This week, it’s Alan Wake 2, which has released and scored an 89 on Metacritic, a tick below a 90, but a 92 if you’re looking on PC where its visuals can be maxed to their fullest.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Reject the idea of an absolute GOTY, normalize a Mt. Rushmore style "Best of the Year" selection.

Games can be great in so many different ways, many of which are somewhat exclusive with each other, that I've never understood the concept of saying that one was absolutely better than the rest.

[–] motor_spirit 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cheers, I hate choosing favorites

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My go-to response whenever someone asks me what my favourite X are is "In no specific order..." followed by like 25 names

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is your favourite organ that pumps blood through your body?

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Who is your favourite smart arse?

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 9 months ago

Must be Pete, he's a great and intelligent donkey.

[–] Aielman15 6 points 9 months ago

This is the GOTY of internet comments.

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can I upvote this two more times please?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They won't let you, the fuckers. I bet they're pro GOTY

[–] motor_spirit 5 points 9 months ago

Big Choice got us by the balls again

[–] TryingToEscapeTarkov 10 points 9 months ago

You can tell gaming has been mid for so long that we get a couple of ok titles again and they are like "there is no room for all these GOTY titles!!" lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'm about 13 hours in AW2 and it's not a complication. This is one of the few easy choices to put up there. BG3, this and TotK even if it wasn't my cup of tea. 3 last 3 have a bunch of choices but I would be very confused if AW was snubbed with some of the issues the other contenders have (RE4 is an exception to this, it's risk is just that it's a remake and now there is a concrete horror candidate)

[+] off_apparition -17 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Totk

[–] FooBarrington 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bg3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

People are sleeping on Armored Core 6.

[–] FooBarrington 4 points 9 months ago

It's a good game! Though it does have a more narrow appeal than BG3 does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I love FromSoft games. I still haven't gotten around to AC6. It launched at such a bad time with so many other games coming out, especially if you have GamePass. BG3 came out about the same time (not on gamepass, but easy purchase), then Starfield (which was frustrating and bad, but still took time), Payday 3 (which is alright but flawed, and hopefully will be improved like PD2 was), and Cities Skylines 2. Notable mention to Counter Strike 2, while not doing anything that new for CS, it's still the thing we've been waiting for for years. I still haven't gotten around to it yet either, but patches are improving things so waiting is good.

[–] OrgunDonor 1 points 9 months ago

I would be surprised if this doesnt take it overal this year.

It is my 2nd favourite game of the year, but I am very biased towards fighting games and Street Fighter 6 is so damn good.

There have been just way to many great games this year, and honestly dont have enough time(or money) to get through them all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As someone who almost 100% it with all shrines... Nah. Totk honestly didn't take enough risks as botw and the new additions were disappointing. The sky islands were copy pasted many times with the same layout, the dungeons were arguably not much better than botw, and the depths all looked the same.

The game is also piss easy once you have enough hearts to tank hits. Still so disappointed I first-tried the final boss.

Still a good game, but 8/10 at best. In a year where much better games came out I wouldn't even nominate it for Goty

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I haven't played that yet but BotW is the most over rated game I ever played.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

100%

As a fan of the Ocreana and Majora, I was super disappointed with the same dungeon just copy pasted 4 times with basically no story or dialogue. It was a fine enough open world game I guess, but it wasn't a Zelda game.

[–] brawleryukon 0 points 9 months ago

BotW was great, but not if you were wanting a traditional Zelda.

TotK is hot garbage. They just took BotW and leaned way too hard into the whole "build silly contraptions!!1" thing that some fans were doing with BotW's physics interactions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What? That does not mean anything? Totk is not even a word

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It’s short for Tears of the Kingdom.

[–] SnakeRattleNRoll 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Instead of a zelda game, they gave us mid legos and 10 fps. I dont understand how anyone thought it was playable.

Its an expansion for botw, at best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not being playable is a bit extreme, it's just boring and tedious, and steps back on its extreme design choices of the predecessor

[–] SnakeRattleNRoll 1 points 9 months ago

To me, the stutters down to single-digits made it unplayable. Good for those that perservered?

[–] morphballganon 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you want to disqualify games for quest-breaking glitchiness at launch, BG3 gets disqualified before TotK does.

[–] SnakeRattleNRoll 1 points 9 months ago

Meh, BG3 was playable for me. It might be a case of simply being able to throw more power at it, but im indifferent to the why.

At least I could experience one of the games.

Not sure BG3 is my GOTY either, but i dont work in the industry anymore so dont really need to be concerned with it.