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NeoGAF Games of the Year 2013 Awards
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Naked Snake
Member
Happy to see 3D Super Hang-On made into Top 5 Racing Games of the Year!
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Well GT5 did but GT6 was not bought by many people and some felt like GT3- --> 4 that it was more of a retread. A PS4 GT would no doubt do significantly better.
Imp the Dimp
Member
The only list that matters to me frankly, as it is not biased towards widely popular games. Bioshock averaged merely 2.29 points and earned its place #2 solely due to its high sales.
GAF seems to love both of those games, moreso than SMT4 I'd argue. Rightfully so as they're really unique and creative titles.
uncleniccius
Member
My list was quite different to this... but the right game won, TLOU is just incredible.
WRT GTA I'm in the "it's an impressive game but is way too frustrating in lots of ways" camp, and since launch I've been surprised at how many people share my view.
WRT GTA I'm in the "it's an impressive game but is way too frustrating in lots of ways" camp, and since launch I've been surprised at how many people share my view.
IncandescentPrecept
Banned
GT was always biggest in EU.
... Actually, that is a good point, Rockstar games have typically been kind of janky. Definitely an area Naughty Dog and Irrational destroyed them in.
Great work Cheesemeister and Timeto kill. Can't thank you enough for all your yearly work on these threads. You guys rock!
I will, I promise! If it's indeed that good it will be my 2014 2013 LTTP GOTY
I will, I promise! If it's indeed that good it will be my 2014 2013 LTTP GOTY
Messofanego
Banned
Uh, whaaaaat? These are adventure games?! *rubs eyes* Did someone just forget to write action-adventure or some other thing that encompasses this? Brothers is alright there though. I get that this was a year where not many high-class adventure games released (except for The Inner World, The Novelist, and Gone Home) and most of them were not finished because of episodic nature (Broken Sword 5, Kentucky Route Zero, The Wolf Among Us, etc). But come on, adventure games usually means no combat and mostly exploration with story. I guess I need to revise what people think are adventure games.
Nice to see Metro Last Light love!
NICE NICE NICE!
Props for those Race The Sun noms!
Soundodger+ love, nice
Ooh great work chubigans on Cook, Serve, Delicious!
I really need to get a Vita for Tearaway.
Simogo developer cleaning up!
LANG ZONE!
Adventure Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto V = 1058 points, 38 honorable mentions
2. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds = 905 points, 16 honorable mentions
3. Tomb Raider = 486 points, 39 honorable mentions
4. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag = 437 points, 21 honorable mentions
5. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons = 336 points, 16 honorable mentions
Nice to see Metro Last Light love!
FPS Game of the Year: BioShock Infinite = 1080 points, 34 honorable mentions
2. Metro: Last Light = 125 points, 8 honorable mentions
3. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon = 106 points, 13 honorable mentions
4. Battlefield 4 = 97 points, 5 honorable mentions
5. Killzone: Shadow Fall = 88 points, 7 honorable mentions
NICE NICE NICE!
Puzzle Game of the Year: The Swapper = 103 points, 7 honorable mentions
2. Gunpoint = 90 points, 15 honorable mentions
3. Antichamber = 85 points, 3 honorable mentions
4. Toki Tori 2 = 23 points
5. Thomas Was Alone = 13 points, 2 honorable mentions
Props for those Race The Sun noms!
Racing Game of the Year: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed = 60 points, 5 honorable mentions
2. Gran Turismo 6 = 53 points, 3 honorable mentions
3. Need for Speed Rivals = 28 points, 2 honorable mentions
4. Forza Motorsport 5 = 21 points
5. 3D Super Hang-On = 5 points, 2 honorable mentions
5. Asphalt 8: Airborne = 5 points
5. Race the Sun = 5 points
Soundodger+ love, nice
Rhythm Game of the Year: Rocksmith 2014 = 30 points, 3 honorable mentions
2. Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F = 21 points, 2 honorable mentions
3. Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2 = 6 points
4. Soundodger+ = 4 points
5. HarmoKnight = 3 points, 2 honorable mentions
Ooh great work chubigans on Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Simulation Game of the Year: Animal Crossing: New Leaf = 281 points, 17 honorable mentions
2. Papers, Please = 275 points, 24 honorable mentions
3. Attack of the Friday Monsters! = 19 points, 4 honorable mentions
4. Surgeon Simulator 2013 = 9 points, 2 honorable mentions
5. Cook, Serve, Delicious! = 7 points, 2 honorable mentions
I really need to get a Vita for Tearaway.
Simogo developer cleaning up!
LANG ZONE!
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Hope Kamiya and his team see this somehow.
Sales can't stop greatness.
Sales can't stop greatness.
djplaeskool
Member
GAF, you guys are alright.
Solid list. 2013 was indeed one hell of a year.
Cheesemeister
Member
It was eligible for 2013 as an iOS and Android game.
If I had my way, there'd be no port rule allowing new platforms in a subsequent year.
ComputerMKII
Banned
2013 was the year of overhyped, average or disappointing titles. I hope this year will be better.
Messofanego
Banned
My highest affinity with someone else is significantly lower than your highest affinity with someone else.
Surprised (but glad) Infinite got second. I guess it's easy to be fooled by the (apparently relatively small group of) detractors in almost every BI thread. Personally I thought it was amazing, and I don't normally even like FPSs.
Would have been nice to see SMT4, but I guess it just didn't have the sales (and didn't come out in EU of course)
Would have been nice to see SMT4, but I guess it just didn't have the sales (and didn't come out in EU of course)
Let me help you there.
As for the lists the GOTY doesnt shock me but what DOES is Fire Emblem getting RPG of the year. Sooo good.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
TLOU just sprinted ahead of everybody, like Usain Bolt.
Its encounter design went downhill so fast in the second half that, within 2-3 hours, I had absolutely no desire to finish it left. It's a shame.
Augemitbutter
Member
MGR and NnK making it is great. FE: Awakening is way too high up there.
Ys is nowhere to be seen, but also not out in europe.
yo, where is Dragons Crown.
I dont recognize many ppl from the buddy list this year, weird.
Ys is nowhere to be seen, but also not out in europe.
yo, where is Dragons Crown.
I dont recognize many ppl from the buddy list this year, weird.
I don't get how MGR got this high though.
One of the ugliest and most repetitive games i've played in years.
Boss fights are all the same, the areas are so drab it hurts the soul, every enemy encounter is exactly the same..
Nah, I had to force myself to finish it. If that was one of the best games of the year, 2013 was a terrible year.
One of the ugliest and most repetitive games i've played in years.
Boss fights are all the same, the areas are so drab it hurts the soul, every enemy encounter is exactly the same..
Nah, I had to force myself to finish it. If that was one of the best games of the year, 2013 was a terrible year.
Don't forget all those awesome codecs, kill two guys and you get another one.
Riposte
Member
I too was fooled by detractors on BioShock Infinite. On the matter of predictions, I wouldn't have thought Fire Emblem would get higher than Rising and Tomb Raider higher than Black Flag. Other than that, about what I'd expect, which I'm not saying in a snobby tone.
This kind of talk fits my image of you dispassionately playing games because of lacking much else to do.
People, at least action game fans, generally don't agree with you, especially on the matters you listed. That's how.
This kind of talk fits my image of you dispassionately playing games because of lacking much else to do.
People, at least action game fans, generally don't agree with you, especially on the matters you listed. That's how.
not every game can be ni no kuni
Category G
Neo Member
The only game of the top 20 which I actually beat comes in at number 16, guess my tastes in gaming really are quite different (granted I do own Bioshock: Infinite and Metal Gear Rising, just not loaded them up yet). D:
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'm very glad Bioshock Infinite managed to get 2nd place dispite all the backlash it gets here. I never understood why people are not that critical and demanding about other flawed games like GTA V and The Last of Us as they are with Bioshock.
It's very unfortunate to not see Europa universalis IV but thats kinda expected because it's a niche and not very well known game.
It's very unfortunate to not see Europa universalis IV but thats kinda expected because it's a niche and not very well known game.
Ni No Kuni honestly made me happy when I played it, a smile from ear to ear from the visuals, sound, Ghibli art-style, writing and combat and mechanics.
In comparison, MGR almost made me want to shoot myself.
Heh, I considered it more a year of lots of very good games but few that were great. But I'll take it over some of the years we've had which seem to be just barren with only a few games really worth paying attention to. I think 1996 was like that with the generational shift and general winding down of Genesis/SNES though they still had a few explosive games and the year ended very well at least.
i haven't played it. i just seem to remember that repetitiveness seemed to be one of its main complaints.
Speaking unsarcastically for once.
Tends to happen with Level 5 games.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Thanks for doing this! Was fun to participate in once again.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I wrote stuff about it. Lots of stuff. I thought it was one of the most inelegantly-designed games I'd played all year with an inefficient and half-baked battle system, repetitive sidequests, repetitive game design, a last act that feels like a direct-to-DVD movie, terrible pacing, horrible AI, spoonfed answers, an inadequate monster-capture system, and it ends up giving you mechanics 12-20 hours into the game when you could have used it hours earlier.
Spieler Eins
Member
wow, Wonderful 101 actually made it in. I probably would have voted Rayman, but didn't finish it until today
Now off to check the affinity charts, I love that you guys manage to have something like that.
Now off to check the affinity charts, I love that you guys manage to have something like that.
Riposte
Member
I honestly can't name a bad year in videogames in recent memory. Maybe bad years in genres, but not the medium as a whole. My taste is pretty wide as far as genres go and I go out of my way to expand it, so YMMV.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Surprised The Wonderful 101 actually came that close to the top ten, above Gone Home, Papers Please, and Two Brothers. I guess those that loved it really, truly loved it (and rightly so).
The Last of Us was a predictable winner, seeing the trend in ballots. If it wasn't at the top it was still on a huge amount of lists.
Infinite ranks a lot higher than I predicted. It may have only just edged out GTAV, but I figured if anything would give The Last of Us some heat it would be Rockstar, not Irrational. Didn't expect Super Mario 3D World to rate so highly too. Not sure why, just gut feeling.
Not surprised to see A Link Between worlds make the list. Lots of praise on GAF, appearing on a lot of ballots.
Rising rates a little lower than I expected, but only by a couple of points. Again, not surprised it's in the top ten. Appeared on a lot of ballots.
Tearaway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I guess Black Flag is the Creed that won some tired franchise fans over.
The Last of Us was a predictable winner, seeing the trend in ballots. If it wasn't at the top it was still on a huge amount of lists.
Infinite ranks a lot higher than I predicted. It may have only just edged out GTAV, but I figured if anything would give The Last of Us some heat it would be Rockstar, not Irrational. Didn't expect Super Mario 3D World to rate so highly too. Not sure why, just gut feeling.
Not surprised to see A Link Between worlds make the list. Lots of praise on GAF, appearing on a lot of ballots.
Rising rates a little lower than I expected, but only by a couple of points. Again, not surprised it's in the top ten. Appeared on a lot of ballots.
Tearaway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I guess Black Flag is the Creed that won some tired franchise fans over.
Well deserved and I bet it will return in GAF's 2014 GOTY Awards too, because of the PC version.