GoW Ragnarok or Elden Ring - who will win the most GOTY Awards?

God of war. Souls games are niche, right?

Not a fan of either games but Elden Ring has reached more players and is more of a game than GOWR.

Both are great, but I think ER will win.

@goldenelementxl: GoW content pops up all the time on TikTok at least.

@hardwenzen: My only complaint and pretty much only reason why I did not give God of War (2018) a 10/10 was the lack of variety in the enemies, bosses and environments. Still a 9.5 and top 5 game of last gen

God of War Ragnarok literally addressed all three, especially the enemy variation.

That said, I still prefer Elden Ring thus far.

tough call, but you know it's the 10/10 Elden Ring. It's Miyazaki's magnum opus.

God of War Ragnarok is a 9.5/10 and could win in 2021, 2019, 2016, 2014... maybe even 2018 too.. but not 2022.

I absolutely love what they've done with God of War. Its an improvement over narrative and the combat is still super engaging.

That said, God of War is not even on the same planet as Elden Ring. That game comes along once a generation maybe less.

@Mozelleple112: Too much talking and handholding in it. GoW is still good, but I give it an 8/10, it’s in my top 15, but not my top 5 of the year. It has too many flaws.

Why is not on the same planet as Elden Ring? if you’ve played Souls games for the last 15 years, you’ve played Elden Ring 🤣

Everyone forgot about Horizon already?

Honestly I personally greatly prefer gow, but let’s be honest here it’s basically just more of the same and basically function more like a dlc that a full blown sequel. So think ER will smoke it in the awards department!

Same could be said about Elden Ring.

Wow, Elden Ring was so much more than "every other souls game". It had an exploration feature that rivals breath of the wild. It's world is alive and it doesn't need to rely on cutscenes and an overuse of cinematics to authenticate the world. The ability to craft your own style of tarnished with soooo many possibilities and styles is pure rpg gold and while it shares much of the industry defining combat found in souls games, elden ring far surpassed the scope and execution of previous work at From Software.

Funny though that you'd suggest the new ip is safe and familiar... What do we make of the God of War sequel?

Also, one of the best controlling horses you can find, which makes traversal great and you can do some challenging platforming with it, instead of you know holding the stick forward and occasionally hitting X when prompted.

I love both games, but I find it funny that Elden Ring is being praised as a breakthrough game lol.

• Character customization - done in other games
• Story - what story? Oh you mean The whole “Evil takes over the world” story we’ve seen in games all the time lol.
• Open World - it’s 2022, open world is a dime a dozen.
• Combat - it’s a refined combat of the same Souls combat we’ve seen since 2009.
• Bad quest management - the fact that most people will need a walkthrough to figure out how to get the proper endings sucks. It’s too obtuse.
• Graphics - the graphics are almost PS3 like and there were FPS issues.

God of War Ragnarok takes just about everything from the 2018 game and improves on it. It also has an engaging story, writing, characters, puzzles. There’s actually a world here. Elden Ring’s world is - go to this place, kill the enemies, go to other place, kill those enemies too. And every now and then go through a dungeon lol. I mean if Elden Ring is your first Souls game, then I can see how it would blow your mind lol.

God of War isn’t perfect. Sure there are moments when the game wants you to walk around and view cut scenes and things like that. But that’s part of the narrative, you are the character. And the combat is awesome, but would’ve loved more flexibility and depth.

Elden ring by a country mile, and that takes nothing away from GOW being a great cinematic experience but Elden ring is a different beast to the point I put in excess of a 100 hours on my first playthrough and I didn't even get to the Haligtree first time round.

Loved both game. Though i havent finish GOWR yet, i feel both game well deserve with GOTY. But i think ER has more impact when it was launched.

@SolidGame_basic: i loved how they balance kratos weapons too. In the original GOW, BoC is pretty forgettable. Now its pretty mandatory to switch weapons based on circumstances. Specially when your playing on high difficulty.

@SolidGame_basic: how?? It’s not even a sequel…

I played through it once and beat it (although definitely missed A LOT). On my second playthrough I'm going slow and focusing on one area of the map at a time. Once I'm done with that area I go and play other games and then a few weeks/months later I go back and do another area.

Look at that, a dev that listens to criticism. If only 343i did the same.

So what game is Ragnarok is copying?

i love elder ring but my vote goes god of war ragnarok