2013, Game of the Year

[SvennoJ]

2013 was actually quite a good year for games

Bioshock Infinite had the production values and was a sight to behold despite the story falling flat. It also had a terrible end boss fight, which is what I remember the last part of the game for. Bioshock 2 became my favorite after playing the 3rd one, for the best game play and level design in the series.

GTA 5 I held off playing until it came out on PS4 in 2014 (despite R* claiming it wouldn't lol) It was good, great city, but still felt lacking compared to San Andreas. I hope R* can finally make shoot outs fun in GTA 6 as I skipped most in GTA 5. Thank you for 'skip to next section' after (deliberately) failing the annoying shootouts. Driving, car chases, plane chases, story, environment, all awesome. Shooting sucked.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag is my favorite AC game. Loved, loved, exploring the seas. Awesome naval battles.

This game needs a sequel. I tried to find the same magic in Sea of Thieves but it did not deliver.

Beyond Two Souls build on Heavy Rain and actually has quite a decent story. Looked great as well.

Rayman Legends was another great co-op game. Very enjoyable.

The game we spend most time on however was Lego City Undercover. Between the 4 of us we played the game for over 600 hours combined. It was great on the WiiU gamepad. Map in your hand, use the touch screen to set waypoints and select quests. So many movie references, best Lego game to this date.


Another year where smaller games were just as good if not better.

Outlast was very enjoyable and actually managed to be scary

The one game where film grain actually made sense and enhanced the gameplay

Brothers: A Tale of Two sons was brilliant. Story telling through game play, through the controls themself. Great story.

Guacamelee! combined some tough platforming with great beat em up. Also with co-op, which I needed, the combat was challenging. Great art design, well paced map, very polished over all.

The Stanley Parable was a treat. Especially after the illusion of choice of TWD series. Well timed.

One game had all the feels, a great story that sticks with you, amazing characters and paced so well I played it on PS3, PS4 and PS5 from start to finish.
Playing part 1 again after playing part 2 makes a lot of things a lot more clear, lot of foreshadowing in part 1

That's how you do an origin story, looking at you Tombraider.

Great world building


And the complex relationship between Joel and Ellie


All coming full circle in the end

The Last of Us deserves goty. I'm looking forward to season 2 of the TV adaptation and to play part 2 again on ps5.