JonB wrote:

Just put them in some kind of rough order. It'll take seconds.

regmcfly wrote:

Reach is a cracker.

Diluted Dante wrote:

Enemies are not.

MattyJ wrote:

Reach is in MCC now I think? Might spin that up in 4K

Andy wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Does Old Man's Journey count, cos Bone? Cba to read small print, obvs.

If that’s bothering your top games list, it’s a damning indictment of the year.

Facewon wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Facewon wrote:

On phone and cutting and pasting, so will be messy for a bit.


Game of the Year
1. Ape Out
2. Metro exodus
3. Goose game
4. Disco Elysium
5.
 


Best sound Design
1. Ape Out
2. Metro exodus
3.

Best visual Design
1. Ape out
2. Disco
3. Metro

Best writing
1. Metro exodus.
2. Disco
3.

Best character
1. Ape
2. Goose
3. Atyem

Best ongoing game released before 2019 (anything that received further support, a major expansion/update etc. this year)
1. Destiny 2
 
Best game you played this year that didn't come out this year
1. Slay the spire*

*see what I did there?
 
Game of the Decade

Ok, in order.

1 Slay the spire - 750 hrs and counting!
2 Dark souls - 400 odd hours and fond memories of so much.
3 Bfbc2 - still the goat for feeling like you're in a scripted epic single player mission with other people.
4 Halo 5 - mp only, best since 3 and on dedicated servers
5 Hollow knight - metriodvania done right
6 Dirt Rally - best since cm2.0 on ps1. Pure.
7 Hitman episodic - too much silly fun.
8 Cities skylines - lovely relaxing times with the missus bossing me around.
9 Mgs5 - best playground for all of kojimas toys.
10 Metro 2033 - it's mabo, it's the vibe

This becomes interesting to me again.

Recent return to destiny 2 means that my default answer is actually a real answer now.

It's doubly interesting to me, because of my own thinking around where destiny overall fits within the decade.

For all the hours I pumped into d1, it was lean and flawed on release. And unlike halo, I had a lot of internal resentment to the hours I put in.

D2 got off on the right foot, IMO. There were still issues, but the x amount of hours I pumped in at release were good fun, the pc version came at the right time, and my enjoyment of gaming generally on my laptop and 60fps probably helped.

Even though I've paid for all content, my feeling around the game now, 5 years into the original 10 year plan, is completely different.

The content is there, the variety is there, and while the grind is there too, the balance is right now, because as I've just been saying in the destiny thread, I'm doing some content from forsaken right now and I don't quite get the mechanics yet, I don't know what numberwang/gear it'll get me, and I frankly don't care.

Just fucking inject the whole game world, gun play and action directly into my veins.

(and I say this as someone who is 99.9% of the time soloing or playing with randoms)

Was doing a mission in the dreaming city last night, and the level was just spectacular; the sheer size and verticality was huuuge. The number of enemies in play was immense, and yet within that, there was actually, much more so than d1, some of that halo DNA shining through around enemy attributes, and how they interact with player and other enemies. And also how much certain nasty enemies got you worried. (not quite like gold elites etc in halo 2, but also not just scary because bullet sponge.)

(scorned and taken are fucking top tier enemies in d2. So much fun.)

Jump on in folks, the water is beautiful.

Still don't know about destiny in decade list. But my goty ranks done.