Had so much fun making version 1 of the prediction and seeing everyone's response to it, I decided to make another version listening to the comment's feedback from various communities :)

I decided to replace 007 with Mina to have an Indie rep in the GOTY category (love making it the opener - gives of Celeste vibes also from 2018),
while also changing songs for Control: Resonant to 'Obsessive Compulsive Order' (could hear it as fast strings which would sound beautiful) & picking a more "bombastic" part from RE9's theme. I actually did a version where the closer was the main Zelda theme taken from the 40th Anniversary concert to make it bombastic, but the ocarina and the title theme is just too iconic - so it must be kept.

GTA VI & FE: Fortune's Weave's ost choice if they get nominated are also guaranteed to be their respective main themes.

What do you think of this orchestra order and the NEW 6 GOTY Contenders?
What would you change?

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both Innocence & Requiem, for similar & also different reasons. Resonance is excluded from this as I haven't played it yet.

 Gameplay: Innocence suffered from extreme linearity & lack of freedom, which made its gameplay an unfun chore at times. This was partially remedied in Requiem by the larger levels & more options to tackle enemies, though it's still not saying much because the the first game set the bar very low. Requiem's gameplay is still lackluster by today's standard with its weak AI, repetitive limited gameplay loop & the not-so-responsive controls.

 Difficulty: Both games are ridiculously easy 95% of the times, but in the other 5% they suddenly become unforgiving if you don't do certain things in a very specific sequence. This is often worsened by the questionable placement of autosaves, forcing you to go through scripted dialogues or waiting scenes etc. every single time you fail. 

 Story: the core of the story is basically Last of Us but with a more interesting concept; the mysterious plague. Sadly both games fail to make anything interesting out of it or answer any important questions by the end, like the origins & the "How" of the plague. 

 Characters: Amicia & Hugo are basically Joel & Ellie, the protector & the child, journeying through the country, hoping for a cure. but they don't have even a fraction of the maturity of the writing of Last of Us.

Emotions: TLoU did so much with so little, emotional scenes were few but always moving & memorable, characters rarely cried but when they did, you'd feel it & remember it. in Plague Tale, however, the characters are constantly yelling at your face their emotions of fear & sadness & yet it still fails to get any emotion out of me because the characters were never interesting in the first place.

 Dialogue: Amicia's incessant monolgues about her fears & worries, her & Lucas constantly panicking whenever they're together, & Hugo always complaining about being scared or things being his fault... it's too much & too annoying. I became hopeful every time an adult character joined their company, hoping they might make things a little more mature & bearable, but they just continued in the same path of weak childish lines as the children.

a personal subjective complaint of mine is Hugo's voice, it's so screechy & annoying, it's honestly like nails on a chalkboard.

All of this got way more annoying in Requiem because for some reason they got rid of their authentic french accents for british, & made them talk x10 times more, as if they were scared of having a moment of silence in their game. There is so much pointless banter & lame jokes that honestly made me consider muting the dialogue audio at times. 

 Graphics: the only strength of Plague Tale games, incredible graphics with impressive performance. There were so many scenes in Requiem when there were hundreds of thousands of rats in the screen, with decent quality & moving fast too, & yet there was never any framerate drop, it was pretty impressive.

 Overall I found these games very boring & tiring to play, rarely finding myself actually having fun in them. I'm never touching them again, though I might try Resonance at some point since it doesn't have Hugo & Amicia, which alone is a big upside lol. 3/10 do Not recommend.

All of these are games that I own but are unsure of which to play next! Just came off the heels of the Adventures of Elliot, which kinda fell under the radar this year, but I really enjoyed it! Solid 8.5/10 for me.

I'll tally the votes in a day or so, and I'll play whichever gets the most! :)

Edit: I forgot to add Resident Evil 2 and Village to the chart.

The "collector's edition"literally looks different in every image and the proportions of the sword look so bad; why would you people pay for this when not a single real image can be seen, and how can they even model it with all the details if the game isn't out?

I just finished crimson desert, not the enhanced version just the regular one . It took me about 3-4 months , and I have no idea what the story was even back , it’s like they tried to incorporate so many plot lines/ details to make it lore heavy , and somehow there still was no story in it , i don’t even understand what happened at the end , there was no urgency in the plot , they made it seem like its some world ending event and it felt like it didn’t even matter , is the enhanced version even better? Feel like the main story was just so jam packed and i still couldn’t make out the plot lol .

Btw this game still has some of the best gameplay I’ve ever experienced in a game , no doubt it’s a very fun game , just no story to it which is unfortunate considering how cool the world is , story had so much more potential

for me probably Scylla and the sirens, i swear everyone I knew said she was very easy for a third boss and I got absolutely destroyed by her.

Oh and then pinwheel but he was easy.

also hades 2 is absolute peak

Character development is really important in basically most story games or at least the ones that are non heavily focused action game
And some games handle character development in one game or throughout the series
For example Arthur Morgan in rdr2
And if we would also mention rdr2
We would mention John Marston in rdr2 and rdr1

There are certainly other characters but my favorite is Arthur Morgan from rdr2

Can't believe not more people are talking about this game. It's my game of the year for 2026. Incredible concept, the time factor and what not.

This has got potential to be it's own big thing like the Witcher.

To start this off, I have purchased many video games I regretted spending money on. But, only one purchase made me angry and left me feeling butt raped: FF16. The demo pulled me into the purchase and then the game turned into feces. To make it worse I paid full price, which I believe was $69 USD. I remain feeling bitter and anally raped.

Since tournaments are now predominantly online, we rarely get to see scenes where people react together in the same space. Back in the day, tournaments like WCG and ESWC were the source of many such memories—perhaps some of you even participated in them. There was a Korean StarCraft player named SlayerS_BoxeR; he was practically worshipped in Korea, and his every moment was captured on record.