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With 19% of the final vote and just 3 votes ahead of second favourite, Splatoon - Undertale is the winner of the first ever Official GBAtemp Game of the Year vote.
Don't blame us, you decided!

Undertale Review
GBAtemp GotY Final Round

 

[Zero Dozer]

Undertale is extremely over-rated and people here voting it for game of the year proves it.

At this day and age, this is actually why popular choice awards aren't big; people on Internet are quite lacking on intelligence.

Undertale isn't a bad game, but these kids are glorifying it too much.

 

[Garcia98]

The thing I find really funny and ironic is how many people online say "fuck Undertale, Tumblr likes it and it has a lot of pop culture credibility so it must be SJW garbage", and then play the game later and say that it completely deserves to be the best game of the year due to elements like cheeky writing, a great story, and retro but refreshing graphics

WTF?

 

[omegasoul6]

Yeah, lets get real here, I think Undertale is a fantastic game but the retro graphics thing is so ridiculously overdone, it's atrocious.

 

[MurraySkull]

The Undertale bots made it here too, it seems. Fucking ridiculous.

They must have, for this piece of ABSOLUTE GARBAGE to be AHEAD of Splatoon WHERE IT DOES NOT BELONG.

 

[Deleted User]

They must have, for this piece of ABSOLUTE GARBAGE to be AHEAD of Splatoon WHERE IT DOES NOT BELONG.

Cry me a river if it makes you so upset, then.

 

[chaoszerobillion]

Where wuz Rhythm Heaven The Best Plus?

 

[Pandaxclone2]

WTF?

Well they definitely stick out more amongst the generic standard of realistic 3D high quality graphics that we've seen hundreds of times over by now.

 

[Garcia98]

Well they definitely stick out more amongst the generic standard of realistic 3D high quality graphics that we've seen hundreds of times over by now.

Is Undertale the sole indie game you have played in your entire life or what?

 

[Pandaxclone2]

Is Undertale the sole indie game you have played in your entire life or what?

Game Dev Tycoon, Witch's House, FTL: Faster Than Light, Mad Father, VVVVVV and Ib amongst a few others. Your point being?

 

[Garcia98]

Game Dev Tycoon, Witch's House, FTL: Faster Than Light, Mad Father, VVVVVV and Ib amongst a few others. Your point being?

Almost all indie games don't have "realistic 3D high quality graphics" so I don't know how Undertale graphics can stick out among other indie games with retro high quality graphics

 

[Pandaxclone2]

Almost all indie games don't have "realistic 3D high quality graphics" so I don't know how Undertale graphics can stick out among other indie games with retro high quality graphics

Not all of them are using retro style graphics (But more often than not they'll use 2D graphics) and the comparison was more between that and full studio produced games, which Undertale was competing against some in this GOTY.

 

[EntermateStar]

*sigh* where's the bleach

 

[tony_2018]

I would like to express my disappointment with each and every member of this community. I can't believe this game won over killer titles like MGS V: TPP, Fallout 4, Bloodborne or The Witcher 3. Clearly there's still lots of work to do for a cynical asshole like myself - I'll refine your tastes even if I have to bleach your tastebuds, you'll see. Don't disappoint me next year!

Maybe there weren't enough voters....

 

[Felipe_9595]

The ammount of salt in this thread is hilarious ;o;

But just to add to the wound

MGSP Sucks
Bloodborne will be forgotten in a year
Fallout 4 is the same formula + Sims

The Wicher 3 is the only GotY contender around to Undertale, but it won by a reason. This thing is the new Cave Story, i you are so blind that you can't see what makes this game special and your only preocupation is to baash it for being "average" then you are really, really sad gamer with a taste corroded by this generation of games ;o;

PD Aimed specifically to a group of guys around. It's perfectly fine to not like undertale <3

 

[Deleted_11405]

This looks cool on the homepage (the picture with logo)

 

[vayanui8]

The ammount of salt in this thread is hilarious ;o;

But just to add to the wound

MGSP Sucks
Bloodborne will be forgotten in a year
Fallout 4 is the same formula + Sims

The Wicher 3 is the only GotY contender around to Undertale, but it won by a reason. This thing is the new Cave Story, i you are so blind that you can't see what makes this game special and your only preocupation is to baash it for being "average" then you are really, really sad gamer with a taste corroded by this generation of games ;o;

PD Aimed specifically to a group of guys around. It's perfectly fine to not like undertale <3

I really fail to see how you think Bloodborne will be forgotten in a year. It has remained relevant for months after its release, which very few games seem to manage these days, and its predecessors, such as demons and dark souls, have remained relevant years after their release. However, even if it isn't forgotten in a year, I have a feeling Undertale won't have the same longevity to it that you think. Every year there seems to be one indie game that gets a large fanbase like this, and every year that game typically doesn't hold up for long. Look at games like fnaf and minecraft. They may not be forgotten, and minecraft is even decently liked, but they hardly are considered in high regard like when they came out.

 

[FAST6191]

I really fail to see how you think Bloodborne will be forgotten in a year.

Forgotten is probably a bit strong. However FromSoftware seem to crank games like this out once a year or two these days so they do have a bit of a habit of being swept away like the annual COD or Assassin's Creed games do.

 

[StriderVM]

I really fail to see how you think Bloodborne will be forgotten in a year. It has remained relevant for months after its release, which very few games seem to manage these days, and its predecessors, such as demons and dark souls, have remained relevant years after their release. However, even if it isn't forgotten in a year, I have a feeling Undertale won't have the same longevity to it that you think. Every year there seems to be one indie game that gets a large fanbase like this, and every year that game typically doesn't hold up for long. Look at games like fnaf and minecraft. They may not be forgotten, and minecraft is even decently liked, but they hardly are considered in high regard like when they came out.

To be frank, the Minecraft Community and FNAF are still very very much alive. The maturity of it's fanbases are still something to be debated on though. Since Undertale won't have any direct sequel, it's community will probably slowly dwindle into a cult but dedicated fanbase.

 

[The Minish LAN]

here's an idea guys
people like the game, and it's a "what's your favourite game poll"
if your crippling insecurities can't handle the fact that your favourite game isn't a majority of people's favourite game, then wow

of course indietale isn't really as good as AAA titles, that's normal.
true paci is 7 hours, genocide is 5 - a lot of goddamn hours (depending on your abilities)
witcher 3 is 100+ hours

but at the same time, undertale has so much replayability that some people play it for longer than witcher 3
not to mention it's a not shit GameMaker game
that's impressive

all in all, if you really despise this game because people like it then you need to grow up
i'm gonna go back to my salt-free cave now

bye folks

 

[The Minish LAN]

before you guys start throwing salt at me, let me say something.
if you bought the game and played the game until either...

Spoiler: Basically spoiling the entire game if i say it, it's just the final boss if you don't wanna look

Omega Flowey, the fucking creepy dude
Asriel, the true final boss
Undyne the Undying, where most gamers just give up
Sans, wow i'm impressed good job

and you simply didn't enjoy the game, that's fine
however, if you haven't played the game yet and your bashing it by calling it a "homestock/tumblr/sjw game", or just saying it's bad the above applies to you
you filth