YOUR Game of the Year 2023

BG3 for myself as well.

ArmouredCore 6 close behind. Really enjoyed this and was surprised how it stole all my time, more so than BG3 did. Played through the campaign three, fairly different times to get all the missions, endings and story. Highly recommend it. If BG3 hadn't been what it was, this would be my game of the year.
CyberPunk has been amazing and I love it but wouldn't win over BG3 or AC6 this year, even if DLC was allowed.
Starfield was weird. I put ~70hours into before CP came out and enjoyed myself, it was a fun game. However, almost all of that time was exploring semi-empty places or base building. Base building I enjoyed but was time spent working around their missing systems. I hardly touched the story lines and have no drive to go back to it currently.
Diablo4 I enjoyed in a switch off kind of way. Disappointed with what they've done to the series.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Didn't complete it but was a fun shooter, great for a pick up game.
Aliens: Dark Descent. Enjoyed it and it and it has good character. Posted my thoughts in it's main thread.

Warhammer Rogue Trader - Not played yet but want to looks great.
 
My vote goes to...Nobody...
In fact I'd like to say that 2023 was very, very poor in terms of games released.
Tried at least 20-25 new titles and didn't like any...

There are few titles above that will try and maybe will change my opinion but at the moment '23 was rly poor...
 
this is tough, I've started quite a few 2023 games but only finished Starfield which under no circumstance should win GOTY. Going to abstain from this :cry:
 
DanF said:
this is tough, I've started quite a few 2023 games but only finished Starfield which under no circumstance should win GOTY. Going to abstain from this :cry:
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If you had fun with the game, does it matter? Also, it'd need another 20 votes to top BG3 (which it clearly won't).

But hey - if you thought the game sucked then fair enough. :)
 
nah I've had fun with gaming, just have a large back log of older games to still complete so wasn't desperate to play any new games as they come out. Just picked up Sleeping Dogs definitive edition and God of War in the sales for example

and Tombstone's disgusting rules block me from picking some stuff :p
 
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DanF said:
nah I've had fun with gaming, just have a large back log of older games to still complete so wasn't desperate to play any new games as they come out. Just picked up Sleeping Dogs definitive edition and God of War in the sales for example

and Tombstone's disgusting rules block me from picking some stuff :p
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Hehe, just my own criteria, people should know them by now been doing this thread for enough years :D

(Always still worth saying what your GOTY is though, even if it cant be added to the list, as it might be a title which prompts others to check it out)
 
j4ska said:
My vote goes to...Nobody...
In fact I'd like to say that 2023 was very, very poor in terms of games released.
Tried at least 20-25 new titles and didn't like any...

There are few titles above that will try and maybe will change my opinion but at the moment '23 was rly poor...
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you nailed what id put havent seen anything this year thats been good or even worth playing. many studios AAA especially are just pushing out broken boring garbage. not been a great year for new games. hopefully 2024 is better cant be any worse lol.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
you nailed what id put havent seen anything this year thats been good or even worth playing. many studios AAA especially are just pushing out broken boring garbage. not been a great year for new games. hopefully 2024 is better cant be any worse lol.
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Theres been some real gems outside of the AAA market though this year, stuff like Dave the Diver, Shadow Gambit, Talos Principle 2, Jagged Alliance 3, Aliens Dark Descent etc have all been crackers
 
Tombstone said:
Theres been some real gems outside of the AAA market though this year, stuff like Dave the Diver, Shadow Gambit, Talos Principle 2, Jagged Alliance 3, Aliens Dark Descent etc have all been crackers
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i guess if you like that kinda thing thats fine. im after big budget good games. which for some reason people just mess up.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
i guess if you like that kinda thing thats fine. im after big budget good games. which for some reason people just mess up.
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Its probably much like movies and tv shows, the big budget ones tend to be a bit cack whereas the best movies and tv shows often are the smaller budget ones
 
Tombstone said:
Hehe, just my own criteria, people should know them by now been doing this thread for enough years :D
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yeah just thinking it kinda kills some indy games from being picked. By the time they hit 1.0 you've already played them for a while so probably won't win that years GOTY. EA just seems like a tag now that different developers use in different ways
 
My vote is:

Nothing at all

Unfortunately I’ve not really enjoyed any game released this year on PC. Console would have been different with Final Fantasy XVI and spider-man 2 in contention.

Instead I’ve been revisiting older games like Forza Horizon 4, borderlands 3 and enjoying playing them at 120fps.

I was looking forward to forza motorsport but that was a massive disappointment, poor performance, and just not fun to play.
 
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Sadly Nothing At All has crept back up into 2nd place now, for like the 3rd year running one of the top two answers is nothing at all. If we cant manage to find a really good game in 3 years ! not weeks or months, but YEARS, then thats a pretty sad statement on either the games industry or how we are choosing to spend our spare time (or possibly both :D )
 
DanF said:
yeah just thinking it kinda kills some indy games from being picked. By the time they hit 1.0 you've already played them for a while so probably won't win that years GOTY. EA just seems like a tag now that different developers use in different ways
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Thats fine, as I say, every year I do this and every year it raises issues with the criteria from somewhere. Its why I always make a point of stating that its merely the criteria that I use and adhere to and that people are always free to make another thread with EA titles and DLCs allowed as well, nobody bothers though, however that might simply be because they dont feel many people will feel the urge to post in two GOTY threads. I could relax my own criteria for my personal GOTY and start allowing EA titles and DLCs, but this is the criteria I've used to pick my own GOTY for decades now so not much point as I would then have to go back through all those years and adjust my own GOTY records :D (yes, I really do keep an excel spreadsheet going back many many years of each GOTY lol)
 
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Sadly Nothing At All has crept back up into 2nd place now, for like the 3rd year running one of the top two answers is nothing at all. If we cant manage to find a really good game in 3 years ! not weeks or months, but YEARS, then thats a pretty sad statement on either the games industry or how we are choosing to spend our spare time (or possibly both :D )
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I mean, take a look at your list - there's some absolutely top-tier games there. I think this is more a commentary on the gamers than the games no?

It's been mooted that 2023 has been the best year in gaming for ages and we have a stellar remake of what is widely regarded as the best video game of all time (RE4), a (finally decent) PC port of the most beloved narrative game of all time (TLOU), and what will no doubt be fondly looked back on as the best CRPG in 20 years.

If you can't find something in that list of 26 games to love - I don't know what to say :confused:
 
DanF said:
nah I've had fun with gaming, just have a large back log of older games to still complete so wasn't desperate to play any new games as they come out. Just picked up Sleeping Dogs definitive edition and God of War in the sales for example

and Tombstone's disgusting rules block me from picking some stuff :p
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Same here mate, built my first all brand new rig in 15 years and had about 30-40 games to smash through from various years, including what came out this year, was an awesome return to PC's from being a console gamer for years due to wasting spending all my money on restoring and modifying older cars/drifting.
 
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