Bookend Game Awards: Introduction

Hello one and all, this weekend will see the inaugural Bookend Game Awards, inspired by talking to people at work and really just how out of touch most of the games I play are. Of all the games that got awards in this year, I’ve actually played maybe 5, and a lot of those were gifted to rather than actually bought, so yea, I go out of my way to not support the game industry I guess.

I’m probably likely to at least start playing some more recent games after Christmas, but those guys are going to have to settle for being in next year’s award if I’m still alive by then.

So you know what you’re letting yourself in for, here’s the list of the 39 games I remember playing this year, in alphabetical order:

Banjo-Kazooie

Cuphead

Dark Souls

DOOM

Dragon Ball Xenoverse

Dust: An Elysium Tale

Endless Space

Hegemony: Gold

Hollow Knight

Hyper Light Drifter

ICEY

Inside

Killer7

Killing Floor 2

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Lone Survivor

Medieval Total War 2

Metal Gear Rising: Revengence

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Mordheim: City of the Damned

N++

Naploeon Total war

OneShot

Overwatch

Patrician 3

Puppeteer

Red Dead Redemption

Rocket league

Rome Total War

Slime Rancher

Spyro the dragon

Steamworld heist

Sunless Sea

Superhot

Total War: Shogun 2

Transformers Devastation

Uncharted: A Thief's End

Warhammer: Total War

Windward

For the record, I’ve mostly only put games up here I’ve finished, are indefinite in scope or that I’ve played my fill of and have no intention of ever revisiting.

I’m going to give the same categories as the game awards, even though I’m not even sure what some of them are supposed to even mean,  but as I’m sure you can tell from that list, there are some categories that may be a little... eh heh heh... sparse, to say the least.

Up next will be a group of awards that I’m affectionately grouping together into the ‘LUL no’ category. You’ll see what I mean.

Right Bookend Peter signing out.