Giantbomb Community Forum GOTY 2013 List Aggregation!!

VOTING IS CLOSED. RESULTS ARE HERE.

Hello, do you like videogames and opinions? YOU'RE IN LUCK, BECAUSE IT'S TIME FOR ANNUAL GIANTBOMB COMMUNITY FORUM GOTY 2013 LIST TABULATION AND AGGREGATION!!

Past year's goty user list tabulations exist, they are:

2011

and

2012

But that was the past! And now, it's the future the present! You have played new videogames and have new opinions! You want to tell the world just how good Papers Please was, and you want that information broken down to discrete quantities, aggregated and lost in a sea of data, then regurgitated back to a wider audience!

Here is how this is going to work, please read this as the methodology has changed (for the better!)

Okay as you may or may not know the website went under a revision and my old code for scraping the list data doesn't work. So it has been rewritten.

This means nothing to you!

But! What is important is that you no longer need to give your GOTY list a specific title, name it whatever you like!

How can this be?

It's simple, once your list is created, get the url from the address bar and tell it to me, via this google doc.

The url should look something like this:

I.E. "your profile name"/lists/"whatever you called the list"/"some number nonsense"

I encourage you to make a placeholder list now with a title you are happy with and submit it right away, so you don't forget. You can then edit and add on to the list at your leisure up until I run the code.

FAQ

how many games in my list?: as many as you like! I'll only count the first ten though. If you have fewer than ten, I'll only count those that you have.

can I make an unordered list?: no.

what am I doing?: you're making an ordered user list of your favorite games you played this year, and submitting the url to this google doc.

when will results be posted?: end of december.

when are lists due?: December 30th

can I submit games not from 2013?: Yeah, I'm not gonna arrest you.

can I edit my list after I submitted it?: You absolutely can.

where should I send my goty list url?: this google doc.

what should my goty be?: Papers Please.

And that's it

Just send me the list url via the google doc. this google doc.

When the last day of december rolls around, I will post the results! Let's get a big turn out, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your dog.

No promises, but I'm also looking to get the data onto an external website so you can browse it easily and compare what users liked the games you liked! Or liked the games you didn't like! We'll see how things go with that, websites are hard.

If the results will be posted at the end of December, what is the cutoff date for lists?

@sgtsphynx said:

Let's say December 30th.

Cool, I will let my sober self consider the list then.

Not to be confused with the GotG aggregate list!

@theht said:

Good point! Yeah, I waited to post this thread longer than I usually did for fear that in the inundation of *Blank* of the Generation lists it would get lost.

Hopefully the list fatigue hasn't set in too strongly!

Yay, this is my favorite part of GOTY!

Yay!

I'm going to name it GOTY 2013 anyway >_>

I think my list is probably done, but I do feel like I should play Brothers first though.

sent, i've played jack shit in 2013 releases though.

Done and done!

Awesome, I always enjoy seeing what the community as a whole picks, even though I think its pretty obvious what no 1 will be this year

YES! I was waiting for this!

Wait, are we talking about BioShock Infinite or Last of Us? Or something else?

Yeah, this doesn't really strike me as a year with an obvious winner.

I think for the community, its definitely the Last of Us (not my personal choice), I think overall it will be high or at the top of more lists than any other game.

Also I think we should post the links to our lists here so that people can have a look.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/xavtron/lists/goty-2013/86277

Here's my list:

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/dr_mantas/lists/goty-2013/87483

It's probably/maybe final.

@dr_mantas: Yeah mine's pretty close to final, I'd really like to finish Paper's Please and try to dig into Europa Universalis IV

@dr_mantas: I totally forgot that Heart of the Swarm came out this year.

Here's my list. I'd post it directly into the thread using the WSYIWYG editor, but it's tossing ordered lists completely out of order for some reason.

@beachthunder said:

Brothers.

Here's my list! I might change it around because I want to play games that can get Don't Starve off this list.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/animasta/lists/goty-2013/87485

I want to get Amnesia: AMFP off my list, but I don't have anything better. It's not bad, but everything else in my list I feel passionate about.

More or less finished with my list. A Link Between Worlds might squeeze its way in there somewhere if I have a chance to play more, but I'm feeling pretty good about where everything's at right now.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/spilledmilkfactory/lists/best-of-2013/87488

Showing some The Swapper/Shelter love

@spilledmilkfactory: nice, I'm pretty high on the Swapper too, personally, I discount things like HD remakes etc from my lists as things that didn't come out this year.

@thatfrood said:

I hope you're continuing the ongoing brothers jokes, because I really don't see it being brothers, not as widely played and I think there were enough people (like me) who found it lacking and over-hyped.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/themasterds/lists/best-of-2013/87487

Bam. The official GOTY list for anyone curious.

@xavtron said:

Yes, I am in fact joking.

My list is more or less completed as of now.There are a few games I'd like to try and finish before the years end ( A link between worlds and Saints Row 4 for instance), but if I don't I'm still satisfied with my top 10 as they are.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/themanwithnoplan/lists/top-ten-games-of-2013/86730

I hope the final list resembles my personal list that was posted earlier. That's always my hope when I make my list! Probably a good chance of it this year since Bioshock and The Last of Us were quite well regarded. Really hope GTAV doesn't do all that well. I mean it wasn't bad, it did some things real well, but it also had a vile personality. Plus there are so many other games that deserve to be on top 10s this year! More than 10 of them in fact! Saints Row, Stanley Parable & Rayman to name 3 that did not make my top 10.

Other than that I feel good about the odds of the right games getting love.

I like that everyone's list is pretty different, even though there are some shared favorites.

You're awesome. Half of my favourite games this year aren't actually from this year.

Thought so, it is pretty much my favourite running joke through giantbomb right now, I also can't wait for the discussion on the end of year podcasts.

As an aside, I'd also like to note that the discussion surrounding gaming top 10s here is so much more constructive and friendly than the movie side of things (I am a very active movie viewer). A lot of movie top 10s often come across as being authoritative and dismissive of others' views and criticisms, with some inclusions feeling more like making a statement than the authors honest opinion. Kudos to the gaming community for being more level headed and celebrating the differences in opinions.

If Stanley Parable doesn't win, you've all failed as a tangentially-video-game-related community.

so when I hit *save and finish* on my list i get a message saying my list is empty. and it won't save. what am I doing wrong?

EDIT: nevermind, i figured it out.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/hh/lists/goty-2013/87502

Winternet was really upset with the choices of the Giant Bomb community. He decided to make a post to let everyone know how he felt.

This is a list of 2013 games I've played this year: http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/jacdg/lists/2013-games-i-ve-played/83664 and this is how I rank them:

GOTY 2013

	1. The Last of Us
	2. Tomb Raider
	3. BioShock Infinite
	4. DmC Devil May Cry
	5. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
	6. Grand Theft Auto V
	7. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
	8. Crysis 3
	9. Remember Me
	10. Saints Row IV

Still need to play Guacamelee! before the list is final. Really would have liked to have played the new Ratchet and Clank as well as Beyond: Two Souls as I'm sure they would have made the list, but I didn't have the time nor the money or the desire to play anymore games this year.

@animasta: do you recommend playing Zeno Clash 2? I really enjoyed the first one and was thinking of buying the humble weekly sale that has it. How long is it?

So just to make perfectly sure:

• I can make a list and give it any title.
• Then copy that url to the google doc.
• Then I can do whatever I want with the list of games (editing, re-ording, rewriting, completely changing) as long as the title stays the same.

So I can start one now, and then possibly change all of it after Christmas when I've played way more games (as long as I change it before December 30th) it will still count?

-Edit- Time moves too quickly?! Here's the final list that I spent a while deliberating on.

@dixavd: This is all correct.

@thatfrood: Fantastic, thanks. Made one and sent it off. :D

@dixavd: actually, after a little bit of experimentation, it appears you can edit the title as well! In fact, the title isn't important in the url. You could send me a link that looks like http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/thatfrood/lists/worthless-garbage/87486 and it will work properly.

if you really enjoyed the first one get to it! it's about... 6-8 hours, it gets higher if you decide to collect all of the cubes (which you want to do because it leads you to a super interesting cave that tells you things).

Here is my list: http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/nev/lists/goty-2013/87526

My brain is a bit too fried to write up any reasoning for my picks, so just assume my reasoning for them all is "dis gaem gud, me liek".

Excited to do this again this year. Still working on my list, but I built a placeholder, threw like 15 games on it, and submitted it to the Google Doc so I don't forget.

Here be my list

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/kaiserreich/lists/goty-2013/85715

I tried writing a little blurb explaining each of my picks, but I'm a terrible writer so most of them ended up being just generic praise.

Glad this is happening again, because I'm always curious about what everyone else here is thinking.

Added the list to the doc and here it is again for viewing, with some added thoughts and considerations:

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/sessh/lists/goty-2013/87543

Feel free to comment.

Also, curse you all if DmC doesn't make the Top 10.

Here's mine.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/jabbawocky/lists/goty-2013/83950

Although there's a couple of games that might make it in depending on how it goes in the next couple of weeks.

That is my list

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/flstyle/lists/best-of-2013/87544

Nothing fancy, just slapped some games on for this aggregation.