{"id":12225,"date":"2022-12-27T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/feature-backlog-club-nintendo-lifes-games-of-not-this-year-awards-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:14:06","slug":"feature-backlog-club-nintendo-lifes-games-of-not-this-year-awards-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/feature-backlog-club-nintendo-lifes-games-of-not-this-year-awards-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Backlog Club: Nintendo Life’s Games Of Not-This-Year Awards 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Late to the Party” category.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thing with Game of the Year awards is that it pre-supposes that we are all adults with lots of free time to keep up with the ever-increasing firehose of game releases. You would think that games journalists, of all the types of adult, would be more on top of this than most… and you would be wrong! Like any other person, we get waylaid, sidetracked, postponed, and backlogged, spending hours playing this hot new thing called Skyrim<\/a> instead of checking out Elden Ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re familiar with our semi-regular Backlog Club<\/a> series, you’ll know we’ve spent a good chunk of this year playing non-2022 games. So, in honour of the games that dominated our 2022, but aren’t eligible for this year’s GOTY, we present to you the horribly-titled “Best Non-2022 Switch Game We Played A Whole Bunch” 2022 Game Of Not-This-Year Awards. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Read the full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]Feature: Backlog Club: Nintendo Life’s Games Of Not-This-Year Awards 2022<\/p>\n

The “Late to the Party” category.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thing with Game of the Year awards is that it pre-supposes that we are all adults with lots of free time to keep up with the ever-increasing firehose of game releases. You would think that games journalists, of all the types of adult, would be more on top of this than most… and you would be wrong! Like any other person, we get waylaid, sidetracked, postponed, and backlogged, spending hours playing this hot new thing called Skyrim<\/a> instead of checking out Elden Ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re familiar with our semi-regular Backlog Club<\/a> series, you’ll know we’ve spent a good chunk of this year playing non-2022 games. So, in honour of the games that dominated our 2022, but aren’t eligible for this year’s GOTY, we present to you the horribly-titled “Best Non-2022 Switch Game We Played A Whole Bunch” 2022 Game Of Not-This-Year Awards. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Read the full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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