None of these ever became goty

Batman Arkham Asylum, Arkham City andArkham Knight were GOTY contenders for the year they came out, and City took the cake in 2011.

Shadow of Mordor was the GOTY for some.

Many licensed racing games were also GOTY contenders for there respective years, pretty sure some of them would have won GOTY awards. I'd say NFS MW 2005, Hot Pursuit 2010, Gran Turismos and Forzas have been GOTY contenders.

Anyways a great game may not be GOTY but it still remains a great game. It depends a lot on the competition that year. Definitely better than any of the Platinum licensed games by a mile.

Don't know on this one. I hate licensed games pretty much across the board, and I'd far rather have video game properties than movie or comic licenses since I'm not particularly attached to either Marvel or DC. But if doing shit work for Activision pays the bills for games like Bayonetta or NieR: Automata, then I guess I can't complain much.

I think that Platinum games do enough justice to the IP's that I see no reason as to why they should stop making lisenced games ( TMNT being an exception )

I personally liked LOK ( Calling it a disgrace is too harsh, the pro-bending sections of the game were more than enough fan-service to merit the game's $15 asking price ) and I liked Transformers even though I found no replay value and it's not really worth it at full retail price.