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[Kalor]

Jeff's house looks suspiciously similar to the studio.

 

[kAmui-]

Dan's list is a casuals list if I've ever seen one I tell ya hwat.

What does that even mean?

 

[sub_o]

Oh god.

Spoiler

Best use of Satan

 

[Sakwoff]

Dan's list is pretty cool.

Personally don't care for Overwatch, but that's a great selection of games.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Both Jeff and Drew were ready to pounce on it.

Yeah they seem primed to do so. Good!

My interest level in Rez is -20.

Even with Infinite coming to PC VR?

 

[The Dear Leader]

What does that even mean?

Only hardcores understand.

 

[FStop7]

That "casual" comment has to be a joke because AM2R and Stardew are not games most people will be familiar with.

I like Dan's list!

 

[Alucrid]

dan put overwatch over hitman? overwatch getting goty

also they must have a hundred guest lists if there's that many out today

 

[mnz]

My interest level in Rez is -20.

I wonder how many younger people jumped into it because of the hype and left severely disappointed.

 

[avengers23]

Swery's list is precious, and Swery must be protected.

 

[Glass Shark]

I have avoided buying and playing The Witcher 3 this year with my entire justification being "if no one at Giant Bomb bothered to finish it, it can't be that good a game."

Now I feel conflicted.

 

[broncobuster]

Can safely say Uncharted 4 won't be on the top 10 if the 5/5 reviewer doesn't have it on there.

 

[Lunar FC]

Yeah they seem primed to do so. Good!

Even with Infinite coming to PC VR?

I played the demo on my brothers PSVR, and had zero interest in going back to it.

 

[Twin Tails]

how could jeff not remember the shotgun cock

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

After going back to Witness this weekend, I remembered how much I love it. It jumped at least a couple of spots on my list.

I played the demo on my brothers PSVR, and had zero interest in going back to it.

Dang. I'll still probably play it on Vive/Rift.

 

[giant_frying_pan]

My interest level in Rez is -20.

Is this some sort of weird Fahrenheit scale where this is actually really hot?

 

[SexyFish]

I have avoided buying and playing The Witcher 3 this year with my entire justification being "if no one at Giant Bomb bothered to finish it, it can't be that good a game."

Now I feel conflicted.

It is fucking fantastic.

Still haven't finished it.

 

[Brashnir]

please tell me "Best use of Satan" ends up being a category by the end of this week.

 

[benicillin]

Alex and Jeff going in hard on hottest mess was worth the podcast alone. Good people.

 

[alr1ght]

Child of Eden is a better Rez than Rez. I just re-bought it on PS3 so I could play it in 3D.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

Not even a nod to VA-11 Hall-A for best style? C'mon!!

 

[Lijik]

Alex really brought it for hottest mess

 

[No_Style]

please tell me "Best use of Satan" ends up being a category by the end of this week.

Candidates? Only Doom and Devil Daggers come up for me.

 

[Lijik]

Candidates? Only Doom and Devil Daggers come up for me.

Pony Island

 

[Intheflorsh]

Dan put Overwatch over Hitman? All is lost.

 

[Albo]

Deadly tower of monsters not mentioned in the best style category. Seems overlooked in general despite being on plus. Would've liked to hear Slain and assault android Cactus get a mention too.

Also lol at Jeff's comment "overwatch has some good ass skins". Obvious Freudian slip

 

[Zojirushi]

Only 30 minutes in and already feeling good about them giving an award to Witcher 3 for the fans despite them clearly not giving a fuuuuuuuck about that game.

Props to Jeff on this one especially.

 

[GitarooMan]

Overwatch is going top 3 and I'm all for it

 

[Zoggy]

Deadly tower of monsters not mentioned in the best style category. Seems overlooked in general despite being on plus. Would've liked to hear Slain and assault android Cactus get a mention too.

Also lol at Jeff's comment "overwatch has some good ass skins". Obvious Freudian slip

and it having great chests

Lenny face

 

[Lunar FC]

Doom discussion confirmed its top spot for good.

 

[Death Metalist]

Holiday Specialtacular 2016: Hitsmas

It's a tradition as old as time: throwing fireaxes at people.

 

[daveo42]

I'm so glad they went in the direction they did with Hottest Mess.

Spoiler

I think Alex is super pissed he scheduled a supporter of white supremacy for their E3 show as much as he is pissed about white supremacy in general. I feel his guest lineup is one of the biggest things he takes some pride in all year and Luckey soured it for him, even if pretty much every other guest he had on this and every year was fucking fantastic.

 

[jeffram]

Not done listening to it, but man is Jeff going out of his way to minimize all the negative Oculus stuff in the hot mess award .

 

[Lunar FC]

How does Hyper Light keep making it so far in these lists? Nobody talked about that shit all year.

 

[Kusagari]

Seeing Dan's list, I think we can safely say UC4 has zero chance at making the top 10.

If it couldn't make Dans, it's not making the sites.

 

[Grisby]

Real glad Dan has experienced the magic of Harvest Moo-, er, Stardew Valley. I need to check it out myself.

Overwatch is going top 3 and I'm all for it

Let's take it to the top.

 

[Rainmaker]

2016 was the year Alex completely broke out of his shell and became a top tier GB staff member

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

How does Hyper Light keep making it so far in these lists? Nobody talked about that shit all year.

I noticed that too. I can't remember any talk beyond the QL and maybe one podcast.

 

[KingKong]

I really like what they're doing with the videos this year

 

[Myggen]

Really great first day. Oh boy is the Hottest Mess winner gonna cause a Hot Mess in the comments!

I really like what they're doing with the videos this year

Totally.

 

[silentg]

2016 was the year Alex completely broke out of his shell and became a top tier GB staff member

He's always been the best writer (bar Ryan), and always hugely under-appreciated.

 

[Death Metalist]

This is going to be fantastic, saving this video for later.

 

[Kusagari]

If Austin was still with the site, I'm positive Overwatch would have won GOTY.

He would have easily gotten Dan, Vinny and Alex behind him and overwhelmed Brad/Jeff.

 

[sense]

After seeing dans list include gears and not uncharted 4 I think it is safe to say uncharted isn't making giant bomb top 10 lol. Him and brad were the only ones praising uncharted

 

[Cartman86]

Palmer was on the cover of Time magazine... and then effectively was again when Trump made it...

Anyways should've combined the Oculus categories. Developer momentum because of Vive, active blocking of Revive and non Oculus headsets, plus poor launch, and ultimately ZERO games worth playing that you couldn't play elsewhere I think created such a poor look for the company itself and then the Luckey stuff happened. People don't really care about the other stuff though because most of the staff isn't messing with VR a ton so they don't care. If it wasn't for Touch (and Superhot VR) there would be basically no reason to own a Rift in my opinion.

 

[mnz]

I've seen a few GotY announcements on Twitter getting bombarded with "should be Uncharted", "what about Uncharted?", "lol no Uncharted". Like...Gb might not even have it in their top 10 lol

 

[silentg]

1. Hitman
2. Doom
3. Titanfall 2
4. Overwatch
5. The Witness
6. Stardew Valley
7. Inside
8. Watchdogs 2
9. Superhot
10. Uncharted 4

Dan's list just messed up my predictions...

 

[Grisby]

2016 was the year Alex completely broke out of his shell and became a top tier GB staff member

Alex has been a top tier member for a very very long time. Getting done with the debut stuff here and I really want to press on to hottest mess.

Seems like it's gonna be a good one.

 

[BUNTING1243]

He's always been the best writer (bar Ryan), and always hugely under-appreciated.

Love Alex's writing, bring back Guns of Navarro

 

[Hellsing321]

I've seen a few GotY announcements on Twitter getting bomarded with "should be Uncharted", "what about Uncharted?", "lol no Uncharted". Like...Gb might not even have it in their top 10 lol

Uncharted 4 is the most unremarkable game Naughty Dog has ever made. How it's gotten so many awards this year is baffling to me.