FG's git.o.t.y 2022 is aunt Alison

Regarding the "poor year vs. old fart" discussion, I'm pretty sure for me it's the latter.

There's increasingly few games I actually care about, and when I do play something I rarely feel engrossed. It's all just a big ball of meh.

Of the big hitters this year remarkably few have appealed. Reading through a list of games, the only games that seem all that interesting to me is Tunic, Pentiment and Midnight Suns.

But clearly none have been interesting enough for me to actually play.

As usual, I actually spent most of my time playing stuff that released in previous years… from what I actually played, I’d say Returnal was my favourite game but to stick to 2022 releases:

1) Horizon Forbidden West
2) God of War Ragnarok
3) Elden Ring

Honourable mentions for:

Tunic which was pretty close to displacing Elden Ring for #3 and would have done if it wasn’t for some absolute bastardry in those boss fights and some pretty awful sign posting that had me looking up internet guides just to work out where to go next.

A Plague Tale Requiem which I confess I haven’t finished yet, but is really good. The combat is still quite shonky, and stealth can sometimes frustrate, but the story is good, acting is great and it’s very, very pretty.

See because I'm an old fart nearly all the games on that list either didn't appeal in the slightest or weren't very good and I binned them.

Even release day of Ragnarok I didn't even load it up as I wasn't interested and I went out instead. A year or two ago I would have been so excited for it.

Old
Fart

My year was mostly (outside of elden ring) back 4 blood with a sprinkling of games I'd already completed like 2077.

But that's enough about your sex life

Wahey

“This is a terrible year” has been mentioned every year for the past x years. Do you ever think that some of you maybe just don’t actually like games

Guardians of the Galaxy is a great middle ground game. Can't remember if that was this year though.

There's such a variety of games to play nowadays I'd never be stuck trying to find one to play.

I still love games, but I’m definitely an old fart in that nothing really get my juices flowing anymore

I could live on just Resident Evil and Dark Souls and not much more these days

Although despite my apathy I still ended up loving Deathloop

I bought Prey for £4 the other day on a whim when I wandered into a CEX store (try saying that sentence out loud instead of typing it)

Might play that next now I’m getting my appetite back

Considering in 2014 Dragon Age Inquisition won GOTY at the Game Awards and this year it was Elden Ring says this year can’t rank all that poorly

1) Wordle
2) Tunic
3) Elden Ring

I guess Wordle actually came out last year, but it didn't explode in popularity until this year, so I'm making it count.

Same two for me ! Think they were the only releases I wanted to play this year (and I wasn't even sure about ER in the build up).

GOW - a visual treat and some great set-pieces
Stray - something different and full of charm
Sniper Elite - my first time with the series and it got it's hooks into me (only played because it was on Game Pass). Really enjoyed playing through the campaign.

Honourable mentions for GT7 and Marvel Snap. GT7 provided some fun Tuesday nights with others from here, and Snap has become my go to filler game.

Problem with old fart syndrome is that I can’t really tell what games I will like anymore. I can choose a game because I like that genre, even games in the same series but after a few hours I will be meh.

Then when I think I’m done with gaming a title comes a long that I really really like and think gaming is brilliant again. It’s a really Costly experience.

Elden Ring x3, I’m early at 500 hours. I don’t doubt it’ll be the game of the generation never mind the year.

Only stinky AMATEURS don’t have multiple builds bro.