This isn't really a fair measure. They competed in different fields.
All these Spider-Man voters didn't even play its predecessor Sunset Overdrive, mess. Shame. You should feel bad. Boo yourselves.
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Looks more like RDR2 is loved by a vocal minority
I'm still flabbergasted that remakes aren't recognised as new games and get omitted from the top 20 as a result.
Kiwami 2 is a massively different game compared to the original, trust me.
Best Horror Game: The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories = 68 points, 0 honorable mentions
There's only 2 sensible explanations:
1. we're banning people faster than we get new recruits
2. ERA is actually dominated by Microsoft stans who boicotted the voting because there was no credible candidate that could win.
12 and 13 are now showing. We had a missing quotation mark on the member tag quote for number 11 that was causing issues.
Because this is also in the OP to the voting thread:The thing I don't quite understand is why it states remasters are eligible in the voting OP, and has Shadow of the Colossus listed in the eligible games list, but not Kiwami 2, despite SotC missing out on being included in the final main list anyway.
Personally I think Remakes should be permitted. We're talking about games that have by and large been massively overhauled, with entirely new engines. It's more of a difference than a port or remaster.
------ Game Eligibility -------
Eligible games:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Gz3gkDgjZJI37tR2jIkZUn8RCpyOb2SQeSmjU/pubhtml
- Playable content released this year is eligible. This includes new games, remasters, ports, and so on.
- DLC, including expansion packs, are eligible to be voted on as long as it's playable. Destiny: Curse of Osiris is eligible. Horse Armor is not.
- Episodes of games released this year are eligible.
Remakes/remasters/ports were "eligible", as in, you were able to vote on them and include them in your lists, but only completely new games were eligible for the GOTY and Genre Awards.Ballot Scoring
Note that while all points will be tallied, only NEW playable content will be eligible for GOTY and Genre Award consideration.
All content is eligible for Platform Award consideration. Rereleases, ports, and other content will be awarded in their own category.
Or people played older games from their backlog, or didn't fancy the open world nature of many of last year's games. The only new game I played last year was GOW. so I didn't participate in the voting.
I'd expect it to rise since 2019 has many more games fitting Era's taste, which'll probably ignite more voting. RE2, Sekiro, DMC 5, KH3, Outer Worlds, and maaaaaybe TLoU II and/or Death Stranding.To be fair, over the years back on GAF the number of votes seemed to dip and rise every other year, so we'll see if it's a pattern this year
I hadn't heard about this game before, and after looking some material about it, it seems like a platformer. So, would people recommend it for a horror fan who dislikes platforming? I loved Little Nightmares, but hated its platforming, mostly because of its imprecision and how the checkpoint system lead to needless and frustrating repetition.
No, it's really not a horror game.
I really don't know what the people running this poll were thinking with those categories.
I mean I wouldn't entirely rule it out as a horror game, there is a lot of psychological horror in it and the entire game revolves around self-mutilation. But for someone who doesn't like platformers I don't think I could whole-heartedly recommend it.No, it's really not a horror game. It tells me that those running things who put it in that category haven't actually played the game.
I really don't know what the people running this poll were thinking with those categories.
I mean I wouldn't entirely rule it out as a horror game, there is a lot of psychological horror in it and the entire game revolves around self-mutilation. But for someone who doesn't like platformers I don't think I could whole-heartedly recommend it.
Someone said earlier that RDR2 got 3 times more number 1 spots than your queeeen, so I don't know, maybe not?
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Looks more like RDR2 is loved by a vocal minority
I mean I wouldn't entirely rule it out as a horror game, there is a lot of psychological horror in it and the entire game revolves around self-mutilation. But for someone who doesn't like platformers I don't think I could whole-heartedly recommend it.
So did we know why Kiwami 2 was omitted and will REmake 2 be omitted next year?
It is really unfair to Yakuza Kiwami 2 because that game was pretty much a whole new game. It is one of the best remake if not the best ever made.
You and the team at Santa Monica deserve the love! The game is fantasticThank you to all that voted and thank you for playing God of War. We are so glad that so many enjoyed this game specially in a year with so many other amazing games. Congratulations to all the winners.
Man that sucks a lot. Especially when Kiwami 2 had more points than Pokemon.For some bizarre reason, remakes got lumped in with remasters and ports. Which stings because I put Kiwami 2 at the top of my list, so it feels like it didn't get the recognition it deserved despite being a new game and vastly revamped compared to the original. A further inconsistency is that Pokemon Let's Go is a remake too, but wasn't classified as such.
There's no way in hell REmake 2 will be ineligible for the main top 20 this year. It's too noteworthy a release to be dismissed like that.
Someone stated earlier that RDR2 actually got 3 times more #1 votes than Spidey. That Spidey eventually came out on top anyway is impressive considering that RDR2 is on two platforms and also became the Xbox GOTY. Spidey must've been pretty much everywhere except rarely on top while RDR2 got the hate/love treatment and ended up on top more often but also ended up not even on the list at all among many voters.Lol people so mad that spider-man got second.
You know, maybe era just found out more fun to get in and play compared to rdr2. Maybe, just maybe, that's why it came in second for voting. Not sure grand conspiracy
Yes that's the point. Number ones from a select group of users buoyed it to the top, not ostensibly a broad base from many users.Someone said earlier that RDR2 got 3 times more number 1 spots than your queeeen, so I don't know, maybe not?
Ports, remasters and remakes are it's own category and not eligible for the main GOTY, if I got it right.That top 10 is a great list.
But how did Hollow Knight won best remake?