Top Ten Sh*ttiest Games Of 2023 (The Jimquisition)

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

As the last Jimquisition of the year, I just wanna say: Bobby Kotick is incompetent.

[@Sonichero151]

And yet his last cash grab product under his leadership is still better than starfield according to Steph

[@abigaillilac1370]

I really think Bobby Kotich is about to be one of the 150 Epstein associates being named in January. We already know he was on the plane.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@Sonichero151 There’s a certain disappointment we feel towards Todd that Bobby simply doesn’t have. After all, why would you be disappointed at a ghoul for eating a corpse? It’s his nature.

[@thepancakemann]

Because of Morrowind, we all know Todd can do better. Because of heinous crimes we know Kotick cannot.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@thepancakemann Bingo

[@DrZaius3141]

"More soft locks than Rapunzel" might just be the stupidest/best mum joke of 2023.

[@SpiderGansta]

I don’t get it. Wanna fill me in?

[@3Rayfire]

It was impressive.

[@3Rayfire]

@@SpiderGansta Locks. A Soft lock I believe is when a character gets stuck. But you can get out of it, by say jumping over and over to dislodge yourself. A hard lock is when you have to reset. This was punned with the word locks, as in Goldilocks, meaning hair (not to be confused with the Scottish Loch, which means lake). Thus there are more soft locks (moments of being stuck) than Rapunzel (who has soft hair that can make a ten story climbable rope).

[@SpiderGansta]

@@3Rayfire now that’s it’s been thoroughly explained, i feel stupid for not making that connection sooner.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

For a minute I wondered if Rapunzel was known for freeing herself by melting down door locks...

[@JimSterling]

Subtitles will be up a bit later due to Christmas and my being ill about it. Sorry for the delay!

[@RichardWatt]

I hope you feel better soon, Steph.

[@globoboboglob3270]

Take care

[@TheDeceptiveHero]

Get well soon, Steph, and merry Christmas.

[@Nibelhiem86]

Maybe pin this comment?

[@kurosu9355]

Great vid. Thanks for working while sick and on holiday, but I gotta ask why The Day Before wasn't on here

[@danielhergert7446]

Thank you Steph, Phoenix, Laura, Z, Conrad, Drill Queen, Skeletor, Cornflake homunculus, and the rest of the staff both real and imagined, you made the year better through the show.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@bleh329 also Ch-SHUT UP CHIP!!!

[@johnwrath3612]

I thought Conrad left? Wasn’t there a bunch of drama about it?

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@johnwrath3612 Since when? He’s been referenced plenty of times recently

[@QoS230]

​@johnwrath3612 why would Conrad leave? He's been on the podcast this week.

[@tegandetermann3299]

​@bleh329Always forget Craig.

[@cornflakeshumunculus8373]

Thank you skeletor for your yearly service of delivering to us all the foul stench of these video games

[@walalon8719]

Ñaaaaahhhhhh! Skeletor it's the best 😂

[@Praisethesunson]

​@@walalon8719Best game awards show host in history hands down

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

I can't stand it and that's why I sit down for these videos.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

I'm actually starting to feel bad for Skeletor that he has to go through this every year...

[@Rexdrinksredbull]

Hearing "Country Roads" over a montage of Bethesda glitches.....well, it felt like coming home.

[@middaymeds]

I think it was a reference to a different video essayist who did a country roads glitch montage when Fallout 76 released. Can't remember who.

[@Prohyperspace]

@@middaymeds Internet Historian

[@paulgibbon5991]

To the place we beloooooong.

[@valiroime]

Crappiest version of Country Roads ever.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@valiroime Sorry it took me months to respond, I was busy looking for who fucking asked.

[@maxgrieve]

You know it's been a banner year when there's no Gilson here and he's not really missed.

[@canedust]

For real - I figured the first entry, "Immortals of Avian" or whatever, was going to be Ol' Gilson by the title. But no Notorius GBP this year

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

Eh, I kinda miss him, his schlock was actually rather amusing, but I get it, his games would just waste space for more interesting specimens so, meh.

[@YouDonkeyfu]

I am just shocked that Gilson isnt one of the default on the list, not sure if this means that there were people who managed to out gilson the Gilson or like you said, there are more deserving entries out there.

[@TheStargov]

He stopped covering GBP because he copyright struck Stephs channel.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

I miss gilson like I miss steam greenlight (Ngl though I miss best of steam greenlight trailers)

[@GameHammerCG]

You know a game is bad when a Grindr banner appears in game footage and I can’t tell if it’s part of the game or not.

[@owenabbiss3443]

was just going to say exactly this lol

[@stefanradebach2889]

Gollum is so fascinating in how even after it's infamous reception that caused the developers, Daedalic Entertainment, to shut down their development division as a result the game is STILL being sold on store shelf's from my country Sweden. How has NO ONE bothered to remove this utter garbage of a game from the stores? The fact that Skull Island: Rise of Kong and The Walking Dead game hasn't shutdown Gamemill Entertainment from publishing games is utterly baffling to say the least. Surprised that The Day Before isn't here given how such a scam the game was that it shut down the developers very shortly after release. Silent Hill Ascension is a demonstration that the concept of "sinking to new lows" has ABSOLUTELY no limit and Konami will always find ways to somehow baffle gamers with these atrocious decisions.

[@klisterklister2367]

VILKA AFFÄRER HAR GOLLUM PÅ SINA HYLLOR?!

[@fuzzydude64]

Remember Big Rigs? Some publishers/devs out there run their ship so efficiently on a shoestring budget that almost any bump in media or public attention instantly makes the product profitable, even if the margins are much lower than what the larger publishers will settle for. These kind of companies have been around forever, the Wii and PS2 eras were a heyday for all this crap. It's not even surprising anymore, as sad as that is.

[@jamesrule1338]

Day Before would have had to last long enough to give Steph a chance to play it to get a review. And it didn't.

[@jadedheartsz]

Jim mentioned they were trying to buy Day Before but it got pulled before they could, otherwise it would've been a shoe-in for #1 and i'm convinced Starfield wouldn't have made the list had Jim had a chance to play it.

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

OOOOOOOOOH HIT THE LEVER!

[@DMGamer_PC]

...You guys remember when Ride to Hell: Retribution was the laziest, most horribly made, and downright embarrassing game that was made? Can we go back to those days?

[@jingbot1071]

The game awards we all ACTUALLY care about. Really stiff competition this year. Stiff like the rod that the game executives keep trying to cram in just a bit deeper...

[@tenjenk]

Meanwhile Nintendo is talking about getting GOTY for zelda from... err Edge, IGN, Game Informer, Giant Bomb and VGC. Publishers out of which IGN is the most credible, which is not saying much. Honestly its such a shallow grab you could experience 2nd hand shame for them.

[@opr6516]

For their second take if zela, but in an Ubisoft game, this time with its ground breaking, game changing maricle mechanic of gluing things together like it's dead rising? It's Zelda: Nutts and bolts if you will.

[@thrillhouse4151]

Lol Zelda Nutts and Bolts.

[@GudetamaSit]

6:35 You know, as much of a soulless, money hungry parasite Game Mill is, that is an interesting little detail. Tying your skill tree to party members, as if you're learning from your companions... A pat on the back to whatever poor sod thought of that, somehow remaining creative under Game Mill's punishing schedule. I'd like to see a game with heart have a go at this idea.

[@jamesmiller206]

Fun fact, gamemill published big rigs over the road racing so thier standards are basically as low as you can get without being an a tutorial example game asset flip.

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

WoW already did something like that with the Soulbind system in Shadowlands. Not really learning from your soulbinds as much as gaining power from their side of bind though.

[@MilesOnTheCorner]

18:06 This “He looks like” joke though… 😂

[@genghisbunny]

Hope Stephanie recovers quickly, they're a treasure.

[@notmethnx]

Did somebody say Jews?!?

[@MungkaeX]

The way she cranks an episode out come hell or high-water each and every Monday is a testament to their dedication. And perhaps an indicator of an unhealthy work life balance.

[@Praisethesunson]

She made the mistake of eating the petrol station meat pasty. Proper way to cap of this year really.

[@jak3w]

​@@Praisethesunson This is one of the most British statements I've ever read.

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

​@@notmethnxwhat the f

[@timmycantread138]

The absence of this year's GilsonLike is a bummer. Not that 2023 needed any more shitty games, but Steph talking about the latest GilsonLike is always a treat in my book.

[@artbargra]

2023 was a disappointing year in many aspects. I'm guessing this is one of them. Not giving us a new GilsonLike product to laugh at, such a Gilson move.

[@Palmskis]

watching JSS annihilate the year's most loathsome titles is as much a holiday tradition as nailing socks above the fireplace at this point

[@pseudonayme7717]

Agree. It's always over too soon

[@thomasjess5029]

This and watching people play Thirstiest Time of the Year is my personal Christmas tradition. Funniest bad game ever 😅

[@AWearyExile]

My main criticism of magic in fantasy games for forever has been that it is usually just various ways to shoot guys, not actually cool stuff that changes how you play the game like mind control, teleportation, etc. When I learned that Aveum literally just had magic that was guns I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

[@zackeryh250]

I actually don't even need it to be mechanically as complicated as mind control. Give spells that are aura effects. Give spells that freeze or knock people into the air. Give spells that do what guns can't like AOE effects. Give spells that impale or disable. I feel like most spell slinging games are just working off the shotgun, pistol, sniper, machine gun, melee mix that games have been working off for decades.

[@autobotstarscream765]

​@@zackeryh250AoE OP and I love it, throw in telekinesis and magical leap/levitation and it's time for magical wizard The Force Unleashed.

[@sinteleon]

​@@zackeryh250 But weapons with aoe effects already exist: flamethrowers, grenades, rockets, shotguns, etc. Borderlands basically turned their grenades into spells in tiny tina's DLC and it basically works due to how grenades already do whacky stuff anyway.

[@zackeryh250]

@@sinteleon I meant more like aoe from you as the mid point. Like damage that fans out from you

[@sinteleon]

@@zackeryh250 then call it pbaoe (or point blank aoe) instead. :x though I note that Borderlands also does have shields which has pb aoe effects too. Unexplained science is great. :p

[@evolutionground8946]

Gollum is especially painful because, for me, it's the final nail in the coffin of a long fall from grace for a fomerly beloved studio. Back when Daedalic made puzzle games and point and click adventures, they were GREAT. We'd meet up after school to buy the newest games and go over to a friend's to play them together. But they've been bought and sold so many times and went through so many dev and management changes they're unrecognizable.

[@hiddenshadow2105]

Whispering World was the first game of their I've played and I still remember it.

[@rolfs2165]

Gollum is the game that ended Daedalic (as a developer). They announced in July that they'll only be a publisher moving forward.

[@ciaralee2529]

RIP any chance they would ever conclude their Book of Unwritten Tales trilogy

[@aerialdive]

ship of theseus

[@carlpotter1926]

Turns out they were more Icaric.... More clever than funny but i stand by it

[@OstianOwl]

Skeletor just quickly saying "Gollum" after the montage of it being shit got a good laugh out of me. Thank god for Commander Sterling!

[@Vohaul86]

Angry Joe's clip about how he became a world-famous criminal by stealing someone's drink is probably the best thing that came from Starfield.

[@BadgerOff32]

I'M DRINK SIPPIN' JOE! I'll sip yo drink. I'll sip it reaaal good now!

[@mjc0961]

Angry Joe plays video games again? I stopped watching him when he completely fell off and only covered movies and Game of Thrones episodes.

[@mrcheesemunch]

Yeah the crime system in that game is absolute trash, it's like every single item in the game has some magical tracker. There's barely even any consequences to just shooting someone but so help you God if you accidentally pick something up, even if nobody sees you do it the universe knows man, it knows!

[@godminnette2]

Anderson became a criminal by taking food in a cafeteria.

[@BadgerOff32]

@@mrcheesemunch While I do agree that the crime system is screwed, the joke from the Angry Joe video revolves around one particular quest line that makes the crime system seem even more laughable! One quest actually requires that you get arrested so that a secret police force can coerce you into working undercover for them, but that means you actually need to commit a crime first. ANY crime. No matter how small. Which means that, at some point in the game, any minor transgression you commit, even something as pathetic as accidentally picking up a drink in a bar that doesn't belong to you, will _instantly_ make you the MOST WANTED CRIMINAL IN THE UNIVERSE, and every time you warp somewhere or try to visit a city, you will be mercilessly hunted down until they can arrest you! It's actually pretty bloody dumb.

[@timothyschlatter757]

Did we just get a shittiest game of the year list without Gilson B. Pontes in it? Holy crap either he didn't make one this year or he is getting better at making games.

[@msf2399]

My money’s on the first option.

[@GrahamChapman]

OR the competition was so stiff this year that he didn't make the nominations? I mean, his games are BAD... but they are also bad in a very uninspired and boring way... These nominations, however? They are _grotesque!_

[@emilyliedtke7059]

@@GrahamChapman This. He made a game, Jimbaori: The Onin War, so it's definitely not the first option, and from 10 seconds of research, I can tell it's exactly the same shit as his other "games". Truly a condemnation of the game industry that he didn't make the list, and NOT a compliment to him

[@charlieseen]

I mean, Gilson may be a disaster, but even his worst game is better than The Last Day and The Day Before 😅 Man was fighting an uphill battle on a 90 degree slope of bat guano

[@fatrobin72]

The one highlight of Kong is... it hopefully has inspired a bunch of people to make games with the reason of "I can do better than that..."

[@jamesrule1338]

This year of gaming does have me looking at the various game makers I've bought over the years...

[@TheRogueWolf]

Yeah, I think that game could inspire goldfish, head lice and certain species of cave mold to try to do better.

[@Kilo6Charlie]

Honestly after seeing stuff like this and Design Delve on Asset Flipping, part of me wonders just how hard WOULD it be to create a passable game using only free store assets and a small amount of work. And I don't mean Minimum Viable Product, but an actual fleshed out game that's halfway decent

[@skyllalafey]

If I saw the character model and didn't know it was supposed to be Gollum, I'd think it was a model of Mowgli who desperately needs to be in rehab. Also, I love the more regal into music on the 'best of' vid and the kazoo version for the 'worst of' vid; it's a great mood setter!

[@CeHee123]

It feels like for every great game that came out this year there was just as many fighting for the worst game of the year.

[@opr6516]

It's almost like the industry as a whole took a look at itself and went "do you remember the plot of the producers? Well we're gonna do that, exactly that, and none of the other studios will expect it as they'll all be busy polishing their AAAs, well be getting drinks on the beach knowing a mill will be making bare minimum to make market for us and all the review copies from all the KZbin reviewers trying to make names for themselves as well as warn the game audience at large will alone be enough to cover my tab at the pub" not knowing that was the exact same thought the rest of the studios was thinking as well

[@jamesrule1338]

One of the reasons why I describe this year as a diamond studded turd.

[@tehbeernerd]

The alpha and omega of video game years

[@ReinBelmont]

7:00 I was laughing my ass off at that fight. The voice acting goes from very sorrowful lines of "I don't want to kill you, you are like my brother" to very playful "oooh, don't mind if I do" when you pick up items.

[@HouseSol.CassandrasComplex]

This was my Christmas gift this year. Get well soon, Steph! Thank God for Steph Sterling and Z. Mann Zilla! And thank you...

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

What sealed the fate of Starfield for one KZbinr was when they went to the surface of mercury and started walking around outside the ship on a planet with no atmosphere; only to have their companion walk over to them without a spacesuit and complain about the cold. ON THE SURFACE OF MERCURY!

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

It's honestly baffling to me that not only did people undeservedly believe Bethesda's promise that Stanfield would be bug-free at launch before it launched, they believed it shortly _after_ it launched.

[@Sonichero151]

I didn't beliece it..... but i also didn't care because a modding community exists to pick up the slack that Bethesda fails to

[@KingKrouch]

You know the situation is bad when modders from Skyrim Together don't want to ever touch Starfield because it's just complete dogshit, and even if it was fixed, the mediocre writing from the egotistical writer would shine right through.

[@samueljohnson8911]

Starfield isn’t that buggy

[@iglidor]

@@samueljohnson8911 It is about as bad as Cyberpunk 2077 launch state. By that I mean that there was a lot of clipping issues, physics bugs and animation screw-ups along with bunch of miscelanious bugs. But if you had really strong computer, you could get lucky and evade many of those bugs. Difference is that we expected Witcher 3 quality from Cyberpunk while expectations from Bugthesda were more along the lines of "Will the product set my computer on fire or will it just crash randomly every ten minutes"

[@richardfan7157]

@@KingKrouch You mean one modder who let his personal feelings get in the way?

[@Secret_Takodachi]

"More soft locks than Rapunzel" 😂❤ Thanks for this gift Steph, you absolutely killed it with your comparisons & metaphors!

[@V0idedOut-E33]

Silent hill deserves to be on the list because it tries to be a video game and squirts out the definition of minimum viable product in every conceivable sense of the word. It should have been another film, not a game. That's why it's.on the list, thank God for you Commander Sterling.

[@Morbos1000]

I was somewhat shocked to see Gollum on the list. Not because I thought it was any good, but because I thought it came out (and the ensuing drama) was like 2 years ago until this reminded me it was from earlier this year!

[@empanada223]

I feel like this information age and all its overload really warped peoples' sense of time. So many events get broadcasted within a shorter time period that it gives the impression of it being longer than it actually is.

[@HylianFox3]

@@empanada223 Honestly, the last decade has been so samey everything sort of smooshes together in your mind. Movies, TV, video games... the countless remakes and reboots sure don't help either.

[@sanekibeko]

As an Arkane fan it really hurt to see RedFall come out to be a disaster. I hope Arkane Austin can recover from this. Prey is one of my favorite games of all time.

[@MechAleXtreme]

I'm honestly surprised that Hogwart's Legacy wasn't on your list. Also, I'm surprised you didn't have a dishonorable mention of the games industry as a whole for laying off record-breaking numbers of workers

[@alaeriia01]

But they did cover Starfield. Oh, you mean Wizard Game? Yeah, I'm surprised that wasn't on the list when Starfield was on. They're both mid as fuck.

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

Tbf any time spent thinking about fucking Hobart's Leg-warmers is too much

[@jamesrule1338]

It's not interesting enough to be bad.

[@tcpratt1660]

​@alaeriia01 if I recall, the classifascist homophobic wizarding HogTERF got Herr Shoutout in a sickening looking JPEG that makes "solemn JPEG's" look honest and believable...

[@alaeriia01]

@@jamesrule1338 I could say the same about Starfield.

[@StattStatt]

I'm sorry Steph, but you can't just drop "He looks like if a baby was a middle-aged sex offender" and expect me to *not* die from laughter. Thank god for you.

[@isaiahbradfordiii4041]

That was an amazing line. Glad I wasn't the only one that really appreciated it.

[@flexivefowl8186]

Starfield is a great example of “one of those games of all time”.

[@jingbot1071]

I've played it and I honestly have to say that it has textures.

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

More like the Skyrimification of Bedheshda (releasing the same game over and over again just with a new paintjob)

[@notmethnx]

It's....pretty....much everyday brah

[@notmethnx]

​@@jingbot1071I saw the walls🎉

[@jingbot1071]

@@notmethnx They were in the game, definitely. Magnificent.

[@gregzebra7324]

The Grindr pop up while you’re ranting about Silent Hill: Ascension (rightfully so) was just the icing on the cake honestly

[@ItsTheFizz]

You could honestly make a case for LinkedIn being the Shittiest Game of 2023, given the number of unwarranted layoffs this year...

[@Praisethesunson]

That site already won worst social media company.

[@darkangelgeneral]

No, there was far too much added in for only 1 year. It also doesn't have a battlepass or "roadmap"

[@dkevans]

​@@Praisethesunsonthat must be Twitter, surely? 🤔

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

Can't believe Gollum didn't win horror game of the year, that was some scary sh*t

[@wolfexer8250]

Whenever something really shitty happens in the video game industry i think to myself "Wonder what Jim would say 'bout this, thank god for them" and suddenly i can look at this as funny instead of depressing. You bring me sanctuary in this sort of way and i just want to say thank you. It's been a wild ride all these years. Happy holidays, im drinking a toast to another good year of Jimquisition. And again, you seriously look so much healthier and happier after the transition.

[@e.l.952]

The part of starfield where all the voiceovers are happening simultaneously is just brutal. As a longtime player of eso, it’s a pain I know well

[@TheDeceptiveHero]

A Top Ten $hitti€$t games without the newest Gilson B. Pontes $punk, is that even legal? 1:15 Immortals of Aveum 3:23 Skull Island: Rise of Kong 6:02 The Walking Dead Destinies 8:25 Redfall 10:04 Starfield 14:24 The Last Day: Dead Zone Survival 15:37 Guns of Sherwood 15:42 The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 18:41 Stray Souls 20:26 $ilent Hill A$¢€n$ion

[@joelproko]

There was simply too much competition this year

[@pf100andahalf]

This comment should be pinned because I said so.

[@alaeriia01]

I'm more shocked The Day Before and Wizard Game didn't make the list.

[@TigerKirby215]

Congrats to The Day After for squirting itself out at the end of the year and dying so fast it couldn't even make this list.

[@anon9469]

Also, slow clap to everyone who paid $200 for a second-hand TDA key only to find out that no, servers do not stay up after the developer shuts down.

[@jkillyleagh953]

The fact that The Day Before didn't even make the cut is fucking hilarious

[@antney7745]

Why would the Silent Hill devs create two different fully-animated and voiced cutscenes for each "vote" if one of them is never going to be seen, because it lost this "vote"? This is why I think the "not a vote" thing is literally true and they have already decided which results "win" because it's the cutscene that the devs have already put time, money, and effort into making.

[@anon9469]

And then the 'pay to win' aspect is not just a money-sucker, but also allows them to avoid accusations of vote-rigging. "So 80% of people voted one way, but it went the other?" "...I guess Jeff Bezos was really invested in this Silent Hill mobile game."

[@MeTheMeZ]

Merry Christmas! I do hope you feel better soon! I've watched a few episodes of Silent Hill: Ascension through a streamer and I'm honestly convinced it was written by AI. They claim it's not, but characters talk past each other, break conversational flow, and just act weird so much it feels like a robot had to have a hand in building something this bad.

[@alaeriia01]

This is Konami. They absolutely would make it AI.

[@derlich09]

@@alaeriia01 Konami - We're a gaming company?

[@jamesrule1338]

"Can Your Writers Pass the Turing Test" Challenge 2023.

[@SeanKDLA]

"more soft locks than Rapunzel" Looks like Burns has competition for "buggier than Mothercare"

[@levankiknadze5354]

All the hardships, the pain, and the heartbreak were worth this video! This makes it all worth it. This video is the only thing that matters!

[@therealMrA]

I have so much respect for you for including Starfield on this list. As much as I love Elder Scrolls, Bethesda deserves every ounce of criticism it could ever get for being so out of touch. I expect the worst Elder Scrolls game ever made whenever VI comes out.

[@brianlawson3757]

Hope you feel better soon, Stephanie. Thank you for delivering one of the closing year's most anticipated videos. I always look forward to beloved Skeletor calling out the worst games of the year. Your writing and delivery never ceases to bring me some mirth and laughter in these dark times. 💜 Thank you again, and happy holidays!

[@JDalton321]

I can only assume The Day Before isn't on the lists because Steph had no time to play it before it was shut down.

[@damaramu.]

@bleh329 Yeah, it lasted less than a week.

[@JDalton321]

Oh it's shutting down a month after release. The dev posted a nice gif about it on their Twitter. As is the fashion these days.

[@Mr_T_Badger]

@@JDalton321wait, that was the major scam game, right?

[@ODDin17]

Is "Guns of Sherwood" meant to be "Gangs of Sherwood"? Kind of a shame you didn't talk about it at all, it was the only game on the list I've never heard of and was curious to know why it was shitty.

[@danielramsey6141]

Yeah it is Gangs of Sherwood. I’m going to be looking up a review right now.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

I don't' know how Skeletor frees up every Christmas for this, but I'm sure glad he does.

[@autobotstarscream765]

He has the power of Christmas Spirit!

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

​@@autobotstarscream765I love that movie

[@SaphireDragon89]

The kazoo opening made my day, may your recovery from being ill be swift! Thank God for you, for you are James Stephanie Sterling!

[@Praisethesunson]

Kazoo opening second best intro mix in Jimquistion history. Number one is still the saxophone intro.

[@SwagBroPlays]

Todd: Who's laughing now? We are Todd...at you and you're pathetic company.

[@davidcantrell2568]

Steph rocking up on Christmas Day with a wonderful video even when she’s sick. You’re too good to us. Love you Steph.

[@DukeNukem2417]

I've had a crap Christmas, but watching even just the opening of this video with the hummed/kazoo version of the theme put a smile on my face. Sorry to hear that you're under the weather; I sincerely hope you start feeling better soon.

[@4dragons632]

I am also sick on christmas. Freaking covid. But merry christmas and happy holidays nontheless. You're amazing, dont give up and stuff.

[@RichardWatt]

I hope you get better soon. It sucks being sick on Christmas.

[@timothy8428]

I had COVID last Christmas, so can confirm, it's shitty

[@dianamerchant1026]

I have not COVID not flu but feels like a combo of two. The doctor said to treat it like it is COVID…

[@thomasmittelwerk410]

No Gilson-likes this year. Either the industry made some progress this year or whatever money laundering scheme Gilson was involved in was busted.

[@TheCommanderCain]

"God there's going to be another one" I don't think I have ever agreed so much with a statement as i have with this one... Happy New Year Steph...

[@GraeHall]

The "Take it away Skeletor" intro reminded me how long I've been watching Stephanie's content, and how that voice is a staple for end of year worst of wrap ups. I'm so glad I found this channel all those years ago

[@Henez89]

A moment of silence for those poor souls who woke to find any of these lumps of coal under the tree this morning.

[@felman87]

I think the best defense of Silent Hill is that it's not a game. I know we've heard this claim about games before. Particularly Walking Simulators. But at least those games have player input. What does the Silent Hill Ascension or whatever it's called have? It's a community poll so you don't even get to decide, the community does. It's a show with audience input.

[@tubensalat1453]

Hope you're feeling better soon JSS! Although I appreciate the artistic decision on how to treat Shitwood, I would have liked to see some footage just to get an impression.

[@MPSmaruj]

The one thing I hate about this video is that it reminded me that Silent Hill Ascention exists. I almost managed to successfully repress this memory.

[@WillieManga]

You can't escape it. It's trauma! ... I am so sorry.

[@sectionalceiling8518]

It's my 40th birthday today, and we get a Jimquisiton! Thank you for this wonderful gift, Steph! We hope the Sterling House has a wonderful Christmas! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Edit: I posted this comment before I realised that Steph is ill, and I send all my best to you, Commander. We love you!

[@belsamethtaken4107]

Happy birthday!

[@PumkRock]

Starfield actually blew my mind. Blew my mind with how dedicated Bethesda is to it's boring hand-holding chosen one plotlines. They wrote an in universe new game plus mechanic that allows you to hop realities... resetting the game world for a another run- and you still run into NPCs who are "essential" and cannot die because you need to talk to them once during a side quest at some point. Surely a setting with this premise would have been ripe for allowing players to lock themselves out of quests?- they literally get to reset the universe and not do that next time?

[@sharkfilet]

King Kong is public domain. King game didn’t need to be licensed

[@rinkuraku5251]

"It has more soft locks than Rapunzel" This line is golden.

[@LuriTV]

yes, like Rapunzels hair

[@AnotherChampagneSocialist]

Outer Worlds was also rather disappointing for a lot of reasons but compared to Starfield it's golden. I hope the next Outer World game has more RPG depth and more creative ways the player can resolve major conflicts.

[@kavalyer]

Yeah, I played Outer Worlds and had a lot of fun with it, but I hope future examples of the genre do better than that, especially with the publisher's scummy rerelease.

[@everet-c2r]

Man when games like Gollum, Kong Rise of Skull Island, Red fall AND The Day Before all come out in the same year. Ranking them first least worst to worst of the worst is going to be a Herculaneian task. Good luck Jim!

[@AndyTheWatchdog]

Happy holidays the Jimquisition team!!! Thank you for all your hard work over the years ☺️

[@jamesmetzger1678]

Merry Christmas Stephanie! Thank you for another wonderful year of brilliant quirky video game journalism and wrestling! ❤🎉

[@Przemko27Z]

@@PrimoRocker James Stephanie Sterling.

[@Didi_A_Gogo]

Saying Gollum will be remembered the longest of all the games on this list is such a sick burn on Starfield. 🤣 Get 'em!

[@milkysue5496]

Ah! My favorite holiday tradition!! Keep up the good work Steph! And just so you know I'm a straight white cis 35yr old man. There are loads of us who love you! Have a very Merry Fistmas. X

[@Froggsroxx]

Watching Joseph Anderson slowly lose his will to live playing Gollem was probably one of the funnies stream experiences ever lmao

[@CG-py1wr]

Happy holidays Steph! Thanks for all the hard work this year!

[@juliodavila424]

What a christmas gift to wake up to! Merry holidays, JSS, and I hope you get better quickly. You may be the Cassandra of videogames, but at least some of us are listening.

[@jedisalsohere]

i googled it and apparently gamemill published big rigs over the road racing makes sense

[@ZMannZilla]

I assume you bring this up to point out that Gamemill isn't all bad and produced one great classic. YOU'RE WINNER

[@jedisalsohere]

@@ZMannZilla great job on the editing, you've been killing it lately

[@dunngyllite7883]

A Jimquisition-worst-games-of.the.year-compilation without Gilson Bee Pontes in it is like a threesome with just two protagonists: you can't really put your finger on it, but something's clearly missing. A happy and healthy new year to everyone involved in Jimquisition, may the Forge be with you.

[@famijher]

Thank you, Steph, for playing these games, so I will never have to. I am surprised that Forspoken didn't make the list, though. I'm guessing it's because it came out in January, and so many other crap games came out after it.

[@crazyluigi6664]

Same for The Day Before myself.

[@CeHee123]

Forspoken has terrible writing but gameplay wise, though not great, probably still wouldn't be enough to qualify. Day Before was probably released too late to make the list.

[@gwen9939]

Forspoken was a bland corporate product but far from the real contenders for worst games of the year. The only reason it stuck around in people's heads as the worst possible thing is because chuds kept talking about how it made them turn inside-out from cringe, and because a black woman said it they associate it with wokeness, not the soulless corporate management creative overreach trying to be marvel-quippy because they think it's what the kids want.

[@fullmetalchaz]

Oh wow, I just realised something amazing… WE DIDN’T GET A GILSON B PONTES GAME THIS YEAR! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@bobtheyob]

I think Bethesda are in the state they are because their fans outright dismiss any criticism of their games. This lets the devs see lots of unwarranted support for their games, even when they are kinda shit. I'm still unclear how people thought Fallout 4 was a good game, let alone a good Fallout game.

[@empanada223]

I'm going to be honest, Bethesda is COASTING. You can only rehash the open-world formula so much for so many years before people collectively go, "...grooaaaaan...here we go again..." .

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

No. The company is what it is because of the people running it.

[@WillieManga]

That's evident in this comment section. At best, its mid. It... It just works.

[@tharrock337]

Hey Steph! Once again it is that time of the year, so I am going to say thanks! There isn't many things in my life that are as constant as my admiration of your work. You have the wit and eloquence to entertain, the sharpness and memory the industry deserves and the rebellious point of view that makes you one of the only people in games media I truly trust. Thank you for your amazing dedication, never missing a monday and never failing to be insightful. Also 2023 continued the trend of transforming the jimquisition from the "videogame industry bad" show I appreciated into the menagerie of madness I love. You never turned a blind eye to the problems the industry had and will likely continue to have for a very long time, but you wrapped it all up in a packet that leaves me feeling entertained, educated and inspired, rather than disturbed and angry. Though there are still plenty of moments for that of course, Ubisoft still exists after all. The point however is that you truly do come across as happier, even in this episode when you feel sick as all hell but more across the year and ever since your coming out. Thank you for sharing that joy and thank you for getting back into written reviews. I know they have been coming for a while but this was the year I started reading them again because you credited those with revitalizing your love for gaming and truly it shows. weather you like a game or not the appreciation for the medium oozes from them and it is inspiring. Thank you as well for your own contributions to videogames. Your writing in Vampire survivors was great and reminded me of Jazzpunk wich I absolutely loved while truly being it's own thing. Thank god, as always, for you!

[@251TheMechanizedSingfantry]

The KZbinr we need, if not the KZbinr we or the industry deserves

[@ObieCS2]

In 2021, Yahtzee joked that Akira Yamaoka seems to have trouble saying no to people. Being involved in Stray Souls seems to support that assessment.

[@MeonLights]

Merry Crimmus everyone and thank god for Stephanie Sterling 🎉 long may they reign!

[@alaeriia01]

Merry Christmas to everyone except Bobby Kotick, Todd Howard, Emil Pagliurano or whatever his name is, the entirety of Konami, the entirety of Game Mill, and the entire executive team at Embracer Group.

[@YondaMoegi]

My worst game of the year would be The Day Before - was being developed for 5 years, got delayed for a year, then got released to overwhelmingly bad reviews because it was no better than any asset flip, and then the developer company filed for bankruptcy a couple of days after the release shutting down the game

[@DrownedInExile]

Great way to start Christmas, with Skeletor tossing crappy games into the fireplace! Hope you feel better soon JSS.

[@jonnelllee9284]

I'm surprised and disappointed that The Day Before didn't make the list. It's a looter shooter scam where the developers took the money, fled a few days later claiming bankruptcy, and are changing the company name for rebranding. Sill Hill sucks but, it's a Konami mobile game. Not sure why anyone would have high expectations considering the last Silent Hill Konami hyped up was a pachinko machine version.

[@tutunaku]

no gilson-likes this year? amazing

[@dr.archaeopteryx5512]

Shoutout to the Day before for not even making the list

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

My first christmas gift; a classic top ten rant from Jim-Stephanie-Fucking-Sterling-Son. Happy holidays everyone :)

[@danieljohnston1526]

I am inserting "Ron de Santis" into the insert public figures name here. It's working really well.

[@Secret_Takodachi]

I liked Gollum it really was an authentic "Bobby Kotick simulator" You really FEEL like Bobby boy as you creep & crawl your way through the slave pits peeping on your employees & making everyone around you uncomfortable!

[@Anna-dd4rh]

The only change they’d need to make is to give you a raise and promotion instead of a game over death screen

[@LounySchwarzbier]

The way that Skeletor looked around and half-heartedly muttered "Gollum" fucking killed me.

[@Fishpasta4]

Gollum earns extra points for pay-walling the in universe 'Sindarin' language. That's right, you had to pay extra to have to use subtitles when near the elves.

[@super8bitable]

The Wizard Game should’ve been at number one for the damage it did to us trans folk alone. Seeing that nobody gave a shit about us over a mediocre fantasy IP genuinely was the worst thing to happen to my mental health.

[@jamesboyle6134]

A great Christmas present. Thank you Stephanie, and get well soon.

[@garthenar]

I've been wanting for this episode all year. Merry Christmas to Steph, Phoenix, Zman, and all involved.

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

The whole "it must be Christmas!" Joke doesn't quite land when it's actually Christmas does it XD. Either way, everyone have a merry one if you celebrate, and all others, I'm sorry the world shuts down for Christmas but not for you. EDIT: Also, I wish you a swift and relatively painless recovery, JimSteph. Thank the gods for you!

[@lindalobstadefenda]

No Gilson B Pontes this year? It feels.. wrong...

[@Soulweaver0]

Gilson release another crappy game called Jimbaori: The Onin War months ago.