The Golden Joystick Awards, a long-established British game award that has continued since 1983, was held again this year, and the results were announced on November 23. It is an award decided by the votes of general users, and it is said that there were millions of votes this year.
Capcom’s “Resident Evil Village” won the most awards, including the Ultimate Game of the Year Award, which determines the best of the year, as well as the Best PlayStation Game and Best Sound Awards. In addition, Maggie Robertson, who played Mrs. Dmitresk, the character of this work, was selected as the best performer. Capcom, which released “Monster Hunter Rise” in 2021 as well as “Resident Evil Village”, has been selected as the best studio of the year.
“Metroid Dread” was selected as the best Nintendo game, “Psychonauts 2” for Xbox, and “Hitman 3” for PC. The Critic Choice Award, which is decided by the judges instead of the voting ceremony, was given to “Deathloop”. From Software’s “ELDEN RING” has won the award given to the expected work next year.
The Golden Joystick Awards 2021 featured the Ultimate Game of All Time Award (the greatest game ever) and the Ultimate Hardware of All Time Award (the hardest game ever) as well as the best of the year. The latter could be voted on from a variety of platforms, but was given to the PC, which has been active and is still a popular gaming platform.
The game’s greatest masterpiece in history could be voted on from 20 nominated titles, but the one with the most votes was DARK SOULS. This work, released by From Software in 2011, is a classic title of “Death Game”, which can be said to be a new genre, and has had a great influence on later games. It surpassed popular titles such as “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” and “Grand Theft Auto V” and was selected as the greatest masterpiece in the history of the game. This year, the IGN head family also held a voting tournament of the game’s greatest masterpiece in history, where “God of War” (2018) was ranked first.
