The Rllmuk Game of the Year Awards 2022 - Voting thread - voting closed

[Kevvy Metal]

4 hours ago, Stanley said:

Come on people more votes for XC3 

I will be!

[Orion]

@Benny can we skip some of these like Best writing, Best audio etc and our votes still count for Game of the year ?

[Benny]

2 minutes ago, Orion said:

@Benny can we skip some of these like Best writing, Best audio etc and our votes still count for Game of the year ?

 

Yeah fill in however many you like.

[Zico]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Vampire Survivors

3. Return to Monkey Island

4. Horizon Forbidden West

5. Sniper Elite 5

 

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Diablo Immortal

2. Lack of AAA Xbox games

3.

 

 

Best visuals

 

1. Horizon Forbidden West

2. Elden Ring

3. 

 

 

Best audio

 

1. Horizon Forbidden West

2.

3.

 

 

 

Best writing

 

1. 

2. 

3.

 

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Batman: Arkham Asylum

2. Katana Zero

3. Guacamelee!

 

 

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Steam Deck

[SuperCapes]

Updated my list and placed Chained Echoes at number one for game of the year. 

 

Only 15 hours in, but it is just pure bliss. 

 

SNES RPGs hold a small spot in my heart, as I played PS1 RPGs first, and for this game to shine as brightly as it does for me is a testament to just how good of an RPG it is. 

 

If you are even a slight fan of 90s JRPGs, but are happy to see new twists to progression, this is more than likely to hit you in all the right ways. 

[Garwoofoo]

Are expansion packs eligible?

 

I'm thinking here specifically of Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, which was bigger than the actual game it was an expansion for, and was nearly as expensive as a brand new game. In my mind it is a great game that came out this year, but I accept it might not be eligible under the rules.

[Benny]

Sure. Go for it.

[Garwoofoo]

Game of the Year

 

1. Immortality (video game)

2. Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

3. PowerWash Simulator

4. Marvel Snap

5. Vampire Survivors

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök

2. Easy Come Easy Golf

3. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

 

Best visuals

 

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem

2. Pentiment (video game)

3. Tinykin

 

Best audio

 

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem

2. Splatoon 3

3. Prodeus

 

Best writing

 

1. Pentiment (video game)

2. Immortality (video game)

3. Citizen Sleeper

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Fire Emblem: Three Houses

2. AI: The Somnium Files

3. Pistol Whip (video game)

 

Best developer:

 

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Xbox Series X

[Sexton Hardcastle]

Game of the Year

1. Elden Ring

2. Gran Turismo 7

3. Sniper Elite 5

4. 

5.

 

 

Biggest disappointment:

1. God of War Ragnarok

2. Gran Turismo 7 shop system

3. That it took me so long to get around to playing either Cyberpunk or Doom Eternal, which are two of the best games in their respective genres I've ever played. Even in 2022 if both were eligible they would take up a lot of the slots on this submission. Doom in particular is the absolute pinacle of FPS gaming, I cant even begin to fathom how anyone could top that.

 

Best visuals

 
1. Elden Ring

2.

3.

 

Best audio

 
1. Elden Ring

2. Gran Turismo 7

3.

 

Best writing

1.

2.

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

1. Cyberpunk 2077

2. Doom Eternal

3. Super Mario 3D World

 

Best developer:

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

[Parappa]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

 

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. 

2.

3.

 

 

Best visuals

 

1. Elden Ring

2.

3. 

 

 

Best audio

 

1. 

2.

3.

 

 

 

Best writing

 

1. 

2. 

3.

 

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. 

2. 

3. 

 

 

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

PS5

[Ry]

Currently need to get through High on Life, Signalis, Pentiment and Plague tale so they have a shout. 

 

 

 

Game of the Year

 

 

 

1. Elden Ring

 

2. Powerwash Simulator

 

3. Vampire Survivors

 

4. Nobody Saves the World

 

5. God of War: Ragnorok

 

 

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

 

 

1. Need for Speed: Unbound

 

2. Tunic

 

3.

 

 

 

Best visuals

 

 

 

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem 

 

2. Elden Ring

 

3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

 

 

 

Best audio

 

 

 

1. Elden Ring

 

2. A Plague Tale: Requiem 

 

3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

 

 

 

Best writing

 

 

 

1. 

 

2.

 

3.

 

 

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

 

 

1. 

 

2.

 

3.

 

 

 

Best developer: From Software 

 

 

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface: Xbox 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kevvy Metal]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. God of War Ragnarök

3. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

4. Kirby and the Forgotten Land

5. The Last of Us Part I

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Having no time to play games, and to pass time at work I torture myself by reading terrible negative takes on the internet, about games that look absolutely incredible.

2. Xbox Game Studios

3. Tunic

 

Best visuals

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best audio

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best writing

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Cyberpunk 2077

2. Kena: Bridge of Spirits

3. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (PS1)

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

MiSTer FPGA Project

[GaryC]

Game of the Year

 

1. Kirby and the Forgotten Land

2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

3. Splatoon 3

4. Gran Turismo 7

5. God of War Ragnarök

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Xbox - no big exclusives

2. PS5 - reliance on PS4 cross gen means no games screaming to me that they are the future.

3. Launch lineup for PSVR2 doesn't inspire - no Astrobot launch game

 

Best visuals

 

1. God of War Ragnarök

2. Windjammers 2

3. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

 

Best audio

 

1. Splatoon 3

2. Kirby and the Forgotten Land

3. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

 

Best writing

 

1. God of War Ragnarök

2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Ori and the Blind Forest

2. Inside

3. Bowser’s Fury

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Nintendo Switch

[AK Bell]

Game of the Year

 

1. Chained Echoes

2. Boomerang Fu

3. Opus: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition

4. Tunic

5.

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

2. Nintendo Switch Sports

3. 2022 generally

 

Best visuals

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best audio

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best writing

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Chrono Trigger

2. Final Fantasy XIII

3. Tales of Arise

 

Best developer:

 

Matthias Linda

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Ayn Odin Pro

[catinthehat]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. OlliOlli World

3. Neon White

4. Session: Skate Sim

5. Asterigos: Curse of the Stars

 

Biggest disappointment

 

1. God of War Ragnarök

2. Horizon Forbidden West

3. Stray

 

Best visuals

 

1.Gran Turismo 7

2. God of War Ragnarök

3. Elden Ring

 

Best audio

 

1. God of War Ragnarök

2. The Last of Us Part I

3.

 

Best writing

 

1. The Last of Us Part I

2.

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Death Stranding Director's Cut

2. Red Dead Online

3.

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

DualSense Wireless Controller

 

[ChewMagma]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

3. Vampire Survivors

4. Citizen Sleeper

5. Pentiment (video game)

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. PS5

2. Postponement of Advance Wars 1 + 2 remaster

3. Switch Online Expansion Pack

 

Best visuals

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Pentiment (video game)

3. Vampire Survivors

 

Best audio

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Vampire Survivors

3. Pentiment (video game)

 

Best writing

 

1. Pentiment (video game)

2. Citizen Sleeper

3. Elden Ring

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. 428: Shibuya Scramble

2. Resident Evil Village

3. Yakuza: Like a Dragon

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Steam Deck

 

Spoiler

Just to elaborate on the disappointments as this is such a broad category:

 

1. PS5 - after finally getting my hands on one tail end of 2021, I have barely touched it apart from Elden Ring.

 

2. Postponement of Advance Wars 1 + 2 remaster - we will ever see this now? Who knows.

 

3. Switch Online Expansion Pack - the trickle of games on this is inevitable but incredibly frustrating anyway. I'd hoped they would have added GB and GBA by now. I have barely touched it. And you know you will lose access to it all as soon as the Switch 2 comes out.

 

[englishbob]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Gran Turismo 7

3.

4.

5.

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 video game)

2. Elden Ring

3. Gran Turismo 7

 

Best visuals

 

1. Elden Ring

2.

3.

 

Best audio

 

1. Elden Ring

2.

3.

 

Best writing

 

1. Elden Ring

2.

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Wordle

2. Assetto Corsa Competizione

3.

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

PS5

 

 

As you can see my gaming has fallen off a cliff - mostly due to my age, but not much disposable income this year to spunk £70 on a game and then shelve it!

 

Elden Ring dominated 2022 for me - was the only thing on the gaming map I really looked forward to - and it was really great - although I still have the last 2 bosses to do to complete it! (Melania and the final ones, both bastards)

 

It seems therefore odd to include it as a disappointment - this was due to the shoddy performance optimisation, again, this time on the PS5's "performance" mode - embarrassing stuff - the only way to play was the PS4 version on the PS5. For the love of god FromSoft, please seek help in your performance optimisation for fuck sakes, it's not shameful to ask - there are talented individuals out there that can help you I'm sure.

 

Biggest disappoint though is definitely the new COD - the IW crown has slipped - the MP core in this is nowhere near the quality of 2019 - and it's not just the maps - the whole thing is a bit of a shambolic mess with no attention to quality and sloppiness everywhere you look. It's approaching 2 months and patches are slow to appear, for £70 it still feels like it's in a beta phase after 3 years of development.

 

[SuperCapes]

@AK Bell Up the Chained Echoes!!!

[Hewson]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Pentiment (video game)

3. Immortality (video game)

4. Dying Light 2

5. Vampire Survivors

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Xbox first-party releases

2. Continuing focus on cross-gen releases 

3. Quality and quantity of writing in AAA releases

 

Best visuals

 

1. Pentiment (video game)

2. Horizon Forbidden West

3. God of War Ragnarök

 

Best audio

 

1. Pentiment (video game)

2. God of War Ragnarök

3. Horizon Forbidden West

 

Best writing

 

1. Pentiment (video game)

2. Immortality (video game)

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Cyberpunk 2077

2.

3.

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Gamepass

 

Quote

Game of the Year

This had to be Elden Ring in the end, simply because of the time I spent with it, the fabulous sense of exploration and challenge and the way From pulled off the trick of expanding their template into the most ambitious open-world since Breath of the Wild. But the game which most excited, surprised and fascinated me this year was Pentiment and I very nearly put it top of the list. Immortality had a similar impact on me in terms of how much I thought about them when I wasn't playing them. I played Dying Light 2 in a lull when nothing was really scratching my gaming itch and it was the nicest surprise of the year. The story was a distraction that I skipped right past, but the mechanics were rock solid and I somehow didn't really mind the Ubisoft map-marker template because the minute-to-minute gaming was so well executed. Vampire Survivors is a late-night kebab of a game. Not terribly good for you, but absolutely delicious.

 

Gamepass and first-party releases

This year the lack of first-party releases on Gamepass was my biggest disappointment, but weirdly it was also my favourite platform. I've never been a Gamepass evangelist because so often I end up feeling like I'm half-playing six or sevens out of ten. But it just so happened that in Pentiment, Immortality, Tunic and Vampire Survivors it finally did that thing of giving me a bunch of games I might otherwise have missed that really connected with me. 

 

Quality and quantity of writing in AAA releases

Elden Ring's way of telling a story really put in perspective the way most AAA games do it these days. Across the year I got increasingly impatient with endless scenes designed to make me care about characters but which in practice, given my limited gaming time, just did the opposite. I spent too long not playing very good games this year because I was fast-forwarding through their dialogue trees. Towards the end of the year, Pentiment and Immortality highlighted the potential for narrative in games  and the need for a rethink of the AAA model.

 

[ImmaculateClump]

It's just come to my attention that Z-Warp did come out this year! I could have sworn I got it on ps4 last year and it just got a pc release this year.
I'm gonna drop Nekotosakana out of my list and slot Z-Warp in under Gunvein.
I'd be kicking myself if Elden Ring won by one vote and Z-Warp came second.

[LaveDisco]

 

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Cultic

3. Immortality (video game)

4. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

5. Trombone Champ

 

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. Xbox first-party releases

2. PS5 price rises

3. Analogue Pocket and Play date shipping schedules.

 

Best visuals

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Cultic

3. Immortality

 

Best audio

 

1. Trombone Champ

2.

3.

 

Best writing

 

1. Immortality (video game)

2. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1.  Bloodborne

2.

3.

 

Best developer: 

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

SteamDeck

 

(Drainus, Neon White and Tunic as great games that didn't make the top ten).

[Jolly]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Splatoon 3

3. Immortality (video game)

4. Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

5. Neon White

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best visuals

 

1. Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

2. Elden Ring

3. Ghostwire: Tokyo

 

Best audio

 

1. Overwatch 2

2. Splatoon 3

3. Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

 

Best writing

 

1. Immortality (video game)

2. Elden Ring

3. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best developer:

 

From Software

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Nintendo Switch

 

 

[Novelty Bobble]

Game of the Year

 

1. Citizen Sleeper

2. Elden Ring

3. Sifu

4. Splatoon 3

5. PowerWash Simulator

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. No Advance Wars (I’m well aware why and don’t mean to be glib)

2. Two Point Campus

3. Trek to Yomi

 

Best visuals

 

1. Pentiment

2. Elden Ring

3. Warhammer 40K: Darktide

 

Best audio

 

1. Trombone Champ

2. Splatoon 3

3. Elden Ring

 

Best writing

 

1. Citizen Sleeper

2. Pentiment 

3. As Dusk Falls

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

2. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen

3. Bravely Default

 

Best developer:

From Software

 

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Nintendo Switch

[iwubcode]

Game of the Year

 

1. Return to Monkey Island

2. Kirby and the Forgotten Land

3. Pocky & Rocky Reshrined

4.

5.

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. The usual

2.

3.

 

Best visuals

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best audio

 

1. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

2.

3.

 

Best writing

 

1. Return to Monkey Island

2.

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)

2.

3.

 

Best developer:

 

here

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

PC

[fat flatulent git]

Page 2 of this thread is brilliant.

[SharkyOB]

Game of the Year

 

1. Elden Ring

2. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

3. WRC Generations

4. Total War: Warhammer III

5. Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best visuals

 

1. Elden Ring

2.

3.

 

Best audio

 

1. Elden Ring

2.

3.

 

Best writing

 

1.

2.

3.

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Automobilista 2

2. Assetto Corsa

3. Assetto Corsa Competizione

 

Best developer:

 

From Soft

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

PC

[BabelRich]

Game of the Year

 

1. Escape Academy

2. Chained Echoes

3. Vampire Survivors

4. Citizen Sleeper

5. Tinykin

 

Biggest disappointment:

 

1. No Advance Wars

2. Switch Sports

3. Tunic

 

Best visuals

 

1. Horizon: Forbidden West

2. God of War

3. Chained Echoes

 

Best audio

 

1. God of War Ragnarök

2. Citizen Sleeper

3. Saints Row (2022 video game)

 

Best writing

 

1. Citizen Sleeper

2. Return to Monkey Island

3. Saints Row (2022 video game)

 

Best not 2022 game:

 

1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

2. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

3. Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space

 

Best developer:

 

Coin Crew Games

 

Best format/console/controller/brain interface:

 

Xbox 

 

 

 

Honourable Mentions to Kirby and the Forgotten Kingdom, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War: Ragnarök and Mario and Rabbids Sparks of Hope, which were all great AAA(ish) games, but I wanted to give my props to smaller games this year as I enjoyed so many of them.

[Wiper]

Escape Academy was brilliant, good shout there. Just didn't quite make it into my top five, but it was a very pleasant surprise.

[Alan Stock]

I take it we can make edits to our list posts until compiling time?

[Benny]

9 minutes ago, Alan Stock said:

I take it we can make edits to our list posts until compiling time?

 

Indeed.