BraLoD said:
I often see people calling TLOU the only good game of 2013, it actually made people forget there were things like GoW Ascencion, Gran Turismo 6, Bioshock Infinite and GT fucking A 5! TLOU scored a 95, thst's higher than Infinite, now GTA5 scored a 97 and sold like the world was coming to an end, also came later than TLOU, even so TLOU got the most awards ever and made people forget the other good games. It doesn't matter the score, it doesn't matter the time it comes out, it doesn't matter how much it sold, 2013 was simply stormed by a masterpiece that put anything else on its shadow. |
This is such an astoundingly pervasive myth it stuns me. Last of Us didn't even win the GOTY award at the VGAs. Both it and BioShock Infinite were nominees; BTAV won. And Those 200 GOTY awards? That's technically true but contrary to popular perception those two hundred don't include all the major awards. In fact, when you look at the noteworthy ones (for example, the list of GOTY awards on Wikipedia) you see that Last of Us won the largest number of any game that year probably, maybe even over 50%. But a significant portion were taken by other games, most notably GTAV. BioShock Infinite did get overshadowed, but this "unprecedented dominance" shtick is really starting to chafe. Last of Us was dominant, yeah. But it was not some unprecedented dominance. It was more comparable to, say, Skyrim which was pretty dang dominant even vs Zelda and Arkham City which were critical darlings.
