YOUR Game of the Year 2023

keef247 said:
As I'm not 'allowed' to vote for what I want :rolleyes::p
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...
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Well, technically you cant have Phantom Liberty on this list either :)

"#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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Tombstone said:
Well, technically you cant have Phantom Liberty on this list either :)

"#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 :)
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God dammit :p:cry:

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, after finally 'discovering they live upto the hype', to actually experience a brand new Bethesda game on release, that is on paper the ideal game for me to be easily pleased, open world space stuff with the option of being good/bad/free reign to choose what I do, on a brand new freshly built pc, finish it, 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.

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:cry:

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 I'd just built 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 :) That'll do me.

Where as AW2 I put myself through the pain of replaying the 1st which I hate, and doing Control which I loved, and AW2 really was lacking in many places, which sucked as the first half I felt it had changed my mind about how an AW could be done, 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!

TLDR, I accepted a bribe from @TNA
 
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keef247 said:
God dammit :p:cry:

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:cry:

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 :) That'll do me.

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!
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Starfield it is then, I'll pop it on the tally :D
 
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.
 
Tombstone said:
Nothing in the rules pertaining to re-releases :)
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When I hear 'pertaining' I hear Serge from Beverly Hills Cop saying it!;)
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keef247 said:
When I hear 'pertaining' I hear Serge from Beverly Hills Cop saying it!;)
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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 masticate :)

Edit : I do love language !
 
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Tombstone said:
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 masticate :)

Edit : I do love language !
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The way he says it in that bit is SO good, and then has a go at Eddie Murphy for saying Serge wrong, "sounds like a detergent when you say it!" :cry:
 
I know everyone says 2023 was a great year for gaming but TBH I've found it to be a very disappointing year.

All the games I was looking forward to were either broken on release, still broken or fell short of expectations.
 
Although I have some of the big contenders installed, i've not had chance to play them so perhaps my choice would be different if so. However, Jagged Alliance 3 is my choice as the game on release was solid, since then it's had continuous updates and a free DLC coming out next week. A very good game.
 
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Jase said:
I know everyone says 2023 was a great year for gaming but TBH I've found it to be a very disappointing year.

All the games I was looking forward to were either broken on release, still broken or fell short of expectations.
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What ones were broken on release/still broken?

Are these indie releases with a small dev team though?
As I've literally played/completed most of the games released this year, bar BG3/Diablo and anything indie, none have had game breaking bugs/crashes? Just amusing little glitches you laugh about and carry on.
 
keef247 said:
What ones were broken on release/still broken?

Are these indie releases with a small dev team though?
As I've literally played/completed most of the games released this year, bar BG3/Diablo and anything indie, none have had game breaking bugs/crashes? Just amusing little glitches you laugh about and carry on.
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Redfall = I was really looking forward to that but it was broken in both performance and gameplay and the latter can not be fixed
Jedi Survivor = Was terrible on release, I know it's been updated now and performs a bit better but my excitement to play it passed
Diablo IV = Probably the game I was most looking forward to, Terrible endgame and shocking game design, and that only got worse as it went on
Starfield = Probably marmite but I thought it was pretty poor, it relied on the mod community to finish it/make it playable
Forspoken = Again this looked promising but turned out not to be
Immortals of Aveum = Not a bad game but was far from good on release
MWIII = MWII.1 no effort gone into it, worst Campaign ever and classed it as a new game
Payday 3 = Broken on release, server and performance issues, community have pretty much forgotten about it now


There's so many more I can't remember.

Although I have thought of one decent game on release, Remnant II
 
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