Game of the Year 2013: Day Two Recap

This is great!

Rorie cracks me up every time. Well done guys, well done.

@tineyoghurt: Yes. That music demo irrevocably marked my childhood and I must know.

I get the feeling he's kinda shy. It might be so he doesn't have to act.

What? Lamar isn't even the best character in his own game. :p

I love video games.

Every year, I watch this, I dont even care about GOTY. I just love the skits. I dont even care how produced it is.

Wrong music choice. How unfortunate.

Nope. Gets mentioned a lot during live shows.

This is the greatest. I want that opening tune that Jeff plays on his keyboard as my ringtone.

I think if you did a weighed score from Jeff, Alex, Brad, Patrick, and Vinny lists you get what we see below. (Sorry, I could not find Drew's picks quickly enough and I ran out of time to add him to the tabulation list.)

#10 Papers, Please

#9 Rogue Legacy

#8 Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

#7 Super Mario 3D World

#6 Saints Row IV

#5 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

#4 BioShock Infinite

#3 Gone Home

#2 The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

#1 The Last of Us


That's a pretty good list too...

That was a weird way to show Papers, Please. Like, I know there was already an Unpro Friday bit of the unfinished version, and then a Quick Look of the full version, and those are probably better places to start.

But like, just approving everybody's entry doesn't make the game look very interesting, and Patrick didn't even seem to remember how the ending worked. And the border attack has so much more weight to it after you've sat through 30 days of nothing nearly as exciting. Also, if Patrick didn't do a bunch of the EZIC stuff, he is really missing out (though sure, there's a bunch of other stuff with interesting immigrants who don't happen to be overthrowing the government).

Papers Please is a fucking amazing game, no wonder it's my no. 1 game too.

The bit with Drew as a young kid and intern was so great. The video editing in this is incredible.

It's a miracle Brad survived to the new millennium.