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 :( )
 
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)
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Aegis said:
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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
 
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.
 
Damn weird, no matter how many times I change the colour of the 2nd half of the text, even though it looks right in the edit, it just keeps making it red again lol

There we go, after much more faffing about than ought to be needed, managed to get them all to off yellow, any better ?
 
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I think it also shows that Early Access can be done correctly, all that time in early access for BG3 enabled them to really take their time and spend a lot of time and effort on the cutscenes and the voice acting and the overall presentation polish. Act 3 was somewhat more iffy at release but it has to be remembered that they moved forward the release date by 1 month out of worry from the impact of releasing a couple of days before Starfield (moving a date forward being in itself almost an unheard of thing to do) , in hindsight some people might say that they didnt need to be quite so feared of Starfield after all of course, but they werent to know that at the time they made the decision.
 
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