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Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring We seem to be in a unique situation with Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree , where its developer has lied about how big it is. It is..
.much, much bigger than they indicated, a sprawling production that is 4-5 times the size of many other games, and with stellar reviews it’s a serious question: Could this be the first time possibly ever that an expansion to a game wins Game of the Year itself?(An expansion to a game that already won GOTY, no less). Honestly, it feels like a frontrunner, and if that pans out, it would indeed be unprecedented.
This just...
doesn’t happen. Part of this is the fact that there are only so many series that even have expansions big enough to potentially be considered their own games. And sometimes award shows will not consider them as qualifying for GOTY as an expansion.
My vote is that should change. An expansion that contains a significant self-contained storyline and is easily as large as what would be thought of as a traditional video game should indeed be considered in this category. Things may get a big tricky with say, expansions for ongoing live games like Destiny 2’s The Final Shape this year, for instance, or FFXIV/WoW expansions, but for the likes of things like The Witcher: Blood and Wine, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and now Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, these should indeed qualify.
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