MasterKillua how about a wombo combo of 3 years loop Zelda Mario and Metroid Prime (that is if it will come at next year or so :P)

There was too many good games that year it would’ve been fine if any of those games won, except pubg.

MasterKillua to be fair, Skyward Sword releases the same year Skyrim did. Skyrim is awesome, and Skyward Sword was good... but not Skyrim.

@don't give a fudge Imo Skyward Sword was pretty underrated. People complained about the controls way too much than they needed to (they very rarely had issues for me).

@don't give a fudge I meant overrated in its current state. People love to hate this game for little reason.

R I V E R S I N T H E D E S E R T

*_RIVERS IN THE DESERT_*

RIVERS IN THE D E S E R T !

@McK akchually

Phantom Thieves steal hearts Game Awards robs Persona 5's best Soundtrack Award

and he's wearing the Champion Tunic...i want that blue shirt😍

I’m pretty sure his name is eiji aonuma

@@Alaois fr bro lmao

EVERYONE loves Aonuma.

@@Alaois Well he isn't terribly young anymore either.

TheCoastalAVENGER xDD.

Nintendo: IT’S -wednesday- SPOOKY TIME MY DUDES

Better be at goty on Friday (Friday for me because it starts 13th at 130 am because UK time and that)

SeKiRo 2K19GOTY

Scott Manoban who asked?

EvarDerp/Moose I'm sure he'd be proud ! Breath of the Wild sure is one great way to thank him and say goodbye

Is miamoto there?

EvarDerp/Moose he saw it from above

I think he probably knew BOTW was going to be a hit even before it released. I don't think he would have been surprised to see BOTW take top honors this year.

Don't worry us fans can feel him smiling

ja52ng74 PUBG didn't deserve to win. Game's still on early access.

ja52ng74 yea

Gustavo SmashBro00 it's not even that... the game is just so bland

AAAAAMEN!!

That game is a legit meme

Wait, it was flute guy? Always was.

I also just noticed. What a legend

I know right!

Actually, he started at 0:56

OMG IT'S HIM/ hope to see him in 2023 again.

I know im 4 years late... but nintendo? Wholesome?

​@@Seagull695 Hey, he said the developers not the company. He's right btw Nintendo devs seem very passionate, you should look up some interviews there are plenty on youtube.

ehhh good point but I hate to sympathise with nintendo, though you are right, Eiji seems nice@@svennevs5740

Bunnix Doll He's like: f*ck yeah boi, Nintendo's back

this is saddening

Come baack reggie

@Sloppy Slopster no they have people vote in October

What also is great is that Doug Bowser is already standing next to him. as if he was being shown the ropes at that point already :)

Simok1234 I love how this professional game developer just couldn't help but laugh at the excitement! Ha!

I found it endearing to see him so excited. He's usually so aloof.

This is why i love Aonuma

Simok1234 Aonuma is lowkey my favourite Nintendo employee.

You said it

lol yeah I noticed that too, though to be fair, BOTW doesnt have that much fun music, most of the soundtrack is purely for background. Not that I mind, but it is sad that BOTW wont rly have any fun memorable themes like say.. hyrule field from OOT, But I love BOTW so much

@@fyra_cat2119 they should’ve done Kass’ Theme one of the funnest themes in it in my opinion

​@@fyra_cat2119 Yes, BotW have perfect background music, but not a lot of "true" songs

@@fyra_cat2119 the botw and totk games are meant to have a much more serious tone from the other entries in the series

Yeah 😎

Because Mario Odyssey sounds so good

Because Mario is the most iconic video game character in the world. Also a Man who saved the video game market after E.T nearly kill it. Lastly, the pioneer of 3D games, I'm talking about Mario 64.

Yes but i didnt like that they did that. Mario could be the videogame character more recognized but here Other games had a better soundtrack than mario oddisey so the oschesta should dedicate the same time for all.

@@mariegomez6296 Mario is the greatest character in the world. We have a lot of video games to play is because of him. I think TGA just want to show tribute to Mario. He deserved it.

It is sad to see the Legend himself pass. If only he lived to see what his work did.

Splatoon too

And now smash ultimate as well

and also botw2

Grey yes it is sad that iwata couldn’t see this because Nintendo is just doing so well and not just for casuals like during the wii era but for everyone really. They’ve made such a great console with so many definitive and just all around great games for each of their franchises.

LOL he's probably sleeping in his house at Hateno while this was going on.

Siul Oc lmao

Hehe

Siul Oc with all he's done he deserves another rest. Ha!

Wahyu Hidayat "Again? Let me sleep please"

@@sotfer27 *her

@@pcg4566 i hate to be that guy too but he wasn’t referring to the song

her name is Molly Redwolf

@@noelmore7919 for f sake why i was so desperate to know her name 😭

@@sotfer27 the girl who plays the white cello, do you know her name?

With Spider-Man the orchestra is going to be god tier this year

Zelda lost😔

@@T-man114 It's okay. Totk was a DLC more than a mainline game.

Honestly I feel like if totk was on anything but switch it would have won

@@T-man114Nah Baldur's Gate too good

Heven demo yes 😍

I am late but ok. I just pressed on this video again. They never give nintendo awards(unfortunately)and he wasn't expecting that.

I saw this coment just in that part

whats even more cute is that he’s wearing the campions tunic.

@@aegr5125 should have wore the hero of the wild tunic

Super Mario Dan games were just shit this year

BEST COMMENT.

ahem Nier? Persona? Mario Odyssey? Fortnite? DQ11? Horizon ZD? games were NOT shit this year. maybe just try and enjoy something for once?

Lmao! This kid is hilarious. Botw is the only great game that they made in a long time. You got blinded by fanboyism from a kiddie company. Also, no one's gonna take your comment seriously with your current profile picture. Kids these days.

@@markpogipeterson4056 Persona and Odyssey were great games! Not as good as BotW though!

Ok he's in

No

We need Aloy in Smash

@@ted9030 if i had to pick a ps exclusive for smash it would be ratchet & clank, they would fit so well

@@fabianviricochea7825 Idk if Crash counts as a ps character but he's more iconic If he doesnt count then WHAT ABOUT KRATOS

Sadly they just dedicate like 25 secs to play that song -_-

But Hyrule castle theme made the epic moment later

And chills too

I get chills

Same man ❤

Sidenote 2: She was hot

they never left the game.

>back in the game >the game awards *LUL*

Dopy when did they leave.

Renato Ramos de Oliveira Correia Yes they did

Same here bro, same here. Mr. Iwata must be very proud of his legacy.

@@guillermosarabia1205 all 3 of them were friends.

BOTW feels like first draft after playing TOTK

I think Starfield gets it this year... Although I found TOTK amazing, I suspect they will give preference to it.

@@Legnica148 bruh it isnt even out yet, for all we know it might be just as much of a success as no man's sky was at launch also people said the exact same thing about fallout 4 taking goty away from witcher 3 back in 2015 and we all know how that turned out

@@SKANER__ I have like 150h hours on the early access/part of act one... How can you say I have zero knowledge of it lmao. Have been playing it for 2 years if I'm not wrong... EDIT: yep just checked. got it on first day of early access, 6 October 2020.

​@@Legnica148🧢

Nintendo in 2023: "Wanna see me do it again?"

@@TicTacToeCraftsad that totk didn’t won goty but atleast they proved everyone that they’re worthy 😊

Tina Guo omg you were AMAZING really ! So talented 😩

O dang ur the real person

You were all incredible!! The music and perfomance was outstanding, I hope you're all back next year.

Ur the cellist right?? I was MESMERIZED!!!

Tina Guo congrats! You were absolutely amazing! Who was the redheaded violinist?? She nailed that Persona 5 solo!!!

NSan it was the best

NSan Yea man for sure

All those delays were worth it

kudos to every people that worked on this game

It s not the best Zelda, great game but Nintendo is overrated

@@spongirothonaonewingedbeac7166 Awwww no need to cry just because you don't have a nintendo😭

@@spongirothonaonewingedbeac7166 lmao got exposed

we all know he hasnt played BOTW and we all know BOTW deserves it. Its not overrated, It is good, he just cares about good graphics and not about story or how good it is. truly good games tho

@@spongirothonaonewingedbeac7166 Have you played it?.....

@@spongirothonaonewingedbeac7166 Youre just an eddgy kid then.... Zelda is a muuuuuch nore enjoyable expiriance than Hirozon Horizon is a good game, But the gameplay is less fun, wiich in a game; is all that matters

That will be awesome

i want it to, but that means it’ll have to beat monster hunter rise and i can’t wish for that to happen

@@karasu_3406 I dont think botw 2 come on 2021

@@felipe-fx5zsit's predicted to in the holiday season end of December time

@@owenowski2558 then it won’t be eligible for GOTY 2021.

Especially on the persona part I guess because that had a lot of violin in that

I was going hard, too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

what the hell is her name

Me too! Especially when Persona came up, I really liked the energy in that music & could tell she was really having fun with that too

couldn't help type in red-haired waifu during the live stream hahaha

tom hardy My favorite Botw Song

@Benji 64 Why?

One of the Best Best but BEST SONGS into the Game!

Speak for yourself.

@@phoenix9531 Who hurt you?

And it got best rpg,so be happy!

I am sad for persona 5 for the goty and the best sondtrack

Same, but at least it got best RPG :D

what's the name of the persona's song that they play?

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMd5optj2rqUoac.html here ya go

I assume her name is Tina "Wonder Woman" Guo.

* Imagineer95 * The red haired is Molly Rogers.

Don’t we all?

That "girl on the cello" is themost popular cellist on the planet atm. Ofcourse they're gonna focus on her

ProksenosPapias let’s just act like Lindsey sterling doesn’t exist.

IMO persona 5 was my favourite game in that selection.

lalalabizola not very soon about 5 or more years

TOM BRODY nah dawg metroid prime 4 is estimated to be reales in q3 or q4 of 2018 probably getting delayed to 2019 edit: I know I spoke too soon stfu geez

If Naughty Dog launches The Last of Us 2 this year and it is as good as the first one, Metroid will stand no chance. Sadly, probably both games won't see their release for this year :')

Maest But if MP4 is as good as the other games then it has a chance

Nintendo should do an open world Metroid and show andromeda how its done.

I don't know if it passed ocarina, ocarina is the all time greatest game in video game history to me tbh.

Lmao it didn't surpass OoT tho.

@@johnnyn4776 I think for the time, it was the best game ever made. But let’s be honest, it hasn’t exactly aged well. I love it dearly, and there’s a lot of nostalgia, and I think it’s aged better than most games from that era - but, for me anyway, BOTW is now what I think of when I think “Zelda”.

Imo BotW is overhyped but its still a good game but people praise it for things that arent special like a sandbox open world but dont complain about missing dungeons or mediocre fighting mechanics. Horizon had better gameplay, story, visuals and characters.

@@criticalhard yes it did

Arguably one of the best gaming years in this decade

@@tritiper4188We've eaten well this year as well, but lets not forget what previous years have brought; 2015 - Witcher 3 which won against Bloodborne and MGSV 2016 - Overwatch beating Doom, Titanfall 2 and Unchartered 4 2018 - God of War beating RDR2, Monster Hunter World, Celeste and Insomniac's Spider-Man 2022 - Elden Ring coming out on top amongst God of War Ragnarok and Stray There have been rough years for sure, but we've had a fair few good years too. I'd argue 2023 has been the best year since 2018 with how many phenomenal games each had in its GOTY category (not even accounting for other games that weren't nominated) - but this year, there wasn't a single game nominated that I could say wouldn't have deserved Game of the Year. Every single nominated was fantastic, and whilst there is certainly an order I'd rate them in, I wouldn't have necessarily been disappointed if anything else had won.

They reborn 2017

Kimo what about 6:23 ?

Connor Trujillo Hyrule Castle Theme

that mario odyssey hits hard :')

Only using this comment for Rivers In The Desert

Yay I know where to skip past pubg

actually, scratch that. This year is literally the year of the open world games.

Ray Karim Nintendo is still not on top

Ray Karim not by far, just because a Nintendo had a game that won game of the year doesn’t make them on top.

preston garvey you know if they wated for 2018 to release mario then that would've won goty 2018 cuz if zelda wasn't gonna win this mario was.and this year isn't going that good as far as we know.only good game that came out was god of war and still wasn't all that great in my opinion.oh and gues how many nintendo games are coming out this year.one of them is smash one of the or even the best fighting game.

One of the worst gaming years recently.

Totk has nothing to hang its head about…is an amazing experience

bg3 deserved it. why cant zelda fans just be happy it won in 2017 against another pretty stacked lineup

@@austinb4458 Not saying it didn’t deserve, just sad that we couldn’t get a double whammy.

ToTK was an amazing game and nobody denies it. However, you have to be willing to see the greatness of the other games.

It's a shame for TOTK that 2023 was so stacked with great games. I think that if BG3 wasn't a thing, Alan Wake 2 would have still taken the cake next, but after that, Tears of the Kingdom for sure! Any other year and they likely would have won. I mean, 2022 would have been tough with Elden Ring, but 2021's GOTY was It Takes Two - that's not to say that's not also a great game, but if you compare that year's highest standard to other years, it falls short. There really wasn't *much* competition for It Takes Two.

Joe1up I say nier should’ve been nominated instead

there were many good games this year, but i have to agree. PUBG has a lot of potential, and we can see that with the way it took off, but its still so broken...

NIER

Divinity Original Sin 2 should be part of this QAQ

The Charging Cable PUBG and Fortnite both suck

Pokelego 27 He would He would.

Iwata smiling in heaven

He's proud in heaven and chilling with Jesus.

Pokelego 27 He didnt start it, but he was a big part of it.

Pokelego 27 he did not create Nintendo or zelda wtf are you talking about

Fr fr Ghost of Tsushima deserved it this year oof

Any game that year would’ve been better than what we got

Oh boo hoo

It would be kind of disrespectful, no?

sebbaa93 the thing that annoys me about that, is that you know they want to sing along but are such awkward human beings they can't bring themselves to do it. Spineless.

A lot of the time, events will put merch in specific seats for people to wear. I'm guess that's what happened here, so I doubt most of them even played SM:O.

if i was there ill be singing till im out of breath and dancing the mario o the pauline move 😂

Pareloxia i was in the audience with a cap and i was dancing a singing along, smh they shouldve zoomed in on me smh and yes i have the game i 100% completed it

200 subs no videos challenge it matters if pubg won though

@@infyre3728 lets just be grateful that fortnite wasnt there.

@@JD-ph9cx actually. Back in 2017 I think fortnite deserved to be there more than pubg. Nowadays. No way in hell does either of them deserve it.

@@JD-ph9cx fortnite is incredible due to the fact it stands on its two feet to this day and has changed the face of the gaming industry meanwhile pubg couldn’t support itself and died

2020:

OOT won in 1999 also nice pfp

Thanks my guy

@@noahtheguy1828 ur welcome lol

@@Comatose_Rat and the original The Legend Of Zelda

@@cabecinha4987 didn't remeber that, nice

Nostalgia doesnt have to be from super long ago, if its a thing that brings back memories that you like, its nostalgic. I get nostalgia from frickin things from last year

Beautiful comment. I agree with you.

If i live in America but I are not from United States I count?

@@Dersontt I'm from spain, I guess it counts too

any country counts

"Thank you America" no u

frankiehazard and it’s shooter

Yeah but I like it but you're really right they should've waited till it was finished and I'm happy for the team who made zelda but pubg is fun

MiDo Ni dude your pfp of s a splatoon squid and it's a shooter game what is your point

It kills my high-end CPU too.

Wufl so? Splatoon is nowhere near to a GOTY

2018 was the best

Me too. This was the best year ever

same ;-;

ajeded. IKR! NieR Automata should have been there. PubG. Gross

Xetotorian nier,nioh,yakuza zero hell even injustice 2 is a much more deserving to be in it than pubg

ajeded . Well said m8

ajeded Sonic mania, NieR, literally anything is a better choice

Really, PUBG is just a H1Z1 remake with some extra features. When H1Z1 did it, it was pretty new generally speaking. But by the time PUBG did it, lots of others had done it

CanZ9 ikr

A RIVER IN A DRY LAND

THE LAST ACE IN A LOST HAND

A HEARBEAT FOR DEMON

Are you talking about Tears of the Kingdom?

@@Wakaweakweak7474yeah probably

@@crimzon5100 Incredible to think they would do it! TOTK I could say is a perfect game, tbh.

@@Legnica148 I'm wondering if TOTK will be game of the year 2023

L1ght_Of_Ruin It sounds like a more happy song than botw

beaver-tails64 69 So true

Well actually the song is used on one of the most important battles of the entire the game. The lyrics are really good too.

BOTW Main theme, a calming song, plays *10 seconds later* A RIVER IN THE DRY LAND

I mean it was a medley..

protoskype Or literally any nominee

Pubg was good, But the games that deserved a nominee were persona and botw. Odyssey and zero dawn were also great games that should be a nominee to, just not as good as the big 2

I cannot recommend the 4 here enough 2017 was a great year for games. After the blunder that was 2016. PubG presence is very questionable tbh but it was a generic battle royal before they become super annoying (Fortnite came out a few months before this and essentially ran the world for 1-4 days

Cuphead, Nier Automata or even Divinity Original Sin 2 could’ve had a spot over PUBG

At least Fortnite wasn't nominated.

Maybe not

@@SAFIS448 I didn't expect BG3 being so good. A well deserved win for Larian imo

@@FranklinThe1 i gotta try it out

GeneralColinSSB - Overwatch & More 🔴🔵🔴🔵🔴🔵🔴🔵🔴🔵🔴🔵

J O Y C O N B O Y Z

Etika needs to at least beat Kamoshida in persona 5 lmao

No. It’s J O Y C O N M E N

Proconboys

Josh Shelby yeah that's good but horizon is develope in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and Sony computer interactive is based in San Diego

Maple Miles I know, just saying that Japan has made some kick ass games this year in a whole. Some other good games not even nominated like Yakuza I thought was great.

Josh Shelby I'm with you long leave Japanese gaming. To bad Xbox had a pretty bad year. Nintendo did a bang up job I wish some people can stop saying their games are for kids only and think game with photorealistic graphic make it better then games with cartoonish ones.

@@maplemiles3381 But Atlus is From japan(I think) And They made Persona 5 for playstation

japan knows how to make exclusives good

Yes men

That is basically just second place

@@terryzhu4028Game Direction is actually Second Place.

@@supermariofan03 No, he is right, TOTK was second place.

@@jackjager8790 Alan Wake 2 was as it won Narrative and Game Direction

It's just old same Yoko Taro fuckery with android ass, still want to see it nominated tho

Hollow knight deserved to win something at least so badly.

@@bluebox2395 idk man the music is amazing in nier.

@@shirori2004 yes the music is amazing, it won the music award afterall. But as a whole game, nier automata still have a lot of things to improve on

@@bluebox2395 oh I wouldn't disagree with that but still a lovely experience. I wonder if they will be able to get rid of the issues they had with the new game nier replicant 1.5

😬

Who's laughing now

Abidinator 12 *pay $4.99 to watch EA win game of the year*

I don't think ea wants goty

EA only cares about money, they don’t give a single shit about making a quality game

This is a joke yeah it literally takes another studio to drag EA out of the pit they dug and it’s barely an inch (though it’s not that Star Wars is a bad game. It’s that EA has been digging that pit for DECADES)

@@TheGreatHotDogConsumer Yup...

c:\blackheartedcartridge no kidding. Next year may be even better 🤞

johnny05100 especially with releases like monster hunter world, metro exodus, the new god of war, and a shadow of collasus remake

The worst year for gaming in my opinion

next year and year after next year will be better

This year was so good, even The Game Awards made the awards fair. Definitely the best year of TGA

Wait, that was lipsync?

@@nullsurfer7331 oh, 100%. I could go on and on about how it is

@@RadicalCapitol well go on then

@@Lucario7280 ...do you really want that...? Not that its that hard, but wouldnt it be annoying?

@@RadicalCapitol Kate Higgins herself actually clarified: it’s not lip synced. She’s singing but the vocals are playing at the same time. This was apparently to make sure her pacing was correct or something.

*Plays the song: Back to the top*

*plays* *song* *top* *of* *the* *world*

Sike

I'm from 2018 Nintendo didn't get a single nominee for GOTY

Red One they didn’t have any games that were really big in 2018 like 2017. If smash released earlier this year it might’ve been nominated

Machete Lucius I instantly started to laugh reading this...Horizon done killed itself

Horizon is still a good game congrats to Nintendo. My first ever system when i was young snes

Horizon Zero Dawn is a great game and it is my pick for game of the year, for me anyways, but props to nintendo for making breath of the wilds which is from what I hear a good game

What even is your point..? They're both fantastic games. What a strange attitude to have.

Games Awards $$$$$$$$$ ... do you believe in this show? hahaha they put a early acces beta game in the list! hahaha

Because mario & persona is jazz genre, they really grooves

Kirk Vanderwood are you a the legend of zelda fan?, i would never guess it...

Wow, sore losers.

Can we just be happy that at least one of the Nintendo games won it

Dashfire109 Gaming I know right! I mean yes Mario is a fantastic game, but it just makes me happy that Nintendo won something big. If Mario won I would have been just as happy. Zelda just happened to have a bigger vote. It’s honestly hard to compare the both because they are both amazing games.

Kirk Vanderwood I feel as if from a graphics and music stand point MARIO should had one(I don’t have a switch but have seen let’s plays and it looks amazing) but from a story stand point Zelda wins by far. They growth of the characters in breath wild has shown through. Also the connection with the characters feel genuine ( not saying odessy doesn’t have that) over all glad one Nintendo game one

Smash *.*

Yeah they focus on keeping the story and game GREAT and they don't aim for how good it LOOKS.

Lol Pokemon this year is trash. Maybe next year

Joel Zee lol Botw is good looking but Extremely boring

Persona 5 deserved the award not that overrated game

Wanted zelda to win badly but didnt vote because i didnt play pubg hzd and p5. glad zelda won

AestheticVibe you are very nice. Most of the comments are people complaining about how their favorite game lost. But you don't mind that Horizon lost and are happy that it was atleast nominated.

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words :) It was a good year for games. Every game that got a nomination for the Game of the Year award would have been a bonafide Game of the Year winner in almost every year this past decade. To have Horizon get the same love that many others got made me happy in the end, and I even got to try out BOTW and I gotta say, it's a masterpiece, even if I do hold preference with Horizon.

If you haven’t yet played BoTW I bought last week and finished it is golden the switch is worth the investmment

Oh I got it a few months back, it's really a masterpiece. I still prefer Horizon Zero Dawn but that's just preference. I'm glad I got around to playing BotW.

The best year of games in general. And 1998

@@kenobigaming5755 2018 and 2020 was 2 of Sony's Best Years for God of war 2018 and The last of us part 2 GOTY😎 with Great Games like Spider Man,Final fantasy 7 remake,Ghost of Tsushima etc..

Odyssey wins GOTY just about every other year.

​@@sephorasamot2896final fantasy no, it's from Sony

Daniel Fonseca wut

Daniel Fonseca k

Daniel Fonseca If I'm not mistaken, I'm guessing English isn't your first language. Would you mind repeating that in your native language?

well deserved, not by far, i mean zeldas competition were games like horizon zero dawn and PERSONA 5, 2017 was a huge year for sony and nintendo.

Yago Kain don’t forget Odyssey

Too damn short.

Maria Galimova same 😂😂 because I couldn't find where persona 5 won best RPG

They didnt even play it well lol

Same

Maria Galimova That was lit

"Always" - Alan Rickman.

I was fine with either one

$$$$$

No botw was just a fenominal game and mario was in my opinion just a very veryy good game i think tge list should have been 1 botw 2 mario 3 horizon 4 persona 5 pubg

I wanted NieR Automata to at least be nominated. :(

I was hoping it would be the first tie in game of the year history

It could not win. GOTY is a mark of excellence, of refinement and prestige, if it went to PUBG it would destroy the credibility of the award itself. you cannot give the popular vote to the award, otherwise pokemon GO would be the winner last year not overwatch, because pokemon go hit a bigger population than overwatch ever did. if Geoff gave it to PUBG i would stop caring about the game awards completely because it is the same as giving an oscar to some random person who went randomly viral on youtube. it is highly damaging to the game awards reputation.

Same. PUBG didn't deserve this award though. Glad that BOTW got it.

PUBG is literally a beta they announced the next version there lol like sure it may be fun but it not GOTY material.

Inkling Mario True. You have a point on that.

But she was lip synching though....

XD