What will win GOTY 2024

@Mozelleple112: your poll sucks, where's Tekken 8

@sargentd: I have Tekken 8 and am enjoying it. Don't see it winning GOTY though lol.

Only Tekken game that could win GOTY was Tekken 3.

and it happened to release in 1998, the greatest year of gaming so it barely broke top 5 lol.

@Pedro: Then why are you so upset about people hyping Death Stranding 2?

The real question is, how is it that you don't know the meaning of the word upset?🤔

@Mozelleple112: the only game that's released on your list is palworld.. but no tekken 8.. palword is in EA and buggy asf.. but no Tekken 8

Bad poll

@Mozelleple112: judas?? What even is that game. New prince of Persia and tekken 8 proven good games already released, you don't list them, nobody even knows what judas is yet, shouldn't be there.

Judas developer says it might come out before March 2025... but it's gonna be goty 2024???

This is to hard to pick

. Avowed

. PalWorld

. Flight Simulator 2024

. Indiana Jones

. Call of Duty

. Fable

. Tower Born

Indiana jones. Tired a little bit of it and its shaping up to be an all time classic.

Did anyone see the trixter vocation in dragons Dogma 2? Lol.... Wow.... Now that's what I'm talking about with attempting new gameplay ideas. Very cool!

Games gonna be off the hook. Goty 24

Tell us more.....

I don't care for GOTY. I don't need a Canadian and his awful show to validate what I play.

None of those games, that's for sure.

Well, maybe Hades 2. That studio is amazing and Hades was brilliant (as was Bastion and Transistor Pyre)

Also, from what outlet? Seriously dude, you can throw a stone and hit someone that will give out a GOTY award to any game. Gamespot GOTY? Youtuber? IGN? Podcaster? Local paper? National paper?

@Mozelleple112: Zero, huh?

Silly fanboy.

Didn't you hear? GOTY is only going to given from one outlet.🤭

The GotY is very seldom my GotY though, so I don't really care. That said, good luck to all and to all a good night.

@dabear: I'm not a useless fanboy like you are. You will pathetically hype ANY game that is made by Microsoft. They look terrible. If a turd was exclusive to Microsoft you'd hype at as the best thing ever. It's embarrassing really. Imagine loving a piece of plastic so much.

If Suicide Squad was made by Microsoft, and not on PS5 (you act as if that console has personally hurt your feelings) You would be like "this game definitely looks like it will win GOTY and is extremely fun and well written"

@mrbojangles25: Are you purposely ignorant or just pretending? We are of course talking about the official GOTY, the one given out at the TGA.

Alternatively we can use the metric of winning the most GOTYs, in which case, all of the above.

@WitIsWisdom: No predictions?

@sargentd: Judas is made by Ken Levine. He's one of the all time greatest video game developers.

There's:

• Hideo Kojima
• Hidetaka Miyazaki
• Neil Druckmann
• Gabe Newell
• Shiggy Miyamoto
• Ken Levine

I wouldn't place him in the top 5, but he is top 10 for sure.

Judas will be a true masterpiece. expect 93+ on metacritic, multi GOTYs everywhere.

Out of the games we have presented today, I think Judas will easily take it.

Then again, as the list is fairly weak, I'm sure there will be something that comes out of no where.

or maybe 2024 will be a year without a heavy hitter, just like 2021.

No, I'm apparently...

...ignorant.

@mrbojangles25: These simple folks live on the validation of others. lol

Whatever the new 3D Mario game is that'll launch with the Switch 2.

Delusional as always. Every single game from 2024 that has a chance of being GOTY is on every other system than your favorite🥱

@hrt_rulz01: Good call. I would also put Metroid Prime 4 up there as well.

@mrbojangles25: Yes and highly so, but it is my pleasure to educate.

And FYI, if some one talks about movie awards, they're usually referring to the Academy Awards (also known as the oscars).

There isn't a single actor on the planet who cares what Empire or IGN thinks is movie or actor of the year. Winning the Best picture is something else entirely though. But now you don't have to wonder where or which best picture award they are talking about!

@Archangel3371: Didn't even consider MP4 (or realise it even existed) , but based on how good MP1-3 are, I think has a very fair chance of winning over anything in my poll tbh

@Mozelleple112: so when a game advertises itself as "winner of over 20 GOTY awards" they're just listing the same award from the same outlet 20+ times? And not 20+ different outlets?

OK got it, thanks for clarifying.

@Mozelleple112: Man, I'm not really sure, but I would say that of the games listed Dragons Dogma 2 is my most anticipated.

Personally my game of the year so far (to this point) is ironically Granblue Fantasy Relink which was a very surprisingly excellent game that game review sites didn't get I guess. Most sites said the game was between 9 and 15 hours which isn't even close, but that is the level of game journalist that we unfortunately see these days. To see that game bouncing between a 79 and 80 is ridiculous and it easily rivals the best in genre..

I sit in a position these days after my retirement where it's fun for me to get a wide variety of games spanning many different genres and decide for myself, although I understand that isn't a convenience a lot of people have, and its easier for those with limited time and resources to only purchase and play the few blockbuster AAA games that are widely recommended and advertised for, and quite possibly may suit the weekend gamers. Although it's good seeing a game like BG3 have a lot of media and people take note of it, it was the name behind it that drove the hype to begin with. Let's not pretend as though Divinity 2 wasnt as good or even better, but it didn't have the mass appeal or critical acclaim.

My most anticipated games for 2024 that haven't released yet and that I'm very likely to get on day 1 (or shortly after) are.

Dragons Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, Avowed, Path of Exile 2, X Defiant, Blue Protocol, Throne and Liberty, Ashes of Creation, Unicorn Overlord, The Inquisitor, Metaphor Fantazio, Visions of Mana, Corepunk, and the list goes on..

The problem is there are a lot of tentative games, unannounced games, and games that have already been pushed back that include games like:

Archeage 2, Ark 2, Chrono Oddysey, Contra Operation Galuga, Killing Floor 3, Lost Eidelons Veil of the Witch, Marathon, Staw Wars Outlaws, and the list goes on and on.

My point is that with nearly 11 months left in the year and we don't even know some of the lineup that I will personally need to play more and come up with my own list. I play a LOT of games, and its a shame to see some fly under the radar or see them over.ooked when others that aren't as good get all the credit... often times before they even release.

The Mario launch game.

Sheep still thinking Prime 4 is coming out this year😆More cope than lems that for sure.

@above_average: Stellar blade looks like a low budget square game.

None of these. Rebirth and STALKER 2 will at least be really good though?

Hellblade 2, Dragon's Dogma 2, or some unannounced game. I honestly don't see how it can be Final Fantasy, considering that it's a remake... I'm personally not a fan of remakes even being nominated for this award.

@luxuryheart: I think remakes certainly deserve a nomination, just not win. As I said to someone else, RE4R was easily my second favourite game of 2023. Had it released in 2021, 2019, 2016 or 2014 I would be very glad if it won.

Its not beating something like BG3, Elden Ring, TLOU2 or GOW however. but I would EASILY pick it over It Takes Two (2021 winner) or Alan Wake 2 (runner up 20239

@mrbojangles25: LMAO marketing campaigns. Its utterly pathetic when companies like Ubisoft create GOTY editions for games like Far Cry 6. Same with gearbox for Gears 5 when the most awarded games of 2019 (in order) where: Death Stranding (most GOTY wins), RE2, Sekiro (won the official GOTY), Disco Elysium, and then Gears 5.

Ditto with Far Cry 6. It wasn't even in the top 5 most awarded of the year. I'm sure EA does that shit too, when one of their games win GOTY from 2 completely unheard of websites in Sweden or something.

The are two arguments to be made. The game that won the official GOTY and the one that won the most GOTYs that year.

official GOTY winners (TGA):

• 2023: BG3
• 2022: Elden Ring
• 2021: It Takes Two
• 2020: The Last of Us 2
• 2019: Sekiro
• 2018: God of War
• 2017: LoZ: BOTW
• 2016: Overwatch
• 2015: Witcher 3
• Dragon Age Inquisition

The games that won the most GOTY wins of each year:

• 2023: BG3
• 2022: Elden Ring
• 2021: It Takes Two
• 2020: The Last of Us 2
• 2019: Death Stranding
• 2018: God of War
• 2017: LoZ: BOTW
• 2016: Uncharted 4
• 2015 Witcher 3
• 2014: Dragon Age Inquisition

As you can see the only difference between winning the most and winning the official are 2019 and 2016. In every other year since its inception, the game that won TGA GOTY had the most GOTYs from the random outlets.

I agree that both matter, but none of the random outlets individually matter at all. But as a collective, they give you a consensus of what the best game that year was. Think of it like metacritic.

Gamespot, IGN, Game Trailers, Famitsu etc on their own don't matter that much but their collective in the metacritic score does matter.