In the previous writeup, I talked about what a weak year 2015 was for gaming here, but 2012 was the low point of the last decade. The fact that Borderlands 2 won at all tells you all you need to know there! Even in the Game of the Generation poll that was held right after it won in 2012, it got crushed by everything except Call of Duty (remember when that was popular here for like 6 months? What a wild time!). Its our most fraudulent Game of the Year winner ever. It was easily beaten by Earthbound in 2015, and I really want to take it to lose here, too. Bloodstained did pretty well in GOTY voting, although I heard the Switch version was an utter disaster, which may hinder its effectiveness a bit here. Im still going to take Borderlands 2 to win, but I think itll be closer than a lot of people expect.
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I have had to listen for years as people called Borderlands 2 the weakest Game of the Year winner on GameFAQs. Maybe it is, but I want to go big on it because I have belief that it is going to show that it is a great game. Okay, so actually it is one of my favorite game of the decade and I am biased in favor of it. I actually wanted the Dragon Quest write up but someone took that from me, so here we are.
I am a bit torn, indies have been tearing it up so far but I haven't really heard anything about Bloodstained, so my ignorance is probably going to make me underestimate it a bit. I guess I'll go with something I feel is relatively safe and move on with my day!
Yeah, I was going to say...maybe in a vacuum, Borderlands 2 is our weakest winner, but I feel like in terms of current contest strength, it'd at least still manage to beat out 2009 winner Call of Duty: Who Knows Which Subtitle Because There Are Too Many Games in This Series. (No, seriously, I was just looking over old GotYs a few days ago and I've already forgotten exactly which CoD game was the 2009 champion, I just remember that it was one of them.)