Ranking EVERY Game of The Year (DICE Awards) WORST TO BEST (1998-2024)

Hey there everyone, we are back with another Game of The Year video. This time we are looking at every GOTY from the Dice Awards, which was formally known as the Interactive Achievement Awards. So this video is from 1998 to 2023, let me know your favorite games!
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[@kirbstomp1338]

Untitled goose game over sekiro is INSANE

[@WerthPower]

Wow Sekiro not even nominated. Crazy

[@WerthPower]

Wow they straight up never nominated any Demon’s/Dark Souls title OR Sekiro Dudes do not like From

[@ahmadadil1615]

And he says it has more credibility than Geoff show no shit

[@ThePro100DK]

I don't get how promotion and length of speech is making voting less credible

[@rileyjessup2414]

​@ThePro100DK I think he more meant that it was geared towards making money than actually giving appreciation to the game designers aka sold out

[@SkisandBeer970]

Take a shot every time he says “banger year”

[@jaw9983]

Ah ‘Tears of War’, a classic ❤

[@opiey.5937]

You got a good video scripts/ideas, actually interesting to watch for a hour which I can’t say other channels

[@dariopyrokollege5755]

Shark ;) Gotta love an 1 hour+ vid

[@MattsFreeChannel1]

That goose game legitimately sounds like it could have been a joke pick. How the hell did that even come off, watching the awards? "And the winner is . . . ?"

[@gablewriter]

It's a really fun game, but I don't understand how it's better than Disco Elysium by any metric, including humor.

[@MattsFreeChannel1]

@@gablewriter Yeah, I mean, I have no plans to play it, and I don't know if it's good. It just felt like a joke.

[@dusk-dude7772]

Gears was really impressive back in the day. I know there were cover shooters b4 gears, but the animations, the way your character would snap from cover to cover, the grim atmosphere, the weapons, music and graphics. Was really good at the time (except host advantage in multiplayer, that was terrible)

[@bodacious117]

Goldeneye on gamepass was really good actually.. they put modern controls on it unlike the switch version

[@Bru7aLis]

Thank you very much for the great video. Ranking games is obviously very subjective, but if we try to take a more objective approach, I am curious: what are your top 5 or 10 games by hours played?

[@tommycwills]

Great list! I agree with Elden Ring being the best of all of those. Guess I should give Baldur's Gate 3 another shot when I finish Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth. Hoping that you make lists for Castlevania and Mega Man!

[@Highretrogamelord]

Not having nominated some stellar games is giving me a headache, especially GTA III which is not only a really great game but also changed open world games. However, I'm happy that Hades was nominated as GOTY. What a fantastic game and I can't wait for Hades 2! SHARKS!

[@S_F_S]

Jonathan please for the love of God put some semblance of an index!! I can't even find the usual comment with all the parts of the vid indexed 😢

[@jesuswalksforyou]

All i know is they were NOT cooking. Most of these picks (and the games he mentioned that werent nominated) are crazyyy

[@platinumbeast1078]

Yea just by the game of the year choices, I don’t think anyone would take the dice awards more seriously than the game awards. I mean untitled goose game says it all 😂😂

[@nicholaszancy4571]

I got over 1000 hours in destiny bout to put more once the last dlc come out this summer

[@paulodelima5705]

TGA has many developers and journalists voting while the rest are just a small group.

[@Dawid7034]

no witcher 3 on this list is just 💀

[@Fluffychoupikkos]

Man if a video from your channel wasn't a treat this time of the day, I have played a bunch of those games and even though Skyrim was once my favourite game I am starting to feel like it's getting a bit hard to come back to these days, some of its elements are rather outdated, I still love it though as I really love hades also which I quite recently played.

[@frewtlewps1152]

My favorite game for each year would be: 1997 - Final Fantasy VII 1998 - Ocarina of Time 1999 - System Shock 2 2000 - Majora’s Mask 2001 - MGS2 Sons of Liberty 2002 - Metroid Prime 2003 - MGS3 Snake Eater 2004 - Half Life 2 2005 - Resident Evil 4 2006 - Mother 3 2007 - Super Mario Galaxy 2008 - Super Smash Bros Brawl 2009 - Bayonetta 2010 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 2011 - Dark Souls 2012 - Persona 4 Golden 2013 - MG Rising Revengeance 2014 - Mario Kart 8 2015 - Bloodborne 2016 - Doom 2017 - NieR: Automata 2018 - Celeste 2019 - Outer Wilds 2020 - Persona 5 Royal 2021 - Psychonauts 2 2022 - Elden Ring 2023 - Baldur’s Gate 3

[@Circusfire999]

Agree with parts, but the 2013 I do not understand.

[@Soccerplayer999-rv3tw]

For me it is between bloodborne or the pitcher 3 for 2013 and for 2023 I would say totk but your list is good 🔥

[@soggycrepe676]

This might be a dumb idea but how about a series of the 100 games every gamer should experience for every major console. "100 ps2 games everyone should play"

[@nicholaszancy4571]

Didn’t know hades won GOTY in 2020 thought that was the last of us 2. But I’m so glad it did. It was my first rouge like n I downloaded it on a random chance. Don’t even know what made me get the game???

[@MoonlightShield]

Keep in mind this ranking uses DICE awards. The Last of Us part II actually won the game of the year of 2020

[@nicholaszancy4571]

@@MoonlightShield oh they won the Jeff award 🥇.

[@GianinaoBoss]

ZBotW over Persona 5... we have a lot of games that feel like the same that is good, but Persona we dont

[@alenaphoenix]

Shark!❤

[@WritingGeekNL]

My opinion: 1997: Final Fantasy VII 1998: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 1999: Age of Empires II 2000: Final Fantasy IX 2001: Final Fantasy X 2002: Resident Evil Remake 2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2004: Dragon Quest VIII 2005: Resident Evil 4 2006: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 2007: Mass Effect 2008: Persona 4 2009: Batman: Arkham Asylum 2010: Red Dead Redemption 2011: Batman: Arkham City 2012: Pokémon Black 2 2013: The Last of Us 2014: Rayman Legends 2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2016: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End 2017: Persona 5 2018: Dragon Quest XI 2019: Resident Evil 2 Remake 2020: The Last of Us Part II (OR Persona 5 Royal... but I won't count that) 2021: Metroid Dread 2022: God of War: Ragnarok 2023: Baldur's Gate 3 I only agreed with DICE Awards 2 times, lolz. Comment is copied from @A-Dubs398 ~ Let's see if someone else can reach a lower bar than me.

[@tommasogentile2175]

Fallout 4 over Witcher 3 or Bloodborne ?? That’s bullshit…

[@lukeryan1934]

From what I’ve played 12. Fallout 4 11. Goldeneye 10. It Takes Two 9. Half life 2 8. Elden Ring 7. Gears of war 6. Overwatch 5. Halo 4. Skyrim 3. Call of duty 4 2. The last of us 1. Uncharted 2

[@BL-mf3jp]

1997: Blood 1998: Ocarina of Time 1999: Silent Hill 2000: Banjo Tooie 2001: Paper Mario 2002: Resident Evil remake 2003: Simpsons hit and run 2004: Paper Mario TTYD 2005: RE4 2006: Zelda Twilight Princess 2007: Halo 3 2008: Rhythm Heaven 2009: Bayonetta 2010: Super Meat Boy 2011: Dark Souls 2012: Pokémon White 2 2013: Mario Kart 8 2014: The Talos Principle 2015: Undertale 2016: Dark Souls 3 2017: Cuphead 2018: Smash Ultimate 2019: Sekiro 2020: Doom Eternal 2021: Idk 2022: Idk 2023: The Talos Principle 2

[@krombopulossal2032]

Sharks 😊

[@MaybeHarvey]

Goose game is the goat and I’m so glad it won tbh

[@Pinkarmada01]

Great Video

[@Jmz7361]

43:55

[@meiswizard8385]

58:20 ok but seriously how does no one mention Minecraft or Terraria like wtf

[@marky1974]

Skyrim was only 3 years after fallout 3 which in turn was only 2 years after oblivion..now its 13 since skyrim..why does it take so much longer now to make good games? I thought 2007 was my fav year in games ..the orange box,cod mw,bioshock ,halo3..

[@divyamsingh4952]

Tbf ESO, FO4, FO76 and Starfield have released during this duration

[@dukefe9627]

Rank the god of war franchise

[@BL-mf3jp]

RE4 and DMC3 not being nominated for 2005 is a total joke. Those games are the best of that year easily.

[@madspunky]

Sharks: Did you play Journey with other people online? To me that was the whole point, finding a random person and sharing the journey together.

[@vslazer6728]

Shark. I hadn't heard of the DICE Game Awards before this video but now that I have I wish that I hadn't. Their choices for nominees in general are absolutely awful and I didn't end up agreeing with many of their GOTY picks either. Untitled Goose Game nominated and winning over Sekiro is a fucking joke, and Angry Birds HD nominated over my favorite game of all time, Super Mario Galaxy 2, made me want to find their headquarters and commit unspeakable acts of rage. What a bunch of clowns, Geoff Keighly's game awards might be a huge advertising fest but at least they choose actually good nominees and pretty agreeable GOTY winners. As always though, your ranking of them was pretty good.

[@Fluffychoupikkos]

Though putting skyrim above the last of us, big respect for that one bro! That was some ballsy move and i applaud.

[@Pursuance2]

It feels like theyre really biased towards fps games, especially in the 2000s

[@NinjaGeek]

Oooh you want to get me heated about Overwatch? Ok then let’s do it 😈 I LOVED the original Overwatch. I mean seriously I had about 70 hours played on Reaper ALONE, and that’s just 1 of the 21 heroes that the original game launched with. A paid game with free content updates all the time and an amazing development team kept the game going strong for years. Then what do they do? They FUCK it ALL UP with Overwatch 2. Blizzard: appointed a new head of the overwatch team after Jeff Kaplan (the GOAT) quit. They changed direction from their original plan and started creating hype around a new PVE mode that would later turn into false promises. They then scrapped the PVE mode a YEAR before launch and launched OW2 anyways with the hype that it was still coming. And then months after the game came out Blizzard admitted that they knew the PVE mode wasn’t coming to the game for literally a whole year. So they basically pulled a bait and switch on the fanbase and I got really sick of the bullshit and lies. And on top of that in the process of everything they replaced the original game with 2 which is inferior in every single way to the original besides a slight graphical upgrade. There was ZERO reason to release Overwatch 2, the ONLY reason they did it was to change the business model from loot boxes to an overpriced cosmetic shop that every single other game uses. It was a money scheme ever since they knew PVE was canceled which is why it’s deleted from my console and I’m not playing it ever again unless they change their direction entirely and actually release a huge PVE mode and make the shop less egregious. Back in 2016 when it won GOTY I was really happy for it since I adored the original. But the 2nd game? It belongs in the trash…

[@sarugard9115]

dice awards have a VERY wrong taste in games lol fallouyt 4 over witcher and goose game over sekiroa are real example

[@A-Dubs398]

My opinion: 1997: Final Fantasy VII 1998: Half-Life 1999: System Shock 2 2000: Diablo II 2001: Final Fantasy X 2002: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2004: World of Warcraft 2005: Resident Evil 4 2006: Gears of War 2007: Halo 3 2008: Persona 4 2009: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 2010: Halo: Reach 2011: Dark Souls 2012: Dishonored 2013: Last of Us 2014: Sunset Overdrive 2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2016: Dark Souls III 2017: Divinity: Original Sin II 2018: Red Dead Redemption 2 2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2020: Hades 2021: Returnal 2022: Elden Ring 2023: Baulder's Gate III I only agreed with DICE Awards 6 times, lolz.

[@pedrovisk54]

Fair enough my sir :)

[@ernestjanzen6809]

Good choices! I like the shoutouts to Returnal and Final Fantasy X, my goty as well in their respective years.

[@A-Dubs398]

@@ernestjanzen6809 Returnal is prolly the most underrated game ever to me. The combat is literally perfect, and what a modernized 3D Metroid game should play like.

[@WritingGeekNL]

My opinion: 1997: Final Fantasy VII 1998: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 1999: Age of Empires II 2000: Final Fantasy IX 2001: Final Fantasy X 2002: Resident Evil Remake 2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2004: Dragon Quest VIII 2005: Resident Evil 4 2006: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 2007: Mass Effect 2008: Persona 4 2009: Batman: Arkham Asylum 2010: Red Dead Redemption 2011: Batman: Arkham City 2012: Pokémon Black 2 2013: The Last of Us 2014: Rayman Legends 2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2016: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End 2017: Persona 5 2018: Dragon Quest XI 2019: Resident Evil 2 Remake 2020: The Last of Us Part II (OR Persona 5 Royal... but I won't count that) 2021: Metroid Dread 2022: God of War: Ragnarok 2023: Baldur's Gate 3 I only agreed with DICE Awards 2 times, lolz. ~ Let's see if someone else can reach a lower bar.

[@laurencevicar5798]

Kinda cheating, as I didn’t play many games before 2005, but 2005: Devil May Cry 3 2006: Bully 2007: God of War 2 2008: Left 4 Dead 2009: Uncharted 2 2010: Heavy Rain/Mafia 2 2011: Arkham City 2012: Journey 2013: GTA V 2014: This War of Mine 2015: Bloodborne 2016: Uncharted 4 2017: Hollow knight 2018: Marvel’s Spider Man 2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2020: Dreams 2021: Returnal 2022: GOW: Ragnarok 2023: Ghostrunner 2 Only two games

[@The_MEMEphis]

Mmmm 480p

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

it seems to be having trouble processing... typical youtube

[@The_MEMEphis]

​@@TotallyTubularJonathanyeah I figured it just allowed me to switch to 1080p

[@jimmymurphy898]

Red Dead Redemption 2 really should have won in 2018. I thought the storyline and gameplay were way better than God of War. God of War 2018 felt like it was trying to be like The Last of Us and also has you fight the same troll like 10 times. Arthur Morgan and the realistic gameplay of Rdr2 was just something else, idk to me it's no contest what's the better game.

[@pegasuskiller9905]

No one asked

[@alexmichaelraccoonplays8777]

​@@pegasuskiller9905I didn't know you had to be asked in order to comment.

[@rpgfan1187]

Currently, this is my favorite game of each year, starting with 1980: 1980: Pac-Man 1981: Galaga 1982: Dig Dug 1983: Ultima III: Exodus 1984: Tetris 1985: Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar 1986: Castlevania 1987: Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished - Omens 1988: Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny 1989: Ducktales 1990: Super Mario World 1991: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 1992: Ultima VII: The Black Gate 1993: Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium 1994: System Shock 1995: Chrono Trigger 1996: Duke Nukem 3D 1997: Blood 1998: Thief: The Dark Project 1999: Planescape: Torment 2000: Deus Ex 2001: Super Smash Bros. Melee 2002: Metroid Prime 2003: Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne 2004: Half-Life 2 2005: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory 2006: Ys Origin 2007: Odin Sphere 2008: Valkyria Chronicles 2009: Left 4 Dead 2 2010: Mass Effect 2 2011: Portal 2 2012: Dishonored 2013: Rayman Legends 2014: Shovel Knight 2015: Bloodborne 2016: Persona 5 2017: Hollow Knight 2018: Dusk 2019: Disco Elysium 2020: Doom Eternal 2021: Psychonauts 2 2022: Elden Ring 2023: Blasphemous 2

[@hammieli1875]

It’s funny how half your rankings put Balder’s Taint > Elden Ring and the other half out Elden Ring > Balder’s Taint

[@TotallyTubularJonathan]

thats what happens when you are indecisive haha, either way we can agree both are stellar games

[@qcumber6652]

They are equals, depends on the mood.

[@Koustav_04]

Fallout 4 over Witcher 3 & Bloodborne??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♂️ Fallout 4 is 6/10 game, Witcher 3 & Bloodborne are 11/10. I can't take these awards seriously 😐😂

[@sarugard9115]

ocarina of time most overreated game of all time

[@A-Dubs398]

For 1998, Half-Life OG is my fav. Very underrated. I like it more than Half-Life 2, HOT TAKE!

[@DarkGhostPepper]

Shut up

[@sarugard9115]

@@A-Dubs398 yeah that is a hot take lol

[@alexmichaelraccoonplays8777]

You spelled "the last of us" wrong.

[@tsmith4719]

I can respect that opinion. I was 11 in 1998 so nostalgia plays a role for a lot of us.