GOTY 2013 - Last is First - The Bear and Badger

Yossarian

We need two GOTYs; GOTYFPTP and GOTYPR.

afgavinstan

Well no, but yes.

I'm not really interested in what OUR game of the year is. I'm more interested in what's YOUR game of the year, and why YOU think so. Heck, it might actually be something I've never heard of, and it might actually get more people playing it, instead of fucking around with lists and spreadsheets and "it's naaaaht a gaaaaahhhhmmmmeeee waaaaaah" posts.

hylian_elf

We need a list of GOTY acronyms.

TheDJR

Same as last year? Top 5 from everyone in order?

Yossarian

hylian_elf wrote:

We need a list of GOTY acronyms.

SGOTY:AEHFT (Super Game of the Year: Acronym Edition Hyper Fighting Turbo)

TheDJR wrote:

Same as last year? Top 5 from everyone in order?

Five games? Who had the time to play five games this year?

Brooks

Though on reflection my real best play was "how much alcohol can I consume tonight alone and still locate my front door". I won every time.

dynamiteReady

Brooks wrote:

Papers Please is still sitting in my downloads folder...

This is the only game I've spent time with, that was released this year, and that I actually liked, despite barely playing it.

It gets utterly trounced by The Room, but that was released last year...
The year in which TWD won (brrrrrr).

Sensible money is betting on GTA5 and the Last Of Us.
I haven't played the latter, but would prefer it to win.

Mario and Tearaway are the (not so) rank outsiders, given that they only just came out like, yesterday...

It's going to be harder to make the same mistake we made last year, at least*.

*Yes I went there.

TheDJR

I'm only sure of three so far but the order is to be decided.

monkey

Games from this year that I've played:-

GTA5 - Dogshit

Bioshock - Dogshitter

Rayman iOS whatever - got bored after a few levels.

Fire Emblem - Good.

hylian_elf

@DJR: Yep, let's do it.

@Gav: I see. But isn't there more chance of seeing games you haven't heard of if people list more than one? Example, my fave so far is Last of Us. Or maybe Mario. If I list more, I might say Outlast too. We could get people to do a small narrative for the game at the top of their list to explain why it's their GOTY.

Brooks

Last is the best written AAA game-cutscene-game thing probably to date and may well be as good as that janky-ass format can be within its consistently irritating limitations.

I wish they'd stop now but they won't.

dynamiteReady

Completely missed Outlast...

Appreciate this thread all the more now. : )

TheDJR

TLoU
GTAV
Pokemon X/Y

That's mine so far, not in order though.

hylian_elf

So far, in no order:

Last of Us
Mario 3DW
Revengeance
Bioshock Infinite
Tomb Raider

Potentials I need to play/finish:

Rayman Legends
Zelda LBW
Tearaway
Gone Home
Outlast
Papers Please

Bollockoff

Okami HD. Fuck common sense qualification.

Yet to play GTAV to my shame but at the moment it's actually a draw in my mind between Revengeance and Last of Us.

Roujin

There's really only one thing I can vote for if I look in my heart.

Naked cockney president I will neva4get you, you will always be fondly remembered, and now that there's Christmas DLC we can be together again.

Saints Row IV is my game of the year.

Runner up vote goes to Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R. Best fighting game ever and I say that after 5 years of heavily playing Street Fighter 4, and a fucking love affair with Tekken that has existed since 1998.

Vela

I could easily vote for 5 games, another 5 if I get time to play them.

Rev

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Tomb raider
Last of us
Animal crossing new leaf
Ni no kuni

These are all games that have grabbed me from the beginning with their gameplay or simple charm and continue to push me to play them on a regular basis.

Online
The last of us
GTAV (I appreciate what it tried to achieve)
Animal crossing (provided more tense online turnip dashes than I care to remember )

That's it.

JonB

I've played 3 games from this year so far and didn't finish any of them. Revengeance and Bioshock just didn't grab me. The worst was probably GTA V but then I've played the online game shitloads, so I dunno. And even though those loading times, and the instability of it in the first few weeks, and how much I despised the single player game on virtually every level, it's probably the best new game I've played this year.

I still have Saints Row and Tomb Raider to try if I get round to them in time.

JonB

TheDJR wrote:

Same as last year? Top 5 from everyone in order?

I think so. I just don't think there should be a running tally this time, just one final count after the voting's stopped.

TheDJR

Yeah, a running tally is where madness lies.

Vela

I can think of 4 potential ways to do it. 2 of them require someone else's work. 1 of them is a dumb way. Another way is fraught with danger.

1. Make a post, only one post and list your games in it. You can edit it, but only up to a cutoff date. Gaf style, requires a script to tally it.
2. Penny arcade forum style - a checkbox system where you tick all the games you played out of a list of all released, then rank them until you come up with a top 5/10/whatever. This requires someone to code it.
3. Google docs. Post a link to an online spreadsheet anyone can edit. Post a link securely I guess. Brought to you by the power of the cloud.
4. Manually.

Skondo

I've only finished two games that were released this year, Bioshock Infinite and Thomas Was Alone.

[Deleted User]

1.GTAV
2.GTAO
3.Rayman Legends

Worst game I played this year, Jak and Daxter HD, pile of turd
Most disappointing TLoU, I'm sorry but the gameplay is absolute shit regardless of how good the story/characters/everything else are.

TheDJR

That's how I feel about BioShock.

dynamiteReady

Liveinadive wrote:

1.GTAV 2.GTAO 3.Rayman Legends Worst game I played this year, Jak and Daxter HD, pile of turd Most disappointing TLoU, I'm sorry but the gameplay is absolute shit regardless of how good the story/characters/everything else are.

Hmm... Is Rayman really that good? I have it, but dropped it after a 30minute fuck about.
I might end up playing it properly after the GOTY is decided, and realise it's better than Mazza...

[Deleted User]

TheDJR wrote:

That's how I feel about BioShock.

Fair point but at least Bioshock you could just power through. I gave up on TLoU because of endlessly stealthing a room on repeat and failing. Buttons were crazy fiddly for a game that came out this year and AI seemed a bit random in difficulty.

Edit:
Ref Rayman
I loved it but I imagine others won't. It is a fantastic example of a rhythmic 2D platformer but if that doesn't float your boat then it won't change your mind.

TheDJR

TLoU improved massively for me when I put points into aiming and stopped reloading any sections where I got discovered. It really made you feel like you were desperately trying to survive.

[Deleted User]

I got to a point where

Spoiler:

TheDJR

That's barely scratching the surface, it didn't click for me until after that. Give it another chance?

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