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MoogleWizard · Jan 17, 2015

ruitama said:
You forgot to put: "As long as they're exclusive to the underdog console of the generation and help me justify my fanboyism" in there.

"I don't share your opinion, thus you're a fanboy." How cute.

GamerJM · Jan 17, 2015

Great work guys! Lots of data provided for us, looks like it was a ton of work.

Great list too. I wish I could see what others see in the Bayonetta games though. I'm halfway through the first one right now, playing it on and off and....it's not really grabbing me at all :\. It's hard to think that the second one could be one of my favorite games of the year if it's ostensibly more of the same but better.

10k · Jan 17, 2015

Damn, I knew Nintendo would do well, but I thought Dragon Age would win GOTY. Great year for Nintendo and lol at the point drop off of publisher appearances on the ballots.

Coffee Dog · Jan 17, 2015

GamerJM said:
Great work guys! Lots of data provided for us, looks like it was a ton of work.

Great list too. I wish I could see what others see in the Bayonetta games though. I'm halfway through the first one right now, playing it on and off and....it's not really grabbing me at all :. It's hard to think that the second one could be one of my favorite games of the year if it's ostensibly more of the same but better.

You could just not like character action games. It's okay if it isn't for you.

Storm Kyleis · Jan 17, 2015

Aaand I forgot to vote. Great list though.

Dragonborn · Jan 17, 2015

Echoenigma said:
PC exclusive. Indie. No marketing. Mediocre graphics.

Popularity contest.

That's why this doesn't work.

Why does that mean this doesn't work? Because people have different preferences?

Chamber · Jan 17, 2015

Congratulations to GAF on getting it right once again. I see Journey is still makin em mad 2 years later.

Tuck · Jan 17, 2015

Holy shit, Nintendo cleaned up.

I agree with the top three.

Teggy · Jan 17, 2015

Violet_0 said:
probably because of our poor grammer

And spelling.

Ysiadmihi · Jan 17, 2015

I would have liked to see Divinity in the top 10 and DK should be higher, but otherwise it's pretty solid (excluding Dragon Age).

2014 was a really great year for video games. I still can't decide which one I enjoyed the most.

RK9039 · Jan 17, 2015

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144032380&postcount=748

1. Screaming_Gremlin (85) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146883998&postcount=1403
2. Nete (81) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147807548&postcount=1782
3. Servizio (76) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147717842&postcount=1703
4. Brashnir (70) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147529394&postcount=1562
5. Herla (67) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147103946&postcount=1451
6. Levyne (63) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144692872&postcount=936
6. Shake Appeal (63) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146211590&postcount=1307
6. Toodles (63) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145324258&postcount=1038
9. Carcetti (62) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147543032&postcount=1573
9. pahamrick (62) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143599981&postcount=274

The League of Delicious Gentlemen.

GamerJM · Jan 17, 2015

Echoenigma said:
You could just not like character action games. It's okay if it isn't for you.

Maybe, this is the first one I'm playing. It's strange though, it seems like a genre that I should like but I dunno, there's just not enough variety in what you do I guess. And also, the thing is that I do like it, I just don't love it.

serenewarfare · Jan 17, 2015

Saddest part of this whole thing is that Nintendo is putting out the best stuff, but continues to do the worst sales-wise. And I don't see that changing.

spekkeh · Jan 17, 2015

Humenkind said:
Pretty much my only problem with the list. In a year with the best RPG's in a long time, they all lose to Bioware because they aren't on console.

I'm positive the majority of PC gamers voted DA:I too. This has nothing to do with any perceived inferior taste based on hardware, but simply that the kind of crpg championed here is incredibly niche.

timetokill · Jan 17, 2015

I had Dragon Age on my personal list, and then I got around to Divinity and Shadowrun. Saw what I was missing. Took Dragon Age straight to honorable mentions.

redcrayon · Jan 17, 2015

Good haul for Shovel Knight, beat Destiny for Best New IP too!

Floridian · Jan 17, 2015

Well that summarizes 2014. Nintendo dominated.

Silky · Jan 17, 2015

Dragonborn said:
Why does that mean this doesn't
work? Because people have different preferences?

Has nothing to do with preferences. Exposure really. You can look at the previous GOTY titles and see that those games were exposed a lot more than smaller titles like Divinity. I can't even call Journey an anomaly because that shit was pimped up and down by sony.

When you have a small scale, independent developed, crowdfunded(?) title that's only on PC and released with little to no fanfare outside of backers(?) then yeah, you're not winning any awards outside of obscure choices.

A year where Hotline Miami came out of fucking nowhere and everyone praised the shit out of it being hailed for nearly every checkmark in the book. You kknow what game bested it? Fucking /Journey./

2015 is going to be amazing for independent-developed videogames. Too bad MGS5 and Persona 5 will be out that year lolllllll

--

2012 was the year I really stopped caring about overral GOTYs. That being said I'm satisfied with this one because unlike other (bad) games, Bayo 2 is a hallmark of fucking quality. I'd argue that it's an objectively good game. Like there are no faults to it.

/salt

And_Gignac · Jan 17, 2015

Queen of Gaming Bayonetta slaying as usual. Poor others. /popgaf

serenewarfare · Jan 17, 2015

Really my only complaint about the list would be that more people should have played Talos Principle. It was far and away the best puzzle game last year. I love Threes and Captain Toad, but in terms of original ideas and experience, it's not even close.

AHA-Lambda · Jan 17, 2015

My Top 10:

1. Dark Souls 2 (5)
2. The Wolf Among Us (29)
3. South Park: The Stick of Truth (8)
4. Alien: Isolation (11)
5. Wolfenstein: The New Order (7)
6. D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (49)
7. Consortium (190)
8. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (22)
9. Wasteland 2 (46)
10. Murdered: Soul Suspect (156)

2 games out of the top 100!

My Affinity:

1. Sendero (99) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147834419&postcount=1843
2. Jibbajabbawockky (96) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147842060&postcount=1870
3. Dark Stalkers (94) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147821201&postcount=1806
4. Emerson (93) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146606264&postcount=1361
5. Pafnucy (89) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144625213&postcount=926
6. DukeBobby (83) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147681584&postcount=1646
7. PooBone (78) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143647573&postcount=373
7. Zeouterlimits (78) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146932442&postcount=1409
9. His Majesty (76) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143706694&postcount=466
10. Locust (75) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145903813&postcount=1208

What do the numbers in brackets mean?

theprodigy · Jan 17, 2015

Melkr_ said:
Queen of Gaming Bayonetta slaying as usual. Poor others. /popgaf

Ah so that's why Bayonetta 2 beat Mario Kart 8, that PopGAF crossover /s

Neiteio · Jan 17, 2015

jblank83 · Jan 17, 2015

Good results here.

Azuran · Jan 17, 2015

The only GOTY awards I care about. So happy to see MK8 rank ahead of Smash. I love both, but KartGAF is one of the best communities I had the pleasure to be part of, so I like it a little bit more because of that.

I didn't bother to vote because I only played like 5 games from last year.

Silky · Jan 17, 2015

KingSnake · Jan 17, 2015

Once you play Bayo 1 and Bayo 2 back to back you realize that, although it's not obvious at the first glance, Bayo 2 is a better game. All the small improvement in the animations, bosses, graphics makes it a much better experience overall. It's just more fluid, it's like the combos feel more like combos (I don't know how to explain this better than this). And you notice this even more when you try to get back at Bayo 1 and it feels suddenly just almost perfect.

timetokill · Jan 17, 2015

theprodigy said:
Why do you have 3 extra colors on that graph

Hahaha. Yeah, they're pretty minimal.

Pappasman · Jan 17, 2015

Sadist · Jan 17, 2015

Oh right affinity, saw my name in a few affinity columns, you be cool people!

These are the cool folks in my book:

Sadist
1. Hitsukara (121) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146491439&postcount=1340
2. zashga (110) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146063098&postcount=1228
3. Deactivision (108) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146113729&postcount=1276
4. 10k (106) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146084233&postcount=1243
4. BY2K (106) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143574544&postcount=92
4. Sneaky Gato (106) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147842234&postcount=1872
7. Diprosalic (105) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146201348&postcount=1305
7. Ondore (105) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145144927&postcount=992
7. Roboleon (105) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143618545&postcount=326
10. Ansatz (104) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143576878&postcount=129

spekkeh · Jan 17, 2015

1. Mario Kart 8 [2]
2. Bayonetta 2 [1]
3. The Last of Us Left Behind [26]
4. Shadow of Mordor [9]
5. This war of mine [60]
6. South Park [8]
7. Dragon Age [4]

Phew luckily I decided to be a bit highbrow with This war of mine, or I should've changed my name to john doe / regular joe.

Dispatch · Jan 17, 2015

In my haste, I did forget to thank everyone who helped put this together. I'm sure it was a staggering amount of work and it's much appreciated.

chancellor · Jan 17, 2015

My top 10: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146093374&postcount=1253

1. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
2. Dragon Age: Inquisition
3. Child of Light
4. Transistor
5. Far Cry 4
6. Wolfenstein: The New Order
7. Infamous: Second Son
8. Velocity 2X
9. Borderlands: The Pre Sequel
10. FIFA 15

The Inner Circle of Chancellor

1. Sax Russel (120) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145374910&postcount=1058
2. jim2point0 (108) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143885479&postcount=627
2. lucius (108) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144624505&postcount=925
4. ElectronicOldMen (98) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143570779&postcount=33
4. SShadowH20 (98) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146584019&postcount=1360
6. JSR_Cube (97) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143588788&postcount=250
6. SwiftDeath (97) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147827348&postcount=1822
8. bombshell (96) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143576578&postcount=120
8. derivative85 (96) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146072407&postcount=1232
8. Prismo (96) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143609518&postcount=293

Cream · Jan 17, 2015

SomewhatGroovy said:
I could not disagree more. I've heard that Bayo 2, which I agree is great, was also more focused and better for it. My whole train of thought while playing it personally was "where is the humor, where are the over the top mini games, side missions...." Etc. it felt like a stripped down version of Bayo 1. I felt Bayo 1 had a more memorable personality to it. I did not once think back in 2010 while playingn Bayo 1 that "oh this needs to go". I was loving every moment of it.

And I feel the exact opposite. I've played both games a lot, B1 5 times and B2 6. There are plenty of moments from B1 that could be improved on or taken out.

There is not a single thing in B2 that should be changed

faridmon · Jan 17, 2015

Nintendo cleaned up last year.

Phantom Flapjack · Jan 17, 2015

This is by far the best top 10 GAF has ever had. For once I'm actually proud of you guys!

Coffee Dog · Jan 17, 2015

Dragonborn said:
Why does that mean this doesn't work? Because people have different preferences?

No, because as Silky stated above, despite quality, it appeals to such a small audience that there's no way it has a chance to win what is a popularity contest. A GAF popularity contest, but a popularity contest nontheless. Divinity, despite being hailed by WRPG enthusiasts as totally hot shit, had no exposure and was exclusive to one console. This poll doesn't really account for things like that.

Silky · Jan 17, 2015

Cream said:
There is not a single thing in B2 that should be changed

Jeanne looks atrocious in Bayo 2. Short haired Jeanne ftw

Echoenigma said:
No, because as Silky stated above, despite quality, it appeals to such a small audience that there's no way it has a chance to win what is a popularity contest. A GAF popularity contest, but a popularity contest nontheless. Divinity, despite being hailed by WRPG enthusiasts as totally hot shit, had no exposure and was exclusive to one console. This poll doesn't really account for things like that.

Let's be real, even if Divinity was on consoles, it'd have to be on the correct console

Or an incredibly vocal (for all of the wrong reasons) audience

BlackBuzzard · Jan 17, 2015

Only thing this list shows is that 2014 was really a shit year.

73V3N · Jan 17, 2015

Shovel Knight should be in the top 5! but really nice list anyway

ruitama said:
Bayonetta fanboy or Ninty fanboy? Can't decipher which one are you.

ruitama said:
You forgot to put: "As long as they're exclusive to the underdog console of the generation and help me justify my fanboyism" in there.

uhh...

Xe4 · Jan 17, 2015

Dat Nintendo sweep. Well deserved.

10k · Jan 17, 2015

BY2K tops another mans list! Shoutouts to Sadist who's list I'm on as well

1. BY2K (129) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143574544&postcount=92
2. Sneaky Gato (119) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147842234&postcount=1872
3. Muzy72 (114) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147844196&postcount=1897
4. Ansatz (108) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143576878&postcount=129
5. Hobbestetrician (107) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146615984&postcount=1362
6. Theognosis (105) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143666668&postcount=396
7. jepense (102) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146440058&postcount=1336
7. Sadist (102) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145741813&postcount=1193
9. Benzychenz (101) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147660317&postcount=1630
10. Deactivision (100) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146113729&postcount=1276

Click to expand...

I'm on 11 people's lists.

Mad props to cheesmiester and timetokill.

Also, I'm on BY2K's list at number six but his gaf post doesn't have me. Am I reading the affinity wrong?

Coffee Dog · Jan 17, 2015

BlackBuzzard said:
Only thing this list shows is that 2014 was really a shit year.

One of the best action games of all time and one of the best 2d platformers of all time, alongside WRPG revival and flourishing indie scene.

It's the best year we've had in a while.

phanphare · Jan 17, 2015

that's a damn good list. Tropical Freeze at 6 pleases me.

BlackBuzzard · Jan 17, 2015

Echoenigma said:
One of the best action games of all time and one of the best 2d platformers of all time, alongside WRPG revival and flourishing indie scene.

It's the best year we've had in a while.

2013 trumps it by far.

For Nintendo fans it was a good year but that's really it.

LurkerPrime · Jan 17, 2015

BlackBuzzard said:
2013 trumps it by far.

For Nintendo fans it was a good year but that's really it.

It's too early to start revising history. At least wait six months.

KefkaPalazzo · Jan 17, 2015

Good people here.

1. ShaggsMagoo (116) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144660490&postcount=933
2. Grisby (101) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143571553&postcount=53
3. Zeouterlimits (97) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146932442&postcount=1409
4. Punished_Snake (93) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147550511&postcount=1576
5. a.wd (91) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=144377497&postcount=869
6. blackMamba1187 (85) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146158919&postcount=1288
6. Sir Garbageman (85) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143606458&postcount=285
8. BananasWithGuns (83) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145077763&postcount=987
9. UberTag (82) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143579212&postcount=172
10. dancrane212 (80) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=147819926&postcount=1801

jello44 · Jan 17, 2015

Bgamer90 said:
Surveys have been going around about it. Guess we'll see in a few years.

Game was left open ended. Would kinda suck if there wasn't one.

I loved the GAF shoutout at the end lol.

Hot Coldman · Jan 17, 2015

I'd like to point out how Velvet Sundown placed at the very, very bottom of the list, and it's all thanks to me.

Spieler Eins · Jan 17, 2015

BlackBuzzard said:
2013 trumps it by far.

For Nintendo fans it was a good year but that's really it.

Not even that, considering that despite the quality, the top games also merely are all the worthwhile Nintendo games from last year to begin with. Which means, WiiU droughts up to 5 months between these titles happened (and god forbid you actually don't like one or two of these games) and 3DS dropped the ball significantly compared to 2013. Not a very good year all around. Thankfully this one seems better, I might have to get two new machines (New3DS, and maybe whatever PS4 bundle comes in)

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