The Game Awards 2017 winners

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KLAMarine said:

ClassicGamingWizzz said:

It was fantastic in some things and shit in others, garbage voice acting and not so good game performance for example, horizon is way better at pushing technology and graphics and sound design. Zelda won best game and its fair  but this is not best game like you said, that is why me and others might think Horizon deserved this award.

"pushing technology and graphics and sound design"

Games that do that come every year. RDR2 and TLoU2 will likely also push tech, graphics, and sound when they launch. It's par for the course in this industry.

I feel critics tend to favor franchises that reinvent themselves. I suspect this is why Uncharted 2 was met so positively: it was a huge step-up from the first Uncharted.

I'd argue that Zelda pushes technology forward, with how it allowed for many things within it's game world, such as:Being able to cut blades of grass

 

• Being able to fire an arror from a great distance, then be able to find it

• Being able to light your arrows on fire, fire them into water, only for them to fizzle out the moment they make contact with the water, while also sinking to the bottom, and being able to find and pick them back up again.

• Being able to smash a rock or tree and send them flying very far, while also riding atop of them.

• The fact that in Zelda, you can move through the grass fields and have the grass react to your movement and where you move about.

• Being able to cut down trees and watching them fall over (Most open world game trees that are cut down simply vanish).

• Setting the grass alight and watching the fire spread.

 

Horizon pushes visuals for the system it was made for, but outside of that, not much else. Zelda introduces physics and reactions from what you do within it's world, which most games fail to get right, even then, most games implement one or two features that Zelda has and they leave it at that, rather than expanding further on them.