted on who they thought should win, and there were subreddits from every part of that site participating. TLOU2 just lost.

There were threads all over because people didn't want to see TLOU 2 win.

 

[Snkiworld]

Worst year Worst Game of the Year

 

[Boss Mog]

Gee what a surprise, it's not like anybody saw that coming...

All this talk of crow, like we don't know why it won. It certainly didn't win the people's choice, so congrats to Ghost of Tsushima for winning an award that actually means something.

 

[newtypepilot]

It's a good game with a flawed narrative and pacing. No way it deserve GOTY, let alone sweeping the awards. They picked TLOU2 for pandering sake. GoT got robbed.

Overall TGA is just another dumb award show like the Oscars or Emmys where the true purpose is to jerk each other off within the industry and the winner is usually undeserved. The fact that Among Us was allowed to win even though it came out 2 years ago is enough of a joke.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Haven’t played it or some of the other games on the list to judge it. But right now FF7R is the game to beat this year, for me at least.

 

[MrS]

In the end, nothing comes close to TLOU2. Not only is it GOTY, it’s GOTG.

 

[Agnostic2020]

Well deserved . Game of the generation.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

LOL, it's a fucking console, but dude sounds like he has been in Ausschwitz all year.

 

[turtlepowa]

"Best narrative"
I think i've torn a muscle laughing.

 

[The Chairman]

Woke SJW journalists vote for a woke SJW game. in other news, water is wet.

 

[GHG]

Not played it yet so not sure.

 

[Neolombax]

Congrats to ND. Still hate the story direction though.

 

[El Muerto]

I have no qualms as playing as a woman in a video game. TLOU2 was well designed but the story was atrocious. Why are you going to force the player to play as the character that everybody hates for half the game, then try to make them likeable toward the end? Also, there's no closure, they just slap each other around and nothing happens. Ghost of Tsushima's story was a cinematic masterpiece, and gameplay had more freedom and required skill. I feel they chose TLOU2 so they don't get any flak from Twitter that the awards were sexist.

 

[captainnapalm]

Pretty fitting winner. A thoroughly unpleasant game for a thoroughly unpleasant time in history.

 

[TheMay30thMan]

I don’t think any of those games deserved it tbh.

I would have preferred to watch TLOU fans’ meltdowns over their celebration though.

 

[Evilms]

 

[Hitchyhero]

I have no qualms as playing as a woman in a video game. TLOU2 was well designed but the story was atrocious. Why are you going to force the player to play as the character that everybody hates for half the game, then try to make them likeable toward the end? Also, there's no closure, they just slap each other around and nothing happens. Ghost of Tsushima's story was a cinematic masterpiece, and gameplay had more freedom and required skill. I feel they chose TLOU2 so they don't get any flak from Twitter that the awards were sexist.

Yes, that the only possible reason this game could of won /s

Honestly these salty people. I get that it's not to your personal taste but no need to delve into conspiracy theories cus your fav game didn't win.

My fav games never win anything but I don't make crap up because of it.

 

[Caio]

Well deserved ! Now it's time to be hard at work on Part III.

 

[cormack12]

Dunno, I picked it up on a sale recently and it's in the queue to play at some point. I think the problem is most people probably knew this would win. It's become like movie awards where they lose their prestige because of the winners choices. Out of the shortlist, I probably enjoyed GoT the most from what I played, but even I can see Hades or Animal Crossing actually deserved game of the year more. It is what it is. It seems like it's just an outlet for the most frenzied internet userbases to get a win i.e. FROM and Sekiro

Then there are weird decisions like Odyssey making the shortlist in 2018, but Valhalla isn't this year despite being better in multiple ways. Anyway, I still have this to look forward to as well as Days Gone etc. I planned to play it round Jan/Feb but it's not like it affects me in any way.

 

[Psos]

not dessert

 

[Kholinar]

It's a good game with a flawed narrative and pacing. No way it deserve GOTY, let alone sweeping the awards. They picked TLOU2 for pandering sake. GoT got robbed.

Overall TGA is just another dumb award show like the Oscars or Emmys where the true purpose is to jerk each other off within the industry and the winner is usually undeserved. The fact that Among Us was allowed to win even though it came out 2 years ago is enough of a joke.

“My game didn’t win therefore these awards are shit.”

 

[WhyDoIEven]

So I woke up in the morning and I checked the winners. Every year it's the same situation and it's silly. TGA became the "Oscars of video games" where the games win because of the hype, because they have a famous "sibling" or for any similar reason. There were better games than TLoU2 runnin for the awards, but it ended the way it ended. No fucks given as every year.

Peace <3

 

[Ar¢tos]

I picked NO because I think GoT is a better game, but this does not mean TLOU2 is bad at all, just my personal preference.

 

[turtlepowa]

So I woke up in the morning and I checked the winners. Every year it's the same situation and it's silly. TGA became the "Oscars of video games" where the games win because of the hype, because they have a famous "sibling" or for any similar reason. There were better games than TLoU2 runnin for the awards, but it ended the way it ended. No fucks given as every year.

Peace <3

Give critics the chance to vote for some artful, controverse, socially critical, liberal-minded, sjw or whatever makes them feel sublime stuff and you can bet they will.