Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Nominated For Another 'Game Of The Year' Award

Best game of the New Year. Also Super Mario RPG is the best remake, it's night and day! 🍄

I'd rather follow these niche award shows than the Geoff Awards. lol

Not related too much but I still believe "Game of the Year" should be "Games of the Year". Crowning only one game would shadow other potential "GOTY" titles and the recognition they deserve. It wasn't TOTK's fault that the release year was the same with Baldur's Gate and others (though IMO both deserve the award). There are a lot of WHAT IFs in terms of what and when a game is released and not to mention different audiences and tastes to each of these titles. That said, I do understand the value of competing with other games in a particular release year. Just throwing it out there.

Grats to Tears of the Kingdom!

@Zyph I really like your idea of crowning multiple games as Game of the Year. Obviously, everyone has different favorite games so it would be rather odd to say, "Every game this year is great!" But so many quality games get released these days that giving the award to just one feels rather limiting. I think giving the award to at least three games would be more ideal. Just my thought on it.

Ehhh.. I don't think it really deserves it at all.

@Zyph

The other big ones I look forward to are the "Game Developers Choice Awards", "D.I.C.E. Awards" and "BAFTA Game Awards" (but they tend to skew to British companies). Part of the "Game Developers Conference" is the "Independent Games Festival", which is good for scouting some indie games.

IGN gave their top award to Tears of the Kingdom.
GameSpot gave theirs to Baldur's Gate 3.

@SuperBro64 Yeah. I think it's an inherent problem with Awards systems tbh. Just because theoretically Game A has more fans doesn't make Game B a lesser quality game. But since Game A has more fans therefore more potential votes, it wins. I agree, maybe 2 or 3 GOTY winners in a single award show could be a good sweet spot. Just enough to not say "every game is a GOTY game this year" 😂

@MontyCircus Oh I very much follow D.I.C.E. and the BAFTA Awards more since they actually acknowledge the entire production crew as far as I know. No ads or anything (I think there are but very minimal), just straight up awards and recognition

These award names are really funny. I can't believe New Yorkers though would joke around in naming the best remake award after Freedom Tower. It seems like Madison Square Garden would have sufficed.

Honestly hope they don't win. Zelda is losing it's magic and becoming yet another open world rpg-like game, like the 10 million others out there... really hope they change directions for the next instalment

What a neat NYC themed award show. That’s cute.

Win or lose, congrats to the ToTK devs!

@Zyph The idea has merit. Like three games getting Games of the Year would be better than one.

Really feels like since it didn't win TGAs, every other place decided to give it GOTY in spite.

Totk competes mostly with small fries with only Hi Fi Rush as a threat so it's an almost guaranteed win.

I just hope Star Rail wins in mobile so we get some stellars for winning yet another regional award

I don’t see how could Baldurs Gate win over Zelda which is a symbol of innovation and creativity. The sad thing is it’s usually not about voting for the best game but satisfying the masses. BG is financially more profitable since it’s on more platforms as opposed to Zelda that’s just in Switch so it’s easy to tell that most people who voted definitely didn’t play both. Still hoping more people will play TOTK because it has become my favourite game of all time!

@VoidofLight,

Imagine my shock and horror, when you thought this game did not deserve it.

@Jabberdabber highly dubious that not winning an award would make them suddenly reverse direction.

Bit confused. So Zelda is up for GotY but isn't in the running for Best World?

@Jabberdabber so I’m guessing you don’t want Baldur’s Gate to win either then?

Wow, now it can be a Game of TWO years xDD

Off subject, I'm kind of surprised to see "Dave the Diver" not get nominated for best indie game.

All the same, congrats to Zelda! I wish it luck.

so far totk has taken 9 goty awards,

TotK is a blast but no way is it game of the year in any context. Like BotW, it still feels like a tech demo at best, and like the devs are afraid to really embrace this open world at worst. The issue isn't in the open world formula not working for the game; the issue is that it ruins its own sense of discovery with things that make the game's challenges either annoying (e.g., discover a dungeon but can't access it without a specific NPC in tow) or trivial (upgrading armor in a game that's already pretty easy).

But hey, different strokes for different folks, and if the game gets GOTY accolades, I can't complain too much. There are worse games that have won said accolade, like anything with "Last of Us" in its title.

@axelhander well most game critics disagree with your comment reason why it won more goty awards and not every zelda game needs to be the same or follow the same formula reason why im glad nintendo took it in a new direction.

@RiasGremory which 9? Can’t find that info

@RiasGremory
By my count, TotK has taken 13 GOTYs. If you count Famitsu’s award event that was voted on by like 180+ Japanese developers, then it has taken 14.

@RiasGremory What game critics think is wholly irrelevant.

Also, please read my comment next time before you reply, because it's clear you didn't. Thanks in advance.

@axelhander i read your comment very carefully but my point still stands but saying its not goty material pretty much makes you lose credibility.

@RiasGremory You "read it very carefully" yet you whined about Zelda not needing to stick to a formula (which I never said it needed) and said you liked the new direction (which I said is something Nintendo didn't embrace enough for TotK).

It's not GotY material. It's a tech demo. An impressive tech demo to be sure, but still lacking. I explained precisely why I felt that way, too. Meanwhile you're here refusing to read before making defensive retorts; you're the one with no credibility.

Really? Why is TOTK getting all this (in my opinion) undeserved GOTY praise? It made me so bored and mildly perturbed because there's even less to do in it in comparison to BOTW.