I wouldn't vote for it...i platinumed it but preferred elden ring more.

Forbidden west all the way!
Not cool leaving it out of the title though....

I mean, considering the three of them are nominated for the most important one, GOTY, I would say it is warranted to mention the 3 of them in the same sentence when both Elden Ring and Horizon have the same amount of total nominations.

Cool story bro, but narrative, graphics, sound, protagonist, etc are included in my assessment of games all of which Elden fell short of. Thanks for taking the time to let me know why you like a game I don't. Time well spent....

@Sunkcost
ER is not even close to Sekiro.

Hey, you’re not alone, I’ve played all the God of War games as well. And I understand not saying one game is better than the other if you haven’t played both games, that just makes sense. I hear ya on that.

Having played both sequels, for me personally, I can comment on both. I absolutely loved both the original games when they came out - some of my absolute favorite games and Plagues Tale was a surprise, a gem of a masterpiece (from a small indie dev) and I’m so glad I gave them a chance them. And God of War 2018, what a masterpiece.

Plagues Tale Requiem - I would not be mad or upset if this game won GOTY, not at all. I absolutely loved it and thought they really outdid themselves- specifically with the unbelievable storytelling and performances, which blew me away💔😭 for me it exceeded the journey that the first game offered, not just from a story perspective, but the gameplay was also better as well. It’s a worthy sequel in my eyes. Also, I wanna touch on the visuals, damn, the game is an absolutely stunning looker, the environments, I can’t believe how realistic The world looks, and the character models look fantastic as well. But the world, that’s a highlight that just had me standing still at times. Unbelievable detail.

God of War Ragnarok - While I’m not finished, it’s just brilliant, and taking me on a ride I’ve never experienced before in a game, while also reminding me of the masterpieces that came before it. Some will criticize it and say “It’s too similar” God of War Ragnarok plays it safe” but to me it takes everything the first game did, refines it, polishes it all up, to make the experience that much more smoother, tighter, hard hitting, brutal, unforgettable and stronger in so so many ways I still just believe the devs at Sony really are wizards to be able to continuously conjure up AAA quality gaming experiences like this again and again that really do raise the bar for the industry.

I hear you, I can be that way and just can’t shut up about a certain video game, not alone in that haha, it’s all good. In the end tho, so glad you loved Requiem

Im a huge fan of God of War. Played them all. To be fair ive only played requiem through gamepass using a 15 day free trail from a controller i believe. Otherwise I would have waited for a deal and played it on ps5. And for me personally I cant just say a game is better If I havent heard of it or played it. And in the event I've played one of them and not the other I have to go by what I've played. Im sure God of War deserves it just as much.

But Im a sucker for good stories and both Tlou part 1 and Requiem have so far done the same to me...I find myself wanting to replay it immediately after finishing and just cant shut up about how awesome the game was.

Dang it LOL!!! I love the game too please get Game of the year or at least best performance for the actress that plays as Amicia! Yes it does need to be more recognized! Its a Hellblade moment right there! Nuff said.

Keep going. Youll regret it but love it at the same time.

I get it. I've lost interest in games before too even games are actually very good. I even know some people that lost interest in God of war 2018 which I found incredible. Not sure how far you got in plague tale and it is true that it starts a tiny bit slow but ramps up pretty fast. For sure if you want an actually good Revenge story and I'll say no more, this is the best one I've played in a long time. It definitely has revenge in the plot and very clear consequences. It also the tackles the theme of loss in ways I haven't seen any game do before.

I've actually tried all Xenoblade games and lost interest before finishing. So I get it.

But sorry to say I voted for plague tale for gotyr. Haven't played god of war yet so if i do before the deadline and change my mind I'll see if I can change it....just don't know if I'll be able to play it till 2023.

Nothing apologise for crow, you like what you like and if plagues tale hit the mark for you in that way then who are anyone us to say otherwise.

plagues tale is something that I really should love as I hear the story is amazing and I'm real big on good storys in games as thats usually what pushes me through to keep playing.

The story seems great, I only got to the first city you go to for Hugo to see a dr and got to the stadium where the plague has killed a ton of people, maybe another hr past that.

It was more the mechanics I wasn't big on, the stealth, lighting fires to clear the rats.

Will have to give it another chance but after gowr it's time for pentiment as I'm hoping it's as good as disco Elysium was and then I'll probably play the witcher 3 all over again once the update is out

Protagonist don't matter? Let's just ignore that there's a best actor award in damn near every ceremony. Pacing should be ignored because it's an open world game? Ghost of Tsushima, Outer Worlds, Red Dead, etc all sent you a get well card. Narrative isn't important? Says every library in the world.

Design level....GoW doesn't stand a chance...?🤔 Well since you brought it up....the open world is all Elden has on GoW, take that away and you have a last gen soul type that copy/pasted elements from previous games together. The open world is so pointless that it only managed to make doing the most basic tasks arduous. "Let's ride a horse thing acrossed barren landscapes for 20 mins to collect this rose petal. Yes!! Now only a hundred more to go!!" Calm down, it's okay to like different things.

In a game with such an open ended design that puts player agency and freedom at such an extreme level when compared with other so called open world games that handhold the player at every turn as they are designed to constantly tell you what you have to do and where you have to go then I find you mentioning that GoW has better pacing than Elden to be bizarre because if there is something that Elden Ring does better than GoW or pretty much any other game is pacing because it is up to the player to choose the pace at wich he/she wants to go.

That's part of the brilliance of Elden Ring that sets it apart from pretty much every open world game released in the last 20 years and this is something that should be fairly obvious for anyone that has actually played it because it's a complete 180 in terms of open world design when compared with the vast majority of other so called open world games that instead of offering freedom to the player are actually offering an illusion of freedom.