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Move over Game Awards, BAFTA and GD Choice Awards, the most prestigious award is back after a few years on hiatus. It's the award where a dozen of so absolute nuffs try to remember what games they even played that were released in the last calender year and try to stick a number against them in some sort of meaningful way.
We broke board tradition and didn't do it for a few years because frankly there just weren't enough quality games being released. This also led to board traffic being down and I think the last one we did had maybe 10 replies and I didn't even bother counting the votes. However it has been the best year in a long time so let's do this again.
The change this year is it's a top 5 instead of a top 10. A top 10 worked 10 years ago because games came thicc and fast. That's not the case anymore and not everyone will have played 10 games released this year that are worth even putting in a top 10 list. After maybe 5 or 6 you just tend to put stuff you remember playing that maybe wasn't too bad (at least that is often the case for me). Squeezing it into 5 games is less daunting for those who are maybe time poor and for the nerds who play heaps of games it may make you sweat a bit.
So, top 5 games that had to have been released after Jan 1st of 2023 and before Dec 31. As usual voting and the thread will stay open until.... let's say the 14th to give anyone with holiday leave a chance to go through their backlog for the year. Remakes (but not remasters) count but just know that voting for a remake is poor and I'll be very disappointed in you. We've normally said no DLC/expansions because we've tried to keep it to purely new games but live service/MMO type games are getting more popular as well as the return of proper expansions like Phantom Liberty.
Rate your games from 1 to 5, 1 being your favourite of 2023. When I remember and get around to adding up the results points awarded per vote will be:
1 - 10pts
2 - 8pts
3 - 6pts
4 - 4pts
5 - 2pts
Don't rush, post whenever you want. You can edit your post up until the thread is closed too so don't stress.
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