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GOTY 2019

by jimi

Almost top 10:

* Baba is you

* Katana Zero

* Hypnospace

* Untitled Goose Game

* Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare

* Borderlands 3

The "It was pretty good until I ragequit" award:

* Death Stranding

The "I'm still playing a lot of these live service games" award:

* Path Of Exile

* League Of Legends

* Battlefield V

The "wish I played" award:

* FFXIV Shadowbringers

* Noita

* Luigi's Mansion 3

* Pokemon

The "game seemingly everyone loves but me" award:

* The Outer Wilds

This game feels too much like work, I tried for 3 hours to push through and find the fun here but it didn't click. Maybe I just didn't hit the right discoveries to hook me but the flight made me feel genuinely sick and the mystery didn't grab me.

I'll try again in 2020, right now I really don't feel like I'm enjoying my time with it.

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Disco Elysium

1. Disco Elysium

Possibly one of the best games I've ever played. Beautiful writing, art, music with a captivating skill system that does a great job of emulating table top role playing. Masterpiece. I adore the giantbomb tagline on the wiki page for it: A story-driven role playing game about being a total failure. "An almost irreversible, unmitigated failure. Both as a human being and an officer of the law".

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2. Control

Remedy's best game to date, taps into the part of my brain which stores all of the good parts of the X-Files.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

3. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Feels like the natural evolution of bloodborne, I vibed with bloodborne's aesthetic harder but the combat in Sekiro was just so CRISP.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

4. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

I could make the statement that this is the best star wars game since KOTOR but let's be real that's not hard. Disregarding past material, this was a great metroidvania that scratched the childish star wars itch in me.

Judgment

5. Judgment

First Yakuza-style game I finished, fab.

Total War: Three Kingdoms

6. Total War: Three Kingdoms

The hero system is genius to bring the historical figures to life. They really leaned into the romance angle here and it paid off spectacularly.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

7. Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Blue Lions for life.

Resident Evil 2

8. Resident Evil 2

Fantastic remake.

The Outer Worlds

9. The Outer Worlds

I had a really fantastic couple of weeks with this game and have completely forgotten it since then. It hit me hard though, so it deserves a place here.

Tales of Vesperia

10. Tales of Vesperia

I bought this on Switch this year, it's JRPG junk food with a likeable cast.