Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Voted PS5 Game of the Year on PS Blog

Goes to show what a boring year it was for PlayStation when the GOTY is something as bland and safe as R&C: Rift Apart.

Well deserved. Rift Apart is my personal game of the year.
And if you disagree, we’ll then I respect your opinion and hope you have a lovely holiday.

Congratulations Kena for best Indie! Well deserved, a gorgeous game that's a joy to play. As good as Hades in its own way though if I had to choose Hades would get my vote.

Super Giant Games are the best in the business. Everything they do is top quality. The writing is best in class, the characters are always memorable and well-defined, the voice-acting stirring and believable. The soundtracks....oh the soundtracks....divine. Daniel Korb is a beautiful song-writer, so talented, and what a voice...but Ashley Barrett..she is an angel. Paper Boats is an absolute favourite of mine.
Such incredible, original games and all for a budget price. Simply incredible.

I'm enjoying FIFA fine enough, I guess, but what a drab collection of nominees in that category imo.

@bozz compared to FIFA they're all da Vincis 😆

So after all the Deathloop trailers and marketing...what a joke.

@TheArt I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean. It’s voted on by the public.

Can’t argue with any of those really.

I haven’t played any of the PS5 games but R&C will be the first game I play when I do get one.

Hoping to get my hands on a PS5 tomorrow actually. Debating whether I should camp outside Argos tonight... 🤔🤪

Next year is going to be crazy good, so may as well jump onboard now 😁

@fR_eeBritney
Come on you not got one yet.
Saturday just gone Smyths toys where dropping them in store but you had to go to store to get one.
Got one for my work colleague but was digital only.
Good luck with Argos tomorrow.
By the way got to a level on sack boy adventure and it is a Britney based sort of level also with her music playing.

@nessisonett I know that, and the public is a joke. Not even one category. Wondering if it's a Bethesda going to Xbox hate.

@fR_eeBritney good luck with the purchase!

@TheArt I wish I had more than two eyes to roll at that comment.

@SlySnake0407 How can you say all those games have a better story when you yourself say you didn’t even play Resident Evil Village? 😂

@SlySnake0407 RE8 has all the ingredients to be a classic. But, I don’t know... it just didn’t get there for me. It’s still very good but it’s missing ...‘something’.

I’ve always said it needed more space to breathe but some people actually like the pacing in the final game. I just wish there was a Directors Cut or something so I could fully immerse myself in the world properly. It felt like going to Disney World but only having one hour to see and do everything.

@LiamCroft simple, because he hasn't played any of the others either 😁

@Dezzy70 yeah, it’s my own fault really 🙄

I almost had one at Curry’s the other day but took too long debating whether I needed headphones and an extra controller... Then it sold out in the red controller. Then it sold out in the black controller. Then it just sold out completely 😟

Almost had one at EE (twice) but wasn’t sure it it would arrive before Christmas... Then it sold out ☹️

Only EE bundle left included the HD camera and seemed way overpriced... Then it sold out 😫

I just want the console and R&C. Argos is the one. I can feel it 🤞😁

Why didn't Returnal make the cut for graphics, I thought it was supposed to be THE PS5 showcase game?

@fR_eeBritney Get The Console First Then You Can Take Your Time Deciding What Else You Need.

Yay, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. 😀
Best Sport game for me is
still K-1 World MAX 2005 on PS2.

@fR_eeBritney
Not sure you remember about Argos what I messaged you before, it has worked for me a few times.
About 7am. Log in etc. get the console in your basket asap. Then keep trying find store etc. Don’t give up.
Took 1.5 hours from 8am one to 9:30am until the right store came up and payment went through.
Ratchet and Clank is fabulous.
Are you going disc or digital?

Best story Res Evil.....***** me, who writes this stuff?. It was piss poor.

@rjejr Because any awards it's never a true representation...any media field, it's the same.

I'd have picked Returnal but R&C is a worthy winner.

I agree with the PS5 and PS4 lists. Great year when you combine first and third-parties but I can see why people are disappointed from just a first-party perspective. Pretty much just Ratchet and Clank, Returnal, and some PS4 games getting patches or rereleases. Deathloop is really good but that’s also on PC.

Really happy with these games.
Kena, Disco Elysium, Hades, Ratchet, Returnal, Guardians…
all are auch great games.

@Mezzer Wel I'm not surprised it didn't win, but I am surprised a "only possible built for PS5" game wasn't on a list w/ PS4 game Far Cry 6 and indie game Keena.

Best graphical showcase

What did Far Cry 6 showcase that crazy looking Returnal didn't?

What a suprise a playstation blog on ps5 games named rachet and clank rift apart goty..... like duh. Unfortunately when you toot your own horn this award means little to nothing.

@Gh05tm4ch1n3 you seem blissfully unaware that this was a public vote, thus rendering your critiscm rather redundant.

Great winners there! Happy to see Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart winning the game of the year. Big Ratchet & Clank fan since the beginning so it was always going to be one of my top favourite games this year even if it didn't win. Guardians of the Galaxy, Tales of Arise and Persona 5 Strikers are my other top games of the year.

Fully agree with RE8 taking story and I would have given the risky Returnal the goty over the very safe Rift Apart.

@RBMango
Couldn't have said it better 👏

@RBMango To be fair there were definitely way better games than R&C Rift Apart that released this year, Just not enough people voted for them.

But yeah on the whole 2021 was a pretty weak year for games. One of the weaker ones in recent memory. Here's to hoping 2022 will be better

@fR_eeBritney Go for a ps5. It is a great console. Had mine day 1 in the UK. Glad i got it when i did. R&C looks stunning. Returnal is sublime. Demon's Souls is a jaw dropper.

@Titntin Somebody is mad they can't get a ps5...

@TheArt IDK if it's Bethesda Microsoft angst or if it's just the classic "nobody buys Arkane immersive sims". I mean if even a game with Sony exclusive marketing can't sell, Arkane truly is cursed

It's way too short to be termed a full and finished game, nevermind game of the year.

@fR_eeBritney I know how that goes, I've messed up so many orders for things by hesitating over little details. I've (usually) learned my lesson.... Heck, I wanted extended warranties when I got my consoles, but there was no hope of that, had to check out as fast as possible, so I rammed it through and did it! Then the xsx broke 4 days after the warranty should have ended..... Lol. (Fortunately someone did something odd and it had an extra 2 weeks warranty and was covered...)

Just get the console! Games and controllers are available 24 hours a day!

@NEStalgia Very disappointing. And I could add that some people are just not comfortable with black or female protags but they won't admit.

@ColdHandGee what are you even talking about? Are you even replying to the correct comment? My comment was to the guy who stated he would expect the PS blog to vote for ratchet - I pointed out it was a public vote. How that leads you to conclude I'm mad because I cant get a PS5 is beyond me, and indeed any logic.
For the record, I have two PS5's - release date disc version and I bought a digital for the second. I also have a 10900k 3090 Pc, a Series X and a switch.
As an ex Dev, and a serious games head, I have always owned all games machines.

@Titntin i was replying to the person above you. I was agreeing with you. All this is, is crossed wires.

@ColdHandGee no problem mate - easy to get confused.
I'm starting to get on a bit - maybe its my first signs of dementia!
Have fun!

@Dezzy70 What a morning...

Set my alarm last night for 6:55, 7:00, 7:05. Woke up at 6:30. All good so far. Refreshed the Argos page every 30 seconds for about an hour... And somewhere between 7:30 and 8:25 ... fell asleep (!?!?!) 😫. Jumped out of bed like Kevin’s Mum and Dad in Home Alone and scrambled for my phone. Argos stock went live at about 8:00 so despite my frantic efforts, I missed out on the Argos drop 😫 Why did I stay up all night watching Pose Season 2 on Netflix? Why Lord? Why? 🙏

Went straight to Amazon... In stock! 🥳 Add to basket 😬 Proceed to check out... Your card details have expired, please update payment method to continue. Where’s my wallet? Where’s my coat? Oh wait, Barclays Finance... pay by instalments... ok... your item will be reserved whilst waiting for approval... ok, nice... All approved 🥳 Instalment plan set up 👍 ... Amazon : sorry, this item is currently unavailable (!?!?!) 😤. Amazon chat... we can’t help you because you’re order didn’t complete in time 😭

Went back to Argos... apparently you can still checkout on the app. Downloads app from App Store... item available for same day delivery, yes! 🥳 Checkout... Sorry, something went wrong? Go back. Checkout... Sorry, something went wrong? Go back. Checkout...Sorry, something went wrong! 😤

Accepted defeat 😞

I didn’t need one anyway 👀🥲

Went out to get my hair cut. Went to Costa to buy a Toffee Penny Latte WITH whipped cream (!!!) to drown my sorrows and attempt to resuscitate what was left of my good mood.

Gets home... maybe I’ll just have one last check on the usual sites. Amazon... out of stock. Argos... out of stock. Currys... out of... AVAILABLE!!!

Adds to basket, checks out, delivery tomorrow 🥳😭

It’s a Christmas miracle!

Runs out of my house and down the street screaming ‘Merry Christmas’ to anyone who’ll listen; like I’m George Bailey at the end of It’s a Wonderful Life.

Ok, so that last bit didn’t happen 🤣

But I’ve got a PS5!!! 🕺🥳🕺

...I can’t believe I ate whipped cream 😫

@TheArt That can affect it somewhat, though there's plenty of games with black or female protags that certainly sell a lot better and get a lot more popular, while this reception for Deathloop is actually somewhat lukewarm compared to Arkane's past games, including Dishonored with a white male protag... Though I've always assumed the theme of 70's funk "black cinema" was going to limit it's appeal simply because the whole theme is a niche of a niche from a time before most gamers were born.... It's delightful, but I love the 70's, and I can see 80% of the CoD/FIFA/Fortnite gamer audience just looking sideways at it wondering WTF it even is. And Deathloop manages to be weird in every way.... A mix of WET, We Happy Few, Dishonored, No One Lives Forever. It's a mix of a bunch of really amazing and unique classic games......that all never sold well and nobody really ever talks about except a cult niche....

There's the Bethesda MS spite from the PS hardcore, Game Pass factor for the multiplat players, but outside the hardcore most of the market doesn't even know about all that. Sony went all out with big marketing, though I don't think it got the full Sony marketing treatment their real important games get. It was mostly online marketing to the core, and not their usual TV spots and product placement, and billboards for the masses. Can't blame them, it's their competitor's game, after all. And it's not really a game for the masses....at all...

Mostly I think the immersive sim genre is just "too complicated" for the market. I'm kinda surprised Jim's Sony picked up such a weird niche game at all. It sounds like they were gunning for Starfield and all they got was this lousy tshirt. Even the bigger brand in Deus Ex wasn't doing well it's last outing. Partially due to Square's incompetence, but the slow pace and complexity of too much freedom of the immersive sim just seems to only appeal to a small part of the market. I guess that's why Arkane's next game looks like a looter shooter.....

After they get Redfall out of the way and it inevitably fails because it's Arkane, maybe what they need is for MS to buy them some big film license to make an immersive sim that people will actually buy due to brand affiliation. A Star Wars immersive sim, John Wick immersive sim, Spongebob Squarepants immersive sim....something to make someone buy an Arkane immersive sim without having to understand the gameplay from the box art!

@fR_eeBritney Wooo! Congrats! That was a heck of a nightmare! Glad it actually worked out!

It was the whipped cream...it makes everything better. Even PS5 stock.

@NEStalgia Mm well I guess that might be it. Most people don't have the patience to experience an Arkane masterpiece. It's sad. Well we got Weird West coming Jan 11 from Arkane founders, let's see how that goes.

@fR_eeBritney
Well done so glad you got one, now you play ratchet and clank.
I got a PS5 disc for brother Argos collected and Series x for cousin Argos but collecting tomorrow, so did good for me family.

@fR_eeBritney persevere and you will suceed! Really happy for you xD

@Rural-Bandit I'd like to think Game Pass will breathe new life into Deathloop's popularity, but, it didn't do much for Dishonored... The game's totally worth looking forward to, though! I haven't played a whole lot, just a handful of loops, there's so many other games that have drawn my attention in the past month on XB, and I'm still pushing through GoT (though I'm taking a break for that because historically accurate burned hanging bodies everywhere you look just feels like a mood-killer for Christmas... ), but every time I pick up Deathloop it just amazes me with how well it's designed and how much raw crazy fun is in it. Like all immersive sims though, it can take immense concentration if trying to sneak around, so it's not always the right game for every mood, but like the other thread said, unlike most, it doesn't punish you for things going sideways and shooting your way out of it, either. VERY unorthodox game structure, is both it's charm and it's bane, though. I've been saving R&C for myself for Christmas....just a few more days! Shame it's another short R&C game, but I just loved the PS4 one to bits. Played it probably 4 times, to get the bolts to buy all the gear, and I never do that with games.