Elden Ring becomes the most awarded GOTY game in history, surpassinhg TLOU 2
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We're well into Breath of the Wild levels of overrated now... don't get me wrong Elden Ring is an excellent game for the most part, but really? It makes me think none of these people have ever played a souls game in their life until now.
Like I said in previous thread this is not a surprise to me after played GoW Ragnarok... it has everything to be most awarded GOTY this year but Santa Monica failed to delivery a next-gen game focusing too much in the PS4 version and barely doing anything to PS5 version that feels like a PS4 enhanced version.
Gerrilha while being hold by last gen hardware did a better job with PS5 port of HFW than Santa Monica with GoW:R... Santa Monica didn't do the minimum expected... play GoW:R on PS5 with PS4 graphics and PS4 paradigms really made me mad sometimes... loading time in the game is atrocious for example and make you sad every time you see a loading screen with tips lol
Seems like we PS users travailed some years back in the past
Between the two Elden Ring is my choice for 2022... overall GT7 is my choice.
Gerrilha while being hold by last gen hardware did a better job with PS5 port of HFW than Santa Monica with GoW:R... Santa Monica didn't do the minimum expected... play GoW:R on PS5 with PS4 graphics and PS4 paradigms really made me mad sometimes... loading time in the game is atrocious for example and make you sad every time you see a loading screen with tips lol
Seems like we PS users travailed some years back in the past
Between the two Elden Ring is my choice for 2022... overall GT7 is my choice.
It had nothing to do with graphics and everything to do with Elden Ring being the most overhyped games we've seen so far. And GoW destroys Elden Ring graphically, even if tied to last gen.
Nah.
I agree with the results.
GoW:R really disappointed when you look at Santa Monica history… Elden Ring not.
It is the first time Santa Monica didn’t push their game to be a showcase.
He seems to think that the current-Gen version of a cross-Gen game is exactly the same as the last-Gen version. He’s pretty special that way.
It's interesting to read that ER has more "critics" awards but less people's choice awards, while it's the opposite for TLOU2.
This didn't hinder ER to win, though, while looking worse, running worse, and having a lot of boring filler content in between the very good legacy dungeons.
ER indeed changed to a new formula... you can say it is the same gameplay but how it delivered the open world is vastly different from previous Souls games.
GoW:R feels like playing GoW 2018... if it was the same game or an expansion nobody will notice the difference... the gameplay changed a bit (become faster with more options) and the enemy variate increased but it just felt like the same game.
ER feels like a new game.
One thing is reading reviews and another is playing the game... you can look at my posts in the review thread defending GoW:R but after I played it (finished two weeks ago) and it is definitively a game that feels like the last game... even for a sequel it feels just like the previous one.... that is why I say if you have GoW 2018 and GoW:R as being a single game nobody will notice the difference.
PS. I was LTTP with GoW 2018 due my first child born in 2019 and the second in 2021... so I have finally played GoW 2018 in early 2022 so the game is fresh in my mind... I finished it around August 2022 so you can say I played both games in almost in sequence.
For many, for sure. Being it the easiest Souls game, it gave a lot of casuals the chance to give it a try.
For me, who platinumed every other From games (INCLUDING ER), it was more of the same, less challenging and with a boring, bloated, tacked on open world. Still a very good game, but not From's best work.
And saying that Ragnarök feels like an expansion instead is simply wrong. New partners, new character to play as, new weapon.
That is exactly what an expansion add to games...
And to be fair imo it feel like the same game... like I said if you have released both games as a single game it should be fine and unnoticed by majority of gamers.
TLOU part 1 is a remaster
GoW Ragnarok is an expansion
Damn, it takes brains.
GoW Ragnarok is an expansion
Damn, it takes brains.
Or at least to have a brain.
It is pretty easy to understand what I said and the reason why GoW:R failed to get GOTY awards.
ERA scrubbed the whole internet to find random websites that would meet their made up "criterias" for Elden Ring GOTY. Their sole motivation was to dethrone TLOU2 for the title and stick it to Kyle Key that used to count the GOTYs.
No other title will ever surpass it because those websites/accounts won't ever be checked again and won't be tallied.
No other title will ever surpass it because those websites/accounts won't ever be checked again and won't be tallied.
The numbers of GOTY is irrelevant... each year there more or less publications making GOTY award... 461 in 2022 vs 648 in 2020.
But that doesn't take the merit from these games.
This year GOTY is being too centered in the Elden Ring due the lack of competition... the biggest rival failed to delivery what gamers expected from a Santa Monica game.
On TLOU2 case it had more competition and so you can see by the %...
TLOU2 won around 50% of the awards.
ER won around 70% of the awards.
In terms of quality TLOU2 is a better game than ER imo.... and again for me it is not even close.
