Popular online gaming site IGN has posted their own personal Game of the Year nominees for 2013. Unsurprisingly, there’s a couple of Nintendo games on the list which include Super Mario 3D World for Wii U and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for the Nintendo 3DS. Grand Theft Auto V seems to be scooping up a few Game of the Year awards, so it will certainly be interesting to see how IGN vote.
- Grand Theft Auto V
- DOTA 2
- Tearaway
- The Last of Us
- Device 6
- Tomb Raider
- Super Mario 3D World
- Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
- Gone Home
- Bioshock Infinite
Grand Theft Auto V
The Last of Us
Super Mario 3D World
Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Bioshock Infinite
Actual candidates.
Not many people play the vita but tearaway is one of the best games ever made.
It’s a great game. I’m mainly switching between playing that and SMW3D currently.
Typo: Super Mario 3D World*
Calm down.
Not that great, creative as hell that’s for sure but I found the gameplay to be a bit lacking. I’m gonna finish it eventually though. Media Molecules creativity rivals that of Nintendo.
I actually went through the full Bioshock Infinite game and I didn’t like it much. I was so fucking confused with the end. Finally understood it, but I didn’t enjoy the story.
Agree with u Collin c, and probably The Last of Us or Super Mario 3D World will win this one =]
It’s either you’re strictly console or really ignorant, because these other titles like Dota2 and Tearaway could easily top your stupid grand theft auto…
Zelda, Bioshock, Mario, and DOTA
Lets be honest, GTA 5 or Last of Us is going to win.
Yep. IGN is quite predictable and they will choose something that fits the paradigm of “Costly M-Rated Realistic Graphics” game. Either The Last Of Us (which is great) or GTAV (with is dull plot) will be chosen. This is a waste of time.
Yeah. And I think that Last of Us and GTA V both deserve it, but Last of Us more than GTA.
“Grand Theft Auto V seems to be scooping up a few Game of the Year awards”
So far I saw it win GOTY on the VGX and nowhere else, but I’m not following all outlets (some I outright refuse to). The Last of Us won at the other places I follow. Where else did GTA V won?
Funny how they picked console and handheld exclusives from Sony and Nintendo but nothing from Microsoft, lol.
Microsoft really didn’t have any significant releases this year, and their games are hardly ever worthy of a game of the year nomination.
Ryse, Kinect rivals and Xbox exclusive dead rising from Capcom are significant.
Not at all.
Also: Kinect Sports Rivals is not even out yet.
Maybe not to you. These games launched exclusively on a brand new console, they arenot “insignificant”.
Wow i can not believe i left out Forza 5.
Forza 5 is the only one out of those titles that is somewhat significant; It just fell flat in delivering though. Still not GOTY material or a highly anticipated title for most.
I’ll concede that it is an exclusive and staple franchise that was released this year from Microsoft though. I forgot about that game (sad, since I was just playing it yesterday).
We’re talking game of the year material, here. They weren’t even highly anticipated games for many.
If you call those significant in that respect, then feel free to include games like Knack and the Playroom too.
Playroom is hardly a game first off. Also, You’re saying Knack is not significant? Insignificant means lack of importance, you think the new deadrising and a new IP are lacking importance it seems.
In the grand scheme of game of the year nominees (which this article is about and what the topic of discussion was), yes. They are very insignificant. Might as well name every single game that was released this year as a nominee.
Some weren’t so “insignificant” before. Why would they be now?
Okay. So Dead Rising 3, Kinect Rivals Sports (which isn’t even out yet), Forza 5, and Ryse: Son of Rome are on your Game of the Year list. Cool beans.
Where did you get tha from? I’m saying DR, Ryse, and Forza are significant franchises. My game of the year would probably be Super Mario 3D World or The last of us.
Because I was talking about game of the year nominees, which I stated about four times.
Dead rising and Forza have been nominated before in the past. But i won’t try to change your opinion on GOTY anymore. I’m surprised actually, you research these type of things alot.
Previous installments have been nominated in certain categories – but I can’t recall any major outlet ever nominating them as an overall game of the year candidate.
With that said, Dead Rising 3 and Forza 5 are brand new games in each franchise. You can’t presume that new installments will get the same consumer anticipation, reception, or perform the same quality-wise (whether good or bad) with each new installment. Things change.
Saying Forza 5 and Dead Rising 3 is irrelevant would be ignorant.
Well, on the whole, Game of the Year is fairly subjective. But from a critically objective standpoint, neither game would be included in an overall game of the year award by most media outlets.
(Side Note: DR3 is Capcom, as you said, so it really doesn’t belong in the discussion anyway. We were talking about MS games originally before you responded to me)
Mike was talking about exclusives, read his comment.
“Funny how they picked console and handheld exclusives from Sony and Nintendo but nothing from Microsoft, lol.”
When saying “from Microsoft,” I understood it as, games from Microsoft. Published by Microsoft. Not, “no Xbox exclusives” regardless of who it was made/published by. I may be wrong, but that’s what I understood.
We won’t know for sure until he chimes back in, if he does.
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It has to be GTV. It has so many accomplishments
Amazing game. Pushed the systems to the limit
cleaned up on metacritic
sold nearly 15mil
killer marketing campaign
First entertainment property to make 1billion in 3 days.
WELL DONE
sold nearly 15m? you mean 15m copies right? because gta5 made well over 1 billion.
can you read properly ?
SMW3D for me by a landslide. id buy it again if i had to
No Fire Emblem?
Id be suprised of ign picked a nintendo game tbh…
Super Mario Galaxy won IGN’s GOTY award in 2007. It was up against Bioshock, Mass Effect, and the Orange Box (Portal, Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2). It could happen again.
2007 was a great year for gaming. It was also up against CoD 4 – whatever you think of CoD now (and I always hated it) you can’t argue that CoD 4 very much revolutionised the FPS genre – most FPS’s now bear a lot of resemblance to CoD 4. Also, Halo 3 didn’t even get nominated for the list. Nevertheless, Galaxy was the worth winner that year.
Yeah, I forgot to mention CoD 4.
Surprised Fire Emblem isn’t nominated, seeing that it received a 9.6/10
3D World has got my vote!
Dota 2 or Nintendo
Dota 2 or Super Mario 3D World
Gta was fun when I was 13 now it’s just boring.
Dota 2 for sure. :)
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I might be in the minority but Tomb Raider gets it for me.
TR or TLoU actually.
Now THIS is a top 10 games of 2013 list that I can get behind. Rooting for Bioshock Infinite!
Personally I can’t stand MOBA’s, therefore DOTA 2 doesn’t even get a look in my eyes. I haven’t played The Last of Us but it sounds like a power story-driven experience quite different from all the other games out there. If I’m right in that interpretation, then that or Nintendo please.
Also, Pikmin 3? You’re telling me that Device 6, Tearaway, and Tomb Raider are all better than Pikmin 3? No, what they’re telling me is that they want to make sure they offend nobody by including things from all consoles.
WHERE IS PIKMIN 3! COME ON ITS AMAZING!
DOTA 2? I have played it, don’t see the appeal.
Is not a great game.
the last of us or gtav will win. most likely gtav.
I think Bioshock should win
tomb raider? really? i don’t get what people see in this game.. to me it’s a QTE fest, and not much more…
If Super Mario 3D World doesn’t win then IGN is biased and the awards doesn’t count…. just saying ;)
GTA V will win because it was the one that sold the most, it sold like crazy, and it got the best scores, so it is going to win. But at least we had these amazing games for Nintendo this year. For me Pokemon X/Y and Fire Emblem: Awakening are Games Of The Year for the 3DS. I still don’t have a Wii U, so I don’t know which one would be mine.
No PS4/XboxOne game (even the overrated CoDG and BF4) & Pokemon X&Y = DEAD GAME except for Wii U fans
Most flop game included in this list: TEARAWAY
JAPAN’s ENTRIES: SM3DW and Zelda A Link Between Worlds
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