Coming up today and tomorrow it’s the Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra crew’s individual picks for game of the year, kicking off today with Luke and Ellen from Outside Xtra. Come on back tomorrow to see which games Jane, Mike and Andy picked, and let us know your personal pick for GOTY in the comments!
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Stray is an 8 hour game that took Ellen 15 hours because she spent 6 hours crying and another hour laughing at the spinny head bug.
Stray would have been in my top five if it had better accessibility options. My 8 year old REALLY wanted to play it, but she couldn't do the action sequences and watching the cat die freaked her out so much. She'd ask me to play them for her, but I found them very annoying at best and when I wasn't around it meant she just couldn't play it. Bad design that limits the audience.
Stray was awesome. Most of my subscribers completely ignored that review… but I don't care, I just had to say something… and the Ellen's sobbing… oh… I feel yah… I don't think is possible NOT to sob in that part.
Elden Ring without a doubt, aside from the second phase of the final fight there was not a single thing I didn't love about the entire game. I was expecting Ragnarok to come close, but i just hated the gameplay so much that it really ruined an otherwise masterpiece of a game.
GoW: Ragnarok is shaping up to being game of the year for me (haven’t completed it yet).
But I will say, Stray exceeded my expectations and truly delivered a wonderful game. That ending hit me too, I couldn’t help but get emotional from it.
Definitely a game that was worth the wait and hype. I can’t blame Ellen for choosing it as her GotY. I feel like it was a game that was truly needed by a lot of us.
Elden Ring was my GOTY. Amazing experience. Loved every hour inside the world.
Stray was an interesting game, but something just left me feeling that the concept hadn't been fully explored. It felt very "samey" after a while.
GoW:Ragnarok was a fantastic story – loved the game. Every parent should play this game. But still was edged out by Elden Ring.
HZD: FW was another great story, but that game dragged a bit near the end for me. I hope that they focus on Sylense in the next DLC
Moving away from the big releases, I really liked Tunic. It's a mix of old school Zelda while slowly uncovering not only the story, but also its mechanics, by finding the (beautifully crafted) manual pages scattered through the world.
It's a childlike sense of wonder and discovery I hadn't felt in a while. Every game nowadays seems to come with a tutorial teaching you absolutely every mechanic, and sometimes if you stay still even for a minute a hint pops up telling you what to do next, or how to solve a puzzle. It's refreshing to see a game that respects its player base.
Yes! I am 2 for 2 in guessing Luke's and Ellen's GOTY. Wonderif I can do that tomorrow too.
This is making me want to re-watch Ellen play Stray again!!!!
I was genuinely curious to hear what Ellen's game of the year would be. How on earth did I forget? Obviously it was never going to be anything else. If anyone ever sets out to kidnap Ellen, they'll probably start by promising an NDA playable build of Stray 2.
Ellen is 💯 on this (also was not surprised at all with her picks, which would also be mine as well).
parkour as a cat? i think you mean purrkour :b
I love Ellen … But Stray is as average as you can get. Game only does one thing right and that's cats … The rest of the game is average at best, mediocre at worst, not that memorable and kind of cheap with the plot. I'm honestly kind of salty that it got the nod in the game awards only because the Internet likes cats instead of Tunic or Live a Live.
Any pick that isn’t Horizon is wrong
GET A SOUND ENGINEER
As someone who's like a really sore loser and isn't the best at gaming, would you all still recommend Elden Ring to me? I love fantasy, will (hopefully) get my PS5 by February…but yeah, not sure about Elden Ring.
Two games I started and didn’t finish, I should really work on my attention span
Watching Ellen play Stray was something special =)
Elden Ring definitely was my GOTY. I knew I was gonna enjoy it but never did I anticipate how much; I immediately got stuck listening to the title music in the menu bc it's so good, and though there were frustrating moments, I'm somewhere maybe half way into NG+3 (Journey 4), and also replaying the same character from the start so that when story DLC drops, it won't be with a NG+3 character. This is so far my most played FS game with more than 400 hours in total, and I wish there was a way to fight bosses again after they've been defeated like in Sekiro bc I'm constantly itching to fight certain bosses again.
Saw Ellen playing for the first time and this is no surprise
360hours in Elden Ring… not far into journey 2 and accidentally killed patches for the 2nd time 😂
Wait Elden Ring was this year?
I coulda sworn it was last year.
Whats up with his lame shirt? What a fem toolbag
We all knew she'd say Stray.
So surprising NO ONE, Luke picked a From Soft game and Ellen picked the cat game.
Wow. Whatever next?
Stray is def. my Game of the year, so engrossing and beautiful. It gave me feelings of Little Nightmares and Inside which are two of my other favorite games.
Nice! Hair! Ellen!
I am mildly disappointed that Ellen said parkour instead of purrkour.
Wait. So no last minute change to Garfield Lasagna Party?!
Elden Ring can't touch that! 😂
No love for River City Girls 2 huh? We're all two good for campy Japanese beat-em-up RPGs with a rich history stretching back to the 80s? Pearls before swine I tell you.
Stray made me like a cat. This alone should be enough to declare Stray game of the year.
Luke and Andy should definitely do a video of his own favorite builds and tips for cool stuff to find now he has finished it
No surprise that Ellen picked cat simulator. And good/bad for Luke to be the 1st and pick Elden ring because duh, but also everyone and their grandma already talked this game to death this year
0:20 We didn't need that "Not actual gameplay" caption for the Stray clip. The fact that Andy's not shouting in rage is proof enough
Elden Ring as the best game of the year is the ultimate proof, that 2022 was an extremely bad year for computer games.
I was baffled by Luke's pick- but suddenly realised they must have shot this video before playing Lasagne party.
As much as I've enjoyed Elden Ring, I'd say my GoTY would have to be either Triangle Strategy or Xenoblade 3, since I've spent most of teh year playing them. I've waiting on TS since Feb 2021 and it totally live up to the hype. It's one of best SRPGs I've ever played, it might even be better than tactic ogre imo. Xenoblade 3 is a really close 2nd though
Trombone champ. Goty, by far.
Stray was basically tied with Ragnarok for my game of the year, and definitely had the best score. The music in Stray is incredible…
Cats pay taxes.
It's the hug and kisses tax
Other not Elden Ring but still honorable mention 2022 games: pentiment, tunic, infernax
Stray was my choice as well. It has everything: cats, robots, open world exploration, an immersive story, realism, sci-fi, varied environments, humor, drama, etc.
Ellen choosing Stray is the least surprising reveal for Game of the Year. 😸😺Heck, she was already saying "Game of the Year" before Jonesy (as she called the cat) got separated from his friends. To be fair, I loved Stray and it was one of my favourites for 2022. And I may get flamed for this, but I honestly thought Elden Ring was a bit overrated. Don't know what it was, but after about twenty hours, I got bored. Weird, given how much I love the Dark Souls series, with DS1 being easily my favourite that I will return to occasionally.
Stray was the game of the year for me… then elden ring on second place ;3 though I am a bias cat lover ;P
i think i speak for everyone in saying that no one gives a damn about some obscure indie game like elven ring