Considering next gen first month or 2 usually don't get great games or big jump maybe TLOU2 and GoT will look a lot better, even more if they receive a special patch for PS5.

Nintendo userbase in this site is quite bigger than the PS one.

The thread is fun since mostly only the best looking games get nominated but the winner is really just dependent on the user base If a Nintendo game would be nominated this year then it could also win even if it wouldn't even look that good graphically.

But right now if nothing changes on VGC, the next 10 years will be already clear a year before the votes even start. It will be only PS exclusive games winning if a multiplat game won't be lucky.

Sony's devs or devs supported by them definitely invested a lot in the graphics this gen (not even talking about money but how important it was to them) but even Sony's devs of this era couldn't run a game like Metro on the PS4 with how PC gamers can enjoy it (even if not too many of them)

I only watched Death Stranding on Gamersyde who have at least very good quality videos of games and some parts look fantastic for a console game but there is also parts where you just see that it could have been so much more on better hardware.

The game is definitely not my cup of tea but I'm really curious to see it running on a PC and would maybe even play it just for the stunning views.

I think it's hard to make such a thread with a fair result. Normally it should be almost always PC games with highest settings winning but what as example Sony's devs achieved this gen on the PS4 is maybe more impressive than a PC game looking even better but on a machine which is like 10x stronger.

Question is if we take the power devs could work with in consideration or not. And if we do, then even a mobile game could theoretically win ^^

The results tell us what is the best looking game of the year. What you and I think, as well as anyone else thinks/says is the subjective part of the discussion about these games.

I wish the votes were around the same number as thread replies, because then we'd see some variation within the votes made. 

Voting carries it's own sort of weight, otherwise there would be virtually no reason at all for the concept of voting for anything, if it held no intrinsic value. 

@bolded, I'm not sure about that. I don't buy into the special needs "everyone's a winner" mentality. Winners are winners and losers are losers.

Actually CDP RED has a bad habit of showing bullshots before given game is launched. Also, we know already that there will be places with simply average or even bad graphics.

I dont think PS fans dominate the userbase here, thus I can't agree with your view of the topic.

If we take votes as an indicator, then yes, the results are fair. Because 5 is always bigger than 4.

I don't like the fact that COD sells so well every year, but I don't cry about it.

Didn't realize some random votes on an obscure console wars website held any weight. The more you know...

If we were going to do a best on technical level then there would be no point on voting, it should be limited to the experts in VGC making an article over it.

It's up to you what to believe. It's not as if this thread has any real importance and it's just for fun but I guarantee you that Gears would win if we would have as many Xbox as PS users and as few PS as Xbox users here. And that would be undeserving in my opinion even when I'm more of an Xbox guy and Gears looks fine especially on PC. 

It's just the user base to decide the winner. But the list of nominations is at least more representing the best games of the year if it comes to graphics. 

How much CoD sells is irrelevant to how good it is. Many CoD players would probably even say that it's not the best game of the year but the game they can have a lot of fun with because of the multiplayer and that they just get much more value for their money as with a single player game like Sekiro. My most played game of the year is Apex Legends and even if it would cost money it would have the best value for me this year but It's not the best game at all...

Same with FIFA I bought more FIFA games in my life than anything else (but not the last 5 years or so). But I wouldn't rank any FIFA game in the top 20 of a year. It sells for other reasons than pure quality as a game. It's just one of the best to play against friends if you are interested in football. 

Everyone else is capable of doing the same, even Sony.

Don't have to agree at all, but it isn't going to stop me from seeing what the results produce. 

ikr?

Well yeah, that's why we see DF holding their own, because they are technical experts and no one's batting an eye at the DF team hosting theirs, with zero user input. I think seeing their picks and overall GOTY from each is better than seeing this thread repeat itself each year, because with DF, we know we're going to get a different result from them each year. 

Like at the end of the day, I just want to see a new result, new data. I get bored and tired of seeing the same result over and over again, like an easy win of 5 in a row matches of any game.