@MonsieurX:

:-/

You totally contradicted yourself.

@MonsieurX:

You still haven't answered the question.

?

Your problem, along with many other gamers, is that you only see goty material based around replayability/value. If you continue to only look through blinders like this, when goty material is the topic, you're going to be disagreeing with many, many of the goty winners. Length, replayability, linearity, etc. do not determine goty games. You can scream hipster as much as you want, but that won't change anything.

I haven't played Gone Home, or even watched a walkthrough, but from what I hear, it sounds like it's the story,experience of the game that has garnered it's nominations. Journey did the same thing in 2012.

And that's another thing. Cinemantic/narrative in games. You can scream and cry as much as you want about gameplay always being king, and story should be kept out of games an in movies. The industry has been melding gameplay and story telling for quite a while now. If you can't adjust to this, you are going to continue to be quite the angry gamer.

And this is why TLOU won as many awards as it did. You can argue that other games had better gameplay, narrative, etc. but overwhelmingly, TLOU was praised for combining them all in a way no other game has before.

@Jankarcop:

You didn't answer the question. :-/

@MBirdy88:

So I'm a troll because you don't believe my play time? The only trolls here are the ones not answering the title question.

I'll try and post a screen shot this evening, showing the time, if I still have the save file.

For a linear game, it was very open. Lots of places to explore. I first played on hard and didn't use listen mode.

It's not my problem that you decided to just ramshot your way through the game...if you even played it that is. Probably just watched a walkthrough.

@MonsieurX:

You picked one site you haven't heard of. :-/

Most of the biggest gaming sites are on that list.

Food for thought....Skyrim won goty from Playboy Magazine. :-/

Does that lessen the game?

(I can pick too)

@MBirdy88:

Any proof of that?

My first, of four play throughs lasted 25 hours. :-/

Calling something casual doesn't make it so.

Winning over 200 goty awards says and speaks volumes, whether you want to accept it or not.

http://www.worldsfactory.net/2014/01/12/the-last-of-us-has-won-over-200-goty-awards

You didn't answer the thread title question. :-/

@PhazonBlazer:

Haven't a clue.