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Leonhart4 posted...

Yeah, we've seen plenty of early year releases win and dominate GotY, most recently Breath of the Wild.

I just feel like there's a difference in stickiness, for lack of a better term, between games like BotW/Witcher 3 and RE2. Yes, people liked it quite a bit when they played it, but are enough of them really going to remember it almost a year later? That wasn't a problem for the first two, which were obviously the most beloved and remembered games of their respective years. RE2 is no obvious #1, and already has its remake status and it simply not being the type of game GameFAQs is predisposed to working against it. Not to mention the last time GotY was between an early-year release somewhat outside of GameFAQs' wheelhouse and a later-half game firmly inside it, the latter won.

Maybe I should rephrase my point, since phrasing it as an inherent disadvantage isn't necessarily accurate: I feel like early-year releases need to be better-received than late-year releases to be equally well-remembered, which isn't the case with RE2 versus Three Houses.

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