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.Did people really like re2 that much?
The lack of a proper B-scenario really pulled the game down for me..
Don't try to bring reason into this.Multiplatform games are more guaranteed to win, because more people played them.
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.Only one of my top ten made the top 20 list, but my vote had an impact on a few category awards.
If you're ever shying away from voting because you don't think your votes will matter, or don't think you will match what seems to be the most popular or most nostalgic or the most...whatever...on Era, please put that aside and submit your vote anyway.
That's true. But I think we should start listing what platforms we have access to, just so we can understand the data better.Based on how well games like bloodborne and God of war did on this forum I would bet the impact of being a PS4 exclusive on here is not that big.
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.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 don't think soI 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?
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Wow, Death Stranding won the Most Popular Game of the Year, but it only got #4th on the GotY list? Pretty obvious a lot of people didn't want to see it win.
Please allow us to vote for more than 10 games. I don't know how one could possibly narrow down the essential games of the last decade to just 10 games
I know it won't mean much but could you please let us vote for 15 games instead of 10 for GOTD? So many games I feel 10 isn't doing the whole thing justice.
Yeah, I think we'll need more than 10 games. 15 sounds good; maybe 20 too, but definitely not more than that.
Because it would somewhat explain some results going forward when the userbases will differ a lot.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 voters.
I think we already know what consoles are the most popular, it's fine.Because it would somewhat explain some results going forward when the userbases will differ a lot.
InformationIn the coming weeks we will be working with the Game of the Year team to open voting for the Game of the Decade. Any game published in the last 10 years will be eligible and can be voted for. This means you should go back and replay all of your favorite games before voting opens so you can pick which you liked the best.
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More information on the Game of the Decade vote will be forthcoming.
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.I think we already know what consoles are the most popular, it's fine.
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.
I agree, still was relaxing and fun to play.Well, the fact that it's nowhere near as good as the first two games probably didn't help much.
Doubt Skyrim comes anywhere close. It's gonna be a battle between TW3, BotW and Bloodborne, mark my words.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.
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.Doubt Skyrim comes anywhere close. It's gonna be a battle between TW3, BotW and Bloodborne, mark my words.
Hmm yeah maybe Dark Souls more than Bloodborne actually, yeah.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.
Doubt Skyrim comes anywhere close. It's gonna be a battle between TW3, BotW and Bloodborne, mark my words.
Doubt Skyrim comes anywhere close. It's gonna be a battle between TW3, BotW and Bloodborne, mark my words.
My guess is close:My guess is;
- The Witcher 3
- Breath of the Wild
- The Last of Us
- Bloodborne
- God of War
?? Those won't be eligible.But BotW2, TLOU2 and Cyberpunk 2077 could also have a say depending on how good they are or not.
It didn't even come out on PC until this year and I'm sure a lot of people were waiting for thatShenmue III was robbed.
Shocked that Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is not near the top. I expected it to be really high up.
My guess is close:
?? Those won't be eligible.
- The Witcher 3
- Breath of the Wild
- The Last of Us
- Dark Souls or Bloodborne
- Portal 2 or maybe Skyrim
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.
- 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).
What lol