- Rarity
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Hello, friends! Hello, once again! We’ve made it through another year of climate crisis, supply chain issues, a global pandemic, way too many MCU productions and most importantly video games! And as has fast become tradition in the Games forum we are gathered here today to celebrate the best games of this year as well as years past. I’m Rarity and this year I’ll be joined by my co-host VideoGames as we reflect on 12 months of our favourite hobby all culminating in the grand reveal of Something Awful’s Game of the Year!!
If you just want to get straight to voting then here are the rules, read them or face our wrath. Below them as is customary we will take a look back over the highs and lows of gaming in 2021. Cause boy, there sure were many of them!
The Rules
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1. Any game that you have played in 2021 is eligible. It could be a game from this year, it could be a game from the past, it could be a game from the future if you're some kind of time travelling god. It could be a gacha game, it could be a romhack, it could be a randomizer, it could be a mod, as long as you played it this year it's all good.
2. The joy of this thread is in getting to shout about your favourites and hear about the hidden gems that you missed and we can only do that if you talk about why you've chosen the games you have. You can write a sentence, you can write an essay, whatever you like as long as you write something. Any lists posted without reasons for their picks will not be counted in the final vote.
3. If you want to list more than ten games go for it but I'll only count your top ten. If you want to list less than ten games then go for that too but I won't count it if you've done less than five. If you don't want to rank your picks then that's fine as well but again, we won't count it.
4. Don't be a dick about other people's choices. This is a positive thread to celebrate the best of video games, not a place for people to get lost in an argument over which AAA release poo poo the bed worst. If you want to be critical then take it elsewhere. Please note that this rule will be waived in the event anyone picks hentai games or Dota.
5. Please use spoiler tags. One of the best part of these threads is people hearing about new games they want to play and we don’t want to spoil them before they even start playing.
6. If you want to go back and edit your list after the fact then go for it, just shoot one of us a PM or post in the thread to let us know you have or it might not get counted.
7. Deadline for submissions is 1st January 00:00AM PST. We'll then do a live countdown of the final results in the New Year!
The Year in Review
- The disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077 continues to weigh on CD Projekt Red as investors file lawsuits against the company while developers expose corporate mismanagement to the press while the company hopes to claw back good will with an offer of free DLC that will definitely, absolutely, no takebacksies be coming out in the Spring.
- An attempted coup at the Capitol on January 6th sends shockwaves across the world which even reverberate through the world of gaming as Twitch removes the Pogchamp emote following the streamer’s calls for further violence. Twitch promises to replace the emote with ‘that one pic of Bernie Sanders wearing mittens’.
- Millennials are left to pour one out for their misspent youth as Adobe Flash shutters down meaning we will no longer be able to play our beloved games about flinging monkeys at Osama Bin Laden.
- After three years on top of the internet Bowsette’s reign comes to an end as Capcom unveils Tall Vampire Lady who immediately stomps all over her, which is what everyone on Twitter hopes she would do to them.
- It’s a good start to the year for Activision-Blizzard as their stock reaches a 37 year high trading at $95 a share. Everything’s coming up ActiBlizz!
- While Cyberpunk 2077 continues to suffer from rampant glitches and glaring technical faults the biggest uproar from the fanbase occurs when CDPR bans a mod that lets you bone Keanu Reeves.
- People are unable to get a PlayStation5 due to short stock, which is the only short thing about a console that can pierce the heavens.
- There is a fervour across the internet as trading investors push Gamestop stock prices up from $17.25 to over $500 per share in the process costing certain hedge funds millions of dollars. All are shocked and confused by the sudden rush to buy, buy, buy; not least of all Gamestop employees as no one has bought anything from them in the last five years.
Main Releases: Hitman 3, Atelier Ryza 2, The Medium
- Despite the cries from Reddit to hold the line, Gamestock crashes harder than Cyberpunk 2077 on the PS4, which costs the board’s biggest investor $13 million and gets him sued for fraud.
- After poor sales and critical reception Google closes down game development for the Stadia, thus bringing the graveyard prophecy closer to fruition.
- Just three months after launch Sony announces sales of 4.5 million for the PlayStation5 meaning there is now one game for every million consoles.
- Nicolas Laurent, CEO of Riot Games, faces a lawsuit from a former executive assistant for sexual assault and creating a hostile work environment but you have to give him the benefit of the doubt. It’s not like we heard about rampant sexism within the company before!
- The scandals continue to rack up with CD Projekt Red after a data hack sees the Cyberpunk 2077 source code stolen and stolen for auction, where it is valued at $3 and a packet of pretzels.
- Peter Tamte claims his upcoming game Six Days In Fallujah is not political commentary. The game is merely a display of impolitical US soldiers impolitically fighting an impolitical war on foreign soil.
- There is an embarrassing moment at BlizzCon when Twitch are forced to dub over a live Metallica performance due to DMCA issues. Fortunately this will surely be the only embarrassing thing to happen to ActiBlizz this year!
- With Hogwarts Legacy already under scrutiny for J.K. Rowling’s transphobia the internet discovers lead developer Troy Leavitt used to run an anti-SJW Youtube channel. What a Slytherin!
- Video game crossovers reach a new level of surreal as Tekken 7 announces the Prime Minister of Poland as a DLC character. Meanwhile reports of Boris Johnson featuring in Mortal Kombat appear to be unfounded.
Main Releases: Persona 5 Strikers, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Valheim
- A new giant enters the marketplace as Roblox goes public on the stock exchange with higher value than EA and Take Two causing gamers everywhere to say ‘What the gently caress is Roblox?’. The move nets the CEO $3 billion in share value at the same time the company announces revenue of $2.5 billion yet somehow a profit of $0
- Harry Potter fans band together to expelliarmus Troy Leavitt from Hogwarts Legacy.
- After a month of taking flack Peter Tamte is forced to admit that Six Days in Fallujah may be possibly ever so slightly just a teeny-tiny bit political.
- An employee at EA is caught selling FIFA Ultimate Team cards on the black market. The cards trade at a going rate of $200 a pop, which is about the same value as one of Lionel Messi’s toenails.
- An investigation clears Riot Games of any wrongdoing in the recent sexual assault lawsuit. That’s right, Riot Games have taken a good look at Riot Games and they’ve decided Riot Games has done nothing wrong!
- Elon Musk tweets that he would like to see self-driving cars in Cyberpunk 2077 although with glitches causing cars to drive off the road and burst into flames they might as well be there already.
- In a secret deal with Sony, the media and world governments report that the shipping boat Ever Given is blocking the Suez Canal, when in actual fact a PS5 fell into the water.
- There’s trouble for SquareEnix’s latest release as Balan Wonderworld is found to cause seizures in epileptic players. The news dies down fast though as no one was playing it anyway.
Main Releases: Monster Hunter Rise, It Takes Two, Crash Bandicoot 4
- BioWare claims the title for weirdest merch of the year after they start selling Garrus bodypillows. Now you too can sleep with your Turian waifu.
- A copy of Super Mario Bros sells at auction for $600,000. Now that’s what I call out of this world!
- Elon Musk trains a monkey to play Pong with its mind. The monkey goes on to beat the billionaire 10-0.
- It’s the end of the financial year at CD Projekt Red where the catastrophic failure of Cyberpunk 2077 has surely led the company to ruin oh no wait they announced net profit of $303 mil for 2020 while company execs claimed over $10 million in bonuses
- As anti-trans bills sweep through state legislature Gearbox join a number of tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft in warning Georgia not to pass further anti-trans laws, marking the first positive piece of news to come from Gearbox since Borderlands 2 came out.
- Despite claims to the contrary a whistleblower at EA leaks a document indicating the FIFA franchise purposefully pushes players towards microtransactions. EA deny these claims, releasing a statement that only costs $1.99 to unlock.
- Google adds a search bar to the Stadia store allowing you to search and confirm for yourself the lack of offerings.
Main Releases: Outriders, New Pokemon Snap, Returnal
- It’s a clash of the titans in the courtroom as Epic and Apple go head to head over the latter’s restriction of in-app purchases on the App Store. Gamers handle the situation with their well-known level of respect with many screaming ‘Free Fortnite’ over the public line as the trial begins. Meanwhile the trial sees many major revelations as Tim Sweeney claims the Epic Games Store isn’t profitable while Apple deny their App Store, which forces users to purchase all apps from Apple, is a monopoly because users have the choice to not use apps.
- John Justice leaves his role as Google Stadia’s head of product after realising there isn’t one.
- As the hot new craze hits the tech world SquareEnix are the first company to announce their plans to get into NFTs just as soon as they’ve worked out what NFTs are.
- In the most unexpected crossover of the year Katy Perry releases a song about Pokémon. Fans the world over are touched by the moving lyrics of ‘Pika piiii pi pi pikachu’.
- Queer gamers are delighted as a new World of Warcraft book confirms a long-held fan theory that Chromie is trans, thereby securing ActiBlizz a level of good-will that they would really have to gently caress up to throw away. And what are the chances of that?
- One year on from a damning report into toxic work culture at Ubisoft a new investigation reveals little has changed with many accused executives still in high-level positions. Yves Guillemot responds to the report claiming the company has made as many big changes as there are between Assassin’s Creed installments.
- CD Projekt Red hire a new game manager for Cyberpunk 2077. There is still no sign of the free DLC but Spring doesn’t technically end until June anyway.
- There’s further issues for Ubisoft this month as the narrative director of Far Cry 6, which bases its world on Cuba and centres around revolution against a facist dictator, is not political commentary just like how the Division wasn’t political commentary and just like how Watch Dogs: Legion wasn’t political commentary and HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!
Main Releases: Maneater, Miitopia, Biomutant
- It’s Pride Month! And Injustice 2 is celebrating the only way they know how, by offering rewards for defeating the bisexual Poison Ivy multiple times and if you thought that sounds like they’re encouraging violence against queer people then you’re a hell of a lot smarter than the people who make Injustice 2.
- Another big company gets hit with a security breach as EA get hacked for 780GB of data including the FIFA 21 source code which means the hackers also have the source code for FIFA 22-25.
- We still live in a pandemic so E3 returns in digital form for the second year making it a quiet year for news. Todd Howard is getting cozy in bed with XBox, Ubisoft desperately wants everyone to forget they had a game called Rainbow Six Quarantine, SquareEnix really really want to kill Chaos and Capcom has some DLC I guess all of which leaves Nintendo to win E3 once more by dropping thirty second of Breath of the Wild 2 gameplay.
- Amidst high levels of criticism over discovered donations to Donald Trump’s election campaign Five Night’s at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon announces his retirement from game development. And nothing of value was lost.
- Sonic the Hedgehog celebrates his 30th anniversary by becoming a VTuber and I refuse to believe this sentence is real.
Main Releases: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Mario Golf: Super Rush, Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade
Wait, what’s Yuffie doing in my OP? Hey, where did my materia go?! YUFFIEEEEEE!!!!!!!
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Wow VG. Just wow.
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Dec 12, 2021 21:56
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Point of Clarification:
The Mass Effect Remasters will be counted as individual games, not as a whole collection
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Dec 13, 2021 12:05
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Less than 24 hours and we already have over 100 unique games listed!
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Dec 13, 2021 18:50
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let me kick Far Cry out of my top 10
Ubisoft in the mud
Thanks!
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Dec 14, 2021 09:31
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Samus must be devastated reading the thread right now
where is the dread?!!
Metroid being a non-starter is definitely the story of the voting so far
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Dec 15, 2021 14:09
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- Rarity
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Very well, the Twin List has been updated.
You can't submit two lists!
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Dec 15, 2021 14:33
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- Rarity
- Oct 21, 2010
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So whats the thread policy on DLC and expansions, are they considered to be separate entries or lumped together with the base game/other expansions?
Specifically, i'm asking about Outer Wilds' DLC and the several award winning expansions of a critically acclaimed MMORPG with a free trial up to level 60.
MMO expansions are all counted as separate games. DLC will generally be treated as part of the main game unless there's a really compelling reason not to
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Dec 15, 2021 18:37
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FF14's expansions have always been split for voting purposes, that's not changing now
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Dec 16, 2021 23:50
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It’s in general a confusing thing where the decision could be argued to go either way. Especially during the release year of a new expansion.
I'm not changing it this year just so FF14 has a better chance of winning, that wouldn't be fair
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Dec 17, 2021 00:30
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basically it's all rarity's fault
I will turn this thread around and no one wins GOTY
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Dec 17, 2021 01:08
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Brb redoing the 2019 thread due to VOTER FRAUD
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Dec 17, 2021 09:27
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- Rarity
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Speaking as a non-FFXIV player separating the expansions doesn’t really seem to me to make any sense at all?
To use a hypothetical example, imagine if there were votes for both WoW Shadowlands and WoW Burning Crusade Classic, they're the same game but two completely different experiences
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Dec 18, 2021 15:50
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- Rarity
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Everybody skips to #1, the order you put them in is irrelevant
When I tally votes I start at #10 even if I have to scroll to the end of the post
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Dec 19, 2021 07:33
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Feeling very Sickos seeing Endwalker on so many lists
They can't keep getting away with this
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Dec 19, 2021 23:06
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Goons have really raised the game with the custom graphics this year, goddam
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Dec 20, 2021 15:39
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- Rarity
- Oct 21, 2010
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Rarity, which console gen are you up to?
I've currently at the end of October 2008
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Dec 24, 2021 07:53
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- Rarity
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Well look, it's a complicated game and so much comes down to dice rolls
This is a funny way of saying I got too greedy with my star player and he got merked by some ratbag wood elf
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Dec 24, 2021 20:15
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- Rarity
- Oct 21, 2010
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I also drew what I assume is an NFT, based on other NFTs I have seen, for each entry.
Thank you. Please remember that per thread rules all NFTs are directly owned by the organisers of the GOTY competition. Our lawyers will be in touch shortly to discuss financial renumeration for their fair use.
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to the contrary
