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Picture if you will, Faith Hill is Grand Theft Auto 5 and its fans.  Carrie Underwood is Zelda Link Between Worlds and its fans.  As you can see, Faith is clearly expecting to win the award (for you non-country fans male/female vocalist is second only to Entertainer of the Year) by her manurisims and just when they're getting ready to make the announcement, she is in the process of blowing kisses to her fans for making this award possible for....CARRIE UNDERWOOD!?!?  WHAT!?!  See most people (myself included) figured GTA5 was a total shoo-in for GOTY and if there was ANY dark horse candidate the most likely contender was Super Mario 3D World.  But to have the Zelda game come out in left field and win was a geniune surprise (as it was for Carrie, as she did win the Horizon Award (rookie of the year) and just figured it was too early for her to be in contention for female vocalist).

Congratulations Nintendo and Super Mario...sorry ZELDA Link Between Worlds! I guess the reaction from GTA5 fans and Nintendo haters was..."WHAT!?!?  It's just a recycled 20 year old remake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

If anything beats LBW for me, it's the Last of Us. I didn't play GTA V, but I know it ain't better than those 2 games.

Some of the comments there are pretty hilarious.

So when does this mean Nintendo will go bankrupt?

They should probably just make games on cell phones.

Yeah I mentioned this in the Yahoo thread. For me, I think GTA V should be the winner by a landslide, but Zelda is my #2 pick. By far the best games I played this year.

Ok Kanye   Lol sorry had to.

The only award game companies care about is the game that makes the most money....hopefully their own.

Good choice. Too many good games out there this year. Go with the one the kids least expect and accept.

The Last of Us is next on my WTB list, will probably be picking it up ASAP as I have heard such great things about it.

Those boring generic things that don't even give you real buttons or any kind of physical copy of the game (who knows if you can play the game say, five years from now)?  NO THANKS.

I'm pretty sure he was just mocking Nintendo haters (like I was in the post before him).

Agreed I think it was mockery since Nintendo would never drop themselves to that level as touch only games tend to cheapen the experience.

I have to admit looking at the site I'm surprised Zelda pulled it off too as they're known to be bribe takers for nicer reviews based upon ad revenue.

Yeah I was joking. Playing off of all the Nintendo doom and gloom by so called journalists.

This game is the reason I recently bought a 3DS. The item renting is odd, but otherwise it is great so far.

I couldn't agree with this more. I think ALBW is the best Zelda game that has ever been made. After beating it, I instantly played the game again, which I can't remember ever doing that.

I thoroughly enjoyed my play through of Link between worlds. I dont think it has the ability to beat Ni no Kuni for me but Ill put it above anything else Ive seen in years.

Don't really know what the hell you're talking about with the country singer references, but that is pretty surprising that a Zelda 3DS game beat out GTA V.

I haven't played Link Between Worlds yet, but it would have to be very very good to top the master piece that was GTA V.

GTA5 is the same as GTA4, is the same as San Andreas, is the same as Vice City, is the same as GTA3. Prettier graphics, more missions, its still the same recycled formula. Yeah it works, but we want something MORE then that. GTA3 was goty in 2001 I think, and it deserved to be as it brought the series to a massive new level. Not much has really changed since then. Yes they are still fun, but really there is nothing new or groundbreaking about them. If GTA5 won I'd have been disappointed at such an easy cop-out choice. I haven't played ALBW and none of my friends own a 3DS so I can't ask them, so I don't know much about it. However if it comes to Wii U I'd love to give it a try.

I am biased as I do not like GTA in any shape form or fashion whatsoever. However I acknowledge the huge fan base so in light of that I really expected GTA5 to get GOTY so it was a very pleasant shocker to see Zelda ALBW especially seeing I am a Zelda fan.

Are you kidding me?!?  GTA 5 expanded over all of those so much.  This isn't Madden with new rosters or a Call of Duty with new maps.  This was a legit overhaul.

They now have 3 characters with stories intertwined.  It adds a whole new element to the game and essentially gives you 3 story modes. 

They added hiests which are basically "super missions" that are way above and beyond the simple "get drugs" or "shoot this guy" missions from GTA 3 and IV.  They require elaborate planning, hiring a team and picking decision points (multiple ways to do each one).  This is brand new to the franchise and every single person that has played GTA V has commended this new effort.

Not to mention GTA V Online, which is basically an entire new game on it's own!  There's something absurd like 500+ missions and real world currency to build up your character.  This is much more than simple deathmatches from previous GTAs.

And of course, not to mention the biggest world ever in a GTA, more cars/gadgets/things-to-do than ever before, better graphics, etc.  The game is absolute brillance.

If you didn't like GTA V, that's fine.  But if you didn't recognize how much it innovated the series (which many people thought would be impossible to do), you're just ignorant.

GTA is my favourite series, and even I think Last of Us deserves GotY over GTA V.

Still need to get link between worlds.

I was quite clear about "what the hell I was talking about"...Faith Hill is like GTA5 and their fans who expected to win GOTY and Carrie Underwood is the game that came out of nowhere (in the sense that most thought the top Nintendo contender was Super Mario 3D World) and pulled off a surprise win.  I don't know how I could've made the analogy any more clear.

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It's like with movie awards, too: Unfortunately sometimes the thing that just came out has more hype than something that's been out all year and has proven its staying power.
iirc I think this happened with The Hurt Locker, for instance.
But that's why I don't care about movie award shows, music awards, and other such things. I just like what I like and leave it at that.
Not to discredit Link Between Worlds (which is a great game, btw).  But GTA V or The Last of Us probably deserved it more.