Oh yes, I agree. When I watch some really good beat em up players their dexterity and skills are amazing.IMO, you'll never enjoy fighting games on a deeper level without getting into them properly and understanding the systems, movement, framedata, punishment concepts etc. and then trying to play vs. real people applying all of that. The mental stack is insane sometimes but so is the satisfaction of getting better.
Tekken, for example, makes virtually every soulslike seem like child's play in comparison and so does high-level SF to be fair but Tekken is more complex.
On a casual level, I find they're fun to faceroll buttons for a while but I would get bored with them pretty quickly myself that way. It's a competitive genre through and through.
I see SF6 as an easy GOTY for a FG enthusiast, was pretty close for me as well, it's just not my main fighter so I opted for something else.
Anyways, my GOTY 2024 is already sorted, don't even have to wait till the end of the year to decide, no matter what comes out
YOUR Game of the Year 2023
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I'll put you down as a Nothing at All choice
I havent gotten around to trying the DLC but have heard good things about it, I cant add it to the list of course as its DLC but , as with No Mans Sky got to give props to the studio for sticking with their titles and turning them round in the way they have.
Yup, Robocop counts
No early access titles of any sort, indy or mainstream...not for this list at least. AC6 and Robocop would be accepted but you'll need to pick one of the two
Well, technically you cant have Phantom Liberty on this list eitherAs I'm not 'allowed' to vote for what I want
I'll go for Phantom Liberty, as that genuinely surprised me and I enjoyed it a LOT more than the original, and that I thought I would, having done the OG already. Felt big enough for a DLC, and more like an average length decent main game tbf, yet wasn't slow to go anywhere then ends once you're getting into it, like the OG was main story mission wise...
"#4 - No DLCs - must be a main game release"
As for being allowed, you can be allowed to say whatever you want, just cant add it to the list, however as per the Please Note section...
"Please Note : The rules I use for this causes complaints whenever I do this, so I will state at the start here that these are the rules that I use myself when I am weighing up the years games to pick which game was my game of the year. Theres nothing to stop someone doing an alternative poll which doesnt use these rules, these are simply the rules that I use."
...theres nothing to stop you creating another thread which allows early access titles and expansions/DLCs
What was the game you arent allowed to go for anyway, I'm sure people would still like to know what your GOTY was
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Starfield it is then, I'll pop it on the tallyGod dammit
I'd say considering I knew nothing about it unless haha about 1-2 months before it's release, Starfield could be up there for me then, as I've only in recent years finally done FO3/4/NV/Skyrim, and although awesome I felt late to the party, so to actually get a brand new Bethesda game on release, and on a brand new fresh built system, and finish it/put 50-60 hours in and really enjoy 90% of it, I'd say that's a win - vs just 'knowing' FO games are good because everyone else finished them YEARS ago and I'm majorly behind.
Plus this was space so, easy win for me, yes it was very lacking/could have been better, but I found the FO's weren't 'that' upto the hype, but very good when good, so I think this is just how they make games/rpg style these days? However Skyrim was a major let down/overhype for me... But that's another story for another day
So yeah I'll go for Starfield then, as found out about it out of nowhere by fluke, thought this could either be good or boring, but space so I'll try it, got it on a brand new system vs playing on old consoles/hardware like with FO's/Skyrim, didn't have personally any issues that broke the game even on day 1 patch, and it was the perfect game to show me how capable/dedicated the modding scene was, and I felt a part of something experiencing it/discussing it with everyone else from early release
Where as AW2 I put myself through the pain of replaying the 1st which I hate, and doing Control which I loved, and it really was lacking in many places, which sucked as the first half I felt it had changed my mind about AW, and could have been my GOTY, then I realised there's barely any levels and there's not much to do in them/reused/returning back to them, and the plot was majorly lacking as was the ending... Shame. But for those first 19 hours I did genuinely love it and had forgotten about how pants the original was!
I realise now that I never made a post saying my GOTY, so anyone who didnt see the post when it first went up, will not have seen what the first title was.
Mine was BG3. To be fair, I got BG3 when it first went into early access, so I had already played it and began this year fully expecting BG3 to be my GOTY based on what I had played in the EA. However very early in the year I became enamoured with Returnal and thought it might end up giving BG3 a run for its money in my mind, then as the year went on Remnant 2 and Lords of the Fallen all caused me pause for thought with the enjoyment I had out of them (Returnal, Remnant 2 and Lord of the Fallen all being great in co-op, something which earns a lot of points for a game in my mental calculations).
Also another game, Shadow Gambit, set the cat amongst the pigeons in my internal GOTY thoughts, but in the end when the time came and after a bit more deliberation, I had to give it to BG3. Looking forward already to the 2024 games, starting with Enshrouded in January which I loved the demo of.
Mine was BG3. To be fair, I got BG3 when it first went into early access, so I had already played it and began this year fully expecting BG3 to be my GOTY based on what I had played in the EA. However very early in the year I became enamoured with Returnal and thought it might end up giving BG3 a run for its money in my mind, then as the year went on Remnant 2 and Lords of the Fallen all caused me pause for thought with the enjoyment I had out of them (Returnal, Remnant 2 and Lord of the Fallen all being great in co-op, something which earns a lot of points for a game in my mental calculations).
Also another game, Shadow Gambit, set the cat amongst the pigeons in my internal GOTY thoughts, but in the end when the time came and after a bit more deliberation, I had to give it to BG3. Looking forward already to the 2024 games, starting with Enshrouded in January which I loved the demo of.
Nothing in the rules pertaining to re-releases
Lol, its one of many words that I use regularly, words which were a lot more common in my era than they are amongst todays generations. You'll often catch me saying stuff like pertaining, betwixt, behoof and masticateWhen I hear 'pertaining' I hear Serge from Beverly Hills Cop saying it!
Edit : I do love language !
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So it is, thanks, corrected
Hehe, just my own criteria, people should know them by now been doing this thread for enough yearsnah 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
(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)
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
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
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 )
)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
(yes, I really do keep an excel spreadsheet going back many many years of each GOTY lol)
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Thanks, corrected
Baldurs Gate 3 has certainly wiped the other titles on the tally this year, last year, Elden Ring came top on the tally - 13 ahead of God of War, the year before that Resident Evil Village was the top game on the tally just narrowly beating out Days Gone by 3, but this year BG3 is an enormous 21 ahead of the next closest game - Starfield
I'll pop you down for nothing at all then