The boys are back for a new year, but, as always, before you can move forward… You need to look back upon whence you came! So before digging into 2021 and all of it’s news and games, the boys must hand out some of the most prestigious awards in gaming media! Find out who won what in the SIPTG GOTY spectacular!
- Show Notes:
- Intro: -> 3m11s
- Best Non-2020 Game: 3m11s -10m28s
- Best Auditory Experience: 10m28s -> 50m24s
- Best Game We Didn’t Get Time To Finish: 50m24s -> 59m10s
- Best New Thing: 59m10s -> 1h9m
- Best The Last of Us Part 2 Moment/Mission: 1h9m -> 1m28m42s
- ‘Spring Breakers’: 1h28m42s -> 1h31m18s
- Graham’s Sporting Moment/Podcast Recommendations:
1h31m18s -> 1h41m31s - Steve’s Album of the Year: 1h41m42s -> 1h47m18s
- Best Game Name, presented by Budi: 1h47m18s -> 1h50m29s
- Best Story/Writing: 1h50m29s -> 2h6m34s
- Best Looking Game: 2h6m34s -> 2h19m31s
- Best New Character/NPC: 2h19m31s -> 2h41m7s
- Best Moment/Mission: 2h41m7s -> 3h11m45s
- Steve’s Top Ten: 3h11m45s -> 3h17m38s
- Graham’s Top Ten: 3h17m38s -> 3h22m51s
- Site Top Ten: 3h22m51s -> 3h42m20s
- Outro: 3h42m20s ->
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Nominees and Winners
Top 3 are in bold, game with * is winner.
Best Non 2020 Game
State of Decay 2
Remnant: From The Ashes *
Disco Elysium
XCOM 2
Shadow Warrior 2
Apex
Assassins Creed: Syndicate
Grim Dawn
Astroneer
Best Auditory Experience
Streets of Rage 4
Fall Guys
Neversong
Teenage Blob
The Last Campfire
Umurangi Generations
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Paradise Killer *
Hades
THPS 1&2 Remake
Desperados III
The Last of Us Part II
The Pedestrian
Call of the Sea
Spiritfarer
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Gears Tactics
Best Game we Didin’t Get Time to Finish
Immortals
Desperados 3
Gears Tactics
Ori and the Will of the Wisps *
Hades
Beatuiful Desolation
Relicta
Best New Thing
Roundguard
Journey to the Savage Planet
Treachery in Beatdown City
Colt Canyon
Good Job!
Fall Guys
Roki
Sheepo
Wintermoor Tactics Club
The Last Campfire
Hades *
Spirtfarer
Call of the Sea
The Pedestrian
Gears Tactics
Immortals Fenyx Rising
The Solitaire Conspiracy
Best Last of Us Part 2 Moment
Playing a guitar
Ellie playing Take On Me
Finding PS3s with Uncharted 2 and Jak
Abby’s rescue/betrayal
‘Hey! Watch your language! This is a house of worship’ ‘We got some gas!’ ‘Oh, fuck yeah!’
The museum flashback – “Holy shit! It’s a motherfucking dinosaur!”
Ganking a WLF soldier while they’re playing Hotline Miami on Vita
Ellie learns the truth about what would have happened to her in the first game
Chasing Nora
Abby gets in to the theatre
Finding the truck shrine to the prophet of the Seraphites
Lev asking Abby what’s going on between her and Owen… while they’re crossing a rickety-ass beam bridge 40+ stories up
Finding Lev
Escaping Haven
Abby finds Owen and Mel, and the map
Abby/Ellie fight
Tommy comes to the farm/Ellie goes after Abby
The final Abby/Ellie confrontation
Returning to an empty house
Museum flashback sequence *
Aquarium/theatre sequence
Dina/Ellie/JJ on the farm
Joel and Ellie space capsule scene at the museum
Ellie discovers that Mel is pregnant after killing her
‘Spring Breakers’
Split or Steal
Drawkanoid
Fall Guys
Teenage Blob
Post Void
Deep Rock Galactic
Blaseball *
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Steve’s Album and EP of the Year
Album
The Ghost Inside – Self-titled *
Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread
Protest The Hero – Palimpsest
Babirusa – Humanoid
Deftones – Ohms
Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero
EP of the Year
Sensory Amusia – Bereavement *
Thirty Nights of Violence – You’ll See Me Up There
Protosequence – A Blunt Description of Something Obscene
Omni Express – Florida Man
Carcosa – Absent
Filth – Self-titled
Defamed – Aeon
Best Game Name, presented by Budi
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Myth: Infinite Combate
The Last of Waifus *
Re:Turn – One Way Trip
Remothered: Broken Porcelain
Robotics;Notes DaSH
Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron Is Gold
Who’s Your Daddy?
Best Story/Writing
Treachery in Beatdown City
Last of Us Part 2
Journey to the Savage Planet
Lair of the Clockwork God
Roki
Wintermoor Tactics Club
Evergate
The Last Campfire
Paradise Killer
Call of the Sea
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Hades *
Best Looking Game
Bloodroots
Journey to the Savage Planet
The Pedestrian
Ori and the Will of the Wisps *
Granblue Fantasy Versus
Roundguard
Streets of Rage 4
The Last of Us Part 2
Good Job!
Roki
Neversong
Teenage Blob
Sheepo
The Last Campfire
Call of the Sea
Spiritfarer
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Desperados III
Best New Character
Martin Tweed (Journey to the Savage Planet)
E.K.O (Journey to the Savage Planet)
Tabby (Kunai)
Ku (Ori and the Will of the Wisps)
The Dodos (Animal Crossing)
Fake Orange Cassidys (Streets of Rage 4)
Dina (The Last of Us Part 2)
Abby (The Last of Us Part 2) *
Lev (The Last of Us Part 2)
Tove (Roki)
Baphomet (Wintermoor)
Jarek the Mechanic (Beautiful Desolation)
Jerry (Beautiful Desolation)
Ember (The Last Campfire)
Shinji (Paradise Killer)
Stanley (Spiritfarer)
Atul (Spiritfarer)
Fenyx (Immortals Fenyx Rising)
Sid (Gears Tactics)
Norah (Call of the sea)
Harry (Call of the Sea)
Best Moment/Mission
Trying to roll over on your bed, rolling into the wall, and the look on your villager’s face – Animal Crossing
Getting nailed by a scorpion – Animal Crossing
Swinging a demolition ball on a crane and letting it fly – Good Job!
Drifting on a forklift – Good Job!
Solving a loud music puzzle by turning music down in the options (Lair of the Clockwork God)
The Walking Simulator, and all of its overly-complex bullshit that amazes Dan (Lair of the Clockwork God)
The commentary on reviews (Lair of the Clockwork God)
Getting your reward/learn that work is its own reward in the tutorial (Unfortunate Spacemen)
Launching yourself into space and dying, which you’re not meant to do, after being specifically told not to… (Unfortunate Spacemen)
The monster attacks/Dad dies/Getting away (Roki)
Henrik rises! (Roki)
The conversation between Tove and Henrik before the final ascent (Roki)
The third nightmare (Roki)
Aaaaa aaaaaaaaaac (Wintermoor Tactics Club)
The end/‘Jacob is Banksy’ (Wintermoor)
Finishing a run/beating Hades (Hades)
The credits/10th completed run (Hades) *
The ‘shift’ at the end (The Pedestrian)
The trial (Paradise Killer)
Introduction to Ares – Immortals Fenyx Rising
Incidental Dialog – Immortals Fenyx Rising
Hephaistos Celebrates Fenyx breaking through to locate Vault
Spiritfarer – First trip the Everdoor
Ending of Call of the Sea
Steve’s Top Ten
- Hades
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Black Mesa
- Animal Crossing
- Good Job!
- The Last Campfire
- TLoU2
- Umurangi Generation
- Trackmania
Graham’s Top Ten
- Satisfactory
- Desperados III
- Call of the Sea
- Spiritfarer
- Immortals: Fenyx Rising
- The Last of Us Part II
- The Pedestrian
- The Solitaire Conspiracy
- Mafia: Definitive Edition
- Gears Tactics
Site Top 10
- Hades
- Desperados 3
- Immortals: Fenyx Rising
- The Pedestrian
- Gears Tactics
- THPS 1&2
- Deep Rock Galactic
- The Last of Us Part 2
- Call of the Sea
- Satisfactory