Mass Effect wins worst game for a buggy launch(despite being a very good game and running really well on PC at least) but PUBG wins GotY?
No, Mass Effect wins worst game for being a bad game. Did you not even bother reading the article?
I mean, you didn't, because it very clearly states: "However, it simply can't be said enough how much the technical failings of this game ruined the experience of playing it. In terms of the number and severity of visible bugs, it's one of the shoddiest big-budget products ever released by a major publisher."
You can argue like others did above that major publisher != early access, but they definitely said it was about bugginess. If you're gonna snark about reading, at least do it yourself.
It was a mediocre game, but they seem to have just conflated disappointing and bad in this case.
I'm really bummed by how Horizon has been just ignored completely in these discussions. It has been pushed aside in basically every category and at the very least I thought it'd get something during Story/New Character but it just got the shaft. I don't quite get it.
i think it really comes down to the fact of when it was released, it came out and then a week or so later Zelda came out. No one played or finished Horizon because Zelda came out, and when they played it later in the year they didn't really stick with it. I find it mind-boggling too, since Jeff played it up to being one of his favorites of the year when he played it.
That definitely seems to be it, Dan even mentions it in this podcast. It's so infuriating since I just do not get Zelda hype at all, I never have. Horizon is probably one of my favorite games ever and none of them seemed to give it a fair shake at all. I'm already gearing up to be frustrated by the top ten list when they spend all their time talking about which is better, the early access shooty game or the Zelda game with the same story but you can climb the mountain instead of having to walk around it.
Bad take on Cuphead. Locking things behind difficulty bars people with physical disabilities and really just limits what games are. Dan was right at the top: these modes do nothing but good and don't hurt those of you who need that challenge to feel good about your time gaming.
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