....Can't we just give Breath of the Wild the award this year that it deserved last year and call it a day?
I thought Red Dead being multi-plat might hold also contribute to holding GoW back. Pretty impressive what Cory & Co accomplished to sweep past any biases.
between Red Dead Redemption II and God of War, I immensely enjoyed Red Dead Redemption II far more. I couldn't even finish God of War, due to the sameness of the gameplay and the repetitive, palette-swapped bosses
I couldn't even finish God of War, due to the sameness of the gameplay
I think we should retroactively remove all of BotW's GotY awards and give them to God of War instead.
Didn't enjoy Red Dead Redemption 2, and thought God of War was just okay.
....Can't we just give Breath of the Wild the award this year that it deserved last year and call it a day?
What a plot twist.
Didn't expect that after RDR2 getting all that awards like best narrative.
Dan went from loving RDR2 to being annoyed to absolutely despising it.
Pretty shocking tbh. Massive upset but I'm not upset. Gow was my gotg until rdr came out and it does have better combat, level design and bosses and even though rdr has a better story, soundtrack and characters, gow comes very close as well.
I think that gow winning the award should help rockstar put more effort into gameplay systems. They learned a lot from losing to tlou in 2013 and gave us arguably the greatest story of all time in a video game so maybe they will learn from gow this time.
That said, I have a feeling gow will be forgotten when gow 2 comes out and does everything better but rdr's accomplishments will live on forever.
But that dated gameplay sure hurt it.YES! So deserved. I thought it was going to get robbed when it missed out on the early awards.
So glad Red Dead didn't win!
I honestly didn't see this happening with how bad our industry's media is. With recency bias being a thing I thought for sure they'd go with RDR 2 and throughout the night it looked like that was guaranteed to happen.
Anyway I don't care much that GoW specifically won, just that RDR lost. Goty should not go to a game that is downright horrible to actually play.
I find it weak, the whole game boils down to setting up the camp at one point, doing some missions until you steal the city closer, the mission is unsuccessful and they have to flee and find a new place, repeat this in all 6 chapters , very predictable from start to finish,the game drags a lot,also chapter 5 is a joke.The writing does not run too far from Rockstar's standard.The game is just much bigger and has more dialogues than other R* games,that is it.To be fair, RDR2 has a much richer and more deeply written narrative. GoW is wrapped in lore, but the story and dialogue can be rather sparse at times and it's not as intricately woven as RDR2.
The script for RDR2 is an absolute beast and has a lot of incredible character moments etched into it. The dialogue is one of the game's major strengths. So in terms of narrative and performance, overall I'd give it to RDR2, even though I think GoW was deserving of GOTY.
This actually gives me hope that GoW will win overall GotY. It's seems like reviewers are looking past all the spectacle and flash of RDR2 for a truly exciting, fresh take on an old series that was phenomenal.