Animal Crossing still has grass wear, so it's automatically disqualified.

Nintyfan17 said:

Fire Emblem Awakening

Edit* For Art Lovers how about rain it is the PS3 exclusive I'm looking forward to most.

Ah good call.

You forgot Luigi's Mansion for 3DS.  That game is still in my top three of the year.

Foolz said:

Antichamber. The only two contenders left are The Last of Us and GTAV.

Antichamber for indy darling, but you th8ink GTAV might also contend for the "games as art" pick?

Foolz said:

aspro said:

Foolz said:

Antichamber. The only two contenders left are The Last of Us and GTAV.

Antichamber for indy darling, but you th8ink GTAV might also contend for the "games as art" pick?

All of the games automatically qualify for games as art, or games not being art, due to them being games. But they were placed in my post in relation to GOTY fullstop, rather than any sub-category. (Yes, I was completely ignoring the purpose of the thread.)

Jackass.

GTAV is going to win like 90% of them. Last of Us with get a few, Bioshock less so. Not one Nintendo game will win GOTY.

Foolz said:

One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far is Fez. PC port was released his year. With Phil Fish retiring, might be worth a sympathy vote from some publications.

Also, to take art lovers more literally, Dragon's Crown will win some graphics awards.

And the 2013 award for best boobs in games goes to ...

You're just grabbing any and every opportunity to spam us with images of resin cast boobs aren't you?

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SupremeAC said:

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Foolz said:

One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far is Fez. PC port was released his year. With Phil Fish retiring, might be worth a sympathy vote from some publications.

Also, to take art lovers more literally, Dragon's Crown will win some graphics awards.

Nah, Fez is old news.  Ports to new formats don;t get consideration.

Dvader said:

GTAV is going to win like 90% of them. Last of Us with get a few, Bioshock less so. Not one Nintendo game will win GOTY.

On GTAV (or gee-tav as I will hereafter refer to it), you miss some points:

- Don't underestimate the number of critics who will be bending over backwards to redeem their credibility for tenning the fuck out of GTA4 (which in retrospect, for most of them seems a little inflated).

- Last of Us scratches the "taking the form to a new level" arty side of things.

- A lot of critics are really, really pious about the GTA franchise and stupid stereotypes about what a GTA game is (when the last one the played was GTA3).  Keep in mind for these GOTYs the while staff usually votes, not just the ones who reviewd the games.