The Great Debate: Which Game of the Year Could Be Crowned Game of the Decade?

If the election for the game of the year already unleashes passions every year within the gaming community, what would it be like if we did Compete the entire last 10 GOTY for the game title of the decade ? This is the question asked by a Reddit user, proposing the list of titles nominated for 10 years and asking to elect the best of them.

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A majestic list

In his Reddit post, user @MysteriousWon drew up the list of the latest GOTY. From oldest to newest, we find Dragon Age: Inquisition, named in 2014, followed by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Overwatch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, God of War, Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice, The Last of Us Part 2, It Takes Two, Elden Ring and finally Baldur's Gate 3. A user responds to the initial post, stating that “The least we can say is that it is difficult. There are objectively no bad games in this list, only behemoths”.

Everyone then has their own answer, and it is clear that one title comes up more regularly than the others: The Witcher 3. Others explain that the last Baldur's Gateif he is equally deserving, does not yet enjoy the cultural influence of the CD Projekt title, because of its still recent release. These two games are not the only ones at the top of the list, since they are followed by two other big names in the industry, Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring''''''. If no clear answer has been given for the moment, ''' the conversation also relaunched the debate on the legitimacy of ''God of War'' in relation to Red Dead Redemption 2 during the 2018 ceremony''' .

The ax versus the gun

In fact, when the victory of God of War at the 2018 Game Awards, the web was ablaze, seeing pro-Sony clash against those claiming that Red Dead Redemption 2 was much more legitimate. One of the reasons for this choice perhaps crystallized around the controversy surrounding Rockstar's crunch businesswhen the game was released. In fact, the studio behind the GTA license is known for its multiple, more than intensive work periods, to be able to meet deadlines.

Dan Houser – producer of the title – even declared that the teams could sometimes “work 100 hour weeks”. This declaration, buried within various head-turning figures (2,000 pages of script, 1,200 actors, 300,000 animations, etc.), was enough to trigger a bad buzz around the title. If he had explained his statement shortly after, specifying that it was not a question of “a few developers who work very hard on the project, simply out of passion”, this controversy had already somewhat tarnished the studio's image and raised public awareness compared to the video game industry. There is no doubt that this affair weighed in the balance during the 2018 election, offering an escape from Sony's exclusivity.