YOUR Game of the Year 2023

melmac said:
Are VR games allowed?

If so, my game of the year is Asgard's Wrath 2. Just released 3 days ago and it's really, really good.
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I'm 6 hours into Asgards Wrath 2 and it is indeed excellent :) , however I guess its technically not a PC game so I cant add it to the list. If it was a PCVR title, that'd be fine though
 
melmac said:
Aww man!! I never even considered the PC part of it lol. Doh!!
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Dungeons of Eternity has been excellent on VR this year too, we've been having regular 4 player co-op games of that (alongside the superb Demeo of course, another terrific co-op VR title. Shame it doesnt have more dungeons though :( )
 
My goty would have to be cyberpunk phantom liberty. Yes it's an expansion to an already released game but I played the crap out of it.

BG3 is great but I only played act 1 for about 20 hours so far.

Best on going game, path of exile, still hooked every league launch. I'm glad I got starfield for free, that game belongs in the trash. Diablo 4 was better and we all know #d4bad
 
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Dirkscooby said:
Soulstone Survivors. It's in the Vampire survivors genre. According to steam I've put over 70 hours into it.
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The survivors genre, or the autoshooter genre, has really rather exploded this year. No doubt thanks to the popularity of vampire survivors, I expect to see it grow even further next year.

(I cant put it on the list though as its an EA title)
 
i genuinely dont think i have played a single new pc game which came out in 2023.

I have been really impressed with lego fortnite for playing with my 7 year old which to be honest is close to a full game even tho its only an expansion....... not sure its GOTY material however.
 
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Nothing at all.

Starfield - Played about an hour and just seemed empty?
Counter Strike 2 - What could have been great has been let down by being riddled with cheaters/smurfs, half of the content of CSGO missing, and the fundamentals of CS changed due to new sub-tick system to the point where the game i've played over 500 hours of in the past 12 months has now been uninstalled.
Cities Skylines 2 - Less said the better

Maybe i'm just becoming old and miserable but I don't get excited for games anymore, 9/10 times they're a disappointment.
 
i am maybe derailing a bit so will be my last post in this thread however i am happy with where i am with gaming now. i deliberately dont buy any new games, i am so far behind now its great not only are my "new" games now generally patched so that they work properly..................... they often come as complete editions and on top of that cost a fraction of their launch price.

buying games on or close to launch is a bit of a mugs game imo (no offence intended) but you get a worse experience and pay a premium for it. this year i started the witcher 3, next year i may look at cyber punk :D
 
Megahurtz400 said:
Nothing at all.

Starfield - Played about an hour and just seemed empty?
Counter Strike 2 - What could have been great has been let down by being riddled with cheaters/smurfs, half of the content of CSGO missing, and the fundamentals of CS changed due to new sub-tick system to the point where the game i've played over 500 hours of in the past 12 months has now been uninstalled.
Cities Skylines 2 - Less said the better

Maybe i'm just becoming old and miserable but I don't get excited for games anymore, 9/10 times they're a disappointment.
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bigmike20vt said:
i am maybe derailing a bit so will be my last post in this thread however i am happy with where i am with gaming now. i deliberately dont buy any new games, i am so far behind now its great not only are my "new" games now generally patched so that they work properly..................... they often come as complete editions and on top of that cost a fraction of their launch price.

buying games on or close to launch is a bit of a mugs game imo (no offence intended) but you get a worse experience and pay a premium for it. this year i started the witcher 3, next year i may look at cyber punk :D
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I've popped you both down for Nothing At All
 
Megahurtz400 said:
Starfield - Played about an hour and just seemed empty?
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Starfield’s definitely a slow burn at the beginning. I had about the worst experience any Starfield player could have when I was supposed to clear out a pirate base on Kreet and inadvertently landed in the wrong spot and thus wasn’t able to find the base I was supposed to be clearing.

I ran around for a couple of hours getting increasingly frustrated as I’d cover a kilometre of ground, out of breath all the time, only to find a duplicate base filled with enemies much higher in level than me – I’d get instantly wiped then respawn at my ship thinking ‘WTF is going on? Is this *it*??’.

Never been more disappointed with a game.

Then I eventually realised I’d landed in the wrong damn spot and got back on the questline. Cleared out the base and made it to New Atlantis – things were improving but even then, my ship was complete ass and was always getting blown up, my skill choices were pedestrian and not remotely exciting, weapons and armour were meh. And I was perpetually bogged down with more stuff than I could carry.

Oh, and the ship-builder was completely opaque – people were raving about it, but all I could do was swap out modules for slightly better ones – I honestly felt I was playing a completely different game to the one other people were describing. Opaque is actually the perfect word to describe Starfield because the game makes almost zero effort to introduce its complex systems and you either have to figure them out for yourself or look up guides online.

Still, I had a bunch of quests that I wanted to finish, the main story had gotten me curious and I stuck with it. Some 20-30 hours later I was having so much fun with this game – my ship (which I’d stolen) was completely custom and frickin' awesome, I’d found some fantastic weapons and spacesuits and I’d finally invested enough points into the skill system to start seeing some tangible benefits in play – it all started to click.

And now – hundreds of hours later, it’s absolutely, unironically my GOTY – but it took some persistence to get there and I don’t blame anyone for bouncing off it the way I nearly did.
 
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My Time at Sandrock.
A cozy/life sim game, I bought it fairly early on in EA, played it through back then and enjoyed it, then didn't touch it since. V1.0 came out in November and I decided to pick it back up, and I was genuinely shocked how much story there is to it now - I thought I was nearly finished, turns out I wasn't half way through. It's not mind blowling brilliant as a game, but it fills the segment well IMO, is a good sequel to My Time at Portia and I've been enjoying My Time at playing it. I'd say it's a solid 7 or 8 out of 10 (an actual 7/8, not an IGN everything mediocre is 7, a good game is 9.5).
It's kinda let down, and also improved on with it's multiplayer co-op. There's no story in co-op which sucks, but you do start off before the singleplayer story in terms of world events, so you get to build the town up before your starting point in singleplayer, which I really like. It would have been nice to do that in singleplayer too to be honest. Apart from the lack of story in co-op, some of the game mechanics are literally the reverse of their singleplayer counterparts e.g. left and right click do the opposite jobs in each other. Why this is a thing I have no idea.


I wasn't sure what to put tbh, I think most of the stuff I've played either hasn't come out this year, or I've not played enough for me to judge it fairly (either good or bad).

I'd considered BG3 - it's good, but I've really not played enough to judge it. And I'm still bitter that it doesn't feel like the previous games, but hey ho.
Remnant 2 - it's probably what I'd go with, but again I've not played enough IMO.
Starfield IMO was a bit mediocre, not bad, but not great.

So I was only really left with the one choice.

I'm surprised no-one said battlebit as I thought it was well received on here (I didn't think too much of it and refunded).
 
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