Welcome to Go Go GOTY! 2024
by mento
In what looked like a damn fine year for RPGs, this is my Most Wanted at present. Here's hoping 2025 provides some good RPG sales and not too much in the way of apocalyptic BS to intrude on the time spent enjoying them. Well, here we are at the starting line of December, and I've procured two free months of Game Pass Ultimate in which to play through as many 2024 games for January's GOTY season...
In what looked like a damn fine year for RPGs, this is my Most Wanted at present. Here's hoping 2025 provides some good RPG sales and not too much in the way of apocalyptic BS to intrude on the time spent enjoying them.Well, here we are at the starting line of December, and I've procured two free months of Game Pass Ultimate in which to play through as many 2024 games for January's GOTY season as possible. Some strong candidates are presently available on the service, even if the most enticing games from this year—Ys X, Metaphor, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Unicorn Overlord, or UFO 50—are both absent from that library and, really, beyond my ability to finish in so short a period. Well, that's why my "GOTY (Adjusted)" series exists, I suppose: getting to everything I want to see at my own pace.
Speaking of pace, I may have overestimated how speedily I'll be able to get through some of these games, but then I don't really feel the need to rush through them as they arrive even with the limited duration of the subscription service. Better to luxuriate and go after those achievement sets rather than blitz through everything for the sake of... I don't even know what. Internet clout? Like I want, need, or am likely to earn any of that. My goal is to eventually have a list of ten games by some point in January, where we can calmly embrace the previous year's offerings in full absent all the background stress and responsibilities that accompany the holidays, but there's no real hurry for the time being. Man, this is basically how I approached every coursework assignment too come to think of it.
So! As per usual for Go! Go! GOTY!, I'm going to update this series sporadically across the next two months as games are done in lieu of my usual recurring features. The only other blogs will be the last two Indie Games of the Week for this year (and Game Pass is helping there too) along with the first five for 2025 in January. After that, I've got some real fun, dumb content ideas for the rest of the year that I hope you'll stick around for. Until then, keep an eye on this blog going forward—I almost wish I could get an RSS feed going, if I knew anything about how any of that works—and be sure to check out previous "Go! Go! GOTY!" seasons in the list below as well as the current entries in this series via the table just yonder. Happy holidays and/or GOTY cramming, everyone.