How many staff top 10 GotY 2023 lists will include Starfield

Looking at my own list of 2023 releases I've played, I count 15 games so far and I think I would have Starfield at 14. I could see shuffling around the games in the 12-14 range, so I could possibly be talked into Starfield at 12 or 13, but not really any higher. With Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake 2 still to come, plus potentially other games I missed or are still to come that I may get to before the end of the year, Starfield will probably continue to fall.

I think like the week after release most would have in the 10-7 spot, but every week since they seem to cool on it more and more, much like myself.

people love a 'podcast game' (maybe not expressly to listen to podcasts, but something low-investment that is easy to dip in and out of). i predict up to 2 staff will have Starfield slot into their lists in this capacity.

I don't think Starfield is going to get any love this GOTY cycle. And that's because it didn't live up to the hype. It's a solid Bethasda game, but most people were looking for something special and were disappointed.

I am voting for 0.

This year is pretty stacked, and the only times they talked about Starfield in the weeks following its release was with derision.

@hermes: It has been really interesting to see, for example, Jan or Bailey being more positive on Cyberpunk 2.0 than continuing Starfield.

I don’t even know what to suggest as an improvement for Starfield; it’s almost like a frontiers-of-space game is better served being a survival/crafting game like No Man’s Sky/Astroneer, or a full on galactic space politics with aliens like a Mass Effect/Star Trek/Star Wars game. Starfield sits in a weird middle ground of near future where I wasn’t intrigued by the story or the space exploration after watching a few streams of it. It’s the most I’ve ever been completely uninterested in buying a major Bethesda game.

I'm leaning towards 0. Even the people who have been mixed-to-positive about the game haven't really talked about it in GOTY terms, especially since the general arc of the reception for that game seems to be that people like it less and less the further they get in, so even people who may have said it was okay at the time seem to have turned on it since. I would be surprised if it crept into anyone's top ten considering the competition.