List of GOTY winners for the five major video game awards
List of GOTY winners for the five major video game awards
- 2014: Dragon Age: Inquisition (TGA and DICE), Dark Souls II (GJA), Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (GDCA), Destiny (BAFTA)
- 2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (TGA, GJA and GDCA), Fallout 4 (DICE and BAFTA)
- 2016: Overwatch (TGA, DICE and GDCA), Dark Souls III (GJA), Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (BAFTA)
- 2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (TGA, GJA, DICE and GDCA), What Remains of Edith Finch (BAFTA)
- 2018: God of War (TGA, DICE, BAFTA and GDCA), Fortnite (GJA)
- 2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (TGA), Resident Evil 4 (GJA), Untitled Goose Game (DICE and GDCA), Outer Wilds (BAFTA)
- 2020: The Last of Us Part II (TGA and GJA), Hades (DICE, BAFTA and GDCA)
- 2021: It Takes Two (TGA and DICE), Inscryption (GDCA), Resident Evil Village (GJA), Returnal (BAFTA)
- 2022: Elden Ring (TGA, GJA, DICE and GDCA), Vampire Survivors (BAFTA)
- 2023: Baldur's Gate 3 (TGA, DICE, BAFTA, GJA and GDCA)
Legend: TGA - The Game Awards, GJA - Golden Joystick Awards, BAFTA - British Academy of Film and Television Awards, DICE - DICE Awards, GDCA - Game Developers Choice Awards.
This list doesn't include awards before 2014, because The Game Awards launched that year.
Sidebar, but the nominees for this year's TGAs are ridiculous. It's the same ~7 games shoehorned into every category they can, and a few others sprinkled in where they can't.
You'd think there were only like 20 games that released this year that were good.
Some games that released this year, but snubbed by TGA in favor of kissing up to the same games n times over:
- Hades 2
- V Rising
- Satisfactory
- Mouthwashing
- Factorio: Space Age
- SULFUR
- Rise of the Golden Idol
I hope people start pronouncing it FISH awards!Edit: my bad, fish would be goti.
I believe it's ghoti
Ah yes you are right. I don't know what kind of brainfart got me.
Pretty crazy that BG3 unanimously won despite the existence of ToTK.
IMHO BG3 completely destroyed the curve. Even if you don't like the genre, you have to tip your hat to what was accomplished in that game. It blew away Skyrim, Fallout 3, and all the classics in the genre and completely set a new level. The last time I was that impressed with a game was probably Ultima IV.
TotK sucked. Just like breath of the wild. They took what made Zelda great. And ruined it with open world bullshit and weapon micromanagement.
Lol, I have the exact opposite opinion. BotW took what made Zelda frustrating (annoyingly linear, samey, and poorly-explained) and gave you a whole world filled with puzzles and exploration!
Tell me you haven't played the original Legend of Zelda without saying you haven't played the original Legend of Zelda.
BOTW/TOTK are more like the very first Zelda game than any other Zelda titles.
Just like BG3 really isn't all that different from BG1 and 2. Everyone so blown away by it saying it raised the bar must be young as fuck, because it didn't raise the bar. It just put it back where it was in the 90's after it fell off the post. That isn't to say it's not great or deserving of GOTY over TOTK, though. Ideally, they both would win for different reasons.
It's an unpopular opinion but as I see it, TOTK is wildly overrated, as is BotW. Yes, they are very polished and certainly good games but the 10/10 across the board made me doubt my sanity. The latest Zeldas are basically Ubisoft open worlds with a couple mechanics borrowed from Garry's mod. It's fun the first few hours but the lack of variety and absence of any writing really make it dull IMHO. I managed to finish BotW for the novelty and the occasional detail (the lightning hitting you when holding metal is a nice touch) but I'd die if my life depended on me remembering any character interactions. BG3 Otoh, not only is it also very polished, it has sublime combat and absolutely unforgettable characters. Truly a masterpiece.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel Tears of the Kingdom is overrated. Yes, it has some welcome quality-of-life improvements, and yes, it has more content than its predecessor, but I find the characters less interesting, the environments less inspired, and the encounters more repetitive. Every time I pick it up again, I get bored within a couple hours and go back to another play-through of Breath of the Wild.
I would vote for Baldur's Gate 3 over TotK without hesitation.
zelda is a generic walking simulator, bg3 is a masterpiece
I wouldn't call a game where you build weird vehicles and weapons using things around you, or solve puzzles any possible way a walking simulator.
anyone old enough to remember resident evil 4 (gamecube) winning GOTY?
I'm old enough to remember the chainsaw controller
There seems to be an error: 2019 is Resident Evil 2 (the remake), not 4. Otherwise a fun list to scroll through!
I personally don't care which game wins the awards. I'm there watching for entertainment. I see lot of discussions and people take the awards too serious in my opinion. It's like taking IGN scores serious. :D
What's wild to me is, that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom didn't appear once on this list.
What’s wild to me is, that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom didn’t appear once on this list.
Makes sense to me IMO. 2023 was a stacked year, and while TotK was a pretty good game, it was way too close to Breath of the Wild for me to even consider it as game of the year. Other games that could've won the award over it include Alan Wake 2, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Hi-Fi Rush, and Octopath Traveler 2.
Zelda fans suck this and BotW off so hard and the games are literally shitty Ubisoft fucked up versions of a series we used to love. SAD.
I like the games, but man, I really miss classic 3D zelda dungeons. The other day, I decided to try OOT master quest, and it was super refreshing!
I didn't know BAFTA awarded videogames too. TIL