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General discussionWhat's your GOTY 2019? (released in any year)(32 posts)(32 posts)
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Posted December 26, 2019
So which game did you enjoy the most this year? The actual release date is unimportant. All that matters is that you've played through your candidate for the very first time.

My GOTY is without a doubt CrossCode. I just really enjoyed this fake MMOs action gameplay and puzzle combo. While the story isn't anything super special, I loved the character banter of its cast. 50+ hours well spent. :)

Honorable mentions:
A Plague Tale - A really well-designed story and world with some quite well-done likeable/despicable characters.
Unavowed - Great setting, story, and banter. Too bad it could use some improvement in the puzzle department. Most everything ended up being a bit too straightforward.
Transport Fever 2 - I haven't played enough yet for me to even be able to consider it a real contender, but like its predecessors I very much enjoy its slower-paced, relaxing tycoon-style play.
Posted December 26, 2019
My big surprise for this year, and the one I choose as my very own GOTY, is Ghost of a Tale. The gameplay is fine, a mix of stealth and conventional RPG quests, with non-violent mechanics and a focus on exploration. But what sells the game for me is the incredible worldbuilding and storytelling, with a lore that deserves a continuation, and fun characters. Not to mention the game looks absolutely gorgeous.
Posted December 26, 2019
Hollow Knight. Easily.
Posted December 26, 2019
Cataclysm DDA (https://cataclysmdda.org/)

A free roguelike with some base building etc and plenty of survival aspects. Put far more hours into this than anything else.

Second up would be Factorio... the mystical time sink! :D (https://www.gog.com/game/factorio)
Posted December 26, 2019
Dark Souls 3

But it was very closely challenged by NieR: Automata, Nioh, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Persona 5.
Posted December 26, 2019
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Mr.Mumbles: The actual release date is unimportant. All that matters is that you've played through your candidate for the very first time.
So only games started this year count? Or finished? Or doesn't matter when they were started nor whether they were finished but just that you didn't replay them after having finished them, or at least reached a point past where you ended up now, in the past?
Posted December 26, 2019
Expeditions Conquistador
Really fun mix of exploration, role-playing and (not overly complicated, but still somewhat challenging) turn-based combat.

Honorable mention:
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate. Reminded me of Baldur's Gate 2 in some ways. Wouldn't recommend buying Neverwinter Nights 2 just for it though, I didn't enjoy what I played of the other campaigns.
Posted December 26, 2019
Well, anyway, take your pick:

Games played this year start to end:
•Jotun
•Regions of Ruin
•The Mull Littoral
•Syberia
Finished this year, but started earlier:
•Eschalon
Started this year, not finished:
•Venetica
•Ascension to the Throne (just these days)
Played, but neither started this year nor finished:
•Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker (do mean to try one more time to just push myself to finish the Kingmaker campaign these days, would likely be a one-day thing from where I last dropped off, but...)
•Lords of Xulima (Deluxe Edition)
(Plus the odd game of Epic Pinball.)

None will make my favorites list. But to pick the better one from those finished (so including Eschalon), I'll go with Jotun, though mainly, as I say in my review, if taken more as a work of art than as a game.
Out of all of them though, probably Lords of Xulima. Venetica deserves a mention too though. And so do Eschalon, despite the annoyances, and Syberia, for being a very rare adventure game I played to the end, and possibly first one I played at all in some 15 years. Too soon to talk about AttT.
Post edited December 26, 2019 by Cavalary
Posted December 26, 2019
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Posted December 26, 2019
Bloodstained
Posted December 26, 2019
I (re-)played many great games this year:
1. Diablo
2. Albion
3. STAR WARS: Dark Forces / Jazz Jackrabbit Collection
Posted December 26, 2019
I was surprised how good the True Fear games are. Also Bad Dreams: Coma and The Surge.
Posted December 26, 2019
This is the most disappointing gaming year for me in a decade, many games I played were disappointment after disappointment. Games that I will remember positively are;

American McGee's Alice (2001) - Already played it few years ago, but now I appreciate it even more after playing the very poor sequel. Sometimes you need to play the bad ones, to recognize the good ones. Music is great and gives the game a certain surreal atmosphere that perhaps makes it feel a better game than it really is.
Cyberswine (1997) - Not because it was great, but because it was something different and weird.
Claw (1997) - Very challenging platformer, I don't play these often, so it was something fresh.
The Curse Of Monkey Island (1997) - This one feels to me like a true sequel to first game, where Guybrush is really himself, but a bit more mature now. The only problem is that they tried to explain the nonsense from the end of second game, so they ruined the end of this one too. They should have just removed the last chapter and the game would be perfect.
Post edited December 26, 2019 by antrad88
Posted December 26, 2019
I'd say Blasphmeous (released this year) and The Messenger (released last year). The first is pure dread, the second made me crack up in laughter many times, something which happens very rarely even once, let alone so often. The humor there is great, all bosses are weirdos and the Shopkeeper is just pure snarky comedy.
Posted December 26, 2019
MORROWIND. Only Elder Scrolls game I've played. Great fun to run around a gorgeous island, finding secrets left and right. Tip: use OpenMW (+Patch for Purists) , it works very well indeed.
Post edited December 26, 2019 by servobeupstry
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