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It's time to call it. What's your nominees? What games have you played?
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Previous nominees and winners
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Thursday, December 10. Their GOTY nominees should be posted soonish.

Obviously you know what I think is GOTY, it's Zelda. But I liked Pragmata and loved Splatoon Raiders as well. Pokopia was fun.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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Phantom Blade Zero
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GTA 6
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Pokemon Pokopia
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Resident Evil Requiem
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Ace Combat 8
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Splatoon Raiders
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Pragmata
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Onimusha Way of the Sword
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Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave
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Control Resonant
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007 First Light
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heroeskillrats said:
It wasn't even a dig that it's not included, I forgot Wolverine existed. According to this last time was 2014.
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Earlier this year I thought Wolverine would be a lock...

Critically speaking we had:

GoW Sons of Sparta: 64MC
Marathon: 81MC
Marvel Tokon: 85MC
Wolverine: 75MC

Sadly their highest scores arent the type of genre to steal spots in the main award. And there is a high competition in 89 score area this year...
 
Zelda is honestly such a waste of a slot as a 1:1 remake. Fire Emblem should get the nom for them.

I’ll guess

GTAVI *winner*
Fire Emblem
Phantom Blade 0
Resident Evil Requiem
Mina The Hollower
Big Walk
 
I unironically don’t really play video games any more but if I had to choose, I’d probably pick Nintendo’s (admittedly paltry) offerings for the fun factor alone. Particularly StarFox remake.
 
So far my personal top 6 I'm pretty sure will be:
  • GTA6
  • Pragmata
  • Resident Evil Requiem
  • Marvel Tokon
  • 007 First Light
  • Wolverine
I still haven't played Onimusha and Phantom Blade Zero, but very likely once I play them I'll include them there too.

Regarding remakes, remasters, collections, enhaced ports, enhaced GOTY editions etc I'd keep them out of the "Game of the Year" award, and would put them instead in a "Best re-release".

Ico said:
Will this be the first year in a long while without a PS game in the GOTY race?
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This is voted by the media, who used Wolverine to punish Sony for the end of discs announcements so I assume won't be nominated for the GOTY Award, but I think will win some other award like best actor.

Marvel Tokon deserve the "Best Fighting Game" award but won't be nominated for GOTY award because fighting games are niche. Marathon deserves probably a "Best Multiplayer" or maybe "Best FPS (I haven't played the other ones, maybe CoD is better)" award but not a GOTY award nomination.

GoW Sons of Sparta doesn't deserve anything.

I think the "Game of the Year award" nominations at the Doritos awards will be:
  • GTA 6 (winner)
  • Zelda Ocarina of Time Remake (Nintendo quota, I think shouldn't be nominated in this award because it's a re-remake of a 1998 game instead of a 2026 game)
  • Phantom Blade Zero (China market quota)
  • Pragmata / Onimusha (Only 1 Capcom game to have a candidate per company, pretty likely Pragmata)
  • 007 First Light / Control Resonant (European quota)
  • Gears of War E-Day (XBox quota)
 
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going by previous years:

GTA 6
Ocarina of Time
Re Requiem
Mina the Hollower
Phantom Blade

And I’m guessing they will cave and add Saros as a GOTY candidate for Playstation
 
Ico said:
Earlier this year I thought Wolverine would be a lock...

Critically speaking we had:

GoW Sons of Sparta: 64MC
Marathon: 81MC
Marvel Tokon: 85MC
Wolverine: 75MC

Sadly their highest scores arent the type of genre to steal spots in the main award. And there is a high competition in 89 score area this year...
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Saros: 87

Not that I think it'll get nominated, but as it's the highest scoring one it should probably be mentioned in the list.

Edit: Ignore, missed that you mentioned it in the post above this.

Predictions:
Grand Theft Auto 6 (will probably win)
Phantom Blade Zero
Pokémon Pokopia
Resident Evil Requiem.

At least one indie game (maybe two) like Big Walk/Mewgenics/Mina the Hollower

One to one remakes like Ocarina of Time should not be getting nominated, but sadly it's quite possible it might.
 
Avalon said:
Saros: 87

Not that I think it'll get nominated, but as it's the highest scoring one it should probably be mentioned in the list.

Edit: Ignore, missed that you mentioned it in the post above this.

Predictions:
Grand Theft Auto 6 (will probably win)
Phantom Blade Zero
Pokémon Pokopia
Resident Evil Requiem.

At least one indie game (maybe two) like Big Walk/Mewgenics/Mina the Hollower

One to one remakes like Ocarina of Time should not be getting nominated, but sadly it's quite possible it might.
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to be fair I legit forgot Saros existed until I saw a clip on twitter way after my first post lol
 
-RE: Requiem
-Ocarina of Time Remake
-GTA VI (if reviews are what we expect)
-Phantom Blade 0
-Whatever Indie game TGA wants cause they love to include an Indie
-Either 007: First Light, Control Resonant or another Capcom title like Pragmata

I don't think Saros or Gears E-Day make the cut.
 
Winner:
  • GTA6
Locks:
  • OOT
  • GTA6
  • RE9
Other potential candidates:
  • Phantom Blade Zero (likely)
  • Mina the Hollower (likely)
  • Big Walk (likely/possible)
  • Mewgenics (unlikely)
  • Pokopia (possible)
  • Saros (unlikely due to lack of popularity)
  • Valheim (unlikely due to most people not seeing it as a 2026 game)
  • Ace Combat 8 (unlikely due to genre)
  • Star Wars Galactic Racer (unlikely due to genre)
  • Forza Horizon 6 (unlikely due to genre)
  • Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave (unlikely due to genre)
  • 007 First Light (possible)
  • Control Resonant (possible because journos glaze Remedy but should be unlikely)
  • Gears E-Day (unlikely)

No chance tier:
  • Onimusha
  • Pragmata
  • Splatoon Raiders
  • Nioh 3
  • Wolverine
  • Marathon
  • Tokon
  • Blood of Dawnwalker

My personal top 5 for the year so far is:
  1. Star Wars Galactic Racer
  2. Onimusha: Way of the Sword
  3. Ace Combat 8
  4. The Blood of Dawnwalker
  5. 007 First Light
(I haven't finished OOT yet and didn't get to Fire Emblem yet either, I'd imagine both of those would end up in my top 5 and kick out the bottom two, also GTA6 will naturally end up here as well)

Ico said:
to be fair I legit forgot Saros existed until I saw a clip on twitter way after my first post lol
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I really have to remind myself I played this game this year and even got the platinum. Never had a game that I looked forward to end up in the "just came and went" category where I have zero feelings towards it in either direction. And Returnal is one of my favorite PS exclusives this gen.
 
There were a ton of quality games this year, but IMHO, nothing was generational. It was a year of B and B+ releases (not counting GTA 6). Given that, the field is wide open in terms of nominations and the eventual winner.
 
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