A ton of those "GOTY" games are boring and never live up to the hype unless you are a patient gamer and really give it a chance. In a world where people's attention spans are shorter than ever and overall less time to game with family/work commitments, if a game doesn't pull you in right away there's a good chance it gets passed over. I'm a pretty patient gamer and lucky enough to have time and a wife that like to sit and play stuff together with me, but I can understand people nope-ing out of many "high end" games when it's a slow burn.
Biggest one for me ever was Metal Gear Solid 5. Universally praised, but took me 5 re-tries over the course of 9 years to finally beat the prologue and get into it. Clair 33 is another. GOTY in many circles but it never fully clicked for me and even when it did, meh. Cyberpunk and DLC is a fun game, but there are other open worlds that are much better. It's not even top 10 for me. Playing Alan Wake 2 right now which is another top rated game, but it's so...boring in many spots.
I want to get Baldur's Gate 3 at some point, but with it winning GOTY when it came out, I'm almost expecting to be disappointed by it.
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Originally Posted by bdubbs
I liked BG3 but I never finished. Stopped around the start of Act 3. DOS2 was very good from the little I played leading up to BG3 but I also never finished...
I think I might have commitment issues.
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Gamepass is both a blessing and curse in that regard. So much to choose from, but very easy to just pass on a game if it does not draw me in within the first 10 mins. I learned to only have 3-4 games on the go at once and rotate in a new game when I finish one. That keeps my attention on that set. Usually have an FPS, open world, a rogue-lite and some Indie game on rotation. I'll add in a new game of the same genre when I beat one.