This week, it’s Alan Wake 2, which has released and scored an 89 on Metacritic, a tick below a 90, but a 92 if you’re looking on PC where its visuals can be maxed to their fullest.
Totk
I haven’t played that yet but BotW is the most over rated game I ever played.
I didn’t like so much about the last two Zelda games (I won’t ever play TotK actually). I think they’re fine games for people into that kind of stuff, but they could have been new IP material; I hate when companies take a game series and make it damn near a different genre. The world was way way too big with too much superfluous yet pointless shit to do and I hate repairing equipment all the time and I HATE crafting mechanics. I really hope we get more Zelda games like OoT, MM, TP, and SS someday and that this isn’t the permanent new style of 3D Zelda.
As someone who almost 100% it with all shrines… Nah. Totk honestly didn’t take enough risks as botw and the new additions were disappointing. The sky islands were copy pasted many times with the same layout, the dungeons were arguably not much better than botw, and the depths all looked the same.
The game is also piss easy once you have enough hearts to tank hits. Still so disappointed I first-tried the final boss.
Still a good game, but 8/10 at best. In a year where much better games came out I wouldn’t even nominate it for Goty
Instead of a zelda game, they gave us mid legos and 10 fps. I dont understand how anyone thought it was playable.
Its an expansion for botw, at best.
If you want to disqualify games for quest-breaking glitchiness at launch, BG3 gets disqualified before TotK does.
Meh, BG3 was playable for me. It might be a case of simply being able to throw more power at it, but im indifferent to the why.
At least I could experience one of the games.
Not sure BG3 is my GOTY either, but i dont work in the industry anymore so dont really need to be concerned with it.
Not being playable is a bit extreme, it’s just boring and tedious, and steps back on its extreme design choices of the predecessor
I would be surprised if this doesnt take it overal this year.
It is my 2nd favourite game of the year, but I am very biased towards fighting games and Street Fighter 6 is so damn good.
There have been just way to many great games this year, and honestly dont have enough time(or money) to get through them all.
I love FromSoft games. I still haven’t gotten around to AC6. It launched at such a bad time with so many other games coming out, especially if you have GamePass. BG3 came out about the same time (not on gamepass, but easy purchase), then Starfield (which was frustrating and bad, but still took time), Payday 3 (which is alright but flawed, and hopefully will be improved like PD2 was), and Cities Skylines 2. Notable mention to Counter Strike 2, while not doing anything that new for CS, it’s still the thing we’ve been waiting for for years. I still haven’t gotten around to it yet either, but patches are improving things so waiting is good.
