My honest vote for Game of The Year 

I would pass out.

Have mercy on my liver man

I would die but worth it.

Anybody surprised he picked the black guy as streamer of the year? I'm not

i ded

It depends, if you remove the loading screens then he had spent more time on BG3 than on starfield

Yikes 😬😬😬😬

he did play hogwarts legacy too

Starfield is a simplistic game. Not much backseating and things to stress him out. I think it's probably the reason he was able to play it more than a game like Cyberpunk that can be confusing with it's skill trees and sheer amount of quests.

@@atrocious7766 The problem is thinking skill trees are confusing.. just read its 100% self explanatory.

games that are considered the worst of the year already cause whole development teams to shut down or mass employee lay offs, not sure if its the best idea to make a segment just to make fun of them. Fun for the audience, not fun for the devs or the team

@@marcochen9117 Maybe a Worst Successful GOTY? Which profitable game was the worst.

@@Shalakor at that point you're just trivializing the entire show, there's already a big opposition to award shows nowadays and this would only add to more lack of professionalism

I mean movies do have Razzie awards.

His logic is dumb af. Imagine the Olympics if you could only win 1 gold medal per event so that "other" countries can feel included...🤦

yeah it is pretty dumb. Asmond forgets things like artists and composers exist. People that would love some recognition for their amazing work they did. But because they happened to be also in the game of the year means they shouldn't get that? A shit game could still have the best soundtrack and best game also does not mean you have the best soundtrack.

It doesn’t deserve categories such as music though.

@@anormalguy8407 right. Which ever one deserves it should win. Period. There shouldn't be any other factor.

@@Sephirothkingdom782 Even tho i do love BG3 music it is true, that they do not have the best music at all.

You didnt have to play BG3 to see its impact. People who never played a CRPG in their lives were picking it up. You can also talk about the absolute metric shit ton of content the game has for $60, making it one of the best values on the market. Its not fucking close and you cant even make an argument for any of the others.

@@asmodeus4207yes you can lol

To be fair, he's not actually placing a vote, just talking about the games.

​@asmodeus4207 yeah game had a solid 150 hours for a single playthrough and the whole thing was great

@@asmodeus4207 You ar3e the etype of people who just agrees with everyone. Not saying BG3 is bad but he should at least play those games before taking those votes (or not, nobody cares). I love how he describes Zelda TotK as "It is just BotW with construction". or Hi-Fi rush as "it is cyberpunk cartoon" Also you can see clearly how he simps for any soulsgame (or from soft game) without giving a second though.

addicted, simple. he played that garbage for 20 years, in which 10 of them have been shit, he realizes what a good game can actually be when thinking about CP2077, the playerbase doesn't even care about the game at this point, it's just something they do, like the way you wash your hands after a piss.

@@Myhaay CP2077 isnt a good game tho, it was marketed on lies and is mediocre at best

@@GenericUsername-qp1ww don't state opinions as facts, you don't like it and that's fine, the release was bad affects my point how? the only reason it was such a big deal is because they are the guys that made witcher 3, if bethesda released something like that people would just laugh and joke it off (i.e Starfield). braindead mentality. it is an objectively good game, just like world of warcraft was, even though i personally didn't like it, the world doesn't revolve around you bro, take a step back.

@@GenericUsername-qp1ww Do you live under a rock?

@@Myhaay CP2077 is straight up NOT what CDPR advertised it as, they claimed it would be a 'next-gen RPG' and then not only delivered us a ridiculously overpriced Keanu Reeves movie but the RPG aspects are non-existent. if CP2077 is what CDPR thinks a 'next-gen RPG' is like then mayb they should stick to current-gen as they've proven incompetent at making a next-gen RPG

And gollum

There needs to be a category for best meme game.

They can’t do that, else they would have to put Rise of Kong and Alan Wake 2 in the same category.

worst game of the year category.

You're missing forspoken, best game ever.

He's reacted to other people's videos about them so he knows everything he needs to know /s.

How is that based?

NOT based

@@irefusetodielmaooo the fact asmon has real fans that would say something like this

Let's me real here. Most of the voters are probably the same as Asmon.

Yes, exactly

I still feel like some of the old bioware games are more enjoyable than baldurs gate. It's just a genre that has been dead for some time and baldur's gate didn't do anything terribly wrong so people like it. It's not an amazing game though...

@@lushen952it’s amazing, lol one of the most complete and interactive games ever bud. and freedom to do so much with ur chrachter.

@@girthatbirth It's literally just a bioware game there's nothing special about it on a formula basis. Play DA:O. Each background has its own like 2hr prequel story to start the game that is COMPLETELY separate from one another with an entirely different cast of characters, environments, and story. There's 6 of these. You can choose which companions you recruit, who lives and dies, and your choices have dramatic consequences in the course of the story. You can save a city and go back there anytime or let it fall and have nearly everyone there die. You can side with a group of elves or side with the werewolves that are trying to kill them. Or even pick a middleground option. Whichever you side with will show up at the end of the game to fight with you. Baldur's gate isn't new. It's just been a long time since a game like this existed. As far as I'm concerned, nothing tops DA:O and the Mass Effect trilogy...not even close. Most of the people freaking out over Baldur's gate are just young people that missed the bioware phase. Bioware has sense forgotten itself and Baldur's gate picked up the formula.

And complete games where the devs listen to feedback and actively improve the game with patches bases on said feedback, they implemented a whole new feature to change appearance in the game and an entire new ending with voice acting and new cutscene based on feedback

Yes, it feels like the officials don’t have their finger on the pulse of what the term “art direction” means or what is impressive to audiences

But it literally was a nomination for best art direction?

@@frosthammer917 GAH I was looking at game directions list instead of art direction list! My bad.

It's all mo-cap, so it's no wonder why it turned out amazing

have you ever seen Jaheera ingame? she is waving with her arms all the time looking completely ridiculous. but besides her, yes, character motion is the best ive ever seen.

meanwhile every time i see my friends druid on screen in a cutscene i laugh at how derpy the expressions are.

bro go outside more no one moves like that irl lmao, like yeah it looks fine for a game but they all still move stiff as fuck lmao

@@Wunderhass Yeah and it was still the best game in that year too, moot point

But that has nothing to do with accessibility lmao, your being sarcastic but d4 should win the award, the accessibility options have literally allowed blind people to defeat uber lillith and probably the other uber bosses, that's pretty insane if you ask me

Innovation in making people appreaciate PoE.

gamebreaking

Agree with your point! but fyi it’s innovation *in* accessibility, not innovation *and* accessibility so not strictly relevant

@@petergriffin9554 fk PoE, thats not a game man, thats job after job

😂exactly!

Couldn't be said better.

Fully just yapping, making stuff up as he goes😂

lol

its a prime example why "journalists" shouldnt be voting for any award.

His entire gaming knowledge is souls and mmos. That's it.

​@@obba40and his takes on souls games are typically bad lmao

he plays what he likes, he's allowed to do that

His takes on Mario wonder and TotK 💀 both games are amazing and deserve to compete with baldurs gate 3

​@@B34RProductionsHell no.

Wait why

@@Wowowoi1 because people usually don't play that many games, so you are just voting for the 1-2 games you actually played, and that's not a fair judgment

@@Wowowoi1 Same reason review bombs happens. Some are justified but it can easily get out of hand.

​@@Wowowoi1because you get votes from dudes like this who played pretty much none of these games

@@Wowowoi1 Because it's not a gamer's responsibility to play every game that comes out in a year and yet people can still vote on what they want based on biased/prejudiced opinions without having played half the selection. This isn't a popularity contest (that's what the Golden Joystick awards were, which are 100% fan voted).

The vocals were the worst for me , I even cut the music at some point ( did the fight only two time), everyone is different. I'm not saying it is bad but it's too much orchestra imo

@@nauxoh I might agree with you if it were a real time fighting game, however, given that BG3 is turn based i think it enhances the mood of the fight greatly with no negatives (for me). It really fits a fight with a devil who assumes they're going to mop the floor with you, only for your party to educate him and his cohorts by turning his insides into outsides. It also makes sense for Raphael's pompous character to bring out a grandiose orchestral piece belittling those he thinks of as mere toys in order to intimidate or demoralize them.

@@TimeyWimey. as I said, the music is good and fits the narrative. But it's not my style, I meant no offence

@@nauxohI was just stating why i felt it was a great piece. I took no offence from your previous comment. I can definitely see why some may not like it as its a very extravagant piece played during one of the more difficult fights in the game, resulting in it being distracting.

Thats hilarious guess you've never heard about unwavering belief

I agree, the narrator deserved a nomination at least. Neil won golden joystick best VA, give the narrator an award too

or JK Simmons i got chills x10000 when i heard him the first time .-.

There are Astarion Ingame dialogue ASMR videos floating around RU-vid…lol

She did an incredible job true, but from what I understand Neil (Astarion's VA) did a lot of the mo-cap for this game, not just his character.

@@Zoe-hd6ug yeah thats fair, i love her voice though

Ralph *was* nominated for supporting actor for FF16 though, deservedly so :)

@@pen12345 weak bait

@@pen12345 okay. good for you

@@pen12345 It's just a bad game. Woke has nothing to do with it, maybe a cherry on top of awful gameplay and one of the worst stories ever put to paper.

Any of these games in the Game Of The Year will show an example of outstanding game development. Which this is a very challenging pick for Game of The Year

​@@arsstvtrolls aren't what they used to be. At least in the past they would have semi-convincing bait, not like nowadays.

Crazy considering Yuri had the best voice acting and his range of it was insane. Was an easy pick.

Id go for Clive, even though the game disappointed me a bit his VA was insane. You are right though there is a ton of talent here and I wouldn't be mad if half the list won.

​@@datderpderping501 Yuri has sounded the same for years its always the same voice hes hardly got range.

Rogue Life!!!!

One thing that sets BG3 apart in this category in my opinion is the way that it has multiple narrative paths, so it is harder than a streamlined narrative as in the other games

It's also a year where Lord of The Rings Gollum is released. Still a great year

​​@@League-f9x Redfall this year as well right? You take the good with the bad.

​@@ginkowave5829forspoken

​@@League-f9x Forspoken Redfall Gollum Kong

I have played it recently you would be suprised to see the improvements, honestly the gameplay is really good if the lighfall story was even decent people would look at the game way different. Its honestly still not a great game but destiny raids are some of the best pve group content that exists.

@@dongdoodler I'm a regular player with over 3000 hours in the game, I've seen these changes but these changes only happen when the game is in a really bad spot, d1's major change was taken king, the first big change for d2 was forsaken's launch then the one after that was witch queen's launch, the most recent time they actually started listening and started making changes that people want was that dumpster fire of a state of the game they made earlier this year that made people leave the game, now they have to get player trust back again because of the shenanigans going on now

Destiny 2 has amazing villains and lore but absolute hot trash management

True, honestly though it just makes me worried for all the future game releases after this rough year inside the industry. We may not see heavy aftereffects until a year+ later though.

A lot of good ones but also a lot of shit ones, aka a lot of games in general

honestly theres only barldurs gate 3 that id give a go even if i usually dont like that type of game and absolutely everything else is lower tier to me

@@kokocaptainqc Mario wonder is amazing.

The gaming industry is always rough. Studios go under all the time.

Yeah this video was obnoxious because it's an opinion formed from an attainment of ignorance on the subject. That being said he knows he has bad takes and it's not serious lol

He noticeably contradicts himself quite a bit in this video. Fortunately, he didn't actually vote and just discussed the games.

I have the same argument for Alan Wake 2, they did an entire musical just for the sake of a couple of minutes of gameplay, hired a buch of irl artist (not to mention they had Poets Of the Fall), and you dont see the game director face on their own games anymore, Sam Lake was pretty sure he did a good job... But since its a voting (popularity) system, i dont think AW2 will win, but i have no problem at all with BG3 winning.

I mean there are 5 other incrible aaa games on that list and another like 6 that got snubbed. Aaa gaming isn’t as bad as people act.

@@nathanhargenrader645 Asmon fan base don't know that. Asmon doesn't even know that Capcom is a good company. He has been snobbing Capcom for years and thinks Fromsoft is the pinnacle of Japanese game devs. Hahaha

@@bukojoetheslapsoils8273 Fromsoft is the pinnacle, currently, unless it’s Nintendo and people have been meming on capcom for years. People called them “crapcom” for like damn near a decade. They had been putting out a ton of mediocre games. It wasn’t till recently that they turned that around.

Voted for Zelda but I'm rooting for BG3 as well. It totally deserves it

Hahahahahahaha no

True brother no other game managed to do that. It is quite impresive.

Bro, that 3rd Mother's Grace you got is bottom rolled man. Just trash it.

no

no

it should be nominated under best action/adventure instead of best rpg,TGA is a joke 😂

It not being on the GOTY category is a crime

@@yannispirou101you’re right it technically is, although all the rpg fluff in FF16 sucks.

after seeing it lose "best playstation game" to a fucking remake on joystick awards, I won't be surprised if it doesn't win anything during TGA

Alan Wake 2 is winning both those categories lol

thats what i was thinking also. remnant 2 did way more right than wrong. i had soo much fun playing it

Remnant II was amazing and if it had been released in a different time, probably more people understand how fun the game was, but it was released a few weeks before BG3 that it just got over shadowed sadly. Ive had more fun on Remnant II than BG3 and I enjoyed playing BG3 with my friend + wife.

Same with Lies of P. Like seriously another Mario game gets nominated and b9th Remnant 2 and Lies of P easily deserve to be up there much more.

It’s o…k maybe just wasn’t my cup of tea

@@dougfoster445that’s totally understandable, I also wasnt a huge fan if im being honest but you can tell they put a lot into that game so I went ahead and voted for it in the later categories just because it deserves a little love.

it deserves recognition for the art direction, but I don't think that should give it game of the year because gameplay wise it didn't really feel like it changed up much, and it's really short and easy.

​​@@TheRealNintendoKidbut you can be an elephant You cant in spider mid: 2 or legends of the mid: crying castle or the dungeon and midgon game (although you can have seggs in that but still not as satisfying or hot as being an elephant)

​​​​@@themysterykid1you are reaching. At the top of the video Asmon reads someone mentioning starfield being nominated for 1 category & this is a video about a list of games up for awards 😂 is starfield not a game & weren't a lot of xbox players saying this was goty before the game came out? What does playstation players have to do with it not being nominated for goty? You seem a little butthurt 💀

Starfield was trash and I own Xbox series x and hate PlayStation

​@themysterykid1 it's not even a matter of console wars the game was simply that bad

It’s nominated for best RPG, what are you talking about? You shouldn’t lie just because you don’t like the game.

@@dannysmi7162 they're talking about Starfield not being nominated for goty award because xbox players were saying it was goty before & after it came out. Calm down 😂

He wasn’t evaluating on the merits in the first category either since he hasn’t played any of the choices

Yeah, it’s the Best Debut Indie Game category.

itll generally be shit tho. most studios make a dozen games youve never heard of before they make it big. how many people have played kingsfield? almost none. but everybody loves dark souls. debut games for most studios are pretty meh, it takes several iterations to get things right even with talented people. what would be a lot more interesting is "games made by

to be fair he didn't really voted

Yeah he didn't voted, he just give his opinion. But if he voted, then its gonna be can of worm.

the game is good, but that does not mean everything it has is perfect.

@@Sephirothkingdom782 I didnt say its perfect. I said it deserves to take all awards the game was nominated too. Nothing is perfect.

@@Musickkk it does not deserve all the awards. Especially the music. I couldn’t name you 1 piece of music in bg3 as iconic as colgeras theme or ff16 music.

@@Sephirothkingdom782 are you kidding me? Down down by the river, I'm not even saying about Raphaels theme in act 3. Iconic. ff16 theme is good, but for me just another epic fantasy tune. Same about colgeras theme. Good, but basic. I agree. mb in this topic we can argue. But best RPG? Narrative? What else was there? 100% ez BG3 wins right there.

@@Musickkk baldurs gate 3’s narrative isn’t anything special, it’s just huge in scope, that’s literally it. Being so large in scope hides it’s flaws as a story and since most of it is down to the players choices it’s hard to criticize it for some people. But some of the storytelling is just nonsense at times albeit most of it is good. It still is far less cohesive and overall better than something like ff16 and isn’t even close to Alan wake 2 or phantom liberty. Alan wake has an extra layer due to how it functions on the basis of almost everything being a detail for the overarching premise, so you have to pay attention to literally every small thing, and that’s really cool and far more deep than being spoonfed mostly generic fantasy cutscenes. Phantom liberty is also enhanced by the world building of edgerunners (a masterpiece of a show), and the base game as a whole which always had a great story. Baldurs Gate simply doesn’t have the same layers of quality that these 2 games have for its story. In terms of music, colgeras theme is homage to wind waker and fits directly into the setting of the game very well. Dragon roost island’s tunes play alongside the song so it’s more than just “generic fantasy music”, which is ironic considering literally nobody praises baldurs gate’s music when looking at the games strengths. Both Zelda and ff are known for their music, and their newest games are no exception to this trend. For reference, check out the amount of memes colgeras theme has on yt.

That track also how it speeds up and goes harder when you are engaged in combat and then slows down and back to a more calm melody all done so seemlessly, it's so fucking good.

And the official soundtrack release has both versions in the same track. It's beautiful.@@occiderisaethiopissa3702

I honestly loved Ascension and the Titan Lost theme

Same

100%

Well dude liked the game better can't blame him lol of course he will be biased

Art direction is subjective and admittedly hi fi rush looks like so many anime style and cell shaded games

He plays WOW for most of his life, you mean 😂😂😂

This is an issue even in political voting, as large majority of people voting are uninformed or ill-informed. There was a reason voting was originally tied to property ownership in the US: meant you had skin in the game and likely would make informed decisions at the very least. It’s akin to having people vote for GOTY and having the voting requirements be that you actually owned the games.

Also nobody can play all the video games of the year. GOTY is just for entertainement it s impossible for something like that to be truely legitimate.

Not like all the official outlets like all the IGN's and Kotaku's of the world are any better. So many of them are disingenuous as hell and half the time they come across as hating video games all together.

Yeah, everyone knows game awards are simply a popularity contest, yet everybody still treats them with respect, it's bullshit, the sooner people realize this is just like the oscars and the better the gaming industry will be for it I fucking hate the fact gaming went so mainstream, it only draws in vapid bullshit like this

Meh game

@@uxsenebeli elaborate? In many aspects it's better than Hogwarts Legacy which only has an amazing open world but nothing else.

Ngl AH was a fresh air in fps category

@@ProkerKusaka i know, right? I can't remember a single AA(A) fps single player game after Doom Eternal that didn't suck ass (also Cyberpunk didn't but tbh fps aspect of it was boring as hell for me)

I honestly liked the story

If I saw BG3 I voted for it. It deserves to win every single category. Nothing in modern day gaming even comes close. Except maybe FF14.

​@@Arasia_Valentia perverts definitely taking the win for 2023 goty

@@yellowbeez93 perverts?

@@Arasia_Valentia I think ff16 had better music, imo & simply bc of the nature of how the game plays, the 1st playthrough should be played solo, so I voted multiplayer for something else as well but otherwise, I agree.

@@crazys89 I mean, I love Yoshida with all my heart but once I heard Raphael’s song and did his boss fight I was convinced. Astarion also has a song that plays when you stand behind his tent called “I want to Live.” It was made specifically for him. Other companions also have subtle song difference near their tents. The elf song tavern, if you rent the upper floor, has Balduran’s Song with full Lyrics. I feel like BG3 has better thought out music design, from a lore perspective, but it’s harder to find and experience.

Yup, it's the shitty release window and the PS5 exclusive that ruined it, guaranteed if it released maybe in October and on PC it would have had at least 3 times the amount of players

@@mrsneedleton3254a truly great game of the year type game transcends release date but being a ps5 exclusive definitely hurt it

@@PatrickThomasBrady Idk man, a big point in favor of BG3 was how much discourse was around it, and that discourse stems from the number of people that played it Every game that releases during summer tends to be somewhat ignored, it was always the case, and ff16 made no difference, I can guarantee you, if ff16 released in mid to late october it'd in the goty nominees 100%

IMO Fromsoft games have the best soundtracks in all of gaming, particularly Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3

This is where non-FromSoft souls-like games tend to suffer. As an example, I completed Lords of the Fallen through NG+2 and I can’t actively remember any of the soundtrack because it was weak. Lies of P, though, has so many great musical elements that I found myself sitting in areas just listening to the music

@@gigabit6226and the old Zelda/castlevania games

I feel the same way… for FF16

its a good game, but if you looked back at the games they made previously you would know its nothing new to them, in fact, DOS2 is better in some aspects, like, BG3 just feels like an update to that game, and its really good! Dont get me wrong, the game is great, but its just more of what they have already been doing. FF16 WOULD have had my vote, but somehow a remaster took its place as nominee.

@@s1n1st3rs0ul it's interesting because i saw a lot of DOS players saying that BG3 is just the best game Larian has ever made

@@akaRyuka just becuase there are better aspects in a previous game downt mean that the newer game isn't better overall, becuase I do think it's better overall, but I personally don't find it good enough to get my GOTY vote... well. Compared to ff16 as I said, though it might now since ff16 isn't up there

@@akaRyukaeh, my one gripe with it is concentration spells. Too easy for concentration to break and having to recast them is honestly an annoyance. Great game but I prefer DOS2 personally.

having a conversation about second best is fine but to exclude a game from all other list cos its goty is just goofy

Are you incapable of understanding why He didnt choose bg3 for the rest? Thats on you

No it isn't, otherwise what's the point of having other categories? GOTY shouldn't be excluded but it should reserve an honorary first place for every other category it competes in

Especially when all the other options are mid Asmon would've given best narrative to the Cyberpunk DLC that he hasn't played because he liked the story of the base game and doesn't want to just give BG3 every award

Only toxicity in deep rock is those 3 random online lobbies that kick anyone under prestige 3, and double dipping resuppliers. Rock and Stone, Miner!

Award shows are run by people who hate gamers and actually good games. Of course they wouldn’t nom it.

Deep rock does have the best community I’ve ever scene

I think it was community support, so to what extent the devs support the community

well this is the geoff awards so it's extremely biased to what he likes and what he wants to garner more attention aka rigged

Finished? I heard that the last parts of the game are rushed and unfinished.

>played most of the games >BG3 best soundtrack Nice one. Chapter 4 of AW2 singlehandedly deserves best soundtrack and it's not even mentioning a whole ass original playlist on top of it.

​@@coupdegrace2767I like BG3's music more, but I can't refute that Alan Wake 2 deserves this win.

@@coupdegrace2767Alan Wake 2 has a great soundtrack… maybe. But it’s listening to great music while eating a shit ice cream. And Alan Wake 2 is a REALLY big shit ice cream.

Hater also I think probably would help starfield a bit more to be honest to make up for not being part of the game of the year nominee Hater Starfield would end up on the nominee for that

I think, it's all for " Content " , cause reacting videos and just making hot takes, it's entertaining for people... I would love to see him playing more cool games but " It is what it is "

Bg 3 has better music. Period.

im not a troll, i love anime, i love gachas, i played genshin to the point of unlocking multiplayer, and i can say that in my opinion the game sucks.

Here is another pro tip. If you want a preview of how a player voted award, rather than a press voted award goes, check out the Golden Joystick Awards that took place Nov 10 in the UK. Players voted for BG3 in every category the were nominated in, 7 awards in total.

I agree with you but I'd blame all that on greedy corporations not the devs

I agree with this console take, but I played it on pc. I had bugs, but overall I thought it was an 8/10. The recent updates and expansion made it a 9/10 imo

@@ACViper This. As a PC player, it was always a good game. Even the Steam reviews reflected that sentiment from the start.

Definitely best direction

Idk about game of the decade id give that to Elden Ring but BG3 was good

TotK needs to win best score just so that FFXVI can't get it. Soken needs to learn his lesson and fucking figure out how to hire an orchestra or maybe just go down the hall and ask Hamauzu to teach him how to use the synthesizer he's been using since 2009 because jfc the sample quality Soken uses for his music is atrocious and not deserving of an award in 2023. They really made a game about dark political fantasy, wrote a fittingly epic, orchestral score, and then recorded that score using a Gamecube quality soundchip and thought "this should definitely win an award." Nah fam.

@@yannispirou101 BG3 will probably take it over either of them, which I'm also okay with, just as long as FFXVI doesn't win.

​@@Tohlemiachwhy do you hate ff16 😂

@@eletralad I don't, I hate Masayoshi Soken. Here, lemme do a little copy and paste of my first comment since it seems like you missed it the first go round: "Soken needs to learn his lesson and fucking figure out how to hire an orchestra or maybe just go down the hall and ask Hamauzu to teach him how to use the synthesizer he's been using since 2009 because jfc the sample quality Soken uses for his music is atrocious and not deserving of an award in 2023. They really made a game about dark political fantasy, wrote a fittingly epic, orchestral score, and then recorded that score using a Gamecube quality soundchip and thought "this should definitely win an award." Nah fam." Hope this helps.

@@Tohlemiach is FF 16 music quality really that bad? Like I do think it could’ve been majorly enhanced by using a real opera and orchestra, but the music quality was not that bad was it? I don’t know maybe I just haven’t heard true audiophile quality music.

Disagree. BG3's soundtrack is stellar as well. If it wins that, it deserves it.

@@theduck2970 I agree that it is amazing. I think FF16 is better tho.

Great storytelling techniques for a godawful story. Overlapping timelines and alternate versions of characters and other dimensions, it's basically a Western dev's take on kingdom hearts. Like just rename Scratch to Alxan already lmao

I laugh so much at this post. “Switching between two protagonists”? Oh wow! Halo 2 called! One of your protagonist is a god damn Mary Sue. She has the power to know things that is so powerful she doesn’t even need to do detective work to figure it out! The mind palace is a joke in terms of storytelling. If Alan Wake 2 is “innovation in storytelling”… never mind. I can’t even think about it without bursting into laughter. Alan wake 2 and great storytelling couldn’t be more of a lie.

i tried it but turn based D&D style game just isn't my cup of tea :/

tired it and it's sadly was boring as hell

No. I'm busy playing skull island rise of kong the TRUE game of the year

​@@odenkazyeah turn based combat can is a huge turn off for many people which is understandable.

if you played D&D, it's pretty much that. You roll the dice around in combat@@snoozydonuts

It's the ESG awards for most buzzwords

Agreed

I'm sorry, but I believe you are downplaying just how much Mario Wonder has expanded off of the previous 2D Mario games. By the way, I'm not going to try to make the case that Mario Wonder is somehow better than ToTK because I know it isn't, but you're downplaying the amount of unique stuff that Mario Wonder has done that completely sets it apart from the previous 2D Mario games. We're talking about complete shifts in game mechanics in the middle of levels, bosses with very unique mechanics, being in a regular level and suddenly being thrown to outer space, and so on. I can definitely see the amount of stuff that ToTK has done and completely understand your point, but just as you can see a clear difference between ToTK and BotW, you can definitely see a huge difference between the previous New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Wonder.

@@juancontreras7491 i'll be 100% honest with you. I haven't finished mario wonder. maybe you're right but i'm only on like the second world. it feels okay. but i think totk is a far superior game. and i'm also a bit biased. side scrollers aren't my thing and i felt the multiplayer doesn't feel as chaotic fun as mario should be. i don't like the phantom running as compared to local co-op of old. i wanted that with like 4 buddies online at once. granted i haven't experimented much with the game. i just have so much to play right now. but the jump to botw to totk is freaking huge. and i hate seeing people say it is just a glorified dlc. so many things have changed just by the map size, amount of content and everything in the toolkit of the player. it's a huge leap. i highly doubt wonder beats it. what i have played though is really good. and i don't see them going back.

@@JitteryJackanape Oh yeah, I can totally see that. As I said in my other comment, I'm not trying to make the case that Mario Wonder is better than ToTK, but I just wanted to mention that Mario Wonder did just as big of a jump from its previous games as ToTK did.

@juancontreras7491 the most notable thing to me was the timer essentially being gone. Everything else feels like this game's gimmick. Every mario game has a gimmick of some sort, whether or not it'll stay will remain to be seen.

It's because people get remasters and remakes mixed up. It being a remake doesn't mean it can't stand on it's own. People with functioning brains and that have played it are aware it's transformative enough at least.