rapsuperstar31 said:
It's not for everyone, it can be multiple peoples favorite game of all time and it has at the moment I'm typing this 21% of the vote. I played Bloodborne from playstation + for about 45 minutes, died on the first enemy, re spawned died on the first enemy, re-spawned ran around the first enemy died on the next enemy..deleted the game. Not my type of game, so not the type of game I'm personally going to vote for. That being said, I think it's great it has such a huge audience of gamers that really enjoy the Souls Type of games. |
Yeah, I have the same issue with Souls-likes, as do many others, the only one I tried was Sekiro and I reached a total brick wall of difficulty along multiple paths and just couldn't progress. Souls-likes will always be limited on user voted awards due simply to the genre's fairly strict adherence to high difficulty (with only a few select Souls-likes such as the EA Star Wars Jedi series and the upcoming Black Myth Wukong offering difficulty selection options). It's kind of hard for people to pick something as their GOTY if they can't even come close to finishing it. It's why no Souls-like yet has won the Player's voice award at The Game Awards, not even Elden Ring could pull it off last year, it lost the Player's Voice award to Genshin Impact, a GaaS game.
If you look at the two leading games for 2015 on this voting you have Bloodborne, a game which was very hard to beat, and then you have Witcher 3, a game which was difficult on it's highest difficulty setting but way easier on it's easiest setting. It's pretty obvious to me that Witcher 3 would have the advantage in any fan voted award, which is why Witcher 3 won 88 Reader's Pick/User Voted awards in 2015 to Bloodborne's 8, 11x more. There is also the fact that Bloodborne was exclusive to a single platform and has never been ported to PC or remastered/remade for PS5, while Witcher 3 released on 3 platforms originally and is now on 6 platforms (PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XS, Switch).
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 12 December 2023
