The Game Awards GOTY Is The Last Of Us Part 2

Haven't played the game myself so I can't comment on its quality but Congratulations to Naughty Dog for this and all the awards they received tonight.

Animal Crossing misses out? I'm suprised it even got nominated!

Cue explosion in 3...2...1...

Because of course it is.

I have no doubt that when I get around to it it will look fantastic and be a mild chore to actually play. Like all ND games since Uncharted.

Oh what a shocker that The Last of Us 2 just sweeped the Game Awards. (Despite Ghost of Tsushima winning the popular vote as the players choice) totally not rigged at all.

Well deserved. Congrats Naughty Dog

Loud, somewhat disgruntled meh from here.

Looking forward to playing this! Picked it up on BF.

lets all pretend this was a good decision and move on

I mean, of course they won. No one wants to be told they hate women or whatever for not supporting the game.

Good for them. They took risks which is more than can be said for a lot of AAA devs.

It certainly checked all the boxes for the people voting.

Well deserved winner. Unforgettable experience for me.

Evil Dead is on Switch, why is there no repooooooooooort

YEP bc why not, CONGRATS they only won like 5 diffrent awards in one night, its not like nobody hated it or nothing PLUS Ghost of Tsushima SUCKS Its a repetative mess, Not rigged at all. (Even tho I'm not happy I will say concrats to last of us 2 well played or WP)

Another year dominated by a playstation game, surprised?...... No

Fully Deserved!

Hades was robbed

Ehhhhh.... sure. It's a good game and is definitely quality, I just thought there were games that were either better gameplay-wise (Ghost of Tsushima) or better defined the year this was (Animal Crossing). Regardless, congrats Naughty Dog.

Had to laugh at the end when that guy said all 6 games were masters of true story telling, yet animal crossing was one of those games 😂😂

Would of liked to of seen paper mario or hyrule warriors nominated for some awards though as to me they have been nintendos 2 best games this year

@AnnoyingFrenzy Its good for us all to be good sports So well said chum.

Bugsnax was robbed

Meh, considering how winners were decided (10% public votes and 90% from a voting jury consisting of gaming websites) TLOU2 not winning GOTY would’ve been a serious curveball.

All anybody can hope for is that, like past GOTY winners, it has little impact on the industry due to the length of time it takes to develop games and how long these ultimately-hollow awards ceremonies remain in the public and corporate eye.

What do I think about the GOTY? Not much.

The only other competition it had was Ghost of Tsushima. The other games were too narrow in scope and FF7R screwed up at the very end.

Yeah Animal Crossing it's good but definitely not deserving of winning GOTY award. It's just lacking too much QOL and other stuff for that.

Its a shame... This game won most of the categories, when is not that good.But games such as Doom or Ori didn’t even recieved one.
It’s certanly unfair IMHO

Did anyone really expect Animal Crossing to win? It could have sold 100million copies and it still wouldn't have won as it never had a chance.

Being surprised that TLoU2 won is like being surprised that 2k sports games don't have gambling, simulated or otherwise, in the ESRB rating.

@Kalmaro Well, are we shocked at all... I really didn't enjoy TLOU2 either, but if it fits your agenda, what can ya do? Nothing

@auck Yep, it was basically guaranteed a win since it's a fav of game sites and sooooo progressive.

All this told me is that devs hate Nintendo...nothing cool announced for the platform. Also, Doom should have won.

@Kalmaro Like really.

Honestly, why did this win GOTY? I played TLOU2 about 2 times, and was disappointed by the story over and over again, sure the game play, sound design and visual design was pretty good, but the story, in both quality and what they're centered around, TLOU is a story centered around love, while TLOU2 is centered around hate, and both of these are vastly different than the first, and it just drags down the game as a whole, but are the Game Awards rigged? Im.... suspicious, maybe yes, maybe no, but the fact it won 7 awards brings up more questions than answers.

Should’ve been FF7R... 😥

Real talk: if Animal Crossing somehow got GOTY, there would definitely be something that got rigged.

@A_standard_idiot The best answer I can give is look at WHO makes up their voting jury and make a best guess based on that.

@N8tiveT3ch And that really shouldn’t be surprising, people hate Nintendo for following the beat of their own drum (or making their own spin on certain trends) and obtaining success from doing so.

Grats to all the winners, although I would have loved to see Hades sweep. Can you imagine an indie clearing up at an awards ceremony? Hades was my personal pick for many of these categories but it did take home two wins which is nice.

Side note; the game announcements this year were very weak across the board. What happened?

when you watch the one-star meter on Google reviews for The Last of Us Part II go up in real time XD

A farce. Animal Crossing is easily GOTY. It's a cultural phenomenon.

Of course it won, because it's an IMPORTANT game. As we all know, TRUE ART is angsty!

I just began TLOU2 on PS4 a couple days ago. It's good so far. Visually it looks incredible, even on a base PS4.

It would've been great to see Hades win. I'm still trying to play through the first Last of Us. It's just dragging for me though. But one day I'll get to its sequel.

l already knew ACNH won't win. I wished it was Doom or Ghost Tsushima, not Last of Us 2. Still can't believed that l watched 3 hours of waste. I didn't care about anything from Nintendo, l was looking forward Ghost Tsushima winning and get many awards like LOU2 did.

@ZebZed eh, good point. Have a good day

@OctoAori20 woah, woah, chill it, i don't like TLOU2, but... just take a sec to chill.

me after seeing LOU 2 win

@OctoAori20
TGA is a joke. DICE awards are legit.

The chud-o-meter is rising.

Get ready cuz here..we..GO

Richly deserved. Great game, great story- I’m pleased with this news.

Good game. Enjoyed it more than last years GOTY, Sekiro (had a blast with it also, just different). Hope they make an Abby stand alone like Miles.

Last 4 GOTY have been worth my cash.

Expected? Yes.
Deserved? No.

Soy wins again it seems.
The game and Dev who spat in the face of their actual fans wins, what a world to live in lmao.

@Snatcher Yes really

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Look, it was pretty obvious from the beginning that TLOU 2 was getting GOTY and many other awards. It checked off all the boxes gaming journalists are looking for.

No, it's not my GOTY, but neither is Animal Crossing. Honestly, neither fit the typical genres that are interesting to me.

Hades was my GOTY and Ori 2 second. To each his own.

@Tendogamerxxx Ha, acting like you even know what race I am.

@Kalmaro Doesn't matter. Acting like a fool.

SJW fake gaming media who picked this, but it won’t result in a massive increase in sales $$$$$.

FF7R was robbed!

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Well, anyway, it's a technical masterpiece, and critics loved it, so no real surprise here.

Hey, Evil Dead is on the Switch now!

@JSDude1 you have no clue what you’re talking about.

@Tendogamerxxx Whatever makes you feel better about being racist online buddy. You're not important enough to me to get on my nerves. I really just kinda pity you.

Unless you're trolling, in which case you got me.

@N8tiveT3ch YEP.

@Ralizah Ya as long as the critics like it its good and its going to win, so bogus. but that's life.

@Kalmaro LOL I reported his comment and now its gone Or he just deleted it.

@Snatcher Good, back to being frustrated with TLOU winning.

The only award it deserved was the: "Innovation in accessibility" I won't argue that. But every other category? Just... no.

@Ralizah first off, nice Dangonronpa pfp, and second off, TLOU2 shouldn't of won, but imo, every nominee in GOTY was robbed.

@Chowdaire Working from home slowed the already slow process of development down that much more.

No surprise here.

@A_standard_idiot
Let's show Naughty Dog the Danganronpa series. Maybe then they'll know what a great story looks like. Hope you're feeding your Four Dark Devas of Destruction well, Gundham XD

@Ralizah
SEE! Even Junko agrees! Something went seriously wrong on this day!

@JSDude1
Look, I didn’t want this game as GOTY, but we have to be reasonable here.

I only play maybe three big budget AAA games a year these days (mostly stick to indies, Nintendo, and retro games).That being said, TLoU2 absolutely deserves it. Better than the first in nearly every respect (except pacing I guess, it’s a couple hours too long imo).

@patbacknitro18 Cry harder

Whatever. I was just there for the Smash reveal. If anything, Rock N Roll Hall of Fame had taught me that the people that deserve awards or inductions never get them. Excited for Rise and hopefully Zelda or Metroid next year.

And I think Evil Dead is PS4 and PS5 exclusive. I would like to be wrong though. I used to have all the Evil Dead games...

I wouldn't say Last of Us 2 was all that big. I remember it on Twitter for a couple of weeks, and then it went away.

Hades seems to have stayed in the spotlight longer. And the Ghost of Toshiba (SP?) as well.

I don't know. I didn't play any of them.

Also I'm just glad that Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition was nominated for Player's Voice more than anything else.

ITT people calling out political bias supposedly favoring the game while being politically biased against it smh

Oh come on! What does it take to get a Nintendo game nominated every once in a while?

It's insulting that the best multiplayer game was given to Among Us. There's no reason that game needed to be nominated besides popularity

I personally don’t think Naughty Dog’s titles should ever win GOTY. They are barely even games and the stories/dialog are also like b-movie quality.
Their saving graces are cinematography and pacing which are superb.

I played both Last Of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima, and this is complete *****. LOU2 should NEVER have won Best Narrative. It's narrative is sloppy, confusing, idiotic, overused, and had the worst character assassinations I've ever seen. LOU2's revenge narrative is poorly done and executed with its only saving grace being the zombies and gameplay.
Ghost of Tsushima's narrative is great. It showed how glorified, useless, and unrealistic honor is, while still showing the good points after the bad points were made. Its narrative was clear and concise. You care about the characters and are sucked into the story, with fun and clever gameplay.

That don't sound right...

Are you sure they didn't win the award for worst sex scene?

Seems fair!
But I was eager for the orchestra bit and I think it was such a huge wasted potential that they didn't mash Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing's themes, as god had intended. Oh well

Absolutely deserved winner. Played thru twice and eager for a third. A daring stunning piece of work. Loved it xxx

So many games far more deserving to win awards than TLOU2. But TLOU2 ticks so many boxes, so of course it dominates.

@Itachi2099 maybe they will report it later, but looks like Sony was messing up with some announcements through marketing deals, Evil Dead showed only PS platforms during the live stream
Disco Elysium looked like it was a PlayStation console-exclusive and I got disappointed but then through Twitter the devs also announced it for Xbox and Switch
Also there was a GTA Online trailer that only listed PlayStation 4 in the end even though that game is a notorious multiplatform title (that sadly is not on Switch but still)

Loved The Last Of Us Part 2. A brilliantly woven narrative. Well done.

Wow I am so surprised this game won tonight. Oh wait of course I'm not surprised as who else would they have picked.

Don't think it deserves the award to be honest considering how it was received by the gaming community. I had hoped for ghost as while I think AC NH was an awesome game it was not likely it would win

@JimmySpades That doesn't explain the lack of good new announcements. If you look at the release schedule for 2021 both nintendo and Sony have an amazing line-up. If anything, the slowdown caused a lot of games to get pushed back so there should be even more things to talk about after a slow year. Maybe all the big announcements have already been revealed though leaving slim pickings.

@Chowdaire I’m super disappointed by the announcements tonight. Usually there are a few games that interest me but I think the only thing new that surprised me was Season.

I only played Animal Crossing: New Horizons of the games that were nominated for Game of the Year and I don't think AC:NH even deserved to be nominated at all. Outside of that I didn't really have a favorite because I never played any of the other nominees so I didn't care who won.

I did remember seeing that The Last of Us part II was controversial for a lot of different reasons (some were very dumb) so I'm kinda surprised it won over the other games that were almost universally accepted as being good.

Can’t believe tlou2 goty 🤷🏻‍♂️

Of course The Last of Us 2 won. Was expecting that. Should've been Animal Crossing, which is my personal Game of the Year.

Congratulations to TLOU2. Kinda expected. 2021 is awesome already for Switch lol.

I dislike games like The Last of Us 2. As a medium videogames are capable of delivering storytelling in ways that aren't possible anywhere else, and TLOU2 barely takes advantage of it. Yet the games industry is so incestuous they'll always applaud the loudest for the AAA Hollywood shooty gun game. Oh, working conditions at Naughty Dog? Don't worry about that, look at those pretty graphics! Yawn. Nintendo really dropped the ball with Animal Crossing but at least that game has charm.

I wanted to say it should also win "Most Toxic Game Studio Work Environment" Award, but then I remembered Ubisoft.

The Game Awards are the gaming equivalent of Youtube Rewind at this point. Suck off what's popular and shill out to the highest bidder. No Man's Sky winning best ongoing was a massive surprise though, considering Fortnite is the biggest corporate shill of them all.

@Grot most of the reasons it was praised in the media had nothing to do with gameplay or story lol

No surprises there.

Too bad it didn't win Player's Choice!
I feel like official rewards/reviews matter less and less in these days, same with movies.

Anyways folks, enjoy what you like and don't get into each other's hair about something so immaterial.

Imagine complaining about a game winning a award and comparing to players voted award that only won cause they wanted to spite the other high profile game.

Now shoes in the other foot and people really complaining

you don't say?!

Freakin' Animal Crossing is much more a video GAME than dumb Last of Us

Haha no, it isn't. It's a good game, but it's not GOTY. Minus the texture issue, FFVII remake is GOTY.

I'm genuinely sickened by the fact that transphobia wasn't a deal breaker

@Jayofmaya Well damn, I thought THE GAME AWARDS had the say in what was GOTY, what with it being THE GAME AWARDS and everything.
But nope, apparently they're wrong, and Jayofmaya from a Nintendo forum has the final say

@LilMuku You betcha The award that counts is clearly player's choice. The GOTY is below that in any intellectual's eyes.

@locky-mavo Probably because they designed the game around grabbing specific awards. Like oscar bait movies.

I think if a game can sweep an award show of 7 awards including game of the year. It's either the greatest game ever created, or they were fishing for those awards.

I think Paper Mario: Origami King got robbed for not even being nominated for Best Score/Music or Best Art Direction.

The Last of Us 2 is nothing but the biggest disappointment this year.

I didn't mind Last Of Us 2 but I have to admit, it isn't close to being the best game last year and it panders way to much to a political agenda.

Meh, nothing more than was expected in the awards.

The Callisto Protocol and Back4Blood both look amazing, and then Panzer Dragoon online (can't remember its name) and Perfect Dark mean im going to have to get a new Xbox as well as a PS5 (not that I'm complaining as I would have picked one up for Fable anyway).
The only disappointment was lack of Switch announcements really.

Game awards were always meaningless. I remember back in the 2000's they would always just give them to some generic gritty FPS or GTA, but in this case its more obvious its rigged to artificially promote TLOU2 even though at best its one of the most divisive games ever due to how much it ruined the first games story and how much of a baby the lead dev was on Twitter.

As far as anouncements went it was pretty meh overall. As far as the awards part went I wasn't paying attention cause I don't really give a flying fudge! Hell I only just watched it after getting up so could skip the fluff between reveals.

@Aya-chan You're totally right!

It's a very cinematic and slow pace game so I believe it became GOTY because of that and how it continues the story from the first game but to me my GOTY would had to be Ghost of Tsushima.

I don't think New Horizons should be anywhere near a GOTY list. We'd complain enough if people suggested COD or FIFA be on it due to it's sales figures. It's so similar to the AC game that came out 20 years ago.

I think Last of Us Part II is a fine winner. I don't think it's as good as the first game, and I personally much preferred Half-Life: Alyx, but the suggestions the awards are rigged make you look crazy. It got very high review scores, so clearly a game well thought of by the the sort of panels they pick to judge these awards. How would you suggest it's been rigged? By a few people deciding it should win? Because that's not rigged, that's how these work.

Every game that was nominated earned that spot more than TLoU 2 did.

Sure it tried things, but some of it wasn't handled well as say, what Hades did.

Like seriously, was it better than FF7R, Ghosts of Tsushima (a new IP) Animal Crossing New Horizons (Which basically took the gaming world by storm) or Hades (Which basically redefined Rougelike games)?

@Peach64 It won 7 different categories and based on the players choice award it wouldn't have even won GOTY if the impact of the public votes wasn't limited to 10% of the vote.

Comes to show what an afwul year for gaming has been too. A bunch of pointless remakes, mediocre sequels and some of the laziest AAA games ever produced. Yawn. Good thing that we can relly on the indies, as usual.

@Marxally Not convinced that The Last of Us 2, Final Fantasy 7 or Ghost of Tsushima were lazy, pointless or mediocre. I'd credit most of the Dynasty Warriors games with those adjectives, but wouldn't put those three in that league.

@Jayofmaya see I was mocking you but now you're actually just providing the comedy yourself by continuing

@OctoAori20 Your comment is ridiculous.

@Peach64 Last Of Us 2 was critically acclaimed by critics, however by fans its considered bad or divisive if you look at user reviews on Metacritic or just comments and discussions in general. The sales also dropped by 80% after its launch week. The only legacy the game will have in its future is how divisive it was as opposed to the first game which is GOATed all the time.

Ghost Of Tsuishima would be a better pick since it sold more and is respected more by gamers compared to critics.

@Peach64 Haven't played ACNH yet so can't comment on that (it's under the tree for one of the kids so will give it a go in a couple of weeks), but I agree with you about The Last of Us. Not finished it yet (approx halfway through the Abby story) so can't say how I rate it against the original yet, but I only got around to completing that earlier this year so in a way it feels like playing one big game rather than two separate ones. So far I think it's extremely well-made and genuinelty gripping, with a good revenge/violence-begets-violence story. Nice to see violence made out to be something unpleasant in games for a change as well, rather than being rewarded for racking up thousands of kills (not that I don't enjoy games like Call of Duty and God of War for what they are, it's just good to have something that makes you think about the horror of violence and murder in a real sense).

At some point it started feeling like the default choice for everything.

This was the sony awards more then the game awards when the world was falling apart AC was there now i get why nintendo doesn't want to put anything out.

The game with the biggest budget wins. Boring result. Videogames are supposed to be creative, not a competition of big money.

They're all deserving to be honest. Great year for games and a lot of variety in the nominees.

The real winner? GAMERS!

So Ghost of Tsushima got GOTY. Nice.

Did not watch and glad of it. The "awards" are worthless.

@NGNYS The Last of Us wasn’t a particularly political game, though. Its “violence begets violence” story doesn’t have a political party, and the characters aren’t exactly spewing talking points.

The only reason anyone would call it “political” is because it includes a few (well-developed) LGBT characters - but that’s only “political” to extremely regressive individuals who think the mere existence of LGBT people is political.

There are perfectly legitimate reasons not to like the game, but “it’s too political” isn’t one of them.

@Dr_Lugae But it's not meant to be based on public voting. If that was the case it's the same as just going with the game that sold the most. The Oscars don't give Best Picture to the film that sold the most tickets. They have a panel and they decide the winner. Just because it doesn't match the public opinion does not make it rigged.

Well deserved. It's the best game I've ever played. Some of these comments are, well, not surprising lol.

TGA's problem is that it seems to want it's cake & eat it too. They should either go full "player's choice" and have the most popular game(s) win, or they should cut out the public opinion all together and have the voting body solely consist of journalists (or better yet, drop the journalists & make it like the Oscars, where the voting body for a particular category consists only of those who work in that field), that way we can at least be sure that, despite whatever bias'/agenda some may have, at least the voting body has a studied academic/technical understanding of why a certain aspect of a game is good, regardless of public opinion/popularity.

Congrats to tLoUP2. I'm not particularly interested in playing it (nothing to do with the fandom controversies, I just don't care for zombie titles & haven't played the first), but I have no reason to doubt it's legitimacy as GotY.

@Sondheimist well written? We have an unlikable character who murders the protagonists in a humiliating way and then were forced to play as her for good chunk of the game. This game is just nihilistic filth made for people who just want games to be movies/high art instead of something fun.

@Jslade nice troll

@Snatcher even the disney Hades is upset

This reminds me of the time Shakespeare in Love won best picture over Saving Private Ryan.

@Jayofmaya
Amen!

Are we going to talk about how DOOM FREAKIN ETERNAL was nominated for so much but did not win a single thing, but TLOU part two can? Bs.

You know, maybe it's an unpopular opinion, but I just don't like Naughty Dog, I have never been impressed by any of their games, despite the press attention they get, the quality of their games is on par with B tier developers imo. Insomniac, Santa Monica, and Sucker Punch are better first party studios for Sony.

@BirdBoy16 LOL

The game awards is as much a joke as the Oscars or any other award show.

Im sorry but the last of us is trash. i call it the crap of us

I don't like xbox and playstation news on this site, Unfollow.

I came in this comment section expecting a show and I definitely got one.

@OctoAori20 Explain ‘woke’ to me and why it’s ’moronic’, and then how it has anything to do with this award. A video game development team is comprised of many people, and each brings their own experience and culture to the project.

Then explain why you’re so angry about a video game winning an award.

@Antraxx777 "Woke" basically means they're of, well... "That" terrible, despised group of people that are basically the most despised folks of this world we live in where they shove in their childish, moronic, corrupted and dangerous worldview into a video game and put in their toxic, spiteful "opinions" that are really just hurtful, hatred-filled antagonisms towards people who are mainly relaxed and really just want to enjoy gaming without getting into the whole mess that's going on politically and people who don't want politics in their gaming where these "woke" people basically make their games a statement on really controversial, hated topics (which good god, that's a can of worms I ain't opening here! //Sweats).

Neil Druckmann is one of those folks who basically threw a childish tantrum over his "game" (I use that term VERY loosely because the folks I'd seen who I admit I agree with when I say it's just basically a glorified movie but just barely made interactive and that I kind of agree that that sort of nonsense needs to go because if I wanted to watch a movie? Heck, I'd go to a free movie website or go to the cinema to get a movie ticket to see what I enjoy/like, but that's besides the point of this!) being leaked and posted to a few of the chan sites (4chan and if I remember seeing it right, 8kun!) and being wildly memed to (what I think is hilariously rightful) shame and ridicule where Neil got even more upset and started to act petty which led to the game's (again admittedly, hilariously well-deserved) review bombing with negative reviews and the drama continued on-and-off until just before and (I guess kinda?) into the VGAs where he left one last, spiteful, cringy message about how "every vote is a vote against haters" which is really childish, illogical and stupidly moronic and flies in the face about how awful his "game" is.

Long story short: It didn't deserve this honour it got because of the rightful backlash against it. There were way better games that GOTY could have gone to and it went to the woke and moronic game filled with childish, spiteful crap and "opinions" that had NO right being in a video game.

Video games are supposed to be an escape from how toxic reality is, not shovelling it into a video game like Neil did. God, he needs to grow up, grow a spine, or just fade away into irrelevancy entirely, the final and latter much preferred.

What?! Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't get the award again this year?

Rigged.

Also, surprised TLoU2 didn't win family game of the year, considering how accepting it is, for like, everyone, everywhere, or else.

This article could have used a much better headline.

TLOU2 ..the most over rated game I’ve ever played. Solid enough gameplay that’s been cut and pasted in from the first one and technically cutting edge, but no RDR2. It’s virtually a walking simulator in places. Naff and predictable choice.

@WickedUnicarnBoi Doom Eternal was a proper full blooded video game!

And with that, the title "GOTY" means even less to me now. I'll simply enjoy a good game in its own time, no competition between two arbitrary points on some imaginary time line. Borderlands 2 is my game of this moment, despite being far from perfect and an older game.

@RasandeRose
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@Razer

Well, same here. It was an OK action game, but thats not what I had expected as I hold the 1st game as one of the best from the PS360-generation.

Part 2, uninspired characters, uninspired plot, prolonged repetitive uninspired gameplay (they could actually had cut the game length with 20 hours, it was a bit of a pain after 25 hours and I just wished to be done with it, but then there were additional 20 hours of uninspired, mediocre playtime left lol)

@ZebZed in apologize that im a month late, but... yeah, it was rigged. Kotaku, IGN, Game Informer, Polygon, Gamespot, Destructroid, all giving the game, and the devs, endless amounts of praise.