Hello everyone and welcome to a very belated edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie am once again honored to be your host as we look back and enjoy the last TWO weeks of user-created content on the site. For those of you that may not know, the Spotlight always goes on a short hiatus whenever GOTY rolls around. That said, I think we can agree that, given the circumstances, the staff did a bang up job with the bevy of guest lists on the site and hours worth of GOTY podcasting. I had a good laugh during some of the sillier categories and I know everyone has their favorite guest list this GOTY season and feel free to share it in the comments! Likewise, it is worth mentioning that last week marked Ben's last day as a member of the Giant Bomb staff. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank Ben for all of the memories and the endless amount of content he provided. Whatever you end up doing, I wish you thing but the best. With that in mind, let's jump into the site housekeeping.
- Giant Bomb's 2020 GOTY Portal! If you are worried you may have missed some of the guests or live-streams, then this is the link for you!
- The VOTES ARE IN and the Giant Bomb Community GOTY 2020 HAS BEEN CROWNED! Click the link to find out which game came out on top!
- TRACKSUITS SHOULD BE ARRIVING! If you haven't received a shipping notice for this or your Vinnyvania shirt, please email orders at http://socialimprints.com to inquire!
- Comment on the Ben Pack Appreciation thread if you have not done so already. As I said, Ben provided an endless amount of memorable content on the site and deserves a proper thank you in lieu of his leaving.
GOTY 2020
Author's Note: Given that the site GOTY content has wrapped up this is probably the last time I will have a dedicated section for user-created 2020 GOTY stuff. If you were not able to get around to creating your list, no worries! I'll happily accept GOTY lists and blogs well into the summer! As Big Jeffrey would say "drop 'em."
User-Created GOTY Lists
- Games of 2020 (By: @aggrocraig)
- GOTY 2020 (By: @wess)
- 2020 Game of the Year (By: @ozone)
- GOTY 2020 (By: @amlabella)
- A Very 2020 Top 10 (By: @processr)
- GOTY 2020 (By: @chaser324)
- GOTY 2020: This Time, It's GOTY (By: @undeadpool)
- Best Of 2020 (By: @sweep)
- FNGbomber's Top 8+1 Games of 2020 (By: @fngbomber)
- GOTY 2020 (By: @razakiel)
- The 10 Best Games I Played In 2020 (By: @aires)
- Best of 2020 (By: @rjayb89)
- 2020 Games, Some Of The Best Ones (By: @bigevil1987)
- Game of the Year 2020 (As Played, Not Released) (By: @aodhhinsai)
- Top 11ish Games of 2020 (By: @holland1946)
GOTY Blogs
Data Dump: GOTY 2020 Staff & Guests Breakdown (By: @marino)
Many thanks are in store for Marino for pulling the stats from every single applicable staff and guest list to crunch the numbers and determine Giant Bomb's "true" GOTY with math and science™!
GB Staff Top 10 Lists - DEFINITIVE GOTY LISTS (By: @timeshero)
MORE STATS! GIVE ME ALL OF THE STATS! timeshero crunched the stats on every single GOTY list of the on-site staff since 2008 to see which games "truly" should have been crowned GOTY based on math and math alone!
Clagnaught's Game of the Year, 2020 Edition (By: @clagnaught)
clagnaught exhaustively reviews their favorite games and gaming moments from 2020 with their latest blog on the site! Give it a read and support the massive effort they put into their GOTY blog!
Knight Dehumidifier’s Top 10 Things That Distracted Him From An Otherwise Awful 2020 In Which Nothing Got Accomplished (By: @knightdehumidifier)