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Neogaf GOTY 2023 |OT| Results thread
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analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Thrilled to see my personal GOTY, Alan Wake II, make the top 3.
I will say that Hi-Fi Rush and Dead Space got robbed though!
I will say that Hi-Fi Rush and Dead Space got robbed though!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Mozzarella
Member
Good list, lacks Phantom Liberty DLC in the top 10 though, i think its really good, and its voice acting should be top 3.
But yeah overall great list, great year for gaming!!
Baldur's Gate 3 is such a deserving winner i never thought it would win GOTY at the start of the year but look at it now.
But yeah overall great list, great year for gaming!!
Baldur's Gate 3 is such a deserving winner i never thought it would win GOTY at the start of the year but look at it now.
Kings Field
Member
No Remnant 2 or Octopath Traveler 2
diffusionx
Gold Member
I knew FFXVI would win best first hour, the beginning of that game is so good and then it just turns into, well, FFXVI.
Mozzarella
Member
By the way is this the first RPG to win GAF Game of the Year? Based on what i saw all the previous winners were either Action/Adventure or Action RPG.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Haven't played BG3 or AW2 yet, so I voted for TOTK, but seems like a good result.
dreamstation
Member
What year did Rift Apart come out? Can't have been 2023
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
There must be a very silent group of Starfield fans.
Jusant #2 for best platformer?? Are you people drunk?
Jusant #2 for best platformer?? Are you people drunk?
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Starfield in the top 5. Can’t complain about that.
MonkeyClaw36
Member
Much deserved for Robocop!!!!! So happy about that!
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Topher
Gold Member
Moriah20
Member
Starfield at #5 surprised me. I found the game to be dreadfully boring and disappointing overall as a fan (or, well, ex-fan at this point) of BGS games. But I guess there's still a lot of people that enjoy it.
FF16 had a lot of warts and all but it was probably the most fun I had with videogames in 2023. The highs were super high, and the gamefeel was great. Really need a PC version though for high framerates.
Shoutout to Hogwarts Legacy though, the game definitely lost a lot of momentum once you started spending most of your time outside hogwarts itself, but it was still quite good overall. However, the shoutout is mainly for the fact that it caused such a shitstorm despite being one of the most innocent, well-meaning AAA games released in a while. Like genuinely the game is family friendly, progressive, inclusive, accessible, yet somehow it caused weirdos to have meltdowns as if it was Mein Kampf: the videogame.
FF16 had a lot of warts and all but it was probably the most fun I had with videogames in 2023. The highs were super high, and the gamefeel was great. Really need a PC version though for high framerates.
Shoutout to Hogwarts Legacy though, the game definitely lost a lot of momentum once you started spending most of your time outside hogwarts itself, but it was still quite good overall. However, the shoutout is mainly for the fact that it caused such a shitstorm despite being one of the most innocent, well-meaning AAA games released in a while. Like genuinely the game is family friendly, progressive, inclusive, accessible, yet somehow it caused weirdos to have meltdowns as if it was Mein Kampf: the videogame.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Maybe next year we can get a Best VR Game category.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
There needs to be enough of an audience for it, I suppose.
Because some idiots actually liked and voted for the game.
I didn't even vote, would have probably brought it into the top 3 single handedly.
Ribi
Member
Atomic heart not even getting top 10 in visuals and trepang2 not getting top 10 in shooter tells me all of you people are bought by Jeff.
Because there was a large list of games to choose from and many people didn't know how to search and that the list contained games that were eligible. I would like to see two votes, one that narrows it down to top 20-30 based on votes and then the final vote for the top 10.
Because there was a large list of games to choose from and many people didn't know how to search and that the list contained games that were eligible. I would like to see two votes, one that narrows it down to top 20-30 based on votes and then the final vote for the top 10.
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Putonahappyface
Member
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Yeah, should be higher. Oh well. At least it’s the #2 exclusive.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Vocal few try to ruin things for others. Happening with Indiana Jones now too. Best to keep the ignore list strong.
Fredrik
Member
But where are the fans if it manage to reach #5 here? Lurkers?
Portugeezer
Member
Spiderman 2 should have been in gamepass
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Drop the sad console Warring persecution complex.
Half the people in the games review or OT threads complaining about it didn't even play it, that's a very safe bet.
The people who played or enjoyed it, a lot of them likely stayed out of those threads because of the constant barrage of negative posts.
bender
What time is it?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
bender
What time is it?
#10 best box art!
It and World of Horror should have been top 2 in that category.
90% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Considering the barrier of entry for trying the game was incredibly low (available on Game Pass and Steam refunds are a breeze), I'm going to say you are full of shit.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
90% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Considering the barrier of entry for trying the game was incredibly low (available on Game Pass and Steam refunds are a breeze), I'm going to say you are full of shit.
The game being at the spot it is on Gaf's rankings despite the vitriol kinda shows my point though. People voted for it.
bender
What time is it?
No, it doesn't. People are far more apt to complain than they are to praise. It's basic human nature. Halo Infinite saw similar discourse in discussion threads and won GAF's GOTY.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
But that's exactly what I'm saying as well lol. The very vocal minority did not represent the masses, but it was extremely notable.
bender
What time is it?
No, you are saying that half of the people who levied criticism against it didn't play the game which is horseshit.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I'm not gonna go through each of the 130+ pages of the review topic, but you can't tell me with a straight face that the same 4, 5 users who kept popping up counting down every .1 the meta dropped were folks who played the game.
Null Persp
Member
Starfield in the top five, I'm surprised, I thought everyone here hated this game.
Btw people are sleeping on System Shock, one of the best of the last year.
Btw people are sleeping on System Shock, one of the best of the last year.
Ribi
Member
I would have voted for this if I knew it existed. See that's why I think we should have 2 votes. One to narrow it down and then a final vote. As it is now you have to manually search through the manually put together list and just look for popular games and some you don't even member that they came out this year. If this game was in the top 30 I could choose from I'd vote for it but because I had no idea what was available or good I just voted for Hogwarts instead for cover art.
It and World of Horror should have been top 2 in that category.
bender
What time is it?
I think the "problem" with two votes is that you can feel cheated if your choice doesn't make it to the second round. The free form system we have now let's everyone have an equal vote. I think our system works for most categories as most categories expect you have first hand experience with them. Box art would be an outlier as it doesn't really pertain to the quality and you don't need to play the game to appreciate it.
I'm mostly a goofball when it comes to the stuff and my tastes are probably abnormal so the fact that my favorite game cracked the top 10 of any list makes me happy (even if it should have been the best shooter). Junji Ito getting snubbed does hurt my
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ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
Best overall value:
Bg3
Zelda
Starfield
It seems like nobody has voted in this category so Starfield has quietly occupied the third place due to those voted for it in every category lol.
Bg3
Zelda
Starfield
It seems like nobody has voted in this category so Starfield has quietly occupied the third place due to those voted for it in every category lol.
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Didn’t get to #5 from the haters filling the OT.
graywolf323
Member
I’m curious how many accounts voted that aren’t otherwise all that active
but anyone who pays attention on GAF knew Starfield was going to do well in the GOTY polling because this place is not ‘SonyGAF’ like the Xbox evangelist types like to complain about (if that wasn’t already obvious from Halo Infinite‘s win in 2021)edit: I didn’t vote because I’ve been more in my backlog this year, of the 2023 games I did play Starfield might make the top 10 mostly because of lack of having gotten to a lot of the other games that did make the top ten here, I think it’s a solid good but not great game that disappointed me but from what i played I think the 7/10 IGN gave it is fair, I might even give it higher than that myself)
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graywolf323
Member
honestly I think it’s just part of the wider victim complex issue we’ve seen across our civilization, everyone wants to be a victim now (just look at the nuts on Era), for some reason in gaming this is especially rife among Xbox fanboys complaining that poor little Microsoft is persecuted by the press/gamers/PlayStation/etc. (nvm the fact if anything the Western gaming press has been much closer to sycophantic when it comes to their Xbox coverage, if they dare say anything remotely critical of Xbox or give Starfield a 7/10 it’s ‘proof’ of the persecution)
edit: social media as a whole has led to the rise of people wanting echo chambers where they don’t hear anything they might disagree with, Reddit/Era/Twitter/etc. are absolutely awful with this (Twitter‘s algorithm especially seems to put people in self-created echo chambers which we’re seeing causes people to radicalize rather easily)
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Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
I checked the past 20 winners and while rpgs can score high and sometimes even come in 2nd place, this is the 1st rpg to win Game of the Year unless you want to stretch the definition to count games like Zelda and Mass Effect 2 as rpgs
