Game Of The Year Tracker 2020 - The Last Of Us Part II - Now Most Awarded Game of All Time!

[DonFerrari]

TruckOSaurus said:

DonFerrari said:

I can only speak for myself, and really rarely an Indie really blows me up and make me want to play. I had several good ones that were given on PS+ and some others I purchased, but well for my taste they really can't compare to AAA games and would be hard to win a GOTY (but yes they are eligible, not only for their category, which brings exposition and is good, to genre and even for overall but hardly you'll see a year that you can critic wise say an Indie was the best game above every other one in most metrics, even more because it won't generally even manage to get the top end on graphics, OST, voice acting and others that truly depend on a lot of financial investment and manpower).

Well I might be an outlier but my only criteria for how I rate a game is how much I enjoyed my time playing it. Graphics, OST, voice acting, gameplay all come into play of course but a game having low production values doesn't lose points if it's fun as hell.

Over the last few years, I think more indie games have made it my Top 50 games of all-time than AAA games. Namely, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Guacamelee, Risk of Rain and Hades. To me these games can stand shoulder to shoulder with bigger titles no question asked.

I would say you are very much an outlier in this because sure it is important how much you enjoy a game, but for a critic, review or GOTY it depends of the game itself as a product and not on how you perceive it by your taste.

Nothing wrong with you liking those games but that isn't how a GOTY is decided, even more because fun is factored completely subjectively.