Balducci30
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I dunno god of war seems more of the same whereas last of us 2 was the sequel to an original ip that was already critically hailed as one of the greatest games. The upgraded the graphics significantly, generationally, really every part of it was upgraded production wise. More open areas - played as different people - completely different type of direction story wise to where it was extremely divisive. I just don’t see god of war actually changing up as much as LOU 2 didNot really it didn't. The gameplay is smoother sure and it had some more open areas but for the most part it still played like the first one. Same goes for Uncharted 4 which also won far more GOTY awards in 2016 than any other game despite being on its fourth entry. God of War just has to have another exceptional story to go along with some refinements to the gameplay and it won't have much of a problem scoring just as high and winning as many awards as the last one did. Lets not forget that they aren't competing against Rockstar this year which is probably the toughest other developer to compete against due to their games always scoring like 96+. Bethesda isn't near as loved as when Skyrim released. The tolerance for buggy, janky games from them isn't there anymore.