Game of the Year 2020 Awards

[DjchunKfunK]

OK so here we go the Game of the Year Awards for our Forum.

First up we have Biggest Surprise

Hades

[DjchunKfunK]

Next is Best Game not released in 2020.

There were no clear winners in this category so here is the list.

• Horizon zero dawn

• Sea of Thieves

• Assassins Creed Odyssey

• Dead Cells

• Control

• Astrologaster

• Enter the Gungeon

• Battle Brothers

• Red Dead Redemption 2

• Rainbow 6 Siege

• Heaven's Vault

[DjchunKfunK]

Next, Most Anticipated Game

Again no one winner.

• God of War Ragnarok

• Back 4 Blood

• Horizon Forbidden West

• Psychonauts 2

• Elden Ring

• Hitman 3

• Dying Light 2

• Baldur's Gate 3

[DjchunKfunK]

Finally Game of the Year

5th
Ghosts of Tsushima


4th
Doom Eternal


2nd
Crusader Kings III

Cyberpunk 2077


1st
Hades

[DjchunKfunK]

Thanks all for voting.

[Raid]

I only managed to get my votes in this morning after being reminded that Doom Eternal came out this year and was my obvious choice. I honestly couldn't remember what I was looking forward to in 2021 so didn't fill that one in, but only because BG3 completely slipped my mind.

[DjchunKfunK]

I'm not sure if I will bother doing awards next year as there are so few people around and not a lot of games being played so most the categories just end up without a winner.

[Mantis]

Thanks again for doing it DJ.

Maybe we'd be better served by a thread for it next year so we can just discuss our favourites and anticipated titles together if there are so few who contribute to the poll.

[Alan]

Best game not released this year probably reveals the number of voters.

I just remembered I haven’t played doom yet! Alyx was my number 1 but I think I may have been the only one to play it

[Sly Boots]

Yeah, discussion threads would be good actually.

[elgaucho]

Thanks for organising it DJ!

While I'm happy Hades got goty, i'm slightly puzzled as to who else voted it! as far as I recall, Raid and I were the only one who'd played it, and Raid isn't all won over yet!

Agree that given numbers a discussion thread might work better for us next year.

I was curious where Cyberpunk would end up given it's very late release in the year.

[Rusty]

Yup Hades took up a lot of time this year. So easy to pick up and play.

And I'd forgotten about HL Alyx. Still a fantastic VR experience.

[Raid]

While I'm happy Hades got goty, i'm slightly puzzled as to who else voted it! as far as I recall, Raid and I were the only one who'd played it, and Raid isn't all won over yet!

It wasn't even my top pick. I think it may have been my second. It *has* won me over now. Still, we're not the only site to elect it as such; it was Eurogamer's staff pick (it came 4th in the user chart), and I've lost count of the number of people who've said it was a contender.

[DjchunKfunK]

Hades had two first picks, two second picks and one third I think.

I think maybe just one GOTY award next year might work well and just do away with the rest.

[Raid]

I suppose my biggest problem is that there aren't a great many games that I'll buy at launch, I'll usually wait until they come down in price. In retrospect this has actually been quite a good year for day one purchases for me; Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk, FF7 Remake, but it's counterbalanced by the fact that I barely bought anything else. Gamepass has taken over my games "collection", in that for the majority of titles I'm happy to wait to see if they appear on the service - in fact that was the reason I held off on Hades for several months.

I think the discussion thread is a good idea for next year; we can perhaps nominate titles and then put them to a vote.