Yossarian wrote:

I expect Shadow of War will take this for me, but we'll see.

My man.
It's the only game I'm looking forward to on any platform.

[extremely kojima trailer reading]but i'm still resisting[/extremely kojima trailer reading]

acemuzzy wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

I don't really care if a game is new or not, I don't see why someone's GotY should have to be a game released that year. If JimI've spent months enjoying a game that came out two years ago, why shouldn't I be able to choose it?

It makes even less sense these days when games can change so much post-release due to updates and patches.

Isn't the "o" from GotY "of" as in "made in"?

I mean we can have a "G" thread or a "GpitY" but they are different thibgs. One useful output is focusing on recent games people might have missed. Or for fun arguments about which is the best year.

Anyway, I vote this is the voting thread.

Yeah, I get that, but I doubt that the top games in any list would change if we weren't so strict around release dates, plus we could still have those chats about a wider range of games that we might have missed.

I just end up never voting in these things because of the restrictions.

nerd

Yossarian wrote:

Vela wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Destiny 2 and new CoDs tend to be new games built from the ground up.

CoD is still using the quake 3 engine. And if youre going to call splatoon 2 a dx version, I hate to think what that makes halo 2 and 3.

Game engines are a pointless argument, since when the tools used to create something define the thing that was created with them beyond the broadest categorisations?

In games about shooting in a military environment, it's certainly symptomatic of copy-paste game design.

Yossarian wrote:

FIFA and Madden have never troubled our lists. Destiny 2 and new CoDs tend to be new games built from the ground up. I dunno, personally I think the rules are too restrictive anyway. Far too many games I've loved that I've been unable to vote for due to this. FtL, for instance, all because I had to wait to play it on my iPad. *sigh*

Just on this, I now propose we vote prospectively the following year.

For example, if we were to run the 2014 GOTY thread we should be able to include games like Fifa 2018, Yakuza 0, Destiny 2 and The Last Guardian.

I dont see why we should have to limit it to games that are already released when we could include games that aren't even announced instead.

Maybe we should have a rival GotY thread. One man (or lady), one vote. Vote for the game you have enjoyed playing most this year, the only rule being that it must be a video game.

what ya all doin fuck's sake

Zelda
Golf Club 2
Prey
Resi 7

Fuck the rest of things

There's no set of rules for this that doesn't create weird inclusions and exclusions. The ones we have are sensible enough.

That would be weird if you wanted to establish what people thought was the best game released within one calendar year though.

Just have two threads. I'd join in and just pick Rocket League every year.

monkey wrote:

That would be weird if you wanted to establish what people thought was the best game released within one calendar year though.

Just have two threads. I'd join in and just pick Rocket League every year.

Not really, the info would still be there, you could just ignore any games on the list that were released in an earlier calendar year.

Meh, I'm just musing now, but I do think it would be fascinating. If Rocket Dog won two or three years in a row, we'd see it has legs, that it still has an active community, that it's still worth getting into even after all this time.

What about games that didn't do so well in the rankings in the year they were released owing to having been released on a single console in one year and then a wider release the next, or it ending up being a sleeper hit? These games could gain wider recognition. We could look back at a particular year and realise that the game that won would actually have been beaten had everyone played this other game at release, or games which came second or third were gaining so many new fans over the years that they were probably the better game in the first place.

As I say, I can't be arsed to actually do anything about this, but the results it would throw up would be hugely interesting to me at least.

monkey wrote:

But those games would take the place and points off games from the current year. It would be a strange set up if game of the year was new games from that year plus games from the entire history of games that people happened to play within the same 12 month period as the new batch of games. Anyway, I'm happy with whatever rules the guy doing all the work decides upon.

Easy enough to just up the number of entries and final list to 10 to make space for older games.

Do it, it might be better, who knows.

Yossarian wrote:

Meh, I'm just musing now, but I do think it would be fascinating. If Rocket Dog won two or three years in a row, we'd see it has legs, that it still has an active community, that it's still worth getting into even after all this time. What about games that didn't do so well in the rankings in the year they were released owing to having been released on a single console in one year and then a wider release the next, or it ending up being a sleeper hit? These games could gain wider recognition. We could look back at a particular year and realise that the game that won would actually have been beaten had everyone played this other game at release, or games which came second or third were gaining so many new fans over the years that they were probably the better game in the first place. As I say, I can't be arsed to actually do anything about this, but the results it would throw up would be hugely interesting to me at least.

Easiest thing is probably to resurrect threads from previous years and see if anyone has anything new to say.