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Game of the Year 2018: Day One Deliberations

Our 2018 awards feature begins at the beginning, with a deep dive on the list of games that mattered to us this year.

Discover the best and worst games of the year with your friends from Giant Bomb.

Dec. 24 2018

Posted by: Brad

263 Comments

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IT BEGINS

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LET THE SPOILERS BEGIN

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Here we go!

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Edited By paulmako

Let's do this! Time to see if the format changed too. Edit: I watched a further 10 seconds and it has!

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Thank god!

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Edited By Redhotchilimist

Merry Christmas!

Two minutes in, the changes you're doing seem like very good ideas.

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Those are some pleasant portraits.

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LETS GO

NIER GOTY THEN NOW FOREVER

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It's TIME

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YEEEEEAH BRAAAAAD

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Edited By totsboy

Oh so no video?

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NOW it's Christmas time!

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Uh oh, time to settle in.

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They've changed the format, I'm glad, sounds like it should be less cutthroat and less vague categories.

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format change already giving me a panic attack but I hope it works out

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Huh. So no writeup anymore?

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I was scared of change, after a few minutes I wholly embrace this. Feeling a lot of love here for these video games.

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I dig Abby's sweater. Where did she get it....

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A little skeptical of the format change. Lets see how it goes!

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Edited By turboman

Everyone's opinions are wrong.

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LET'S GOOO!

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HERE. WE. GO.

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Christmas arrived early

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@totsboy said:

Edited By totsboy •

Oh so no video?

There is a video yeah, Struggled to find it as well

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YAAAASSSSS

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Hmm, I like the style change! Surprising considering how much I dislike new things a lot of the time lol

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Kind of bummed that there aren't any goofy categories this year (like best animal, best use of licensed music, etc), but hope this reduction makes the discussion better.

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Its time! Merry xmas!

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I'm only 2 minutes in but I had to pause to say @janman I love the brady bunch setup! lol Ok I'm done being silly back to the video...

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Edited By mikewhy

how are there all these comments about no video, on a video? is there a written article I'm missing?

edit: oh, there's a toggle in the top-right, when a video is paused, to toggle between audio / video versions. show notes / that stuff should really be visible 100% of the time.

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Took a while to see the audio/vidio switch option at the top right but got it in the end!

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Writeups though..?

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@efesell: https://www.giantbomb.com/words/

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@tr0n: I mean yes I did check the big tab at the top to see.

That there isn't one there.

But thank you.

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Where's the write-up?

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No write-up (yet). It's a different format this year.

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Prob is an easy one but calling Fallout 76 for hottest mess and Biggest disappointment.

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@tr0n: A different format but still like An Actual Day worth of audio/video so I would have hoped they'd realize they shouldn't have cut it out..

Otherwise..

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Sad that some of the more silly categories are gone. I always loved that about GOTY at GiantBomb.

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No written stinks, hopeful someone does a tldr

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tldr; you should listen to the whole and all podcasts! :)

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I absolutely love the format change. Given, I am bias, as I wrote a forum topic sometime this year which essentially was "Can we please turn Goty debates from arguing about why all the games you liked this year were actually shit into why you liked all the games that were good this year?"

This feels like a hybrid of my "Lets just remove the whole tearing down of all the games this year" and the counter opinion that idea got of "No, the salt and arguing was the best part!" So, they still will get to the debate of categories, but are gonna spend time just talking about why games are great.

If you want the first, you can skip the second half, if want the second you can skip the first half. If your up for both, great you get both. This feels like a very welcome change.

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there is video, but that toggle is not the best way to let people know...

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Note: this is just them discussing notable games of the year. No actual winners of categories for this day.

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Absolutely love the format change. Great stuff.