Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Wins Another 'Game Of The Year' Award

Well deserved. Congratulations to Nintendo for the success and positivity!

ive gone on quite the internal journey with this game, and ive landed in a spot where i can confidentely say that yeah, i get why people would put it as the GOTY. It really is impressive how much there is in the game and how much there is to do

Congrats and well deserved.

It also won Game Informer and IGN's GotY, among others. Well deserved.

Also nice to see Mario Wonder get #3.

Everybody know Baldur's Gate is the better game
(Ends sarcasm)

TotK is my "big game" this year, so I haven't gotten around to BG3. I have the physical edition ordered. Not sure I'll open it. I'm weird.
Also, while SF6 is wonderful, the music is atroooooocious. Yes, that matters to me. I just throw on a podcast when I'm playing it but that's a bummer in and of itself. I miss fighters with catchy music.
Anyway, good to see Nintendo killing it. Never would have guessed this is where they'd be after grabbing a WiiU day one. Really looking forward to any news on the Switch's successor.

Baldur's Gate 3 is good so far for me. But I am playing it on ps5 and it definitely doesn’t feel like it was made for this system. Could have got it for my laptop but I like playing games on console more and just don’t get keyboard and mouse. Tears of the kingdom though was made for the console it was on. And it went beyond what I thought a sequel could be. The building of vehicles and mechs is crazy. Fuse is something else especially with arrows. The reverse power never gets old. And ascend is a good power that I kept forgetting I had. Luckily the shrines I went to kept making use it so I don’t forget as much now. The story that I liked. This game was just it.

@RubyCarbuncle I'm 100% sure the majority of people who liked the game played Breath of the Wild as it was one of the most anticipated games because of breath of the Wild which sold more than 30 million copies. Most critics praised it for how well it was able to expand upon BOTWs foundation.

@EriXz Why can't both be equally good in their own right?

@RubyCarbuncle

I agree, I don't feel ToTk changes enough, and even with what it did a lot of it was rehashed. I am in no way surprised its winning a lot of GotY awards though. The Nintendo hive mind is too strong.

Now I did thoroughly enjoy TotK. However, I really did not like BotW and according to my end of year review, from its launch until this year I played 37 hours.

In comparison I played TotK for 260 hours in two months. A back injury leaving me stuck in bed during that time helped me rack up those hours. I did enjoy it more.

Regardless, it's far too similar to BotW. The sky islands were far less than I had expected, and while the underground was fun for the first few hours it quickly became a major annoyance for me to traverse and I resented the need to do so. Pre-duplication glitch anyway.

In a way, the fact that a game as ambitious and huge as TOTK runs on the Switch at all makes it automatically deserving of GOTY. The fact that they made TOTK at least twice as big, and add game-breaking mechanics like Ascend, and add mechanics like Ultrahand and Fuse that required a complete rethink of the game's design... and it somehow runs better than Breath of the Wild? What can't this team do?

@nimnio Well it's no different than the majority who seem to think the minority who doesn't praise along with them is a hater of some sort.

One thing I always enjoy personally it's watching people who can't pick apart an argument and resort to silly behavior in defense of their media.

I still havent faced ganondorf, and up to this point i have a avoided the flying dragons lol. 150hrs in.
The freedom you have in this game is just amazing. I hope when the switch 2 arrives we also get the 60fps 4K version, i would double dip if they do that.

@HebrewGamer My favorite thing about Hogwart's Legacy is seeing the Christy Boys defending it now, because JK started showing how hateful she is. HP was evil demonic wizardry until she started hating a group of people. Isn't that interesting?
I have it. The music is good. That's all of the praise I have. It's a very, very middling open world game full of QTEs, fetch quests, and a rote story. And the Switch port was fine?

Congratulations to Nintendo, while Sony became the biggest loser this year

@HebrewGamer I think Hogwarts Legacy could’ve been way better than it was. I think it would’ve really benefitted from having some social elements since it takes place in a school.

Even though it didn’t win TGA, it’s nice to see it get the award from a lot of major outlets. That counts for a lot.

@Kang81 There is no Nintendo hive mind. People just like the game more. Y’all need to stop making these fantasies

@Akurusu a lot of people dig the Yakuza games that had the same map. And Spiderman 2. But no one mentions that or calls them DLC. Strange.

@LikelySatan No one eh? No not a single person on planet earth. Nope, not a single one. 8.1 Billion people alive today a not a single one has ever mentioned that.

Deserved. But no Spiderman 2? Weird

@Frailbay30 An argument of incredulity! Quaint.
Yes. I was being hyperbolic, you right. But hey! Go ahead and find me some comments/articles/etc that say "Spiderman2 is just DLC."

Zelda and BG3 are both incredible games, they will win many awards for sure. Well deserved.

It's a pity that another fantastic game like Alan Wake 2 will be overshadowed by these 2 masterpieces, another normal year it would have won a lot of GOTY awards as well.

PS: Pikmin 4 deserves more recognition!

@nimnio Well put.

@RPGamer Sony became the biggest loser? How so?

@ActionPanther. Indeed. It's all about the games really

Look at Humanity reaching 4. Love when an excellent puzzle game gets great love.

@RPGamer Yes, im sure Sony is crying themselves to sleep. All they have to conform them is the mountains of cash they make every day.

Hell of a year for puzzle games!! 3 puzzle games on that list and Viewfinder or talos principle 2 didn't make it but are pretty well regarded.

Fully deserved, the game is a huge improvement over BoTW and credit to Nintendo for using the same world/map but made it feel totally fresh to explore at the same time. Hopefully there's some DLC in the works.

@Liam_Doolan Their #7 pick is Charts of Sennar? Never heard of it.

@siavm BG3 is designed as a mouse and keyboard game. So you should be able to sinc or plug in a mouse and keyboard on the PS5.

@HebrewGamer ...clearly.
Anyway, Wonder Bread sells gangbusters too. But if presented to a judge in a bakeoff, I doubt it would be bringing home the...ribbon? Trophy? IT IS AN ANALOGY, WORK WITH ME.
And if John Wonderbread, CEO of Wonderbread, was a loud bigot, Wonderbread might not even be considered for baking greatness. He would definitely have the support of other loud bigots claiming it was all a set up, however. And he would definitely laugh all the way to the bank.

@Lightsiyd

Sony became the biggest loser this year because Spider-Man 2 didn't win a single award at TGA, it didn't even make Edge's GOTY top 10

@HebrewGamer her brand is toxic to advertisers. It's that simple and that cynical.
But I work at a harm reduction safe outdoor space (tent city for homeless), and my wife is literally a blue-haired gender studies major. So for us, "the message" is important. JK Rowling can eat the moldiest bag of ass. Her own fault people feel that way.

@Quiet2down im being sarcastic mate, they are both good in their own right

@HebrewGamer
Yeah you come across as real level headed.
I bought two copies and my daughter is trans and plays it. I don't believe there's a possible thing as an ethical consumer, and we try to teach them that things are nuanced. As in, art is as much perception as intention, to some extent separately from the artist. The world is complicated, let it be complicated, learn what you can.
I don't care what you think you know about any political or social issues.

@HebrewGamer Dude. I'm all for not letting your game choices be influenced by political climates, political correctness, and social conformity. But when talking about Rowling, you really should brush up on how things really stand before you judge her as being in any way worth defending on a personal level.

You might want to look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Avcp-e4bOs&list=FLykAWt0i3O4xZuEjxcuEusg&index=11

@RubyCarbuncle sequels don’t bother everyone. Otherwise the spiderman open world games (starting with 2) would have died out years ago. (Someone mentioned the Like a Dragon series which many of the games reuse locations) locations in general don’t change landmass in real life. Instead life changes those locations. Games are catching up.

For many it is the mechanics, how the environment has changed (and it does), the story and characters. A good sequel pushes all that forward. Totk did that in spades. The best part is for those of us that enjoy both games, they are still different enough to return to either. Sorry it wasn’t your cup of tea but I suspect your assessment for the enjoyment of others is way off. I put in over 400 hours into BOTW. And still playing TOTK at nearly 300. Honestly I am hoping they keep this template to Hyrule and play with the time period for the next one. So much can be changed and added. Without altering the land itself.

If sequels burn you out do you never replay games?

that makes 9 goty awards for totk so far:ign,polygon,nintendolife,destructoid,gameinformer,giant bomb,comic book,the guardian and edge

@Yoshif3 not as bad as the baldurs gate 3 community throwing tantrums that their game isnt sweeping goty awards like totk is doing right now.

@LikelySatan people abolsutely can make consumer decisions based on ethics.

I don't expect to get anywhere with people who have waged all out war on logic, reason, facts, and biological science. Just know no one cares what you people do until you try to foist your lifestyle on other people. No one is required to play along.

@HebrewGamer we don't need to "foist" anything. All kids need to hear is that they can choose whatever they want to be. They don't need to be taught anything. So, putting this tiny group of people under a microscope is just spreading the information. Ironically, bullying the trans community is amplifying "the message." So, thanks!

@HebrewGamer explain that.

@RubyCarbuncle bro you started with “if anyone likes TOTK then there’s a 100% chance they didn’t play BOTW”.

dude your “opinion” is based on a completely false statement, don’t get mad when people start correcting you and pointing out how ridiculous it is. If re-used maps bother you then don’t play any Yakuza games. If you say stuff like that you’re going to get called out.

@HebrewGamer
"You're acting like she said to bring out the cattle cars and fire up the gas chambers for all trans people. Instead, she stated nothing but facts where these people lied on her for an hour."

That statement right there is full of *****, with several doses of logical fallacy to boot. For someone who spoke about logic in a comment I replied to, the irony is quite delicious. But you do you.

Well the world is just. I won't take the time to respond to a few messages I will simply state my personal opinion. Is the Zelda Community toxic? I don't really know, I haven't really paid much attention as the actual GOTY awards show baffled me a bit. I have a ton of hours in the Baldur's Gate franchise and it's always been a good game. What had bothered me is 98% of the players and therefore voters didn't even know what the game was until it was accidentally PS5 exclusive and got over hyped for that fact alone. Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 sold about 4 million in lifetime sales combined. Yes BG3 is a big, ambitious game and definitely builds upon 2 as it did to 1. I just wish BG3 had different publicity at launch so I could genuinely believe the end result. I have played both thoroughly and I truly believe believe as far as replayability, innovation and broad appeal TOTK should have won. Only thing I can say negative about it, is it should have waited till Switch 2 or whatever they call it came out to drop it.

@Lightsiyd How about you tell me what she said which was so horrible you needed to point to a link on her essay because the video you linked me to didn't show anything.

@LikelySatan Let's just say you gotta start early.

@HebrewGamer I still don't understand what you are implying here. As I said already, all kids need to know in order to understand that they can be whoever they want is that a lot of different people exist. Just existing is not "teaching," foisting, grooming, whatever. Trying to erase the existence of people (don't say gay, etc) is not something I'd think anyone would want to be part of. It's a trash culture war. I'm done though. Celebrating Xmas now. Hope your holidays bring you joy and lots of memories.

@HebrewGamer The bulk of the video reveals an essay J.K. Rowling wrote on the trans subject and explains why several points as not as accurate as Rowling may believe them to be. Including but not limited to trans-related surgery, mentality, safety laws and so forth. It's the kind of thing that shows why her stance is likely hurting the people she's trying to fight for far more than it helps them.

This is not something I want to go on about because I'm trying to get you to see it and judge for yourself and me sounding like I'm taking a side, even where I'm not, is contrarian to that. Or you could just forget about the video, it's not that big of a deal to me, and I didn't post it to have a back-and-forth. Have a merry Xmas.

Personally it is not as good as Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2. The novelty of Breath of the Wild is lost to me so I dont really feel like its a masterpiece. Glad many still able to enjoy it.

Bloody amazing game and my game of the year too.

The game definitely deserves it. I personally still haven't beaten the game yet, even after putting 155 hours into it simply because I end up getting bored by the time I get to the next key part of the story. I probably should just try to go straight to the objectives that will lead me to a conclusion rather than going around and trying to complete a lot of the side content.

There's just too much for me to deal with and explore with the time that I have available to me, but I have had quite a few memories made, and great experiences in the game. I just can't see myself ever bringing this game to full completion, I think it was sour my opinion of the overall game. I more or less had to do the same thing with BOTW, but that game didn't have a bunch of sky areas, and the depths below to deal with as well. It was a lot easier to manage. There is plenty of incredible content for those that want to stick around to see it all though.

I enjoyed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom well enough, but it is in no way "game of the year". Not in a year with Super Mario Wonder, Baldur's Gate 3, and Harvest Moon: Winds of Anthos. Sorry, it just isn't.

-FatBeverly