Different strokes for different folks! I fully respect everyone's opinion about TLOU; assuming they are open minded about it. That being said:
How many opinions does it take before a statement like "game of the year" becomes fact; (although that "fact" is perceived differently by every unique individual)? The majority. And the majority is almost never wrong.
Just because you disagree with it does not make it false for the majority. The resounding majority of reviewers and players believe TLOU is a great game

Last of Us is a like a great movie that you don't want to watch again. Once you know the story there is no reason to want to play again.I tried a second playthrough, but the gameplay was so lacking that I lost motivation quickly.

Kinda agree with this. I have TLOU and all three Uncharted games and I love them, but have only played through them once.

Surely an opinion that isn't shared along a lot of people including some so called "critics" and me as well...

A masterpiece in my opinion... there is not a single thing i would complain about this game, i loved the gameplay (the melee combat, the shooting and how visceral some of the weapons are), the level design, the crafting, the option to go stealth or not, the management of supplies, the music was top notch, it had one of the best stories ive seen in a game, the characters were likable (even the kids) heck even the multiplayer surprised me with how good it actually was, its a more team based game than battlefield and that to me is saying a lot...

What? The majority is often wrong. It often comes down to a few geniuses that change the established wold view/leading paradigm.

- Hitler was elected democratically.

- Bush was elected twice.

- Ronald Reagan is considered a great president by the majority of the US citizens even though he's one of the worst presidents to ever disgrace the USA.

- The majority of Russians support Putin.

- The majority of Russians are homophobe.

- Most people in Islamic countries consider homosexuality a sin punishable by death.

- Most people believed the sun circled around the earth before Copernicus revolutionized our world view. He met with a lot of resistance.

- Women are considered inferior according to the Shariah law which is in effect in a lot of Islamic countries (to varying degrees of course).

- There are 5 big universal religions who claim to be the only right answer (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism). At most only one of them can be correct (and most likely all of them are incorrect) as these religions are incompatible with each other.

So what is a groundbreaking masterpiece in your opinion?

Not as good as Uncharted 2 and 3, but better than 99.5% percent of games. I was actually thinking of finally beating it on the hardest mode.

This post is beyond the scope of this game. Smh, lol

Majority of russians voted for conchita wurst in eurovision and putin is a great leader who defends his country against US empire and EUrocrats.

MP was fantastic imho.

SP was pretty damn generic game play wise imho, though the setting was very well done.