Shacknews Top 10 Games of the Year 2020

#9 Game of the Year 2020 - Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

It would have been easy to trot out Miles Morales and make him into a different shade of Peter Parker. However, Insomniac Games not only had a distinctly Miles Morales story to tell in Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the developer made his story come alive in different ways. The detailed Harlem landscape, Miles' close circle of confidants (including Rio and Ganke), and the injection of a new Venom power set helped ensure that this was no mere Marvel's Spider-Man 1.5. This is Miles' world and players are welcome to meet the new Spider-Man on the block. He's our Spider-Man.

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December 31, 2020 2:00 PM

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- the man with the briefcase
  
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  December 31, 2020 2:03 PM
  
  PGA 2K21 was robbed.
  - OzzieMejia
    
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    December 31, 2020 2:07 PM
    
    Again, not even the best golf game to come out this year.
    - the man with the briefcase
      
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      December 31, 2020 2:10 PM
      
      You need friends to play your dumb game. Checkmate, atheists.
      - AxeMan808
        
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        December 31, 2020 2:54 PM
        
        Golf With Friends has been out! Oh. technically I have played a 2020 game. GOLF WITH YOUR FRIENDS DEFAULT GOTY 2020.
        
        OzzieMejia
        
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        December 31, 2020 3:11 PM
        
        It went 1.0 this year, so it was totally eligible.
        
        fleabug
        
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        December 31, 2020 3:49 PM
        
        Oh. That doesn't change my rankings, but it was one of the highlight games of the quarantine for our group.
- amrbean
  
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  December 31, 2020 2:50 PM
  
  Needs more pages. I don’t think I clicked “next” enough.
  - jamesray
    
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    December 31, 2020 2:58 PM
    
    I kinda like it. It's way too easy to just look at a list and disregard the nuances.
  - the man with the briefcase
    
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    December 31, 2020 3:01 PM
    
    Sorry, it is the one time a year that we use pagination.
  - AxeMan808
    
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    December 31, 2020 3:46 PM
    
    I liked it because you had to scroll down past the article to click next page. So you might as well read the article!
- OzzieMejia
  
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  December 31, 2020 3:43 PM
  
  For the Chatty crowd,
  
  YOUR Top 10 influenced this Top 10 quite a bit. It wound up bumping up Hades, The Last of Us: Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, and Cyberpunk 2077 to higher spots on this list.
  
  Chatty's GOTY vote for Half-Life: Alyx basically cemented it for #1 overall on our list.
  - Milleh
    
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    January 1, 2021 4:08 AM
    
    That's pretty awesome, thank you
  - one random winner
    
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    January 4, 2021 6:29 AM
    
    I hadn't been following SoR4 so I didn't realize it was actually as good as it was and thought that maybe we had trashed the list but I feel like, as far as Shacknews goes at least, this is a startlingly accurate list for this year.
- ThomW
  
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  December 31, 2020 3:55 PM
  
  I really gotta play Alyx. lol
  - the man with the briefcase
    
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    December 31, 2020 8:16 PM
    
    Yes you should. Free man...
- [deleted] 92559685
  
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  December 31, 2020 9:53 PM
  
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- megarust32
  
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  December 31, 2020 9:58 PM
  
  Great list
- Milleh
  
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  January 1, 2021 4:08 AM
  
  So good.
  
  What I would give for a sequel or expansion without having to wait 10 years.