Good to see some others praise Mirror's Edge.

When I had more free time a few years ago, I recorded and uploaded Mirror's Edge walkthrough on Youtube:

When going back to this game it always feels refreshing and is short and mostly sweet.

Not a vote but special mention to No More Heroes and Tatsunoko vs Capcom

Look at these settings! The most common gripe I see is that there's a lack of diversity in this game's color palette; too heavy a reliance on bright primary colors. Hard disagree. Look at the very deliberate arrangements here; the careful distribution of those colors. Does it not imbue an Orwellian sensibility appropriate to its plot? Does it not stand out from the field like a sore thumb?

Also, the sense of speed and movement in Mirror's Edge is phenomenally immersive!

Other: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.

Took me a while to work through lists to find a game I played a lot of that I thought worthy of a vote. I loved Strong Bad despite never having encountered the web comic.

I looked back at some GoTY awards at the time and LittleBigPlanet was pretty big at the time it seems. #2 on the Neogaf list and #4 on the aggregate of all awards. Seems like opinions have shifted pretty hard on it. Of course, it had a sequel which might have been better, but I rarely hear people talk about that game either.

Persona 4 on the other hand has certainly become a lot more popular, although I’m not sure how big the difference is between vanilla and Golden.

Some games age well and other games age poorly.  LittleBigPlanet has aged poorly, especially since NSMB Wii released the following year and was a better 2D platformer.  The consensus on this thread also seems to be that GTA IV didn't deserve a 98 on Metacritic.  On the other hand Persona 4 was a PS2 game, so I don't think most critics wanted to spotlight a game from Generation 6 in 2008.  They underrated it.  I also think a lot of Wii games were underrated at the time for non-HD graphics, and possibly some critics were just pissed at Nintendo at the time for releasing a weaker system.

But here we are 15 years later, and the graphics don't matter so much at this point.  Instead people tend to focus more on the gameplay and other elements of the game that can withstand the test of time.  Persona 4 has aged really well, and LittleBigPlanet hasn't.

LBP had the best original music score at the time and Stephen Fry narrating! Plus the visuals were great with a lot of originality.
Plus it got the awards for the level creator and level sharing. If only the game had better controls.

Nowadays the user levels have all been lost in the sea of time, the iconic music has been overused and fallen out of fashion, the visuals have aged and were copied and improved upon, so all that's left is the floaty controls :/

GTA4 didn't deserve 98 when it came out. The on foot controls already sucked at release. Awards and reviews are mostly popularity contests and advertorials :/

Persona, one day I might have time for that series, I have P3 FES and P4 still waiting in my backlog lol.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl!!!!

Ok, I think we all saw this coming.  There is a runoff vote that will end Thursday (today) at 11:59 PM EST.  

Four games from the original poll made the cut, and they are joined by five more games that got more than one "Other" vote.  This includes Valkyria Chronicles which got more "Other" votes than any game I think we've seen so far.  However, anything can happen in the runoff round.  We'll see how this year turns out soon enough.