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IGN has opened a poll in which it has put various titles up against each other in duels. The vote is still open, but so far Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is in first place.

In celebration, Naoki Hamaguchi, the director of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, took to social media to celebrate the community's support.

"I'm completely overwhelmed by the wonderful results of the IGN community poll. Thank you all for your support! We'll do our best to develop the next game," he commented.

Check out the rankings so far:

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree
• Helldivers 2
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Astro Bot
• Dragon's Dogma 2
• Stellar Blade
• Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
• Hades 2 (Early Access)
• Rise of the Ronin
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Persona 3 Reload
• Tekken 8
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Palworld
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
• Luigi's Mansion 2 HD
• FFXIV: Dawntrail
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Mario vs Donkey Kong
• Visions of Mana
• Destiny 2: The Final Shape
• Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC
• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
• Unicorn Overlord
• V Rising
• Sons of the Forest
• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
• Pacific Drive
• Alone In The Dark
• Animal Well
• Balatro
• Enshrouded
• Another Crab's Treasure
• Princess Peach Showtime!
• The First Descendant
• No Rest for the Wicked (early access)
• Manor Lords (Game Preview)
• Granblue Fantasy Relink
• The Outlast Trials
• Last Epoch
• WoW: The War Within
• Sand Land
• Enotria: The Last Song
• NBA 2K25

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[nial]

Very based to see Rise of the Ronin in the top 10.

 

[Humdinger]

Not too surprising.

I need to play it eventually.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

I think it might top mine as well.

plagued by technical shortcomings and meta narrative wankiness but other than that the game is magic.

I still got some big titles to get around to though. Did they patch dragon ball wutang on the ps5 yet?



bow to wow

yipp'n n' yowl'n

Little salmon in the mutha fuk'n house and

 

[lughnasadh123]

Never could find the amazement people saw in Animal Well no matter how much I tried.

 

[Pelao]

My top three so far.

• Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree
• Astro Bot
• Rise of the Ronin

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[Danjin44]

Loved Rebirth but my GOTY still Unicorn Overlord…..fucking LOOOOOVED that game!

 

[Ridicululzz]

Rebirth was great. Definitely one of my top choices as well

 

[Metnut]

Rebirth was wonderful. Very happy I was able to play it at launch.

 

[Nankatsu]

Haven't played Astro Bot yet, but I highly doubt it will give me what Rebirth gave.

Rebirth is a phenomenal gaming package. Finish the game two days ago, and already want to go back and tackle the hard mode. After already putting 150+ hours into it.

 

[Schmendrick]

different tastes I guess. FF7 put me to sleep with its terrible pacing (imho ofc)

 

[HRK69]

Haven't played it (waiting for PC release) so infinite Wealth is my GOTY

Some amazing games on that list. People should stop complaining.

 

[Danjin44]

Some amazing games on that list. People should stop complaining.

Gaming is doooooooooooomed…/s

 

[Topher]

This isn't a poll.

"We'll add new games as they're released. Use the X to eliminate things you haven't played!
If you haven't played something, hit the X in the corner to disqualify it from future matches. Votes as many times as you like to establish your own ranking and contribute to the Community Ranking!"

FF7 Rebirth is at the top by virtue of being there longer than any other game. This thing has been going since February.

 

[simpatico]

Not even the best remake of the year with Dominus Collection on the prowl.

 

[Synastry]

5 of the top 10 are PS5 games but I thought X/twitter told me PS5 has no games I'm confuse?

 

[Flabagast]

Yes, Rebirth is the goty

 

[yogaflame]

I also have FF7 rebirth and it is a good game. But Stellar blade is the game of the year for me.

 

[ungalo]

People barely played 2 games this year, as always all of this is ridiculous.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Putting out a poll before the rest of the games of '24 comes out is pointless. They should have at least waited until Echoes of Wisdom was out before asking.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Space Marine 2 has my vote for GOTY but Stellar Blade and Rebirth are good seconds. Really enjoying World of Warcraft The War Within too but MMORPG don't win GOTYs.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

 

[RoboFu]

Nice .. I could see that.

 

[Jesb]

That's a pretty solid list with more bangers on the way. Not really sure why this year is considered a bad year.

 

[Sooner]

Tops mine too. Shout out to Astro Bot, as well.

 

[kazuyamishima]

9/10 can be played on a PS5, just saying.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Sounds about right. Shadow of the Erdtree gave it some real good competition, but Rebirth was very special. Technically my GOTY would be Paper Mario: TTYD but it feels kind of like cheating. I still need to play many of the games on this list, but Astro Bot is the only other game on this list I can think of that would surpass Rebirth.

 

[yogaflame]

Majority of the top 10 are PlayStation exclusives, or at least time exclusives. Who says ps5 has no games? My top three is 1. Stellar Blade 2. FF Rebirth 3. Astro bot

 

[fart town usa]

Very cool that Ronin is sitting in the Top 10.

It's my personal GOTY so far and I don't see it being topped.

Rebirth is dope too though. 2024 has been a great year for gaming and the floodgates are about to open up for PSVR2.

Exciting times to be a gamer.

 

[Crayon]

I might agree, though I missed a lot of games this year. I just have a hard time seeing anything top it unless erdtree is like a whole nother game. It's down to taking an amazing game (remake) and managing to get the world map in. That seemed impossible to me for years, but they did it. Totally convincing sense of scale. Feels like they've covered it all.

 

[Plies]

I'll finally play it once I score a PS5 Pro...

Plus a disc drive...

And a plastic stand, too.

 

[OGM_Madness]

Rebirth is the GOTY and I'm tired of people pretending it is not!

Can't wait to see it run on PS5 Pro, since the Performance mode was plagued with bad IQ.

 

[semiconscious]

if dragon's dogma 2 was the 6th best game of the year, we're all in trouble...

 

[dmaul1114]

Definitely at the top of my list so far, with Stellar Blade in 2nd.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Never could find the amazement people saw in Animal Well no matter how much I tried.

Same here friend and I'm one to usually love indies and Metroidvania fatigue still hasn't set in. I appreciate the game for what it is, but I find it really boring.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

My GOTY's

Stellar Blade
Black Myth Wukong
FF7: Rebirth
Like a Dragon: IW
Tekken 8

 

[Arsic]

Only thing I've immensely enjoyed to completion is Erdtree.

 

[ap_puff]

Sons of the forest came out this year? It feels like it came out ages ago, there was a bunch of hype and then it just kind of disappeared, anyone still playing that game?

*e also animal well deserves to be higher, that was a really innovative platformer.

 

[Flabagast]

DD2 really came and went huh ?

Rebirth GOTY by a very strong margin
Wukong second

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Not too surprising.

I need to play it eventually.

In the same year as Elden Ring DLC and Astro Bot? Fuck yeah I'm surprised.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Dawntrail was tge bettwr ff released this year

 

[Seyken]

Dawntrail was tge bettwr ff released this year

Coming from someone who loves FF14, Dawntrail was utter and complete trash, the only saving grace were the dungeons and boss fights. This is not an unpopular opinion too.

You have to be trolling.

 

[Pop]

I see why

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Coming from someone who loves FF14, Dawntrail was utter and complete trash, the only saving grace were the dungeons and boss fights. This is not an unpopular opinion too.

You have to be trolling.

Nope. Was it my favorite expansion? No. But I thought the new areas were fantastic, the music was great and the story decent over all. Sure Wuk Lamat kinda sucked but everything else was solid. The final zone will he on ny thoughts for a while.

And even if its not as good as other 14 expansions, it was still miles bettwr than ff7 rebirth.

 

[Rockman33]

looking at this list of games just reminds me of how disappointing of a year it's been for big game releases. Especially compared to last year.

Of course just my opinion for the types of games I enjoy most.

 

[DoktorCoktor]

Astro Bot or Helldivers 2 will be shilled this December. That be all. -End Transmission-

 

[Icymanipulator]

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Playing JRPGs since the 90s and Rebirth is in my top 5 and is one of the all time greats.







Going to do a hard mode replay early next year.

As for GOTY it would get my pick. I think it's exceptional what they put out with 3-4 years of development and they crafted a massive varied world and then went beyond the original game by expanding on all the things you did in that which made it such a unique experience. Then it has hours of Advent Children level cinematics from start to finish. I'm not sure how they did it when you look at how other studios have struggled to put out games of a much smaller production scope without any variety or amount of characters this has etc...

It reminded me how great the FF team can be when they finally make a game without development troubles, engine troubles etc like we saw with FF12, 13, 14 and 15. Long may it continue.

 

[danklord]

The one-two punch of FF16 into Rebirth will be studied for generations. It's, without a doubt, the game of the year.