Top 5 Flops and Favs of 2023 (Video Games)

Top 5 Flops and Favs of 2023 (Video Games). This year has been a while ride, with plenty of highlights and low lights. In today's video I give my personal picks for the top five flops and favs of the year. And what I mean by "flops" are not objective metrics like sales, critical reception, or likes on Twitter. I mean how much a game has personally disappointed me in comparison to my expectations and hopes for the game prior to launch -- the most deadly metric of all! This is why, even though there are a lot of games that I think were meh or yuck this year, like Final Fantasy 16 or Super Mario RPG Remake, if my personal expectations were low to begin with, that would disqualify them from being a "flop" in this list's eyes. Even if they are bad or worse games from the five I have selected. Similarly, when I went through and selected this year's favorites for the list, I went with what games I personally connected to and gravitated towards, rather than this being a more serious focused effort of ranking games based on their overall quality.

In short, this vid is for fun and neat way to round out my thoughts for the year in preparation for 2024, which should shape up to be a massive year for the channel (I am hoping.) I think this list will be a fun time because it will not match up at all with the typical Game Awards, Game of the Year, type of lists that youtubers compile when they select their top picks for the year. No Nintendo selection this year, for some reason I just didn't think Super Mario Wonder was very good, nor did I expect it to be. It is a real shame that we didn't get more shmups or beat em' ups this year though, filling out my fav list was actually a lot trickier than filling out my flops list, because I didn't connect with as many new games this year. Hopefully we'll get more arcade focused stuff in 2024 though.

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00:00 The Criteria
00:50 Flop 5
02:23 Flop 4
03:35 Flop 3
05:00 Flop 2
06:05 Flop 1
08:40 Favorite 5
09:40 Favorite 4
11:00 Favorite 3
12:32 Favorite 2
15:00 Favorite 1

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