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Alex_The_Hedgehog on 10 January 2022

I still remember that year when Rocket League won almost half the awards.

Curious to see more 2021 winners.



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Dulfite on 10 January 2022

Glad to see Dread cleaned house in that category!



Mnementh on 11 January 2022

Thanks for compiling the votes and producing the articles.

BTW: Are there links to the threads of the past years?



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TruckOSaurus on 11 January 2022

I didn't take the time to vote this year but I'll be interested to see the results. It seems Metroid Dread is off to a good start without my help.



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Veknoid_Outcast on 11 January 2022

Glad to see the love for Cyber Shadow :)

It's weird to think I reviewed the game almost a full year ago. Where does the time go?



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Mnementh on 11 January 2022
Machina said:
Mnementh said:

Thanks for compiling the votes and producing the articles.

BTW: Are there links to the threads of the past years?

I think this is only the second year I've done a results thread. Last year's is here - https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/244117/vgchartz-official-goty-awards-results-thread/

Fortunately there are nice results summaries on the staff forums going back a decade or so, so if there's a particular year's results you'd like to know in full I can copy/paste them for you. 2011 or earlier things get trickier though, because we used to do awards by platform, not by genre.

Thanks. For now it will do, I can compare how the categories stack up each year. For instance this year Platformer is a close decision, while last year Ori was pretty well in front. This is interesting.



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TruckOSaurus on 11 January 2022
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Glad to see the love for Cyber Shadow :)

It's weird to think I reviewed the game almost a full year ago. Where does the time go?

I have a love-hate relationship with that game. Some parts are brilliant, others made me want to throw my controller at my TV.

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kenjab on 11 January 2022
TruckOSaurus said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Glad to see the love for Cyber Shadow :)

It's weird to think I reviewed the game almost a full year ago. Where does the time go?

I have a love-hate relationship with that game. Some parts are brilliant, others made me want to throw my controller at my TV.

I started the game and quit about half-way through.  For whatever reason, I decided to pick it up again months later and it somehow clicked and I quite enjoyed it.  It's definitely very hard and it took me a while, but I finally finished it and beat the final boss.  Getting all the achievements though....nfw! 



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Kakadu18 on 11 January 2022
Machina said:

Best Fighting Game of 2021 is next.

As I say in the article, the fighting category definitely produced one of the thinnest line-ups this year. There was at least one big highlight... although it didn't win by nearly as large a margin as I expect it to.

The final result was 44% to the winner, compared to 28% for its nearest rival.

I honestly thought this would have been the most lopsided category.



Dulfite on 11 January 2022

Did not see that fighter category going that way. I thought Brawl had it in the bag.