I personally find that Arkham Knight's story telling was completely overlooked by people because of the obvious technical issues the game had on PC and the hatred for the Batmobile.
The way Rocksteady used the players control of the camera to reveal information was pretty novel for me and moving around the city there would be little changes here and there that would hint at Batman's state of mind at the time. The story itself may of been pretty weak by the way they told it elevated the game for me.
Personally I do find myself questioning Tetris as the GOTY - especially as I went to go buy it after the discussions and saw that in the UK it is £35 ???
I've looked up the game on YouTube and I know that's a terrible way to try and get a handle on the qualities of game but I don't really get what is so mindblowing about it....? Seems like Tetris with some interesting and distracting visual effects.
I really enjoyed the format this year - seemed a lot more positive in general. For me their top 10 basically panned out exactly how I expected - with maybe the exception of Spider-man being a little lower than I anticipated for a game that everyone seems to shower praise on but maybe never quite hits the highs to break the top 5 (I haven't played it so I couldn't say - that was just the vibe I was getting)
As soon as the crew started talking about Tetris in the last few weeks on the regular podcasts I knew it would be a winner - and Dead Cells always seemed to be in the mix.
I was surprised how high up God Of War made it to be honest - it's unquestionably my personal GOTY and while I knew some of the crew had love for it I thought it would maybe crack the top 5 at best.
Hitman also snuck it's way up the list further than I expected - in years past the crew haven't really responded to sequels that are "more of the same" but turns out that Hitman is just so damn good it worked this time out
Personal highlights for me this year was any conversation involving Red Dead - I can't really remember a game that polarised the crew to that extent in a long time and it made for a lot of good discussions.
Oh yeah man I bought it on sale started playing heard the music and then IMMEDIATELY stopped playing.
I didn't realise how much of my love for that game was the whole package including the music. The new music isn't bad it just is nowhere near as awesome as the original and made me feel weirdly sick.
I bet God Of War will actually be flattened into the bottom half of the list - and I bet the top 5 will most likely be RDR2, Dead Cells, Monster Hunter, Black Ops and Tetris.
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