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[Reizo Ryuu]

list is alright, some really silly picks here and there.

I voted for Prince of Persia and all it got was mention in underrated category.

Disappointed.

you must need glasses because it's right there in the platformer category as well.

 

[Gaiff]

Astro Bot over Senua’s Saga and Stellar Blade being there at all for best visuals?

Fuck off lmao.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

This is the most honest GOTY list I’ve seen since… I dunno, ever?
I’ll admit that FF7 beating Erdtree in RPG gave me a good laugh.

 

[Dacvak]

YESSSSS LETS GO GAF!!! I knew you wouldn’t let me down!

 

[Ovek]

People are going to salty about the visuals award.

 

[Humdinger]

Good set of awards. I've seen others, and most of them have me shaking my head. This is a very respectable list.

 

[xenosys]

Stellar Blade for characters? I've never heard anyone praise their characters aside from the main character and what clothes she's wearing, lmao.

The one thing Eve lacks is an actual personality. GAF is a gooner forum though, so don't expect people to put currency into well-written characters. Silent Hill 2 or Indiana Jones should have won this.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Some questionable picks, but glad Rebirth is getting some recognition. Snub of the year by far because most publications can't remember anything they played more than 6 months prior.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Astro Bot over Senua’s Saga and Stellar Blade being there at all for best visuals?

Fuck off lmao.

Get mad. AstroBot's aesthetics, art direction, physics, and tech are extremely pleasing and smooth. It's the next gen Mario game everyone has waited on but will likely never get. There's more to visuals than just pushing tech. Let's not lose sight of that fact. I could see a Nintendo game winning best visuals too, in the future.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Great list, although it's certainly surprising to me seeing Indiana Jones THAT high.

I'm getting the game in a few months but it didn't seem prominently featured in many top 3 lists, and it seems like a decent game just nowhere near #2 worthy - maybe I'm wrong when I play it, just seems like a certain audience heavily spammed that one, unsurprisingly....

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Astro for visuals? lul

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Best 5 are Space Marine 2, Stellar Blade, FFVII Rebirth, Wukong, and Nuclear Nightmare.

 

[tTHANOSs]

Happy to see Stellar Blade feeling the love on NeoGaf.

 

[Mattyp]

Great list, although it's certainly surprising to me seeing Indiana Jones THAT high.

I'm getting the game in a few months but it didn't seem prominently featured in many top 3 lists, and it seems like a decent game just nowhere near #2 worthy - maybe I'm wrong when I play it, just seems like a certain audience heavily spammed that one, unsurprisingly....

Astro winning visuals shows how spammed this list is let’s get real lol.

Best art style maybe if you want that? Best visuals, not even top 3.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Astro winning visuals shows how spammed this list is let’s get real lol.

Best art style maybe if you want that? Best visuals, not even top 3.

You cannot separate art style from visuals

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

In honour of clippy from microsoft word I did a meme with the clippys from astro bot

 

[Aion002]

Nice going people... I was afraid that FFVII Rebirth wouldn't win the best rpg category.

Erdtree on second place was also a solid choice.

However, for me, the ideal third place would be Rise of The Ronin or Unicorn Overlord, since I hated Refantazio.

But regardless, good picks overall.

 

[Raven117]

Indiana Jones was pretty excellent. That story particularly was great

 

[Fess]

Astro Bot over Senua’s Saga and Stellar Blade being there at all for best visuals?

Fuck off lmao.

It’s a popularity contest and few played Senua’s Saga. Where would the votes come from? It wasn’t there for voice either but was objectively at the top and awarded at TGA with just the late and abnormally good Indiana Jones topping it.

That said, I think a PC specific GOTY contest would be a good idea going forward.

Would solve some of the weirder category wins where console games are there just because not as many here play on PC. I absolutely agree on Astro Bot, loved it and got my platinum but best visuals? nah come on

A specific PC GOTY would also give late PC ports a chance to shine. And some less popular ones here not available on console.

Topher What say you?

Minishoot Adventures was one of my absolute top games last year but would never have a chance in these awards since too few have played it. Only on PC and indie means it barely exist in this bubble, made by two guys, absolute top game. It’s a bullet hell Zelda twin-stick shooter, try it if you haven’t already

 

[Topher]

It’s a popularity contest and few played Senua’s Saga. Where would the votes come from? It wasn’t there for voice either but was objectively at the top and awarded at TGA with just the late and abnormally good Indiana Jones topping it.

That said, I think a PC specific GOTY contest would be a good idea going forward.

Would solve some of the weirder category wins where console games are there just because not as many here play on PC. I absolutely agree on Astro Bot, loved it and got my platinum but best visuals? nah come on

A specific PC GOTY would also give late PC ports a chance to shine. And some less popular ones here not available on console.

Topher What say you?

Minishoot Adventures was one of my absolute top games last year but would never have a chance in these awards since too few have played it. Only on PC and indie means it barely exist in this bubble, made by two guys, absolute top game. It’s a bullet hell Zelda twin-stick shooter, try it if you haven’t already

Sorry, no. We do this on our own time and conducting a second contest for a single platform is just not feasible.

 

[Topher]

Astro winning visuals shows how spammed this list is let’s get real lol.

Best art style maybe if you want that? Best visuals, not even top 3.

There is nothing "spammed" here. One account. One vote.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Haha I didn’t play Stalker 2 and I bought extra RAM for it. I still haven’t bought Astrobot.

 

[Ribi]

Shocked Astro bot didn't win shooter of the year

 

[Fess]

Sorry, no. We do this on our own time and conducting a second contest for a single platform is just not feasible.

Hmm okay but what if PC could have a separate Best on PC vote category? No genres, just best. I believe there was something like that for VR previously. Or maybe it was just my imagination.
Anyhow I just feel like the award is less interesting when games can’t realistically pull in enough votes even as 11/10 games from platform size differences.

 

[Topher]

Hmm okay but what if PC could have a separate Best on PC vote category? No genres, just best. I believe there was something like that for VR previously. Or maybe it was just my imagination.
Anyhow I just feel like the award is less interesting when games can’t realistically pull in enough votes even as 11/10 games from platform size differences.

Doable. Not entirely up to me, but we have had category change suggestions by others as well. I'll create a thread later where it can be discussed.

 

[Topher]

Shocked Astro bot didn't win shooter of the year

 

[Trilobit]

Man, now I really want to try out Indiana Jones. I don't know when it's coming to PS5 so I'm actually shocked that I'm contemplating getting Game Pass for a month and turning my laptop into an Xbox. What a crazy time to be alive.

 

[Kings Field]

Rebirth is hot garbage

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Man, now I really want to try out Indiana Jones. I don't know when it's coming to PS5 so I'm actually shocked that I'm contemplating getting Game Pass for a month and turning my laptop into an Xbox. What a crazy time to be alive.

It’s coming in a few months

 

[Vlodril]

Damn astrobot sweep. Didn't see that coming.

 

[R6Rider]

Almost all exactly how I voted.

 

[tTHANOSs]

Astro winning visuals shows how spammed this list is let’s get real lol.

Best art style maybe if you want that? Best visuals, not even top 3.

How do you define best visuals tho? Something shouldn't automatically win because it's photorealistic.

 

[Topher]

To clarify the "visuals" category, the actual name of the category was "Best Visual Style". I think some are misinterpreting this as "best graphics".

 

[EviLore]

Solid, tasteful results. Good job GAF. And thanks to cormack12 , Palliasso , and Topher for organizing.

 

[adamsapple]

Man, now I really want to try out Indiana Jones. I don't know when it's coming to PS5 so I'm actually shocked that I'm contemplating getting Game Pass for a month and turning my laptop into an Xbox. What a crazy time to be alive.

It's a pretty good game.

 

[cormack12]

Stellar Blade for characters? I've never heard anyone praise their characters aside from the main character and what clothes she's wearing, lmao.

 

[bitbydeath]

How do you define best visuals tho? Something shouldn't automatically win because it's photorealistic.

Exactly, it should be defined as appealing to look at, and screaming crazy lady ain’t it.

 

[VideoGameEnjoyer]

Metaphor was my GOTY but only just finished it last week.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Astrobot is on sale on PSN N.A., so I grabbed it. Looking forward to playing the GOTY.

 

[DryvBy]

Nintendo is the real loser here. Even Xbox had more awards.

 

[proandrad]

Metaphor, a turn based RPG, losing best RPGs to two action games.

 

[Icymanipulator]

Still haven’t tried Astro Bot, maybe one of these days.

 

[jshackles]

Nintendo is the real loser here. Even Xbox had more awards.

Nintendo's 1st party line up in 2024 was a bit shit. We had what? Another Code (remaster), Thousand Year Door (remaster), Luigi's Mansion 2 (remaster), Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (remaster)... um... Princess Peach Showtime? World Championship NES Edition?

Honestly, Echoes of Wisdom was great and high on my list. Brothership was also okay but very mid.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

To clarify the "visuals" category, the actual name of the category was "Best Visual Style". I think some are misinterpreting this as "best graphics".

I see you are one of them that spammed Astro Bot in every category

How is it an adventure game? It almost stopped Indiana Jones from taking that category.

Visual style in Astro is also weakest among all recent big platformers. Its too clean and bland.

 

[Topher]

I see you are one of them that spammed Astro Bot in every category

How is it an adventure game? It almost stopped Indiana Jones from taking that category.

Visual style in Astro is also weakest among all recent big platformers. Its too clean and bland.

"Every category" and yet somehow you missed that I didn't vote for Astro Bot as GOTY. Somehow you also missed that Astro Bot won Best Action/Adventure at the VGAs as well so not sure why you are confused.

So let's see your votes.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

So let's see your votes.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

So let's see your votes.

Let me check.

If it doesn’t have anything ridiculous I might share.

I do remember voting a lot for Concord.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Topher]

Let me check.

If it doesn’t have anything ridiculous I might share.

I do remember voting a lot for Concord.

What's there to be scared of?

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Sweet Christmas if you ever wanted proof this place should be named SonyGAF.

Jokes aside well done to Astrobot, probably the only Sony game I wanted to play from last year.