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Oh my darlings, how strong you have been! So many hours ago we started with 75 games and bit by bit we have chipped away at that number until now only two remain. To my left we have the heir apparent, the predestined winner, the heavy favourite, Elden Ring. To my right facing off against this titan we have the underdog, the plucky upstart, the one with nothing to lose, Pentiment. Will the result go the way everyone expected or can rope kid, on his home turf surrounded by his own people ride a wave of loyal support all the way to the unlikeliest of victories? Well, I think you already know the answer to that… ErrEff posted:Very engaging. DMCrimson posted:An absolute milestone. bone emulator posted:The saddest and most heartwarming game of the year. Jerusalem posted:Affected me more personally than any other game this year. A Sometimes Food posted:Hit me hard emotionally. Escobarbarian posted:Ok now it’s over and I’m loving SOBBING holy poo poo. Belgian Waffle posted:Unfortunately, I'm a philistine. theblackw0lf posted:I don’t want to leave. MMF Freeway posted:Does a fantastic job of acclimating you to the setting. Arist posted:It’s so lovingly realized a portrait of a time and place. Feels Villeneuve posted:A history-nerd level of detail. Microcline posted:Gave me a dialog malus with the justification "Gave an annoying opinion on Pliny's Natural History". Grapplejack posted:The amount of love and care he has for this setting. Social Studies 3rd Period posted:There's so much style and effort into the text alone. Ms Adequate posted:This is the gold standard by which the term "Labor of love" must be defined. Subjunctive posted:“Are you playing that scratching-noise game again?” Waffleman_ posted:What if Okami, but instead of sumi-e paintings it was illuminated manuscripts? Ibblebibble posted:An incredible game about history and its mark upon the world and how we perceive it. Extortionist posted:A story about the stories we tell ourselves and how those stories are adapted, altered, or forgotten over time. bewilderment posted:It's about history, and what we choose to remember, and what we intentionally ignore. Mode 7 posted:But you're 90% sure you know the culprit. Or at least like, 70%. 60% at worst. Right? Skjorte posted:Analysis paralysis: the game. fez_machine posted:It makes you feel like the biggest piece of poo poo in the world. Chairchucker posted:My version of Andreas would like all other characters to know that he has sex. Barudak posted:Disco Elysium's better cousin, there I said it. Hieronymous Alloy posted:Josh Sawyer's Fresco Elysium. Tulip posted:My only interaction with Josh Sawyer was him recommending me studies of Flemish manuscripts for improving my calligraphy. Anno posted:I stan rope kid no matter what he does.  2. PENTIMENT (Obsidian, 2022, New Entry) 297 points, listed 39 times, #1 8 times    Sadly this was not to be the day for Josh Sawyer. Not even we could push him to the top against the likes of our winner. But then isn’t noble failure the true goon tradition? Wow, I don’t know about you my friends but I think this has been a countdown for the ages. We’ve seen the resurrection of strategy-RPGs, we’ve seen success for cleaning and dismantling simulators, we’ve seen games close to three decades old, we’ve seen a free-to-play CCG mobile game, we’ve seen Dragon Quest XI’s astounding longevity, we’ve seen two Pokémon entries in the top 10, we’ve seen Fortnite chart for the very first time, we’ve seen the end of Disco Elysium’s reign in the top 10, we’ve seen VG get gotted and we’ve seen one of our own come as close as you can get to taking the crown. Yes, it’s been a hell of a countdown but it’s not over yet because we still have one game left. Your Game of the Year, the only game that it could ever be, the game that you knew it had to be because in this year of 2022 the question was never who. The question was by how much…
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Axel Serenity posted:supporting goon games is cool
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I'm gonna riot if I didn't get quoted for elden ring. I mean look at my two gang tags.
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imagining this vocalist belting out "triangle strategy" now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBqejIeBlQ
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given how this thread started by the next one people will be crediting josh sawyer for elden ring anyway
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Games making you cry is cool now. Don't be some kind of nerd who tries to play stoic during and after the Working Class Woman quest
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More people should cry more often.
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Supermassive Games's THE QUARRY! Applause everyone! The Quarry! Yeah!
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Wow I can't believe Deep Rock Galactic is going to be #1.
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Wow in a year Elden Ring doesn’t get released Pentiment would have been GOTY. Can we give Pentiment an honorary GOTY mention in its thread title?
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Here it comes. Mario x Rabbids, baybeeeeee
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Just helping out again with something that I think got overlooked by accident??Metis of the Hallway posted:The game brought me almost to tears seeing how the people of Tassing changed over the course of the story. edit: guess I should have ACTUALLY cried to make my way into the post. I see how it is. Bias against people who don't cry easily.
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Metis of the Hallway posted:Just helping out again with something that I think got overlooked by accident?? Wow what a lovely quote!!
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which game won
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Hell yeah go Pentiment. And lowkey go Gamepass for apparently letting such a weird little cool thing exist. Congrats rope kind & team.
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McCracAttack posted:Wow I can't believe Deep Rock Galactic is going to be #1. in terms of hours it was my most played game this year, for sure
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well. I forgot to put elden ring on my list as the #1 game (it wasn't even on my list, lol, but it would have been #1) and I'm glad it didn't suffer for it.
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I am so happy for the love Pentiment has gotten, it was such a wonderful surprise and such an amazing game, and I adored every second of playing it and replaying it and replaying it again and replaying it one more time. Just a fantastic, fantastic game and seeing it placed 2nd on the list of ALL games in 2022 is heartwarming, especially considering the behemoth that came in at #1.
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I cried when the fire giant’s leg broke
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i think pentiment should have got award for best hat as well...
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ethanol posted:which game won The real winners are the games we made along the way.
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Looking good for 2023 GOTY Armored Core VI
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Metis of the Hallway posted:Just helping out again with something that I think got overlooked by accident?? Well that's a great quote I feel bad for skipping it now 
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Waffleman_ posted:Game made me mark out over a font. I was half expecting this quote
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Jay Rust posted:I cried when the fire giant’s leg broke
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Time for the yearly tradition of enough people finally picking up DQ11 for this year on the strength of the recommendations here to ensure it places in 2023 as well!
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Snooze Cruise posted:i think pentiment should have got award for best hat as well... What hat? Mine got stolen
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:imagining this vocalist belting out "triangle strategy" now I'm still in a triangle, strategy eater
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Axel Serenity posted:Looking good for 2023 GOTY Armored Core VI 
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Rarity posted:Well that's a great quote I feel bad for skipping it now mission accomplished
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Snooze Cruise posted:i think pentiment should have got award for best hat as well... wrong that is reserved for ranni the witch
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Axel Serenity posted:Looking good for 2023 GOTY Armored Core VI ac6 is going to own. but it's also the year of ff16.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:imagining this vocalist belting out "triangle strategy" now Don't tease me with things I can never have.
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Snooze Cruise posted:i think pentiment should have got award for best hat as well... contender for cat https://twitter.com/canyoupetthedog/status/1592955671535919104
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:wrong that is reserved for ranni the witch ranni got them baps
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Anno posted:Hell yeah go Pentiment. And lowkey go Gamepass for apparently letting such a weird little cool thing exist. I'd like it known that I put the Xbox Series S with GamePass as my #10 but was cruelly denied
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Epic High Five posted:Time for the yearly tradition of enough people finally picking up DQ11 for this year on the strength of the recommendations here to ensure it places in 2023 as well! Ill Peter approves of this post.
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