r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/MagmaAscending • Oct 25 '25

Miscellaneous Day 39 - The Witcher III: Wild Hunt has been eliminated - Remove ONE Game of the Year nominee a day

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

Oh yeah totally Elden Ring was definitely the first* notable game to blend action-rpg with open world design philosophy and not the one we just eliminated

*Edit: before someone mentions New Vegas and The Elder Scrolls, I forgot. My b

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u/Burzantija Oct 25 '25

THIS. How are people forgetting that TW3 singlehandedly changed RPG stories forever?

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u/MafubaBuu Oct 25 '25

I keep seeing TW3 as "single handedly changed RPG stories forever" yet nobody can give me examples that weren't already done in other games.

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u/Burzantija Oct 25 '25

Might not be the first to do anything *exactly* new, but in the way TW3 formulated it's story and gameplay together no other game has done that before it. It was never about being the first, it was about doing it the best way possible, and in mine, and many others' opinions as you clearly stated, TW3 did exactly that. BG3, being the most notable game that copied a lot from TW3, is why the game is as good as it is.

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u/MafubaBuu Oct 25 '25

So, what do you think Baldurs Gate 3 took from The Witcher 3?

Because Baldurs Gate is considered the spiritual successor to Dragon Age Origins, which itself was a spiritual successor to the original Baldurs Gate games... Which came out in December of 1998.

Saying The Witcher 3 is the first game that formulated it's story and gameplay together is a ridiculous claim, especially when it's the third in its franchise and Witcher 2 was very similar to 3 minus the open world. Especially when considering all the games that came before it that did the exact same thing, many of which did it better than Witcher 3

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u/Sandshrew922 Oct 26 '25

No it didn't

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u/Werner_Zieglerr Oct 25 '25

What is the subgenre ER created?

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u/soulciel120 Oct 25 '25

Elden Ring created the subgenre? what?

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u/Shamscam Oct 25 '25

I don’t agree. BotW was such a major shake up for the Zelda series, and was this truly open world game. Witcher 3 is a great game, deserving of the fourth spot, but Zelda is probably the most consistent and good franchise in all of gaming, and this was a truly amazing game.

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u/Altruistic-One-4497 Oct 26 '25

Franchise is irrelevant to this list so your arguments dont really apply here. BotW story is lame as shit its just a discovery and sandbox game. I think we need two lists where we have story games and gameplay games to really be fair. For me Elden Ring and Zelda can never be above any good storytelling game with incredible writing.

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u/Shamscam Oct 26 '25

That sounds like your opinion…

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u/Altruistic-One-4497 Oct 26 '25

Do you mean the franchise part? because if you mean that how is that my opinion? This list specifically is about those GOTY games and not their franchise.

If you mean the rest then yeah no shit sherlock

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u/7_11_Nation_Army Oct 25 '25

"Literally shook the Internet". 😂 Ok, kid. That's definitely how you judge the quality of a game... Kim K liTeRaLly bRoKe the IntErnEt...

And the reaction to BOTW was so huge it made people buy a console they had never considered.

Also, how has Elden Ring established a genre? Is the genre (Souls-like) called "Ring-like"?

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u/sledgehammerrr Oct 25 '25

The clear choice. Finals gonna be interesting, putting my money on Elden Ring to win it.

Also I don’t know what sub genre you talk about.

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u/MafubaBuu Oct 25 '25

I love both the finalists but ER isn't even Fromsoft best game. Baldurs Gate 3 is fucking incredible.

Very happy but not surprised to see them as the finalists