I guess FF7 wins, although our 10% input means diddly squat.

I honestly think if we turned back the clock and restarted gaming from the 1980s, almost every gameplay and industry idea would have reappeared sooner or later because most of them are quite obvious or emergent and don't require many steps to find. It's just like convergent evolution in that regard, if it works it works.

It's fair to give the most credit to whoever implemented a given idea and found the most success, not who just happened to be first. Of course, though, you do you.

Our voting basically is the tiebreaker if it’s super close. A part of me is OK with that considering that people who want one specific game to win or lose will find a way to manipulate the system but, I do think it should be more than 10% of the vote. Maybe 25-30% would be a good compromise

It probably would - Ultima was not the first to try to be VG D&D counterpart (although without the license, so not carbon copy of it).

What many younger people, or those who just don't know much about RPGs outside of JRPGs, is how influential Ultima was (and still is) - and I don't blame them, since JRPGs were first contact with RPGs for many.

Just a reminder that a DLC was chosen over a complete game, Stellar Blade. The GA are a sham to sell advertients and trailers, Geoff doesn't care about the games anymore. Stellar Blade is an absolutely phenomenal title snubbed because the scantily clad MC would be an issue with advertisers.

Golden joystick awards finished today. Black myth wukong was goty

That makes me happy to hear! :) The studio behind it was only founded ten years ago in China. Started off very humble, and grew a decent amount. Congrats to Game Science!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvLFuZu4hJQ

17:37 onwards shows us who are on the panel.

Well that makes sense. Tut, tut. 

Alas, this might be good for Stellar Blade and other titles as people speak up on social media about them being snubbed but it would be nice to see it recognised for putting the "game" back into video game. 

Would have been wild to have 4 current PlayStation console exclusives battling it out for GOTY.