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ResetEra Games of the Year Awards 2019
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How my list fared!
Oh, and of course a hearty thanks to @Bdubs for all the hard work and dedication to this event. Many kudos!
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses (3)
- Pokemon Sword/Shield (18)
- Luigi's Mansion 3 (10)
- Ring Fit Adventure (31)
- Terraria (302 Sole Vote!)
- Catan (321 Sole Vote!)
- Super Mario Maker 2 (19)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition (145)
- Ori & the Blind Forest Definitive Edition (136)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (13)
Oh, and of course a hearty thanks to @Bdubs for all the hard work and dedication to this event. Many kudos!
Great list. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to play anything this year, but I think all of those games were worthy of their votes. The only thing I would've wished to see on the list is MediEvil somewhere. I actually enjoyed what I played of it this year.
Same here. Felt way too similar all around for both characters, which ended up making no sense. I also just wouldn't give my vote to a remake.
I think that maybe votes for the first Dragon Quest were not recognised as at least one other person and myself had it on our lists and it's not in the spreadsheet. Its entire title is "Dragon Quest" without a I and that is how it was voted for.
From reading through the voting thread I got the feeling maybe FF14:Shadowbringers deserves the GOTY. Probably not very many played it, but its clear the ones that have loved it.
Since the world, characters, and story are getting the most praise, I wonder if it's possible to experience what people love about it just ignoring that it's an MMO and pretending it's a new mainline Final Fantasy game.
Since the world, characters, and story are getting the most praise, I wonder if it's possible to experience what people love about it just ignoring that it's an MMO and pretending it's a new mainline Final Fantasy game.
I had Shenmue 3 at the bottom of my list and it barely cracked the top 50. Still hope they do a final one lol but the demand doesn't look high.
That's true. But I think we should start listing what platforms we have access to, just so we can understand the data better.
Unless the majority of Era buy a PS5 this year we'll see the PS5 exclusives struggle in a weird way this year no matter if they're the best games ever made. Because, no PS5, no vote for PS5 exclusives.
I've only played two. I think my tastes are pretty different to the majority of the board. Oh well. I might give some of these a shot.
I mean, what's the point? You can't be 100% objective. Even if you don't own a XBOX, it doesn't mean that's why you didn't vote for Gears 5 or whatever, you still might not care otherwise. You can't be scientific about what is the most popular here, other than the wide spread votes.
I would have been fine with either of the top two games as the game of the year. Congrats to RE2; it fucking deserves it.
Remind me: did we do a Game of the generation poll for the last generation?
Remind me: did we do a Game of the generation poll for the last generation?
Outer wilds was robbed :( hey ho, just proves that most people on resetera are wrong most of the time :)
I don't think so
Here we go, lol
1: Breath of the Wild
2: Last of Us
3: Dark Souls
4: Super Mario Galaxy 2
5: Mass Effect 2
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!To the 4 other people who gave #1 to Sayonara Wild Hearts:
Or people just didn't like it. This isn't some big conspiracy lol.
You can't Downvote a game.
Yeah, I think we'll need more than 10 games. 15 sounds good; maybe 20 too, but definitely not more than that.
Maybe 15 games with the following scoring?
Game #1: 5 points
Game #2: 4 points
Game #3: 4 points
Game #4: 3 points
Game #5: 3 points
Game #6: 3 points
Game #7: 2 points
Game #8: 2 points
Game #9: 2 points
Game #10: 2 points
Game #11: 1 point
Game #12: 1 point
Game #13: 1 point
Game #14: 1 point
Game #15: 1 point
In any case, the two games that will fight for the #1 spot will be Skyrim and Breath of the Wild.
I'm championing Skyrim.
Luigi's Mansion 3 deserved to be higher but happy with the results.Actually surprised with Sekiro, like not in a bad way, just surprised. Except for Death Stranding, I like the top 10. Pokemon shouldnt deserve be in the top 20, Dragon Quest Builders 2 deserved top 20.
I also completely forgot to put in my top 10 planet zoo, lol.
I also completely forgot to put in my top 10 planet zoo, lol.
Thank you for providing the data in an easy to access form! I keep a tab with top 50 games (no points just order) for GOTY threads from Era since its inception and Gaf before that, 2016-2004, for fun just to keep track of games I have played/own but not played & games I want to play and don't own and being able to do a quick copy and paste job is appreciated. Most of the Gaf data (which is still nicely provided) was in a text format and little more work to cleanup.
Fire Emblem took third? Nice! I kind of expected fourth, but it actually beat Death Stranding by 9 points.
I haven't played much of this list to be honest, was busy playing Fire Emblem, but congrats to all the winners here, I'm sure they've earned it.
Now we're doing Game of the Decade next? Suddenly I'm glad I never got around to deleting the drafts for my old GOTY lists for here and the old place. Those will come in very handy in reminding me what I liked ten years ago.
I haven't played much of this list to be honest, was busy playing Fire Emblem, but congrats to all the winners here, I'm sure they've earned it.
Now we're doing Game of the Decade next? Suddenly I'm glad I never got around to deleting the drafts for my old GOTY lists for here and the old place. Those will come in very handy in reminding me what I liked ten years ago.
Because it would somewhat explain some results going forward when the userbases will differ a lot.
I think we already know what consoles are the most popular, it's fine.
Great initiative, list of eligible games/spelling will be quite the challenge to manage so thanks in advance to the team!
Will allow me to vote for sure for once.
Wished to vote this time but realized I played in 2019:
Pillars of Eternity
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Oops.
Didn't dare vote for EA Star Wars game, even from watching my son play it a few times ;)
Anyway, nice top 20, little sad overall to see a Remake at the top though (says the guy who adored RE4 on the Gamecube...).
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Now it's PS4 or Switch. But at the end of the year we have a scenario where PS5 exclusives will try to compete with not only PS4 and Switch releases but also AAA multiplats and almost-multiplat MS releases. I just think it would be nice to see the userbase stats in the votings.
Well, the fact that it's nowhere near as good as the first two games probably didn't help much.
As with the results for 2018, I thought it would be interesting and data-rich to informally compare the GOTY results to the Most Anticipated Games of 2019 poll from a year ago.
The Most Anticipated vote tends to be an extremely powerful predictor of what will end up on the charts the following year, notwithstanding delays and ineligibilities. It's not hard to see why: you look forward to a game, you prioritize it as a must-buy, thus it has a good shot at a spot in your year-end retrospective unless something really goes wrong. So the big story is in the major swings: surprises that came out of nowhere, reputations built on word-of-mouth, or banner releases that sink like a stone.
This is not statistically rigorous for all the obvious reasons—not even close—and shouldn't be taken too seriously. Still, it should produce some informative general shapes.
In the Most Anticipated list, ties are frequent and noisy, but unfortunately I can't see the raw points data for the results going into 2019. That said, the big alphabetized blocks (implying ties) are rather obvious once you get past rank #120 or so, and so for games that placed that far down, I will count their Most Anticipated rank as the highest in the whole block (e.g. ranks 141 to 169 all appear as one alphabetized block in the raw data, implying a presumptive tie, so I'll count all of those as #141).
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Here's the GOTY list for 2019 in the order they finished, and the movement in rank from the Most Anticipated list. Eligible games that moved up from outside the Most Anticipated list's top 20 are bolded.
(On the Most Anticipated List, Slay the Spire appeared at #157 in what looks like the 141-169 block, and Baba Is You appeared at #129 in the 129-140 block.)
Regarding Outer Wilds: as far as I can tell, it received a 2019 date in December 2018, after the 2018-to-2019 voting thread opened but weeks before it closed. It was mentioned in 5 separate posts in the voting thread, but must have been excluded as ineligible, as it does not appear at all in the results table. (I suppose the change in its eligibility was never properly reflected, but it's not impossible to imagine that the votes for it could have been mistakenly added to the tally for The Outer Worlds, for all we know.)
In any case, Outer Wilds would also have finished as an unknown obscurity deep in the Most Anticipated list even if it had been properly counted, close to its brethren Slay the Spire and Baba Is You, who are the other big winners this year. Compared to 2018, there is far more upward movement from less anticipated titles this year (see: Control, Disco Elysium, Jedi: Fallen Order) but a very low presence of surprises that went from announcement to release inside the span of 2019, all of which came from Nintendo.
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Here's what happens if we sort by the top 20 in Most Anticipated. Entries that didn't make it into the GOTY poll's top 20 are bolded.
Let's not belabour the analysis; we all know the lead story here is Anthem.
Notably, Metro Exodus and Shenmue III were affected by EGS exclusivity (as were The Outer Worlds and Borderlands 3, the latter previously unannounced but finishing at #39), but I don't think the data is rich enough to say anything informative about whether this had any systematic effect distinguishable from the general reception of the games, when exclusivity didn't seem to stop Outer Wilds. These drops, along with the one for CTR, are in line with the precedent for games from recognized IPs that finished modestly the first time around and were pushed even lower by surprises and breakout releases (see: Valkyria Chronicles 4 and Mega Man 11 in 2018).
The Most Anticipated vote tends to be an extremely powerful predictor of what will end up on the charts the following year, notwithstanding delays and ineligibilities. It's not hard to see why: you look forward to a game, you prioritize it as a must-buy, thus it has a good shot at a spot in your year-end retrospective unless something really goes wrong. So the big story is in the major swings: surprises that came out of nowhere, reputations built on word-of-mouth, or banner releases that sink like a stone.
This is not statistically rigorous for all the obvious reasons—not even close—and shouldn't be taken too seriously. Still, it should produce some informative general shapes.
In the Most Anticipated list, ties are frequent and noisy, but unfortunately I can't see the raw points data for the results going into 2019. That said, the big alphabetized blocks (implying ties) are rather obvious once you get past rank #120 or so, and so for games that placed that far down, I will count their Most Anticipated rank as the highest in the whole block (e.g. ranks 141 to 169 all appear as one alphabetized block in the raw data, implying a presumptive tie, so I'll count all of those as #141).
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Here's the GOTY list for 2019 in the order they finished, and the movement in rank from the Most Anticipated list. Eligible games that moved up from outside the Most Anticipated list's top 20 are bolded.
- Resident Evil 2 — 1 -> 1
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — 2 -> 2
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses — 7 -> 3 (+4)
- Death Stranding — announced but undated
- Control — 31 -> 5 (+26)
- Devil May Cry 5 — 3 -> 6 (-3)
- Disco Elysium — 43 -> 7 (+36)
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — 24 -> 8 (+16)
- Outer Wilds — eligible but did not appear
- Luigi's Mansion 3 — 18 -> 10 (+8)
- Astral Chain — unannounced
- The Outer Worlds — 4 -> 12 (-8)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night — 21 -> 13 (+8)
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening — unannounced
- Slay the Spire — 141 -> 15 (+126)
- Kingdom Hearts III — 5 -> 16 (-11)
- Judgment — 8 -> 17 (-9)
- Pokémon Sword/Shield — 6 -> 18 (-12)
- Super Mario Maker 2 — unannounced
- Baba Is You — 129 -> 20 (+109)
(On the Most Anticipated List, Slay the Spire appeared at #157 in what looks like the 141-169 block, and Baba Is You appeared at #129 in the 129-140 block.)
Regarding Outer Wilds: as far as I can tell, it received a 2019 date in December 2018, after the 2018-to-2019 voting thread opened but weeks before it closed. It was mentioned in 5 separate posts in the voting thread, but must have been excluded as ineligible, as it does not appear at all in the results table. (I suppose the change in its eligibility was never properly reflected, but it's not impossible to imagine that the votes for it could have been mistakenly added to the tally for The Outer Worlds, for all we know.)
In any case, Outer Wilds would also have finished as an unknown obscurity deep in the Most Anticipated list even if it had been properly counted, close to its brethren Slay the Spire and Baba Is You, who are the other big winners this year. Compared to 2018, there is far more upward movement from less anticipated titles this year (see: Control, Disco Elysium, Jedi: Fallen Order) but a very low presence of surprises that went from announcement to release inside the span of 2019, all of which came from Nintendo.
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Here's what happens if we sort by the top 20 in Most Anticipated. Entries that didn't make it into the GOTY poll's top 20 are bolded.
- Resident Evil 2 — 1 -> 1
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — 2 -> 2
- Devil May Cry 5 — 3 -> 6 (-3)
- The Outer Worlds — 4 -> 12 (-8)
- Kingdom Hearts III — 5 -> 16 (-11)
- Pokémon (2019) — 6 -> 18 (-12)
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses — 7 -> 3 (+4)
- Judgment — 8 -> 17 (-9)
- Animal Crossing — delayed
- Doom Eternal — delayed
- Anthem — 11 -> 128 (-117)
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps — delayed
- Days Gone — 13 -> 23 (-10)
- Dreams — delayed
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled — 15 -> 37 (-22)
- Metro Exodus — 16 -> 35 (-19)
- Shenmue III — 17 -> 46 (-29)
- Luigi's Mansion 3 — 18 -> 10 (+8)
- Gears 5 — 19 -> 25 (-6)
- Mortal Kombat 11 — 20 -> 41 (-21)
Let's not belabour the analysis; we all know the lead story here is Anthem.
Notably, Metro Exodus and Shenmue III were affected by EGS exclusivity (as were The Outer Worlds and Borderlands 3, the latter previously unannounced but finishing at #39), but I don't think the data is rich enough to say anything informative about whether this had any systematic effect distinguishable from the general reception of the games, when exclusivity didn't seem to stop Outer Wilds. These drops, along with the one for CTR, are in line with the precedent for games from recognized IPs that finished modestly the first time around and were pushed even lower by surprises and breakout releases (see: Valkyria Chronicles 4 and Mega Man 11 in 2018).
Doubt Skyrim comes anywhere close. It's gonna be a battle between TW3, BotW and Bloodborne, mark my words.
Yep yep yep, though my heart says Dark Souls 1, God of War 2018, and Hollow Knight will also give those 3 a run for their money.
Hmm yeah maybe Dark Souls more than Bloodborne actually, yeah.
Shenmue III was robbed.
Shocked that Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is not near the top. I expected it to be really high up.
Shocked that Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is not near the top. I expected it to be really high up.
My guess is;
- The Witcher 3
- Breath of the Wild
- The Last of Us
- Bloodborne
- God of War
My guess is close:
- The Witcher 3
- Breath of the Wild
- The Last of Us
- Dark Souls or Bloodborne
- Portal 2 or maybe Skyrim
?? Those won't be eligible.
It didn't even come out on PC until this year and I'm sure a lot of people were waiting for that
Ahh fair enough. And yea, you could indeed be right, forgot about Skyrim.
Any idea when the voting would commence for a GOTD award, or if we'll even have one here?
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Sword and Shield made it the top #18? Damn y'all. Biggest surprise.
Color me pleasantly surprised with Resi 2 winning. It deserves it. I figured FETH would win it big in these parts, still gotta get to that game eventually (it's one of the many reasons I didn't vote this year). Astral Chain also earned its position, it's the only game of my personal top 3 that made it in this list.
Color me pleasantly surprised with Resi 2 winning. It deserves it. I figured FETH would win it big in these parts, still gotta get to that game eventually (it's one of the many reasons I didn't vote this year). Astral Chain also earned its position, it's the only game of my personal top 3 that made it in this list.
- Death Stranding (#4) - Not that surprising to be honest. It really is divisive.
- Fire Emblem Three Houses (#3)
- Resident Evil 2 (#1)
- Sekiro Shadows Die Twice (#2)
- Control (#5)
- Kingdom Hearts III (#16)
- The Outer Worlds (#12) - Surprised to see this so low.
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (#8)
- Devil May Cry 5 (#6)
- Call Of Duty Modern Warfare (#38) - I knew I should have given it to another game -_-
7/10 in the top 10. Pretty good year.
The lack of Gears and Plague's Tale is very surprising given the high praises on this forum. I personally thought they were high 7s.
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Yikes, that VR list is sad. Last year we had a big Sony push and Astro Bot came out but this year it's like half games which didn't even come out in 2019 for the first time. Game like Tetris Effect and Trover aren't even VR-exclusive. Hopefully Half-Life can bring some life back to the format and that Sony won't continue on their current course for VR. Their only future game is only a future game because they delayed it.
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