@bertylurch:
Personally in my personal opinion which I came to on my own (personally):
My favorite parts of old GOTY were the dumb skits (Fake TV Shows, Giant Bomb FMV Game, etc.), staff members highlighting some individual games, and the daily write ups for the silly categories (Character I'd Most Like to Party With, etc.). The guest lists have never been something that I cared all that much about since I come to this site specifically for the people who work for this site.
New podcast format where the first 3 days are spent reiterating their general opinions on every big release throughout the year and then nominating them as they go. I guess the idea was to have less games in the actual deliberation part but get games talked about anyway. Even then, pretty much every game got nominated for 2-3 categories which made the two episodes where they actually did deliberations insanely long. I liked coming to the site and seeing the 3-4 categories that got chosen that day and having the episodes be more compartmentalized.
I also think that a couple of features like the Create-A-Sim, Millenials React, and Smash Melee were incredibly disappointing. I loved Deadly Sims but my favorite part was the part where they were playing the Sims. The Millenials video was like Game Tapes without the best part of Game Tapes (people who were there talking about the event or time period). The Smash video just had a single joke that it ran into the ground for 45 minutes.
For all the love Donut County got from Jeff on the podcasts just give me a video where he shows it off for 30 minutes and I would've preferred that to any of the three videos I mentioned above.
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