Game of the Year 2015: Day Five Recap

Tears were literally streaming down my face during the ending. <3 GB forever.

ONLY A MASTER OF EVIL JASON!

Fucking lost it at the can of King Cobra.

@sungahymn: That was my thought after Austin's Gunpla segment too. Like, that seems really what one of those videos would actually be like.

That Lockdown drop.

that contradiction supercut is the BEST

ALSO YES GROCERY HAUL VIDEO

I like the idea of Jeff being the same youtuber in both his videos- the fun recipe guy and the grocery haul guy

@sungahymn: That sort of thing is even better when you note the totally accurate tiny pointless cuts between SECONDS in the videos, but not actual editing out of superfluous or dull content. I really like satire and irony so this years vids hit my funny bone pretty well.

Cupcaaaakes!

I am at peace with this. So long, 2015! One of the best years for games in recent memory; Hard to make wrong choices on any category. And so long old studio too!

Hope to see more GBEast supremacy in 2016!

Grocery haul video the gift that keeps on giving.

I once had a K-cup called "Ya Jamaica Me Crazy." It was a real good time.

Shout out to Jeff's fiancée's finger during the grocery haul video

My 2016 resolution is already complete, and that was to watch a Jeff Grocery Haul video. I kid, I kid. It was really just on my bucket list, so that's crossed off!

Great work everyone! That was a great week of content that I enjoyed every minute of!

Jason please arbitrarily rank more things!!

Jeff you went too far!!

Thanks for a wonderful year of podcasts and videos! I'm super happy with how the final list turned out too - even though it doesn't match up to mine I think you guys came to a pretty fantastic list that is representative of this staff and the site. It really has been an incredible year.

Jeff truly is a connoisseur of the Grocery Haul video.

Okay, Jeff's grocery haul has finally beaten Drew's day one segment as the funniest bit. God, that had me on the floor and at the same time I would watch more of those unironically.

Not a fair fight, the fusion core in Jason's Power armor drained in the middle of battle.

Jeff's grocery haul is genuinely interesting and frightening from an outside perspective. American food is so weird.

I absolutely loved the memoriam segment, because I think there is some nostalgia for me when gaming stuff goes by the wayside.

The grocery haul video was awesome too...made me want to go back and watch the 404ing it panels from PAX(s) with the GB staff (@patbaer is the man!).

However, I was a little sad to see the group gaming segment go away that occurred at the end of each GOTY video like in years past. I thought the times when they played games all together in a quick look sorta way produced some of the best moments on the site for me, especially when the staff is so spread out now and is rarely in the same place (particularly, the Trackmania 2, Super Smash Bros Wii U, and Singstar episodes stand out as being special). I missed this feature in this year's videos but I really liked all the features and new stuff this year, and the takes on YouTube were just perfect. Thanks Giant Bomb <3

Goddamn Jeff you are an amazing human being. So damn funny

I liked the fiancée finger cameo too at first, but I think they leaned a little too hard into it to try and distract us away from how much Old English Jeff needed to drink to finish this grocery haul video. I saw right through it! Jeff you have a problem!

Next year can it just be Jeff in a dark room chugging malt liquor?

Just skip this GotY nonsense entirely.

Thanks for a year filled with great content, guys! Loved the podcasts and even though the skits we're a bit low budget this year compared to previous years, I still enjoyed them. Can't wait to see what you'll serve us in 2016!

It's a lockdown baby

Loved Jason's segment, the presentation style and the relentless edits were spot on.

wow, Jeff is just brilliant with his new character. I wish there was more of him doing this character.... reminds me him and Ryan when they did the Home Shoping Network knife guys.

Lost it at the LMFAO toothbrush.

edit: CUPCAAAAAAAAAAKES

It is January

I realize this is the most irrelevant thing. But if people are annoyed by doing poorly aerials, the #1 key thing to realize is do not jump then boost. You instead need to JUMP JUMP then boost

Never combine Red stuff, Bieber and Minions

not fake, I could see the condensation forming from the difference in pressure

This was amazing, best end of year content yet!

Who needs a studio! Nice work.

Unboxing videos are one thing but a Grocery Haul is just a whole other level of bullshit. I had no idea these videos were a thing until now.

Shit, is that a Fried Egg I'm In Love shirt? I did not expect that name to return in shirt form.

Jeff still putting his hand behind objects already big enough to stay on focus is a great subtle running gag.

Another year and yet another Top Ten list that I disagree strongly with... I love this site... but holy shit they need to hire someone that likes RPGs.

Yea that was fantastic. The Jeff grocery haul was my favorite and I enjoyed imagining the trip to the store where he bought a bunch of bullshit but also got some stuff he actually wanted.

I knew grocery hauls *had* to be one of them. It was that or an unboxing.

I have to admit that after watching Jason's video I thought to myself "Wow, he edited this video really well. He could do it for a living".

And than it hit me.

Comments seem very positive to these videos. Have to say that really surprises me. This is the first year I didn't watch everything, and in fact I'd say I watched less then 20%. I guess if their goal was to make bad youtube videos I wouldn't want to watch, they nailed it?

@clairvoyantvibrations: About half way through I had the same thought or I guess more a long the lines of, if I was the one recording, I would be on the floor and not managing to hold a camera straight and be silent :P

The In Memoriam was great, that should be a thing every year.

Also, Jeff holding his hand up behind everything unnecessarily and "I bought four of these."

There are so many great moments in today's and in the videos all week. I guess they didn't hit if you dont watch or keep up with the site and Youtube? Anyway glad at the overall positivity because every one of these had me in stitches. Was sad they didnt get to sit around and play through some games together as loved that in previous years but considering they had no studio and no time they knocked this out of the park. Incredible.

Whoa that video quality Jason!

I knew someone would have to do a grocery hall!.

Jeff's grocery hauls are video gold