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In my current run I found a cave with the shrine of Selune that is mentioned in some cards dealt by Moonrise where they were hiding from Ketheric Storm when he started to praise Shar, and it's nothing more or nothing less than under the inn where Jaheira is, inside a dungeon hidden behind a door with spider web and some boxes in front with enemies that I had never seen before
Agreed. As both games are currently imo Cyberpunk is all around better than Witcher 3 but like you said, you can’t recapture the year one hype. There’s like a window for that and once it closes it’s gone.
@@RedShogun13nah, comparing both the games cyberpunk(especially considering the game was based off a tablet top rpg) has a story that somehow features less player choices then witcher despite having a custom character and background. I also find that most Witcher side quests are better built and written with multiple endings whereas most cyberpunk side quests are pretty basic linear missions. The open world of Witcher is reactive and the people and places actually change in their attitude and sometimes visuals based on the choices the player makes and places like skellege and velen make for some of the best looking lands in gaming. Overall cyberpunk is a very good game especially after the updates and the expansion which took the criticism of the base game and added more player choice to its missions but for me at least it still falls short of Witcher and what cyberpunk could’ve been. I’m not critiquing expansion content because even then I’d argue that blood and wine surpasses but it’s very close because I love PL
Baldur's gate 3 is the only game where i actually feel sad for npc's. like i want to be evil but the impact it has hits hard. It really feels alive and is so well made. It deserves game of the decade tbh
The sad part about overwatch is that for casual playing its still fun and I play It from time to time but It actually deserves everything it gets becaus god damnit do they hate their fans Fuck Blizzard for wasting what could hace been a great ip
People in the comments forget just how crazy of a cultural phenomenon Overwatch was the first year of its release. It was released during summer break and every minute I wasn't delivering pizzas I was playing Overwatch. God, I wish I could go back in time and replay the first few months... That said, in retrospect seeing how Overwatch turned out, Dark Souls 3 definitely deserved to win GOTY.
The fact that Miyazaki still thinks that Elden ring is not his ideal perfect game and promises that he will make one soon makes me happy. I am baffled about what this man is capable of...
I think Overwatch was sooo much more innovative and overall just revolutionized the genre of competitive shooters that it would only be fair for it to win. God of War captured a larger audience and was in my opinion so much better than rdr2. That is subjective because I really hate the whole theme of rdr2 and I found the game way too long, whereas I am actually interested in Norse mythology and the length of GoW was just perfect. TLOU 2 was also from a really popular ip so it had a huge bias over Hades. It also appeared to a larger audience than Doom because it was more laid back, casual experience.
That we'll never know. Perhaps a case could be built about how RDR2 has better aspects, but GOW is a more well rounded-up game, I personally think both are incredible! Although I like RDR2s story slightly more
Just like how God of War Ragnarok won most awards but lost GOTY. I think they rate GOTY on how big an impact it had on the gaming landscape, God of War when it came out was like a revolution while RDR2 was brilliant but had issues(Nakey Jakey's critique summarises it well). Even though RDR2 was bigger in content, it didn't execute itself as well as God of War. Same for games like Elden Ring or Baldur's gate 3. Even TLOU2 had a impact on the landscape and is still discussed though for the wrong reasons.
@@speedforce8970That’s not entirely true, Elden Ring won many more awards than GOW Ragnarok and also won game of the year. But how was GOW 2018 revolutionary exactly? It was a great game that I played a few times over but it played like any other puzzle solving hack and slash story game I’ve played before. Except now you use triggers to attack, which you could also just switch back to the normal button set up in the settings. I thought GOW 2018 earned a fair second place to RDR2 that year.
@@CauseIGotAMeathammer it was revolutionary for being a one take game so the game never cuts away from the action. There aren't any loading screens(usual ones) and the direction of the game was unlike any other with how cinematic they made it on some really bad hardware(Base PS4). It is wizardry that they were able to convincingly hide loading screens for a console with a slow ass HDD and still have brilliant visuals overall.
Yeah, genuinly a masterpiece. I cant judge since I have not played GOW yet (its probably next after bg3 which im playing rn) but I cannot imagine it beating rdr2.
I find it hard to believe we are gonna get back to back bangers like Elden Ring and BG3 for years to come. We have been eating good the last couple of years.
@@Blorxian-hater this year has been fun so far. We got Shadow of the Erd tree, Helldivers 2, Black Myth Wookong, Dragon Dogma 2, Hades 2 etc. not as legendary as ToTK, base Elden ring or BG3 but pretty stacked and fun year nonetheless
For me Cyberpunk 2077 is better than Witcher 3, purely because gameplay possibilities, both gave great stories. BG3 has no competition, best game ever made, except too many possible branching, making romances more like branched Fallout 4 without personal preference of each character, and too much player-centered game.
@@Thalaranthey same here, BG3 is funny but I think that it still lacks that "quality", puzzles are just terrible for example. The Witcher 3 was just perfect imho
Im just happy that, after years of most Triple A games going down the drain, I got to live in a time where Elden Ring (and sekiro before it) and BG3 were such hits. Some of my favorite games ever.
@@hazelcrisp Larian has no majority share holder so its an independent (indie) studio controlled by no share holders or publisher (like Indie studios) and even self published the game like alot of indie studios. Tencent only owns 30% meanwhile Sven owns 62% and his wife 8% which means they cannot be bossed around by Tencent and can do what they want. Sure they have a massive budget comparable to AAA studios but they have far more in common with indie studios than they do AAA studios.
@@BenganGamer You are misconstruvting the whole indie and AAA and categorisation. Indie doesn't mean independant. Indie just means lower budget (A). You can be independant and AAA. And you can be indie/AA/Small budget. Like you can be indie/AA with a publisher too. All triple AAA games are the same wether they have a publisher or self published or private. Games are classified as either Indie/A, AA or AAA. A/indie being stuff like FNAF/Stardew, AA like Plague Tale, Hellblade, and your usual AAA big budget, large team size games like GOW. AAA Larian is the same level and value as a AAA ubisoft game or Fromsoft and so on. They aren't indie like Stardew or FNAF for example. The are AAA and so produced a AAA game like most with a large team over 100 people and millions. BG3 is a AAA game with a big company. No different than Ubisoft's bigger games (they also produce small games too) or EA or whoever.
I just recently finished my third completion of BG3, and my god it just doesn't stop being outrageously fun. Like, man they did such a phenomenal job with all of it. It's a wonder how they managed to fit all of THAT into a single game.
Elden ring is a generational game. It will be in the discussion with games like Doom, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear… but man BG3 is really giving it a run for game of the decade.
I don't know who started the trend of doing single-word captions but please stop using them. All they do is draw attention to them and away from the action in the video.
BG3 is one of the only games I have played more than once and I played it twice in the same year. 10/10 game! The turn-based system is slow af and boring at times but the number of stuff you can do makes up for it.
I absolutely love it! And the combat is really deep, I personally enjoyed it a lot! Then I see videos filled with crazy shenanigans that other players do aandd I feel my playstyle is very basic xD
4:20 Breath of the wild broke my heart. An absolutely breathtaking game, with gorgeous design, beautiful music, fun and interesting mechanics... It just doesn't feel like Zelda anymore, and that makes me sad.
Which is your favorite GOTY winner? It is a difficult pick, if I had to be honest, I'm either choosing Sekiro or Baldur's Gate III. Tell me which one you love!
BG3 is a once in a lifetime videogame...I played it for over 720 hours and I still find new dialogues and interactions, and I still have fun like the first time. The combat system is a turn-off for many people, yet I think it suits the game perfectly because there are so many things you can do it's almost overwhelming 😅. It's got his flaws like every single game, but it's a 11/10 game.
@@VioIetteMolotov yes, I've played Mass Effect and I think it is too. Baldur's Gate III and the Mass Effect trilogy are my favourite videogames of all time, but I still prefer BGIII. I also know Dragon Age, I heard the first chapters are masterpieces, but I never played them because they're only for PC or Ps3/360
You can tell whos younger and whos a bit older in the comments. BG 3 praise is coming from people who havent had a good story in their games because theyre so young. They haven't played much The characters in the Mass effect trilogy are better than the ones in BG 3 (overall) but you know, recency bias
Cyberpunk 2077 was such a huge potential that hindered by its disastrous launch. But gotta give credit to CDPR for their effort to revive the game. If the game is released with the state that we see now instead of its initial launch, it will definitely be a big contender for GOTY..
Honestly Animal Crossing New Horizons should have got GOTY for 2020, the way it saved so many lives by keeping us indoors during the pandemic. That and I'm not a huge fan of TLOU2. I enjoyed the gameplay, was just disappointed in the story.
Animal Crossing New Horizons had a huge cultural impact and I personally love it. Had it won, I wouldn't be mad. I played it for almost 500 hours and it kept me sane through 2020!
Baldur's Gate 3 might be the only video game aside from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, to with the menu music alone when you boot up the game, to give me chills and shivers in my entire spinal cord. It is criminal how good the soundtrack is in this game. If anyone has other games that have done the same thing, do tell me about it, I'd love to try it out.
My personal picks for best game of every year: 2015: the Witcher 3 2016: dark souls 3 2017: breath of the wild 2018: red dead redemption 2 2019: sekiro 2020: doom eternal 2021: idk 2022: Elden ring 2023: balder’s gate 3 2024: black myth wukong
I can't disagree with BG3 because it just isn't my type of game, but I can say TLOU2 is ASS. Garbage story, Neil lied multiple times, and the ending ruined the game. Ghost of Tsushima was 500% better.
@mrperfectcookie It was rushed, it made no sense, it didn't fit the characters, it didn't fit the plot, Neil lied about it, etc... Meanwhile Ghost of Tsushima had the perfect story and perfect ending. Absolute masterpiece.
RDR2 should've won GOTY 2018. People still talk about RDR2 up to this day. I'm not saying that God of War was a bad game but RDR2 was obviously the better pick.
people still talk about god of war 2018 and just how epic the build up to the release was and how insane the switch was from old gow to the new ones…..it redefined the game aka switched the formula and they did it perfectly. rdr2 was not the obvious pick
@user-yungbullc33 RDR2 revolutionized the franchise. The jump from old school graphics of RDR to modernized RDR2 was enormous and the character of Arthur Morgan was just perfect. Tbh, people doesn't talk about GoW 2018 more than they talk about RDR2. Heck, my youtube recommendations is filled with RDR memes and secrets discovered up to this day.
@ gow 2018 did the same exact thing you just said rdr2 did, do you know how old gow franchise is? first gow was in 2005 and was just a hack n slash now it’s a full blown triple A cinematic narritive and combat driven game that’s why it’s a toss up and not a clear winner. Also my recommendations are full of gow memes and play throughs too that’s why they are called recommendations youtube recommends games you like…..
BG3 is absolutely gorgeous, but one thing really bothers me and that is the chaotic evil ending. It's non existent. I spend another 80 hours on my second playthrough, Evil Dark Urge run and got no epilogue which honestly messed the whole experience for me. Still, I can't wait to get back to the game in a year or so and play Good Durge playthrough.
@@itswildrush yes, easily worth, the combat is a bit different using action points instead of main attacks and bonus moves, but its easily a 9.5/10. Its cheap on sales for around 10 euros on steam
Feel like nowadays I'm the only person on the planet who thinks Odyssey should have won over BOTW in 2017 😂 not mad at all that botw won tho it fully deserved it
It's really hard to find three masterpiece game that have existed in the last decade. I don't know when we will experience this again but I know this is a golden era. Baldur's Gate 3, Red Dead Redemption 2 and you know what it is next.
I'm so glad BG3 received the due credit it should get. On another note, I waited years before playing Inquisition because I thought it was a generic mess. I was very surprised to actually like the game.
Have you played dragon age origins and if so do you still recommend inquisition? I tried inquisition after playing origins but couldn’t enjoy the combat of the game at all. Might still give it a try at some point though.
@@holikwakkemoli DA Origin is one of my favorite games. I absolutely get that. The first time I tried inquisition I was incredibly frustrated as it is a downgrade from origin in terms of gameplay for me as I'm a crpg fan and it ''feels'' a bit more like an action rpg. It is vastly better than the second opus, in every aspects though. Here's my advices if you give inquisition another try : Play in difficult. In that way, there is more benefits to using all your characters and having to fight as a group with their abilities. As your main, don't use a bow. It's a terribly boring gameplay for a main character. As you progress in the world, don't be completionist. There are way too many side quests. Do them as long as you have fun, but go back to the main quest when you feel like it, even in difficult, you dont need to grind. I really enjoyed discovering new areas and doing side content, but I can see how some people felt overwhelmed. The thing I enjoyed the most was the lore and the world building. You can explore areas from Orlay and Ferelden and there is a political flavor to it, that makes it interesting to me. As it was in dragon age origins, factions and interests are never black and white. Finally, for me the best part of the game was the dlc ''Trespasser'' ! It is more tactically challenging and it directly follows the main story.
My Winners ranked: 10. Overwatch (you simply can’t play it anymore) 9. TLOU 2 (Extremely controversial but not awful) 8. Dragon Age Inquisition (Meh. Its aged and rather mediocre) 7. The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (Its good, but compared to the three open world games that were winners, its the weakest) 6. Sekiro (Amazing combat but a HARD S.O.B.) 5. Breath of the Wild (A neat change to traditional Zelda, but pretty overrated) 4. It Takes Two (Great game even if short lived. The most underrated winner imo) 3. God of War 4 (An outstanding series comeback and one of the greatest PS4 games ever) 2. Elden Ring (The best open world game possibly ever and Fromsoftware’s Magnum Opus) 1. Baldur’s Gate 3 (Do I even need to elaborate?)
@@MrCar-Landon I prefer doom over ghost of Tsushima it had a good main story good visuals and a solid combat system but I didn't like the side quests and the things you find in the world felt very repetitive for me I would have probably enjoyed it more if it wasn't an open world game.
Haven't played Elden Ring (yet), but 2022's GOTY for me is definitely A Plague Tale: Requiem. I liked Ragnarok a lot, but Requiem is special on its own rights. Never a game made me feel so emotional aside from RDR2.
@@nyckolasreis I really liked requiem but I didn’t like the ending, made me feel like nothing I did mattered. On the other hand all the extra lore of the old carrier was really cool and I liked the game until the ending bit.
Playing the Dark Urge as a gifted Bard who defied her baser urges to extent she could by growing into her wit, active empathy, and music feels so satisfying. If you played an origin character or generic Tav the first time, I'd highly recommend playing through as a Dark Urge trying to be good despite their evil nature. It feels like the canon Main Character.
Three takes: - GoW deserved the game of the year 2018. I played GoW and RDR2, and I found RDR2 more flawed on how to tell a story, although the journey is amazing. GOW is an instant masterpiece, it did everything right. - I've never played BG3, I so wanted Alan Wake 2 to win last year. AW2 was an expected sequel and Remedy did something they didnt have experience, which is survival horror games. It had some flaws but damn that was an amazing game. - Elden Ring and The Witcher 3 are amazing fucking games. Not quite a hot take, just wanted to say it.
I also do think GoW is more well rounded up, even though RDR2 has better quality peaks in some sections AW2 I haven't played but I've heard great things!
I absolutely love bg3, I've beaten it twice now and I'm preparing for an honor mode run. My favorite class right now is sorcerer/warlock because it let's me do everything amazingly. I love convincing the bosses to just give up. It's unlike anything I've every played I a game before
Witcher 3 will always be my number 1. Even after all these years its still installed on my pc. Still haven't tried Elden Ring and BG3. But I'll one day
BG3 will scratch (and likely surpass) the roleplaying itch of Witcher 3 and Elden Ring will scratch the exploration itch of Witcher 3's world. That said, Witcher 3 is still up there as a truly open-world RPG with an incredibly gripping story, assuming you're drawn to the characters and the game's central draw, ie., find your adopted daughter Ciri. BG3 gives you a much wider range of roleplaying expression. It's just an incredible feat of game design for it to feel, genuinely, like you're playing a tabletop game of DND with an incredibly punishing, but fair, dungeon master.
Elden Ring may or may not be your cup of tea as it's too demanding for a good number of gamers at this point, but I really recommend you try Baldurs Gate 3. It is honestly the best RPG ever made. And I really mean that. It has all the meaningful choices and customization from old school RPGs like Morrowind, but with dialogue options and world changes that are absolutely immense in scale. The top down gameplay isn't everyone's cup of tea either, but it's the closest thing to heaven any RPG fan could ever experience. I have some problems with how convoluted the third act of the game is, but I'd still give BG3 a 10/10 if I reviewed games for a living.
Breath of the wild got me back into gaming after i couldn't play anything good since dark souls 1 Elden ring is ever better and what games should strive for to be. As for baldurs gate it evolved the gaming medium to new highs these guys are not developers they are magicians i don't know how everything connects together every action every option every decision you make it is structured so surgical its beyond belief
Oh I am sorry! I feel like ranking them all like that would be a really hard task, as most of them are phenomenal games and outstaanding on their own merits for multiple reasons. I can tell you this, though. Overwatch is placing last.
@@itswildrush really you would place it below the absolute bag fumble that is TLOU2? like i get that blizzard has since ruined the game but the original release and first 2 years were quite good. on the other hand TLOU2 took a good series and essentially killed it with horrible writing and pacing.
I played both and still prefered GOW. It was a close call either way no matter who won. But it's really weak to say it should have won when you see how popular GOW 2018 was with people
8:45 TLOU 2 is not a good game. Sorry to say. Visually? Combat mechanics? Yeah sure those are 10/10, but the story, side quests, and everything in between is total and utter GARBAGE.
Pretty solid video, familiar yet somewhat original content territory. If you're planning on revisiting this format (like best in certain category) I'd encourage you to put more effort into subtitles, whereas they are great to follow the video, on two or three occasions they clearly said something different than what you said. Also would be nice if you'd cover a strong contender to a title from a given year, if not with every year - with the ones where actual GOTY was lacking, like Dragon Age or Overwatch - maybe the whatever strong contender was aged better. That said, pretty good - keep it up!
I mean lots of contenders cpuld have qualified for GOTY. I'd prefer it had been AC: New Horizons personally, since its cultural impact during the 2020 pandemic was enough to get the award in my opinion!
I love that It takes two won the GOTY. I'm more the hard core gamer type, like 100 hours long RPG or From soft kind of games but I finished It takes two at least 4 times in a row with my then 6yo daughter and I would easily exchange all the time I spent on Witcher 3 or my 250h of playing Dead Cells to the rope for that time with my daughter. It really changed the way i looked at gaming and make me realize what gaming should be more about. Plain straightforward fun that you can share with the one you love. These kind of games are too rare.
The issue I have with TLOU 2 is they had all the elements and basis to put out a banger in terms of narrative, but in the end the story goes on only with plot armors, mcguffins out of nowhere and something happens only because it needed to for progression, there's no more the sense of dread and uncertainty, the "zombies" are almost non existent and the characters are really poorly written and stereotipical. Gameplay is very nice, they didn't invent anything new, but got a better version of what existed and it is really smooth and satisfying. It's just that they try to feed a hard to believe narrative and push it into your throat even if you can't connect to it, a lot of things feels forced and the potential was there, but they just got into the "subvert the expectation" trope too much
I wouldn't say characters are stereotypical, in fact the only one that falls near the category is perhaps Joel (Grumpy old man too tired for this shit too old for it aas well, but really effective at his "craft"). I kind of agree the infected don't get as much spotlight as they should've and for me personally the main flaw I find in TLOU 2 is that it drags... a lot. You feel like a conclusion has been reached and then two more hours of gaameplay. You get another conclusion and think this could be the end but nope, now off you go to California. I honestly think Ellie's character is really well written and although the game sepaarates you morally and physically for some time from her I couldn't but feel saaaddened to see how much guilt could push this girl to recklessly risk her life to "attone for her sins". Hope my two cents weren't bad!
Balruds Gate 3 is the only game of these Ive played. My favorite games are: Dota2 - 9 Minecraft (with mods) - 9 Heroes of Might and Magic III - 9 Warcraft III - 9 Kings Bounty Armored Princess - 9 Trine 2 - 9 The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind - 9 Factorio - 8 X-com (1994) - 8 Dungeon Keeper 2 - 8 But as you can see they are quite a bit older.
The 2014 showing was a joke. Alien Isolation was, by far, the best game released that year. Also, Red Dead 2 not winning in 2018 was so stupid. The show lost all credibility after that for me. I also don't underdtand how people think God of War is so good. It's the nost overrated game I've ever played. Maybe it's because Dark Souls is just so much more interesting (gameplay-wise) but I really don't understand how anyone with more than 7 brain cells could think it was a more worthy GOTY candidate over something as memorable and expansive as Red Dead 2. Then, again, in 2020, The Last of Us Part 2 winning it over Doom Eternal is just comical at this point and shows you how bias the show is.
People really jumped on the hate bandwagon on the Last of Us 2 for the dumbest reasons. Sure the game has some major flaws like the pacing but the overarching story is nothing short of gut wrenching. Since the walking dead season 1 a game hasn't emotionally hurt me this bad. We need more games like this, pain is also an emotion that can be expressed through art, and if we wanna treat games with the same status as any other art forms we need to put on our big boys pants and stop making tantrums every time we don't get a cookie cutter experience.
Couldn't have put it in better words. Games can and should have painful moments, daring decisions that can even make some players angry and pursue more nuanced and complex stories!
TLOU2 was such a great surprise to me. I did t. Game for 10 or so years and I researched what the best games were for PS5 and low and behold last of us came up time and time again. I played the first one and was blown away... Then I played the second one and guess what... It was brutal, and frustrating, but what a great game to make you think about both sides of a conflict! I thought it was amazing! I t literally blew my mind a few times. Great writing! I get it that most people don't want Joel to die, but damn, get over it and appreciate this game.
It’s gut wrenching if you can’t see the writers grasp at everything to try to pull that emotion out of you, ex. a useless section where we play fetch only to kill the dog later was clear bait
Having just played and 100%’d Ghost of Tsushima on PC i am incredibly stunned that it didn’t win GOTY. I understand TLOU is great but like…personally I enjoyed Ghost more as a story and game.
I'm at like my 3rd BG3 playthrough and I still find new shit I had no idea about in every act, it's amazing how deep the game is, even though the map at a first glance looks small, but it's PACKED with content. I'd much rather have a smaller map packed with content than a huge one lacking in it. With all of that being said and while I do genuinely think BG3 is the best game I've ever played, it's not perfect. The biggest issue I have with it is probably how unsatisfying an evil playthrough feels. You don't get anywhere near the rewards you get by being good or half good, or the companions, there is just no equivalent. Playing evil feels like you're playing with a hand tied from the start, you lock yourself out of a lot of great content... The character creation is very limited as far as customizing your look goes. Even Skyrim had better customization in that regard, although the class specs and what you can do with that is pretty freaking awesome. The party limit of 4 is also very limiting in my opinion... I get why they did it, but it's really annoying and immersive breaking to have to go to camp everytime something relevant to a different character I don't usually play with happens, have to kick one of my good companions to make room and so on. I would be super happy if they did like a full party mode or at least increase the limit while also increase the game difficulty... it also sucks that if you have 3 friends to play with, you can bring none of your companions along basically, effectively locking yourself out a lot of companion content in that playthrough... Larian does however update the game quite a lot, so maybe this will be done in the future, and I'd much rather have it done officially than through some shady mod.
Elden Ring and Bg3 are two of the most content rich games I’ve ever played. Best both 3 times. Honorable mention is red dead redemption 2. It should have won game of the year
The amount of content in both Elden Ring and BG3 is insane. RDR2 is also an awesome game, but perhaps the Game Awards thought God of War was more well rounded-up
9:00 so that’s why you had to preface the video with “in my opinion” I think the REAL reason why everyone was pissed that TLOU2 got the award was because doom eternal was the clear choice that year. If doom wasn’t a nominee, then yes last of us would have gotten it. But for some unexplainable reason they ignored doom
bg3 is a classic because you know there's passion when they made that game and meticulously written interactions with the characters and environment is spectacular also, if a game that feels like made for hardcore gamers but managed to make casual gamers love a game, you know it's a great game
The worst : TLOU2 no doubt,even overwatch can't compete. Yea it has good mechanic, Yes it has good graphics. But the storytelling is pain in the ass not to mention storytelling is the core of this game. When I said a steak is terrible. You can't argue that:"well but the garlic taste delicious" you totally missed the point. When steak is Fk up sauce and garlic doesn't matter anymore. Because all they here for making steak better.
I’ve had Baldur’s Gate III for a while now but haven’t finished it. In Act I and am at 20 hours and cannot stop. This game is simply too damn good. With games like this, Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption II, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Breath of the Wild, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, I’m good for a very long time 🔥
1) The video kind of explains what happened in this part 1:16 2) it also got lucky that the Witcher 3 was delayed as it was going to be released near Inquisition's time. 3) Inquisition was riding on Dragon Age Origins' excellent reputation.
As someone who never plays horror games and gets scared easily. Even I played Elden Ring, and it’s one of the best games I’ve played, despite never leaving limegrave. I may not leave it or play it anytime soon, but it’s still one of the GOATs
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I think guardian of the galaxy win the game of the year
The fact that Overwatch won over Dark Souls 3 is insane
Truly insane, I guess it's hard to remember how good OW was on launch
Overwatch 1 was insanely hype at release
@@Blorxian-hater Over DS3 and Doom? Hell fucking no.
DS3 isn't that good. Barely remember any of it. Nothing close to Elden ring or DS1.
@@zebwiz1900 Your opinion but i dont agree at all. It was the perfect ending to a trilogy.
Baldur's gate 3 hands down, one of the greatest games I have ever played.
same for me.. its the only game i have 500 hours on. i can easily put in more if im younger, but things like jobs get on the way
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I couldn't agree more!
Keeping it together Bree?
Same for me too.
I got over 400 hours on bg3 and I still find hidden stuff that I never thought of checking during my other playthroughs
It is truly mindblowing how much stuff there is to find!
Tengo 500 horas y aún encuentro cosas nuevas jugando con amigos que hacen cosas que a mí ni se me habrían ocurrido
I have passed 1k hours on bg3 and I still find hidden stuff that I never thought of. Heck I haven't even tested all the subclasses :D
In my current run I found a cave with the shrine of Selune that is mentioned in some cards dealt by Moonrise where they were hiding from Ketheric Storm when he started to praise Shar, and it's nothing more or nothing less than under the inn where Jaheira is, inside a dungeon hidden behind a door with spider web and some boxes in front with enemies that I had never seen before
Same. I found out about heart's fear of wolves just in "third" playthrough.
If Cyberpunk 2077 was released in the state it is right now, then it would have been as popular and significant as The Witcher 3 if not more so
ik, it is a narrative masterpiece, and gameplay is fun i love it
I couldn't agree more. Sadly enough that isn't the case. You'll see a video soon about CP 2077👀
Agreed. As both games are currently imo Cyberpunk is all around better than Witcher 3 but like you said, you can’t recapture the year one hype. There’s like a window for that and once it closes it’s gone.
Hope they'll learn to not rush out their games in the future
@@RedShogun13nah, comparing both the games cyberpunk(especially considering the game was based off a tablet top rpg) has a story that somehow features less player choices then witcher despite having a custom character and background. I also find that most Witcher side quests are better built and written with multiple endings whereas most cyberpunk side quests are pretty basic linear missions.
The open world of Witcher is reactive and the people and places actually change in their attitude and sometimes visuals based on the choices the player makes and places like skellege and velen make for some of the best looking lands in gaming. Overall cyberpunk is a very good game especially after the updates and the expansion which took the criticism of the base game and added more player choice to its missions but for me at least it still falls short of Witcher and what cyberpunk could’ve been.
I’m not critiquing expansion content because even then I’d argue that blood and wine surpasses but it’s very close because I love PL
Elden ring and baldurs gate 3, and breathe of the wild are peak gaming. True masterpieces.
Couldn't agree more!
@@mvh- I would add Sekiro too
Botw is the most boring overrated game ever.
@@jeje4131 that’s just like… your opinion man 🤷
@@angrysokka yes ofc.
bro really said I wouldn't regret playing BG3 like I haven't spent a hundred hours on it in the last week alone
Hahahahaha well then you have made a really good purchase already then!
@@itswildrush 💀 yeah ig so
Dude, that's so real XD
Baldur's gate 3 is the only game where i actually feel sad for npc's. like i want to be evil but the impact it has hits hard. It really feels alive and is so well made. It deserves game of the decade tbh
I agree completely!
Me too, i just did 3 good runs but i couldn't do a pure evil run
same, i decided to just watch someone else do an evil run instead 😹
BG3 IS A MASTERPIECE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yeeeeeeah!
Yes, and the inquisition was perfect for its time
Yep. Best game of the last decade. Too bad the next dragon age game doesn’t look great
Best game, maybe ever…
BGIII, game of the decade
The sad part about overwatch is that for casual playing its still fun and I play It from time to time but It actually deserves everything it gets becaus god damnit do they hate their fans
Fuck Blizzard for wasting what could hace been a great ip
It is baffling how they butchered a great game!
People in the comments forget just how crazy of a cultural phenomenon Overwatch was the first year of its release.
It was released during summer break and every minute I wasn't delivering pizzas I was playing Overwatch. God, I wish I could go back in time and replay the first few months...
That said, in retrospect seeing how Overwatch turned out, Dark Souls 3 definitely deserved to win GOTY.
The fact that Miyazaki still thinks that Elden ring is not his ideal perfect game and promises that he will make one soon makes me happy. I am baffled about what this man is capable of...
GOTY winner I personally disagree with:
- Overwatch over Dark Souls 3
- God of War over Red Dead Redemption 2
- TLOU 2 over Doom Eternal or Hades
God if war beat rdr2 it had goty, god of war stole it
yeah god of war was ass compared to rdr2
I think Overwatch was sooo much more innovative and overall just revolutionized the genre of competitive shooters that it would only be fair for it to win.
God of War captured a larger audience and was in my opinion so much better than rdr2. That is subjective because I really hate the whole theme of rdr2 and I found the game way too long, whereas I am actually interested in Norse mythology and the length of GoW was just perfect.
TLOU 2 was also from a really popular ip so it had a huge bias over Hades. It also appeared to a larger audience than Doom because it was more laid back, casual experience.
also the shadow of mordor
Tlou2 was rightful
BG3 captured me the way DAO and the ME trilogy did.
It is truly a gem of a game!
bro brought up the sacred texts
nah bro. RDR2 should have won game of the year in 2018. How could a game that won almost every other category but not win game of the year?
That we'll never know. Perhaps a case could be built about how RDR2 has better aspects, but GOW is a more well rounded-up game, I personally think both are incredible! Although I like RDR2s story slightly more
Just like how God of War Ragnarok won most awards but lost GOTY. I think they rate GOTY on how big an impact it had on the gaming landscape, God of War when it came out was like a revolution while RDR2 was brilliant but had issues(Nakey Jakey's critique summarises it well). Even though RDR2 was bigger in content, it didn't execute itself as well as God of War. Same for games like Elden Ring or Baldur's gate 3. Even TLOU2 had a impact on the landscape and is still discussed though for the wrong reasons.
@@speedforce8970That’s not entirely true, Elden Ring won many more awards than GOW Ragnarok and also won game of the year. But how was GOW 2018 revolutionary exactly? It was a great game that I played a few times over but it played like any other puzzle solving hack and slash story game I’ve played before. Except now you use triggers to attack, which you could also just switch back to the normal button set up in the settings. I thought GOW 2018 earned a fair second place to RDR2 that year.
Red Dead Redemption 2 had more highs and more lows. Whereas God of War is more consistent with everything being great.
@@CauseIGotAMeathammer it was revolutionary for being a one take game so the game never cuts away from the action. There aren't any loading screens(usual ones) and the direction of the game was unlike any other with how cinematic they made it on some really bad hardware(Base PS4). It is wizardry that they were able to convincingly hide loading screens for a console with a slow ass HDD and still have brilliant visuals overall.
Bg3 is insane. I can't find words to describe it.
Right? It is unfair to try to describe how amazing it is and convey what you feel like while playing it!
I can: extremely buggy
@@ramg4699 when did you play the game??? cus i played it day one release and didnt encounter a single bad bug up until midway through the last arc
@@gamedetective3120 few days ago, I encounter bug every 5 min and I'm not even kidding
@kostasspirou1010 nah, a lot of bugs migrated from p6 to p7
Its still crazy that RDR 2 was robbed at gunpoint for GOTY
Yeah, genuinly a masterpiece. I cant judge since I have not played GOW yet (its probably next after bg3 which im playing rn) but I cannot imagine it beating rdr2.
Robbed? Have you even played GoW?
@@xshmeIt's as good as rdr2, just different. A great father and son story.
@@Milan-mh4ncno it’s not, GOW is overrated af, RDR2 is a masterpiece
No its not, RDR2 ist overrated, GoW is a masterpiece
I find it hard to believe we are gonna get back to back bangers like Elden Ring and BG3 for years to come. We have been eating good the last couple of years.
Yeah, same! TOTK, BG3, Elden Ring... To just say some, it is hard for me this is going to be the standard, because the bar is so samn high!
2024 dry as hell tho
@@Blorxian-haterbeen pretty good for me as a JRPG fan.
black myth wukong might be close to meeting those standards from what i have heard, didn t play it yet tho
@@Blorxian-hater this year has been fun so far.
We got Shadow of the Erd tree, Helldivers 2, Black Myth Wookong, Dragon Dogma 2, Hades 2 etc. not as legendary as ToTK, base Elden ring or BG3 but pretty stacked and fun year nonetheless
Gotta give it to Witcher 3 it might be the best game ever
It is a wonder of a game!
@@angeleyes9795 game sucks
4/10 gameplay-wise. +2 for the plot. Probably the most overrated game in the history.
@piotrdy9615 by that scale then rdr2 shouldn't be higher than 5 too
@@angeleyes9795
Well yea. Most aaa games aren't for gamers but for people who play 3 movie games a year.
My favorite game was The Witcher 3...till I played 700h BG3
Damn! 700 hours?!
@@itswildrushrookie number, saw a guy with 1700h lol
For me Cyberpunk 2077 is better than Witcher 3, purely because gameplay possibilities, both gave great stories.
BG3 has no competition, best game ever made, except too many possible branching, making romances more like branched Fallout 4 without personal preference of each character, and too much player-centered game.
@@radeksilar543 Funny, i love bg3 but no hestiation witcher 3 and cp77 over bg aby day of the week
@@Thalaranthey same here, BG3 is funny but I think that it still lacks that "quality", puzzles are just terrible for example. The Witcher 3 was just perfect imho
Im just happy that, after years of most Triple A games going down the drain, I got to live in a time where Elden Ring (and sekiro before it) and BG3 were such hits.
Some of my favorite games ever.
Absolutely agree! These last years have been a blessing with really cool games getting the spotlight!
Since Larian is an independent studio they are technically an indie studio but the games they produce are of AAA scope, which is pretty hilaruous
@@BenganGamer Larian is totally a AAA studio. They have over 400 employees and big ass budget. They're not small.
@@hazelcrisp Larian has no majority share holder so its an independent (indie) studio controlled by no share holders or publisher (like Indie studios) and even self published the game like alot of indie studios.
Tencent only owns 30% meanwhile Sven owns 62% and his wife 8% which means they cannot be bossed around by Tencent and can do what they want.
Sure they have a massive budget comparable to AAA studios but they have far more in common with indie studios than they do AAA studios.
@@BenganGamer You are misconstruvting the whole indie and AAA and categorisation. Indie doesn't mean independant. Indie just means lower budget (A). You can be independant and AAA. And you can be indie/AA/Small budget. Like you can be indie/AA with a publisher too.
All triple AAA games are the same wether they have a publisher or self published or private. Games are classified as either Indie/A, AA or AAA. A/indie being stuff like FNAF/Stardew, AA like Plague Tale, Hellblade, and your usual AAA big budget, large team size games like GOW.
AAA Larian is the same level and value as a AAA ubisoft game or Fromsoft and so on. They aren't indie like Stardew or FNAF for example. The are AAA and so produced a AAA game like most with a large team over 100 people and millions. BG3 is a AAA game with a big company. No different than Ubisoft's bigger games (they also produce small games too) or EA or whoever.
bg3 is easly the best game I've ever played.
I just recently finished my third completion of BG3, and my god it just doesn't stop being outrageously fun. Like, man they did such a phenomenal job with all of it. It's a wonder how they managed to fit all of THAT into a single game.
Yeah! It is insane!
Elden ring is a generational game. It will be in the discussion with games like Doom, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear… but man BG3 is really giving it a run for game of the decade.
Elden ring is extremely overrated, BG3 is one of the best games I have ever played
@ BG3 is extremely overrated, Elden Ring is one of the best games I have ever played
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the peak of gaming story telling/choice making experience, absolutely unbeatable so far
I don't know who started the trend of doing single-word captions but please stop using them. All they do is draw attention to them and away from the action in the video.
"The game does a lot of things right. But it does a poor job of being a dragon age game" bro described Dragon Age The Veilguard
BG3 is one of the only games I have played more than once and I played it twice in the same year. 10/10 game! The turn-based system is slow af and boring at times but the number of stuff you can do makes up for it.
I absolutely love it! And the combat is really deep, I personally enjoyed it a lot! Then I see videos filled with crazy shenanigans that other players do aandd I feel my playstyle is very basic xD
4:20 Breath of the wild broke my heart. An absolutely breathtaking game, with gorgeous design, beautiful music, fun and interesting mechanics... It just doesn't feel like Zelda anymore, and that makes me sad.
I still think TLOU 2 winning over Doom Eternal, Ghost of Tsushima, and Hades was a political pick and downright criminal.
Which is your favorite GOTY winner? It is a difficult pick, if I had to be honest, I'm either choosing Sekiro or Baldur's Gate III. Tell me which one you love!
Baldur's Gate 3.
Legend of zelda:BOW
Depends, im for BG3 without a doubt, but with games like Breath of the wilde, Elden Ring, Sekiro, GOW 2018 or Witcher 3 it´s very hard pick.
BG3
BG3
BG3 is a once in a lifetime videogame...I played it for over 720 hours and I still find new dialogues and interactions, and I still have fun like the first time. The combat system is a turn-off for many people, yet I think it suits the game perfectly because there are so many things you can do it's almost overwhelming 😅. It's got his flaws like every single game, but it's a 11/10 game.
I agree wholeheartedly!
I find that the combat system works great for a new gamer like me cause it allows me time to understand what is happening and take my decisions!
i think bg3 has one of the best combat sandboxes ive ever experienced
Once in a lifetime? Have you ever even heard of Mass Effect? Or Dragon Age?
@@VioIetteMolotov yes, I've played Mass Effect and I think it is too. Baldur's Gate III and the Mass Effect trilogy are my favourite videogames of all time, but I still prefer BGIII. I also know Dragon Age, I heard the first chapters are masterpieces, but I never played them because they're only for PC or Ps3/360
You can tell whos younger and whos a bit older in the comments. BG 3 praise is coming from people who havent had a good story in their games because theyre so young. They haven't played much
The characters in the Mass effect trilogy are better than the ones in BG 3 (overall) but you know, recency bias
Cyberpunk 2077 was such a huge potential that hindered by its disastrous launch. But gotta give credit to CDPR for their effort to revive the game.
If the game is released with the state that we see now instead of its initial launch, it will definitely be a big contender for GOTY..
We all know that the real winner of the last 3 years is the epic flute guy, what a legend
Bro played TLOU 2 instead of Ghost of Tsushima as the GOTY 2020 game and thought we wouldn't notice
Hahaha it is the one that won! Lots of folks have recommended Ghosts of Tsushima so I'll have to check it out!
@@itswildrush what do you mean? You're just factually incorrect
@@AymuM are you joking, in denial or stupid?
@@AymuMTLOU 2 won game of the year in 2020. Look it up
@@zelikris Nope, you're just wrong.
That Overwatch won goty at all is a crime.
I can never forget Ellie saying "Bigot Sandwiches" that really stuck with me.
Ah yes... 2016-2019 when Overwatch still was good.. I miss those times
Honestly Animal Crossing New Horizons should have got GOTY for 2020, the way it saved so many lives by keeping us indoors during the pandemic.
That and I'm not a huge fan of TLOU2. I enjoyed the gameplay, was just disappointed in the story.
Animal Crossing New Horizons had a huge cultural impact and I personally love it. Had it won, I wouldn't be mad. I played it for almost 500 hours and it kept me sane through 2020!
Absolutely agreed. Crossing was such an amazing experience with friends. Far better than anything Sony has ever done.
It’s not even the best Animal Crossing game
Animal crossing over ghost of tsushima is criminal
Baldur's Gate 3 might be the only video game aside from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, to with the menu music alone when you boot up the game, to give me chills and shivers in my entire spinal cord. It is criminal how good the soundtrack is in this game. If anyone has other games that have done the same thing, do tell me about it, I'd love to try it out.
1:19 That year we had Shadow of mordor, god I miss the nemesis system
The nemesis system was SO GOOD!
Too bad it was made by degenerate losers that won't let anyone else do the system
Y'all can throw all the tantrums you want but Overwatch deserved that win. It was an amazing game on launch and a couple years after.
My personal picks for best game of every year:
2015: the Witcher 3
2016: dark souls 3
2017: breath of the wild
2018: red dead redemption 2
2019: sekiro
2020: doom eternal
2021: idk
2022: Elden ring
2023: balder’s gate 3
2024: black myth wukong
Not a bad list!
I have the same list except I would swap doom with ghost of Tsushima
Rdr2 over God of War any day
Doom Eternal is definitely 2020 for me as well
@@ultraironicman1853 either doom or tsushima
"everyone was a little worried that they wouldn't be able to pull it off"
Brudda, no one was worried.
I was!
BG3 and the last of us part 2 have a very special place in my heart
They have it in mine too!
I can't disagree with BG3 because it just isn't my type of game, but I can say TLOU2 is ASS. Garbage story, Neil lied multiple times, and the ending ruined the game. Ghost of Tsushima was 500% better.
@TheSpiderMeisterFTthe tlou2 is easily the greatest game out of every game of the year winner. What was so bad about the ending?
@mrperfectcookie It was rushed, it made no sense, it didn't fit the characters, it didn't fit the plot, Neil lied about it, etc... Meanwhile Ghost of Tsushima had the perfect story and perfect ending. Absolute masterpiece.
RDR2 should've won GOTY 2018. People still talk about RDR2 up to this day. I'm not saying that God of War was a bad game but RDR2 was obviously the better pick.
people still talk about god of war 2018 and just how epic the build up to the release was and how insane the switch was from old gow to the new ones…..it redefined the game aka switched the formula and they did it perfectly. rdr2 was not the obvious pick
@user-yungbullc33 RDR2 revolutionized the franchise. The jump from old school graphics of RDR to modernized RDR2 was enormous and the character of Arthur Morgan was just perfect. Tbh, people doesn't talk about GoW 2018 more than they talk about RDR2. Heck, my youtube recommendations is filled with RDR memes and secrets discovered up to this day.
@ gow 2018 did the same exact thing you just said rdr2 did, do you know how old gow franchise is? first gow was in 2005 and was just a hack n slash now it’s a full blown triple A cinematic narritive and combat driven game that’s why it’s a toss up and not a clear winner. Also my recommendations are full of gow memes and play throughs too that’s why they are called recommendations youtube recommends games you like…..
BG3 is absolutely gorgeous, but one thing really bothers me and that is the chaotic evil ending. It's non existent. I spend another 80 hours on my second playthrough, Evil Dark Urge run and got no epilogue which honestly messed the whole experience for me. Still, I can't wait to get back to the game in a year or so and play Good Durge playthrough.
We’re getting new evil endings with patch 7 this September! Check out the teasers they are brutal
(Can be found in BG3 community update #26 and 28)
Well, I am glad to see that they will be added! I'll refrain from doing my Chaotic Evil Run until they are added I suppose
Its depressing how far blizzard has fallen. They used to make the pinnacle of games, and now everything new they make just feels lazy and greedy 😔
BG3 is probably the best game in the past 20 years, you can be 500 hours deep and still find new stuff.
Really glad that BG3 won that, i didnt played it yet but loved Divinity 2 and it was a crime this game was not even a nomenie
I haven't tried it! Should I?
@@itswildrush 10/10 game
@@itswildrush yes, easily worth, the combat is a bit different using action points instead of main attacks and bonus moves, but its easily a 9.5/10. Its cheap on sales for around 10 euros on steam
Div 2 is my fav - love the vibe and the freedom around builds. Story was amazing too
Original Sin 2, not Divinity 2 🤓
Feel like nowadays I'm the only person on the planet who thinks Odyssey should have won over BOTW in 2017 😂 not mad at all that botw won tho it fully deserved it
It's really hard to find three masterpiece game that have existed in the last decade. I don't know when we will experience this again but I know this is a golden era. Baldur's Gate 3, Red Dead Redemption 2 and you know what it is next.
Completely agree! The last few years have been so consistent on putting out great games!
Elden ring i guess
I find it harder to find a decade where three masterpieces haven't been released, 90's and forward of course.
I don’t know about every nomination but I think black myth wukong and helldivers should be nominated
I'm so glad BG3 received the due credit it should get.
On another note, I waited years before playing Inquisition because I thought it was a generic mess.
I was very surprised to actually like the game.
BG3 deserved all that love!
Have you played dragon age origins and if so do you still recommend inquisition? I tried inquisition after playing origins but couldn’t enjoy the combat of the game at all. Might still give it a try at some point though.
@@holikwakkemoli DA Origin is one of my favorite games.
I absolutely get that. The first time I tried inquisition I was incredibly frustrated as it is a downgrade from origin in terms of gameplay for me as I'm a crpg fan and it ''feels'' a bit more like an action rpg. It is vastly better than the second opus, in every aspects though.
Here's my advices if you give inquisition another try :
Play in difficult. In that way, there is more benefits to using all your characters and having to fight as a group with their abilities. As your main, don't use a bow. It's a terribly boring gameplay for a main character.
As you progress in the world, don't be completionist. There are way too many side quests. Do them as long as you have fun, but go back to the main quest when you feel like it, even in difficult, you dont need to grind. I really enjoyed discovering new areas and doing side content, but I can see how some people felt overwhelmed.
The thing I enjoyed the most was the lore and the world building. You can explore areas from Orlay and Ferelden and there is a political flavor to it, that makes it interesting to me. As it was in dragon age origins, factions and interests are never black and white.
Finally, for me the best part of the game was the dlc ''Trespasser'' ! It is more tactically challenging and it directly follows the main story.
Cool video! I haven't played a lot of these games, but now I want to try them out!
Definitely earned a subscriber
Thank you so much!
Great video man
Thanks!
My Winners ranked:
10. Overwatch (you simply can’t play it anymore)
9. TLOU 2 (Extremely controversial but not awful)
8. Dragon Age Inquisition (Meh. Its aged and rather mediocre)
7. The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (Its good, but compared to the three open world games that were winners, its the weakest)
6. Sekiro (Amazing combat but a HARD S.O.B.)
5. Breath of the Wild (A neat change to traditional Zelda, but pretty overrated)
4. It Takes Two (Great game even if short lived. The most underrated winner imo)
3. God of War 4 (An outstanding series comeback and one of the greatest PS4 games ever)
2. Elden Ring (The best open world game possibly ever and Fromsoftware’s Magnum Opus)
1. Baldur’s Gate 3 (Do I even need to elaborate?)
I still think Ghost Of Tsushima deserved the 2020 GOTY, but who knows, Ghost of Tsushima 2 might get it
It was a tough year! Hades an AC: New Horizons, two games that I loved, could have also won and I wouldn't be mad about it
@@itswildrush I recon it was probably all the hype that surrounded TLOU2 built up to its release
Doom eternal should have won imo
@@allbeansedits I used to think so, but since then I played Ghost of Tsushima
@@MrCar-Landon I prefer doom over ghost of Tsushima it had a good main story good visuals and a solid combat system but I didn't like the side quests and the things you find in the world felt very repetitive for me I would have probably enjoyed it more if it wasn't an open world game.
Thing about Witcher 3, is to this day it's a game people will compare to a current game to give it a compliment.
Haven't played Elden Ring (yet), but 2022's GOTY for me is definitely A Plague Tale: Requiem. I liked Ragnarok a lot, but Requiem is special on its own rights. Never a game made me feel so emotional aside from RDR2.
It is on my to do list! A friend of mine recommended it to me some time ago, and I am really eager to play it!
@@itswildrushyou gotta play both games (innocence and requiem). Once you're done, let us know what you thought on a video.
@@nyckolasreis I really liked requiem but I didn’t like the ending, made me feel like nothing I did mattered. On the other hand all the extra lore of the old carrier was really cool and I liked the game until the ending bit.
Playing the Dark Urge as a gifted Bard who defied her baser urges to extent she could by growing into her wit, active empathy, and music feels so satisfying. If you played an origin character or generic Tav the first time, I'd highly recommend playing through as a Dark Urge trying to be good despite their evil nature. It feels like the canon Main Character.
I'm hoping the new dragon age game is good enough to get nominated.
I think most of the GOTYs are awesome
I agree! Let's hope it comes out good!
With each new grain of information, it becomes obvious that this is impossible.
@@RedHorseArcher I feel it's closer and closer to becoming possible... But ok
Romance in BG3 cannot be praised enough. Growing attached to a companion just makes the experience 10x sweeter
Three takes:
- GoW deserved the game of the year 2018. I played GoW and RDR2, and I found RDR2 more flawed on how to tell a story, although the journey is amazing. GOW is an instant masterpiece, it did everything right.
- I've never played BG3, I so wanted Alan Wake 2 to win last year. AW2 was an expected sequel and Remedy did something they didnt have experience, which is survival horror games. It had some flaws but damn that was an amazing game.
- Elden Ring and The Witcher 3 are amazing fucking games. Not quite a hot take, just wanted to say it.
I also do think GoW is more well rounded up, even though RDR2 has better quality peaks in some sections
AW2 I haven't played but I've heard great things!
Fighting the same mountain troll 9 times isnt a masterpiece
I absolutely love bg3, I've beaten it twice now and I'm preparing for an honor mode run. My favorite class right now is sorcerer/warlock because it let's me do everything amazingly. I love convincing the bosses to just give up. It's unlike anything I've every played I a game before
Witcher 3 will always be my number 1. Even after all these years its still installed on my pc.
Still haven't tried Elden Ring and BG3. But I'll one day
I definetly recommend you to try those 2 out!
BG3 will scratch (and likely surpass) the roleplaying itch of Witcher 3 and Elden Ring will scratch the exploration itch of Witcher 3's world.
That said, Witcher 3 is still up there as a truly open-world RPG with an incredibly gripping story, assuming you're drawn to the characters and the game's central draw, ie., find your adopted daughter Ciri.
BG3 gives you a much wider range of roleplaying expression. It's just an incredible feat of game design for it to feel, genuinely, like you're playing a tabletop game of DND with an incredibly punishing, but fair, dungeon master.
Elden Ring may or may not be your cup of tea as it's too demanding for a good number of gamers at this point, but I really recommend you try Baldurs Gate 3. It is honestly the best RPG ever made. And I really mean that. It has all the meaningful choices and customization from old school RPGs like Morrowind, but with dialogue options and world changes that are absolutely immense in scale. The top down gameplay isn't everyone's cup of tea either, but it's the closest thing to heaven any RPG fan could ever experience. I have some problems with how convoluted the third act of the game is, but I'd still give BG3 a 10/10 if I reviewed games for a living.
Breath of the wild got me back into gaming after i couldn't play anything good since dark souls 1
Elden ring is ever better and what games should strive for to be.
As for baldurs gate it evolved the gaming medium to new highs these guys are not developers they are magicians i don't know how everything connects together every action every option every decision you make it is structured so surgical its beyond belief
I agree with every single point! So glad BOTW brought you back!
I thought you were to rating them from 1 to 10...
1. Baldur's Gate 3
2. Elden Ring
3. The Witcher 3
4. Zelda
5. GOW
6. ETC...
Something like this.
Oh I am sorry! I feel like ranking them all like that would be a really hard task, as most of them are phenomenal games and outstaanding on their own merits for multiple reasons. I can tell you this, though. Overwatch is placing last.
@@itswildrush Yes, Overwatch deserve that place.
@@itswildrush really you would place it below the absolute bag fumble that is TLOU2? like i get that blizzard has since ruined the game but the original release and first 2 years were quite good. on the other hand TLOU2 took a good series and essentially killed it with horrible writing and pacing.
@@valkyriun you don't remember how insanely hype Overwatch was in 2014 and then 2015 when it released? Game was stellar (keyword being 'was')
For me 2015 and 2018 are the years that there should be 2 winners lol for 2015 Bloodborne and Witcher and 2018 RDR2 and GOW
The Witcher 3, TLOU 2, Baldurs Gate 3 are all in my top 5 games of all time. Masterpieces
Three superb games!
Damn, I love Tlou 2 so much, I need to check out Baldur and Witcher some day
I wish I could enjoy TLOU 2 as much everyone else but man did I have a horrible time with the story
@@yourdad5799 it is a really 8 or 80 type of story, i personally found really bad and most of the characters and plotpoints horrible
It takes 2 won game of the year cuz it didn't have any good games to compete against that year 😂
The fact that Red Dead Redemption 2 didn’t win in 2018 discredits the game awards for all time
@@PhilipMcCrotch Red Dead Redemption 2 wasn’t as liked as it is now
I played both and still prefered GOW. It was a close call either way no matter who won. But it's really weak to say it should have won when you see how popular GOW 2018 was with people
I haven't played gow but I did play rdr2 and by the end I despised it. The combat has auto aim basically and constantly tapping x for 60 hours
Metroid dread not winning 2021 GOTY is straight up robbed
8:45 TLOU 2 is not a good game. Sorry to say. Visually? Combat mechanics? Yeah sure those are 10/10, but the story, side quests, and everything in between is total and utter GARBAGE.
Afraid to disagree. I think the story is very solid and its characters are really good, except perhaps Lev and the Scar girl
It's not a good game. It's a great game.
Bg3 really did just come out of knowhere and become my favorite game of all time.
Omg I loved it takes two!
What a game!
Pretty solid video, familiar yet somewhat original content territory.
If you're planning on revisiting this format (like best in certain category) I'd encourage you to put more effort into subtitles, whereas they are great to follow the video, on two or three occasions they clearly said something different than what you said. Also would be nice if you'd cover a strong contender to a title from a given year, if not with every year - with the ones where actual GOTY was lacking, like Dragon Age or Overwatch - maybe the whatever strong contender was aged better.
That said, pretty good - keep it up!
Really good advice! Thank you so much for your perspective, the strong contenders could be a nice video and I'll get on the subtitles thing as well!
I'll say what he didn't have the balls to say: TLOU2 is a solid sequel. But it is not the GOTY 🗣️🗣️🗣️
I mean lots of contenders cpuld have qualified for GOTY. I'd prefer it had been AC: New Horizons personally, since its cultural impact during the 2020 pandemic was enough to get the award in my opinion!
it is
I love that It takes two won the GOTY.
I'm more the hard core gamer type, like 100 hours long RPG or From soft kind of games but I finished It takes two at least 4 times in a row with my then 6yo daughter and I would easily exchange all the time I spent on Witcher 3 or my 250h of playing Dead Cells to the rope for that time with my daughter.
It really changed the way i looked at gaming and make me realize what gaming should be more about. Plain straightforward fun that you can share with the one you love. These kind of games are too rare.
You eloquently put it as precisely as it gets! That what this is about and I certainly think is what landed It takes two the GOTY!
The issue I have with TLOU 2 is they had all the elements and basis to put out a banger in terms of narrative, but in the end the story goes on only with plot armors, mcguffins out of nowhere and something happens only because it needed to for progression, there's no more the sense of dread and uncertainty, the "zombies" are almost non existent and the characters are really poorly written and stereotipical.
Gameplay is very nice, they didn't invent anything new, but got a better version of what existed and it is really smooth and satisfying.
It's just that they try to feed a hard to believe narrative and push it into your throat even if you can't connect to it, a lot of things feels forced and the potential was there, but they just got into the "subvert the expectation" trope too much
I wouldn't say characters are stereotypical, in fact the only one that falls near the category is perhaps Joel (Grumpy old man too tired for this shit too old for it aas well, but really effective at his "craft"). I kind of agree the infected don't get as much spotlight as they should've and for me personally the main flaw I find in TLOU 2 is that it drags... a lot. You feel like a conclusion has been reached and then two more hours of gaameplay. You get another conclusion and think this could be the end but nope, now off you go to California. I honestly think Ellie's character is really well written and although the game sepaarates you morally and physically for some time from her I couldn't but feel saaaddened to see how much guilt could push this girl to recklessly risk her life to "attone for her sins". Hope my two cents weren't bad!
Balruds Gate 3 is the only game of these Ive played.
My favorite games are:
Dota2 - 9
Minecraft (with mods) - 9
Heroes of Might and Magic III - 9
Warcraft III - 9
Kings Bounty Armored Princess - 9
Trine 2 - 9
The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind - 9
Factorio - 8
X-com (1994) - 8
Dungeon Keeper 2 - 8
But as you can see they are quite a bit older.
A video that doesn't include the same old copypastas that have been debunked a 1000 times about TLOU2? That deserves a like 👍🏻
facts
The 2014 showing was a joke. Alien Isolation was, by far, the best game released that year.
Also, Red Dead 2 not winning in 2018 was so stupid. The show lost all credibility after that for me. I also don't underdtand how people think God of War is so good. It's the nost overrated game I've ever played. Maybe it's because Dark Souls is just so much more interesting (gameplay-wise) but I really don't understand how anyone with more than 7 brain cells could think it was a more worthy GOTY candidate over something as memorable and expansive as Red Dead 2.
Then, again, in 2020, The Last of Us Part 2 winning it over Doom Eternal is just comical at this point and shows you how bias the show is.
People really jumped on the hate bandwagon on the Last of Us 2 for the dumbest reasons. Sure the game has some major flaws like the pacing but the overarching story is nothing short of gut wrenching. Since the walking dead season 1 a game hasn't emotionally hurt me this bad.
We need more games like this, pain is also an emotion that can be expressed through art, and if we wanna treat games with the same status as any other art forms we need to put on our big boys pants and stop making tantrums every time we don't get a cookie cutter experience.
Couldn't have put it in better words. Games can and should have painful moments, daring decisions that can even make some players angry and pursue more nuanced and complex stories!
Facts I feel like if maybe we got to play Abby first or had our hands on her a bit more in the first half may have led to less hate
TLOU2 was such a great surprise to me. I did t. Game for 10 or so years and I researched what the best games were for PS5 and low and behold last of us came up time and time again. I played the first one and was blown away... Then I played the second one and guess what... It was brutal, and frustrating, but what a great game to make you think about both sides of a conflict! I thought it was amazing! I t literally blew my mind a few times. Great writing! I get it that most people don't want Joel to die, but damn, get over it and appreciate this game.
It’s gut wrenching if you can’t see the writers grasp at everything to try to pull that emotion out of you, ex. a useless section where we play fetch only to kill the dog later was clear bait
where. is rdr2.. one of the greatest masterpiece when it comes to super detailing are gameawards sleeping
2020-What about Ghost of Tsushima?
2021-What about Tales of Arise?
2022-What about God of War Ragnarok?
Strong contenders and good games on their own right!
God of war was good but not elden ring good
Having just played and 100%’d Ghost of Tsushima on PC i am incredibly stunned that it didn’t win GOTY. I understand TLOU is great but like…personally I enjoyed Ghost more as a story and game.
Tlou only won because of pretentious people who thought it was a good conclusion
@@Hunter_6601 Lmao, "pretentios" people, whatever makes you feel better I guess
I'm at like my 3rd BG3 playthrough and I still find new shit I had no idea about in every act, it's amazing how deep the game is, even though the map at a first glance looks small, but it's PACKED with content. I'd much rather have a smaller map packed with content than a huge one lacking in it. With all of that being said and while I do genuinely think BG3 is the best game I've ever played, it's not perfect. The biggest issue I have with it is probably how unsatisfying an evil playthrough feels. You don't get anywhere near the rewards you get by being good or half good, or the companions, there is just no equivalent. Playing evil feels like you're playing with a hand tied from the start, you lock yourself out of a lot of great content... The character creation is very limited as far as customizing your look goes. Even Skyrim had better customization in that regard, although the class specs and what you can do with that is pretty freaking awesome. The party limit of 4 is also very limiting in my opinion... I get why they did it, but it's really annoying and immersive breaking to have to go to camp everytime something relevant to a different character I don't usually play with happens, have to kick one of my good companions to make room and so on. I would be super happy if they did like a full party mode or at least increase the limit while also increase the game difficulty... it also sucks that if you have 3 friends to play with, you can bring none of your companions along basically, effectively locking yourself out a lot of companion content in that playthrough... Larian does however update the game quite a lot, so maybe this will be done in the future, and I'd much rather have it done officially than through some shady mod.
Glad you didn't shit on TLOU2, it doesn't deserve the hate it gets
I love Dunkey's quote: People are angry but they don't know what they are angry about!
It deserves more hate.
Witcher 3 at 10 is wild
Elden Ring and Bg3 are two of the most content rich games I’ve ever played. Best both 3 times. Honorable mention is red dead redemption 2. It should have won game of the year
The amount of content in both Elden Ring and BG3 is insane. RDR2 is also an awesome game, but perhaps the Game Awards thought God of War was more well rounded-up
9:00 so that’s why you had to preface the video with “in my opinion”
I think the REAL reason why everyone was pissed that TLOU2 got the award was because doom eternal was the clear choice that year. If doom wasn’t a nominee, then yes last of us would have gotten it. But for some unexplainable reason they ignored doom
RDR2 not being GOTY is a crime
I agree
It is an incredible game
The fact that some think so is crime
bg3 is a classic because you know there's passion when they made that game and meticulously written interactions with the characters and environment is spectacular
also, if a game that feels like made for hardcore gamers but managed to make casual gamers love a game, you know it's a great game
The worst : TLOU2 no doubt,even overwatch can't compete. Yea it has good mechanic, Yes it has good graphics. But the storytelling is pain in the ass not to mention storytelling is the core of this game. When I said a steak is terrible. You can't argue that:"well but the garlic taste delicious" you totally missed the point. When steak is Fk up sauce and garlic doesn't matter anymore. Because all they here for making steak better.
Well, agree to disagree! I think TLOU 2 has a good solid story, not a masterpiece but still really good!
cope, that´s just you who can´t take a good story
I’ve had Baldur’s Gate III for a while now but haven’t finished it. In Act I and am at 20 hours and cannot stop. This game is simply too damn good. With games like this, Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption II, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Breath of the Wild, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, I’m good for a very long time 🔥
GoW was really good, but RDR2 was done dirty imo
Because the game was dirty
I am in honor mode in BG3 and currently fighting Ansur the Dragon ---> the most intense moment of my life right now
Can't believe Dragon Age inquisition won a goty. I thought it was dogshit
Inquistion was the least dogsht of the nominees. Still dogsht nevertheless.
@@enoughisenough4-d3h Bad year, yeah
1) The video kind of explains what happened in this part 1:16
2) it also got lucky that the Witcher 3 was delayed as it was going to be released near Inquisition's time.
3) Inquisition was riding on Dragon Age Origins' excellent reputation.
dark souls 2 should've won it. it's the worst from software game, but it's still an amazing game.
@ammod4827 I never quite got the hate for DS2. I probably put more time into that than any of the others
As someone who never plays horror games and gets scared easily. Even I played Elden Ring, and it’s one of the best games I’ve played, despite never leaving limegrave. I may not leave it or play it anytime soon, but it’s still one of the GOATs