Tag: game of the year

Jarrod’s 2024 Top Ten Games of the Year and Other Meaningless Awards

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I’ve been writing these lists for a while now, and I always try to sum up how i’m feeling about the game industry at that particular moment in time. In 2023 I wrote about the industry writ large essentially being a dumpster fire, and basically all of the bad stuff from 2023 got exponentially worse. 2024 was actually the year where I looked at my wife and said “if our children come to us and say they want to make a career in videogaming, it is our duty as their parents to steer them away from that”.

Brad’s Top 10 Of 2022

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2022 is now in the rear view mirror, and overall I’d say it was a good year — in terms of videogames, if little else. Interestingly, the rising popularity of the So Videogames Podcast has meant that I had less time to deep-dive on games and less time to write full reviews, and despite playing a ton of titles over the last twelve months, there were still a large number that I just didn’t have the chance to properly evaluate… I did manage to settle on a top 10, though, and I’m pretty happy where I ended up!

Jarrod’s Top Ten of 2021

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I don’t know if 2021 (as a year) was better or worse than 2020 — they were both pretty rough! — but I find myself feeling a tad more optimistic than I did before. We could hem and haw about it until the cows come home, but I do believe that ’21 was a much better year for new releases in ’20, so I don’t feel the need to go overly snarky and make my list entirely out of remasters. This was a great year for games, and I want to recognize the wide variety of brand-new, original releases that captivated me throughout the year.

Jarrod’s Top Ten PS5 Upgrades Of 2021

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Last year I was feeling a bit snarky after what I thought was a pretty underwhelming year for new releases, so I populated my top 10 list with nothing but remakes and remasters. I still stand by this choice, as it allowed me to somehow award Dragon Quest XI my Game of the Year three times in a row. Thankfully, 2021 has proven to be a much stronger year. I’m also feeling less dour than I was at the end of 2020, so I wanted to do the inverse and focus this year’s GOTY list on only truly new releases.