Update: Well the votes are all tallied and through our highly accurate and scientific process we can now safely declare our winner. Congratulations to our 2014 GOTY, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor!
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2014 has come and gone and now it’s our duty as a people to name the best game from the past 365 days. We do GOTY a little differently here at Enemy Slime. Because we all rarely end up playing the same games, we leave it up to the community to ultimately vote and elect the best game of last year.
Step 1: All of our editors pick their top games of last year. You can view the lists below:
Doug may be trapped in the podcast plane, but that didn’t stop him from contributing two games as well:
Step 2: After we have everyone’s favorite games, we load them into a seeded bracket and begin our community vote to determine the winner. The bracket will be created on January 11th, if you want to come predict who the winners will be check back then, you might even get a prize if you get the most accurate bracket.
Step 3: Voting commences on January 12th
Step 4: There is no step 4, at this point we have our GOTY!
Q. Everyone else did their GOTY two weeks ago, what’s your deal?
A. How can you be sure about the best game of the year when the year isn’t even over yet?
Q. Why not just choose game of the year yourselves?
A. Forgetting the fact that none of us can agree on anything, there are a lot of games that we really love that other editors will likely never have had a chance to play. Last year we chose The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds as our GOTY even though less than 50% of our staff had actually played the game. It never would have won otherwise, and it totally wound up deserving it.
Q. But doesn’t putting it to an open and unregulated vote basically mean that the award has no meaning or value?
A. It’s a GOTY award, it never had any meaning or value.
Q. Where is Kentucky Route Zero? Why has no one picked Kentucky Route Zero?!
A. Games that are not yet completed are not eligible to win game of the year. This includes multi-part games that have not reached their end (e.g. Broken Age or Game of Thrones) and games that are still in early access (e.g. Project Zomboid or Kerbal Space Program).
Q. Can I suggest a game you missed?
A. No, but you can write to us at contact@enemyslime.com to tell us what idiots we are for missing it.
