Honestly I don't think they were any really good game of the year contenders but I think astrobot is good enough.
Honestly if most game devs put a lot more effort into they could have easily swept this game of the year there weren't any hard-hitting competition.
@Mr_NutterButter yeah nothing that came out this year was particularly earth shattering. Even Wukong was just "good" from what I hear. They probably had to add the DLC category to actually give a game that deserved it goty lmao.
@Mr_NutterButter I didn't actually watch it lol, I'll have to check that out
@Jens_Rasmussen @Mr_NutterButter yeah there have been a lot of niche games that are really good. I know people liked balatro a lot. Shotgun Roulette was pretty cool, too. These things kind of just can't be goty contenders though.
My personal favorite game I've played this year is ff16 but that's been out on ps5 for a while now so it doesn't really count.
@beardalaxy the funny thing is the Muppets joke segment with probably the most based thing I ever seen in my entire life.
You can tell that they struck a nerve with Keely because he stood there so awkwardly and look like he was about to cry.
But yeah everything this year was pretty mid like nothing outstanding or groundbreaking for a genre just simply just averagely good in comparison to everything else.