#Game of the Year 2023

[thehornedguy]

CONGRATS TO LARIAN AND BALDUR'S GATE 3 FOR WINNING GOTY AWARD!!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳

And Neil Newbon for Best Performance as Astarion❤❤❤

[nag-mamahal]

BALDUR'S GATE 3 GAME OF THE YEAR!!!

[copaline]

The Leaderboard dropped and I was confused. Then I remembered guys play this game to.

Just blew my mind.

[mothcelestial]

BAULDERS GATE THREE WON GAME OF THE YEAR!!!

[mceproductions]

Best of 2023: Game of The Year

Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom^

Our winner of game of the year continues a legacy that has quickly become one of the biggest in history.

After 6 years we return to Hyrule and a different landscape than we travelled through in the heyday of the switch.

Showing why Tears of the Kingdom certainly lives up to if not surpassed the major expectations.

While exploring the caverns below the castle, Zelda ends up being abducted in a flash of light, sending Link back up to the sky and damaging the mater sword. Losing his arm in the process, Link begins to acclimate to new abilities and enemies among the floating islands before returning to the changed surface.

Finding grown versions of the champion descendants he came to know when he reactivated the divine beasts, Link begins the process of going after Zelda once more all the while an ancient evil that even Link assumed long gong now gains a voice.

Many advances have happened since Breath of The Wild wowed us with its open world of Hyrule.

Here we see that come across as Link uses his new arm to create and innovative technology scattered above and below.

The possibilities are limitless in what can be creatively constructed.

Or done to get rid of those pesky Koroks.

But even 37 years later the sheer scale of adventure that Link, Zelda and all versions of Hyrule have become known for still ring true here.

Easy reason why this runs away with Game of the Year.

SUM 22: Returning to a changed Hyrule sees Link once again doing what he does best as he goes after Zelda via creative freedom.

[hardcoregamer]

Top 10 Games of 2023 (Game of the Year)

After revealing our awards during the past several days, the biggest day of them all has finally come. That’s right, it’s the end of the road folks and time for us to award our greatest honor: Game of the Year. Both the nominees and winner were not taken lightly, having to exemplify the best of gaming to be named. It was a hard-fought battle, but without further adieu, here's our top 10 games of 2023.

Check them out!

[silverstrike]

People getting upset that their favorite game didn't win GOTY I can get.

But folks saying a certain game won because of "horny simps"... Like... Calm the fuck down, lmao.

[mpsideadump]

IT HAPPENED YALL!!!

BALDURS GATE 3 WON!!!

Game of the year 2023 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[goronska]

Stray Gods is the best game of 2023, and you have to play it. Also, the fandom should never stop making FANART BANGERS like this. This is everything to me now. Everything. (Romancing Persephone first time through. Then Pan. Freddie will be next.)

Stray Gods

[take-care-with-your-glasses]

Got into a fight with a bunch of people telling me that Zelda should have won the game of the year solely based on the sold copies.

It only sold more than Baldur's because of being Zelda and Nintendo. Ok is an impressive game for a switch, but nothing else. Is mostly an empty map but nothing else.

Now... Baldur's...

[moltengarnet]

Games of the Year 2023

I'll admit that I used to game more than I do now, but I always make a games of the year list in December, so let's do it!

#3 Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection (April)

I had only played Battle Network 1-3 before getting this collection, so half of the games were completely new to me. That might be a technicality but I love this series. I can't say I enjoy getting lost in the adventure segments, but the battles and customization are fantastic. Art, character designs, and music are super important to me, and this collection doesn't disappoint there either.

#2 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (May)

Having this game on here probably isn't too surprising. There are a couple features I miss from Breath of the Wild, but TOTK improves on the first game in every way. Building random little robots, traps, and vehicles was enough to keep me thoroughly invested in this game for over 200 hours. The combat got stale after a while, but the building mechanic definitely made up for it.

I won't get into any spoilers here, but reaching the Depths was probably my favorite gaming moment of the year. I had no idea the Depths existed prior to playing the game, so getting a third world map was pretty shocking in the best way.

#1 Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (August)

I feel like this game was made for me. Jet Set Radio Future has been one of my favorite games ever since it came out on XBOX in 2002, and as the years go by, I can still play any part of that game and not be bored. Now that Bomb Rush is out though, I think I'll be playing it instead. Every aspect of the game is an improvement over JSRF but it also brings a lot of new things to the genre that I appreciate.

I already said that the artistry of a game is very important to me, and BRC has fantastic settings, character designs, music, and art that kept astounding me as the game went on. I might go play some BRC right now, actually.

[mysteriouslybluepirate]

QUICK GAME OF THE YEAR REACTION POST:

sorry for anyone who follows me for ofmd(ive been ofline due to work+school+writing 2 ofmd fic due Dec 15th), but really quick, here's my general thoughts about my Other unhealthy habit besides writing about gay pirates!! I love gaming and this year was STRONG, so I have THOUGHTS. This is my superbowl.

Rants first:

Pizza Tower was robbed for breakout indie. By a Mile. It had 40k community reviews compared to the winners 2k. The winners were an offshoot indie company that made fuckimg LIMBO. One of the games that started the indie scene vs. a passion project between friends. All the music is being written by 1 guy with 2 developers on the game. Pizza Tower released in the first few months of 2023 to a huge breakout fandom vs. Cacoon that just came out a few months ago. I think indie needs to be more community vs. reviewer based, as the community is selling the game to future fams vs. Games Journalists. I loved Pizza Tower, but it's not a pretty game the journalists choose. I loved it, from its fast-paced music to 90s cartoon art to challenging gameplay, and it sucks that this fan community will be the people that review bombed cacoon. To me, it feels like the last of us 2 winning everything a few years ago. No hate to the devs. But damn.

-I fucking hate Hideo Kojima. I generally dispise his work as it feels like he's afraid to create 'lesser' art and uses his influence to hang out with celebrities. I think death stranding is sloppy, and most of HIS work in the Metal Gear series is dumb. His action feels slow, and his plots vaguely empty. So when I saw a more psychological horror game with his studio slapped on it(a genra you need to be VERY careful with), i wasn't happy. HOWEVER. I admire the fuck out of Jordan Peele and his version of a more sociological horror. Of systems and society and PEOPLE influencing our horror. Of what being an outcast means. So we're combining a successful studio with money and a writer who hopefully can toe the line between offensive mental health tropes and the fiction of the universe. I was fucking SQUEALING when Peele came out. (If he's a shit head, I apologize in advance). This could be a story based game that grabs me.

-please limit all announcers to a standard time frame. They should be as pressured in their speeches as the winners.

-E3 is gone. This is why there are so many announcements and adds for games va time for awards. Can we please create a separate indie vs. AAA show to highlight indie general beyond farmlife/pretry games. I want indie horror and other smaller genre to get recognized.

(Also fuck Neil druckmann for being a POS)

BG3 getting Game of the Year: spent 300+ hours playing BG3. Replaying acts 1/2 with around 5 different Tavs who never beat act 3(thanks to anxiety of finally ending a story). Romancing Karlach, Shadowheart and Astarion(dark urge). As a dragon age fan, this is the best RPG in that style I can ask for. I am delighted with every award it got, and will cherish this game for years. The dark urge 'good' playthrough featuring a plot that inspires me to this day.

Games I need to play right now apparently.

I thought Alan Wake 1 had a bad story but apparently Alan Wake 2 is right up my alley. A better horror game with better story and unreality and pushing the medium of video games. Which is my shit. I also need to understamd that dance montage. (I want to see why this won story over BG3, BG3 takes into account player action. Why did this win over 100s of hours of story content?)

The Finals. I can't stand battle royal/rainbow 6 esk games in general, but the attitude and destruction looks fun, and it's free. So fuck it.

Hi-fi rush! No clue what it is but it looked lovely and up my alley!

New stuff to look out for

That game based on Journey to the West. I was freaking out the entire trailer. I feel a long form game is the perfect way to adapt the legend. I loved watching Ellen ring and can see this become a comfort streaming game to watch.

'BLADE'- GAME???? FUCK YEAH! I was so hyped when I put the pieces together. I'm thankful for my time in the marvel fandom but I'm happy Blade was mostly ignored and we'll get a passionate team creating what will likely be a game with Batman Arkham style combat.

Free God of War DLC looks amazing, and as a rogue lite fan, I'll love to watch the story unfold online

Lost Records- from the life is strange people, is my shit. I will play it.

I finally get to play my dad's favorite Sega games with this remaster!!! All 5 look amazing.

Any Syardew Valley, Elden Ring or Hades like game. Love that shit.

[mceproductions]

Best of 2023: Game of The Year

Nominee: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2*

Midway on game of the year and we come back to the second chapter of a quickly becoming iconic game series for the PlayStation.

Insomniacs Spider-Man has continued to evolve with both its gameplay and graphics mechanics allowing you to websling all over NYC in creative and innovative ways.

Only this time you take what was great about the first with Peter, and the parallel sequel with Miles and combine them for greater feet’s while raising the stakes with an iconic villain.

In the 2 years since the death of his aunt May, Peter and Mary Jane have begun to build their lives after getting back together.

While Miles Morales after losing his dad adjusts to school life with Peter as a teacher and his mom moving on with her own life reconnecting with an old friend.

The trio would end up reconnecting with a suddenly healed Harry Osborne who wants Peter to join him in a startup charity.

All the while a paramilitary group led by Kraven the Hunter uses NYC as a battleground hunting the SpiderMens rogues as sport.

But the darkness inherent soon surfaces as Harry’s cure would lead to a rift and battle for the very survival of the city.

Make no mistake this is a beautiful story and better game to look at as both the map and Spideys both grow and improve.

Taking the technology to new bounds for the PS5 is the focal point as everything here seems akin to being a part of the Spiderverse or MCU and makes it all the better.

And unlike the other Avengers games this seems more like a world where this would love to be explored further.

So much more left to explore explore here.

SUM 22: 2 Spider-Man in one populate this expansive sequel to a series that continues to push the technological and fun buttons forward.

[jaradraws]

strange things from the deep

alt vers under cut

[chibird]

Level 2024 unlocked! Congratulations on completing level 2023, and here's to a brand new year of adventures (with 366 stars to collect since it's a leap year)! ⭐

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