Game Theory: The Game Awards Are WRONG! (Game of the Year)
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Who watched The Game Awards this week? Year over year i’m always impressed to see the new games that premiere and start building hype for their release. There’s always one big controversy surrounding The Game Awards and it’s the Game of the Year winner. Every year fans of all franchises are up in arms about how “their” game should have won, but are they ACTUALLY right? Well we’ve figured out the formula for any game developers out there for how to WIN Game of the Year, just make sure to thank us in your speech!
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Writers: Matthew Patrick, Tom Robinson, Mike Keenan (The Pokémon Biologist), and Bob Chipman
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#TheGameAwards #GameAwards #GOTY #GameOfTheYear #TheGameAwards2023 #GameAwards2023 #Baldersgate3 #Mario #Zelda #Theory #GameTheory #Matpat - Hry
Flute guy is truly Legendary. He deserved his own award for performance
Give Flute Guy the best performance award 🗿
The flute guy, YES! He def deserves an award! Hope to see him again next year!
I liked the part where he evolved into Oboe guy
@@Owen01 yeah 🗿
We've all seen this comment somewhere else
Baldurs Gate 3 broke the standard to the point that other companies said “don’t expect this to be the new standard.”
And yet i still don't know WHY DID IT WIN EVERYTHING?!!
It shouldn't have won all the awards it got. MOSTLY DID NOT DESERVE GAME OF THE YEAR!
@@x-blood93 clearly showing that you didn't play it and know nothing about it. it *inarguably* deserved every award it got. it had an *insane* amount of love and care poured into and as the original commentor said it raise the bar on what a video game should be *so high* that MULTIPLE AAA devs came out with statements saying not to expeect them to make games to that degree. Just cause you wanted something else doesn't mean BG3 didn't deserve it's win.
@@x-blood93 The best game of the year, possibly of the decade, didn't deserve GOTY? Get a grip.
saying decade is massive glazing@@KakavashaForever
I think it's also extremely important to note that this years 'player voice' award also went to baldurs gate 3
Exactly!
because neil deserved it.
@@artemislove2941because everyone who worked on it deserved it? Lol
player voice means Tav's voice, not Astarion's voice@@artemislove2941
It's really not at all important to note that, because in the grand scheme of things it meant nothing. "Player's voice" just means "Aww, you guys think you participated".
We need Matpat to announce GOTY next year. Matpat criticizing the jokes is a whole new level of irony.
Yes
Oh…. This did not age well….
@@MilkintheMicrowaver yeah ☹️
I don't like how this aged
I don't think he will be hosting anything next year
Let's be honest, Flute guy is the best part of the Game Awards
I will never forget his wonderful performance in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 last year
@@Xgmarcos Lol no it wouldn’t. BG3 would have won regardless
@@Xgmarcosnah
Frl he played so many of them, I could only tell alto flute contrabass flute and flute
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Game Theory Request: Comparison between Indie and AAA games. One is more expensive but tends to be longer and more likely to be talked about, whilst the other is cheaper, and more likely to touch on original/controversial stories, and has very passionate developers that are less money-greedy
Still, some AAA games such as Returnal have brilliant original stories
Shut up I hate you!
-Gus
I would LOVE-LOVE MatPat to do a game theory on that idea!!!
I don’t know if MatPat will touch on it, but I’ll sure make a video in that vein when I finish with my current video schedule.
@@christopherlyndsay8611 Yeah, im not saying all are like that. For example, the indie game Hollow Knight is very long, and there are of course the large amount of indie games that are just bad, and some AAA games that are not worth the 60 bucks and such
i was shocked matpat dismissed alan wake 2 but that might be cuz he hasnt tried it yet. I feel like if he does play it, we would get alot of theories on it and honestly i would love that
Ye, currently playing through AW2 and that game as well as the first one and Control seem to be the kind of games that matpat would love to analyze
Yeah, Alan Wake 2 did not redefine what a videogame can be at it's core just for Matpat to dismiss it with "ummm sure" in the list of GOTY contenders.
@@Sheldon1985 cause it actually didn't? Stop trying to show this game as something unseen or WOW in videogames, it's not.
@@daniilbelov8652 the wow and unseen in the game is the way the story is told. That is what is unique about it. There isn’t even something similar done in an indie game.
raceswapping a major character isnt unique to alan wake 2 so yeah@@Sheldon1985
I have played many RPG games and I never played one like BG3. It felt like you had so many options and had so much freedom. You were not bound to follow a certain pathz but instead could really play the game how you wanted. And often rewards players for thinking creatively.
It’s almost like that sounds like another game on the roster this year….
@@ianreder2718guessing you mean Tears of the Kingdom? And yeah there's a lot of freedom in TotK for sure but absolutely zero freedom in the story it always ends the same, whereas Baldurs Gate 3 has freedom in gameplay and story, theres 4 main endings but technically 17,000 variations of those endings
It's literally DnD.
@@Nitrex-zl5iqso nothing new, I mean come on dark souls
@@MD.Akib_Al_Azad uhhh no dnd is way more different
Matpat criticizing the jokes is a whole new level of irony😭😂
Takes one to know one, y'know
that’s how you know it’s bad
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DON'T DO IT
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Jackpot?
Surprised you didn't mention how the Baldur Gate 3 Devs were only able to speak for 30 seconds while speaking emotionally about their deceased friend who worked on the game. They were rushed off stage and were looked over- which was complete injustice.
Wait. They actually did that to them.
Exactly!!
@@rubenreyes1388yep, there was even a sign that said "get it over with already"
@@pyromare4879 a sign? Like them with a face say ing get it over with?
@@pyromare4879The sign said “Please wrap it up” actually but close enough.
Also, from what I heard, it was applied to all developers. Heck even the Japanese devs who don’t speak English.
6:44 "The Game Awards actually prefer themselves action" There's defintely a sample bias here, though: most games that get made nowadays are action-based. That saddens my turn-based heart, which is why it made me very happy (among other reasons) that Baldur's Gate 3 was the GOTY.
I thought the same for most of his data about majority of nominees and winners. Most of those stats apply to the whole gaming industry, I feel.
yup, same with the male main characters i had thought.
@@robertolanzoneofc you don't agree, y'all always stick to your own opinions instead of being open to other things
@@azrienstewartenasen1508 Umm? Excuse me? What didn't I agree with? I thought I was agreeing with the comment actually 😅
Baldur's Gate broke the mold for Game of the Year with sheer quality.
Thank you, Matpat for everything.
Thank you
No thank you
I already don’t take the Game Awards seriously because they told winners that needed a translator for their speech to “please wrap it up”💀
actually WTH!?
@@superultrablitz9027 Yes they did… as example for Zelda… when they’ve took longer than 30 Seconds it appeared
We need Matpat to announce GOTY next year
yes
@DavidVevo-ws1ttalright, I won't translate.
Yess😊
Agreed.
@DavidVevo-ws1tt no
Flute Guy carries the show honestly. Last year he went NUTS for Xenoblade, so proud to be a Xenoblade rep.
I still think pizza tower should’ve won best indie title even if the game is popular… it makes you wonder if that decision was designed To draw attention to more obscure indie games which makes sense
Fr ^ Pizza Tower deserved better
Flute guy played his heart out, but the score this year didn’t give him nearly as much to work with compared to last year and XC3 leaning so heavily on the flute
Fan votes exceed all, apparently.
@@BloodyHowl69 Nah. Fan votes are only 10% of all the votes
I feel like that's another reason why XC3 should have won the best Soundtrack category. It gave us best moments with Flute guy.
Following that list of key take aways and demographics of the jury, why are roguelites and roguelikes very often absent or underrepresented during the game of awards? Many of them have darker more mature stories, are very action oriented, so on an so forth. They also have the added benefit of you being able to complete a full run in around half an hour to an hour or so.
Probably the story is harder to piece together.
I would say the less story focus, along with the sometimes very repetitive and grindy aspects of those games make them less interactive overall and less engaging. That factored with not many prominent i[s for rouge-likes would make it harder for the mass population to get into them and understand them
honestly ı would have loved to see celeste or isaac repentance when both were released respectively
They’re probably too hard for journalists lol
Y’know what. If I ever make a game ima make it a bright and colorful T for teen hack n slash with a YA female protagonsit that isn’t oversexualized and pour my heart and soul into it just to see if a game following The criteria still wins over it😅
Keplerians Universe Theory when?
That's the one thing I have been waiting for, for years!
But If the 9 Ice Scream, 3 Evil Nun and 2 Mr Meat games are too big of a challange, I totally get that.
Another aspect to consider is that old games always had a father figure type mentor to the protagonist. Now with games like spiderman 2, red dead, last of us etc. The mentor is the protagonist. You still have the wise one and the protégé a lot of times, we've more switched the playable character
saying BG3 has 60 hours playtime is insane. That wont even get you out of the 2nd act
Right 😂
My father (who likes playing games to relax) has over 200 hours in the game and just finished act 2
In my personal world, i have over 220 hrs and just reached ACT 3. While in a lan world with 2 more friends, we are at 180 hrs in ACT 1. There is soooo much you can do in bg3
Yeah my first run was about 150 hours!
I’m in act 3 and I have like 200 hours so yeah, true lol
Matpat should just host his own game awards
Actually that unironically sounds like a great idea. I mean plenty of gaming publications already do their own "game of the year" awards separate from The Game Awards, and MatPat is probably *the* most qualified person out there to host one.
FNaF Instantly wins lol
Exactly, he's too biased. Markiplier should host the awards. At least he's not as fake a MatPat@@cringeiscraaazy
The Matties
He better put pizza tower
4:56 you should’ve done “Keep you looking fly, while in the sky.”
Matt, you gotta explore the remedy studios combined universes. Please! Dont dismiss Alan wake 2 yet
Wait… MatPat isn’t into Alan Wake?! Actually surprised by that
Shocked by that, I'm almost certain AW2 was #2 and my personal GOTY and it fits into his whole game theory show perfectly. If I had to guess, he never played it?
@@josiahfour25yeah I had it at Number 2 and my fav as well. Very shocked he isn’t into it
Remedy-verse is absolutely made for MatPat
Bruh I was so surprised too
All remedy games revolve around one another, and they add tons of hints and lore with how the supernatural is invading our world. It literally reminds me of fnaf in trying to piece together a what comes next theory.
The fact that the Game Awards still almost completely ignore indie titles is *criminal*
pizza tower got absolutely done dirty by an game that wasnt even an debut indie game
edit: i might be wrong about cocoon not being a debut indie game but it still kinda sucks but thats mostly my feelings because i had to stay 2 hours late just to see it loose
which caused me to have a sleepless night
As cool pizza tower looked bombrush cyberfunk should have been nominated for Something especially indie
@@toys_the_memer it makes sense now that you realize fan votes don't matter and the winner is actually chosen by game journalists that hate fun
Is Larian studios not indie?
@@westrimabsolutely not
Indie games are always done dirty at these award shows too. ;w;
Pizza tower is absolutely at the top of my list for game of the year no contest.
Matpat, you NEED to play the Remedy universe of games (both Alan Wakes and Control). The amount of deep lore and complex storytelling packed into them is exactly what you look for in games. Also pretty please because I love those games 🥺
Well now I want to see the results if they made the public votes 100% instead of just 10%. See if anything changed
Then it just becomes a popularity contest.
@@dasaiyantv8483right but that's much more objective than some journalists. The objectively best games are the ones with the most players, if we're bringing subjectivity into it then we simply can't decide which is the best. The GOTY for each person is different
@@_ajf if most players = best game then that will lead to an extreme recency bias
For one, Last of Us 2 would never have even been nominated, let alone win. It has a 5.8 public rating compared to 9.1 Ghost of Tsushima.
@@_ajfobjectivity when in reality we all know a lot of casuals will pick Spiderman despite being the weakest one out of every game of the year nominees.
I do think games should be judged on how much you enjoy it rather than how respectable and mature it is
Agreed. I'm all for exploring mature themes, but they by no means make a work of art inherently better than those that don't.
then subway surfers should win all the award??
I mean, there's a reason why Mario games are always nominated
Yeah, Nintendo would probably just sweep every award if that was the case and I’m here for it tbh.
@@edmg7 I mean, I think its pretty obvious that a mature game like majoras mask is far better than a game like mario wonder (which is a more fun game). "fun" is a far more subjective thing to judge than game quality, which does a better job of looking objective
Baldurs gate 3 really is a prime example of going way above and beyond.
It blew away do many expectations.
I love how the developers also keep adding new stuff and fixing things to make the overall gameplay more enjoyable too.
I wonder what could go wrong with company ceos selecting who gets 90% of the award votes.
The company CEOs are just an advisory board. The journalists make up the 90%
Hearing Mat pat say Alan wake sure when i figured itd be the game he would like the most this year was a shock 😂
hey its the guy that makes the black text videos
I’m honestly really disappointed
On next year's VGA's, MatPat should be in it as one of the celebrity guests.
He was at VGA a few years back
He was on the 2016 Game Awards back in the day to annouce Games for Impact award, he needs to come back man. Even Jacksepticeye has been in Game Awards many times
I see you everywhere
How to win The Game Awards
Matpat - lists all the traits of Alan Wake 2
Also Matpat - behaves as if Alan Wake 2 shouldn't have even been nominated
Talk about ignorant. And the fact that Herald of Darkness played live on the Game Awards with a huge ALAN WAKE as the song ended and he's like "lol look at random flute guy"
I wonder when totk timeline placement will come. I honestly love matpats idea where he suggests that it comes out after hyrule warriors. That would make sense of why the flashbacks are similar to oot and why the map looks pretty different from everything else..
I fear the day MatPat runs out of theories
@@DavidVevo-ws1tt finally!
@@DavidVevo-ws1ttDon’t translate! کاتێک تەمەنم ١٣ ساڵ بوو جارێک بیجامەی سپایدەرمانم لەبەردا بوو چونکە سەیری قاچەکانمم کرد و جۆرابێکی فێمبۆیم بینی
He won’t
He will always find something to theorize on 😂
@@DavidVevo-ws1tthe’s right guys I’m dead. I’m texting in Heaven guys so subscribe to him 😱😱
@@CMan185so real for this one
Matpat really blew the merchandising load in the beginning in this one, 7 minutes in is when the video actually starts.
Right?! Kind of was a bit annoyed by that tbh. 😅 But I just skipped through it.
You should use Sponsorblock extension; automatically skipped that whole segment for me, and I didn't even know it was there.
Baldurs gate definitely isn’t officially only about 60 hours of gameplay…. I’m pretty sure it was 90 at minimum
It’s about 50 hours if you only did the story. But the side quests add about 111 hours.
But personally, I feel that BG3 deserved the win solely for the fact that they listened to criticism during EA, and after the release of the game. When there are game breaking bugs that can mess up everything, they were VERY fast in sending out patches. And they promised that they were not going to sell dlcs. If they release one, it will be with a major patch and available for everyone.
Right, Spider-Man 2 was supposed to be Game of the Year
Let's be honest, Mat really glosses over the quality of the games.
Thats because a lot of games have great quality. There are plenty of non nominees that have great quality
That's why he mentions the high metacritic score of the winners or by that extension nominees too. Cant have that without quality.
Glossing over Alan Wake as “also Alan Wake, sure” when it had more awards and almost as many public codes as SM2 while belonging to a much more niche genre and IP is misrepresenting the game quite a bit
@@PhevieWondersm2? Whats that?
@@MrGamelover23 Super Metroid 2
Games with deep stories and environmental storytelling tend to do well. Of course story driven games tend to be 3rd person so the character you are playing as can be seen being part of the story.
Goodbye Mat 😢 You will be missed ❤
15:07 I mean, BOTW/TOTK Link is 17 when the calamity happens, so 117 when he reawakens, and assuming that 5 years have passed between the ending of BOTW and the beginning of TOTK, he would be 122 when he awakens on Great Sky Island. Therefore, I do not think he classifies as a male in his 30s.
Action-action, so much action it needed it's own genre to let you know just how much action it has.
Which is funny, as Death Stranding really doesn’t have that much action. Certainly not enough to be called action-action. Action-adventure would have suited it just fine.
this award is made for consoles, console owners need confirmation to make them feel better
@@usuario2967 Not really.
Matt didn't just throw shade on Alan Wake II, it's literally the kind of game you would make theories on here.
Yeah, that bit was so confusing. I'd be shocked if I wasn't just puzzled.
Alan Wake, Alan Wake 2, and Control would be games that I feel like Matt would adore picking apart, analyzing, and experiencing. Really hope he gives it a chance.
@@pointblank2890 especially considering those games not only share the same universe but to this day have MASSIVE unsolved mysteries. Matt would absolutely drown in the potential. Oh well…
Remember, he has multiple script writers. Also, I'd assume the joke is moreso about how unknown it is than it being a bad game
Remember, Matt said it himself. He's just the face reciting the script these days. The script itself is written by other peeps in the team
@@borisrusinov3980it's still kinda weird to see that someone on his team got a beef with the game, and MatPat decided "yeah, why not, i'm gonna read it"
Spider Man 2 should’ve at least got one award! 😭😭 It got nominated for 7 of them and didn’t get a single one 😭
I feel that one part that makes the games a thing as well, and which was a real selection criterium for me: the ability to AFK or pause games. The only non-pausable games like Valheim I play are typically persistent worlds where logging off and logging back on means nothing of value is list. BG3 was great for having pause. Valheim is great for being able to just... go afk without danger. Heck, that for me is part of the timelessness of like Minecraft, or Zelda: can always just... go away and do some adulting while it runs.
Flute guy *BETTER* be in next year's show
He’s the GOAT. I can’t imagine them doing the Game Awards without him
Did not expect there to be shade on Alan Wake 2, the Remedyverse is stupidly heavy with lore and connections, which even extends into the band Poets of the Fall's lore with their music catalogue.
its a mediocre game and your a crybaby
Mat really just called BG3 a 60 hour action game.
@Afrecta Is It NOT A 60 Hour Action Game?
@@amytattersfield2017 It's a turn based rpg that takes 100s of hours lol
Bro it’s 150 hours lol
As one of the many many ripples you've impacted. Thank you for the 13 years of mind expansion, the laughs, and the brain tickling theorys. I can't wait to see the gifts and treasures you bring from your new adventures when we get matpat cameos. Thank you
okay that settles it, Matthew Patthew and team need to look into Alan Wake 2, and the Remedyverse in general
For real. It would be right up his alley.
I was thinking the same
We need more RCU content - Gaming University and Hidden Machine are great with it, but we need MORE!
I'm quite shocked they haven't already, it's the exact type of stuff they cover
Remedy verse is unironically too complicated for MatPat. im serious.
Larian studio deserves all the praise, it's literally one of the best games I've played and the community support is crazy, feels like they really understand their gamers, hopefully others will learn from them
Do gamers never learn? Ppl said this about CDPR after the Witcher 3 dropped. They praised CDPR so much that they grew an ego and dropped a game with a disastrous launch like Cyberpunk.
Larian has peaked, it's only downhill from here.
I missed the game awards bc I was playing their dumb silly captivating game 😪
Shame it also by-proxy brought attention to a Hasbro-Owned, Wizards of the Coast IP...
Given, they attract different audiences... But boy would I like that company to fail and be bought up by a someone else. That may sound dramatic but I am tired of seeing such a storied IP get slowly strangled by the company that owns it just as I saw with Star Wars, Marvel, and Disney.
@@jimmythegamer2231you must be fun at parties
@@jimmythegamer2231You will be the random regarder comment until proven otherwise .
And I have a suspicion you ll stay in that place
When the self promo ad is 3 min 💀
My own personal GOTY was Jedi Survivor and im sad Cameron lost to Neil but I think he deserved it, Asterion was such a fun character and the acting was really well done.
7:43 Peter griffin jump scare
Gotta say it kinda makes me chuckle that Matpat just brushes off Alan Wake 2 when the game (and the whole Remedy Connected Universe for that matter) could fuel GameTheory episodes for years
I almost turned off the video when he shrugged it off.. 😂 it was never gonna beat BG3 but it was better than half the list
So weird that someone doesn't enjoy a game. That never happens wow.
The amount of ads here while talking about the game awards is very meta 😂
Years I've been waiting for Matt pat to even mention Alan wake, let alone do a video on it, adhe glosses right over it. Christ mattpatt
Can we point out how his “criteria” of GOTY just described Alan Wake 2 in its entirety, yet he disrespected it at the start as if it was useless.
For real
Not only that but also at the end it felt like he was forcing the criteria to fit for BG 3 and Zelda. I don't think he expected Baldur's Gate to win
2:20
Matpat, what do you mean "Oh, Alan Wake, sure >.>"
That game has more lore than a single theorist can handle.
He would lose his mind going through the constant loops of lore and he would succumb to the Dark Presence
dumb lore and complex just to be complex
@@LuhinerWelcome to Remedy!
@@Luhiner oh come on, the whole complex just to be complex is so generic. You can come up with something better than that. What about the awful mind place or the lack of various enemies.
The challenge of theorizing Alan Wake 2 is like telling a bear to eat a chicken nugget. Matpat is capable of theorizing it, he just doesn't have interest in it.
props for having a commander keen screen shot
Another point, not just an established IP, but a longstanding and easily recognized one. Being in the 30 yr old parent category I don't stay up to date with lesser known IPs or gaming news, so this video was the first I've even heard of Alan Wake. The first one apparently came out in 2010, so I would've been a teenager but I don't remember it at all. The only one on this list I've played this year is Spiderman 2, (it would've been Balders Gate 3 if I owned it).
Not "sure" to Alan Wake 2, Alan Wake 2 is AMAZING, it would have won if Baldurs wasnt there
Oh that "Alan Wake 2. Sure." was so not what I expected! The Finnish media has been hyping this up and Poets of the Fall's social media has been full of the Old Gods of Asgard hype. It appears we are in different bubbles here 😁
Honestly, I would have thought Mat would love the story of Alan Wake 2 and the story of Remedyverse in general
Me too, it would've been really cool to see an Remedyverse Game Theory, :/@@KyanNurse
There's so much to explore. I would love to see a series on Remedyverse, but this might not be the channels cup of tea.
@Serena-ke9mp it's a bit weird, though, considering that he could just have a member of the team who enjoys AW2 do the voiceover for him (Like Dan has done for episodes like Just Dance and Choo-Choo Charles)
@@KyanNurse Yeah but who is watching an Alan Wake 2 theory? Like nobody knew about before the awards. I thought it was some mispronunciation of Alan Walker lol
either way seems boring
Now I know why a certain game where you are supposed to look for your son, but end up hunting for adhesive didn't win the Goty the year it was released
That dissmissal towards AW2 was brutal and saddening.
I genuinely thing you'd enjoy the Remedy Verses story.
IDK if that was just something the writers inserted into the script, or if you included that part yourself, but I think you should give the games a shot(at least AW1, Control, and AW2, but you should definitely play Quantum Break as well).
I have never seen a bigger plot twist and felt as huge of a betrayal as when MatPat completed dismissed Alan Wake
Edit: the fact that Alan Wake was announced to be coming to Dead by Daylight a few hours before MatPat posted his retirement announcement feels like some sort of ill omen (yes I am still crying)
That was my reaction too, MatPat strikes me as someone who would really like Alan Wake 2 so when he just dismissed it I had to pause and just stare at the screen for a few seconds.
He didnt write the script
@@10acious32 I know that lol, I was mostly joking with my comment haha
Plus if he liked it he probably would’ve removed the line or delivered it differently
Just overall a little surprised that Team Theorist hasn’t looked into the lore for it a bit more! It’d be right up their alley
I can relate. I didn't expect the dismissal.
And yet for some reason he took Last of Us Part 2 seriously.
Fully supportive of the tidal wave of comments about Matt dismissing Alan Wake 2. If it wasn't for the sheer depth and scale of BG3, it would have been my choice for game of the year
yeah i thought id be the only one
Is “A Little Theorizing” gonna be the new intro song in the future
When overwatch won it was a huge technical error where they were supposed to show the more popular, successful, and way better team based shooter, Team Fortress 2.
I think baldur's gate deserved game of the year because of its great writing, replay ability, and openess to player creativity. Totk is my runner up for a lot of the same reasons, but the story isn't quite as deep or reactive, but it's gameplay is satisfying just playing without a goal. Spiderman 2 was another of my favorite games this year because of how satisfying the game play was while the story was like being in a movie, less replayability than the other 2 though.
As someone who has played both, BG3 is Divinity 2: Original Sin but with better cut scenes. Zelda pushed the boundaries of what programmers could do with how players thought about how they interacted with objects around them and they did it without making the Switch explode with the limited hardware.
I was hoping for TOTK, but if I'm being real, the story left a lot to be desired. They need to work on how to keep the games open world but still tell a deep story. Botw did better, but still not amazing.
@@ZebulaJams I am a huge Zelda fan but I can shoot "BG3 is Divinity 2: Original Sin but with better cut scenes" back at you since TOTK is just remixed BOTW with added physics magic hand that imo isn't as flexible or polished as it first appear on the surface. That said I am glad it won the adventure GOTY award, like I said I love Zelda. I have over 200 hours in both games individually and easily my top 2 games of 2023.
BG3 has excellent writing, freedom and polish considering how massive this game is in scope, while being developed by one of the few studios left that has love and respect for its fans and employees. It fully deserves every award it received.
I can't STAND BG3 for one simple reason. Karlach. The most annoying tiefling to ever cros avernus. I chopped her head off when I first met her. She's too happy and no one in real lif eis happy like her. I hate her. TOTK is game of the year
@@ZebulaJams I've played both, dismissing BG3 as "Divinity 2: Original Sin but with better cut scenes" would be like if I said TOTK was Breath of the Wild, but with Gmod attached. BG3 easily tops, which is surprising coming from an indie studio vs Nintendo. The game itself has amazing writing, and offers a lot of player freedom to make decisions that I don't often see anymore.
Matt dismissing Alan Wake II as “meh” was honestly a slap in the face. Especially since I would expect him to love that kind of game.
He's a Nintendo fanboy, I thought you knew this already
@@GameoftheYear-fx4mq How so ? Because he's talked about Mario, Zelda and Pokémon multiples times ? Nintendo happens to have some have some of the most recognizable IPs on the planet, so it makes sense why he would talk about them, and something like Mario which isn't orientated towards detail or storytelling used to be much easier to theorize about (especially in the early days with more science based theories). Besides, nowadays he actually rarely ever talks about Nintendo stuff...
You're still learning how expectations work irl.... Everyone has their own taste
He probably just hasn’t played it or any of the other in-universe connected games. From the outside looking in, Alan Wake 2 is just a sequel to that thriller game from 2010, so u can’t blame him.
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Woke corpo shill...
I hope one of these days, Matpat will do a theory on the underrated gems of the PS2, Dark Cloud 1 and 2 (or Dark Chronicle in Japan)
>The Game Awards is just corporate circklejerking
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
I think the game awards need a cozy game category,there are so many coming out each year and they don‘t really fit in any of the other categories
They are more targeted at women and tend to be indie. The biases built within the Video Game Sector wouldn’t make space for it so easily :/
2:17 Wow, he really just dissed Alan Wake 2 like that
you gotta love that foxy jumpscare at 6:37
Even if mario didn't win, you gotta admit that wonder saved or at least refreshed the series
Speaking of alan wake, Matt should do a video on the Remedyverse.
He should, but it certainly sounds like it’s not his cup of tea. Which is odd, you think he’d be all over it.
He's already done a video of Control.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 He hasn’t, he only mentioned it in his SCP video
@@coproliteeater5005probably didn't post it
As a Pizza Tower fan; I absolutely agree.
Same as another Pizza Tower fan, too.
Just for this, i absolute hate all judges from GOTY
@@Davi_Vilhenapizza tower didn’t deserve nothing tho
@@funny45guy38 and cocoon deserved it? Even being in the wrong category
@blastertronus same bro
2:41 the pattern of not nominating original games just a game with the same characters we are familiar with
Mario Wonder was the odd one out as it did have a mature story, had a very cartoony look, was both single player AND multiplayer, and had both male and female main characters.
I am surprised that MatPat isn't into Alan Wake 2
I don't know how you haven't done a game theory on Alan Wake considering it has some of the deepest lore out there
Bro I don't care about game awards, if I love a game I'm not going to stop playing because my favourite wasn't nominated
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In summation, this animated magnum opus transcends the semblance of a mere video; it metamorphoses into a bloomin' odyssey, an immersive pilgrimage into the boundless frontiers of ontological storytelling. Here, every element, from the resplendent psychoacoustic soundscape to the intricately instantiated polymodal chromaticity to the avant-garde animation modality, converges in a symphony of ontological zenith, creating an unparalleled epic of perceptual and phenomenological transcendence. It's bloody brilliant, mate!
"Games Journalists are professional and know about games."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
18:29 AYYYYY I'm not the only one who noticed flute guy was going ham!
2024: Literally just around the corner
Me: Still trying to process 2021
Well your checklist does not fit with this year's winner all that well:
- Single Player yes (with co-op option)
- Action game: Nope
- 3rd person camera: Nope
- Mature story: Yes
- Male Lead: No lead because the character is customizable...and the majority play female characters
- Existing IP/Feels familiar: sort of; BG is an existing IP but has been dormant for 23 years; familiarity in gameplay comes mostly from Divinity Original Sin 2 but that's a different IP
- Release in Spring: Nope, August is not in spring.
Out of your 7 points That's 4 no, 2 yes and 1 sort of.
Mat, YOU should do your own game awards.
Dead meat did a horror themed award ceremony, so I have no problem with that
That would actually be so interesting, BC then it would include a lot more indie games.
The Indie Awards!
Yes I know that name sounds terrible
@@Humblemud and it could have something similar to what steam has, the labor of love (a game that's been out for a while and is still played to this day) think of terraria
He can do the Indie Horror Awards!
3:10 is that markiplier on the left
A FNAF reference released in MSM today, it's called Nitebear, your call to make a video on it!
6:35 this really caught me off guard
Pizza Tower not winning really broke me
beaten by a game that shouldn't even have been in the running due to not being a debut title
@@burp2019 Cacoon was their first game though what do you mean
@@joedatius it's their 3rd game, not their first
Pretty shocking MatPat that the Remedyverse (Alan Wake, Control, etc..) is not up your alley. Alan wake 2 genuinely was phenomenal. And FULL of a very mind twisting story. You should really look into them.
But also, i think this theory is a little weird. While those statistic may currently be more likely, gaming continue to evolve like every other medium. Experiences are changing. So i wouldnt be surprised to see those changing over the next few years. Cause i genuinely want the medium to continue providing unique experiences, more unique protagonists of all genders, cultures, etc (Sagas actress in Alan Wake 2 got nominated for a reason), and just more exploration of what interactive media can do and or achieve. Considering that Kojima/Jordan Peele team up, im thinking we have a lot of exciting stuff coming.
He already made a video on control. Stop acting like he hates the studio just because he doesn't like one game.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 woah woah slow your roll there my dude. I ain't attacking matpat. I didn't even remember the control video honestly. Take a breather. Just think he should give Alan Wake 2 a chance since it's a genuinely phenomenal games and leagues above its original game.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 can you please link me to this video since i cant find it... also was the video made by him or another member since that is a very important factor to consider
How is it a weird theory though? Gaming really isn’t evolving outside of a few studios.
The exact type of game that he described is still the bread and butter of Sony for example. There is still a massive bias in gaming media towards gritty cinematic titles and against anything seen as “childish.”
Alan Wake 2 received more awards than TOTK, SM2, and Mario Wonder despite worse critical reception exactly because it fits this criteria
Hi, i love your videos and i have something interesting to say: The Amazing digital circus. It would be a nice theory tho because there are some fishi things going on in there. I wont spoil but the only thing you need to do is write Amazing digital circus and youll get a lot of videos. One of them is longer than the other ones. Im sure youll find it matpat.😅
Could Film theory do a theory on the gold fish commercials? Theres like 6 seasons and the gold fish even have back stories!