Banjo64
cumsessed
No. It has plateaued at around 450 votes for the past 5-6 years. The only anomaly was the year TLoU part II won, when there was a huge spike (650).
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Elden Ring becomes the most awarded GOTY game in history, surpassinhg TLOU 2
Bumblebeetuna
Member
I thought I loved it until I visited some family over Christmas and one of my nephews has like four character saves with twice as much time as I have.
Kilau
Gold Member
Could depend on how crazy they let the GOTY award inflation get.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
i've gotten to general radahn now and after seeing that fight and that cutscene.... yeah in hindsight that game was well fit for the GOTY award
fart town usa
Gold Member
Just wait for Rykard at Volcano Manor. Such a cool fight.
KingT731
Member
Makes sense. There's more publications than ever and the game is the most accessible FS game in ages. I know people may feel whatever way about the game but there's tons of variables in why the game was chosen and different experiences. For example I know people who have legitimately played less than 10 games this year with Elden Ring being 30% of their playing time. So it brings up another point...people don't play ALL of these games.
A little better still rough in some parts.
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EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
The elden ring love is awkward the combat doesn’t feel natural everything is hidden, the #1 motivation for a game shouldn’t be difficulty.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Great news, and well deserved. It’s in my top 5 of all time.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
It’s not. I felt rewarded for exploring every nook and cranny to find new gear or items to make me stronger, hence making the difficulty go down.
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Ghost of Caelid
Banned
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/will...as-the-most-awarded-goty-of-all-time.1647783/
My thread was closed (for some reason) but said it wasn’t impossible. With. GOW on its tail and it still accomplishing this, it’s an amazing achievement. Still more rolling in too. Greatest game ever.
My thread was closed (for some reason) but said it wasn’t impossible. With. GOW on its tail and it still accomplishing this, it’s an amazing achievement. Still more rolling in too. Greatest game ever.
tmlDan
Member
I mean, gameplay its not its strength - the exploration and sense of wonder is.
xpresstuning
Member
Yeah, Radahn is easily the most memorable, epic boss fight i have ever experienced in my life. The spectacle alone is by itself incredible, but it's also his backstory that cemented his appeal for me.
Anyway, i thought i was fucking done with all the outer zones before Volcano Manor and Leyndell a couple of days ago. Turns out i was completely wrong. I take a turn here, i take a turn there, and BAM, there's a Fort i never knew about. BAM, that area below i had no idea was playable? I just found a route to go there, went there. Found a couple of caves along the way, well fuck.
86 hours in and i think i'm half way through. What an incredible game, easily the best game released in the last 7 years, and one of the best games ever made.
Topher
Gold Member
You do realize this was a victory TLOU 2 had already achieved, right?
Banjo64
cumsessed
It’s got more awards than any other multi-platform title too
Madflavor
Member
Yeah I went cross eyed when I read that.
Topher
Gold Member
Why does that matter? There are plenty of multi-platform games every year that haven't done what Elden Ring has done.
Thirty7ven
Banned
I’m sorry are you trying common sense with nonsense people?
sainraja
Member
I keep dying at the first dungeon encounter I have come across haha so I need to keep leveling for now but my only thing with Elden Ring is, you have put huge bosses in the game (I looked up Radahn's boss fight) and you are this small thing "slashing" swords and "casting" spells at him and there is no impact from that to the boss, where you are just staring at the health bar going down, using potions so yours doesn't go down and hoping not to die. The start of the encounter is impressive I will say....the large boss encounter should have been like BOTW (the rock creatures) or Ico, where you can get a chance to climb on top to do some damage, maybe even the giants in BOTW (where you have to run and aim at the eye). Maybe there are other bosses that allow you but seeing your small character slash/dash where the boss animation continues without any sort of impact to it (outside of the heatlh bar going down slowly) looks silly lol.
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sandbood
Banned
Achieved by counting Facebook, Twitch, and instagram polls.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Elden Ring has outgrown gaming. There’s nothing left to conquer.
Time to invade other industries to conquer.
Time to invade other industries to conquer.
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Madflavor
Member
I don't know who's going to be able to beat this monster. Even a heavy hitter like Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is releasing the same year as Starfield, RE4R, and FFXVI, so there will be a pretty decent spread on the GOTY awards later this year.
I think Elden Ring will be holding the title for a pretty long time.
I think Elden Ring will be holding the title for a pretty long time.
TropicanaTwista
Member
So I'm about 25-30 hours in and I feel this way. I don't get how this FROM game is scoring better and more acclaimed than their others. It has a lot of flaws, that consistently keep me from wanting to continue playing the game.
Back to the original topic, kind of surprised TLOU2 was the leader before. Probably more awards than in the past, but 2020 was a great year for games. I love TLOU2 but I thought GoT was better.
sainraja
Member
I am sort of in the same boat and I have never played any Souls game prior to this. Unlike you though, I just keep dying...I am not far into the game either lol. So I will keep at it and hopefully it will click. I loved BOTW and this adopts aspects from that game so....yeah I will keep going.
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Topher
Gold Member
Just not true. Look at the source HTML of the GOTY page for 2020 and count for the number of times facebook, twitch and instagram are referenced. I count 15 times and several of those votes are for games other than TLOU 2 and a few are references that have nothing to do with GOTY selections at all.
view-source:https://www.gameawards.net/2020/09/2020.html
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Ghost of Caelid
Banned
God please no...
Ghost of Caelid
Banned
Someone on era posted how they were counting twitter content creators with like 54 followers...TLOU2 is one of the greatest games ever made, but seems they were fluffing the numbers quite a bit.
xpresstuning
Member
It depends, you can stagger him and break his stance, depends on your level and gear i think. Radahn isn't big compared to other bosses, i say he's medium. Just wait till you experience his moveset, his patterns.
Now the truly big fuckers, i agree with you completely on being some funny shit. If i'm pure melee (which i am), 95% of my fight with these guys is with their feet.
Topher
Gold Member
Nope. There are only 8 selections for TLOU 2 that were made from twitter. There were 8 other selections made from twitter that were for games other than TLOU 2.
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Madflavor
Member
Yeah this was talked about on here in a previous thread. The way 2020's GOTY awards tally was handled is a big reason as to why there's stricter guidelines now on what gets counted toward the aggregate. Moving forward it'll be a collaborative effort between multiple members on Era, instead of an individual person running a blog.
sainraja
Member
Gotcha and yeah I also will mostly try to be melee but maybe with big bosses I might experiment a bit.
Fredrik
Member
Yeah this is it. The exploration is what makes it so special. It’s a rare thing today to have a game of this size with this much freedom and to have proper exploration rewards that actually affects the game and not just increase a number of something to collect, and all with almost no hand-holding at all.
graywolf323
Gold Member
oddly there was a spike in 2020 IIRC and it fell down last year and now we’re seeing a massive spike again for 2022?
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
The game is about making you feel. Like... real feelings. you are supposed to be a mad, angry, sad and empathizing.
There is nothing lazy about it's writing.
There is nothing triggering me more as "bad writing". It's not a fucking book. I think the characters were genius and the fact that I felt bad for Owen and Abby in the end, really say something.
Some people are more stubborn than others and will never accept that game.
it is best seen when you watch some ending reactions on youtube. There are 2 groups of people. Those who didn't understand the game, never let go - the stubborn people who still wanted to kill Abby during that ending.
And the 2nd group who full screamed at Ellie for trying to kill Abby. I think this is how you are supposed to feel if you let the game take you for a spin
Topher
Gold Member
Probably a good thing that there will be standardized guidelines going forward, but after looking at the selections made from 2020, this notion that someone used social media to fudge the results just doesn't hold up. We are talking about a couple dozen selections overall and barely a majority of those were for TLOU 2. Take away every single social media selection in 2020 and TLOU 2 still has over 300 votes.
remember_spinal
Banned
Also, no one else will care in any following year to do this much sleuthing for awards.
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Ghost of Caelid
Banned
Similar sites are used all the time...if it was only ign, gamespot etc counted people would complain. I think this years era team is doing a decent job at who to count and who to leave off of the total.Also, no one else will care in any following year to do this much sleuthing for awards. This is where the latest GOTY award is from lol
remember_spinal
Banned
At the end of the day it’s all just the same bias, to say some of those TLOU2 awards were fake or low effort and then finding votes on obscure Spanish and Portuguese market sites is just funny.
I can almost guarantee this much effort will not be put into this next year.
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Couldnt disagree more. 99% of the stuff i found while exploring didnt apply to my builds. It was all a waste of time.
The Souls games and BB were far more rewarding with rings, weapons, and gear that actually helped you become stronger.
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
There is no worse feeling that going through 40 minute cave, beating a boss repeat or enemy with a health bar... and getting some shit miracle spell. yay
Then o it 12 times over
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
People were spreading it around like it was some major reveal.
The 54 follower account was a startup podcast by an IGN writer.
Madflavor
Member
I'm waiting to see where 2022's total will end up. If the overall total ends up in the 450 - 525 range again then I wouldn't be convinced that 2022 only had a couple dozen selections that shouldn't have been counted. I know things come and go, but the 200 difference is just too big to simply write off as a couple of dozen suspect selections. I'm not just talking about individual social media accounts with a tiny following. I mean I don't have much else to say on the matter until the dust settles. If 2022's GOTY award total edges closer to the 644 total that 2020 had, then I'd be more open minded.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
justice
