It almost feels like they are deliberately sabotaging GOTY so they don't have to do it any more.
The new format sucked all the fun out of what's usually my favourite content of the year. I really expected there to be at least another 2 or 3 categories on day 5 but it really feels like they took a look at the usual format and said "Identify the fun, and remove it". And what we're left with is 3 days of "what we've been playing" from the podcast without any of the fun banter and the four most dull, utilitarian categories from previous years.
No "hottest mess", no "best moment", no "most disappointing", no "best debut" and people STILL adding games that immediately get removed despite the three days of laboriously talking about every game.
Really disappointed they kept this format. It's turned GOTY into one of the high points of the GB yearly output into something where the first three days is entirely skippable tedium.
There's barely any interaction between the hosts and it's basically just the least fun bit of any podcast "host explains game they've played to other hosts" without any of the fun comedy and personality that breaks that up on a regular podcast.
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