"Game Of The Year (Edition)", basically referring to ANY game that had recieved one or more awards for being the selected game for that year.
by Eccentricity February 1, 2005
Get the goty mug.Originally meaning 'Game Of The Year', but now used as a replacement for 'epic' or 'cool'. Used unironically.
by Die Nadel January 15, 2011
Get the GOTY mug.
Game of the year, all years
Sometimes used seriously and sometimes used jokingly, it is used to refer to a game that nearly every gamer has heard of, played and loved. This game is one often credited for raising the bar in a particular genre, such as how Goldeneye popularized zoom on rifles in FPS games and had absolutely amazing multiplayer, or how Starcraft introduced three vastly different races to combat against each other instead of traditional RTS using fairly similar races with a few different units. Other frequent GOTYAY nominations are Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Doom, and many others.
Sometimes used seriously and sometimes used jokingly, it is used to refer to a game that nearly every gamer has heard of, played and loved. This game is one often credited for raising the bar in a particular genre, such as how Goldeneye popularized zoom on rifles in FPS games and had absolutely amazing multiplayer, or how Starcraft introduced three vastly different races to combat against each other instead of traditional RTS using fairly similar races with a few different units. Other frequent GOTYAY nominations are Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Doom, and many others.
Dude 1: Man, I would call SC2 GOTY 2010
Dude 2: More like SC1
Dude 1: Didn't that come out in the 90s?
Dude 2: SC1 was GOTYAY
Dude 2: More like SC1
Dude 1: Didn't that come out in the 90s?
Dude 2: SC1 was GOTYAY
by AyahuascaTheSage December 21, 2010
Get the GOTYAY mug.by GingerFreak August 16, 2012
Get the Gotye mug.