Will We Ever Have Another Great Year For Games?

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At the end of last year, I wrote that 2021 hadn’t been a great year for video games. By definition, they can’t all be great, right? A series of delays and some disappointments from big hitters meant a bit of a barren year. Sure, there were some good games - The Forgotten City, TheGamer’s Game of the Year, can go toe to toe with any of them - but one look at who The Game Awards had up for GOTY and you’ll see a smattering of good games but nothing on the level of years gone by. This year, though propped by Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok, is similarly barren. It’s beginning to feel like we may never see the likes of 2020 again.

In 2020, the GOTY nominees were The Last of Us Part 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Hades, and a little surprisingly, Doom: Eternal. Also out that year were Dreams, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, Fall Guys, Genshin Impact, Miles Morales, Call of Duty: Warzone and Half-Life: Alyx. 2018 had God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man, Celeste, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Monster Hunter: World up for GOTY, while Shadow of the Colossus, Tetris Effect, Sea of Thieves, Spyro: Reignited, Pokemon Let’s Go, and Return of the Obra Dinn all launched.

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2017 can point to Breath of the Wild, Prey, Persona 5, Super Mario Odyssey, Nier: Automata, PUBG, Night in the Woods, Cuphead, What Remains of Edith Finch, Hollow Knight, Hellblade, and Horizon Zero Dawn. I’ll stop listing games now, if only to save myself from doing so many tags, but you get my point. Recent years have been littered with hits big and small, and the first two years of the new console generation