YOUR Game of the Year 2023

If the first post is updated, there is 102 replies, that more or less a percentage per reply.

I just thought it was interesting.

One third said Baldurs gate, 10% Starfield and the rest getting smaller.

Not a real majority there.

Personally thought Starfield was very mediocre, and I did play it for over 100 hours.

I havn't played Baldurs gate, I may wait until its cheap like less than £10.
 
loftie said:
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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I was always a bit miffed at the co-op implementation of My Time at Sandrock, really feels like they dropped the ball on the way they did it, was a shame really as I'd been looking forward to the co-op on it
 
BUDFORCE said:
If the first post is updated, there is 102 replies, that more or less a percentage per reply.

I just thought it was interesting.

One third said Baldurs gate, 10% Starfield and the rest getting smaller.

Not a real majority there.

Personally thought Starfield was very mediocre, and I did play it for over 100 hours.

I havn't played Baldurs gate, I may wait until its cheap like less than £10.
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Yeah I've been keeping it updated, a third of people saying Baldurs Gate is pretty high, thats a much higher percentage of people selecting the same game than in any of the previous years. There's always going to be a lot of diversity of choices through a year and with so many games around and peoples inherent different tastes, so 1 in 3 people agreeing that BG3 is their GOTY is a pretty hefty chunk of agreement. The sad thing, is that yet again, Nothing At All is in 2nd place. That means that Nothing At All has been in the top 2 positions for the last 3 years running. I find it a pity that for 3 years so many people havent been able to find even 1 title in 12 months of gaming releases which they really really liked.
 
Tombstone said:
Yeah I've been keeping it updated, a third of people saying Baldurs Gate is pretty high, thats a much higher percentage of people selecting the same game than in any of the previous years. There's always going to be a lot of diversity of choices through a year and with so many games around and peoples inherent different tastes, so 1 in 3 people agreeing that BG3 is their GOTY is a pretty hefty chunk of agreement. The sad thing, is that yet again, Nothing At All is in 2nd place. That means that Nothing At All has been in the top 2 positions for the last 3 years running. I find it a pity that for 3 years so many people havent been able to find even 1 title in 12 months of gaming releases which they really really liked.
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It could be a case that the best game they played in the year wasn't a PC game. There have been some great releases on consoles and VR over the last 3 years. Or maybe it's a case that they liked a game, but not enough to consider it as a game of the year.
 
melmac said:
It could be a case that the best game they played in the year wasn't a PC game. There have been some great releases on consoles and VR over the last 3 years. Or maybe it's a case that they liked a game, but not enough to consider it as a game of the year.
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Yeah there's always going to be a reason on an individual basis, its just a pity that for 3 years running on a PC forum theres such a large number of people each time who havent played anything new on their PC that year which they thought was really good.
 
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Tombstone said:
I was always a bit miffed at the co-op implementation of My Time at Sandrock, really feels like they dropped the ball on the way they did it, was a shame really as I'd been looking forward to the co-op on it
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I think it was an extra stretch goal, so probably didn't give it much thought, I'm not sure why they couldn't just do the single player but co-op. I'm not too sad though as I do think the singleplayer is good and I've enjoyed it so far, it's even given me some genuinely laugh out loud moments which I wasn't expecting! :D
 
Tombstone said:
I've been interested to see how well Hogwarts has done, it came so early in the year that it could easily have ended up being forgotten as the year went on
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Also, whilst it's done really well, for the majority of voters (68%), BG3 wasn't their GOTY.

Surprised AW2's gotten so little love actually - haven't played it, but a lot of people seemed excited for it.
 
Aegis said:
Also, whilst it's done really well, for the majority of voters (68%), BG3 wasn't their GOTY.

Surprised AW2's gotten so little love actually - haven't played it, but a lot of people seemed excited for it.
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Loved AW2 but its one of those very marmite things, like Twin Peaks, people either love it or hate it.
 
BUDFORCE said:
If the first post is updated, there is 102 replies, that more or less a percentage per reply.

I just thought it was interesting.

One third said Baldurs gate, 10% Starfield and the rest getting smaller.

Not a real majority there.

Personally thought Starfield was very mediocre, and I did play it for over 100 hours.

I havn't played Baldurs gate, I may wait until its cheap like less than £10.
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What % went for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum?
 
Bigpig said:
Since I don't have BG3 and only played the 2 hour preview I have to vote for Hogwarts Legacy.

The game is fantastic and currently playing it
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I'm considering getting hogwarts for over the Xmas period. I hear it's really good.

I can't nominate a game as have only really played star field (on Xbox but it's same as pc) and it was rubbish. Biggest flop of the year imo.

Is bg3 couch coop on xbox? I would like to play thst with my partner over Xmas. I'm sure if I played that, it would be my game of the year for a pc game.

Totk was my fav but thats switch only.
 
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