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is Zelda BOTW GOTY?

Yes 350 69.86%
 
No 126 25.15%
 
Super Mario Odyssey is GOTY 25 4.99%
 
Total:501

BOTW would have won it even if RDR2 released this year.



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Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Calm down, half the year hasn't even passed yet.

Personally I hate Breath of the Wild for not being remotely Zelda-like (though I guess it's a good game? I dunno, not my thing). My personal Game of the Year (so far) is Persona 5. I don't think that'll change, but Mario Odyssey might be able to.

Still haven't played the game, but everytime I see or read about it I feel exactly the same way. Good to know I'm not alone in this though, I felt like an alien seeing everyone praise the game and basically no one noticing/caring about how much they changed the formula. I get that they wanted to modernize it, but they really went overboard with it imo, feels like a new IP with Zelda slapped on top =P



I honestly don't think it would have mattered. Red dead looks great though, can't wait for it next year. Zelda is just...too damn great.



there are a lot of goty awards, If you're talking about the game awards show or quantity of gotys, then yes, it's goty. Mario has a chance too (judging by the last two real 3d marios)



Vini256 said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Calm down, half the year hasn't even passed yet.

Personally I hate Breath of the Wild for not being remotely Zelda-like (though I guess it's a good game? I dunno, not my thing). My personal Game of the Year (so far) is Persona 5. I don't think that'll change, but Mario Odyssey might be able to.

Still haven't played the game, but everytime I see or read about it I feel exactly the same way. Good to know I'm not alone in this though, I felt like an alien seeing everyone praise the game and basically no one noticing/caring about how much they changed the formula. 

this is why people love the game, some people just want more of the zelda formula mixed with this formula. Maybe the next game.



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For ... Family Circle? TIME Magazine? I don't know. You mean most Game of the Year awards? Yeah, it's going to be Zelda. Looking forward to seeing who goes on the Blacklist this year, though, along with the other 50 or 60 threads we'll have on this between now and next year.

The GotY thing doesn't mean much to me but I've grown to enjoy the complaints, especially, "omg their GotY winner wasn't their highest scoring game on Metacritic!"



mZuzek said:
Vini256 said:

Still haven't played the game, but everytime I see or read about it I feel exactly the same way. Good to know I'm not alone in this though, I felt like an alien seeing everyone praise the game and basically no one noticing/caring about how much they changed the formula. I get that they wanted to modernize it, but they really went overboard with it imo, feels like a new IP with Zelda slapped on top =P

Oh but everyone noticed/cared about how much they changed the formula. That's the reason it got praised as much as it did.

I'll be honest I didn't know how stale the formula truly was, and it took me some time to fully embrace Breath of the Wild, but now going back to play the older games - even Skyward Sword, which used to be my favorite - just feels so awful. They're just... worse.

Then again you like collectathon platformers, so I assume a massive departure from the formula isn't something that'll entice you.

I generally prefer the more focused-type ones like the 3D Mario games, Psychonauts, etc, but nowadays I'll take what I can get lol. You're on point about the second part though, I never asked for a Zelda game that's completely different from the ones I liked, nor do I care about survival elements like cooking/weather/etc that for me, personally, just bloats the game. I just wanted to cut grass and find rupees and hearts lying around and do cool dungeons and stuff. I wouldn't be so salty about it if there were other franchises that I could go to, but the 3D Zelda formula was pretty much exclusive to those games.



My personal GOTY for 2017 will always be Persona 5, but with RDR2 gone, BOTW will probably take it.



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Nautilus said:
Even if Red Dead came this year, I think Zelda would still be GOTY.Im just not a fan of Rockstar gamnes XD


mZuzek said:
Vini256 said:

I generally prefer the more focused-type ones like the 3D Mario games, Psychonauts, etc, but nowadays I'll take what I can get lol. You're on point about the second part though, I never asked for a Zelda game that's completely different from the ones I liked, nor do I care about survival elements like cooking/weather/etc that for me, personally, just bloats the game. I just wanted to cut grass and find rupees and hearts lying around and do cool dungeons and stuff.

I never asked for a Zelda game like Breath of the Wild either, it's just further proof that we have no idea what we truly want.

All the survival aspects of the game are just awesome, though. They need to be there not because there's some hunger meter constantly going down, but rather just because the game is truly hard, so you have to always prepare yourself instead of just running ahead recklessly everywhere - and that's a good thing. For once there is a Zelda game that has me actually thinking about how to tackle each situation, and to learn how the environment affects things, how my enemies act and react to everything, and forces me to be ready for everything - and if I'm not ready, I'm dead. Having to be ready for weather is also a good thing because it makes sense - this game doesn't allow you to just walk beside a lava lake like everything's fine, no, it puts you on fire (as would happen in real life) and kills you unless you were prepared.

...anyway.

It really is damn awesome. There's definitely no other Zelda game even remotely as good as this one... and though people might complain it broke the formula and it's not Zelda-like enough, it actually is the most obvious evolution of what the series was originally supposed to be like.

Well, it's just that I never cared that much for the exploration/combat in Zelda games, and the games being "unrealistic" were a big part of the charm for me. I guess I just enjoyed the simplicity of it all. I don't want to have to worry about clothing because I'm in the desert/snow/whatever. Anyways, I know it's for the better for the franchise as a whole and people love it, but it's just not for me. I'll maybe do a thread about it at a later time, but not right now. I don't want to derail this thread more than I already did =P