Because I love the game. It's one of my all-time top 3 favorites, along with The Witcher 3 and RDR2, and I absolutely think it deserved to win that year.
It's a fantastic game with an engaging and emotional story. I know people didn't want "that person" to die, but it was a violent revenge story. Ellie/we needed a horribly good reason to head to Seattle.
Because her father was brutally murdered and she wants revenge, literally every player is in agreement with Ellie’s decision at this point. Its a suicide mission, her own survival is not a priority to her.
It's mainly the story that sucks. Imo it really fails at being a good "revenge bad" narrative. On paper the idea of ending the cycle of violence that was started by Joel is good but the way the game handles it kinda ruins the core message.
The Last of Us 2 is literally the most awarded video game of all time, and won the second most amount of GOTYs worldwide in gaming history with 322 GOTYs. Only Elden Ring has more (363).
TLOU2 absolutely should have one its one of the best games of all time for sure.
When did i say it was the best gameplay of that year? Reading comprehension. I didnt play all of the games of that year so i cant tell you if it was the best or not but it was better than RDR2, also GOTY isnt decided only by one topic. You also didnt answer my question.
As you described the gameplay as 'top tier' and we are discussing game of the year, I inferred that TLOU2's gamplay was worthy of GOTY. As GOTY apparently determines the best game of the year... I think you understand how I came to that conslusion.
How did you say TLOU2 performs well? It runs at 30fps on the ps4!
I believe it shouldn't have won due to the previously mentioned bad performance and derivative gameplay. A game shouldn't win GAME of the year due to a nice story and pretty graphics, and nothing else of note. In my opinion, a game needs to innovate gameplay in some way to win GOTY.
Even at 30fps the game had no stutters or breaking bugs but if thats your point of discussion on why it shouldnt have won. RDR2 was and still is 30fps so i don’t understand your argument which is the point of this discussion. If you think red dead has better gameplay than tlou2 then i dont know what to tell you, tlou2 is above in that department and most people would agree.
i'm sorry, but you can't call 30 fps good performance. 30fps objectively hinders the experience compared to 60+ fps. Also, why are you talking about RDR2? I feel like you're moving the goalposts here.
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u/The_RapperJoe17 May 31 '25
Last of us part 2 should not have won