Hudo
Member
You mean different. BG3 and TotK are vastly different games, scratching vastly different itches. I love both games for very different reasons.
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IGN’s GOTY 2023 is The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
tmlDan
Member
Bruno_Arrais85
Member
Can't complain
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
It’s my second most played game this year, and I still need to do more. I’ve put about 75 hours into it. My daughter is at 350+ hours.
BG3 is fucking amazing, and so is AW2.
Honestly, this is one of those years where any of the top contenders taking a win makes me happy. They're all great games in a year full of them, and we're blessed to be able to argue about which of the three GOAT contenders is the best one lol.
Ultimately I imagine your favorite will come down to preferences, but all three are amazing.
tmlDan
Member
Honestly, AW2, for me, is not even close to ToTk and BG3 - its pretty average. But i agree, its been an amazing year for games.
Lionel Richie
Member
Honestly, I feel like any choice between BG3, TOTK, Wonder and AW2 (out of the games I played) is a correct choice. There isn't a clear winner like Elden Ring was last year. This year greatness is in the sheer amount of flat out masterpieces there are.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Seriously though, so many amazing games this year and its great to see there are a few options for legit industry leading games of the year this year.
Well deserved Zelda, and hats off to the runner ups!
lughnasadh123
Member
IGN voting ToTK and RE4 are the least shocking things to happen. Hell make a Bloodborne sequel and it'll be that years GOTY before it's even out.
Grats to the winners though. Any of those picks would be an easy choice for almost any other year. That's how amazing 2023 is.
Grats to the winners though. Any of those picks would be an easy choice for almost any other year. That's how amazing 2023 is.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
It's literally sponsored content. There's minimal difference between a billboard you drive past on the highway and IGN. Both have the sole purpose of driving clicks and marketing product.
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S0ULZB0URNE
Member
IGN....
But it is probably mine as well.
But it is probably mine as well.
Sojiro
Member
This was my reaction for BG3 winning TGA, and is the sensible one. I personally lean toward ToTK as my GOTY, but can completely understand why BG3 won and respect that. Once I saw the thread title I pretty much knew how a lot of the reactions in here would be. BG3 and ToTK are the best games of the year, so yeah some places are going to lean one way or the other.
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ZeroGravity
Member
Rare IGN W. In a year of so many great games Zelda was still far and away the best choice in my mind.
Krappadizzle
Member
If BG3 hadn't of come out, it would have been mine as well. I loved it more than BotW and it's easily Nintendo's best piece of work they've released. Amazing game. I wasn't sure the wait would have been worth all that time, but they really surprised me in a lot of ways and exploring in that game was simply incredible.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Came here to see if someone said this, as if The Game Awards are anything other than a cringe version of a Hollywood awards show.
Iced Arcade
Member
ever get your vitamin D levels checked?
Thirty7ven
Banned
Vitamin deez nutz
Musashipan
Member
Any Zelda is better than bg series
Even CD-i is ones, period.
My goty as well, deserved
Even CD-i is ones, period.
My goty as well, deserved
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
FunkMiller
Member
Yep. It’s my GOTY too. Incredible game.
Sleepwalker
Member
Best game i won't finish. Put it down after 40 hours to play FFXVI and never got back to it.
Mozzarella
Member
Good game but not my GOTY.
I have not been a fan of IGN picks recently. It seems to me that since TGA became a thing IGN picks just started to get worse and worse.
I have not been a fan of IGN picks recently. It seems to me that since TGA became a thing IGN picks just started to get worse and worse.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Never noticed dude next to him has his tongue go crazy when laughing, wtf? Is he okay?
bender
What time is it?
Bill Trinen is just strutting his peacock feathers for the ladies on national TV.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Congrats tears of the kingdom, it’s the best open world game one of my favorite, Ganon is legit tough, I like battling him everytime.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Why the [OPINION] tag, lol
People that easy to trigger?
People that easy to trigger?
Robb
Gold Member
It’s mine as well, so I agree. Absolutely incredible game.
The only negative I can think of is that they’re not doing DLC for it. I’d love even more dungeons and shrines.
I was thinking it’d be difficult to top BotW, but they absolutely blew it out of the water in literally every single aspect. Now I’m back to thinking I’d be impossible to top this one… Can’t wait to se what they do going forward.
The only negative I can think of is that they’re not doing DLC for it. I’d love even more dungeons and shrines.
I was thinking it’d be difficult to top BotW, but they absolutely blew it out of the water in literally every single aspect. Now I’m back to thinking I’d be impossible to top this one… Can’t wait to se what they do going forward.
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FinalBossWithTheMostPower
Member
This is appropriate.
I didn't finish ToTK and powered all the way through BG3 that first month.
Afterwards, going back go ToTK felt like a breath a fresh air.
ToTK is the better game, but BG3 is the better experience.
I didn't finish ToTK and powered all the way through BG3 that first month.
Afterwards, going back go ToTK felt like a breath a fresh air.
ToTK is the better game, but BG3 is the better experience.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Pretty much, gaming media loathe Nintendo, the biggest awards show right now is by a media douche that got famous by roasting Reggie for the Wii being shit and kiddy and whatever crap juvenile fantrolls praised as journalism at the time, Nintendo has shunned traditional media relations and perks away in favor of their own Direct format going directly to the consumer from the source without an unnecessary middle man to pay/please and more, hell the writing was on the wall for E3 which the press reveled in for getting access to shit no consumer could when Nintendo made the first steps away from that by taking their show, again, online and direct to consumers. That they can't NOT rate certain games highly only speaks volumes of their quality rather than any inherent bias and for any over-grading one may perceive for this or that title that they disagree with there are probably hundreds of others that underscore instead for all the other reasons, though again their quality is usually so high that they can't basically hand their gamer card away rating them badly, but will make sure to slam Nintendo for all their worth any chance they get and of course said fantrolls then all agree once again that's hard hitting journalism and make memes about pirating their games or Miyamoto being a hack as they create the Nth thread of wishing Nintendo was third party/joined another first party because even they know they make the superior games more often than not.
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bender
What time is it?
TheOtherGuy
Neo Member
But how else are we supposed to know who's E-peen is the biggest and gamer cred most legit if they aren't being cynical douchebaggy pieces of no fun shit?
bender
What time is it?
Okay, bear fucker.
FinalBossWithTheMostPower
Member
Iced Arcade
Member
Wtf lol
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I was getting ready for a fight thinking you laugh reacted my other comment and then quoted me when the notifications came
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Good choice. Hard for me to choose between it and BG3. Go back and forth a lot. I'd imagine both are going to end up topping a lot of lists. Both top 3 games of the last like 5 years alongside Elden Ring.
Personally I don’t think any of the runner ups are particularly close.
Personally I don’t think any of the runner ups are particularly close.
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Portugeezer
Member
I disagree.
