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I finished Divinity: Original Sin 2 out of pure stubbornness. The last half of that game was wanting. Combat difficulty continued to scale, min/maxing favored stat boosts over new skills at the higher levels, and item scaling was out of control. Not to mention that the final location felt unfinished. Yeesh. For anyone out there who doesn't feel the compulsion to finish games as some sort of metric (which I am unashamedly guilty of) then you shouldn't feel bad about not finishing that game.

However, as someone who does feel the compulsive need to finish games that I start...

Interesting idea on the point system. It somewhat prevents reward for playing several smaller games instead of larger games as a means of inflating your 'score.' I'd be willing to try something like that if not for the facts that, A) I would avoid smaller indie games almost entirely otherwise, and B) that seems like an extra level of complication that could add to my own frustration.

Still, cool idea. I'm impressed by it.

Huh. Multiplayer is a little obtuse, but I'm surprised to see this many people lose their minds over it.

@ripelivejam said:

I think a good portion of it is from people who actually play Visual Novels. Except for the gay dads part, it is about as generic a VN dating game as it could get.

It would be like if someone came out with a boilerplate platformer, and people were falling over themselves to praise it because it was the first platformer they ever played. "But you can collect 100 objects to get new lives! It's so good!"

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I think a wider issue here is that it's obvious that the Giant Bomb crew don't have enough time to play or cover all the games that come out in a year. We could see this back in 2015 when almost no one finished Witcher 3, and large parts of the community got upset because they didn't even seem to give the game a chance. This year we could see it with them playing Dream Daddy but not Doki Doki Literature Club.

It creates a sort of dissonance where this group of people who are touted as experts in the field of video game journalism seem to pick and choose which games they will cover and have large gaps in information about different genres. At least Patrick and Austin went out of their way to try games in genres they had little experience in. Meanwhile Giant Bomb is putting Destiny 2 up on their Top 10 GOTY list when other sites are running articles about how Bungie completely bungled everything to do with the game and how the Destiny community is upset about how things have become.

Good list. I mean, it's not surprising that the community is going to agree with the list they made, but it still feels right.

More people need to play Hollow Knight. I'd say Nioh as well, but the difficulty is going to make that game niche.

Some quick Google searches are telling me that it took until nearly the end of January in 2014 & 2016 to get the results. So it may be another week or so. They'll arrive.

@mikemcn: This is like when people think League of Legends should sue other MOBAs. PUBG was no where near the first, just (currently) the most popular.

@sweep: Sorry to hear about the health issues. While I have no idea what you are going through, and you are under no obligation to share, I personally have Crohn's Disease and have health scares on a regular basis. Again, I'm not trying to compare it to what you do or do not have, but there are great communities of people out there that sympathize and have gone through similar stuff. Never be afraid to reach out.

I think you may be the first person to bring up For Honor in GOTY lists.

Thanks for reminding me that Chu-chu exists. Ugh.

I feel a bond with anyone else who has finished Drakengard, because holy poop was that tedious.