Topic: Share Your Personal GOTY 2024

Aww that's really sweet @LavenderShroud and warms my heart. Good on you for being such a nice sister, looking out for your bro and joining in on his hobbies and games even if they aren't necessarily your thing.

Sorry I'll reign in my motherly instincts from embarrassing you too much

And that certainly sounds fun using sequence breaking and glitches... I never managed to do much in Blue myself besides the infamous (and incredibly easy easy to pull off) Missingno.

Mine are:

1. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
The crazy people at MachineGames pulled it off with one of the best "licensed" games. Great characters. Terrific voice acting. Brilliant level design. Loads of humour. Excellent gameplay.

2. Prince Of Persia The Lost Crown
This is the type of game that Ubisoft should make more of. Brilliant Metroidvania gameplay with excellent platforming and puzzles.

3. Another Crab's Treasure
One of the best Souls-like title to come out. Even has an easy-to-understand story and excellent cast of characters. Love the art style. The Shell system is brilliant.

@SingleStooge Great to see PoP in your list. I sometimes wonder if a later release in the year might have bolstered PoP's narrative around 'GOTY' discussions in Nov/Dec... and if the early 2024 release hurt it somewhat?

I know sales weren't great, but I agree that it was a breath of fresh air - from Ubisoft of all places (!). In my top 10 for sure from 2024, and so many great QoL features in the MV genre (in game map photos for eg., so aid backtracking)

Did you play Nine Sols? If you enjoy MVs and Souls-style games, it is really great...like a 2D Sekiro

It's not my GOTY24, but I really enjoyed the overlooked Robocop: Rogue City.

Enemies are just cut and paste, and reminded me a lot of Time Crisis/Virtual Cop, but it's a damn satisfying game - The shooting feels and sounds fantastic, and while it won't win any awards for graphics, something about it, aesthetically, looks great; especially walking around the little Detroit hub.

Just a nice little satisfying game, with a lot of fan service. I'm glad it got made.

Well, my GOTY from its release all the way until December was Dragon’s Dogma 2, but then Stalker 2 released. While the game had its fair share of bugs, being as it was my first game in the franchise and unaware of what to fully expect, I was absolutely blown away. I spent 165 hours - the longest I’ve put in a game in years, and wasn’t even remotely burned out. It is one of the most immersive games I’ve ever played. In fact, after beating it, I decided to play the first game in the series, Shadow of Chernobyl on PS5 and will be wrapping up the platinum trophy tonight or tomorrow.

@TheIdleCritic That game is great! I got the platinum for it and had a blast doing so. It felt like a genuine RoboCop game, from the dialogue, humor, police drama, and 80s violence. Have you played Terminator Resistance? That game is great as well, and I think made by the same developer.

@CJD87 I don't think the early release affected it's chances for GoTY or sales. Look at Elden Ring for example. Was released in Feb 2022 and won GoTY. FF7 Rebirth released late Feb 2024 and was GoTY contender. What possibly affected sales was that many gamers considered its 2D asthetic as "not worth considering" and expected a 3D PoP game. Why? Many sidescollers are great games.

As for Nine Sols. Yes I've delved into it and don't like it. I'm playing that via Xbox Gamepass. What annoys me is I get lost frequently. The hacking minigames are horrible, especially the ones that is in three sections and the bloody timer is way too fast, and cannot continue. I gave up on it after numerous attempts at a hacking minigame after defeating Guamong on the far Western part. If the developer put in an Accessability Section in the menu and give an option to slow down the timer, then I can continue.