This constant dismissal of the year's biggest and most talked about games really bodes well for the GOTY show.
I don't know if you meant it this way, but I 100% agree with this as an earnest statement. A lot of the big games this year have been pretty bog-standard, and it kinda looks like it's gonna continue go that way. This year's headliners are very "something you've seen before, but done really well", and discussion of those interests me far less than discussion of some of the really cool indie stuff that's hit and will hit this year.
One thing Jan didn't get into with XCOM that I felt was that having a constant, small stable of characters meant all of the available characters were "viable", and I was much more willing (and frequently forced) to experiment with my team comp than in XCOM 2, where I had an A-Team and was terrified to swap in a Squaddie to level them up for fear they'd get themselves or the team killed
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