NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T14:54:55 -05.00 Estil 44 And calling the Last of Us just another zombie game is pretty lame. It's pretty amazing how well it's written and what direction the story went that made the most cliched genre not cliched. Plus the game offers a good deal of strategy and item management. How you play the game is entirely up to you: stealth, run for your life, guns blazing, or any combination of those. ]]> Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T13:29:59 -05.00 Estil 44 ]]> Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T13:11:28 -05.00 Estil 44 Originally posted by: Tanooki

Be reasonable GTA is to sandbox as call of duty is to FPS. It doesnt matter if the quality is there or not, if it raises the bar or not and so on. It just is that game people suck up to and talk about endlessly for months or years. Vocal followings arent always a sign of quality as much as a sign as a very rabid and tightly following base of people. I used to be into GTA but 4 was so god awfully broken in ways and just bad in others I couldnt enjoy them and it even turned me off to other titles since. To each their own the lesson would be here.


I think it's safe to say ppl suck up Zelda games and stare at them through rose colored glassed no matter what. I didnt really like gta4 but vice city is on my best game of all time list. Comparing Zelda to GTA is definitely apples to apples. ]]> Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T13:03:02 -05.00 Estil 44 Originally posted by: DMG

Originally posted by: doner24

So are we arguing about game of the year or most innovative game of the year Space?

Innovative would be Papers, Please. I had never played a game similiar to that. One may argue that it is simply a time management game, but it is so much more. In a regular time management game your speed is what will decide if you win or lose. In Papers, Please you can have multiple endings depending on how you play the game. It was a bunch of fun and sadly overlooked. Even after the indie genre had been praised the last few years. As I said before, too many good games came out this year.
I agree. Papers, Please is absolutely terrific. I've had more fun playing that game than I've had playing most other games this year, be it retro or current gen.

]]> Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T12:33:24 -05.00 Estil 44 Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T11:52:15 -05.00 Estil 44 Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T10:33:38 -05.00 Estil 44 Originally posted by: Space Jockey

Originally posted by: jonebone

Originally posted by: doner24

So are we arguing about game of the year or most innovative game of the year Space?
Even if we were arguing innovative, Zelda Link to the Past ver. 2.0 wouldn't quality as most innovative of the year either.  It reused so many elements from LttP it wasn't even funny.  Of course that was a good thing, but that wouldn't qualify as innovative.

When I think game of the year, I think of hype, sales, fun, gameplay, replayability, etc.  GTA just won that IMO.

I bought GTA V and Zelda Link Between Worlds on Day 1 and thoroughly enjoyed both of them.  I love Zelda just as much as anyone, but GTA felt like game ahead of it's time.  Zelda was more of a blast from the past.

I get your line of thinking, I can respect your choice and how you came to your decision.  I just don't agree with it is all.  Also I've never even seen ALBW so I don't feel like granting an opinion to it.  My original post shows I didn't venture an opinion on ALBW.  Personally I think The Last of Us should have taken GOTY, but since it came out in June while GTA5 came out in September, GTA5 was fresher in people's minds and was probably talked about more during the GOTY decision making process.
 
Just because a game was out months prior doesn't mean it should be ranked higher than a game that came out a few months later. GTA5 broke a lot of records and is a very well made game, and there's a lot of versatility in what you can do in it. If you're only basing your opinion on the game through little game play video or quick reviews, you can't really judge the game at all unless you've played it. I'm sure if Last of Us came out the last week of November, you would most likely still argue that it should be #1, and there's nothing wrong with that, but when a game breaks records and is still being talked about 3 months later (and will probably continue for a few more months), it's definitely a contender for the top ranks. I didn't see much discussion or hype 3 months after Last of Us came out, or even 2 months. It's been a game that's hardly been discussed here (I don't really recall much of anything about it being posted here).

Also, 10 different "reputable" places that have done the Game of the Year thing all have different ideas and standards on the #1 through #10 ranks. Just make your own list of the top 10 games of the year. It's all subjective to opinion anyway, so these lists mean nothing. ]]> Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-21T10:10:16 -05.00 Estil 44 Originally posted by: Estil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ArUvVJe9dA ; (skip ahead to 1:00 into the video to cut to the chase)

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
LOL! That video was hilarious! Faith Hill, with arms raised, was all like WHAT!!??!

]]> Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-20T20:31:40 -05.00 Estil 44 Originally posted by: rhetoric614

So when does this mean Nintendo will go bankrupt? The only good system they have out has the better game that their more powerful console just shows how pitiful WiiU is.

Still, game has some good concept, nice to see it win. Pikmin and Animal crossing, doe! ]]> Zelda Link Between World's surprising 2013 GameSpot GOTY win... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=117100 2013-12-20T20:30:16 -05.00 Estil 44 Originally posted by: Zing

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

Or because it was packed with the system.
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