Board 8 > ITT: We give out our weirdly specific personal 2022 game awards

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Not necessarily games released in 2022, just games you played in 2022.

Best Time Waster at Work: Slay the Spire
Best Netflix Game: Into the Breach
Overly Hated Special Award: Pokmon Violet
Most Relatable Gym Leader of the Year: Larry
Most Delayed Code Distribution Award: Eiyuden Rising
Best Game from an AAA Series I've Never Played Before: Uncharted 4
Most Beautiful Graphics with Worst Performance: Hitman 2 on PS4
Best Annual Reminder of Why I Don't Play Rhythm Games: Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memories
"I Played This for Hundreds of Hours and Then Just Go Cold Turkey on It" Special Award: Disgaea 5

Most Chapter 5 Award: Xenoblade 3

Game I bought a stupidly overpriced new gaming PC just so I could play and then didn't award: Hitman 2
I never thought this would really exist but now it does this crappy excuse for a timeline is briefly wonderful award: Return to Monkey Island
I've never been so relaxed and stressed simultaneously award: Melody's Escape 2

Best Spiritual Xbox Live Indie Game: Vampire Survivors
Best Remake of a Game That I Know Is Really Good, but Haven't Played a Lot of Because I Decided to Play the Original Too Close to Its Release Date and Kinda Burnt Out On: Live A Live
Game With the Nicest Frog: Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Game With the Meanest Frog: Everhood
Best Sequel That Isn't a Sequel: The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Best Use of Mili in a Video Game: Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights
Best Game That I Played This Year That I'll Forget I Played by the End of Next Year: Pikuniku
Worst Game That I Played This Year That I'll Forget I Played by the End of Next Year: Reventure
Game That I Loved but Will Never Finish Because the Last Part Kicked my Ass so Hard That I Lost All Hope: Arcaea
Most Game of the Year: Elden Ring
Least Game of the Year: Bold Blade (still fun, though.)

Oh My God Who Thought This Mechanic Was A Good Idea It Essentially Kills Any Motivation To Play One Of The Other Routes - Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Please Stop Spawning More Basic Enemies And What Do You Mean That The Game Pretty Much Stays The Same For The Entire 50-60 Hours - Project X Zone

Most Gangnam Style: Fortnite

Best game I played too late to include in my best games of the previous year: Life is Strange: True Colors
Best game I've been playing for a year now and still haven't finished because it's co-op and I can only ever play it for a few hours every month or so when I hang out with the person I'm playing it with: It Takes Two
Game that made me cry the most this year: Spiritfarer
Best example of the absolute worst aspects of this industry: Overwatch 2

Free game that I would gladly pay money to play award: Dwarf Fortress
Paid game that I gladly obtained for "free" award: Horizon: Forbidden West
How the fuck is this less than a year old award: Elden Ring

Most surprising timesink: Cities: Skylines
Silliest In-jokes: Guacamelee!
Silliest Gameplay: Trombone Champ
Metroidvania of the year: Astalon: Tears of the Earth (HM: Guacamelee!, Ender Lilies)
Game I spent the most time looking forward to that came out and I actually bought: Stray
Game I spent the most time looking forward to but then didn't buy: A Plague Tale: Requiem
Game I spent the most time looking forward to and still hasn't gotten a release date: Hollow Knight: Silksong
Biggest flash in the pan: Lost Ark
Worst game that people on youtube overrated tremendously and I absolutely hated: Momodora: Reverie Under Moonlight

Isquen posted...

Free game that I would gladly pay money to play award: Dwarf Fortress

Boy have I got news for you award: Dwarf Fortress, now on Steam.

Game that makes your friends fight: Escape From Tarkov

Game most likely to get stood up on: Fortnite

Best game titled after lyrics from a Killers song: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Gayest beat-'em-up: Super Crush KO
Gayest Metroidvania: Rabi-Ribi
Prettiest 2D walking sim: GRIS
Most unfortunately named covid-19 analogue: a new life.
Worst story in a Metroid game, even including Other M: Metroid Dread
Grossest upgrades: Lost Ruins
Best game I wish was 10 hours longer: Astro's Playroom
Most bags of milk inside other bags of milk: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Worst moms: Returnal

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Boy have I got news for you award: Dwarf Fortress, now on Steam.

(That's why I posted it)

Best Hololive Vampire Survivor Clone: HoloCure

RikkuAlmighty posted...

Most Chapter 5 Award: Xenoblade 3

I felt this one in my bones

Raka_Putra posted...

Best Hololive Vampire Survivor Clone: HoloCure

never forget my hourlong inalock

Best Use of Babies: Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Most Confusing Game Economy Because You Can Just Buy Everything At Once by Fishing For Less Than 5 Minutes Near the End of the Game Award: Sonic Frontiers

Please Stop Taking Yourself So Goddamn Seriously But I Guess You Won't Because The Fanbase Apparently Loves It Award: Sonic Frontiers

Most Confusing Boss Fights, Seriously WTF Am I Supposed to do in These Award: Sonic Frontiers

Biggest Big the Cat Making a Bigly Return Award: Sonic Frontiers

Game from 10 Years Ago I Still Regularly Play and Think About: Dishonored

ZenOfThunder posted...

Game from 10 Years Ago I Still Regularly Play and Think About: Dishonored

I played it earlier this year and randomly dropped like 4 or 5 levels in (Edit: said hours in and meant levels; I was definitely 10 or more hours in). I wasn't hating it or anything but wasn't loving it either. Being stealthy was quite fun at least! But yesterday I just uninstalled from my Xbox hard drive (had it via Game Pass).

Convince Me to Go Back to This Game You Still Regularly Think About Award: ZenOfThunder