A Patient Gamer's 2024 Award Show

Hey everyone, happy New Year, hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. This time last year I made a video about my own little Patient Gamer Award show, because I hardly ever play games in the year they're released, so I always find it difficult to connect with other Top Ten list and Game of the Year discussions. I also am playing games riiight up to New Year's Eve, so this list comes out a little bit late.

I hope you'll enjoy this a chill retrospective and discussion. I'm also partly doing it as just my own exercise of reflection, so I can have an annual archive of not just what I played, but how I thought and viewed games and gaming.

The full list of nominees are in the description below, and I'll have a Award recap screen at the end of this video but hopefully you watch the video instead!

And as always, I love comments.

You can check out my previous Award Show for 2023 here:    • A Patient Gamer's 2023 Award Show  

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LONG LIST
Remnant: From the Ashes, Heroes of Hammerwatch (already nominated last year), Persona 4 Golden (already nominated last year), AER: Memories of Old, Guacamelee!: Super Turbo Championship Edition, Helldivers 2, Tell Me Why, Full Metal Furies, Vampyr, Night in the Woods, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, The Wolf Among Us, Papers Please, Cobalt Core, Assassin's Creed: Mirage, Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure, GRIS, Tails of Iron, Journey, En Garde!, Valkyria Chronicles, South Park: the Fractured But Whole, Shadow of the Colossus, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

The Nominees:
Best Cooperative Multiplayer
Remnant from the Ashes
Helldivers 2
Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
Best Narrative
Shadow of the Colossus
South Park: the Fractured But Whole
Night in the Woods
Tell Me Why
The Wolf Among Us
Best Indie Game
Cobalt Core
Gris
Full Metal Furies
Papers, Please
Journey
Best Art Direction
Gris
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Assassin's Creed: Mirage
Shadow of the Colossus
Journey
Best Score and Music
Gris
Assassin's Creed: Mirage
Shadow of the Colossus
Cobalt Core
Journey
Best Design
Cobalt Core
Helldivers 2
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Papers, Please
Journey

(Honourable Mentions)
Best Couch Co-op
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Most Surprising in a Good Way
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Most Surprising in a Bad Way
???

Podium: My 2024 Game(s) of the Year
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Chapters:
Introduction 00:00 - 01:11
Best Cooperative Multiplayer 01:12 - 02:45
Best Narrative 02:46 - 06:25
Best Indie 06:26 - 08:20
Best Art Design 08:21 - 11:16
Best Score and Music 11:17 - 14:07
Best Design 14:08 - 17:49
Honourable Mentions 17:50 - 20:25
Games of the Year 20:26 - 22:35

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