@nilsdoen: Off the top of my head: Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, RE 4 Remake, Dead Space Remake and Spider-man 2 (maybe not on Gamespot, but pretty much everywhere else).
So I count 7 real contenders for GOTY for 2023 (in the AAA space).
@sakaixx: BG3 is the only one of the 10/10's I've actually played this year (I'm at 150 hours so I guess on the home stretch). Be interesting to see which game they end up going with (I suspect BG3 won't sweep every gaming website regardless).
@ahpuck: I think most of Gamespot's employees are allowed to express their individual personal opinions; I doubt there is a great deal of "editor interference". That most of them are on the same page wrt to preachy stuff doesn't mean they all are (let alone mandated to be so).
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