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victor83fernandes on 24 July 2022
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Runa216 said:

I love how many people are acting like Elden Ring isn't popular enough to win. Makes me laugh.

It sold remarkably well, got amazingly high review scores across all three brands (PC, PS, XB), the team/company has a history of winning GOTY in the past (Sekiro and I believe Demon's Souls both won their respective years), it has remarkably high engagement even 6 months later, and people are still playing it.

IT fills all the requirements. While I'd be happy to see something like God of War Ragnarok win this year, since the last one was a near-perfect game, I do think that from all objective measures Elden Ring currently has the best chances of winning. It's a monumental success in every category. Yeah, some people hate it (the ones that declare it a failure or otherwise hate the popular thing are hilarious), but that doesn't change the facts.

Sure, there are other options and everyone's taste is subjective but, like, there is no metric wherein this game is a failure.

Either elden ring or god of war will win, no question about it. Elden ring will have been the most popular game this year, dismissing the usual sports games and calls of duties.

The last god of war was far from perfect, in fact in my opinion god of war 3 is a better game as it has better puzzle parts and I loved to open the chests and the style of it. God of war got repetitive quick, enemies were all the same, I cant even remember 1 single memorable boss, compare that to god of war 3 where all bosses were memorable.

But game of the year has to have not only gameplay and graphics, animations, but also voice acting, writing, direction, etc that's why I think god of war will win.

The only problem I see with it, is that from the videos we've seen it looks far too similar to the previous god of war, there doesn't seem to have much innovation.

Horizon forbidden west is another contender, it had the graphics, beautiful open world, animations, great voice acting and writing, but it also is far too similar to the previous one.

Then again, game of the year doesn't mean much to us gamers, most people giving the awards, don't even play videogames. And each one of us has their preferences despite the awards, example, sekiro was game of the year and I disliked the game, people kept also saying ghost of tsushima should be game of the year but I also dislike that game. So who knows. To be honest, so far no game should win anything, we are just getting sequels, or games that are too similar to each other, ghost of tshushima is just basically assassins creed 8 or 9. We need way more innovation in video games, things are very stale this generation, the only games I remember being innovative were Returnal and Death stranding, we should have way more games like that, doing something different. Where's the passion?