it's a hard word to say but i know homogeneity it's telling me to say homogeneity oh get out of here all right well anyway chris take it away um yeah no i think i don't know like i i think there are games are popular for a reason right like as much as i scoff at call of duty like it's it's very clearly doing something right for a lot of people and you know who's to say you know who's to say that call of duty doesn't deserve to be a game of the year you know like really like what does that mean like i don't think it should be but like i mean clearly like these games resonate with people year after year after year after like over a decade of consistent output that's gotta mean something it's it's it might not have as much artistic merit as like maybe like a shadow of the colossus or like a bioshock but i don't know i think the scale at which we determine the quality of the game is just so broad that it's the game of the year discussion is best observed through the lens of the same way that you would look at reviews like okay so this person thinks psychonauts NUMBER_TOKEN is incredible this person thinks it takes two is underwhelming that's their opinion you know and i think it's just like what is ign's game of the year that's their opinion and i don't think anybody should take any of these things as gospel or as if like a game getting game of the year should be treated as as uh as an insult to your tastes you know um i know it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the question because the question is like kind of hard to answer it's like um is it bad to be the outlier or is it bad to have opinions that align with the majority no it's a very this is this is a very neutral thing in my opinion and i don't i don't understand the hostility yeah that's kind of that that kind of surrounding i agree i get excited when i when i learn about why people like games that i've never heard of before and or that i didn't give that i gave short trip to i agree with you about call of duty too i i really i mean i could be wrong but i feel like the last time call of duty was in the game of the year discussion was modern warfare so that's NUMBER_TOKEN years ago almost yeah and that might not be fair you know like on the other side because clearly those games are great people love them but it's all about this incestuousness that we were talking about last week too on the show and and uh sometimes it benefits games like i think transistor is one of those games or whatever it's a great game but like people like super super giant right like they like them so they're always gonna get a little bit of benefit of that you always tell like double fine they're pretty cool in the industry you always get little things like that anyway thanks for writing him high senpai wrote in and said hey sacred butts rather than celebrating a particular game as a whole what particularly gameplay mechanic or aspect of the game really stood out to you from this year's releases was there anything that stood out and
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