Related: "your imaginary best friend Jennifer Lawrence." No, she's not.

Sad gifs in tragic post responses are so gross. And I am a lover of many, many things in poor taste.

If you don't mind, I'd like to toss in *unfortch* to that request.

Absolutely. Across-the-board but particularly with respect to headlines about serious subject matters. This website definitely resorts to that affectation all-too-frequently.

Words and phrases that should be used much more reservedly or just plain banned:

I know this is a Gawker thing, but "Because reasons" or any other variation of this phrase is idiotic.

"Feels": As in "OMG, the feels!"

because disliking something means you automatically love COD. get a fucking life.

I agree with your basic statement. I wasn't too thrilled with the gameplay, either. It was good compared to Uncharted, but not good in and of itself. But did you like the puzzles? I felt really weird about them and wonder what you thought. They seemed shoehorned into the game and most of them were stupidly easy. …

Your response cracks me up since I found Last of Us to be too much of a shooter. The only way I had even the tiniest shred of enjoyment out of the game was when I was able to clear a scene by stealth. The melee combat blows (since Joel went to the Nathan Drake school of drunken punching) and I hate shooters in…

I have no issue with TLoU being GotY but I am a bit shocked Tomb Raider didn't get more love. I'm actually playing through it again right now. It's really a stellar game, especially in the department of level design and attention to detail.

That's actually the definition of overrated, thinking that something is given more credit than it deserves. I think this game is overrated, too. Didn't stop me from enjoying it and logging dozens of hours into it. People these days think "overrated" means "shitty and garbage." That's... not the case.

In regards to the gameplay; I've played better stealth games and better games with emotional attachment in the story. What's in The Last of Us is adequate, but nowhere near genre-defining to warrant a "Best Of The Year" accolade.

I don't play Call Of Duty, but I don't let the fact that I don't play Call Of Duty lead me into trumpeting things based on how it makes me look next to people that do play Call Of Duty. Your response did nothing but make you look foolish.

I can name plenty of games that are fun that dont belong on a GOTY list

Sure. I will say first that I have some biased from mostly being a PC gamer, and with that, my aim with analog sticks, well... sucks. The Clickers and the other bigger ones were just annoying. They get close to you, you are dead. No way to counter or anything, just dead. You could get some skill or something where you…

Yeah, good pick.
I'm pretty bummed Tomb Raider didn't get more love though. That was actually my second favorite game of the year. Perhaps because it came out so early in the year, it's not as fresh in peoples minds.
Otherwise, nice list Kotaku staff!

I'm perplexed how Injustice got more votes than Tomb Raider.

Sometimes I agree with the GotY pick. Sometimes I don't, but I liked the GotY or at least can see why it was picked.

Sure, you'll pick TLoU this year, but last year for game of the year you passed up an even better game about being a surrogate father to a young girl while fighting zombies.